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Showing 1 to 20 of 170 for “"Ethnic and Racial Studies"”.
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Education, Identity, and the New Asian Americans: The Case of Japanese Immigrant Families in the Midwest
While mindful of the institutional and structural conditions leading to their subordination, this study also locates how the process of self-definition has shaped how the participants have co-created a distinctive image of their cultural and ethno-national identities. Therefore, this research …
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Malay Natives and New Citizens: Negotiating Cultural Citizenship in Malaysia
Part I discusses theoretical concerns and perspectives and outlines a general historical overview of Melaka, and to some extent of Malaysia. Part II describes constructions of diverse social identities and their interconnections in the social relational system. Part II also demonstrates how …
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Korean Women in America: Gender -Role Attitude and Depression
… the relationship between gender role attitude and Korean-American wives' levels of depression. Given the fact that Korean-American wives suffer from psychological distress and multiple burdens due to extremely conservative traditional culture and subsequent adhesive adaptation pattern, the …
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Asian -Americans in the Social Work Profession: Perceptions of Organizational Fairness as a Mediator of Work -Related Outcomes
This study has investigated a theoretical and observed (or not observed) link between the glass ceiling literature and social justice theory, a link not previously established in the empirical literature. The study answers to the call for theory development and empirical work on race and ethnic …
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Caregiving and Schizophrenia: Understanding the Worldview of Asian Indian Families
… six Asian Indian families focussed on understanding the caregiving processes involved when one of their members is afflicted with schizophrenia. It looked at the beliefs, values, and meanings associated with schizophrenia within the context of Asian Indian cultural and social practices. It …
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Mapping Cultural Models of Authority
… situation in which the culture of the supervisor and of the subordinate differ. Anecdotal evidence and cross-cultural psychological theory suggest that cultures may differ in their models of authority. For this qualitative study, 20 Hispanic workers and 19 non-Hispanic white workers were …
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A Theory of Racial Oppression and Liberation
… the narrow focus upon individual intentions and attitudes, capturing the ways and means by which it becomes an ""institutionalized"" part of the larger social context. I argue that this larger institutional level of racism is what makes it oppressive, as opposed to simple prejudice or …
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Cooperation and Conflict Between Muslim Immigrant Mothers and Daughters in the Negotiation of Girls' Sexual Conduct
Separate group discussions and individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 Muslim immigrant mothers and 38 daughters (age range 14--20) in the state of Illinois during 2001--2002. Analyses revealed that for this group, negotiations in each area were rarely characterized by conflict, and …
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Experiencing Ethnicity: A Case Study of White, Black, Latino, and Asian Adolescents in an Urban High School
The findings reveal that the process of ethnic identity development in adolescence varies significantly by ethnic group membership. The data reveal that current institutional conceptualizations of ethnicity do not represent the range of ethnic groups in the school and do not capture the complexity …
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Comparing Parent -Child Dinnertime Interactions in Two Cultures
… One focuses on child's self-initiated behaviors and supports the development of an independent self (independence-supportive praise). Consistent with past findings, independence-supportive praise is widely distributed in European American families. Although interdependence promoting praise tends …
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Reality Bites? The Cultural Politics of Generation X and Youthful White Masculinities in Sport and Popular Culture in 1990s America
… a critical conjunctural analysis of the themes and meanings articulated with a number of youthful white masculinities throughout the 1990s in American sport and popular culture that are simultaneously constituted by, and constitutive of, the Generation X discursive formation of this era. In …
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Project Salud: Studying Activity of Latinos - Underestimated
… figures suggest that Latinos are the largest ethnic minority group in the United States, however, examination of the physical activity levels and the correlates and outcomes of activity have employed samples primarily composed of non-Latino Whites. The present study examined the occupational, …
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Homegirl Going Home: Hip Hop Feminism and the Representational Politics of Location
… qualitative study explores the representation and lived experience of Black women who comprise the hip hop generation, or the post-civil rights generation for persons of color born between 1965-1984 (Kitwana, 2002, p. xiii). The researcher employs a three-part research design, which includes …
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Embodiments of Difference: Representations of Vietnamese Women in the U.S. Cultural Imaginary
… dissertation is about how the U.S.'s political and economic relationship with Vietnam produced and maintains a neocolonialist agenda through its media representations of Vietnamese women. This neocolonialist agenda began with the U.S. attempt to police global politics by intervening in the …
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The 1970's as Hollywood's Golden Economic Age: A Critical, Interpretive Analysis of the Blaxploitation Cinematic Movement
… to focus on the relationship between Hollywood and African-Americans at the point where a fiscal crisis and social-political climate came together to produce blaxploitation. In three critical narratives it will focus on the production of Shaft, the success of American International Pictures, and …
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Spatial Presentation in Children's Drawings: Why Do Japanese Children Draw in Their Own Particular Ways
… from 1993 through 1995, spatial similarities and differences were examined in children's drawings based on the relationship between national origin (U.S. and Japanese), culture, and aesthetic in order to explore the concepts of universality and socio-cultural influences. In the initial …
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Collaboration, Partnerships, and the Involvement of Racial /Ethnic Minorities With Public Outdoor Recreation Resources: An Interorganizational Collaboration Theory Perspective
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.
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The Role of Leisure in the Reproduction of Race and Ethnicity Among Korean Americans
… Americans developed three different types of racialized ethnic identities: (a) diasporic ethnic identity---developed beyond the confines of a nation state and intermixed with assigned racial identity; (b) ethnic American identity---developed in reference to the American society and combined …
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Interracial Couples' Experience of Leisure: A Social Construction of a Racialized Other
The findings from this study indicated that interracial families are socially isolated in various aspects of their daily lives, including leisure. The primary cause of their social isolation is due to issues related to race and racism. Many of the couples' family members withdrew from them as a …
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