Historically, public schooling in America has disenfranchised students of color,
evaluating these youth by their confonnity to or defiance of the nonns for curriculum and
conduct dictated by the dominant white middle ...
This study strove to identify trends of sexual and romantic racial preference among queer
college aged women and how queer women renegotiated and constructed desirability. It was a
project concerned with how queer women ...
The experience of being Korean-American can be studied as a continuing practice of identification: how often do I eat Korean food (and when I do, do I use chopsticks?), do I smoke cigarettes (and when I do, do I step out ...
In this thesis the author sets out to highlight the voices of Chinese adoptees, a perspective that is largely left out of the literature on adoption. Studying Chinese adoptees is important as the first generation, those ...
The promulgation of a new constitution in Nepal in 2015 was met with protests across the country. The most vocal opposition came from Madhesis, people who live in the southern Terai plains. Madhesis claimed that they were ...
In this paper, I will be looking at the Revolution's use of visual communication and street
art, artists whose work can be found in Havana area today, and skate culture in Havana to
understand the visual as tool. Through ...
With a narrative inquiry approach and a frame of “illegality” and power, this study of six undocumented Mexican parents in the Philadelphia area—three heterosexual couples with US citizen children—examines the ways in which ...
This thesis explores the concept and implementation of time banking - a system that aims to
build community and reciprocity through the exchange of time-based currency. I learned about
timebanking through my summer 2016 ...
Due to the scale of migration that took place after 1991, Moscow is both an ideal and unique
space in studies of race, ethnicity and group identity in the of Post-Soviet sphere. Moscow is
unique in its history as the ...
This research study was conducted in a suburban, public high school located south of
the city of Chicago. Dwight High School is a school that houses a primarily Latino and Black
population in their student body. The ...
For a long time in American society, blonde straight hair, blue eyes, a slim figure and
milky white skin were uplifted as the standard of beauty. "The use of standards that characterize
the ideal beauty as 'young women ...
Evaluating the implementation of human rights norms as broad as the right to education
at the domestic level requires the use of supplemental analytical frameworks. In this project, I
discuss the implementation of the ...
At predominantly white institutions, black college students' understandings of their campus
climate are complicated by their experiences of racial microaggressions and racial battle fatigue.
In addition to navigating ...
Relationships between socioeconomic status and recognition and recall memory were
explored in a sample of72 infants at 6-,9-, and 12-months-ofage. Socioeconomic status was
disentangled into household annual income, ...
By examining the residential and student populations in East Los Angeles and SouthEast Los
Angeles, it is possible to identify the local housing politics that affect student success. Analysis
of high mobility and ...
In this qualitative study, I find that progressive public school teachers of AP
Economics experience a multitude of institutional constraints that are direct descendants
of the way that neoliberalism has mapped onto the ...
Interviews with nine self-identified queer and trans teachers of color (QTToC) address
how teachers both work within and resist the reproductive function of schools. Findings suggest
that QTToC enter the profession with ...
This thesis examines why, despite Cuba's global preeminence in gender equality advocacy,
inequality remains a deeply entrenched issue. My work focuses on one specific component of
inequality, gender-based violence, and ...
We propose a theory for temperature-sensitive transcription factors under
the allostery framework. We show that the allostery theory due to excess
vibrational entropy and conformational energy difference can produce ...