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Race, Gender, And High School Experience--Exploring Intersecting Factors Influencing Black Males? Educational Attainment And College Aspiration, Emmie Joanne Cochran-Jackson
Race, Gender, And High School Experience--Exploring Intersecting Factors Influencing Black Males? Educational Attainment And College Aspiration, Emmie Joanne Cochran-Jackson
Sociology Dissertations
The underrepresentation of Black males in college and university campuses has continued to raise alarming questions for parents, teachers, and policy makers. In this study I utilized Intersectionality theory to examine Black males’ experiences in high schools in order to gain an understanding of the factors that impact their educational attainment and subsequent development of college aspiration. Based on 30 qualitative interviews with 10th, 11th, and 12th graders and 30 interviews with their parents, this study examined familial and social contexts in relations to Black male students’ educational attainment. Four key findings revealed that, 1) …
Patients, Partners, And Practitioners: Interactions And Meaning- Making Following Spinal Cord Injury, Alexis A. Bender
Patients, Partners, And Practitioners: Interactions And Meaning- Making Following Spinal Cord Injury, Alexis A. Bender
Sociology Dissertations
Sustaining a Spinal Cord Injury at any point in time is life altering – physically, emotionally, and financially – for all persons affected by the injury, but it can place unique challenges on younger married couples. This study examines the transition to injury for 18 couples (ages 21-55). Data were collected using individual interviews with each partner at three time points following injury, as well as observation in the rehabilitation setting (Creekview). This resulted in 96 individual interviews and 300 hours of observation. Using a combination of the life course perspective and cognitive sociology as guiding theoretical frameworks and grounded …
"Who Do You Think You're Border Patrolling?": Negotiating "Multiracial" Identities And "Interracial" Relationships, Melinda Anne Mills
"Who Do You Think You're Border Patrolling?": Negotiating "Multiracial" Identities And "Interracial" Relationships, Melinda Anne Mills
Sociology Dissertations
Research on racial border patrolling has demonstrated how people police racial borders in order to maintain socially constructed differences and reinforce divisions between racial groups and their members. Existing literature on border patrolling has primarily focused on white/black couples and multiracial families, with discussions contrasting “white border patrolling” and “black border patrolling,” in terms of differential motivations, intentions, and goals (Dalmage 2000). In my dissertation research, I examined a different type of policing racial categories and the spaces in-between these shifting boundaries. I offer up “multiracial interracial border patrolling” as a means of understanding how borderism impacts the lives of …