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Entrepreneurship Among Black Americans: A Theoretical Perspective On Modes Of Adjustment And Entrepreneurial Education, John Sibley Butler Dec 2004

Entrepreneurship Among Black Americans: A Theoretical Perspective On Modes Of Adjustment And Entrepreneurial Education, John Sibley Butler

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

In this paper Butler argues that despite a stronger, group-wide emphasis on new venture creation among black Americans in the past, entrepreneurship continues to be a means of economic security and wealth creation for this group. To frame his argument, Butler examines Modes of Adjustment theory and the decline of venture development among African Americans. His emphasis is on understanding the theory's implication for black entrepreneurship and for the entrepreneurial education of future generations. Using data from both the Survey of Minority-owned Business Enterprises and Characteristics of Business Owners, Butler highlights the present status of black entrepreneurship to explain patterns …

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So What? A Primer On Methods For Identifying, Measuring, And Analyzing Program Impacts And Outcomes, Ronald L. Williams Dec 2004

So What? A Primer On Methods For Identifying, Measuring, And Analyzing Program Impacts And Outcomes, Ronald L. Williams

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

This paper offers insights on the need for increased program accountability and the benefits that arise from the use of better performance measures. Examples of impact and accountability reports are presented to highlight the best practices. Weaker impact reports are analyzed so as to emphasize more effective ways to demonstrate outputs and impact to funders.

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A Reconstruction Of Moreau Chambers' 1937 Excavation Of A Chickasaw Village In Northeastern Mississippi, Ladonna F. Brown Dec 2004

A Reconstruction Of Moreau Chambers' 1937 Excavation Of A Chickasaw Village In Northeastern Mississippi, Ladonna F. Brown

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An analysis of the archival data relating to the earliest professional investigation of a Chickasaw village site was done in order to reconstruct the excavation and place the artifacts in their appropriate context. A progress report written near the beginning of the project, excavation photographs with annotations and catalogue entries for the primary documentation were available to begin reconstruction. The original field notes have been lost but there were a limited amount of data that were abstracted from them by an earlier researcher. Although an overview of the excavations was derived, there was not sufficient data to allow the reconstruction …

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Authentic Versus Tourist : Reexamining A Collection Of West African Art In Light Of New Debates And Old Ambiguities, Sarah Joy Walker Dec 2004

Authentic Versus Tourist : Reexamining A Collection Of West African Art In Light Of New Debates And Old Ambiguities, Sarah Joy Walker

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The issues in defining, describing, and ultimately displaying “authentic” West African traditional art in the museum environment are often wrought with arbitrary distinctions concerning aesthetic value, artistic intention, and function in a ritual atmosphere. I examine a West African art collection, the Fulton-Meyer Collection, at the University of Mississippi Museums, and identify these works of art in terms of contemporary criteria found in both ethnographic and art history texts for specific tribal and ethnic affinities. I compare works deemed “authentic” and those that meet the tourist art criteria. I explore the reasons for these distinctions, and apply the contemporary studies …

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November 4, 2004, The Daily Mississippian Nov 2004

November 4, 2004, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

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October 25, 2004, The Daily Mississippian Oct 2004

October 25, 2004, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

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Leading Scholar On South To Address Miss. Flag Issue Oct. 15, Jennifer Southall Oct 2004

Leading Scholar On South To Address Miss. Flag Issue Oct. 15, Jennifer Southall

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A leading authority on the South delves into the state flag controversy in a talk Friday (Oct. 15) at the University of Mississippi.

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October 2004, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate Oct 2004

October 2004, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Meeting Minutes

Minutes for the October 2004 meeting of the University of Mississippi Faculty Senate.

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Constitution Of The Senate Of The Faculty, October 2004, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate Oct 2004

Constitution Of The Senate Of The Faculty, October 2004, University Of Mississippi. Faculty Senate

Constitutions

The constitution of the faculty senate of the University of Mississippi, updated October 2004.

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Southern Register. 2004.4 (Fall 2004), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture Oct 2004

Southern Register. 2004.4 (Fall 2004), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

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St. Louis Exposition Of 1904 And The Accountants' Congress, Sept 26-28: Their History Revised For 2004, David A.R. Forrester Oct 2004

St. Louis Exposition Of 1904 And The Accountants' Congress, Sept 26-28: Their History Revised For 2004, David A.R. Forrester

Accounting Historians Notebook

This two-day congress of accountants was held in September, 1904 during the St. Louis International Exposition. The importance of the congress for the federation of certified accountants across the United States is here confirmed. But the opportunities and intellectual challenges exposed at St. Louis, as at earlier European expositions, featured little for these pragmatic practitioners. More seriously for those claiming that an international accounting congress series began at St. Louis, an examination of its planning, agenda and participation reveals an Anglo-Saxon bias which was natural for that time. This bias was countered only by one Dutch accountant who arrived late …

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September 21, 2004, The Daily Mississippian Sep 2004

September 21, 2004, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

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School Of Applied Sciences Alumni Chapter Names 2004 Outstanding Faculty, Deborah Purnell Sep 2004

School Of Applied Sciences Alumni Chapter Names 2004 Outstanding Faculty, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi School of Applied Sciences Alumni Chapter has announced the inaugural recipients of the Thomas A. Crowe Outstanding Faculty Award.

