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The Fight For Equality: Black Lives Matter, Success, & Social Media, Metyia K. Phillips

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This thesis strives to assess how social media has impacted the success of the Black Lives Matter movement. By conducting a survey between September 30th, 2022 - October 12th, 2022, respondents were asked questions to gauge their attitudes about the Black Lives Matter movement, social media usage, and the success of the movement. The results of the survey (n=571) in conjunction with a 2016 Pew Research Center survey (n=2,144) were used to evaluate how social media has impacted the success of the Black Lives Matter movement. The survey was taken by a nonrandom group of respondents because I distributed the …

Addressing Culturally Congruent Care Amongst African Americans In Skilled Nursing Facility: A Systematic Review, Adekemi T. Adedipe

DNP Qualifying Manuscripts

Introduction: Healthcare disparities and mistrust of the healthcare system discourage African Americans from seeking mental health services. Healthcare providers face challenges delivering culturally appropriate care. Examining current cultural practices can inform the education needed for healthcare providers to understand cultural care and awareness. This review aimed to identify evidence available to understand the impact of a cultural training on healthcare providers in skilled nursing facilities.

Methods: APA PsycINFO, CINAHL, and PubMed, were searched for English-language studies published between January 2016 and January 2022. Healthcare cultural competency training

in any aspect of cultural care was considered. Outcomes of interest included changes …

The Nonprofit Sector And Cannabis Industry: Creating Cross-Sector Partnerships For A Sustainable And Equitable Future In New Jersey And Beyond, Abigail Rose Perl

Master's Projects and Capstones

The Cannabis industry is currently rolling out a legal industry, medical and recreational, across the United States. While some state legislators are celebrating legalization as a success alongside Multi-State Operators (MSOs), Legacy operators, or those involved in the Cannabis industry prior to legalization, have yet to bask in the benefits of legalizations as their corporate successors. Even more so, those who have faced adversities or have been criminalized by Cannabis have yet to see the benefit of Cannabis than many MSOs do. While legislators try to reverse the wrongdoings of the War On Drugs set out by our own government, …

Black Educology Mixtape Vol. 1, Black Educology Producers

Black Educology Mixtape "Journal"

No abstract provided.

Call* For Tracks And Creative Works The Black Educology Mixtape Vol. Ii: It’S A Weird Time To Be Black, Black Educology Producers

Black Educology Mixtape "Journal"

No abstract provided.

Go Good: Reading, Mapping, And Teaching The Territory Through Space And Time, Christin Washington

Black Educology Mixtape "Journal"

Go Good will take the form of a digital memorial, incorporating short stories, voice notes, music, and photographs, among other fragmented artifacts, to honor mythical life, death, and spiritual afterlife. It will borrow from the transnational account of a Guyanese woman who travels with, hides, and passes along her spiritual possessions. Reliant on affect and memory, this digital altar aims to swell the imagination, encounter new worlds, and restructure the frames placed around control, materiality, home, and humanity. This song offers reflections on the beginning of the production process of a forthcoming digital research project. While this song is a …

Black Magic: A Collective Of Lived Experience, Janise “Jay” Powell

Black Educology Mixtape "Journal"

Anti-Blackness is a pandemic that plagues societies across the world and across histories filled with the murder of Black lives, spirits, and dreams. Yet, throughout it all, Black folx have found strength and been leaders of resistance, radicalization, self-emancipation, and liberation. Black Magic is a collection of tracks that Powell has formed in relation to critical race theory and the ways in which Black folx have found solidarity, liberation, freedom, and healing in a world that seeks to destroy them. Utilizing short stories told through spoken-word poetry, Powell shares her experiences and the experiences of those who she has been …

“What Do You Suggest That I Do Next?”: The Rival Geographies Of Ellen Irene Diggs, Constance Holden

Black Educology Mixtape "Journal"

This biographical essay tells the story of Dr. Ellen Irene Diggs (1906–1998), a Black woman anthropologist who specialized in African diasporic cultural and historical studies. Best known for her work with the heralded scholar W. E. B. Du Bois, Dr. Diggs was a writer, traveler, and educator who imagined an inclusive, expansive, and representative historical canon that captured the breadth and depth of Black politics and cultures. This essay argues that in so doing, Dr. Diggs charted a “rival geography” that challenged the dominant narratives of the academy. Building on the work of Stephanie Camp in her examination of rival …

“Bad Taste In Movies”: Hacking Films As A Site Of Praxis For Black Embodiment, Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, Andre Carter, Noah Morton

Black Educology Mixtape "Journal"

