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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Racial Discourse"”.
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An Inquiry Concerning the Nature of Racial Discourse
In this dissertation, I assess the nature of racial discourse from an interdisciplinary perspective. I argue against the new biological racial realism, according to which races are genetic natural kinds or distinct parts of the human phylogenetic tree. I show—on both empirical and theoretical …
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Jemimas, Jockeys, and Jolly Banks: The Racial Discourse of Black Collectibles
… of black citizenship was seen as a threat to a racial caste structure that ensured white supremacy. Following the impetus for supremacy that defined the Jim Crow era, the collectibles sought to crystallize conceptions of inherent black inferiority. The presumption that these originary conditions …
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Designing for Racial Justice: AI, Data Visualization, and Mitigating Social Harm during Racial Discourse
… visualization in mitigating social harm during racial discourse. The study employed Design Science Research along with several theories, including Postcolonial, Critical Data Studies, Behavioral Change, Intersectionality, Visual Perception, Design Justice, and Critical Race theories, to create …
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Black in the Non-Black Imagination: How Anti-Black Ideology Shapes Non-Black Racial Discourse
… of anti-Black ideology in critical discourses on race. Though contemporary critical discourses on race have been concerned with theorizing about the deployment of colorblind racial ideology, this study takes the position that anti-Black ideology is uniquely situated within the United …
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Mining the garrison of racial prejudice: The fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt and turn-of-the-century White racial discourse
… the black disfranchisement, segregation, and racial violence defended by Page, Dixon, Calhoun, Smith, and Bruce. Chapter Six interprets Chesnutt's critique of sectional conflict and the ""New South Creed"" in his 1905 novel The Colonel's Dream along with Henry Grady's 1886 ""New South"" speech …
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From My Living Room to Yours: A Grounded Theory Typology of Racial Discussions on YouTube
… theory and iterative discussion analysis of racial discussions collected from YouTube’s most popular videos on three days in February, 2012. The categories of discussion are outlined as hostility to racial subjects, overt racism, and racial stereotyping. Possibilities for how these trends are …
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Contexts That Inform Racial Awareness and Affect Teaching Practice: A Study of White Bilingual Teachers
… study examines the varying contexts that inform racial awareness and teaching practice for White bilingual teachers. These contexts include the teacher education program in which the teachers were trained, the personal experiences of the participants, and the schools in which they teach. This …
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The Darkening of the Other: Demarcating Difference in Cantar de Roldan, Cartas marruecas, and La reina del sur
… sur. Throughout the thesis, I analyze hwo the discourse of identification of Otherness has progressed throughout these three works. Each work was chosen as a cultural artifact of its time. I begin the thesis with Cantar de Roldán and analyze how variation in faith served as primary demarcation …
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A phenomenological photovoice study on black/white biracial individuals' experiences amid ongoing racial unrest in the United States
… uplift the identity experiences of Black/White Biracial individuals amid ongoing racial unrest in the United States. Critical race theory provided a theoretical framework that indicated the counter-narratives of Black/White Biracial individuals are necessary to confront and reframe dominant racial …
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Internalization of Race Messages Among Mixed Race Individuals
… 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 how they racially identify themselves was also …
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Reclaiming histories: The resounding call issued through the Simonites culturally-marginalised memory of the apartheid forced removals
… epistemologically undermines the dominance of racial discourse in a post-apartheid context. Therefore, this study supports an emerging discourse that posits Simon's Town as an ancestrally-diverse heritage landscape to which belonging and a unique history is claimed.
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Becoming la raza: Chican@ counterpublicity and rhetorics of the Viet Nam War
… a rhetorical history of Chican@ movement discourse(s) positing racial otherness through the language of “la raza” in the United States during the Viet Nam War. Racial discourse(s) advancing notions of La Raza were circulated, amplified, stretched, and even resisted among Chican@ movement …
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Lecrae and the Differing Perceptions Among American Protestants of the Causes of Disparate Racial Experiences
… theological belief and practice, their views on racial issues tend to be deeply divergent. These divergent views have often been a source of racial alienation when applied to contemporary discourse about the state of race relations and racial dynamics in the United States. This thesis seeks to …
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Unity through diversity? Assimilation, multiculturalism and the debate over what it means to be an American.
… among the interview participants indicate racial and ethnic cleavages and these patterns correspond to the U.S. social hierarchy. Because racial and ethnic meanings infused the multiculturalism debate with its energy, it is plausible that the subtleties of racial discourse mask common …
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Be All You Can Be or Longing to Be: Racialized soldiers, the Canadian military experience and the Im/Possibility of belonging to the nation
… I ask the following questions: Who is the racialized soldier subject? How do racialized soldiers negotiate national belonging? What are their experiences in the Canadian military? This research study examines the racial underpinnings of citizenship through an exploration of the experiences …
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“I think it's quite an insulting question, ‘what’s it like to be white?’... It's not a question that needs to be asked”: An exploration of how white trainee counsellors in South Wales understand ‘race’, racism, and whiteness.
… the research findings into wider academic discourse about ‘race’, racism and whiteness. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the findings and four themes were identified: (Mis)Understanding ‘Race’ and Racism; White (Un)Awareness; Barriers to Racial Discourse and Socio-political …
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The Racial Discourses of Teacher Education Students in the Urban Southwest
<p>This study seeks to understand the racial discourses of teacher education students (TES) in the urban Southwest. This study is needed given the current post-racial or 'we're beyond race' climate in the U.S. (Bonilla-Silva, 2009). This study adds to the discussion of whether or not TES are really …
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New distinctions : the impact of class and race on the cultural preferences of youth in Cape Town and Belo Horizonte
… describe differences, often in combination with racial discourse, rather than explain them. As a result much of South African cultural sociology, especially with regards to youth culture, is entailed in in-depth ethnographic descriptions of particular subcultures. Less common is scholarly work …
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Contested identities in discourses of colonialism and civil war: Race, gender, and the human/animal in twelfth-century England and Wales
… Britain used to contest a would-be hegemonic discourse of British identity. This discourse is kyriarchal, creating hierarchies of identity (racial, ethnic, and gendered) in order to establish biopolitical regulations benefiting the rising Anglo-Norman ruling class of Britain. My study reveals …
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Whiteness Interrupted: Examining the Impact of Racialized Space on White Racial Identity
… traditional approaches to the study of race and racial inequality by averting the critical gaze from racially subordinate groups and focusing it upon the racially dominant group. Although insightful and highly influential, CWS has not sufficiently incorporated racialized space as a theoretically …
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