Browsing by Subject "race"
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A content analysis of the views of genetics professionals on race, ancestry, and genetics.
(AJOB empirical bioethics, 2018-10)Over the past decade, the proliferation of genetic studies on human health and disease has reinvigorated debates about the appropriate role of race and ancestry in research and clinical care. Here we report on the responses ... -
Acting Natural: The Sociopolitical Construction of Nature in the Mesilla Valley
(2017-05-05)This thesis explores how nature is imagined in the Mesilla Valley of Southern New Mexico. Through analyzing multiple forms of ethnographic fieldwork data collected in the Mesilla Valley, this thesis illuminates the ways ... -
American Realities, Diasporic Dreams: Pursuing Happiness, Love, and Girlfriendship in Jamaica
(2009)At the heart of "American Realities, Diasporic Dreams" lies the following question: How and why do people generate longings for diasporic experience, and what might this have to do with nationally-specific affective and ... -
Betting on Black and White: Race and the Making of Problem Gambling
(2015)Problem gambling, a fairly recent addition to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is estimated to affect between two and five percent of the US adult population (Volberg 2001). While present in all ... -
Combined Effects of Race and Socioeconomic Status on Cancer Beliefs, Cognitions, and Emotions.
(Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2019-01-24)AIM:To determine whether socioeconomic status (SES; educational attainment and income) explains the racial gap in cancer beliefs, cognitions, and emotions in a national sample of American adults. METHODS:For this cross-sectional ... -
Cowboys and Indians in Africa: The Far West, French Algeria, and the Comics Western in France
(2017)This dissertation examines the emergence of Far West adventure tales in France across the second colonial empire (1830-1962) and their reigning popularity in the field of Franco-Belgian bande dessinée (BD), or comics, in ... -
`Crack Babies' and `Illegals': Neo-liberalism, and Moral Boundary Maintenance of Race and Class
(2013)Examination of the moralized risk discourse that occurs during moral panics can help us better understand how discourse supports neoliberal modes of governance. Using the moral panics about crack babies in the 1980's and ... -
Designing Community: Architecture, Race and Democracy in American Life Writing, 1900-‐‑1950
(2017)The turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century saw unprecedented growth and change in the demographics of United States urban environs. Not only did U.S. cities grow bigger, they grew increasingly multicultural and multiracial. ... -
Effects of High School Athletic Participation on the Educational Aspirations of Male Student-Athletes: Does Race Matter?
(2013-04-17)With 55.5% of the nation’s high school students participating in athletics, it is valuable for educators to understand how athletics affect students’ educational aspirations. Educational aspirations are the strong desires ... -
Health Disparities and Prostate Cancer: Can Educational Status, Race and Geographical Distance to Care Facilities Impact Risk and Severity on Initial Biopsy?
(2013)Introduction: Prostate Cancer (PC) screening has become a controversial topic both in the United States and abroad, stimulating debates surrounding who should and should not be screened. United States (USA) population-based ... -
Historical Influences in Contemporary Discourse
(2010-04)This thesis is a comparative analysis and discussion on affirmative action for blacks in Ecuador and Brazil. I use history to understand the different approaches to and the different arguments for and against affirmative ... -
Impact of Racial Resentment on Public Opinion of Voter ID Laws
(2017-05-04)Voter identification laws in the United States are a controversial and often misunderstood issue. Previous research has found that public opinion of voter identification laws is influenced by views of race and racial framing. ... -
Labor, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mid-Twentieth Century Texas
(2011)What happens when the dominant binary categories used to describe American race relations--either "black and white," or "Anglo and Mexican"--are examined contemporaneously, not comparatively, but in relation to one another? ... -
Race and Conversion in Late Medieval England
(2009)Despite general consensus among scholars that race in the West is an early modern phenomenon that dates to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, late medieval English texts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries expend ... -
Race and Sex Differences in QRS Interval and Associated Outcome Among Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction.
(J Am Heart Assoc, 2017-03-20)BACKGROUND: Prolonged QRS duration is associated with increased mortality among heart failure patients, but race or sex differences in QRS duration and associated effect on outcomes are unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS: ... -
Race, Power and Economic Extraction in Benton Harbor, MI
(2016)My dissertation investigates twin financial interventions—urban development and emergency management—in a single small town. Once a thriving city drawing blacks as blue-collar workers during the Great Migration, Benton Harbor, ... -
Racial Framing and Public Support for Ex-Felon Disenfranchisement
(2016-11-08)It is well documented that framing certain race-neutral policies, such as the death penalty, voter ID laws, and three-strikes laws, in terms of race can increase whites’ support for those laws. This study utilized a survey-based ... -
Reconstructing Somerset Place: Slavery, Memory and Historical Consciousness
(2008-09-02)In the century and a half since Emancipation, slavery has remained a central topic at Somerset Place, a plantation-turned-state historic site in northeastern North Carolina, and programmers and audiences have thought about ... -
Schwarzsein, Weißsein, Deutschsein: Racial Narratives and Counter-discourses in German Film After 1950
(2012)This dissertation uses film to explore shifts in conceptions of race, cultural identity, and national belonging in Germany from the 1950s West Germany to contemporary reunified Germany. Through the analysis of several German ... -
Segregation and Integration in Dallas County: What Do Demographic Differences Between Neighborhoods tell us About the Political Preference of those Neighborhoods?
(2019-12-06)How does environment affect how people decide to vote? If a person lives in a more diverse environment, does that change their fundamental political preference? This research uses both racial demographic information of voters ...