During a time of racial unrest and a hyperfocus on inclusion and representation, three Black scholars from different time zones met on Zoom to discuss recent movies. Initially, our conversation revolved around the role of the representation of Black people in film and contentious arguments about the quality of Marvel’s Black Panther. We shifted toward a more analytical trend when we began to interrogate how the world of cinema has attempted to take progressive steps regarding representation, such as moving away from obvious racialized tropes. Essentially, we concluded that the industry has yet to address its deeper and prevailing flaws …

The Cypher, Eghosa Obaizamomwan-Hamilton, Andre Carter, Noah Morton, Gertrude Jenkins, Brian A. Davis

Black Educology Mixtape "Journal"

The Black Educology Mixtape is a collective of Black people working to amplify and empower Black educational voices. Black Educology goes beyond the scope of academia to recognize the movers and shakers of emancipatory movements. We imagine this mixtape as a vehicle toward revolution. To that extent, this album informs, confers, and collaborates with educational voices across the Black diaspora. Our scope and sequence focuses on the past, present, and future of Black education, which has been historically and systemically caught in the underbelly of western education. Black Educology is an open-access mixtape that moves beyond academic articles to feature …

Tutorial 27: Chi Square Tests - Test Of Association, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to carry out tests using the Chi Square statistic and distribution to examine associations between two categorical (nominal or ordinal) variables.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

My Generation Will Never Forget: Oral Histories Of Chinese American Students In “Separate But Equal” Oriental Schools, Kelsey Owyang

Master's Theses

Asian Americans occupy a contradictory position in the American educational landscape, at once glorified for their academic success and vilified for their “invasion” of White academic spaces. This narrative first took root in the 19^th century, when the California Supreme Court ruled in the 1885 case Tape v. Hurley that Chinese American youth had a right to public education. Simultaneously, the state legislature declared that Chinese Americans must be educated in separate facilities from Whites. The first segregated “Oriental school” opened in San Francisco Chinatown that year. This study explores the oft-erased history of Asian American school segregation in …

The Belt And Road Initiative In Kenya, As Represented By The Standard Gauge Railway (Sgr), Its Effects And The Response Of Kenyans To It., Kiplangat Arap Yegon

Master's Theses

China has sought to strengthen ties with many countries in the Global South, and many African countries have signed Memorandum of Agreements(MoU) with China leading to trade treaties, foreign direct investments, loans and grants flowing into the African continent from China. This aggressive push by China into Africa has come under intense scrutiny with different actors, scholars and powers having mixed takes on the move. In my thesis, I look at the ways in which China’s Belt and Road Initiative has been undertaken in Africa. I use Kenya as a main case study in looking at the ways in which …

2020 Usf Open Educational Resources Grant Report, Allison R. Thorson

USF OER Faculty Grant

Please find attached my final report from my $1000 2020 USF Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant. Although COVID-19 delayed the submission of this report, the global pandemic has also made open access materials even more essential to supporting student’s access at USF. I am appreciative of the funding to facilitate this project.

Throughout this process, I was able to ensure that the materials/readings I was offering to students for free did not violate copyright laws and open my eyes to resources that I did not know were available. Based on the findings of my analysis, my course readings have been …

Dataset And Codebook For Jamovi Tutorials, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

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Reflecting On Heather Mcghee’S The Sum Of Us Through A South African Lens, Marthinus Van Loggerenberg

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

A South African native living in the USA explores and examines the essence of The Sum of Us by contemplating three post-Apartheid realizations in context of structural racism in the US: the illusion of being “born free”, the value of the philosophy of Ubuntu (“I am because we are”), and the role of respect in addressing racism. Ideas around shared narratives, reconciliation, mutual understanding, human value and freedom as something to be strived for, are denoted in relation to dismantling systemic racism for the sake of future generations in the US.

Tutorial 3: Producing R Scripts & Adding Modules, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial we will cover how to produce R scripts and how to add modules that would add to the existing statistical functions in Jamovi.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 5: Computing Variables, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to compute a new variable using existing variables and built-in functions in Jamovi.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

Tutorial 26: Chi Square Tests - Goodness Of Fit, Aline Hitti, Saera R. Khan

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This tutorial will cover how to carry out hypotheses tests using the Chi Square statistic and distribution to examine observed frequencies/proportions of a categorical (nominal) variable against an expected or predicted distribution of frequencies/proportions.

This tutorial is one of 27 tutorials funded by a 2021 Gleeson Library OER Faculty Grant. A report summarizing the work completed on the USF Jamovi Tutorial Project can be found on the USF OER Faculty grant section of this repository.

