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McNair Scholars Research Journal Vol. 16
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Cover photo used with the permission of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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Mother Teresa Comerford arrived in San Francisco in 1854 from Ireland and was soon after named superior of her Order, the Sisters of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mother Teresa Comerford and her Order made major contributions to the development of social welfare institutions in the rapidly growing Bay Area. Mother Comerford along with many other brave women traveled vast distances and sacrificed everything in order to aid the growing poor and impoverished populations of San Francisco during the Gold Rush and helped to bring stability to a chaotic, unstructured city. An article in this volume discusses how these women overcame these obstacles using their identities as a source of empowerment.
Recent Submissions
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Untitled (CSULB McNair Scholars Program, 2011-05-15)
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(CSULB McNair Scholars Journal, 2012-05-15)Published in 2003, the Lebanese-Québécois playwright Wajdi Mouawad’s Incendies is a work which explores issues of exile and displacement. Guided by theorist Mieke Bal’s contention that an analysis of how the linguistic ...
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(CSULB McNair Scholars Journal, 2012-05-15)The staggering academic underachievement of Chicana/o Latina/o students is a topic of heated national debate. However, the focus is never really on the root of the problem—the historical, biological, and cultural deficiency ...
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(2012-05-15)This study explores the ways in which Africana culture is articulated and reinforced on the Afrocentric social media site (SMS), Palavahut.com, as well as on popular sites such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. It examines ...
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(CSULB McNair Scholars Program, 2012-05-15)The Bracero Program (1942-1964) was a bilateral agreement between the United States and Mexican governments that allowed Mexican citizens to migrate to the United States as temporary contract workers. Out of the twenty-four ...