The Plan Starts Now: A Study Of Juvenile Delinquency And A Re-Entry Program Back Into The Community, 2021 DePaul University
The Plan Starts Now: A Study Of Juvenile Delinquency And A Re-Entry Program Back Into The Community, Lynell Porch
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
African American youth are five times as likely as whites to be detained or committed to youth facilities; 1 out of 10 high school dropouts are institutionalized. $8–21 billion is spent locking up juvenile delinquents. The educational system has failed many African American youth, which can lead them into delinquency. These youth are disregarded in the educational system, placed in overcrowded classrooms, and often dismissed as unable to learn. The results of this are school to prison pipeline. Many youths have learning disabilities that are not addressed by teachers, so youth began acting out. These are acts of attention and …
Tracking And Experiences Of Black Students Following The Inception Of No Child Left Behind, 2021 DePaul University
Tracking And Experiences Of Black Students Following The Inception Of No Child Left Behind, Gwenda Walters
College of Education Theses and Dissertations
Academic placement in high school classes is an important decision that can have long-term effects on student success. Research indicates that students most often remain in high or low tracks year after year. However, the precision of placements relative to real achievement disparities in the grouping of students into homogenous groups remains a petulant area of debate. Many scholars consider placement judgments to be dubious, marginal, or incorrect in terms of performance gaps, notwithstanding the assumption that these placements are deemed accurate in representing a student's academic ability. Researchers argue that the process of comparing, sorting, and classifying students has …
La Voz Spring 2021, 2021 University of Connecticut
La Voz Spring 2021, El Instituto: Institute Of Latina/O, Caribbean, And Latin American Studies
La Voz
In this issue:
- Conference Brings Cuba Scholars to UConn
- Performance Art in the Crossfire
- An Evening with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
- Jesús Ramos-Kittrell Wins AAUP Teaching Innovation Award
- Alumni Contribute to State Latinx History Curriculum Initiative
- New Study: School Employees Help Farmworker Families Access Health Care
Our Legacy: Stories From Prince Edward County, Virginia, 2021 Longwood University
Our Legacy: Stories From Prince Edward County, Virginia, Moton Museum, Longwood University
Prince Edward Histories
Volume 4, Ed. 1
"I Am A Arkansas Man:" An Analysis Of African-American Masculinity In Antebellum Arkansas, 2021 Arkansas Tech University
"I Am A Arkansas Man:" An Analysis Of African-American Masculinity In Antebellum Arkansas, Tye Boudra-Bland
ATU Theses and Dissertations 2021 - Present
This thesis examines the experiences of African-American men in the years leading up to and through the American Civil War in order to understand how they constructed their own sense of manhood. Contemporary slave narratives and abolitionists’ expositions routinely tailored their definitions of manhood to white notions of gender in order to garner white support. Prominent abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass tailored their language of resistance against slavers to cast them as honorable martyrs as opposed to vengeful slaves so as to undermine racist caricatures of brute violence. But black southern men struggled against the confines of their bondage and …
The New Beginnings Newsletter, April 2021, 2021 South Dakota State University
The New Beginnings Newsletter, April 2021, Wokini Initiative
Wokini Initiative: The New Beginnings Newsletter
Wokini Challenge Grant Recipient: Wizipan Leadership and Sustainability Program
Lakota Word of the Month
American Indian Student Center Grand Opening Celebration
Book of the Month: Aazheyaadizi: Worldview, Language, and the Logicsof Decolonization
Open Positions
3rd Place Contest Entry: Sovereignty, Statehood, And Subjugation: Native Hawaiian And Japanese American Discourse Over Hawaiian Statehood, 2021 Chapman University
3rd Place Contest Entry: Sovereignty, Statehood, And Subjugation: Native Hawaiian And Japanese American Discourse Over Hawaiian Statehood, Nicole Saito
Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize
This is Nicole Saito's submission for the 2021 Kevin and Tam Ross Undergraduate Research Prize, which won first place. It contains her essay on using library resources, a three-page sample of her research project on the consequences that Japanese American advocacy for Hawaiian statehood had on Native Hawaiians, and her works cited list.
Nicole is a junior at Chapman University, majoring in Political Science, History, and Economics. Her faculty mentor is Dr. Robert Slayton.
Progressive Era Black Midwives And Healthcare In San Antonio, 1892-1920, 2021 Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Progressive Era Black Midwives And Healthcare In San Antonio, 1892-1920, Gloria Edwards
Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2021
An African American midwife was a revered woman who was seen as a wise and knowledgeable person in her respective community, an essential healthcare worker long before the term was ever conceived. For many, a midwife was the only healthcare option for maternity care and would remain so into the mid-20th century, decades after the growing professionalization of the medical field discredited their work. These developments were especially pronounced in progressive-era San Antonio, Texas, where African Americans did not have the option to use a professional healthcare facility. Black women, then, most of whom suffered from poverty and discrimination, were …
A Brief And True Report Of The Newfoundland Of Virginia, 2021 San Jose State University
A Brief And True Report Of The Newfoundland Of Virginia, Thomas Hariot
English 144 Class Projects
No abstract provided.
This Land Is Their Land, 2021 Pomona College
This Land Is Their Land, Char Miller
Eastern Sierra History Journal
An 1891 petition to the United States government from the Indigenous people of the Yosemite Valley in the central Sierras offers a blistering indictment of the settler-colonial expropriation of their homeland and a counter narrative to conservationists who have debated for more than a century the impact of flooding the Hetch Hetchy Valley to provide water to San Francisco.
