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Blatt, Jessica – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation argues that changing ideas about race and engagement with race science were at the heart of a major transformation of political science in the 1920s, a transformation that I characterize as "becoming modern." This transformation was at once conceptual--visible in the basic categories and theoretical apparatus of the…
Descriptors: Race, Social Science Research, Political Science, Intellectual Disciplines
Mencke, Bernadette Kristine Buchanan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined the impact of the Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944 (the GI Bill) on African Americans' quest for higher education. The central question guiding this study follows: Why has higher education been so elusive for African Americans? With reference to this question, the following sub-questions were addressed: (1) How can the…
Descriptors: African Americans, African American Community, Race, War