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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"structural oppression"”.
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The impact of structural oppression and systemic racism on the post-secondary pathway of African American girls and women in a major metropolitan area of the Midwest
… study sought to understand the impact of structural oppression and systemic racism on the post-secondary pathway of African American girls and women in a major metropolitan area of the Midwest. Participants were individuals ages 18-45 who were assigned female at birth, identified …
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Subversive Intimacies: Resisting Settler Colonialism's Shallow Attachments
… production resists, subverts, and exceeds this structural oppression. Several warp threads run through this dissertation to hold this project together: settler-colonialism, Indigenous knowledge, diaspora, racialization, biocapitalism, relationality and asociality, solidarity, anthropocentrism …
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Capitalist Entrepreneurs and Industrial Slavery in the Rural Antebellum South
… that the enslaved were not passive victims of structural oppression, but rather, were able to exercise cultural creativity and take action within their own small sites of power</p>
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Kiskinawacihcikana: Aboriginal women faculty experiences in the academy
… make themselves hyper-visible to the lateral oppression of other Aboriginal faculty, and they are vulnerable to the structural oppression that binds a colonial organization. By telling their stories here, these women leave trail-markers for other Aboriginal people who may seek an academic path.
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Queering and Intersectionalizing Health Services Research: Structural Influences on Minoritized Sexual and Gender Populations’ Mammogram Usage
… SGM people also have overlapping experiences of oppression from structural racism and urbanism. Little research explores how structural oppression manifests for mammogram usage among those with minoritized sexual orientations, gender identities and races and ethnicities and marginalized by …
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Transcending pathology, transforming the thinkable transperson: young transpeople, the law and gender self-determination
… people continue to experience widespread structural oppression, discrimination and physical and psychological violence. Through a close analytic reading of fourteen contemporary court decisions involving young transgender and gender nonconforming people, this paper examines the seemingly …
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Fight the power! Perceptions of resistance amongst Black female youth in a middle school classroom
… and girls. Problematizing Black girls instead of structural oppression and institutional opposition has situated Black girls at the margins of American institutions and stereotypes and misconceptions have restrained their voice and narratives of their experiences there. Educational desire and the …
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Data for Housing Justice: Examining Activists’ Use of Open Government Data for Housing Justice in Boston, MA and New York, NY
… relates historical and contextual analysis of structural oppression to the contemporary geography of the eviction crisis, and proactively counters parallel data practices within the real estate industry to facilitate tenant management and real estate speculation. I argue that OGD systems …
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Cripping Justice: Enabling Theory on Disability
… spaces and participating in society: societal oppression imposed on impairments. While a significant improvement, the Social Model is not perfect. It neither theorises impairment nor addresses cognitive impairment. It was never intended to be a complete theory of disablement; it was crafted as …
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Exploring complexity in well-being: A mixed methods examination of the Black women’s well-being paradox
… and marital status. This work revealed that structural oppression may be influencing Black middle-class women’s well-being by the shaping of the distribution of their determinants of well-being. In chapter 3, I focus on subjective well-being at the intersection of race, gender, and class …
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Making A Way Out Of No Way: A Phenomenological Study of Black Maternal Activism In Chicago
… the structures that they develop in response to structural oppression. Various settings where Black mothers organize present different challenges - to their leadership, their contributions, their motherhood, and their goals as activists (Robnett, 2000; Edwards, 2000). This study examines these …
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Identifying and addressing white supremacy in social work education
… and educators often fail to 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 …