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Ray Von Robertson

Researcher at Lamar University

Publications -  16
Citations -  382

Ray Von Robertson is an academic researcher from Lamar University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Racism & Law enforcement. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 15 publications receiving 329 citations.

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Racism and Police Brutality in America

TL;DR: This paper examined findings provided by the National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project (NPMSRP) to examine how the public generally perceive police and how race and racism shape this discourse.
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Armed and Dangerous? an Examination of Fatal Shootings of Unarmed Black People by Police

TL;DR: Gabbidon et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the circumstances around the deaths of 78 unarmed Black males and females by police in various parts of the United States between 1999 and 2015 and found that the majority of those killed were women.
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What Works? A Qualitative Examination of the Factors Related to the Academic Success of African American Males at a Predominantly White College in the South

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the factors related to the retention/academic success of African American males at a mid-sized, regional, predominantly white university in the south and found that the selected university has an African American male graduation rate, of approximately twenty-three percent, which is thirteen percentage points below the national Black male average.
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The Social Adjustment of African American Females at a Predominantly White Midwestern University

TL;DR: This article examined the social adjustment of African American female students at a predominantly white university in the Midwest and revealed promise for Afrocentric development theory in understanding African American student adjustment at predominantly white universities.
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"Can We All Get Along?" Blacks' Historical and Contemporary (in) Justice with Law Enforcement

TL;DR: Gabbidon et al. as discussed by the authors used Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine the public quotes made by Rodney King, what these quotes revealed about the world paradigm of King, as well as how he perceived the police, himself and his place in the world.