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Roles And Attitudes Of Males And Females In The Anarchist Punk Community, Donna M. Manion Jan 2007

Roles And Attitudes Of Males And Females In The Anarchist Punk Community, Donna M. Manion

Theses and Dissertations

Sexism is a widespread social problem that exists throughout the world today. It persists within the dominant culture, as well as in various subcultures, including the punk subculture (Daugherty 2002; Leblanc 1999; McRobbie 1991; Rosenberg and Garofalo 1998). Nijole Benokraitis and Joe Feagin's (1995) theory of sexism posits that subtle sexism is the unequal and harmful treatment of women that is typically less visible than blatant sex discrimination. This particular type of sexism may often go unnoticed, as society has internalized subtle sexist behaviors. Empirical research on subtle sexism has been conducted in various settings, such as the employment, academic, …

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Pedagogical Fusion, David Maurice White Jan 2007

Pedagogical Fusion, David Maurice White

Theses and Dissertations

During the five semesters that I have been at VCU I have learned a great deal from the courses that I have been enrolled in but I have learned the most through my experiences as a Teaching Assistant. These experiences have been so valuable because of the wide range of subject areas in which I have been involved and the diverse instructors that I have assisted. Although I hesitate to use the word "problem" I feel that there is a tendency in teacher training for a student to latch onto one professor and model their teaching practices after that one …

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An Exploration Of The Influence Of Race And Gender On Sexual Beliefs And Attitudes Of Adolescents, Kristine Marie Vandenberg Jan 2007

An Exploration Of The Influence Of Race And Gender On Sexual Beliefs And Attitudes Of Adolescents, Kristine Marie Vandenberg

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This study explores factors that influence the sexual attitudes and behaviors of adolescents specifically through an examination of social constructs that measure sexual beliefs and attitudes of adolescents and the relationships between race and gender and sexual beliefs and attitudes. As the U.S. has maintained one of the highest rates of unplanned teen pregnancy and births among industrialized nations, schools and community groups have struggled to combat teen pregnancy and worked toward designing effective prevention programs. Through an emphasis either on abstinence or safe sex practices, these programs strive to influence adolescents' sexual behavior. However, studies and reports reveal a …

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"Shut It Down, Open It Up": A History Of The New Left At The University Of Virginia, Charlottesville, Thomas M. Hanna Jan 2007

"Shut It Down, Open It Up": A History Of The New Left At The University Of Virginia, Charlottesville, Thomas M. Hanna

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This thesis is a history of social and political activism in Charlottesville during the 1960s focusing on new left student organizing at the University of Virginia. It is a work of social history that establishes a community that has been generally ignored in traditional histories of the new left as one of the most influential centers of new left activism in the South and asserts that this prominence was due to years of activism by local liberals, civil rights advocates, and students during the city's unique experiences on the front lines of the southern desegregation, civil rights, and anti-war struggles. …

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Constraints On Breastfeeding Choices For Low Income Mothers, Carol Grace Hurst Jan 2007

Constraints On Breastfeeding Choices For Low Income Mothers, Carol Grace Hurst

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The choice to breastfeed a baby is a woman's concern with impact reaching beyond each individual mother and child to longer term health and mental health outcomes for society. The U.S. government has made increasing breastfeeding rates one of its major public health goals for 2010. Breastfeeding is a health disparity issue with mothers who are poor, young, less educated or Black less likely to breastfeed. This project examined impacts of sexual perceptions of breastfeeding, social support, and work on breastfeeding choices made by a sample of low income mothers. A cross-sectional survey design was employed to examine potential barriers …

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Overweight And Obesity: A Comparative Study Of Black And White Non-Hispanic Women In The United States, Fai R. Howard Jan 2007

Overweight And Obesity: A Comparative Study Of Black And White Non-Hispanic Women In The United States, Fai R. Howard

