http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/issi_reports/rss Recent eScholarship items from ISSI Project Reports and Working Papers Tue, 1 Sep 2026 21:32:26 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fx6c2zt Indigenous students from Latin America are a growing but often overlooked population in U.S. public schools. In this research brief we review current research on Indigenous Maya students whose families originate from Yucatan in Mexico and we draw on findings from a research project led by the first author. We identify the most salient challenges that Indigenous students encounter in school and we provide recommendations to develop and strengthen academic supports.&nbsp; https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1fx6c2zt Mon, 9 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Baquedano-López, Patricia Zamora, Marisela https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qk317wb <p>A project was organized in the Netherlands to study and interrupt the psychological factors that divide women from one another. Black and white, Jewish and non-Jewish, and lesbian and heterosexual women met in parallel groups for several five month cycles. Groups focused first on self-disclosure (visibility and pride), then on within-group dynamics (solidarity), and then on between-group dynamics (alliance).</p><p>The black-white process was characterized by anger and blame on the black side and by guilt and fear of revenge or need for reassurance on the white side. The Jewish-non-Jewish process was characterized by feelings of isolation and needs for protection on the Jewish side and by feelings of banality and needs for seeking specialness by association on the non-Jewish side. The lesbian-heterosexual process was characterized by feelings of defiance and needs to exclude on the lesbian side and by feelings of confusion and needs for seeking self-definition through others... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0qk317wb Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000 Pheterson, Gail https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8215z237 <p>The article[1] addresses the obstacles to the study of the relationships between Medical Pluralism and human mobility. We critically review the existing literature on Medical Pluralism and Mobility, showing how the classic studies of medical pluralism neglected three fundamental aspects that make up what we call non-situated Medical Pluralism: mobility, space, corporality. A critical review of these aspects in contemporary studies of medical pluralism led us to formulate a framework that seeks to integrate the main contributions of the studies of medical pluralism from Critical Medical Anthropology (Menéndez) with the Mobility Paradigm (Tarrius). This framework is presented, and the paper concludes by underlining its main contributions to the contemporary discussion in the field of Medical Pluralism and mobility.</p><p>[1] This is the translation of a paper to be published in <em>Si Somos Americanos, Revista de Estudios Transfronterizos</em>.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8215z237 Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Piñones Rivera, Carlos Liberona Concha, Nanette https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6rc6m4rj This article analyses the migration motives of highly-educated young adults in Berlin and London who left Spain in the wake of the economic crisis of 2008. We base our analysis on in-depth interviews and the Schützean concept of motive, which allows us to differentiate between the motives behind leaving Spain and the motives behind coming to the city of destination. Our results highlight that the young adults’ decisions to leave Spain were not only motivated by the grave labour market situation itself, but also by its consequences, such as being forced to live with their parents. Regarding the motives for coming, we present a typology of four migration projects in which we argue that even those motives that were previously considered non-economic, such as partnership, are also profoundly related to the economic crisis. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6rc6m4rj Tue, 29 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Tewes, Oliver Heimann, Christiane https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14k984w4 Historically, the U.S. Department of Defense has attempted to advance military goals within the academy by guiding, gathering, shaping and suppressing knowledge production. However, with the ascendance of the Homeland Security state, relationships between the Armed Forces and higher education have become both less obvious and more familiar features of the academic landscape, as increasing research dollars go to develop weapons and cyber-security programs. This paper documents a less-known strategy designed to pave military inroads into contemporary college campuses: a military training program at Fort Knox, Kentucky, created to enlist civilian academic faculty and staff to become supporters of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program. The training, “Operation Bold Leader,” embeds academics in pseudo-warfare situations that serve as military training exercises. Pedagogies include inviting academic faculty and staff to rappel down 50-foot towers to a soundtrack of recorded... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14k984w4 Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Moore, Ellen https://escholarship.org/uc/item/93v6r7gx <p>This study of El Teatro Campesino begins by developing an historical framework within which Chicano culture and politics may be analyzed. I argue that culture and politics share a reciprocal relation in capitalist society, in that each influences and shapes the other. Moreover, other forces play a role in joining these activities together, while at the same time contributing to the dialectic of multiple factors having multiple influences in each sphere. Ultimately, the parameters which many scholars assume “contain” cultural activity are shaped by the dynamic interplay of psychological, cultural, political, as well as economic forces. Within this framework, cultural expression enjoys moments of relative autonomy, and thus the opportunity to develop its own interests and influence human behavior. When art is created in the vortex of a political movement, as was the case of EL Teatro, its impact can be traced both in the range of its vision and in the degree to which it attempts... