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Different Choices: A Public School Community’S Responses To School Choice Reforms, Amanda U. Potterton

The Qualitative Report

In the United States, state and federal reforms increasingly encourage the expansion of school choice policies. Debates about school choice contrast various concepts of freedom and equality with concerns about equity, justice, achievement, democratic accountability, profiting management organizations, and racial and class segregation. Arizona’s “market”-based school choice programs include over 600 charter schools, and the state’s open enrollment practices, public and private school tax credit allowances, and Empowerment Scholarships, (closely related to vouchers), flourish. This qualitative analysis explores one district-run public school and its surrounding community, and I discuss socio-political and cultural tensions related to school choice reforms that exist …

Toward Culturally Competent Archival (Re)Description Of Marginalized Histories, Annie Tang, Dorothy Berry, Kelly Bolding, Rachel E. Winston

Library Presentations, Posters, and Audiovisual Materials

Influenced by the radical archives movement, panelists discuss their (re)processing projects for which they wrote or rewrote descriptions in culturally competent approaches. Their case studies include materials regarding underrepresented peoples and historically oppressed groups who are marginalized from or maligned in the archival record. Targeted to processors, this session aims to teach participants to apply their cultural competencies in writing finding aids through an introduction to cultural competency framework, the case study examples, and a short audience-participation exercise.

Problems With The Reintegration Of Afghan Refugees, Grant M. Farr

Sociology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Afghan refugees are beginning to return to Afghanistan. These returning refugees are creating new problems for Afghanistan as many are landless and therefore crowd the major cities, especially Kabul. Efforts to identify land for the returnees has floundered because of corruption and red tape. In addition, single Afghan men are being forcefully expelled from Iran and Europe creating new tensions. Refugees began fleeing Afghanistan in the 1980s as a result of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1979 and the war of resistance that followed. After the Soviet withdrawal in in 1989 some refugees began to return, but the Soviet …

Quasi-Experimental Comparison Design For Evaluating The Mayor’S Action Plan For Neighborhood Safety. Map Evaluation Update Number 1., Sheyla A. Delgado, Wogod Alawlaqi, Richard A. Espinobarros, Laila Alsabahi, Anjelica Camacho, Jeffrey A. Butts

Publications and Research

This is the first of six updates presenting interim findings from the evaluation of the NYC Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP). As part of an evaluation of the New York City Mayor’s Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety (MAP), the John Jay College Research and Evaluation Center created methods to assemble various outcome measures about participating NYCHA MAP developments. The team also utilized statistical procedures to select a matched comparison group of NYCHA housing developments not participating in MAP. Differences in outcomes between the 17 MAP and 17 non-MAP housing developments will serve as the statistical basis for estimating …

The Social Construction Of Understanding & Neoliberal Multiculturalism: Analysis And Critique Of The Peruvian Moratorium Gmos, T. W. Dondanville

Student Research – Stevenson Center

No abstract provided.

A Land Not Forgotten: Indigenous Food Security & Land-Based Practices In Northern Ontario By Michael A. Robidoux And Courtney W. Mason, Tonia L. Payne Ph.D.

The Goose

Review of Michael A. Robidoux and Courtney W. Mason's (eds.) A Land Not Forgotten: Indigenous Food Security & Land-Based Practices in Northern Ontario.

Moving Women Of Color From Reliable Voters To Candidates For Public Office, Christina Bejarano, Wendy Smooth

Latino Public Policy

In recent presidential elections, women, people of color, millennials, and new immigrants shaped the outcomes of those elections. Women of color standing at the nexus of two underrepresented groups in politics- racial minorities and women- demonstrated their commitments to democracy by maintaining their traditions as reliable voters, far exceeding expectations. In this project, we ask what is necessary to move these women of color from reliable voters to candidates for political office and locate our answer with women of color. They are doing much of the work to deepen democratic engagement in communities of color, namely mobilizing voters and political …

Undocumented Crime Victims: Unheard, Unnumbered, And Unprotected, Pauline Portillo

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract forthcoming

Effects Of Senate Bill 4 On Wage-Theft: Why All Workers Are At Risk In Low-Income Occupations, Daniella Salas-Chacon

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract forthcoming

How State-Level Dynamics Shape Individual-Level Welfare Payments, Jamy Rentschler

Department of Sociology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This thesis examines how welfare program implementation varies across states, and what those differences in implementation mean for welfare (TANF) recipients across the country. Specifically, I examine the extent to which state-level context related demographics and economics as well as political ideology, religious culture and race may contribute to contemporary disparate economic outcomes for low-income racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. This study relies on a sample of welfare recipients from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) during 1998-2013 to examine individual recipients’ average monthly TANF payments. Analyses combine SIPP data with state-level information drawn from …

Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction Of The Masses, Aurélie Vialette

Purdue University Press Book Previews

Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction of the Masses by Aurélie Vialette examines the practice of philanthropy in modern Spain. Through detailed studies of popular music, collective readings, dramas, working-class manuals, and fiction, Vialette reveals how depictions of urban philanthropic activities can inform our understanding of interactions in the economic, cultural, religious, and educational spheres, class power dynamics, and gender roles in urban Spanish society.

