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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Minority community"”.
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Land, wealth and the origins of minority community empowerment
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1986.
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The Irish in Leicester, c.1841 to c.1891: a study of a minority community in the East Midlands
… the social structure of the migrant and settled community (re: housing, health and poverty); occupational patterns in relation to class, gender, ethnicity and generation; the important but ignored contribution of Irish males and females to local Catholic growth, especially in terms of leadership, …
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From Outreach to Engagement: An Actor-Network-Theory Analysis of Attracting Spanish-speaking Participants to Public Programming
… forces motivate and demotivate members of this minority community to participate in public programs designed to increase participants’ ability to self-direct?” A conveniently accessed but purposefully selected sample of public service agency employees and Spanish-speaking family members, …
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SOURCES OF STRENGTH AND RELATIONAL CATALYSTS: TWO MODELS TO REDUCE PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AND PROMOTE THRIVING AMONG SEXUAL MINORITIES
… growing population that continues to experience minority stress despite significant strides in public acceptance. Sexual minority individuals (i.e., those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or not heterosexual) experience elevated stress (i.e., minority stress) due to their relatively …
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Understanding informal segregation : racial and spatial identities among the Indian minority of Mokopane
… This study focuses on the spatial arrangement of minority identities, through continued informal segregation, among the Indian minority of Mokopane. Drawing on 28 open-ended interviews, segregation is explored in everyday interactions and spaces. Working within a spatial-discursive framework, …
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Dudley Square : a public building as a catalyst for urban revitalization
… the economic and commercial center for Boston's minority community. Between 1650 and 1950 the Dudley Square area grew in importance to become a major economic center outside downtown Boston. By the 1960's, Dudley's status had declined. The Massachusetts economic boom of the 1980's with the …
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One hundred years of environmental pollution at Chattanooga Creek: a review of selected studies
… of the area are the voices of concern from a minority community that lives, works, and attends school in the Chattanooga Creek community. This thesis summarizes selected studies of the area to provide useful information to the greater Chattanooga community. Both the scientific and …
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Exposure Matters: Examining The Physical And Psychological Health Impacts Of Toxic Contamination Using Gis And Survey Data
… data in an environmental justice case study of a community in south Florida. This approach examines the social, health and environmental impacts of a Superfund site on a low income, minority community. Using geo-coded survey (N=223) and environmental data (ash deposition patterns), this thesis …
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Cultural intelligence: a pathway for emergency responder engagement with ethnically diverse communities
… between government institutions and the community, and provide the medium for the growth of trust. This paper introduces a cultural intelligence model used in international business, as developed by Soon Ang, Linn Van Dyne, and other notable researchers. This model may be adapted for the …
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Social identity and the ideology in intergroup conflict: the case of Northern Ireland
… suggest that there never was a unitary 'imagined community' in the island of Ireland. It was suggested that religion and culture had, for many years, provided a basis for division on the island and that this had been exacerbated by a differential pattern of economic development between Belfast and …
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Teaching humanity: Placing the Cape Town Holocaust Centre in a post-apartheid state
… and secondary sources, I examine how a minority community�s project of building a permanent Holocaust centre, came to be considered as part of a national project of reconciliation. I consider the impact of this framing of Holocaust education and the tensions that arose as the Cape Town …
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Strategies of British-Pakistani Muslim women : 'subject' and 'agency' reconsidered through (an) analysis of marriage, divorce and everyday life
… as British citizens and members of an ethnic minority community, the rootedness of their regional affiliations in Pakistan, class, age and their location at intersections of historical and geographical movements are subsumed by an essentialized understanding of their being Muslim. An …
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Racial Identity Within the Indo-Caribbean Community: A Proposed Model
… of the South Asian diaspora, the Indo-Caribbean community is a particularly marginalized minority community as a result of colonialism. Indo-Caribbeans are only considered the majority ethnic group in the country of Guyana, where there is a high rate of suicide mostly among Indo-Caribbean men who …
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The Safer Sexual Communication Practices of Transgender Adults: Implications for HIV Prevention
… and norms of silence surrounding sex in sexual minority communities. This project explored the dynamics of sexual communication in a sexual minority community to determine how sex talk unfolds in a specific relational and socio-cultural context as well as what constitutes effective or satisfying …
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Jewish converts, their communities and experiences of social inclusion and exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa
Set in a small minority community in South Africa, the Orthodox Jewish com-munity in Johannesburg, this study explores why a person would actively and volun-tarily seek minority status by converting into an ethnic-religious minority group. Taking a social constructionist approach to understanding …
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Building against vacancy : space, shelter, and support for LGBTQ homeless youth on double vacant lots in NYC
… youth identify as LGBTQ in New York City, this minority community makes up over forty percent of the homeless youth population. One response to this crisis by the queer community-specifically within house-ball subculture-is the creation of "houses" where chosen families are formed. In these …
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Choosing to be deaf: leisure and sport in the deaf community of north-west England, 1945 – 1995
… of this significant but largely misunderstood minority community. Revealing the hidden history of the deaf community‘s social practices gives rise to a reappraisal of the academic models used to determine membership of the community and questions the long-held perception of deaf people as being …
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An Event History Analysis on the Effects of Academic Integration Factors on Degree Completion of Low-Income Underrepresented Minority Students
… for low-income and underrepresented students. Community colleges are an important entry point for student groups that have faced the most significant barriers to success. Community colleges account for almost half of all undergraduate enrollments in the United States and also enroll a higher …
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Self, Other, and Jump Rope Community: The Triumphs of African American Women
… and synergy that exists among the Jump Rope community members. Various forms of literacy such as cultural literacy, family literacy, community literacy, music literacy, artistic literacy, historical literacy, and oral literacy were explored. In exploring these forms of literacy, the …
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Distance of the Heart. How ethnic social group identity may challenge cohesion in Bradford
… social group identity, which help to sustain minority exclusivity and result in a sense of living on the edge. However, my findings challenge assumptions about the dangers of parallel living by suggesting these can be trumped by agential choice. I found that while cohort members have a strong …
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