Browsing by Subject "Youth"
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Building a Better World: Youth, Radicalism, and the Politics of Space in New York City, 1945-1965
(2012)According to conventional wisdom, the period of intense antiradicalism that followed World War II effectively drove all radical activity underground by the early 1950s, severing the intergenerational connection between the ... -
Challenges and Facilitators of Transition from Adolescent to Adult HIV Care among Youth Living with HIV in Moshi, Tanzania
(2018)Background: AIDS is the leading killer of adolescents in Africa, the continent most impacted by the AIDS pandemic. The East African nation of Tanzania is one of the top five countries with the highest burden of HIV in the ... -
‘Christ the Redeemer Turns His Back on Us:’ Urban Black Struggle in Rio’s Baixada Fluminense
(2018)“Even Christ the Redeemer has turned his back to us” a young, Black female resident of the Baixada Fluminense told me. The 13 municipalities that make up this suburban periphery of Rio de Janeiro have suffered for decades ... -
Criminal Injustice: Race, Representative Bureaucracy, and New York City’s Criminal Justice System
(2017)Recently, research concerning the United States Criminal Justice System has been dominated by discussions of mass incarceration and deadly acts of police violence. Although there is conflicting evidence regarding the impact ... -
Endless Question: Youth Becomings and the Anti-Crisis of Kids in Global Japan
(2014)Young people in Japan contend with shifting understandings of family and friends, insecure jobs, and changing frames around global and national identities. The category of youth itself is unsettled amid a long period of ... -
Evaluating the Impact of the North Carolina Art Therapy Institute’s Newcomer’s Program
(2019)Refugees and asylum seeking children (Newcomers) enter the U.S.A. with little psychosocial support, despite having consistently higher rates of mental health problems. Art therapy has been seen as a potentially powerful ... -
Evaluating the Long-Term Outcomes of a Mental Health Intervention in Tanzanian Youth Living with HIV
(2020)Six percent of the world’s population of youth living with HIV (YLWH) reside in Tanzania. Despite scale up of antiretroviral therapy (ART), poor ART adherence contributes to AIDS related morbidity and mortality in YLWH. ... -
Patterns of HIV Serostatus Disclosure Among HIV-Positive Young Adults in Haiti: a Mixed Methods Investigation
(2014)<bold>Background</bold>: By facilitating access to prevention and care services, HIV serostatus disclosure has been associated with improved physical health, psychological well-being, and improved health behaviors for people ... -
Playing the State: Imagining Youth in Cuban Baseball
(2021)My research lies at the intersections of youth and their imaginaries in late socialist Cuba. Through ethnographic and historical research, I explore how Cuban teenagers and young adults make sense of their place in a changing ... -
Securing Youth: Humanitarian Futures in Post-Conflict Uganda
(2021)The dissertation considers how young people in northern Uganda navigate post-conflict life through participant observation, interviews, and ethnographic focus groups with youth working as security guards, current and formerly ... -
Socio-Economic Mobility of Youths: Factors, Obstacles, and Potential Solutions
(2014-09-26)From early childhood to young adulthood, there are several key obstacles to the ability of a young person to improve his or her socioeconomic status. These include availability of quality early childhood education, level ... -
The Rationale for and Guide to Using Hip-Hop Music as A Vehicle to Spiritual Formation for Black Male Youth
(2017)This thesis provides a hip-hop based curriculum that the black church can use to engage young black men in spiritual formation. Due to the negative lyrics heard in hip-hop music, many churches have rejected this style of ...
