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Showing 1 to 20 of 226 for “"People of Color"”.
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People of color in alliance : from theory to practice
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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The Normalization Process of Multimodal Composition: The "Unseeing" People of Color
… multimodal scholarship to highlight moments of "un-seeing" multimodal composing practices and theoretical contributions from non-Western traditions. Advocates of this approach to teaching composition understand it as an effective way for incorporating other voices into the curricular …
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Whiteness as Experienced by People of Color: An Empirical Phenomenological Study
Racism against non-white people continues to be a significant problem as we enter the twenty-first century. While slavery and other objectionable racist practices may be in the past, subtle yet powerful racism remains. This study explores racism against non-white people in the present by examining …
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Indigestion or Thriving Metabolism? People of Color-owned Restaurants Digesting Sustainability
This study explores people of color-owned (POC) restaurants under the governance of Washington, DC (DC) who provide community programming. Since 2009 ‘sustainable’ legislative changes have affecting DC’s food industry, causing a change in operational costs and allowable materials to serve food. DC …
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Theorizing and assessing racial-ethnic-cultural (rec) belonging among People of Color
The purpose of this dissertation was to develop a conceptual framework and measure of racial-ethnic-cultural (REC) belonging for Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) across three phases of research represented by two interrelated studies. Phase 1 includes Study 1 of the research, …
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Evaluating Reliability of the Megyesi Total Body Scoring Method on People of Color
This thesis investigates the reliability of Megyesi et al.'s (2005) Total Body Score (TBS) method in assessing decomposition, focusing on people of color (POC). Using a semi-experimental design, it analyzes a dataset of decomposition photos from the Texas State University Forensic Anthropology …
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Stepping your game up : technical innovation among young people of color in hip-hop
Hip-hop is a competitive form of popular culture characterized by an on-going process of aesthetic renewal and reproduction that is expressed through carefully selected media and communications technologies. Hip-hop is also a segment of the pop music industry that manufactures a wide range of …
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Help Seeking Behaviors Among Black Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) Following Mass Trauma
Interpersonal Violence in the form of school shootings is prevalent in American society and can negatively impact the mental health of survivors. Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) tend to bear the worse outcomes following such events due in part by effects of complex trauma (e.g., …
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Cyborgs for Environmental Justice: East Asian American Stories from the 1991 People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit
<p>The goal of this paper is threefold: to serve as an oral history archive of the East Asian American experience at the 1991 People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, to analyze the role of East Asian Americans in the Environmental Justice Movement (EJM), and to fill an ideological and …
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Households and Neighborhoods Among Free People of Color in New Orleans: A View from the Census, 1850-1860
Historians have debated to what extent the free people of color in New Orleans were members of a wealthy privileged elite or part of a middle or working class in the South's largest antebellum city. This study steps outside the debate to suggest that analysis of the censuses of 1850 and 1860 shows …
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How the Labeling of “Acting White” Manifests itself Among People of Color: The Life Experiences of Cultural Straddlers
<p>The purpose of Study 1 (quantitative) and Study 2 (qualitative) was to understand whether the acting white label can either positively or negatively affect a cultural straddler’s decision to assume certain lifestyles. The quantitative study examined how sociocultural norms, the acting white …
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Exploring the Experiences of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and People of Color in High School Concert Bands and Orchestral Ensembles
… band/orchestra model in many public high schools often passively presents content regarding Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). BIPOC students in these ensembles bring a wealth of experience from their communities. Meanwhile, BIPOC face barriers including invalidation and a diminished …
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Resisting Racial Oppression: Ethnic Identity & Critical Consciousness as Pathways to Thriving for Young Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
<p>Young Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in the United States continuously defy the odds through resilience, resistance, and the pursuit of liberation, yet they are historically understudied as agents of their own positive development within the context of racial oppression (García …
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Media Insensitivity To People Of Color: A Comparison And Contrast Of How African Americans Are Portrayed In Mainstream Media To White Americans
… George Zimmerman charged in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. After the verdict of not guilty was read, I remember tuning into social media and seeing people who looked like me tweet about how disappointed they were in the “system.” Leading up to the Zimmerman trial, I paid attention to how …
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Identifying Barriers In Black Communities That Hinder The Engagement In LGBT Affirming Behaviors. Clinical Implications For Understanding Barriers to Attaining Adequate Social Support When Working With LGBT People Of Color.
… and social inequality have been a topic of importance for decades within the literature. These adverse events may lead to many mental health problems, segregation between identity groups, and a hostile environment. This study aims to analyze the barriers in Black communities that may …
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The effect of racial representation on rejection sensitivity
… within small group settings impacts experiences of social rejection among people of color. Grounded in Minority Stress Theory and Rejection Sensitivity Theory, this project explored whether the presence of racial diversity can reduce expectations of discrimination and buffer against the negative …
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Privileging Autistics of Color: A Human Rights Approach to Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Therapy
… field project examines the social construction of autistic people of color through the pathology paradigm and the associated human rights violations. The purpose of the project is to disrupt the pathology paradigm by privileging voices of autistic people of color in professional development …
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Race, place, and sexuality: a contextual understanding of LGB identity salience
… vary by perceived community support or rejection of LGB people such that high salience occurs in hostile and supportive communities, and low salience occurs in tolerant communities. Further, I hypothesized that LGB identity salience would vary by levels of exposure to racially similar others in …
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