What are Louisiana's Demographics? Louisiana is one of the contiguous United States, located in the south and bordered by the states of Texas, Mississippi, and Arkansas. To the south of Louisiana is the Gulf of Mexico. People have inhabited the land that is now Louisiana for more than 5,...
federal marshals and the National Guard were called out to restore order and escort the Freedom Riders to Mississippi. Many of them were arrested in Jackson, Miss., for infractions of the state's segregation laws, and a long series of court battles began. These protests led in 1961 to an...
The Changing Demographics of Incarceration For issues of crime and punishment, California has experienced a dynamic period over the past 15 years. Voters and legislators have ummary chosen to impose harsher criminal penalties but also to experiment with alternatives to incarcerat... HP Johnson,A ...
There are many factors that contribute to student success, and while we could not control for all of them we did our best to consider the best explanations,” including “city size, racial demographics, spending, poverty or income inequality.”[26] The results are “stable no matter how ...
Frey, W. H., & Teixeira, R. (2012). America’s new swing region: The political demography and geography of the Mountain West, (pp. 11–68). In R. Teixeira (Ed.),America’s new swing region: Changing politics and demographics in the Mountain West. Washington D.C.: Brookings. ...
Given the nation's changing demographics, how we remediate racial inequities is a pivotal question that can determine the ultimate success or failure of the RJ movement. We propose three dimensions of competence often articulated in the psychotherapy and counseling literature: "1. Awareness of one'...
Dolezal attended college in Mississippi, then went on to Howard University on scholarship – not having identified herself as black then on her application because there was no such option, though people there may have assumed as much “because her portfolio of art was all African-American portrai...
High rent costs and corporate land acquisition across the District have also radically changed the racial and socioeconomic demographics of formerly Black-majority neighborhoods and forced many Black longtime residents to move to the suburbs or out of the area entirely. DC’s official status as a ...
Table 1.Summary of student demographics. 2.2. Measures of Constructs This study involved two constructs: scholastic aptitude and computer use behavior. Each construct was measured by multiple indicators. Scholastic aptitudewas defined as an individual’s potential ability to perform in scholastic and edu...
For the purposes of this study, a modified weighing system was used based on demographics (age, sex, and race) at the county level. This reweighting approach has been used previously to examine racial disparities in obesity in North Carolina [16]. Here, we applied multilevel reweighted ...