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(2008-03-19)Department: Cancer BiologyThe development of cancer in humans is characterized by the accumulation of genetic alterations that either enhance or diminish activity in signaling pathways mediating cellular growth and proliferation. Over time these ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2001)This paper examine long-run trends in racial differences in home ownership rate and in the value of owner-occupied housing. In contrast to our previous work, we include female-headed households in the analysis. This extension ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper uses census IPUMS data to analyze trends in racial differences in home ownership and housing values and to examine the connection between residential segregation and the housing status of blacks relative to ...
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2009-02-06)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-04-01)
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(Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, 2005-01-26)
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(Vanderbilt University, 2000)This paper begins by documenting racial convergence in the value of owner-occupied housing from 1940 to 1990. Most of this convergence occurred before 1970, as black and white home owners became more similar in terms of ...
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(Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2007)Many believe that the legal system has achieved racial neutrality because statutes and regulations do not mention race. They do not view law and the legal system as one way that American society polices race and wealth ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2008-10-09)
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(Arkansas Law Review, 2002)The determination of whether racialized defenses should be permitted depends upon a number of factors. Professor Alfieri is right to emphasize race-consciousness as an important variable, but wrong to give it dispositive ...
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(2009-07-21)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis dissertation uses a sociological lens to investigate the roles that race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status — at the individual, school and neighborhood levels—play in three distinct contemporary educational policy ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-11-24)
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(2017-03-28)Department: Latin American StudiesThe importance of an adequate description of the general population from which a researcher is sampling is a central premise of all epidemiological and public health research. Racial and ethnic categories are a critical ...
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(2016-03-28)Department: SociologyScholarship indicates that racial group identity is important to the psychological well-being and health of Black Americans. Racial group identity is beneficial, because it provides group members with a sense of belonging ...
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(2019-07-15)Department: SociologyThis dissertation examines racial disparities and racial bias in discretionary vehicle searches by police officers and how proactive police practices affect community mental health in Nashville, Tennessee. The first two ...
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(BMC Nephrology, 2019-08-07)Introduction The Southern Community Cohort Study is a prospective study of low socioeconomic status (SES) blacks and whites from the southeastern US, where the burden of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and its risk factors ...
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(2020-06-16)Department: SociologyHealth disparities have existed in the United States between black and white Americans since indicators of morbidity and mortality were first formally recorded. This three-paper dissertation uses elements of the stress ...
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(2015-07-20)Department: PhilosophyIn this project, I combine theoretical resources from metaethics and philosophy of language with contemporary issues in critical philosophy of race. Drawing from these literatures, I examine the nature of racial norms by ...
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Racial Jurymandering: Cancer or Cure? A Contemporary Review of Affirmative Action in Jury Selection (New York University Law Review, 1993)Racial and ethnic minorities continue to be substantially underrepresented on criminal juries. At all stages of jury selection-venue choice, source list development, qualified list development, and jury panel and foreperson ...
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(2014-09-11)Department: SociologyI define racial limbo as belonging to a group positioned between a dominant and subordinate group in a racial hierarchy. Examinations of groups in racial limbo are important because they highlight hidden details of racial ...