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K-popscape : gender fluidity and racial hybridity in transnational Korean pop dance
(2015-05)
Analyzing bodily representation and audience reception, my dissertation examines (a) how racial hybridity and gender fluidity in Korean pop (K-pop) music performances challenge racialized gender norms in the West, such as ...
Academic and social influences of underrepresented adolescents' perceptions of opportunity and plans for the future
(2016-08)
Sociologists of education have long stressed the importance of students’ expectations for their subsequent success. Yet, an insufficient amount of previous work has considered how academic and social psychological factors ...
Social violence, social healing : the merging of the political and the spiritual in Chicano/a literary production
(2012-05)
This dissertation argues that spiritual and religious worldviews (i.e. Mexican Catholicism, indigenous spiritualities, and popular religion) have historically intersected with social and political realities in the development ...
Marriage, bigamy, and the Inquisition : power and gender relations in seventeenth-century New Spain
(2016-05)
“Marriage, Bigamy, and the Inquisition” explores the formation and dissolution of intimate marital partnerships in seventeenth-century colonial Mexico. This report is a preliminary investigation into the formation and ...
A disaster on top of a disaster : how gender, race, and class shaped the housing experiences of displaced Hurricane Katrina survivors
(2011-05)
In this dissertation project, I examine the experiences of displaced Hurricane Katrina survivors in the context of post-disaster housing policies and practices. This research is based on two years of in-depth interviews ...
Intersectionality and the Perpetuation of White Male Power through Interracial Sexual Violence
(2014-04-02)
The purpose of this dissertation research is to investigate the reactions and attitudes of white men, white women, black men, and black women to the sexual violence of enslaved black women carried out by white men. Using ...
Consumers' perception of the ethics and acceptability of product placement in movies : African Americans and Anglo Americans
(2008-12)
The goal of the study was to explore African Americans’ perceptions and acceptance of products used for placement in movies and to compare their perceptions to those of Anglo Americans. A mix between and repeated measures ...
Between practice and the classroom : the making of masculinity and race in the mis-education of Black male student-athletes on a college campus
(2012-05)
This project argues that American college sports involving Black male athletes (primarily football and men’s basketball) at Gulf Coast State University (GCSU) actively construct and impact local knowledge about Black ...
Measuring maternal worth : racial science in Mexican obstetrics, 1869-1936
(2012-05)
This thesis explores the connections between scientific politics and maternal healthcare in Mexico between 1869 and 1936. In sum, I propose that scientific and elite debate about female biology was related to broader ...
Social ties and physical activity patterns over the life course : gender, race, and age variations
(2014-05)
In this dissertation I explore the lived experiences and meanings underlying population patterns linking social ties and exercise. To do so, I frame an analysis of qualitative data from 60 in-depth interviews with 15 white ...