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Browsing Anthropology and Sociology Senior Individualized Projects by Author "Villegas, Francisco"
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The Achievement Gap : A Critical Ethnography of the Factors Which Perpetuate the Gap in Academic Achievement Between Races
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)The gap in academic achievement between minority (African American and Latino) students and non-minority students, also known as the racial Achievement Gap, has been a major issue within schooling in the United States. ... -
Breaking the Unshackled Chains
(2020-01-01)This research follows the history of how slavery has just changed into mass incarceration over a long period of time. The U.S. Prison system is not a place to make rehabilitation possible for those who have committed a ... -
The Chosen Frame(s) : Constructing STEM Groups for Underrepresented Minority Students at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)In the United States, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is a highly valued discipline because it upholds the economic wealth in the nation. However, the number of underrepresented minority students ... -
Conceptualizing Charter Schools : Class Reproduction and Education
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)This research contextualizes larger debates regarding school choice, educational consumption, and charter schools within the perspectives of parents, teachers, and board members from three charter schools located in a ... -
False Diversity and Cultural Wealth : How Do First Generation College Students of Color Experience College and How Do They Deal with Their Experience?
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)First-generation college students of color have had an increasing presence in four year colleges and universities, which has challenged these institutions of higher education in serving a progressively diverse student ... -
"Hitting Closer to Home" : The Politics of a Community's Understanding of Deportability in Northern Michigan
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019)The nation-state's existence as an "imagined political community" (Anderson 1983) relies on both physical and imagined borders which inevitably creates "insiders" and "outsiders." In this imagined nation, made up of "good ... -
"Illegality" and Bordering Politics Surrounding Latinx Migrants : Through a Legal Lens
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2022-01-01)This paper discusses how the perceived "illegality" of Latinx migrants is a product of the presence of physical borders, the legal system, and white supremacy in the U.S. The perceived "illegality" of Latinx migrants has ... -
No Simple Gift : Neoliberalism and the Kalamazoo Promise
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)In November 2005, it was announced that a group of anonymous donors had contributed funds to provide the full tuition cost at any in-state college or university to graduates of Kalamazoo Public Schools. This scholarship ... -
The Politics of Solidarity : Working in cooperation through Violent and Non-Violent Militancy
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This research examines the ideologies and practices of white radical leftist organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society, it's various iterations, and The White Panther Party. This is accomplished through ... -
Structural Inequities in Healthcare Access
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2020-11-01)The Commonwealth Fund reports, “more than one-quarter of U.S. adults report they have ever been diagnosed with two or more chronic conditions such as asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or hypertension during their lifetime ... -
Structural Inequity in the Chiapas Education System
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2020-11-01)The topic of race and racism is one that to this day is seldom addressed in Mexico’s public spaces. In school, students learn about race and racism as phenomena foreign to Mexico and of the country’s past, promoting a ... -
Unpacking the Crisis : the Mass Epidemic of Criminalization and Imprisonment on Racial Disproportionality in the United States
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2020-11-01)On any given day, tens of thousands of people of color who have been viewed as public menaces, threats to national security, or accused of violating U.S. laws – the criminal justice system are incarcerated in a system that ...
