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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"People of Colour"”.
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Mangos with Chili: Two-Spirit, Queer and Trans People of Colour Performance as Social Movement Building
… Chili (MWC) is a two-spirit, queer and trans people of color (2-QTPOC) performance arts cabaret based in the San Francisco Bay Area. This research focuses on MWC performance content and personal interviews with four of MWC’s artists: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Landa Lakes, Micha …
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The upgrade of the public realm through architecture: Re-enforcing existing social practices and community connections in Wentworth, Durban
The topic of my research inquiry is related to my personal narrative of being raised within the Wentworth community. This research aims to highlight the social practices and community connections which have influenced the trajectory of my life leading to my current point of university studies in …
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Whiteness as currency: colorism in contemporary fiction of the Anglophone Caribbean and the Cape
People of colour are often expected to meet externally determined standards of whiteness in exchange for privileges and benefits. The specific details regarding how those standards are determined vary based on context and depend on a variety of socio-historical factors. Regardless of the context, …
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The language of racism and the criminal justice system
The question of racial bias in the criminal justice system has long been a controversial one in South African legal, sociological and political discussion. This thesis is an intervention in the discussion, in favour of the argument that the criminal justice system is a site of racial and other …
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Revealing whiteness: how one group used social media to uncover and challenge white supremacy operating in municipal political online messages
… via social media has shown that to achieve profound change, information needs to reach traditional news outlets before attention from those in power will take notice. Further research notes that people of colour experience higher rates of online abuse as opposed to white people. A case study …
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"A Raisin in a Box": The Experiences of Racialized Black Males in Leadership Roles in the Non-Profit Sector in Toronto, Canada
<p>Problem</p> <p>The marginalization of Black and other racialized bodies (people of colour) has led to the position of a leader becoming so synonymous with Whiteness that it is normalized and naturalized; and worse, there has been limited analysis about why this is so. There is even less analysis …
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Something Got Into Their Minds: The Rise of Radicalization Discourse in Canada
This dissertation examines the rise of radicalization discourse in Canada. Drawing on postcolonial theories of Orientalism and affect, I contend that radicalization is a racially-charged concept that characterizes anti-Western violence in ways that relieve Western states of culpability for their …
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Decolonizing our food systems: narrative inquiry into the barriers to accessing foods that reverse chronic disease
The purpose of this study is to highlight the barriers that Indigenous People and People of Colour face when accessing health care for chronic diseases. With the rise of diagnoses of chronic degenerative lifestyle diseases over the past sixty years, a disproportionate amount of these are people of …
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Outside gaymers: queerness, and race in online gaming culture in South Africa
… how virtual worlds can provide a space for queer people of colour to experiment with their identities, sexualities and gender. It therefore focuses on how South African queer youth make use of virtual spaces to explore their identities and gender expressions. I ask what experimentation and …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying Men with Broken Wrists: Using Intsomi as Critical Fabulation to Refute the Notion of Queerness as un-African
… to challenge the contemporary perception of homosexuality as “un-African”. This misconception is often grounded in the perceived absence of queer people of colour from the “archive” of black African (hi)stories that shape our collective understandings of who is and who is not properly …
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(Re)storing and (Re)storying men with broken wrists: using intsomi as critical fabulation to refute the notion of queerness as un-African
… to challenge the contemporary perception of homosexuality as “un-African”. This misconception is often grounded in the perceived absence of queer people of colour from the “archive” of black African (hi)stories that shape our collective understandings of who is and who is not properly …
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Exploring the structural, social and economic factors that contribute to women doing sex work in the southern suburbs of Cape Town
The aim of the research was to explore the structural, social and economic factors that contribute to women doing sex work in the southern suburbs of Cape Town in order to make recommendations that address those factors from a social development perspective. A qualitative research design was used …
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Disrupting the Status Quo: Leveraging collective teacher efficacy for the achievement and wellbeing of BIPOC and low socioeconomic students
… Morgan Middle School (MMMS) a high percentage of students are of low socioeconomic status (SES). Compounding this problem is data which shows that students at MMMS also experience significant academic challenges. Educational challenges for students of low SES are like those experienced by …
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The Body of the World: A Queered Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Embodied Sensation, More-than-Human Kinships and Entangled Futures
… nature connection science's binary understanding of the human-nature relationship which upholds colonial logics and risks perpetuating ongoing coloniality and limits its impact for addressing climate change intersectionally, this present research traced the lived experiences of Black, Indigenous …
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Diversity is (not) good enough: Unsettling White Settler Colonialism within Toronto's Queer Service Sector
… more specifically, about their understandings of how diversity, anti-racism, and anti-colonialism are practiced. Findings highlight how queer service provision, particularly its perpetual crisis and capacity to care for queerness, can obscure the ways the organizations themselves contribute to …
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From surviving to thriving: strategies to navigate postgraduate education for academic womxn of colour in the design field in South Africa
Pursuing postgraduate studies is often regarded as a significant achievement, particularly for historically marginalised racial groups in South Africa, such as the Coloured community. However, the struggles encountered by womxn of colour during their postgraduate studies remain underexplored. This …
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Being and belonging among White English-speaking South Africans
… general, and particularly within the discipline of anthropology. In this thesis, I take the reader on an autoethnographic journey of attempting to make sense of life in the suburbs of Cape Town, searching for the elusive middle-class WESSAs and trying to attain an understanding of who they are. …
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Oppressed female protagonists and their survival strategies: An ecofeminist perspective in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple
The current study draws on the perspective of ecofeminism’s main premise, which states that the patriarchal ideology authorizes the oppression of women and many other marginalized groups, which leads to the actions of the legitimization of the destructions of nature. In both Toni Morrison’s The …
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How do practitioners of colour experience working in higher education counselling settings? A grounded theory study
Background: Practitioners of colour are underrepresented within psychology and psychotherapy professions across all sectors including higher education. This has implications for both clients and practitioners of colour in terms of training, provision and uptake of services, staff recruitment and …
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