Theses and Dissertations

The population of the United States is increasingly gaining weight each year.Americans are heavier than they have ever been. African American women are at the forefront of this pandemic. This study addresses the higher prevalence of overweight and obesity among African American women in comparison to White women. Behavioral, psychological, and social known contributors to overweight and obesity using the National Health Interview Survey, 2001 dataset were examined in this study. The research concluded that even when controlling for vigorous exercise, education, income, depression, emotional support, smoking, health coverage, and age, race is the most important predictor of body mass …

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Determinants Of College Students' Opinions Towards Felon Voting Rights: An Exploratory Study, Edwards Brenda Cherie Dawson Jan 2007

Determinants Of College Students' Opinions Towards Felon Voting Rights: An Exploratory Study, Edwards Brenda Cherie Dawson

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The disenfranchisement of felons follows a long American tradition of selectively granting the most coveted democratic tradition - voting. As a collateral "civil" consequence to criminal conviction that is legally deemed as non-penal, felon voting prohibitions have been used as an exclusionary tool for certain otherwise eligible voting populations. Current research finds that African-Americans individually and collectively may experience diminished voting power due to felon voting laws (Uggen & Manza, 2002; Manza & Uggen, 2004; King & Mauer, 2004). The purpose of this research is to examine opinions toward felon voting prohibitions in a state that has one of the …

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Commonwealth Times 2006-12-04 Dec 2006

Commonwealth Times 2006-12-04

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Commonwealth Times 2006-10-26 Oct 2006

Commonwealth Times 2006-10-26

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Commonwealth Times 2006-10-05 Oct 2006

Commonwealth Times 2006-10-05

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Shafer Court Connections (2006-09) Sep 2006

Shafer Court Connections (2006-09)

Shafer Court Connections, 1994-2010

For alumni of the Academic Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

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Commonwealth Times 2006-06-19 Jun 2006

Commonwealth Times 2006-06-19

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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[2006-05-19] Minutes Of A Regular Meeting The Board Of Visitors Of Virginia Commonwealth University May 19, 2006., Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors May 2006

[2006-05-19] Minutes Of A Regular Meeting The Board Of Visitors Of Virginia Commonwealth University May 19, 2006., Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.

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Commonwealth Times 2006-04-03 Apr 2006

Commonwealth Times 2006-04-03

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Commonwealth Times 2006-03-27 Mar 2006

Commonwealth Times 2006-03-27

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Commonwealth Times 2006-03-09 Mar 2006

Commonwealth Times 2006-03-09

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Commonwealth Times 2006-03-06 Mar 2006

Commonwealth Times 2006-03-06

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Virginia Commonwealth University Fall Commencement Program [2006], Virginia Commonwealth University Jan 2006

Virginia Commonwealth University Fall Commencement Program [2006], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Commencement Programs

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Menorah Review (No. 65, Summer/Fall, 2006) Jan 2006

Menorah Review (No. 65, Summer/Fall, 2006)

Menorah Review

A Rebbe in Skirts -- By Way of Introduction: Reflections on Israeli Women's Studies: A Reader -- Israeli Literature and Israeli Politics -- More in than Out -- Revisiting Old Themes Through a Contemporary Lens -- The World of Rabbi Nathan -- Noteworthy Books

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Virginia Commonwealth University Bulletin All Courses [2006], Virginia Commonwealth University Jan 2006

Virginia Commonwealth University Bulletin All Courses [2006], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Listing of undergraduate, professional, and graduate courses for 2006-2007.

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Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate Bulletin [2006], Virginia Commonwealth University Jan 2006

Virginia Commonwealth University Graduate Bulletin [2006], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Graduate and professional programs bulletin for Virginia Commonwealth University for the academic year 2006-2007. It includes information on academic regulations, degree requirements, course offerings, faculty, academic calendar, and tuition and expenses for graduate programs.

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Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Bulletin [2006], Virginia Commonwealth University Jan 2006

Virginia Commonwealth University Undergraduate Bulletin [2006], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Bulletins

Undergraduate bulletin for Virginia Commonwealth University for the academic year 2006-2007. It includes information on academic regulations, degree requirements, course offerings, faculty, academic calendar, and tuition and expenses for undergraduate programs.

