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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Chinese Americans"”.
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Learning Race and *Class: Chinese Americans in Multiracial Bridgeport
"This research explores how Chinese Americans from different social stratum negotiate the ideological and material impacts of race and racism in Bridgeport, a multiracial working class immigrant community adjacent to Chicago's Chinatown. Specifically, I observe that Chinese Americans in Bridgeport …
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A Portrait of Chinese Americans: From the Perspective of Assimilation
… and Asia more than other regions of the world. Chinese immigration is the focus of this thesis. Chinese people have been present in this society from before the Revolutionary War, and their story is a complex one--one marked by rapid growth, discrimination, exclusion, acceptance, more rapid …
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A Qualitative Study of Family Therapy Utilization Barriers for Chinese Americans
… of mental health services by Asian Americans, there is limited research on the utilization patterns of family counseling services by the Chinese American population. Moreover, there is even less research that examined the perception of Chinese Americans toward family counseling and …
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Problems of assimilation and cultural pluralism among Chinese-Americans in San Francisco : an exploratory study
… relations dealing specifically with the Chinese-Americans. This is all part of the process of social change which is currently taking place in the United States. Not only the Chinese-Americans, but other minorities as well, are attempting to find their place within the American society. …
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DEPRESSION PREVALENCE, SYMPTOM PATTERN, AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE USE AMONG CHINESE AMERICANS: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF ETHNOCULTURAL DISPARITIES
… dimension, and mental health service use among Chinese Americans. The purpose of this research is to, 1) provide epidemiological data on the prevalence of depression among Chinese Americans, 2) examine sociocultural impacts on the prevalence and specific symptoms patterns of depression, and 3) …
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Re-weighting the Quality of Well-Being Scale and assessment of self-reported health status in Chinese Americans.
Asian-Americans are the fastest growing ethnic minority group in the United States, followed by Hispanics. Little is known about their health state preferences or their health status. The purpose of this research was to determine whether a Chinese-American population has different preference values …
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Understanding Chinese American Parents: The Interplay of Chinese Tradition and Early Childhood Music Education in the United States
… the acculturation 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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Mother Tongue Interference in English Language Pronunciation of the Chinese Immigrant in the United States
… a key role in cross-cultural communication. Chinese immigrants in the US will certainly encounter many difficulties in acquiring L2 proficiency. Some of these challenges are tied to 1) Chinese immigrants’ history in the US and the variety of Chinese dialects; 2) distinctions between Chinese …
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The relationship of language orientation and racial/ethnic attitude among Chinese-American primary grade children
… relationship between the language orientation of Chinese-American primary-grade children in the San Francisco Unified School District and their racial/ethnic attitude. Generally, Chinese-Americans are monolingual Chinese speakers (MCS), monolingual English speakers (BECS). These three linguistic …
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Kinetic Family Drawings of Chinese-American Children
… of cultural backgrounds. Information on Chinese-American children and their families is limited even though the Chinese are one of the main minority groups in America and increasingly more Chinese are migrating here. This study sought to use the Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD) as a tool to …
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Studying the Hyphen: Mother-Daughter Relationships in Selected Works by Amy Tan
… the hyphen presents many different issues. For Chinese-Americans, what part of a person is Chinese, and what part American? Maxine Hong Kingston raises these ideas in her novel The Woman Warrior, where on one hand her protagonist embraces her Chinese heritage, and refers to herself as a "Chinese …
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Acculturation, Peer Influence, Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategies, and Alcohol Use and Related Problems among Asian and Pacific Islander College Students
… for specific API subgroups, i.e. Korean and Chinese Americans. The study contributed to the growing literature examining the links between acculturation and problematic drinking. Results have implications for the development of culturally sensitive treatment and prevention programs targeting …
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Intergenerational influences of second-generation Chinese American academic and career exploration : using a career genogram as a guiding tool
… have explored career decision making for Asian- Americans, there is much less qualitative research on their lived experiences, particularly regarding intersectionalities such as second-generation immigrants. Using the Asian American Psychology of Working Theory (AAPWT; Tu & Okazaki, 2021) as a …
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Between impressionism and realism: Robert Henri's early career, navigation of nineteenth-century French modernism, and the development of an American avant-garde
… project takes a second look at his portraits of Chinese Americans, which are conventionally read through the lens of "realism." Not "honest" representations, these portraits are tempered by Henri's imagination, popular culture, and the Japonisme of Whistler, the Impressionists, and the …
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Self-reported embarrassment between Chinese, Chinese American, and Caucasian American college students
… were any differences in embarrassment between Chinese, Chinese American, and Caucasian American college students. A related purpose was to determine if there were any behavioral characteristics associated with embarrassment among the three groups. A total of 137 college students were given the …
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Psychophysiological distinctions in emotional responding: sensitivity to perceiving loss of connection
… Due to sensitivity to focal objects, European Americans (EA) were hypothesized to respond negatively with increased HR variance on perceiving loss of connection when playing Cyberball. EA would also feel sadness more intensely, in terms of decreased heart rate and increased RSA, at an earlier …
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The Lived Experience of Chinese American Christians in Family Life
<p>Thirty-one percent of Chinese Americans affiliate with being Christian, making Christianity the largest religious group for the Chinese in the United States (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, 2012) and Chinese churches are the leading religious institutions among Chinese in America (Yang, …
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Community building in transitioning neighborhoods
… population is not Puerto Rican with influxes of Chinese and African American populations. The older Puerto Rican community is concerned about the erosion of their history, which has created tensions among residents. Classical sociological theory deems this an invasion-succession scenario, where …
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Narratives of Hostility and Survivance in Multiethnic American Literature, 1850-1903
… and John Rollin Ridge. Finally, I look at Chinese American responses to calls for their extermination and forced deportation/exclusion throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century. Chinese Americans went directly to Anglo-dominant yet friendly newspapers to refute the numerous …
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