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Non-Specific Stress Indicators And Growth Efficiency In The Archaic And Mississippian At The Perry Site (1 Lu25) In Northwestern Alabama, Robin Wiebe Aug 2004

Non-Specific Stress Indicators And Growth Efficiency In The Archaic And Mississippian At The Perry Site (1 Lu25) In Northwestern Alabama, Robin Wiebe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Porotic hyperostosis, linear enamel hypoplasias and adult stature are all nonspecific indicators of stress. When studied together, they provide an understanding of the long-term survival of periods of stress occurring in varying stages of the life of an individual. Because the Perry Site contains both Archaic and Mississippian components, it provides a unique opportunity to examine not only how these indicators interact, but also how interactions may change across time and subsistence base. Most studies show increases in frequency of porotic hyperostosis and linear enamel hypoplasias and a decrease in adult stature with a shift to agriculture. The Perry material …

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Community Youth Celebrate African Culture With Free Arts Program In Um Grove Sunday, J. Adrian Aumen Jul 2004

Community Youth Celebrate African Culture With Free Arts Program In Um Grove Sunday, J. Adrian Aumen

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Dancing, drumming and visual arts celebrate the excitement and beauty of African culture in a free, public program in the Grove at the University of Mississippi Sunday (July 25), beginning at 5:30 p.m.

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Southern Studies Center Hosts 'Portraits From The Delta' Exhibit, Kezia Pigford Jul 2004

Southern Studies Center Hosts 'Portraits From The Delta' Exhibit, Kezia Pigford

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - The University of Mississippi Center for the Study of Southern Culture is hosting an exhibit of photographs taken in the Mississippi Delta.

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Socioeconomic Perspectives On Infant Mortality In Alabama, James O. Bukenya Jun 2004

Socioeconomic Perspectives On Infant Mortality In Alabama, James O. Bukenya

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Socioeconomic and demographic variables are examined in a maximum likelihood spatial lag framework to determine conditions influencing infant survival in Alabama using county-level data. The analysis is motivated by the basic premise that economic development and unidimensional health interventions such as immunization programs are not enough to ensure constant mortality decline in low-income regions. The results suggest that differences in socioeconomic factors can explain a large portion of the variation in child mortality rates among counties and across races in Alabama. The results also concur with prior conclusions that maternal and infant health remains an important reflection of the social …

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Oil And Natural Gas And Rural Local Government Finances In The Gulf Of Mexico Region, F. Carson Mencken, Nicole Flynn Jun 2004

Oil And Natural Gas And Rural Local Government Finances In The Gulf Of Mexico Region, F. Carson Mencken, Nicole Flynn

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

National energy policy is focused on increasing production and exploration of existing energy sources (particularly oil and natural gas). What impact this might have on local institutions, particularly local governments who are often responsible for providing the infrastructure necessary to sustain production and exploration, is a relatively unexplored but important question. Sociological theory predicts that the effect will be most felt in nonmetropolitan communities that specialize in oil and gas production. We pursue this issue by examining the impact of the oil and gas industry boom and bust period of the 1970s and 1980s on local government finances in oil …

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An Economic Analysis Of Forest Products And Nature Based Tourism Sectors In North Carolina, Aruna Murthy, Frederick W. Cubbage Jun 2004

An Economic Analysis Of Forest Products And Nature Based Tourism Sectors In North Carolina, Aruna Murthy, Frederick W. Cubbage

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

As part of a study on the impacts of wood chip mills in North Carolina, we analyzed the economic contributions of the forest products sector and tourism sector in the state, using a variety of regional economic and demographic data bases and the IMPLAN input-output model. As of 1996, forest products firms in the state employed about 105,000 people and the nature-based tourism sector about 91,000 people. Total employee compensation in the forest products industry was $3.2 billion; for tourism it was $1.4 billion. Industrial output was $13.5 billion for the forest products industry in 1996, and $3.9 billion for …

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Underemployment And Workforce Development In The Mississippi Delta: Community-Based Action Research For Program Planning To Increase Livelihood Security, John J. Green, Antoinette Jones, Christopher Pope Jun 2004

Underemployment And Workforce Development In The Mississippi Delta: Community-Based Action Research For Program Planning To Increase Livelihood Security, John J. Green, Antoinette Jones, Christopher Pope

