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Predictors Of Academic Achievement Among Students At Hillsborough Community College: Can School Engagement Close The Racial Gap Of Achievement?, Warren T. Smith
Predictors Of Academic Achievement Among Students At Hillsborough Community College: Can School Engagement Close The Racial Gap Of Achievement?, Warren T. Smith
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In the United States today, significant gaps exist among the races along a variety of measures of academic success, including standardized test scores, grade point averages, and drop-out and graduation rates. In recent decades, social scientists and educators alike have sought to uncover the reasons for these gaps, and many have focused on the role of cultural and institutional factors within the school setting. In recent years, researchers have examined such factors as a students' school identification (Osborne 1997; Voelkl 1997), students' opportunities to learn and the classroom climate (Oakes 1985), students' sense of school belonging (Goodenow 1993), and of …
"Speaking" Subalterns: A Comparative Study Of African American And Dalit/Indian Literatures, Mantra Roy
"Speaking" Subalterns: A Comparative Study Of African American And Dalit/Indian Literatures, Mantra Roy
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
“Speaking Subalterns” examines the literatures of two marginalized groups,African Americans in the United States and Dalits in India. The project demonstrates how two disparate societies, USA and India, are constituted by comparable hegemonic socioeconomic-cultural and political structures of oppression that define and delimit the identities of the subalterns in the respective societies. The superstructures of race in USA and caste in India inform, deform, and complicate the identities of the marginalized along lines of gender, class, and family structure. Effectively, a type of domestic colonialism, exercised by the respective national elitists, silence and exploit the subaltern women and emasculate the …
Closet Space: Investigating Gay Identity Through Advertising In Gay Media, Jonathan A. Hanna
Closet Space: Investigating Gay Identity Through Advertising In Gay Media, Jonathan A. Hanna
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The objective of this research was to examine advertising in gay media publications, namely, The Advocate, in order to assess how advertising corresponds with gay identity formation. This study differed from previous inquiries in that the application of hegemony theory formed the basis of the project and was used as a tool to explicate the preponderance of certain images in gay media advertising and what they signify for gay men. Likewise, a phenomenological method of analysis was applied to the advertisements in order to render them more accessible as aesthetic and literary mediums. Classifying the advertisements according to their notional …
Struggle In The Sunshine City: The Movement For Racial Equality In St. Petersburg Florida 1955-1968, Peyton L. Jones
Struggle In The Sunshine City: The Movement For Racial Equality In St. Petersburg Florida 1955-1968, Peyton L. Jones
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Recent decades have seen a shift in the focus of civil rights historiography. Building upon the exhaustive studies of national figures and events, and in search of new perspectives, many historians have concentrated on local movements often ignored or forgotten. Other than the work of a few local scholars, the civil rights movement as it occurred in St. Petersburg, Florida, has received little attention. Furthermore, the limited scholarship lacks the cohesion necessary to compare and contrast the movement with similar events throughout the state and across the nation. The story of St. Petersburg's active and significant struggle for social equality, …
Headline Hawai`I: Racial Aloha In Kama`Aina News, Cory J. Weaver
Headline Hawai`I: Racial Aloha In Kama`Aina News, Cory J. Weaver
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The front page of Hawai`i's largest-circulated newspaper - The Honolulu Star-Bulletin - was reviewed for a three-month period: March 1, 2008 - June 1, 2008, to examine representations of race in a media market where Caucasian individuals are the minority. Analysis of the newspaper seeks to present a greater understanding of ethnic portrayals in island news and examines ethical implications that have/can arise from adopting journalistic values typical of "white news" or mainstream reporting practices in areas where the mainstream is, in fact, the minority.