This research began as an investigation of the #metoo movement, with the initial impetus to illuminate the voices located on the margins, those who often go unheard or are never recognized. This work aimed to understand the intersectional aspects of how these hashtag variations …
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Black American women are excelling and thriving at extraordinary measures in the field of entrepreneurship. Their journeys to becoming full-time entrepreneurs remain multi-dimensional as they navigate through the pathways of survival entrepreneurship or opportunity entrepreneurs…
AmeriCorps, a voluntary public service program founded in 1993, has largely consisted of a nonminority middle-class group, generally 20 to 29 years old, who had the financial assistance of family while serving. African American participants may be experiencing AmeriCorps-based p…
Across postsecondary education in the United States, women continue to be underrepresented in executive-level leadership roles, in contrast to the fact that women earn the majority of degrees at all levels. This underrepresentation is notable in the context of Christian higher e…
Despite the recent wave of female visibility, advocacy, and empowerment across the nation, female professionals within the sport domain remain in a tenuous position (Oglesby, 2001), confronting reminders about their marginalized status (Roper, 2008), navigating gendered stereoty…
In this study the lived reality of African American ASL-English interpreters is examined through the lens of hermeneutic phenomenology. The theoretical frameworks that undergirds this study are Black feminist thought, critical race theory, and intersectionality. Using Seidman’s …
Oppression, Resistance, and Empowerment: The Power Dynamics of Naming and Un-naming in African American Literature, 1794 to 2019 researches and discusses the way African American authors both discuss naming and un-naming in their works and the way they use naming in their works …
This study contributes to literature on gender-based violence, help-seeking, legal cynicism, betrayal trauma, and empowerment using a sequential mixed method design. Beginning with a web-based survey (n = 170) followed by in-depth interviews with purposefully selected participan…
Background: Suicide is the second leading cause of death among youth ages 10-24 in the United States. Suicidal thoughts and behaviors disparately affect youth with oppressed identities, including those with oppressed racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual minority identities. These …
Although corrections populations have been gradually declining for several years, an estimated 4.1 million adults are currently supervised in the community (Maruschak & Minton, 2020). While some states have depended on the use of community corrections as a means to reduce overcr…
Most Black Christian Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) do not feel affirmed or accepted by the traditional Black Church. Their experiences with faith-based sexual exclusion have led to mental, spiritual, and behavioral challenges. As an institution, the Black church is a sanctuary…
The purpose of this dissertation was to develop a strategy of evangelism to address a culture of the twenty-first century that is influenced by worldviews such as intersectionality. The worldview of intersectionality was used as a case study to understand the challenges the chur…
This two- year phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of five Black gay (Quare) males who attended three different Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in the South. This research project sought to gain an understanding of the experiences of five Q…
Black women singers have often been lauded and emulated for their musical talents, but also have been regulated to the lower level of societal hierarchy in the music industry. They had to endure racialized and gendered power structures in the field that positioned white men at t…
עם העלייה בתוחלת החיים של אנשים עם מש"ה )מוגבלות שכלית התפתחותית(, סוגיית הזדקנות המשפחות לצידם מקבלת בשנים האחרונות תשומת לב במחקר ובפרקטיקה. סוגיה זו טרם נחקרה בחברה החרדית על אף שכיחותה הגבוהה יחסית של התופעה. שכיחות הנובעת מכך שבמגזר זה נמנעים מביצוע הפלות, המשפחות הן מרובות…
This work emphasizes a theoretical approach to analyze lynching as terrorism. I define lynching using a theoretical framework focusing on nationalism. This places lynching into larger contexts, including police brutality, and mass incarceration. The American racial order consoli…
This qualitative interview study explored the lived and shared experiences of 20 formerly incarcerated women who had attended 20 different California community colleges while imprisoned and/or following their release. Intersectionality was employed as a theoretical lens to under…
The lives of Somali born high school students are complicated by intersections with both race and religion. They often carry refugee histories of trauma and displacement that are further exacerbated during the resettlement process. Schools are struggling to make the kinds of acc…
This qualitative phenomenological study investigated Akan widows' lived experiences of widowhood, widowhood rites, violations against their property rights and the protective resources they employ to survive. The dissertation also explored how the widows make meaning out of thei…