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Underemployment and poverty are important social problems, and they have received attention from researchers and policymakers with interest directed toward workforce development programs. Building from the knowledge obtained through regional and national quantitative studies, this project assessed what employers and underemployed adults living in Mississippi Delta communities had to say about these problems and how to address them for the purpose of informing a community-based organization. Following a review of Census data, qualitative telephone interviews and focus groups were utilized in this community-based action research effort aimed at informing workforce development program planning to increase livelihood security. Results from asset …

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Enhancing The Rural South's Quality Of Life: Leveraging Development Through Educational Institutions, Glenn D. Israel Jun 2004

Enhancing The Rural South's Quality Of Life: Leveraging Development Through Educational Institutions, Glenn D. Israel

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

2004 SRSA Presidential address presented February 16, 2004, at the annual meeting of the Southern Rural Sociological Association, Tulsa, Oklahoma

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Exploring The Association Between Length Of Residence And Community Attachment: A Research Note, Gene L. Theodori Jun 2004

Exploring The Association Between Length Of Residence And Community Attachment: A Research Note, Gene L. Theodori

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

Empirical examinations of the systemic model of community attachment have emphasized the relative importance of certain sociodemographic factors. Among them, length of residence generally has been viewed as the key variable influencing attachment to one's community. Despite the vast number of articles documenting the main effects of length of residence on community attachment, no published papers investigating the interactions between length of residence and additional important systemic-model and/or community-level predictors were uncovered in the literature. Using data collected in a general population survey from a random sample of individuals in two rural communities in Texas, I explore the main effects …

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Um-Sponsored School Accountability Project Re-Funded Until 2006, Pam Hutcheson Jun 2004

Um-Sponsored School Accountability Project Re-Funded Until 2006, Pam Hutcheson

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss.- The Appalachian Regional Commission has renewed a grant for the University of Mississippi-sponsored Accountability Plus project in the amount of $300,000 to extend the work until 2006 and adding three school districts.

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Chocolate Plantation: A Geophysical And Archaeological Examination Of A Sea Island Cotton Plantation On Sapelo Island, Georgia, Christopher William Simmons May 2004

Chocolate Plantation: A Geophysical And Archaeological Examination Of A Sea Island Cotton Plantation On Sapelo Island, Georgia, Christopher William Simmons

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Chocolate Field, the area containing the ruins of Chocolate Plantation, was occupied from the Late Archaic through the antebellum period into the 20th century. A complex overlay of architectural remains generated during the operation of the plantation by everyone from French nobles to 20th century millionaires is buried at the site. A four- instrument geophysical survey in conjunction with test excavations provides data which make it possible to delineate the extent of the site, determine structure function, and separate the plantation into occupational phases. These results will ultimately serve to help link the Geechee/Gullah community presently living on Sapelo …

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Liberal Arts - Spring 2004, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts Apr 2004

Liberal Arts - Spring 2004, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

Transformations creating new homes for visual, performing arts departments

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Southern Register. 2004.2 (Spring 2004), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture Apr 2004

Southern Register. 2004.2 (Spring 2004), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

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Accounting Historians Notebook, 2004, Vol. 27, No. 1 (April) [Whole Issue] Apr 2004

Accounting Historians Notebook, 2004, Vol. 27, No. 1 (April) [Whole Issue]

Accounting Historians Notebook

Copyright held by: Academy of Accounting Historians

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Women And Development In Postsocialism: Theory And Power East And West, Sarah D. Phillips Apr 2004

Women And Development In Postsocialism: Theory And Power East And West, Sarah D. Phillips

Southern Anthropologist

To date, ethnographic research in Kyiv, Ukraine since 1998 has analyzed popular, political, and academic engagement of the “civil society” construct in the postsocialist context by examining ten nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) led by women. Further goals of this research have been to outline the challenges facing women in the post-Soviet period, and to examine the long-term effects of the Soviet gender contract. I argue that, in many cases, leadership roles in social organizations are a form of alternative employment for women, who have been forced out of their jobs in the context of postsocialist economic crisis and a revived nationalism …

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Complete Issue, Journal Editors Apr 2004

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

Themed Issue: Anthropology and Development

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Of Heroines And Victims: Women And Economic Development In Medellín, Colombia, Donna F. Murdock Apr 2004

Of Heroines And Victims: Women And Economic Development In Medellín, Colombia, Donna F. Murdock

Southern Anthropologist

Under circumstances where women are increasingly relied upon for development work, some important questions need answering. Are women victimized or empowered by their participation in development? Through the examination of three case studies from Colombia, I will argue that the shift toward neoliberal development policies creates conditions under which women’s participation in development is both more necessary for survival, and more difficult to maintain. These policies, slashing state budgets for social services, increasing unemployment rates, and exacerbating social conflict, make demands of women that ate perhaps both unreasonable and unfair.

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