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Scarborough, John Arne, 1916-1995 (Fa 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jan 2012

Scarborough, John Arne, 1916-1995 (Fa 50), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

FA Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 50. “Growing Up in Blue Springs, Alabama” Lecture by Dr. John A. Scarborough to Lynwood Montell’s class on rural adolescence at Western Kentucky University. Includes a copy of Scarborough’s obituary.


Hopelessly Disadvantaged Like You: A Comparative Study Of Disadvantaged Youth In Mobile And Medellin, Colleen Elizabeth Wynn Dec 2010

Hopelessly Disadvantaged Like You: A Comparative Study Of Disadvantaged Youth In Mobile And Medellin, Colleen Elizabeth Wynn

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Much research has examined hopelessness among impoverished urban neighborhoods in the U.S. This research has addressed many dimensions of hopelessness, including variation by race, associations with violence, as well as the origins of hopelessness. However, little research has focused on comparing the variation of these effects by country (i.e., comparisons of the urban disadvantaged experience in the U.S. with the urban disadvantaged in developing countries). Using two unique data sources, the Mobile Youth Survey (MYS) and a similar survey of disadvantaged adolescents in Medellin, Colombia, this study aims to comparatively examine the process of hopelessness among the “truly disadvantaged” at …