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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"racial inequities"”.
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The Use of Regularization to Detect Racial Inequities in Pay Equity Studies: An Empirical Study and Reflections on Regulation Methods
… data set was conducted next, focusing on racial inequity and methods informed by the literature review. The study results showed that while multiple linear regression yielded the highest coefficient of determination and the lowest mean squared error, LASSO regression yielded the highest …
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When Education Ceases to be Public: The Privatization of the New Orleans School System After Hurricane Katrina
… are reviewed as an extension of the historical racial inequities of the school system.
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Policing With A Double-Edged Sword: The Associations Between Neighborhood Deprivation, Coping & Substance Use Among Black & Latiné Families
<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated systemic racial inequities among Black and Latiné communities, increasing daily stressors such as exposure to violence, racial discrimination, and negative perceptions of the police. Social constraints from quarantining and social distancing have weakened …
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Exploring Factors Influencing Employer Attitudes and Practices toward Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the New River Valley
… civil rights legislation in the 1960s to address racial inequities in income and employment, the executive branch and the courts have since retreated from efforts to pursue those policies aggressively. Meanwhile, anti-racism advocates, including the Montgomery County, Virginia based Dialogue on …
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What's Race Got To Do With It? A Cannabis Industry Policy Analysis Using Critical Race Theory
… (ACLU) to argue that marijuana legalization is a racial justice issue since racialized communities have suffered the most from marijuana prohibition. Using Critical Race Theory and a qualitative content analysis methodology of 23 written policies from California, Nevada, and Washington state, this …
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In Our Own Backyard: A Qualitative Investigation of Marginalized and Dominant Perspectives on White Privilege in Counseling Psychology Training Programs
… To address this gap and more deeply explore racial inequities in training, interpretative phenomenological analysis (Smith, 1996) was used to guide a qualitative exploration of White privilege in counseling psychology training programs. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with …
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B'More For Healthy Babies: A Case Study
… Babies to address the social, economic, and racial inequities that affected infant health (Baltimore City Health Department, n.d.). Purpose: The purpose was to describe how the B’More For Healthy Babies (BHB) initiative partnered with two neighborhoods in Baltimore City, Maryland, local …
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Advancing Equity in Financial Aid for Black Students: A Document Analysis Study of Student Equity Plans in California Community Colleges
… these strategies mitigated or perpetuated racial disparities for Black students. Previous scholarship identified racial inequities in financial aid systems and explored how equity planning documents addressed race; yet, the influence of institutional discourse on financial aid access …
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Segregation, Transformation, and Urban Education: A History of Attaining Racial Equity in the Hickman Mills C-1 School District
This dissertation examines the history of racial segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, leading to the creation of the Hickman Mills C-1 Racial Equity Policy. The study’s six chapters present an analysis of the history of education and schooling in the greater Kansas City metropolitan community from …
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The roles and experiences of Black school social workers: are they prepared to fill in the gaps for Black youth in K-12 school settings?
… systemic change (macro-level work) and address racial inequities in the school settings were lacking.
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Immunisation coverage of the Western Cape Province : household survey 2005
… and perceived attitude of clinic staff. Certain racial inequities in coverage were also apparent, particularly in the Boland-Overberg Region. [Conclusion] While the coverage indicated that a lot of good work has been done, the coverage was insufficient to prevent outbreaks of measles and other …
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Views of Feminist Family Therapy: A Q-Methodological Inquiry
… toward both sexes or more toward women; whether racial inequities override gender inequities; and the place of hierarchy between therapist and clients. Respondents on the two feminist viewpoints shared some common ground: they rejected therapeutic neutrality; viewed therapy as a political act; …
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Identifying and addressing white supremacy in social work education
… recognize (a) how structural oppression creates racial inequities and (b) how social workers maintain and reproduce hegemonic power structures. Therefore, this dissertation employs theoretical and empirical approaches to identify and address white supremacy in social work education. Study 1 lays …
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The ‘Visa Student Dream’: An Examination of Shifting Trends and Vulnerabilities in Chinese International Student Populations Within Toronto’s Secondary Schools
… model minority, yellow peril, neo-racism, and racial capitalism to expand understanding and application of theories such as CRT and AsianCrit to this international student population. The principles highlighted within CRT and AsianCrit theories, utilized alongside the frameworks and constructs …
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Maternal enrollment in Medicaid and access to doula care: a mixed-method assessment
… delivery and preterm birth rates, and reduce racial inequities among PPP. This has prompted growing interest by Medicaid to support doula services. The goal of this dissertation is to improve our understanding of Medicaid as a policy lever to improve maternal health. I seek to achieve this by …
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Perceptions of Race and Privilege: An Examination of Intercultural Competence and Service-Learning in the Mississippi Delta
… pre- and post-tests using the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS) that assessed participants’ awareness of and attitudes about racial inequities and privilege before and after the service-learning experience. </p> <p>The resulting numeric and narrative information were analyzed from …
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Closing the Health Disparities Gap Between African American Mothers and Infants and Their Racial and Ethnic Counterparts in Correspondence with the Santa Clara County’s Black Infant Health Program
<p>Health disparities and inequities that affect the African American (includes those who consider themselves of African descent and/or Black individuals) women and their babies appear to be less dependent upon age, economic status, or education, as once considered previously. Further, it was …
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Black Food Geographies and the Politics of Resistance in the Brick City. An Intersectional Analysis of Black Food Provisioning Practices, Food Access, and Racial Food Inequities in Newark, New Jersey from 1666 – 2020
… to investigate the root causes for racial food and health inequities in Newark today. The ethnographic approach analyzed Black food provisioning practices and the daily experiences of racial inequities in Newark’s food environment through interviews with Black residents who …