Browsing Theses and Dissertations(library) by Subject "African Americans"
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A RETROSPECTIVE EXPLORATION OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AMONG A SAMPLE OF OLDER AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: AN INTERPRETATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
(2017-05-04)African American women experience domestic violence at a rate that is 35% higher than the domestic violence rate of White women. Moreover, African American women encompass 8% of the U.S. population but account for 22% of ... -
African American Women's Resistance in the Aftermath of Lynching
(2019-12-16)This thesis focuses on resistance strategies used by African American women in the aftermath of lynching in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It examines the ways in which those strategies were shared, ... -
African Americans, STEM, and Entrepreneurship: A Study of Factors that Influence African Americans to Pursue Entrepreneurship in STEM Fields
(2017-03-20)Minority business entrepreneurship, specifically in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), provides multiple opportunities for innovation, job creation, high earning potential for underrepresented ... -
Analysis of Homeownership Outcomes in the Dallas-Fort Worth Region and Growing Disparities An African American Perspective
(2020-09-02)Since the housing bust and Great Recession, in the United States, the homeownership gap between black and white households has widened to its largest levels in 50 years (Choi, McCargo, Neal, Goodman & Young, 2019). With ... -
CEMETERIES, CONSTRUCTION, AND COMPLICITY TYLER’S UNIVERSE CEMETERY AS A BLACK BURIAL SITE UNDER DISTRESS
(2022-01-03)Black culture has shaped the American landscape in unique but often unrecognized ways. Black burial sites and cemeteries honor ancestors and are a site of reverence (LaRoche & Blakey, 1997). However, they are routinely ... -
Quantification of Dynamic Changes of Hemodynamic and Metabolic Responses to Brachial Artery Occlusion: A Broadband Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study
(2024-01-10)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of death in the United States, and non-Hispanic African Americans are at higher risk than other racial and ethnic groups. Endothelial dysfunction is a major contributor to ... -
THE VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN MILLENNIALS: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY
(2021-08-10)Volunteering is an invaluable resource and practice that connects people to much-needed services. Current research is limited on the practices and perspectives of African American volunteers in the United States. Through ... -
Truth and Strength in Vulnerability: Using Topoanalysis to Reveal the Need for Expanding the Modernist Literary Canon
(2018-11-27)In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the public role of women shifted dramatically. Women asserted themselves in politics, education, and work in a way foreign to their Victorian predecessors. Although ... -
UNDERSTANDING THE PSYCHOSOCIAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH IMPACTS OF COLORISM: DISCRIMINATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS BASED ON SKIN COLOR
(2019-08-08)Colorism is a complex phenomenon which was birthed by racism and uses the observable human characteristic of skin color as a metric for worth in society. Colorism as practiced since its inception demonstrates intolerance ... -
We Will Not Strike: The Black Revolt in the Chicago Teachers Union
(2015-12-09)In the 1960s, black teachers in Chicago were systematically discriminated against by the school system’s Board of Education. The Board used a subjective oral exam to deny the vast majority of African-American educators ...