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Reckoning with a Violent and Lawless Past: A Study of Race, Violence and Reconciliation in Tennessee
(2010-08-05)
This project examines acts of violence and injustice directed toward Black Tennesseans in the forms of slavery, Jim Crow legislation, lynching, pogroms and race riots between 1865 and 1946. After systemic research of ...
Police Arrests in a Time of Uncertainty: The Impact of 287(g) on Driver’s License Arrests in a New Immigrant Gateway
(2013-08-02)
Since the late 20th century, the U.S. immigrant population has become more geographically diverse. Although some new destinations welcome the influx of new residents, others implement a variety of harsh local anti-immigration ...
Revealing Privilege: Examining Manifestations of Race, Class, and Gender in Health and Human Service Organizations
(2012-04-04)
Race, class, and gender dynamics can result in power differentials and discrimination in organizations. Such deleterious effects are particularly troubling for non-profit agencies with diverse employee and community bases ...
"A Model for America: Racial Integration in South Orange, New Jersey"
(2014-07-15)
A Model for America investigates how black and white South Orange, New Jersey residents formed alliances in order to transform their community from a predominantly white community into a racially integrated community. ...
The Color of Change? Race and Charter Schools in an Age of Neoliberal Education Reform
(2014-07-23)
This dissertation examines the extent to which charter schools redress longstanding racial inequalities in education. Charter schools have emerged amid competing public agendas which stem, in part, from the contradictions ...
The Caged Bird's 21st Century Song: A Homiletic Practical Theology from the Preaching of African American Women
(2013-07-30)
This dissertation engages the sermons of African American women with the purpose of learning more about their preaching content and style. I begin by exploring the social location of African American women, and how their ...
Traces of Haiti: Silence, History, and an Ethics of Reading in Frances Burney's The Wanderer
(2013-07-30)
In this essay, I wish to study Frances Burney’s theorization of history in her preface to The Wanderer, and her choice to frame Juliet’s representation through narrative deferrals and silences as the means through which ...
Racial Limbo: A Systematic Study of the History of Coloured South Africans and their Contemporary Attitudes, Perceptions of Deprivation, and Racial Identifications
(2014-09-11)
I 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 ...
The Race Politics Makes: Parties, Polarization, and Whites’ Racial Attitudes
(2019-05-13)
Race and politics have been intimately connected since the country’s founding. I argue that this link allows politics, through partisanship, to shape Whites’ beliefs about race and racial groups. Through four empirical ...
"To Wash A Blackamoor White": The Rise of Black Ethnic Religious Rhetoric in Early Modern England
(2014-04-26)
This dissertation argues that in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England there was a rise of black ethnic rhetoric in religious preaching and texts. Appropriated from the language and culture of the Renaissance, ...