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Major and Classification Public Policy, Management and Planning Faculty Mentor Ricardo Ramirez, Ph.D. Department Political Science McNair Project Examining the Validity of the Detroit Arab American Study: Comparing the Degree of Arab American Political Participation between Detroit and Southern California Arab Americans have become an active and growing constituency in American politics. As a community, Arab Americans tend to be …

Major and Classification Journalism Faculty Mentor Diane Winston, Ph.D. Department Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism McNair Project Looking Right: Print Media’s Portrayal of Christian Conservatives during the Bush Administration The purpose of this research paper is to discover how three influential newspapers have written the Religious Right’s electoral clout from 2000 until 2004. Specifically this paper explores whether mainstream …

Major and Classification Psychology Faculty Mentor Eugenia Mora-Flores, Ed.D. Department Education McNair Project Home Literacy Practices: A Study of the Self-Reported Practices and Literacy of Children in Urban Los Angeles This study aims to identify the effects of Spanish-speaking immigrant parents’ home literacy practices on their children’s literacy in English. The participants in this study will be Latino third-grade students …

Major and Classification Political Science and Minor in Business Faculty Mentor Ricardo Ramirez, Ph.D. Department Political Science McNair Project Linking Social Life to Political Life: The Role of Media and Religion in Immigration Mobilization In 2006 when millions of marchers took to the streets of over 150 cities nationwide, the church was highlighted as a playing a leading role in …

Major and Classification Neuroscience Faculty Mentor LaVonna Lewis, Ph.D., M.P.H Department Policy, Planning and Development McNair Project The Perceived Effectiveness of a Los Angeles School-Based Health Center: A Case Study In the past two decades, there has been a significant increase in the number of school-based health centers throughout the nation. California, in particular, currently has 146 school health centers …

Major and Classification Political Science Faculty Mentor Jeffery Sellers, Ph.D., J.D., D.C.L. Department Political Science McNair Project Fighting the Enemy: The Evolution of Interracial Wartime Politics in Los Angeles County during the Era of ‘War on Terror’ This explorative study investigated the evolution of interracial wartime politics in Los Angeles County within the modern war era. “Wartime politics” is defined …

Major and Classification Sociology Faculty Mentor Lanita Jacobs-Huey, Ph.D. Department Anthropology McNair Project Stakes is High: Exploring Social Activism within the Hip Hop Generation This study examines “Hip Hop Activism” during a 2-month, pilot ethnographic study of Hip Hop culture and the Hip Hop Generation. Who is the Hip Hop Generation? Can Hip Hop culture, which has immense market power …

Major and Classification Public Policy, Management and Planning Faculty Mentor Tridib Banerjee, Ph.D. Department Policy, Planning and Development McNair Project Highly Publicized: Does Public Space Play a Role in the Generation of Social Capital? In the face of widespread declines in the amount of space available for public use due to privatization, we must ask, “What happens to public life …

Major and Classification Psychology Faculty Mentor Cecil Murray, Sc.D. Department Religion McNair Project Religious Sexism: The Leadership Role of African American Women in Contemporary Black Churches African Americans have had a leadership role to empower one another politically, socially, and the like; however, as it pertains to the black church, they themselves have not supported the feminist cause. There is …