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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Asian American studies"”.
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The Effects of Asian American Studies on Asian American College Students' Psychological Functioning
Because Asian American college students are commonly perceived to be highly achieving and functioning, psychosocial outcomes other than academic achievements are understudied. Nonetheless, stereotypes and racism have consistently been shown to be detrimental to Asian American students' …
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LIKE A DUCK ON WATER: CHINESE ACADEMIC MIGRANTS IN THE U.S. AND THEIR SUBURBAN WEEKEND CHINESE SCHOOL
… and well-behaving, and scholarship in gender studies, Asian-American studies, science and technology studies, and (sub)urban studies has barely acknowledged this group. This dissertation documents how a group of Chinese academic migrants engage with everyday struggles around their paradoxical …
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The Politics of Care: Historical Retrieval in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
… examines care in post-war Vietnamese American cultural production. I argue that care is a significant method of historical retrieval that resists dominant understandings of time, gender, and political action. Vietnamese refugees have often been portrayed as a problem to be solved or …
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"(Un)seen and (un)heard: the struggle for Asian American ""minority"" recognition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968-1997"
"Are Asian American college students ""minorities""? Using a measure of statistical parity of a student body compared to a state's demographics, Asian Americans have often been excluded from minority student status because they are ""overrepresented."" As a result, universities overlook their need …
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Using color-blindness to understand the effects of discrimination on the well-being of Asian Americans.
… effects of discrimination on the well-being of Asian Americans.
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The Entanglements of Canada's National Identity Building and Vietnamese Canadian Community Conflicts: Racial Capitalist Democracy and the Cold War Neoliberal Multicultural Subject
… racial capitalism, and critical refugee studies to theorize how the Vietnamese Canadian subjectivity is related to Canadas national identity formation. Adopting a critical ethnography methodology and discourse analysis, this study asks: What are the conditions of community conflicts …
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"We'll Sail Like Columbus": Race, Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and the Making of South Asian Diasporas in Canada
… exploration of proximities between South Asians and Indigenous peoples in Canada, the dissertation unravels South Asian complicities in ongoing processes of colonization of Indigenous peoples and lands. Theorizing pernicious continuitiesoverlapping experiences of racism and colonialism …
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Expansive Hybridity: Multilingual and Visual Poetics in Contemporary Experimental Asian American and Pacific Islander Poetry
… history, but within cultural, postcolonial, and Asian American studies, it has served as an important term that designates sites of resistance within cross-cultural contexts of uneven power dynamics. This discrepancy in uses of the term hybrid serves as the basis for my critical investigation of …
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From a “Contagious” to a “Poisonous Yellow Peril”?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s – 1950.
… century, increasing agricultural trade and mass Asian migration facilitated the transpacific exchanges of Japanese insect, plant, and human immigrants. This dissertation, "From a `Contagious' to a `Poisonous Yellow Peril'?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s - …
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A symphony of voices: digital and visual narratives of Japanese American incarceration
… narrative and counter-narratives from Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII, along with creative sections that focus on my experiences as a person of Japanese descent, both growing up in the Deep South and visiting the individual camps during a cross country research trip. The dissertation …
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"""We are here because you were there"": Kinship and loss in 20th- and 21st-century Korean American Narratives"
… and Loss in 20th- and 21st-Century Korean American Narratives analyzes the significance of trauma and attachment in representations of family within contemporary Korean American literature and films. Situating these texts in relation to Asian American histories of warfare, migration, and …
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Understanding Chinese American Parents: The Interplay of Chinese Tradition and Early Childhood Music Education in the United States
… experience of first-generation Chinese American parents and the values that inform their expectations for their children's early childhood music education. A primary goal of this research is to gain a deeper understanding of the interplay of Chinese traditional culture and early …
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Artist as Citizen: Transnational Cultural Work in the National Democratic Movement of the Philippines
<p>The inspiration for this topic comes from my own experiences as a Filipino transnational cultural worker in this movement. There has been research done on Filipinos in the arts and social movements, however there is a paucity of information concerning Filipino cultural work. Cultural work and …
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Understanding Infant Feeding Choices among Hmong-American Women in Saint Paul, MN
… how participants described their traditional and American cultural traditions, beliefs, and values, (b) their infant-feeding practices, and (c) how their infant-feeding practices are shaped by adaptations to traditional and American cultures. In this sample, those women who had recently immigrated …
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How Does Religion Shape Filipino Immigrants` Connection to the Public Sphere? Imagining a Different Self-Understanding of Modernity
Scholarly studies of immigration, religion, and race and ethnicity debate the role of religion in modern society, highlighting the salience of religion among post-1965 immigrants. In this dissertation, I explored the following question: How does religion shape Filipino immigrants` connection to the …
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Religion And Spirituality In Mental And Physical Well-Being Of Korean And White Americans
… forms of spirituality and religiousness can help Asian immigrants cope with the upheavals of immigration, adaptation to a new country, and other difficult personal and social transformations related to being in a new culture. Especially for Korean immigrants, churches and religious organizations …
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Embodying Liberatory Education: The Values and Hopes of Asian Non-Binary and Women Movement Makers
Asian movement makers (organizers, community educators, artists, and healers) engaged in liberatory movement spaces continue to teach the next generation through modeling action, hosting educational workshop, engaging activist through art, and providing support and care for their communities. …
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