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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...