Article on racism at Champaign Unit 4 School District.
From abstract:
This paper argues that public school structures are
oppressive for all students. Because of racial, class and gender
biases, school environments are often especially…
African American students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UlUC) had to bear much of
the burden their ancestors had endured. They were allowed to attend the University, however enrollment
was on a limited basis,…
Bousfield became the first African American woman to attend and graduate from the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She continued to be the only African American female at the university for about two years. Continues some discussion of her…
In the information era inequality is increasingly dictated by a myriad of issues related to both access and use of computer and internet technologies. Mere access to the web is an indisputably insufficient claim to equity; attention must…
First Paragraph: In the spirit of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Higher Education Act of 1965, the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) initiated the Special Educational Opportunities Program (SEOP), a program to recruit
more…
This study explored the relationships among length of residence, group identification (racial and ethnic identity) and race-related stress for a sample of Black Caribbean immigrants (n = 96). Participants were recruited through university student…
Dissertation based on ethnographic study at the Champaign County Juvenile Detention Center, in which the researcher studies how the process of being a "juvenile delinquent" shapes their self-perception and worldview.
Dissertation centered around an in-depth oral history of Clarence Shelley, former Dean of Students at University of Illinois and one of the individuals charged with ensuring Project 500 be a success from an administrative point-of-view.
