This dissertation focuses on the prior science experiences of middle school students and its correlation with their attitudes toward the study of science. Through the use of electronic survey, data was collected on 617 ...

Why do women work as secretaries? In this study I explore new ways to explain occupational gender segregation by focusing on women who work in the gender segregated occupation of secretary and the gender integrated occupation ...

This dissertation examines the discursive production of colorism (intra-race gender and skin-color discrimination) in select popular media by using articulation as a theoretical and methodological foundation. Materials ...

While we do know that some groups of students are more likely to drop out than others, dropout is a complex process, and currently no single model of dropout captures the true complexity of the paths that lead to a student ...

This dissertation considers the rhetorical leadership of three women bishops who are all “firsts” in important ways: Marjorie Matthews, the first woman bishop in any mainline Post-Reformation church, Leontine Kelly, the ...

This dissertation investigates the relations of culture, self, and agency through the examination of womenÕs decisions about eating strategies. Eating strategies are a form of bodywork that transforms and/or maintains the ...

This thesis examines the Dawes enrollment period between 1900 and 1906. It is unique in that it recaptures the history from the perspective of the applicants for Cherokee citizenship. In looking at the various ways that ...

ABSTRACT Over the past seven decades, a transformation has occurred in the racial ideology of the United States, initiated by the successes of the Civil Rights Movement. What was once a coercive ideology has become ...

This thesis examines the unique residential geographies of those identifying as multiracial in metropolitan Atlanta according to the 2010 U.S. Census. Using a concept of segregation and diversity as overlapping in the ...

The program planning process is an area of practice where the use of knowledge and power reconstructs or perpetuates a system in which some people are privileged and others disadvantaged. The purpose of this study was to ...