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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Minority cultures"”.
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Sibling Death in Childhood: An Evaluation of the Literature Regarding Inclusion of Minority Cultures, 1990–2002
<p>This evaluation seeks to determine the extent to which the professional literature concerning bereaved children in the United States includes African American, Hispanic American, and Asian American children whose siblings have died in childhood.</p> <p>A literature search identifies 58 articles, …
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Sisterhood or surveillance?: the development of working girls' clubs in London 1880-1939
… perception of working class and ethnic minority cultures. The cultural gap between the social classes is highlighted as are the forms of surveillance including disguise, which were undertaken in order to gain knowledge of working class life. Part Two looks at clubs in relation to the …
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Queering Chinese Youth Cultures: Biopolitical Negotiations in Post-Xi China
… study juxtaposes a diverse sampling of youth cultures to reveal how Chinese youth are actively crafting ‘queer’ subjectivities, transforming subordination into agency, in order to navigate their non-normative ‘selves’ within Chinese society’s disciplinary regimes. It comparatively explores the …
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Feminism in Multicultural Societies: An analysis of Dutch Multicultural and Postsecular Developments and their Implications for Feminist Debates
… and the desire to respect the customs of minority cultures or religions. If we agree that women should not be disadvantaged because of their sex, she argues, we should not accept group rights that permit oppressive practices. Okin’s claims led to a complex and highly important debate both …
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The common good in a plural society: Muslims, Christians and the Public Arena in Britain
… and their application of liberal theory to minority cultures in plural secularised societies. Chapter 4 provides an account of the failure of such liberal approaches according to Maclntyre, developing his concept of tradition as an alternative way to safeguard the integrity of individuals …
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Testimony Knowledge: Indigenous Research of Land, Story and Visual Narrative/Filmmaking in Northeast China
… Indigenous theories to the study of ethnic minority cultures in Northeast China, aiming to develop a localized Indigenous research paradigm. It addresses two core questions: How have the identity and cultural expressions of ethnic minorities in Northeast China been shaped by historical …
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Balancing discourse and silence : an approach to First Nations women’s writing
… and power inequities between dominant and minority cultures. A genre-based study, it is written from a deliberately split perspective: reading as both a white academic implicated in the dominant culture's production of meaning and value, and as a lesbian alienated from these same processes, …
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Roma as a Unique Cultural Minority: the Impact of Communism and Democratisation on Roma in Eastern Europe
… for improving the marginal situation of the Roma minority. My hypothesis is that one of the key factors explaining this failure is the fact that ‘the dominant group – ethnic minority’ relations in these countries have been based on a liberal as opposed to a multicultural model. An examination of …
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FACTORS RELATED TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT OF IRANIAN CHILDREN WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED DIVORCE
… white populations. Much less is known about minority cultures; specifically Iranian populations and the impact of divorce on child adjustment and mental health. Only a few studies have focused on Iranian children and divorce, however these studies were conducted in Iran and information was …