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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"Asian Americans"”.
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Acculturation and Cardiovascular Behaviors Among Adult Asian-Americans
… among immigrants, though similar studies among Asian-American subgroups are lacking. This study examines the putative relationship between acculturation and aforementioned cardiovascular behaviors among six Asian-American subgroups.</p> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> A secondary analysis of the …
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The Experience of Asian Americans Caring for Elderly Parents
… study sought to examine the experience of Asian Americans who provide housing and financial support for first-generation biological Asian parents aged 65 and older. Semi-structured interviews regarding how participants came to take care of their parents, the impact it had on close …
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Diaspora Missions Among Asian Americans in Rural Counties in Tennessee
… areas of the United States. Specifically, Asian American populations in small, southern towns, though a small demographic, are neglected in the literature of diaspora missiology and in the literature outside of missiology. In order to make a small contribution to this literature gap, this …
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Sociocultural Attitudes Towards Appearance Questionnaire-4-Revised in Asian Americans
… 20% mortality rate, are increasing among Asian Americans with rates comparable to those of the general population in the United States. However, research has also suggested that Asian Americans may not be fully reporting symptoms related to eating disorders because of sociocultural stigma …
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Social Capital and the Transition to College for Asian Americans
<p>Asian Americans are generally perceived to be disproportionately enrolled in four-year postsecondary education institutions despite evidence of Asian Americans being concentrated at both two-year and four-year postsecondary education institutions. This perception of Asian Americans has …
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Denial of Cultural Authenticity: Asian Americans' Negotiation of Bicultural Identities
… culture to which one is presumed to belong. As Americans continue to heavily rely on the framework of race for understanding social reality, cultural inauthenticity may result when one's cultural knowledge, values, beliefs, or behaviors do not match the expectations set forth for someone of a …
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DESIS ON A SPECTRUM: THE POLITICAL AGENDAS OF SOUTH ASIAN AMERICANS
… New York City and Washington, D.C., with South Asian-origin members and constituents. These groups are 1) The Washington Leadership Program; 2) South Asian Americans Leading Together; and 3) Seva New York; and 4) Desis Rising Up and Moving. I collected qualitative data via in-person interviews …
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Racial prejudice toward Asian Americans in U.S. children's literature.
… prejudice in American children's books toward Asian Americans. The sample consisted of contemporary and historical fiction books for children in two age groups: preschool through grade three and grades four through six, which are listed under Asian American fiction category in three …
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Psychological Acculturation, Coping Strategies, and Mental Health Among Asians and Asian Americans
… two clearly defined component solutions for the Asian international and Asian American samples (i.e., the Separation-Assimilation vs. Integration-Marginalization dimension), which are distinct from the dimensions proposed in Berry's model (i.e., cultural maintenance of one's own group vs. contact …
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Branding Blasians: mixed race Black/Asian Americans in the celebrity industrial complex
… of race rearticulates what it means to be Black, Asian, Other, and results in the creation of multiracial/other subjectivities which can become a formidable obstacle to the racial order of the United States. Importantly, this dissertation argues Blasians trouble the logic of existing U.S. racial …
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Advancing the Implementation of CLAS Standards to Support Health of South Asian Americans
Asian Americans are the fastest-growing racial and ethnic group in the United States, projected to reach nearly 34 million by 2050. A subset of Asian Americans, South Asians, face tremendous cultural, socioeconomic, linguistic, and structural obstacles to achieving good health. In 2018, the Office …
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MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT: PREDICTING THE INTEGRATION OF ETHNIC/RACIAL IDENTITIES IN MULTIRACIAL ASIAN AMERICANS
… identity development. Focusing specifically on Asian-White multiracials, this study proposes a new framework for understanding multiracial identity, the Multiracial Identity Framework. This framework draws on theoretical perspectives in multiple dimensions of identity development, ultimately …
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Portrait of a Stereotype: Asian Americans' Experiences With the Model Minority Stereotype During Adolescence
Asian Americans are often characterized as intelligent, industrious, and reserved, an image called the model minority stereotype (MMS). Previous research linked Asian American youths’ perceptions of the MMS with positive academic and psychological outcomes. The current study extends these findings …
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We got the power : Asian Americans and hip-hop culture in the Bay Area
This dissertation investigates how Asian Americans of the Bay Area engage hip-hop culture as fans and artists. This is a historiography of Asian Americans participating in Bay Area hip-hop culture that has been masked or hidden. I have devised a methodology less reliant on archival materials (i.e., …
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THE EFFECT OF OWN RACE/ETHNICITY DENSITY ON INSURANCE TAKE-UP BY ASIAN AMERICANS
Asian Americans are the fastest growing minority population in the U.S. (Lopez et al., 2017). Since the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Asian Americans have benefitted from insurance coverage increases but continue to experience disparities at the subgroup …
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Differential Impact of Racial Microaggressions on Asian Americans: Relationship to Perpetrator and Power Status
The unremitting image of Asian Americans as being "Model Minority" has created a veil that conceals their incessant struggles with discrimination, prejudice and microaggressions on individual, institutional and cultural levels. Previous studies have highlighted the personal and collective struggles …
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Psychometric examination of the color-blind racial attitudes scale for use among Asian Americans
… date, few studies have investigated CBRI among Asian Americans, which is partially due to the lack of validated instruments for use with this population. The purpose of this study was to examine the structural equivalence of the Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS; Neville et al., 2000) …
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Risky business: the foreclosure crisis, Asian Americans, and Asian American-serving community-based organizations
… of research on how the crisis has impacted Asian American communities, even though they are geographically concentrated in metropolitan areas and states with higher foreclosure rates. This study explores foreclosure risk, or what factors impact homeowner vulnerability to foreclosure, and how …
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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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