A fundamental task for any visual system is the accurate detection of objects from background information, for example, defining fruit from foliage or a predator in a forest. This is commonly referred to as figure-ground segregation, which occurs when the visual system locates d…
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During the Second World War, African American soldiers were stationed all over the world as part of the American war effort. During these deployments, African Americans encountered a number of white societies, such as those in Britain and Australia, which they generally interact…
This dissertation analyzes demographic and geographic conditions that may be associated with conflict. The first chapter investigates the relationship between subnational ethnic composition and the spread of conflict. I find that conflict arises in ethnically diverse areas only …
One of the most important goals of American educational institutions over the past 47 years has been the desegregation of pubic schools. This goal reflected the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated schools are inherently unequal and deny segreg…
AbstractThe thesis explores the formation, implementation and execution of'Bantu administration' policies in the African 'reserves' of South Africa.The study begins with an examination of the institutions of segregation,the strains during the 1940s, and the responses of the gove…
Within the United States, the southern strategy of Massive Resistance to federally mandatedr acial desegregationh ad its origins in 1948, a year which saw the confirmation of Cold War hostilities in Europe. As a result, the dialogue surrounding matters of race was infused with C…
In the last twenty years, recent scholarship has opened up fresh inquiry into several aspects of New Orleans society during the late nineteenth century. Much work has been done to reassess the political and cultural involvement, as well as perspective of, the black Creoles of th…
This dissertation provides empirical evidence on how economic incentives and religious identities can shape social cooperation. It consists of three essays. The first essay (Chapter 2) uses a laboratory experiment to examine how economic motives shape the strategic formation of …
The numerous images of violence perpetrated by radicalized followers of Islam, has highlighted the complexities surrounding assimilation and integration of Muslims in Western society. Since the guest worker recruitment from French African colonies initiated after World War II, F…
With the increasingly racialized schooling and social contexts of the ongoing anti-immigrant, anti-Latinx, and xenophobic national climate, there is an urgency to examine how K-12 Ethnic Studies (ES) classrooms can support Latinx students with navigating and confronting racializ…
School segregation in the United States is at a crisis point. The educational landscape in Rochester, NY has become increasingly segregated along the lines of race, class, and geography in recent decades. This thesis investigates the geographies and infrastructures that laid the…
This thesis examines the factors that led to the integration of Locals 10 and 208, musicians’ unions in Chicago, Illinois. I argue that, especially within Local 208, the Black musicians’ union, the debate about whether or not to integrate the unions was more complicated and nuan…
This dissertation establishes how the 3000 year old discriminatory institution of Caste, continues to impact human capital accumulation, and restricts economic inclusion among the elites of the Bengali society, despite the latter's widely acknowledged progressive and liberal sta…
I examined 30 semi-structured interviews of adult North Carolina residents who experienced the racial integration of schools firsthand. My main research question: how did Black and White people perceive the racial integration of schools as it initially unfolded? My interviewees’…
The Abiel Smith School, located on the North Slope of Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the oldest Black schools in the United States in one of the oldest free Black communities. The Abiel Smith School was constructed between 1834 and 1835 as a means to resist raci…
This dissertation, an in-depth analysis of three episodes in the early history of the sociology department at The University of North Carolina, explores the relationship between the region, in this case the American South during the Jim Crow period, and the production of knowled…
This thesis addresses parallels between the rhetoric of contemporary secessionists and the arguments surrounding the rise and fall of Jim Crow laws which maintained segregation for decades. Cities like Gardendale, Alabama and Baton Rouge, Louisiana make uncanny arguments in thei…
The city of Birmingham, Alabama, was once home to a thriving music community that helped shape the sound and culture of jazz nationwide; at the heart of this tradition was a public schoolteacher named John T. “Fess” Whatley. Often consigned by historians to the footnotes or over…
The founding leadership of the Mississippi Private School Association (MPSA) used individual experience and extensive networking via the Citizens’ Council along with the community’s belief and desire to maintain white-only schools to create a coalition of quickly formed but well…