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Native American Women : Leadership, Activism, and Feminism

Creator:: Cole, Spirit Dine'tah
Abstract:: In fulfilling their traditional roles as leaders in their communities, American Indian women are often at the core of American Indian resistance and struggles for liberation. Native women have a long history of assuming leadership positions within their particular tribes. Their struggles share many of the characteristics of women's struggles...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Oppression from Within : AIM, Heteropatriarchy, Settler Colonialism, and the Death of Anna Mae Aquash

Creator:: Whitebear-Cupp, Luhui
Abstract:: This thesis describes how heteropatriarchal, settler colonialism impacted Indigenous communities' systems in power and control, particularly with the American Indian Movement during the 1960s-1970s. Further, the gendered divides this created within the American Indian Movement are described. The murder of Anna Mae Aquash is revisited as an act of gendered...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: prominent figure in the American Indian Movement after she immigrated to the United States from Canada and

Doing time : papers from Framingham prison

Creator:: Power, Katherine A.
Abstract:: This thesis is an arrangement of essays, poems, and journal entries expressing and exploring experiences from the author's six years in a medium security women's prison. They are collected around the themes of longing and grief, of despair, of survival, of joy, and of the complexity of homecoming.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Prison by Katherine A. Power A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of

Community infrastructure and the development of human capital: A Pacific View

Creator:: Cramer, Lori A.
Resource Type:: Part of Book

Recordando memoria : shaping Chicana identity

Creator:: Martinez, Yolanda Tellez
Abstract:: This research explored the self-concept of Chicanas in terms of their lived experiences and how those experiences influenced the shaping of their identity. It examined the multiple labels Chicanas use to self-identify and the context or situations in which they use specific labels. Moreover, it took into account the influence...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: fifteen students from assorted ethnic, racial, social, and cultural backgrounds from across the United

Perceived medical discrimination in American Indian women : effect on health care decisions, cancer screening, diabetes services and diabetes management

Creator:: Gonzales, Kelly L.
Abstract:: American Indians and Alaska Natives have disproportionately high rates of diabetes, and it is not known if perceived medical discrimination is associated with diabetes health measures and poorer health for this population. This study examined the effect of perceived medical discrimination (PMD) in American Indian women on health care decisions,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: perceived medical discrimination (PMD) in American Indian women on health care decisions, cancer screening

Employment growth, social capital, and spatial determinants of poverty change

Creator:: Crandall, Mindy S.
Abstract:: This study models poverty changes across the United States between 1990 and 2000 as a function of spatial poverty variables (variables that attempt to capture the spatial effects of poverty and poverty changes), social capital, local employment growth, and demographic controls. Newly available decennial census data at the tract level...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Employment Growth, Social Capjtal, and Spatial Determinants of Poverty Change Abstract approved: Bruce A

Out-of-pocket health care expenditures and household food insecurity among families with children

Creator:: Patton-Lopez, Megan M.
Abstract:: Since the late 1990s accelerated growth in health care spending coupled with a cost shift of health insurance from employers to employees has created an increased financial burden for many families. Past research suggests that financial burden due to out-of-pocket (OOP) health care costs limits access to health care and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Patton-Lopez A DISSERTATION Submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment

The Bullying Experiences of Muslim-American Youth in U.S. Public Schools

Creator:: Baadarani, Dalia
Abstract:: Bullying cultivates insecurity and fear while generating attention for the perpetrator and degrading the student-victim in front of others. The act erodes the self-efficacy and identity of minority students more specifically and produces a hostile climate that undermines the learning and social development to all affected. Despite the pervasive negative...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: school level and social justice levels to 4 improve the condition. The data on the number of

Keeping a Roof Overhead : An Examination of Housing Strategies Among Low-Income White Families in Rural Trailer Parks

Creator:: Barrett-Rivera, Brenda C.
Abstract:: Housing is a critical component of family life, however, keeping a safe and stable roof overhead is increasingly difficult for the approximately 21 million low-income families in the United States (Urban Institute, n.d.; U.S. Census, 2015). Low-income families struggle to keep a roof overhead within the context of rising housing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: increasingly difficult for the approximately 21 million low-income families in the United States (Urban

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Native American Women : Leadership, Activism, and Feminism

Oppression from Within : AIM, Heteropatriarchy, Settler Colonialism, and the Death of Anna Mae Aquash

Doing time : papers from Framingham prison

Community infrastructure and the development of human capital: A Pacific View

Recordando memoria : shaping Chicana identity

Perceived medical discrimination in American Indian women : effect on health care decisions, cancer screening, diabetes services and diabetes management

Employment growth, social capital, and spatial determinants of poverty change

Out-of-pocket health care expenditures and household food insecurity among families with children

The Bullying Experiences of Muslim-American Youth in U.S. Public Schools

Keeping a Roof Overhead : An Examination of Housing Strategies Among Low-Income White Families in Rural Trailer Parks

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