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Minority Hiv Rates, Inequality, and the Politics of Aids Funding

Since the 1990s, the HIV/AIDS epidemic has increasingly impacted minority groups in the United States, particularly African Americans. Why is this happening? Comparative studies of developing nations have convincingly established a relationship between concentrated poverty, ethnic boundaries, and lack of effective governmental response as contributing to high levels of infection in those countries. To date, however, no study has sought to apply these insights to the American context. This disse… more

Date: August 2012

Creator: Miles, Thomas

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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The Structural Determinants of Americans' Justice Perceptions Toward Inequality in the U.S.

In accordance with structural theory and distributive justice theory, this study investigates if Americans' personal encounters with the opportunity structure and their existing reward conditions will influence their perceptions toward distribution outcomes in the U.S. I argue that higher-status individuals possessing various "attributes of structural privilege" will exhibit less support for regulating income inequality in society than lower-status individuals. Upward mobility should also be ne… more

Date: December 2012

Creator: Ong, Corinne