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Pattin, Carla Janell – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2021
This essay considers various challenges to honors educational practice in a post-pandemic context and against the backdrop of Black Lives Matter. The City as Textâ„¢ course, Multicultural Toledo, cultivates student knowledge about intersectionality in light of public health and social justice emergencies in the United States. The author describes…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Urban Areas, Land Settlement, Racial Bias
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Moane, Geraldine; Quilty, Aideen – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
This article describes experiences in an Irish context of education programs delivered in 2 communities, 1 based on class (a working class urban community) and 1 based on sexual orientation (an urban lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community). It aims to illustrate how feminist education can play an important role in feminist community…
Descriptors: Feminism, Working Class, Adult Education, Sexual Orientation
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Green, Adam Isaiah – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2011
Recently, scholars have used a Bourdieusian theory of practice to analyze systems of sexual stratification, including an examination of sexual fields and sexual (or erotic) capital. While the broad structural features of the sexual field have been a point of focus in this latter research, a systematic analysis of the interactional processes that…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Social Stratification, Homosexuality, Urban Areas
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Jones, Jessica E. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2009
Focusing on Jaime Hernandez's "Locas: The Maggie and Hopey Stories," part of the "Love and Rockets" comic series, I argue that the graphic landscape of this understudied comic offers an illustration of the theories of space in relation to race, gender, and sexuality that have been critical to understandings of Chicana…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Hispanic Americans, Urban Areas, Females
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Frost, David M.; Meyer, Ilan H. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2009
The authors examined the associations between internalized homophobia, outness, community connectedness, depressive symptoms, and relationship quality among a diverse community sample of 396 lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. Structural equation models showed that internalized homophobia was associated with greater relationship problems…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Homosexuality, Depression (Psychology), Social Bias
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Rosario, Margaret; Schrimshaw, Eric W.; Hunter, Joyce – AIDS Education and Prevention, 2006
Sexual risk behaviors of young gay and bisexualmen must be understood within the context of other health concerns (e.g., anxiety, substance abuse), population specific factors (i.e., the coming-out process and gay-related stress), childhood sexual abuse, and other theoretical factors (e.g., safer-sex intentions). The current report proposes and…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Negative Attitudes, Mental Health
Hatchett, David – Crisis, 1990
More than 25 percent of those who have the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) virus are African American, and, in large urban areas, the disease is a leading cause of death, especially among black women. AIDS education is vital to supplement health care efforts in the black community. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Black Community, Blacks, Disease Incidence
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Vaught, Sabina – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2004
This interview-based, narrative study examines the effects of schooling in a Deep South urban community on the identity construction of gay African American boys and young men. Specifically, it exposes the ways in which the dominant culture of White racism creates and imposes a hegemonic masculinity on Black youth culture that forces these young…
Descriptors: African Americans, Young Adults, Racial Factors, Social Bias