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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Marginalized Individuals"”.
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Transformational leadership approach for encouraging historically marginalized communities to access admission to Naturopathic Medicine
… One potential reason is a lack of historically marginalized individuals applying to these medical schools. Attracting communities of colour to healthcare professions, like naturopathic medicine is important for improving healthcare access and delivery across all individuals within North America. …
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Structural Inequality and Hypervisibility from Childhood to Adulthood in Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man and Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
… in a manner that magnifies differences in marginalized individuals and communities, which includes race, disability, sexual orientation, gender, and socioeconomic status. This condition often occurs within unequal power structures where marginalized individuals and communities are subjected …
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Police My Internet Presence: The Demobilization of Social Movements through Social Media
… I call the Social Media Screen. However, while marginalized individuals now have greater access to express their grievances, so do individuals who oppose radical change to existing political, social, and economic institutions. I analyze #BlackLivesMatter and the internet blockage in the …
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Education from the "Bottom" Up: Black Women Navigating the Community College Transfer Experience
… develop an authentic perspective of the lives of marginalized individuals.</p>
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Subaltern Saints: Medieval Iberian Hagiography in Dialogue with Latin American Testimonio
… at the same time providing a space for diverse, marginalized individuals to find expression and influence in their societies. In hagiography, as in testimonio, powerful writers seek legitimacy within their communities by representing, imitating, conveying, facilitating, or portraying voices in …
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Collaborating with Black first-generation African youth for local career interventions
… psychology have looked at the career journeys of marginalized individuals (e.g., Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016; Fouad & Kantamneni, 2013; Gottfredson, 1996; Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 1994, 2000). The purpose of this study is to contribute the voices and advocacy of Black youth, a group of …
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How do privileged insiders become change agents? A study of institutional volition
While we have a sense of why institutionally marginalized individuals or dominant actors become change agents, it is less clear what motivates privileged insiders - those who have reaped advantages from existing institutional arrangements because of their education, their socio-economic background, …
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"The ""right to be helped"": welfare policies and notions of rights at the margins of Soviet society, 1917-1950"
… the entitlement to state assistance felt by four marginalized social groups. Through an analysis of the requests for help written by social activists on behalf of disabled children, blind and deaf adults, single mothers, and political prisoners, I examine the multiple and changing ideas that …
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In Search Of Transformative Music Learning Experiences: Voices From The Margins In Northeastern Brazil
Transformative learning occurs when individuals not only learn only some specific knowledge or skills, but also achieve a more inclusive understanding of themselves and of society through the learning process. To transform means to overcome limiting assumptions, with the potential of engendering …
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"YOU BITCH! YOU SLUT! YOU WHORE!": GENDER-SPECIFIC SYSTEM JUSTIFICATION AS A MEDIATOR OF WOMEN'S SELF-SEXUALIZATION AND BENEVOLENT SEXISM, ENVIRONMENTAL MASTERY, AND GENERAL POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AFFECT
… of societal context in shaping the function of marginalized individuals' behaviors, as well as advancing feminist scholarship by bridging the opposing views regarding women's self-sexualizing behaviors.
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Negotiating neighborhood priorities : the politics of risk & development in Medellin's Comuna 8
… unequally and affecting a city's most marginalized individuals and communities most significantly, understanding how the intersection of risk management and urban development manifests in planning and policy interventions at the neighborhood level proves increasingly important for …
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Her Space: Design Explorations for Menstrual Health Management in Western Nepal
… design and architecture to amplify the voices of marginalized individuals and provide them with the ability to analyze, criticize, and shape their own space.
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The Power of Youth Voices: Uncovering Political and Social and Political Change by Youth in the 20th Century
… action that would extend fundamental freedoms to marginalized individuals. While much of the political change that occurred is accredited to the past leaders and elected officials of America. There is a lack of recognition to additional efforts that contributed to this change. In this paper I …
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Broken Circle: Urban Aboriginal Youth and the Drop-out Question
… useful to further the interests of emancipating marginalized individuals from systems of oppression (e.g., discrimination against one’s gender, race, class, ethnicity, religion, mental/physical ability, and/or other social classifications; McMillan & Schumacher, 2010). CRT works to bare witness …
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“There is a human being there”: A critical pedagogic approach to shift perceptions of patient worthiness in South Africa
Socially marginalized individuals in South Africa may be deemed unworthy of scarce resources to promote health and treat illness. Perceptions of patients' relative worthiness impacts health seeking behaviour and outcomes: those deemed unworthy may receive inferior care or be denied health services …
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Queer Interethnic Relationships: Couple-Level Minority Stress and Resilience for Intersectionally Marginalized Partners
… likely to be in romantic relationships, LGBQ individuals are more likely than their straight peers to be in an interracial or interethnic romantic relationship. The present work aims to expand intersectional investigations regarding queer people of color (QPOC), including accounting for their …
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The Experience Of Chronic Pain As Described By African American Indigent Adults Attending An Urban Primary Care Clinic
… three photovoice sessions. Photovoice provides marginalized individuals with a medium to showcase their experiences with chronic pain, and captures with images, the pain experience that is not easily explained through quantitative measures. </p> <p><b>Findings:</b> Five themes and numerous …
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Understanding Student Mathematical Ways of Knowing: Relationships Among Mathematical Anxiety, Attitude Toward Learning Math, Gender, Ethnicity, and Separate and Connected Ways of Knowing
… knowing with historically underrepresented and marginalized individuals more likely to be separate knowers. Finally, results indicated that the mean scores for females differed significantly from those of males on two out of eight factors related to mathematical ways of knowing as measured by …
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Health Utilities in People with Chronic Hepatitis C
… more research is needed in socioeconomically marginalized hepatitis C patients. The clinical study attempted to address this gap by recruiting marginalized hepatitis C patients from a community-based program. This study found that marginalized patients attending the community-based program had …
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Performing IR
… accepting of differences, compassionate for marginalized and oppressed people.</p> <p>Imagining a new international relations theory relies on the methodology of written performative autoethnography to draw on the researcher’s personal experiences. The dissertation makes a connection between …
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