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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Class Identities"”.
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"We have everything and we have nothing": Empleados and Middle-Class Identities in Bogotá, Colombia: 1930-1955
No class has created more controversy than the middle class and nowhere has it produced more controversy than in Latin America. No class has been so poorly understood. No class has been so weakly analyzed in historical terms. Moreover, no class has had so many preconceptions and "myths" attached to …
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"We've Got Something More to Prove Here": Racial-Ethnic and Social Class Identities and the Challenges Facing Latina/o College Students
… the intersection of racial-ethnic and social class identities in relation to academic identities. Specifically, I examine the challenges facing Latina/o college students of various socioeconomic backgrounds as they negotiate a predominantly White, middle-class university setting. Using …
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Middle-Class Identity and Hindu Women's Ritual Practice in South India
… of social change via an exploration of a middle-class, multi-caste Hindu women’s religious group in south India called the Śri Maṅgala Vināyagar Satsang Group (SMVS). It utilizes the group members’ narratives about rural-urban difference and modifications to Hindu women’s rituals to explore the …
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Performing class in British popular music
… evaluates and explores the way in which class signification operates within British popular music. Notably, British rock music has forged a connection between working class experience and signification and notions of the authentic . This has been reinforced both within the disciplines of …
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"""The Great Spirit of Solidarity"": The Illinois Valley Mining Communities and the Formation of Interethnic Consciousness, 1889--1917"
… the processes of Americanization and working class formation. The study focuses on the way in which working class residents of the multiethnic and multiracial Illinois valley defined ethnic, gender, race, and class identities, together and apart, at the turn of the century. I argue that …
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Shop Floor Politics Under Socialism: Worker Identity, Rationalization, and Company Culture in (East) Germany, 1920--1996
… German shop floor, the ways in which the working class cooperated with, rejected, or negated such strategies, and how diverse political regimes---democratic, fascist, and communist---shaped both modernization drives and laborer responses. In the last analysis, German companies had been unable to …
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Social class: the role of class identity management strategies in higher education
… of an educational achievement gap between lower-class students and their higher-class peers has led to a growing interest in the psychological dimension of social class in higher education. Complementing objective and subjective measures of social class, this thesis explores the role of class …
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Living on the margins: an archaeology of 19th century Karoo rural dwelling
… architectural type straddled multiple social and class identities. In order to explore this issue, archaeological and documentary evidence are combined to interrogate the biographies of three corbelled structures built in the 1860/70s on the farm Gorras in the Carnarvon district of the Karoo, …
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Black Workers and BME networks organising against racism in the NHS workplace
… ‘racial capitalism’ is also linked to race and class theories of Black self-organised resistance to racism in the UK context. The research makes a theoretical contribution by applying the concept of ‘common sense neoliberalism’ alongside the concept of ‘racial capitalism’ to consider the …
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Scenography and the construction of Liverpool identities at the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse Theatres between 2004 and 2015
… to a particular section of Liverpool working-class identities and culture. This research evaluates how and to what ends ‘Scouse’ is visualised theatrically and the role of scenography in the re-enforcement or destabilisation of the range of identities embraced by this appellation. Whilst …
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"Ne canstu me noght knowe?": Disguise, Exile and Medieval Romance
I believe that disguise reveals that medieval identities were fluid and unfixed, but also subject to patriarchal and authoritarian attempts to stabilize them. In these romance traditions, disguise exposes at once the fluidity of identity and the anxiety surrounding this fluidity. I argue that Le …
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Unstable Foundations: Class Realignment, Class Formation and Its Political Articulation in an Urban Working-Class Periphery
… what is collectively understood by working-class identities, their boundaries and markers, and what limitations social democratic political organisations face when appealing to them. The underlying processes affecting class realignment of the working-class, understood as the reshuffling of …
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American women sculptors in Rome in the mid-nineteenth century: feminist and psychoanalytic readings of a displaced canon
… in the midnineteenth century at the height of neoclassicism, subsuming their works and histories under the connotations of its words. Instead of simply permitting us to name these sculptors, `white, marmorean flock' raises both a problem of historiography, as a study of the exclusion of the women …
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Sublime dissension: A working-class Anti-Pygmalion aesthetics of the female grotesque
… negative stereotypical images of working-class femininity, proposing an “Anti-Pygmalion” aesthetics (referencing Shaw’s Pygmalion)in which pressure to conform to bourgeois notions of respectability is refused in favour of holding onto aspects of working-class female identity which have …
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Skinner stories : a community's perspective on the representation of coloured people today
… today. It looks at representations of working class coloured identities and asks for a shift in representations which undervalue that identity. Since this research focuses on both an analysis of television content and reception analysis amongst the women of the Cape Flats community of Hanover …
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Experiments in Decentralization: Suburban Spaces in the Writings of Early Twentieth-Century British Female Novelists
… gender norms. As lower-middle and working-class families relocated to suburbia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they colonized a way of life that was specific to the affluent bourgeoisie. That such shifts in urban geography and demographics threatened the bourgeois …
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"If We Are Nothing Without Them, Then They Are Also Nothing Without Us": Cross-Class Political Mobilisation in Urban Pakistan
In cities of the Global South, socioeconomic class is a major factor in social, spatial, and political fragmentation. The thesis challenges existing approaches to urban politics, which largely theorise political practices as class distinct. The thesis seeks to interrogate these framings through …
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Old masters and aspirations : the Randlords, art and South Africa
… of capitalists, many of whom were from middle-class German-Jewish backgrounds, made vast fortunes from exploiting deposits of gold and diamonds in South Africa, using local labour. These mining magnates accumulated their wealth first in Kimberley in the 1870s and, later, in Johannesburg in the …
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Balkan Minds: Transnational Nationalism and the Transformation of South Slavic Immigrant Identity in Chicago, 1890-1941
… from the Balkans to America. The shared working-class experience of life in the United States combined with educational efforts within the community and the spread of print media in the form of the South Slavic foreign-language press in Chicago supported the development of both competing …
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A Means to An End: Articulations of Diasporic Blackness, Class and Survival among Female Afro-Caribbean Service Workers in New York City
… how they articulate and negotiate multiple identities surrounding diasporic Blackness, class, and gender. This dissertation studies Afro-Caribbean women in the spaces they live namely, the Northeast Bronx, New York City, and Westchester and takes an interdisciplinary approach to theorize …