Browsing OU - Dissertations by Subject "Race"
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Hearing race: the effects of race and accent on language attitudes and intergroup communication outcomes
(2022-07)Relying on assumptions from social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner, 1979), alongside integrated threat theory and intersectionality framework/theory, this dissertation investigated how speakers are socially categorized ... -
Prison Valley, U.S.A.: The Making of a Carceral Capital, 1861-1994
(2022-05)The history of incarceration in Colorado from the birth of the territory in the 1860s through the 1990s is a history of continuity. Coloradans invoked the criminal legal system as a symbol of the state’s legitimate, effective ... -
Punishing the Wicked: Complex Religion and Punitive Sentiment in the United States
(2023-05-12)The United States is exceptional in the scope and severity of its criminal justice system relative to similarly developed nations. An important precursor to the implementation of criminal justice policy is the underlying ... -
The Struggle for Schools: Education, Race, and Sovereignty in the Creek Nation, 1820-1907
(2016-05)This dissertation analyzes the relationship between education and nationhood in the nineteenth-century Creek Nation. Over the course of the century, Creeks adapted schools as part of a larger nation-building effort to ... -
“Who asked for this?”: authenticity and race-centered corporate social responsibility
(2023-05-12)The purpose of this study is to conceptualize and operationalize race-centered CSR, a combination of corporate social responsibility and corporate social advocacy concerned with repairing racial relationships and inequities, ...