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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"Race identity"”.
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Experiential Blackness: Race, Identity, and Memory in Contemporary Dominican Society
… resides at the center of discussions of race in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally, scholars have painted the Dominican Republic as a society ignorant of its own history of blackness and devoid of a black consciousness. They argue that Dominicans deny their African ancestry because of …
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"""Proving Chamorro"": Indigenous Narratives of Race, Identity, and Decolonization on Guam"
… premised on conceptions of mestizo (race), has become the conceptual lattice through which Chamorros must navigate concerns about land, language, citizenship, and the overarching one of decolonization. This anthropological and ethnographic dissertation argues that this layered history …
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Race, Identity, and Belonging in Early Zimbabwean Nationalism(s), 1957-1965
… interrogates traditional understandings of race within Zimbabwean nationalism. It explores the interactions between socio-cultural identities and belonging in black African nationalist thinking and politics, and focuses on the formative decade between the emergence of mass African …
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Black Biracial Crossings: Mixed-Race Identity in Modern American Literature and Culture
… literature, history, and culture inform changing identity politics. My dissertation argues that America's obsession with mixed race, traced through representations, imaginings and theorization of mulattos or black/white mixed race people, intimates a secret longing for less confining racial …
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CONSIDERING CONNECTIONS: RACE, IDENTITY AND LEADERSHIP IN PAUL BEATTY’S THE WHITE BOY SHUFFLE
… audience to grasp the intersectional process of identity formation in his novel The White Boy Shuffle. Beatty’s creative imagination and high-academic vocabulary illustrate via the protagonist, Gunnar Kaufman, how to teach and motivate people to be agents of change in the communities, especially …
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CONSIDERING CONNECTIONS: RACE, IDENTITY AND LEADERSHIP IN PAUL BEATTY’S THE WHITE BOY SHUFFLE
… audience to grasp the intersectional process of identity formation in his novel The White Boy Shuffle. Beatty’s creative imagination and high-academic vocabulary illustrate via the protagonist, Gunnar Kaufman, how to teach and motivate people to be agents of change in the communities, especially …
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Dominance and Subordination: A Case study of Race, Identity and Pedagogy in Higher Education
… of dominance and subordination, but that race was the dominant driver. White students almost always took relations of dominance and did so more when black students were present. The presence of blackness was more influential on students adopting social relations of dominance than any other …
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Chinatown and Urban Redevelopment: A Spatial Narrative of Race, Identity, and Urban Politics, 1950-2000
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Internalization of Race Messages Among Mixed Race Individuals
… theory qualitative methodology to explore mixed race individuals' experiences within specific racial socialization contexts of family, friends, community, and society, to identify messages received within these contexts. How messages influence both their understandings of mixed race identity and …
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An investigation into concepts of personhood and equity, with specific reference to mixed race women in post-compulsory education
Despite the prevalence of mixed race people in Britain and in Further Education, the study of mixed race identity remains an under-researched area, and little or no research appears to have been done on mixed race identity in relation to the Further Education sector. By bringing mixed race to the …
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An Extended Local Binary Pattern for Gender Classification
… biometric features of humans, conveying race, identity, age, gender and facial expression information, among which gender plays a significant role in social interactions. An automatic gender recognition system has many applications in computer-human interaction, psychology, security, …
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Racing Discourses: Constructions and Negotiations Students Make About Race
… presents a longitudinal ethnographic study about race and how college students construct and negotiate its meaning. The study utilizes multiple qualitative methods such as participant observation, unstructured interviews and focus groups. Rather than race identity or racism, the discourses of race …
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The effect of making the issue of 'violence against women' salient on the gender identity of women from the Western Cape : an experiment study
… dissertation emerged out of my interest in the identity of South Mrican women. A specific area of interest was which part of South Mrican women's identity was more salient- race or gender. Another specific area of interest, based on the proposition of social identity theory that different …
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Liberty, Post-Colonialism, and RuneQuest: the discourse of Imperialism in tabletop RPGs
… and reinforce colonial frameworks, primarily race and civilization, for the purpose of entertainment and storytelling. Developing fields of scholarship on Tabletop RPGs, however, emphasize the ability of Tabletop RPGs to inspire critical thinking and challenge pre-conceived ideas that players …
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OBAMA'S PRESIDENTIAL (MIXED) RACE: FRAMING AND IDEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BLOGS AND NEWS
… brought a heightened awareness to the role of race and produced speculation about the idealized notion of the achievement of a post-racial United States. This dissertation examined mediated conversations on mixed race identity in response to some of the significant events in the Obama campaign …
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Own and other race face recognition: the effects of instructions and other-race contact
The cross-race effect occurs when people are more accurate in identifying members of their own race versus those of other races. An emerging theory of the cross-race effect involves social-cognitive processes such as categorization and individuation (Hugenberg, Miller, & Claypool, 2007). Prior …
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Exploring Postsecondary STEM Faculty's Experiences Teaching Underrepresented Minority Students in STEM Introductory Courses in an HSI
… URM students influenced by their racial identity and their participation in a STEM community of practice. However, the literature lacks research on faculty experiences and perceptions regarding how to support URM students and the role of race in their participation in a STEM community of …
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Racial Incidents in the Classroom: A Qualitative Study on Preschool Teachers’ Perceptions
… intergroup contact, perspectives on ethnic/race identity formation and foundations of multicultural education, the study addresses what role early educators and their strategies could play in reducing the formation of prejudices and negative stereotypes in preschool-aged children. The …
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From behind the veil: unveiling the experiences of Black British-born males of African heritage navigating psychotherapy training within a White-dominated culture
… decolonial lens to examine intersections of race, identity, and systemic barriers within white-dominated spaces. Drawing on a transdisciplinary approach—Black Africana Existentialism (BAE), Black Critical Race Theory (BCRT), and the Colonial Matrix of Power (CMP)—that constitute the Africana …
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Framing a Blaxicana Identity: A Cultural Ethnography of Family, Race and Community in the Valley Homes, Lincoln Heights, Ohio, 1955-1960
<p>Framing a Blaxicana Identity: A Cultural Ethnography of Family, Race and Community in the Valley Homes, Lincoln Heights, Ohio, 1955-1960 (Blaxicana Identity) is set within the construct of identity formation, against a backdrop of color and culture clash, and the social construction of race. The …
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