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Narrative power: social control in ISLs and group homes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
and control the behavior of people in these settings. Individualized Supported Living arrangements (ISLs) and group homes are settings where the social role of a client, a person with intellectual and developmental disabilities receiving support...
A child sentenced to serve life without a mother : the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars program and incarcerated women's mothering strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this research is to understand the emotional and physical impacts a mother's incarceration has on her children and to closely examine ...
White spaces in brown(ing) places: race, space, and community in the Nuevo South and Midwest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation examines how the everyday and organizational uses of space shape Latine/x racialization in maturing migrant destinations. It observes how community and business organizations structure the racialized ...
"Marijuana Moms" : the collective work of negotiating individual and group identity in the age of cannabis legalization
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This research is the result of a qualitative study that explored the ways in which marijuana using mothers come to identify as such and how they structure their relationships and parenting as a result. The experiences of ...
Gold star motherhood: spectacle, emotion, and identity construction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This dissertation analyzes experiences of gold star mothers, spectacles of grief, grief politics, organizational embeddedness, and the use of discourses in sense making and social identity mapping of valor revolving around ...
Black women's narratives of resilience through vicarious incarceration and reintegration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Systemic racism has resulted in the disproportionate imprisonment of Black people. With Black men constituting a large percentage of incarcerated bodies, many Black women (44 [percent])--mothers, wives, sisters, etc.--will ...
Martial citizenship : firearms, identity, and masculinity in a public militia group
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This project is a study of the ways in the participants in a public militia group organize and present positive identities in everyday talk and storytelling. This study situates their activities within a larger historical ...
When they see us: racial criminalization, racial stigma, and identity in a Midwest college town
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Racial stigma and racial criminalization have been centralizing pillars of the construction of Blackness in the United States. Taking such systemic injustice and racism as a given, then question then becomes how these ...
Understanding space in an ordinary city
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
In this dissertation, I emphasize the ordinary city (Robinson, 2006) as a place for building social justice, a place of possibility, and a place where we can see the tensions and frictions (Tsing, 2004) between the stability ...
Scare tactics, ordinary consequences, and parental advice: the individualization of social problems in television anti-drug commercials
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Much research examines how drugs are socially constructed at the broad macro level, such as how certain drugs are associated with stigmatized minority ...
"You say diversity, we say adversity" : white nationalism, student protest, and administrative diversity discourses in the neoliberal university
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] This dissertation explores the contemporary landscape of the neoliberal PWI university through multiple discourses surrounding issues of inclusion, diversity, and equity. Using the University of ...
The art of recoverying : benchmarking and identity salvaging among injured athletes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study explores sense-making and identity strategies of athletes managing pain and injury both personally and socially. In- depth interviews were ...
It doesn't make any sense : self and strategies among college students with learning disabilities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
Even though there has been increasing awareness of and accommodations for college students with learning disabilities, many of them still face various forms of stigmatization from instructors and peers. In this research ...
Gendered racism : the lived experiences of black undergraduate women at an HPWI : microaggressions, space and culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This current study examined how Black undergraduate women experience gendered racism at a historically, predominately white university in the South. ...
"Learning the ropes : coaching and performing race, style, and identity in professional boxing"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation is an urban ethnography that utilizes a critical race theory (CRT) approach into analyzing the culture and identity, race and/or ...