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/93v6r7gx Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Xavier, Roy Eric https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qj7s0vh <p>In October 1979 the first university-based mediation service in the United States was born in the political science department of the University of Hawaii. Student and faculty volunteers developed an administrative system in facilities donated by the university. Mediation trainers were brought in to train the first 18 mediators who represented a cross section of the community. Student and faculty volunteers conducted outreach to citizen groups and agencies, the arranging and staffing of mediations, the collection of case materials and records, and the training of new mediators. This paper reports on the outcomes of the first nine months of the project’s operation.</p><p><strong>Note: </strong>This working paper was originally published in 1982 by the Institute for the Study of Social Change, now the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qj7s0vh Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Chandler, David B. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63q0m4bc <p>This paper takes a sociological approach to compulsive gambling and outlines the situational factors framing the subjective stages of becoming a compulsive gambler. Based on participant-observation at Golden Gate Fields, a horse-racing track in the San Francisco Bay Area, this paper examines the inducements the race track uses to get people to gamble.</p><p><strong>Note: </strong>This paper was originally published in 1992 as a working paper by the Institute for the Study of Social Change, which later became the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/63q0m4bc Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Browne, Basil https://escholarship.org/uc/item/630805gm <p>In addition to medical and bodily needs, <em>personal(ized)</em> care involves the biographical and social identity of the recipient. Care-work always requires some adaptation to individual preferences and responses. But typically this is either an implicit or a secondary feature of care. However, with chronic, cognitive illnesses such as Alzheimer’s disease, the very capacity for maintaining self (e.g., memory and language facility) is threatened, and so the extent to which care addresses the person <em>qua</em> person becomes especially significant: For the afflicted, <em>personalized </em>care is identity care. Our analysis is based on paid work and field research in “quasi-institutional” residential care settings for the elderly; such settings claim to support collaboration between formal (paid) and informal (family) care-givers. We find that, despite its sentimental folk meaning, there is no simple consensus regarding the meaning or practices of <em>personal care</em>.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/630805gm Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Wellin, Chris https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49h4m9tr <p>The purpose of Part One is to give an overview of the international literature, the theoretical approaches as well as the empirical findings; it is intended to be a resource document. “Wife beating” is still a comparatively new field of research: The phenomenon was uncovered less than ten years. For example, in Germany research in this field is still very much in its beginnings; in the U.S., it is in the stage of gathering extensive material; and exploring useful theories to explain the phenomenon. Thus, it seems both necessary and appropriate to compile a detailed report on the most relevant international literature and findings.</p><p>In Part Two I try the experiment of looking into the problems of wife beating by looking into the general image of women, especially concerning their relationships. To do this, I will gather the splinters of my own experience in a shelter for battered women, which became an adventure into women’s lives, into the lives of battered women, of the... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/49h4m9tr Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Brueckner, Margrit https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xp4j4nk <p>Capitalist agricultural production in Parlier, California, followed the lead set by mining (industrial in organization and technique) and expeditiously shifted from extensive to intensive production. Each successive transformation was stimulated by technological changes and brought agriculture further in line with industrial production. Parlier’s introduction of raisin production as an intensive cash crop is a case in point. Only with the technological innovations of irrigation and refrigerated freight cars was such change possible. This paper shows the role of these technological changes in the emergence of class relations in Parlier. A crucial point of the paper is the fact that intensive cultivation required large capital investments and increased labor. Thus, greater emphasis was placed on the creation of a cheap, exploitable labor force. And, most importantly, this labor force was racial in form.</p><p>In succession, the Chinese, Japanese, and Mexicans filled the demand... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2xp4j4nk Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Trujillo, Larry https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cq5648v <p>In this paper, I focus on three cases of admissions processes that are particularly crucial to equality of opportunity in higher education: undergraduate school, medical school, and law school. In each case, I present data from California, where affirmative action was eliminated for University of California (UC) professional and graduate schools on January 1, 1997 and is scheduled for elimination for all UC undergraduate who enter in spring of 1998 and thereafter. Where possible, I supplement evidence from California with national data. The questions upon which I focus are the following: what will be the impact of the abolition of race-conscious policies on the composition of the student body? Are class-conscious policies effective substitutes for race-conscious policies in attaining the goals of racial diversity and inclusiveness?</p><p> </p><p>Based on a review of both California and national data, I reach two</p><p>conclusions: 1) color-blindness policies are likely to lead... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2cq5648v Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Kerabel, Jerome https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13929553 <p>One of the memorable features of 1984 will be the political language that passed for an analysis of Presidential elections. Professors and pundits were particularly resourceful in their use of political language: The only group to vote solidly Democratic was held responsible for the Party’s failure. The Democratic Party’s overwhelming defeat was attributed to its enormous success with black people. This political feat was made plausible by the simple expedient of linguistic reclassification. Black people ceased to be a cultural or “interest group” in 1984. They became, instead, a “special interest.”