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Social Justice Student Research

This collection showcases University of Kentucky student research that addresses topics related to equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice.

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

“I THOUGHT I FOUND HOME”: LOCATING THE HIDDEN AND SYMBOLIC SPACES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN LESBIAN BELONGING, Aretina Rochelle Hamilton

Fat Girls: Sexuality, Transgression, and Fatness in Popular Culture, MaryAnn Kozlowski

“BEYOND SISTERHOOD THERE IS STILL RACISM, COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM!” NEGOTIATING GENDER, ETHNICITY AND POWER IN MADAGASCAR MANGROVE CONSERVATION, Manon Lefèvre

INCREASING INCLUSION: THE PURSUIT OF RACIAL DIVERSITY IN THREE HISTORICALLY WHITE UNIVERSITIES IN KENTUCKY, MICHIGAN, AND ONTARIO FROM 2000 TO 2012, David J. Luke

Analysis of Campus Accessibility at the University of Kentucky, Molly Mathistad

MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HOMELESS, Stephanie E. McKee

EXPLORING CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, FACILITATING BLACK LIBERATION, Della V. Mosley

RACISM, RESISTANCE, RESILIENCE: CHRONICALLY ILL AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S EXPERIENCES NAVIGATING A CHANGING HEALTHCARE SYSTEM, Elizabeth New

ADOPTING IDENTITIES: ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN ADOPTION, RACIAL-ETHNIC, AND SEXUAL MINORITY PARENT SOCIALIZATION AND CHILDREN’S ATTACHMENT, GLOBAL SELF-WORTH, AND UNDERSTANDING OF IDENTITY, Kyle A. Simon

COMMUNITY COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND SEXUAL MINORITIES: THE EXPERIENCE OF LGBTQ STUDENTS AT COMMUNITY COLLEGES, Baron Guy Wolf

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

ONE DEAD FREEDMAN: EVERYDAY RACIAL VIOLENCE, BLACK FREEDOM, AND AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP, 1863-1871, Jacob Alan Glover

FAST FRIENDS: IMPLICIT BIAS OF CROSS-GROUP FRIENDSHIPS IN A COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, Tiffany Harper

Kentucky Slavery: The Historiography of Human Property Records, Andrew D. Johnson

THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG ACCULTURATION ORIENTATION, PERCEIVED DISCRIMINATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING AND GENDER AMONG SOUTH ASIAN AND SOUTH EAST ASIAN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Dia Mason

EXAMINING RACISM AND WHITE ALLYSHIP AMONG COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGISTS, Kathryn H. Owen

Exploring Barriers to Primary Care in the LGBT Community, Desiree R. Price

Ethnic Xenophobia as Symbolic Politics: A Cross-National Study of Anti-Migrant Activism from Brussels to Beirut, Annamarie M. Rannou

Self-Authoring Gender Performance: A Narrative Analysis of Gay Undergraduate Men, Casey Shadix

Sexy, Thin, and White: The Intersection of Sexualization, Body Type, and Race on Stereotypes about Women and Women's Body Dissatisfaction, Ellen A. Stone

The Reflection and Reification of Racialized Language in Popular Media, Kelly E. Wright

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

GENDER MATTERS: MASCULINITIES AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN FARMING IN NORTH CAROLINA, Marcus K. Bernard

Hispanic Agricultural Workers: The Nexus of Demographics, Employment Characteristics, and Health, Ashley Michelle Bush

HIV Testing Health Care Related Discrimination Among Black and White Men from the 2006-2008 Sexual Acquisition and Transmission of HIV Cooperative Agreement Program (SATHCAP), Kenisha Cantrell

DO BLACK LIVES MATTER IN AMERICAN MAINSTREAM NEWS MEDIA? TWO CASE STUDIES OF POLICE-INVOLVED SHOOTINGS OF BLACK MEN EXPLAINING A RACIST MEDIA ENVIRONMENT, Alfred J. Cotton III

An Evaluation of the Techniques and Strategies for Recruiting African-Americans by 1862 Land-Grant Universities, Rashawn P. Franklin