The term social infrastructure may be unfamiliar to many, but it plays a crucial role in bringing people together, countering isolation, and building social capital. …
My thesis discusses an 1890 bill, the Federal Elections Bill, which would extend voting protection to polling stations that suffered irregularities. The bill did not …
The present thesis examines the K-12 educational experiences of Black undergraduate women to better inform education policy. Much of education literature on Black girls highlights …
Education scholars have long noted a positive relationship between concerted cultivation and test scores. Yet, few studies have found variation by race, a factor Black …
Heat has been, and will continue to be, a major environmental hazard, public health concern, and local and national economic and security challenge. Extreme high …
Sweden has developed an international reputation as a progressive haven, promoting socioeconomic equality through its extensive welfare state. However, non-white and non-European migrants have disrupted …
"Lynching and the Archive: A History," studies lynching images alongside their patterns of circulation as well as the way that they have been presented in …
Individuals diagnosed with disabilities and people of color are two demographic subgroups who are disproportionately criminalized and arrested. Most research on criminalization focuses on either …
In a time when baccalaureate aspirations are ubiquitous and students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds are enrolling in college at higher rates, the shifting …
Racial Technics is a cultural, historical, and theoretical study that traces how competing conceptions of humanity and human freedom have been articulated at the nexus …
The 2013 U.S. Supreme Court Case "Shelby County v. Holder" rolled back key provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which ensured localities with documented …
This project explores themes of Black community, mobility, and the inclusion of underrepresented narratives in perceptions of space. It positions the Green Book as a …