</p><p>The new political language of racial politics communicates two seemingly contradictory messages in one language: The black community is told its salient issues are low priority items. The language used to say it, however, enables the speaker to sound neither racist nor conservative. Democratic Party spokespeople are therefore able to keep a straight face when they tell their... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/13929553 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Wellman, David https://escholarship.org/uc/item/11z5w3mv <p>This study was undertaken to assist a group of educators in assessing the factors influencing the academic achievement of Latino students in the Lockwood Unified School District (LUSD) and to prescribe a strategy for intervention. Utilizing an inductive approach to the research and a variety of qualitative data collection methods, this study also attempts to test the relevance and validity of existing theory and to explore new ways of conceptualizing the issues influencing school performance. Our goal in this paper is to use Lockwood as a case study for analyzing issues related to the academic performance of Latino students in California and throughout the United States, where patterns of underachievement continue to prevail as the norm.</p><p><strong>Note: </strong>This paper was originally published in 1994 by the Chicano Latino Policy Project, which evolved into the Center for Latino Policy Research, one of the centers of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/11z5w3mv Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Noguera, Pedro https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0t41n5zk <p>Few studies analyze the mechanisms that cause inequality in earnings, employment and occupational achievement between Latino and non-Latino populations. Compared to analyses of income for blacks, relatively little attention has been devoted to the study of income determination among Latino populations. Previous studies consider income inequalities from the perspective of human capital theory. This paper considers two dominant theoretical perspectives for explaining income inequality: the human capital model and the class/structural model. Then it will review related empirical studies of Latino populations. After critiquing the human capital and class/structural perspectives, this paper discusses policy initiatives emerging from these two competing models on the income inequality. Finally, it considers future research directions for the analysis of income determination and employment among latinos in the United States and concludes with some thoughts on the challenges we face... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0t41n5zk Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Torres, Rodolfo D. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fc4k7t0 <p>The interface between institutions and communities, between service providers and their recipients, is informed and implicitly organized around certain cultural issues. In the present paper, it is the backdrop for once again raising and questioning certain fundamental assumptions that underlie the way in which we think and conceive of mental health problems. The goal is not to substitute an alternative “definition” of the phenomenon but to step back and view such problems in a comparative framework which brings us “up the ladder of abstraction.” While language is the most explicit conduit through which the self gains expression, it is still far from a precise, analytical tool. One key to unlocking certain doors to the mental health question is the variable nature of the self as a social entity and perceptions of problems as they are thereby framed.</p><p><strong>Note: </strong>This working paper was originally published in 1984 by the Institute for the Study of Social Change,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0fc4k7t0 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Woo, Deborah https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0cw3q5x9 <p>The focus of this working paper is to suggest the outlines of an alternative theoretical approach to Chicano history. In doing so I summarize Immanuel Wallerstein’s ‘world-system perspective” and propose ways in which this approach might be useful in interpreting our past history. The arguments presented in the application of the “world-system” approach to Chicano history are still speculative in nature. Much of the historical sketch that I present here is yet to be fully developed. Needless to say, the primary purpose of this working paper is not to present a completely detailed study but merely to suggest one new approach to the question of theory in Chicano historical interpretation.</p><p> </p><p>In approaching the issue of interpretation in Chicano history, I focus my discussion on 19^th century California. This historical period is particularly important since the entire southwest was to undergo during this century the political and economic dominance of three... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0cw3q5x9 Tue, 26 Jul 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Almaguer, Tomás https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nw1s6b2 This paper will focus on the meta-theories and historical explanations for the rise in importance of food and associated experiences as symbols and media of community and identity in post-modern societies, including the surge in interest in agriculture and/or place and their interconnectedness and holistic use. Three main themes/concepts will be addressed and interwoven, so as to provide a fuller picture of the context of this research and the concept of perceptions more generally. These are: 1) Food and its increasing (symbolic) importance – why now?; 2) Agriculture, place and the authenticity conundrum; 3) The rise of experiences and events as mediators of food and agriculture. The three themes will each contain a brief and, admittedly, non-exhaustive literature review with supplementary historical descriptions, focusing, especially on the importance of perceptions in the themes explored. The three thematic areas will then be summarized and discussed. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3nw1s6b2 Mon, 2 May 2016 00:00:00 +0000 Hedegaard Larsen, Morten https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3238c073 Since 2014, there has been a large increase in the numbers of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America entering the U.S. across the U.S. Mexico border. While these children have been at the center of a media firestorm, little is known about their health, mental health, and educational needs, and how U.S. communities are responding to those needs. This fact sheet describes the national, state, and Bay Area contexts to identify how many children are in detention, how many children have been released to family members and other sponsors, and the general patterns of their needs, as well as Bay Area community responses. