Browsing Rice University Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "race"
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Criminalizing Space: Ideological and Institutional Productions of Race, Gender, and State-sanctioned Violence in Houston, 1948-1967
(2017-03-31)Criminalizing Space is a social history of ideas that explores various ways racial residential segregation affected the life chances of black Houstonians during the middle of the twentieth century. Jim Crow polices, custom, ... -
Cumulative Inequality and Race/Ethnic Disparities in Low Birthweight: Differences by Early Life SES
(2015-04-15)The current study applies Cumulative Inequality theory to investigate whether differences in black, white, and Hispanics mothers’ early life socioeconomic status (SES) account for disparities in infants’ risk of low ... -
Different and Not Equal: How Poverty, Race, and State-Level Abortion Laws Shape Abortion Timing Among US Women
(2015-12-03)The number of regulations surrounding abortion has increased drastically in recent years. How these laws relate to abortion timing is important to assess since the cost, safety, and accessibility of abortion varies by how ... -
Educational Politics and the Making of School Desegregation Policy in Houston, Texas
(2018-05-09)The desegregation of American public school systems in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was a vast, protracted, and, in many cases, frustrated historical project that impacted individual communities in a ... -
Encounters with Outsiders: An Examination of White Habitus in a Gang Intervention Site
(2015-04-17)Although law enforcement agencies have utilized incarceration as a means of incapacitation, mass incarceration has not made great strides in impeding gang entry. In response, religious and nonprofit organizations have ... -
Lesbicas Negras' Ethics and The Scales of Racialized Sexual Recognitions in Gynecology and Public Discourses in Salvador-Bahia
(2015-04-20)This dissertation is an ethnographic investigation of the bio-cultural ethics of gynecological care among Afro-Brazilian lesbians, or lesbicas negras, in Salvador-Bahia. I argue that many lesbicas negras’ pursuit of what ... -
Manos de Obra: Class, Race, Gender, and Colonial Affect-Culture in Mexican American Literature
(2017-09-22)This dissertation takes up race and class as analytical categories and interrogates them in their specificity and entanglement with Marxist class analysis, critical race theory, Chicana feminist theory and Latin American ... -
Misclassified and Mistreated?: Racial Misclassification, Racial Discrimination and the Role of Context
(2017-11-30)Race is a dynamic experience as individuals may be perceived as a race they do not identify with. This raises questions about reports of racial discrimination as they often depend on racial identification. Drawing on data ... -
Residence, Race, and Shared Resources: Does Kin Support Matter for Neighborhood Attainment?
(2015-08-27)Vast racial disparities exist in terms of neighborhood quality, and a substantial body of literature on this topic has focused on the role of individuals’ race and socioeconomic status in structuring these outcomes. The ... -
Teacher-Student Congruence and Student Achievement in Segregated Schools
(2015-10-30)Students’ academic achievement is crucial to life opportunities and chances, yet minorities continue to underperform compared to whites in reading and math. One mechanism that makes a difference in student success is ... -
The Effect of Partner Education on Mortality Among a Racially Diverse Sample of Women
(2017-03-01)Research suggests that partnering for women leads to economic benefits and improved access to health promoting tools. One way these benefits could be gained is through the pairing of high academic achievers. Educational ...