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Virginia Commonwealth University Commencement Program [2006], Virginia Commonwealth University Jan 2006

Virginia Commonwealth University Commencement Program [2006], Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

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[Review Of] John Lie. Multiethnic Japan, John B. Richards Jan 2006

[Review Of] John Lie. Multiethnic Japan, John B. Richards

Ethnic Studies Review

In preparing Multiethnic Japan, sociologist John Lie set out to describe the lives of the new Asian workers in Japan, but ended up demonstrating that Japan has long been and remains very much a multiethnic country.

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Resistance And Reinvention Of The Subject In Jackie Kay's Trumpet, A. Lâmia Gülçur Jan 2006

Resistance And Reinvention Of The Subject In Jackie Kay's Trumpet, A. Lâmia Gülçur

Ethnic Studies Review

In her work Methodology of the Oppressed, Chela Sandoval claims that although inequities in material sources and subordination by race, class, nation, gender and sex continue to operate under the protection of law and order, a new kind of psychic penetration that respects no previous boundaries is evolving. She argues that "Mutation in culture, today, makes new forms of identity, ethics, citizenship, aesthetics and resistance accessible" (36.7).

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Table Of Contents Jan 2006

Table Of Contents

Ethnic Studies Review

Table of Contents for Ethnic Studies Review, Vol. 29, No. 2, Winter 2006.

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The Souls Of White Folk: W.E.B. Dubois's Critique Of White Supremacy And The Contributions To Critical White Studies, Reiland Rabaka Jan 2006

The Souls Of White Folk: W.E.B. Dubois's Critique Of White Supremacy And The Contributions To Critical White Studies, Reiland Rabaka

Ethnic Studies Review

Traditionally "white supremacy" has been treated in race and racism discourse as white domination of and white discrimination against non-whites, and especially blacks. It is a term that often carries a primarily legal and political connotation, which has been claimed time and time again to be best exemplified by the historic events and contemporary effects of: African holocaust, enslavement and colonization; the "failure" of reconstruction, the ritual of lynching and the rise of Jim Crow segregation in the United States; and, white colonial and racial rule throughout Africa, and especially apartheid in South Africa (Cell, 1982; Fredrickson, 1981; Marx, 1998; …

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"No Opportunity For Song:" A Slovak Immigrant's Silencing Analyzed Through Her Pronoun Choice, Danusha V. Goska Jan 2006

"No Opportunity For Song:" A Slovak Immigrant's Silencing Analyzed Through Her Pronoun Choice, Danusha V. Goska

Ethnic Studies Review

I can't tell the most frightening story I know, because stories are made of words, and once I was without them. I was trekking in Nepal and ended up with amnesia. Later I stumbled into a mission hospital with a bruised jaw. A bad fall? I can't say. I had no words. No words for this thing that was wrenching and crying, in which "I" - a bundle of terror - seemed trapped. No words for where I began, stopped, or the mud stubble terrace on which I sat. No words to map, no words to define, no words to …

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Ethnic Studies Review Jan 2006

Ethnic Studies Review

Ethnic Studies Review

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White Conceptions Of Racial Hierarchy: Temporary Versus Permanent Preferences, Jonathan Gayles, Sarah Tobin Jan 2006

White Conceptions Of Racial Hierarchy: Temporary Versus Permanent Preferences, Jonathan Gayles, Sarah Tobin

Ethnic Studies Review

Ideas of race, racial identity, and racial categorization, reflect the inconsistent, context-specific and fluctuating nature of racial meaning (Nagel, 1986; Forbes, 1990; Davis, 1991; Nagel, 1994; Haney-Lopez, 1995; Ignatiev, 1995; Kibria, 1996,1998; Niven & Zilber, 2000; Morning, 2001; Lacy, 2004). Studies of racial hierarchy, specifically, enable an understanding of not only the social construction of race, but also the manner in which ideas of race operate to influence human reality.! Within the United States, race "permeates the lives of the native-born and immigrants alike" (Bashi & McDaniel, 1997, p. 686, see also Bashi, 1998). More specifically, a continuum between white …

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