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We Can Do Better: Evaluating An Intervention Remedying Caseworkers’ Negative Racial Bias Towards African American Families Involved In Child Welfare, Adrianne Michele Fletcher
We Can Do Better: Evaluating An Intervention Remedying Caseworkers’ Negative Racial Bias Towards African American Families Involved In Child Welfare, Adrianne Michele Fletcher
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Given that U.S. history documents the severing of African-American family ties by isolating parents from each other and their children under slavery, it is imperative that the child welfare system be free of any echoes of that holocaust. Yet many scholars and practitioners who lament negative racial attitude, both implicit and explicit, may continue to contribute to the over-representation of African-American children in the U.S. child welfare system. This study proposes to examine a subcategory of practitioner attitudes, those about the caregivers’ race, and how those attitudes can be altered through a reflective educational experience. Drawing from pre-existing research about …
Forgotten Soldiers From A Forgotten War: Oral History Testimonies Of African American Korean War Veterans, O. Eliot Pope, Jr.
Forgotten Soldiers From A Forgotten War: Oral History Testimonies Of African American Korean War Veterans, O. Eliot Pope, Jr.
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Otis Eliot Pope, Jr.
Loyola University Chicago
FORGOTTEN SOLDIERS FROM A FORGOTTEN WAR: ORAL HISTORY
TESTIMONIES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN KOREAN WAR VETERANS
This study seeks to illuminate the motivations, struggles, conflicts, and contributions African American soldiers made to the US military during the Korean War. Forty oral history testimonies from African American Korean War veterans were used for this dissertation. The findings of this dissertation illustrate that previously held beliefs about African American participation in the Korean War were inaccurate. My research indicates a variety of reasons, including a desire for upward mobility, influenced African Americans to join the US …