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3238c073 Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Olmedo, Darlene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xp1992b Since 2014, there has been a large increase in the numbers of unaccompanied migrant children from Central America entering the U.S. across the U.S. Mexico border. While these children have been at the center of a media firestorm, little is known about their health, mental health, and educational needs, and how U.S. communities are responding to those needs. This fact sheet describes the national, state, and Bay Area contexts to identify how many children are in detention, how many children have been released to family members and other sponsors, and the general patterns of their needs, as well as Bay Area community responses. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1xp1992b Fri, 10 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Olmedo, Darlene https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nb79280 <p>Social policy in China and the United States has been undergoing great transformation in recent decades, especially in the interaction between the central government and its subnational units. This article offers an account of the changing dynamics of social policy in both countries in light of the relationship between federalism and the welfare state. Given their federal political institutions, social policy in PRC and USA essentially concerns which government tiers are responsible for social provision. I argue that the fragmented nature of Chinese and American political institutions has led to two distinct social policy developments with their recent decentralization (or devolution) endeavors, with local governments in China gaining more autonomy while the federal government in America retains its prominent role in social provision. Different degrees of local government involvement also create various momentums in social policy that have profound implications for central... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nb79280 Tue, 22 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Shi, Shih-Jiunn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j52v1p8 Social management has arisen as an essential political agenda during the Hu-Wen era, and received particular attention in the 12^th Five-Year Plan launched in 2011. At its core lies the idea of public administration by involving a variety of societal sectors and organizations in various policy realms while maintaining the legitimate rule of the Communist Party. In the realm of social protection this managerialist approach is particularly pronounced. The state-led pluralization of welfare provision during the 2000s envisions a new governance mode toward a public-private mix, with the state establishing a regulatory framework that allows economic and social actors to provide social service. This new policy approach differs significantly from the ‘socialization’ approach taken during the 1990s that merely shifted social welfare responsibilities from the state to markets and families. Based on an analysis of recent developments in social security and social service for migrant... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6j52v1p8 Mon, 3 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Shi, Shih-Jiunn https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8r8073p6 <p>This paper explores social variations in food acculturation in the context of migration. While the literature on this issue has documented changes in eating practices among adults, this study focuses on the children of migrants. The research is based on data collected among elementary and middle school students, and relies on an approach combining focus group discussions with a survey questionnaire. Results reveal that food preferences among children of migrants are more strongly influenced by their family social background than by their ethnic characteristics. Main findings confirm Pierre Bourdieu’s theory about social distinction as more involved in social reproduction than in ethno-cultural reproduction. However this social reproduction doesn’t follow a singular common pattern. The coexistence of competing food patterns among migrants highlights the plurality of minority cultures resisting the dominant norm, as Claude Grignon has already shown about the French working class.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8r8073p6 Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Tichit, Christine https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mr5g67x <p>Argentina is a middle-income developing country that has undergone significant economic change in the last quarter of the 20th century. Many studies address the impact of market oriented policies on the labor market (e.g., the expansion of precarious work, the increase in poverty and income inequality); however, there have been few empirical studies that analyze changes in the degree of openness in class structure.</p><p>            Recent studies on social stratification in industrial societies show that change in opportunities for mobility almost always goes from less to more open, even though inequality has increased in most of these countries over the last 30 years. This paper introduces Argentina to this kind of analysis to explore how and to what degree opportunities for social mobility have changed at the beginning of the 21^st Century across birth cohorts. Particularly, the study focuses on the relative odds of upward mobility over time for persons who come... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mr5g67x Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Dalle, Pablo https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3n87898t <p>“Association with delinquent peers is a risk factor for youth violence.” This statement, taken for granted in much social science and policy discourse, frames a social problem as a result of transgressive behavior by individuals (Douglas 1966, 1992). In this paper, I interrogate “delinquent peers,” “risk factor,” and “youth violence” in order to understand how these concepts shift our gaze from the distribution of power to the choices of individuals. One of Douglas’ contributions is that not all dangers get attention. By attending to the danger of interpersonal violence, these terms reduce the complexity of lived experience for those youth who face state, symbolic, and interpersonal violence. This paper is based on interviews with thirty-eight young adults about their experiences from ages 13-24 in a low-income neighborhood of Oakland, California. In the year 2000, the population of the neighborhood was approximately one-third Asian American, one-third Latino, 20% African American... