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Race discrimination and disproportionality in school discipline
(uga, 2012-12)
Race discrimination and disproportionality is commonplace within United States school discipline procedures, as research suggests that African American students receive disciplinary action more frequently and severely than ...
Perched in potential
(uga, 2012-05)
James Baldwin’s mobility and appreciation for African American musical traditions play an integral part in the writer’s crossing of genre and subgenre, his unique style, and his preoccupation with repeated themes. The ...
Songs for red dust and black clay
(uga, 2008-05)
This project examines the figure of the black Indian in the work of six significant American writers: John Marrant, Herman Melville, Elizabeth Stoddard, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The complex ...
Reasons for living among female African American suicide attempters and non-attempters
(uga, 2011-05)
Suicide within the African American community is paradoxical; despite the overrepresentation of potentially suicidogenic factors (i.e., discrimination), a relatively low number of suicide deaths are reported. Research has ...
Cross validation of the African American Acculturation Scale and African American Acculturation Scale-Revised
(uga, 2007-08)
The following study was conducted using a sample of African American college students who were administered the African American Acculturation Scale (Klonoff & Landrine, 1994). The results of the scale were analyzed using ...
Stability of self-control and the role of parenting in explaining delinquency
(uga, 2012-08)
In this study, I use Group-Based Trajectory Modeling and Multinomial Logit Regression Modeling to test and extend Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) self-control theory. Specifically, I examine the following: 1) the stability ...
Negotiating identities
(uga, 2008-05)
The study sought to understand the experiences of African American female athletes and identity formation in the context of a predominantly white institution (PWI). Employing critical race theory and Black feminist thought ...
Norm miscommunication: does it affect the academic success of black college students?
(uga, 2000-12)
When compared to White students, Black students underperform at every level of academics. Yet, Black students tend to report significantly higher attitudes toward doing well in school than do White students. One explanation ...
Academic and social experiences of African American students at the University of Georgia
(uga, 2002-08)
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of African American students at a traditionally white university regarding their academic and social experiences in the context of the current legal challenges to ...
Disordered eating among African American girls
(uga, 2014-08)
Despite lore that eating disorders do not affect underrepresented ethnic groups (e.g., Smolak & Striegel-Moore, 2001), epidemiological data suggests that African American girls are vulnerable to eating disorder pathology ...