Recipe Card: Elect Donna Faxon, Democrat For State Senate District 5

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Political Advertisement for Donna Faxon, Democrat for State Senate District 5. Includes a sweepstakes winner recipe by her sister. No date given. Box 32 Folder 1

Handwritten Notes And Itinerary, Edna Louise Saffy

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Several handwritten notes, Summit of the America's, Miami, Florida. No year given.

Pilot Club Of Jacksonville, 53rd Annual Charities Antiques Show & Sale, 2002

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Pilot Club of Jacksonville 53rd annual charities antique show and sale brochure, Prime Osborn Convention Center Jacksonville Florida January 11-13, 2002. Agencies helped include Alzheimer’s Association, Children’s Home Society, Community Hospice, Girls Inc., P.A.C.E., Police Athletic League, Daniel Payne Academy and St. Johns Terrace Home.

Addendum Items For Auction

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Addendum items list for auction with handwritten notes. Uptown Civitan’s Swing Into Spring Charity Auction to benefit Pine Castle, Inc. No date given.

Uptown Civitan’S Swing Into Spring Charity Auction To Benefit Pine Castle, 1998

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Program for Uptown Civitan’s Swing into Spring Charity Auction to benefit Pine Castle, Inc., held April 25, 1998 at Deerwood Country Club.

Miracle On Ashley Street 2001 Program, Clara White Mission

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Program for Miracle on Ashley Street 2001 Celebrity Chefs and servers benefit for the Clara White Mission.

Jacksonville Human Rights Commission Brochure

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Jacksonville Human Rights Commission (JHRC) brochure explains the history, mission, vision and purpose of the organization. The JHRC is comprised of twenty diverse individuals appointed by the Mayor and approved by the City Council.

Handwritten Note

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Handwritten notes on discrimination and the middle class. No date given.

Paca Orientation Meeting Agenda

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Agenda for the Orientation meeting for the President’s Advisory Committee on the Art of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Preforming Arts April 21-22, 1995, Watergate Hotel, Washington D.C. as of April 10, 1995. Box 40 Folder April 1995 PACA Meeting

Introduction By Dr. Saffy For Derek Gordon Event, Edna Louise Saffy

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Dr. Edna L. Saffy’s introduction for Derek Gordon, Associate Managing Director for Education of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Dr. Saffy also introduced and thanked Jay Stein, a Trustee of the Kennedy Center, Stuart Bohannon Evans, President of the Cultural Council of Jacksonville, Earl Farris, Dean of the Humanities and Fine Arts Director of the Nathan Wilson Center for the Performing Arts, Judy hall of Barnett Bank, Jackie Cornelius of the Douglas Anderson School for the Arts, Carolyn Gentry of the Florida Times Union, Jean hall Dodd of the Cummer Museum, Dorcas Tanner of Cerebral Palsy …

Introduction By Saffy For Derek Gordon Event (Version 2), Edna Louise Saffy

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Dr. Edna L. Saffy’s introduction for Derek Gordon, Associate Managing Director for Education of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Dr. Saffy also introduced and thanked Jay Stein, a Trustee of the Kennedy Center, Stuart Bohannon Evans, President of the Cultural Council of Jacksonville, Earl Farris, Dean of the Humanities and Fine Arts Director of the Nathan Wilson Center for the Performing Arts, Judy hall of Barnett Bank, Jackie Cornelius of the Douglas Anderson School for the Arts, Carolyn Gentry of the Florida Times Union, Jean hall Dodd of the Cummer Museum, Dorcas Tanner of Cerebral Palsy …

Ephemera: Celebrate! '....And Ain't I A Woman?" Event Program.

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Found in Book Mod Donna and Scyklon Z: Plays of Women's Liberation. Circa 1972-1980. Box 4, Folder 22

Flyer: Stand Up Step Forward. Defend Your Right To Choose., National Abortion Rights Action League

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Flyer by the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). Circa 1992. Box 11, Folder 8

Intersectional India: Caste, Feminism And Development In The 21st Century, Anika Backelin-Harrison

International Relations Summer Fellows

My paper explores the intersections between caste and feminism in the 21^stcentury, questioning India’s future if it remains divided by ascribed status. Beginning with independence in 1947, I dissect India’s history post-colonialism and how the feminist movement gained headway during periods of political upheaval. Within the feminist movement, Indian women remain divided on the basis of caste, therefore stalling gains for true equality. India’s hope for development, increased security and peaceful negotiations will not come to fruition if the caste system persists, especially in the feminist movement.

Following India’s independence, women have been used as a marker for …

Handwritten Notes, Edna Louise Saffy

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Handwritten notes on The Breakers , Palm Beach Florida notepad.

Edna Saffy - Paca Nametag

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President's Advisory Committee on the Arts The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts name tag. No date given.

Brazilian Ambassador Honoring Paca: Program, Dinner Menu, And Name Card

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Menu, place card, and program for the dinner in honor of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts held on December 6, 1977 at the residence of the Ambassador of Brazil and Mrs. Flecha de Lima, Washington D.C.

Paca Save The Date

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Save the date flyer for the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts Meeting, March 1998, San Diego, California.

Save The Date For Paca 1999, Hawaii

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Save the date flyer for the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts Meeting, February 17-21, 1999, Kauai, Hawaii, The Princeville Resort.