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3n87898t Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Lustig, Deborah F Sung, Kenzo https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1034d4wj <p>What follows is a summary of the subject and the main assumptions of the book we are writing on voluntary organizations and social movements, which is grounded in my research on non-profit voluntary organizations. It questions the traditional characterization of Spain as a ‘statist society,’ in which the relevance of these organizations is very weak since the citizenry has its expectations focused on the State for solving its problems and does not participate in these kind of groups (Linz 1984; Wert 1996). While relevant surveys continue to hold this assumption, I claim that there has been a change in this subject, which is already promoting interesting developments in public controversies about relevant political issues concerning social justice, language use in education, and the political system of Spain. These changes are manifest in two different kinds of data that shed light on the issue of citizens’ participation in voluntary organizations.</p><p>I claim that there... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1034d4wj Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Laraña, Enrique https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3d1462h7 <p>This report documents the findings of the Institute for the Study of Social Change’s evaluation of the quality, role, and effectiveness of the Business Economics Technology Achievement (BETA) Program at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. BETA’s curriculum is designed to build business skills and to assist middle school and high school students in becoming eligible and competitive for college. The program reaches out to educationally disadvantaged youth and schools in Berkeley, Oakland, West Contra Costa county and San Francisco. The program is also distinguished by its use of undergraduate and graduate MBA business students from the Haas School of Business as mentors in delivering its program services.</p> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3d1462h7 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000 Minkus, David Omi, Michael https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7m64d6dj <p>The proliferation of genetic screening and testing is requiring increasing numbers of Americans to integrate genetic knowledge and interventions into their family life and personal experience. This study examines the social processes that occur as families at risk for two of the most common autosomal recessive diseases, sickle cell disease (SC) and cystic fibrosis (CF), encounter genetic testing. Each of these diseases is found primarily in a different ethnic/racial group (CF in Americans of North European descent and SC in Americans of West African descent). This has permitted us to have a certain additional lens on the role of culture in integrating genetic testing into family life and reproductive planning. A third type of genetic disorder, the thalassemias, was added to our sample in order to extend our comparative frame and to include other ethnic and racial groups.</p><p>Data are drawn from interviews with members of families in which a gene for CF, SC or thalassemia... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7m64d6dj Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Duster, Troy Beeson, Diane https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gd351s2 <p>Initiated by President Bill Clinton in 1992 as a centerpiece of his domestic social policy, AmeriCorps was dedicated to the intention of promoting an inspiring ethic of volunteerism and service among American youth to galvanize a generation of Americans in the interests of improving the lot of their fellow countrypersons. Since then, AmeriCorps programs have taken root in nearly every state in the Union, bringing together private citizenry and public institutions, community agencies and government bodies, local residents and the enormous variety of organizations which aim to serve them. This document represents the culmination of six months of intensive research and evaluation of seven AmeriCorps programs in the state of California. Our review of the programs was guided by an interrelated set of questions, all of which have practical, academic and policy-oriented dimensions: How effectively does the program address local and community needs? Does the program demonstrate... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9gd351s2 Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Minkus, David Duster, Troy https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9311k1s0 The San Francisco Waterfront: Labor/Management Relations -- On the Ships and Docks, Part 2: "Modern Longshore Operations" https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9311k1s0 Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Mills, Herb https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wk0m1b6 The San Francisco Waterfront: A Morality Play Moves On https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3wk0m1b6 Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Mills, Herb https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2x78p517 The San Francisco Waterfront: Labor/Management Relations -- On the Ships and Docks, Part 1: "The Good Old Days" https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2x78p517 Fri, 18 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Mills, Herb https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2352b2k2 It's a Family Affair: Inter-generational Mobilization in the Spring 2006 Protests https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2352b2k2 Mon, 7 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Bloemraad, Irene Trost, Christine https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10s3p1xt <p>African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans are severely underrepresented among high academic achieving undergraduates at selective colleges and universities by virtually all traditional measures of achievement, including grade point average, class rank, and academic honors. Selective institutions currently have few programs and strategies designed to increase the number of high achieving undergraduates from underrepresented groups. This situation is partly a function of the fact that more attention has been given over the years to increasing the retention and graduation rates of students from underrepresented minorities than to helping more students graduate with a high GPA; consequently, few programs have been designed with a high achievement focus. It also is partly a function of the fact that little money has been available to conduct rigorous evaluations of programs designed to improve academic outcomes of underrepresented undergraduates at selective institutions.... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/10s3p1xt Thu, 1 Sep 2005 00:00:00 +0000 Miller, L. Scott Ozturk, Mehmet Dali Chavez, Lisa