Race, Reproduction, Global Culture and Diversity

Although globalization has provided several advancements in technology, culture, medicine, etc., neoliberal globalization has gendered and social reproductive consequences on the global south, even sometimes in the north, when producing for the global north. Neoliberalism values deregulation, privatization, and free trade. Despite the seemingly positive approach to globalization, it comes with several repercussions that disproportionately affect lower-class and minority communities. The labor throughout the neoliberal market is exploitative as deregulation of the global market allows for cheap wages, dangerous working conditions, and a gendered, social reproduction of poverty, on purpose. This allows for interchangeable and replaceable working in times of plenty and a cut in times of scarcity. Neoliberal globalization emphasizes unequal exchange amongst countries holding great wealth and power against those with less. With that said, neoliberal ideologies can emulate a facade of social progression, yet they lack productive and true social changes.

A lot has changed for the US, in terms of abortion law, over the last year. On June 24th, 2022, Roe v Wade was overturned, and a new precedent was set for abortion law via the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization case. This change leaves the legislative decisions regarding abortion up to the states. Because abortion law will now be up to state politicians, there are many outside factors that could affect abortion law and access, specifically, the capitalist economy, the media portrayal of abortion, and religious views.

This paper seeks to investigate the questions: How often do women get abortions due to financial concerns? Does Capitalism help or hurt abortion access? How does the portrayal of abortion in the media affect public opinion? Does pro-life propaganda affect public opinion? Does religion and the opinions of religious leaders have the potential to affect legislation? Are we allowing religion to play too big of a role in legislation (lack of separation of church and state)?

The purpose of this project is to see how the core of race in structuring social and labor hierarchies in capitalist economies affects two different cemeteries in the local area. Racial capitalism shows that racialized exploitation and capital growth are mutually reinforcing in a society. For these two cemeteries, I am comparing Ohio’s first Black cemetery and another Ohio cemetery that wasn’t always so diverse until a certain time. I looked into Ohio’s first Black cemetery which is the United American Cemetery in Madisonville. I also interviewed with somebody from another local cemetery to talk about diversity, history of their cemetery, and demographics. With information from both of these cemeteries I can see how racial capitalism affects how these two organizations were brought up and how they are maintained now. The main outcome is to show how racial capitalism can even affect the way people are treated differently in society from a perspective most people might not think about. The way to solve this is to show awareness and spread information that can make both cemeteries and communities know that this is happening and how much this affects their overall outcome of how their businesses are operated.

The outcome of the work will examine the ways in which incarceration in the United States serves as a tool of reproductive control. In the United States, criminal prosecutions of pregnant women began to rise sharply in the latter half of the 1980s as a result of cultural and legal debates about abortion rights, restrictive drug control laws in the so-called "war on drugs," and a  political shift toward stigmatizing urban poverty. Since that time, the United States has had the  highest rate of incarceration, with women making up roughly 10% of those who are incarcerated today. Nevertheless, this percentage has been rising recently. With the 2022 overturn of the historic Roe v. Wade (1973) ruling that protected the right to access abortion legally all across the country, there are concerns that women who have abortions will be  arrested and sentenced to incarceration at even greater rates. I contend that restrictive laws pertaining to fetal protection and the related prison industrial complex are used, particularly against low-income women of color, as methods of reproductive control. In addition, I argue that pregnant women's status as full constitutional persons is stripped away by the legal distinction between fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses, which furthers repressive reproductive control over women's bodies.

The specific goals is to question what is being done in a specific religious group to bring everyone together. The strategy is to interview an insider and gain new knowledge. The value of the outcome is for my discipline and growth.

Cincinnati Children's Hospital is ranked #3 for best children's hospitals in the United States and one of America's greatest workplaces for diversity. I intend to question how members of underrepresented groups, who occupy various positions within hospitals, are affected by diversity initiatives. This research strives to investigate how racial ideologies exists within such a high rated organization for diversity through content analysis of policies and perspectives as well as an interview with a key informant within the organization. Several studies have demonstrated that despite diversity initiatives, there are still significant disparities that disadvantaged/impact non-white personnel. The outcome will help provide key issues within organizations policies and procedures that are contributing to the inequality of people of nonwhite personnel within recruitment/interview process, hiring process, and training strategies.

The persecution of sexual assault and exploition(SEA) within international peacekeeping missions around the globe has been left relatively out of the mainstream for the past decade. It was not until recently that human rights activists have drawn attention to the issue as the most recent example is Haiti having widespread coverage over multiple news outlets. Atrocities committed by these borrowed armies continue in devastated countries as such with little restitution. The question of how reports of SEA go unannounced and why this behavior of SEA is still vague and difficult to answer. I intended to give a broad overview of SEA within peacekeeping, why it happens and possible solutions.

Since 2020 many companies have incorporated diversity, equity, and inclusion statements into their websites. Nationwide insurance being one of those companies. Anecdotal evidence suggests that these statements may not accurately describe the workplace culture. It is important to explore these discrepancies between claims from the organization and the reality. Through research and an interview of a worker at Nationwide insurance it will gives us insight on if their workplace matches their mission statements but it will not determine it.

The goal of my research is to compare unpaid maternity leave in the United States to other countries that have paid maternity leave. My goal is to compare the maternity leave policies in the United States and compare it to paid maternity leave policies in countries that have paid maternity leave. When analyzing these policies I am going to look at, do these policies provide any added benefits or no benefits at all? I will be also looking at the cost of childcare. When analyzing the policies in a comparative way to the United States and other countries, I will analyze the social aspects of those policies too and how maternal roles are perceived in each country.