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Presidential Profiles: Race, Leadership Orientation, And Effectiveness, Jerry M. Whitmore Jr.
Presidential Profiles: Race, Leadership Orientation, And Effectiveness, Jerry M. Whitmore Jr.
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation study examined racial differences in leadership orientation and effectiveness at United States four year, public colleges and universities as self-perceived and as perceived by presidents, as a means to contribute to the literature on race leadership orientation and effectiveness. The quantitative study design is to determine significant relationships among University or College Presidents or Chancellors (UCPC) pertaining to their leadership frames and effectiveness using (Bolman and Deal 1991a, 1991b, 2003) four-frame leadership theory and Quinn (1988) competing values model. The study attempts to understand any distinct observations that may be present. This study will not be an attempt …
Place, Race, And The Politics Of Identity In The Geography Of Garinagu Baündada, Doris Garcia
Place, Race, And The Politics Of Identity In The Geography Of Garinagu Baündada, Doris Garcia
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The Garinagu, who are commonly referred to by the name of their language, Garifuna, emerged out of the historical geographical processes of colonialism and capitalism on Saint Vincent Island in the Lesser Antilles. Exiled by the British to New Spain’s Captaincy General of Guatemala in 1797, the Garinagu formed communities and cultural bonds to the land, namely, but not exclusively, along the north coast of the territory that would become part of the Honduran nation-state in 1821. Today, the Garinagu are rapidly becoming a landless population. Since the mid-1970s, the Honduran government has pursued the expansion of tourism on the …
Subjugated Territory: The New Afrikan Independence Movement And The Space Of Black Power, Paul Karolczyk
Subjugated Territory: The New Afrikan Independence Movement And The Space Of Black Power, Paul Karolczyk
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
In this dissertation, I study the black revolutionary nationalist geography of the New Afrikan Independence Movement (NAIM) and the anti-racist space of Black Power. I adapt social theorist Henri Lefebvre’s concept of representational space to show how New Afrikan revolutionary nationalism intersects with space, place, and scalar politics in a representational space of black radicalism that confounds dominant notions of race, cultural identity, and national belonging in the United States. NAIM originated in 1968 when several-hundred black nationalist delegates met at the National Black Government conference in Detroit to create the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika. New …