What Us?, Amanda Parris

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

McGhee (2021) concludes the introduction to The Sum of Us by declaring that she is “fundamentally a hopeful person, because [she knows] that decisions made the world as it is and that better decisions can change it” (p. xxiii). In this brief response I want to take on two problematic aspects of McGhee’s declaration, her hope and her voluntarism. I use an Afropessimistic lens so that we might, as Frank B. Wilderson III (2020) urges, make some of McGhee’s book “more dangerous to the U.S. and the world” (p. 250).

“Traveling Up And Down”: Reading The Sum Of Us, Kimberly Rae Connor

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

Kimberly Connor analyzes and recognizes similarities between Heather McGhee’s The Sum of Us and The Narrative of the Life of Sojourner Truth. Similarities include styles of composition, reforming inspiration, and social impact aimed at recognizing diversity as a “superpower.”

The Stumped Of Us: Why Teach Rhetoric In The Face Of Racism?, Jonathan Hunt

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

Heather McGhee’s book presents a deeply ambivalent portrait of Rhetoric as a field of study. Her own optimistic faith in research, evidence, and truth-telling is countered by endless examples of the failure of rational, ethical persuasion in the face of racism and greed. This ambivalence raises existential questions for rhetorical curricula in higher education.

The Border Is Their Public Swimming Pool, Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This article extends the metaphor at the heart of The Sum of Us - the decline of the public swimming pool in the U.S. - to discuss the political landscape of the US-Mexico border. The author argues that anti-immigrant whites residing on the border are so invested in white supremacy that they subscribe to an anti-immigrant politic that does not serve them. The article calls attention to society’s collective investment in white supremacy by highlighting the cost of this investment on migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Own Goal Politics In The United States, Keally Mcbride

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

This essay explores the possibility that understanding how self-defeating racial political sentiments are in the United States will not necessarily change the public’s behavior. Drawing from the rich history of political thought, we can see that the desire for domination may be stronger than the drive for equality and/or freedom.

Dismantling The Zero-Sum Game To Co-Create A New Community With Solidarity Dividends And No Prisons, Daniela Dominguez

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

Heather McGee’s The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (2021), provides a framework for understanding how racist ideologies and profit interests drive disadvantaged white individuals to reinforce the hegemony of white and wealthy Americans. This response paper ties McGee’s conceptualization of zero-sum thinking to the carceral space.

It’S Time To Dismantle The Zero-Sum Systems In Business Schools, Courtney Masterson

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

Inspired by Heather McGhee’s The Sum of Us, this essay calls attention to how business school administrators and faculty have perpetuated social and economic inequality by embracing zero-sum narratives inside and outside the classroom. Looking ahead, ideas for change are also proposed.

The Dilemma Of The Sum Of Us, James Taylor

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

In this essay, James Taylor raises many questions about the familiarity of McGhee’s work as well as its reception in the public. In his essay, The Dilemma of The Sum of Us, Taylor ponders why McGhee’s work is so widely embraced and critically acclaimed when there have been many researchers and writers who have shared similar arguments before. His analysis covers works by Gunnar Myrdal among others and he explores how mainstream writers often succeed through “intellectual appeals to white liberal sentimentality”.

Radical Reckoning Requires Hope, Saera R. Khan, Christine J. Yeh

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

In Volume 7 of the special issue of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship A Time for Reckoning: Reflections and Analyses for “The Sum of Us”, seven contributors consider, grapple with, debate, and reflect upon Heather McGhee’s 2021 book, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Through cultural, psychological, historical, and socio-political lenses, the authors in this special issue contemplate and analyze how McGhee’s work impacts their creative works, community projects, and research. The essays span different settings - from the Arizona-Mexico border, to the US prison system - to different opinions …

Chasing The American Dream, In Neoliberal Times, James Zarsadiaz

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

Heather McGhee’s The Sum of Us delves into the ways in which structural racism, discriminatory policies, and everyday bigotry shaped American life, particularly with basic needs like housing. Ultimately, neoliberalism and its supporters played a key role in creating or exacerbating inequalities/inequities. This essay argues that besides white supremacy, neoliberalism is at the core of McGhee’s set of concerns.

Voter Suppression Undermines Public Health For All, Erin Grinshteyn, Laura Chyu, Roman Pabayo

Journal of Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Scholarship

In the US, policies have actively suppressed the voices of Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) while amplifying their oppressors’ voices. In spite of multiple constitutional amendments to guarantee access to the right to vote for those who initially were deprived of this right, attacks on this civil liberty have persisted. While some states have expanded access to voting rights in the past year, many others have made voting more difficult and some states have had a mixed approach of making voting easier in some ways and harder in others. This continued interest in creating systems in which it …