Lafayette Walker: Not A Republican Lapdog, But A Pitmaster, 2021 Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Lafayette Walker: Not A Republican Lapdog, But A Pitmaster, Joseph R. Vasquez
Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2021
Lafayette Walker (1822 – 1902), an enslaved black man in Tennessee before the Civil War, became a soldier for the Union in 1861. After the war, he was regarded as a political activist, as a community leader capable of controlling who the next mayor of San Antonio would become, blacksmith, and a “barbecue artist.” The argument here does not lie in what exactly his bbq tasted like or what a black man was doing identifying as a republican. The argument goes much deeper and shows that he did not care he was black or a slave, but instead he showed …
Separate Showing Times, 2021 Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Separate Showing Times, Elyse Rose Echevarria
Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2021
Nowadays, when you go to watch a movie, it does not matter who you are, what you are, or especially what skin color you are. You can walk into a movie theatre, buy a ticket, and go watch your movie. Unfortunately, this was not the case for all movie theatres in the first half of the twentieth century. San Antonio theatres were segregated throughout in this era, which encouraged segregation throughout the city. Segregation occurred in many places, but who could have thought that segregation could have occurred at family-oriented places such as the Majestic Theatre, the Rex Theatre, and …
One Man’S Fight Was A Fight For All: The Story Of I.H. “Sporty” Harvey And His Battle Outside The Ring, 2021 Texas A&M University-San Antonio
One Man’S Fight Was A Fight For All: The Story Of I.H. “Sporty” Harvey And His Battle Outside The Ring, Ryann D. Garza
Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2021
The Story of I.H. “Sporty” Harvey And His Battle Outside The Ring
Treatise, Scripture, Manifesto: Reckoning With "Love Cake", 2021 Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
Treatise, Scripture, Manifesto: Reckoning With "Love Cake", Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
Audre Lorde Writing Prize
This essay was written in response to Sri Lankan-American writer and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha's poetry collection Love Cake, as part of a directed study I undertook in Spring 2021. A goal of the directed study, titled "The Empire Writes Back" was to engage with and build upon work by writers from South Asia and the diaspora, of which Piepzna-Samarasinha is a vocal member. In this essay, I explore not only the sense of connection I feel with this poet and her body of work as a result of shared experiences of otherness, trauma, and nationhood, but also …
For [Redacted], 2021 Augustana College, Rock Island Illinois
For [Redacted], Lalini Shanela Ranaraja
Vázquez-Valarezo Poetry Award
This poem was written following the attempts of a close friend and myself to create awareness for the ongoing genocide in Tigray, Ethiopia in particular, and in reaction to activism in the age of social media in general. The digital age and related phenomena, such as hashtag activism and cancel culture, has enabled certain social justice movements to gain rapid traction while other equally worthy movements struggle to find a foothold. Simultaneously, standards of accountability and ethics continue to decline among global news media, with non-Western countries such as Ethiopia and my own home country of Sri Lanka bearing the …
International Travel And Its Impacts On Black/African American Identity Construction, 2021 Gettysburg College
International Travel And Its Impacts On Black/African American Identity Construction, Jordan K. Knox
Student Publications
How does going abroad impact Black/African Americans’ conceptualization of self? To assess the answer to this question I analyzed and reflected on mine and the international experiences of my participants, conducted thirteen interviews, and had participants answer survey questions. I argue that identity has two parts: your external and internal parts. The external identity I attributed to international experiences. My findings showed there are three impacts international travel has on Black/ African American identity constructions: the reinforcement, creation of something new, and added new dimension. There is little scholarship that studies the impact of international travel as it pertains to …
The Stolen Children: Their Stories: Aboriginal Child Removal Policy And Consequences, 2021 Gettysburg College
The Stolen Children: Their Stories: Aboriginal Child Removal Policy And Consequences, Peter U. Wildgruber
Student Publications
From 1910 to 1970, the Australian government embarked on a policy of Aboriginal child removal which sought to acculturate Aborigine children of mixed descent into white Australian society. The 1997 report, Bringing Them Home, records the individual testimonies of hundreds of victims of child removal and argues that prolonged familial separation caused irreparable damage to native Australian communities. Carmel Bird’s edited version of the report, The Stolen Children: Their Stories, was published in 1998 to disseminate the report's findings and advocate for legislative action. Her book includes the stories of seventeen individuals and responses to the original report …
The Sleeping Negro, 2021 University of Nebraska at Omaha
The Sleeping Negro, William L. Blizek
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a review of The Sleeping Negro (2021), directed by Skinner Meyers.
End Of The Line: The Women Of Standing Rock, 2021 University of Nebraska at Omaha
End Of The Line: The Women Of Standing Rock, Gary Saul
Journal of Religion & Film
This is a film review of End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock (2021), directed by Shannon Kring.
Music Hears No Color, 2021 Texas A&M University-San Antonio
Music Hears No Color, Nicholas Laurel
Methods of Historical Research: Spring 2021
Growing up on the westside of San Antonio off of Rounds Street, my friends and I played basketball at Ojeda Park nearby. Across the creek from the park sat an old, funky blue building. Some nights we would pass by this blue dome-shaped building and hear the roars of a crowd yelling and cheering for their favorite luchador. From time to time this mysterious blue building hosted outdoor wrestling matches on the weekends. You would have never imagined that this building had been a place where racial barriers were broken down. It was a place where local law enforcement and …