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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Racial Hierarchy"”.
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Investigating the United States’ Racial Structure through the Evaluation of Residential Distribution
… has sparked a debate about the contemporary racial structure. Some theorize Latino and Asian immigrants will eventually integrate into the White community, like the European immigrants before them. Others suggest their classification as “people of color” means they will integrate into the …
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Embedded ideologies: Nixon, Kissinger, and the South Asia crisis 1971
… centred around nationalist revolution, racial hierarchy, credibility and hegemonic masculinity that led them to make a series of decision-making errors as they grappled with the complex regional and geopolitical dynamics of the crisis. When civil war erupted in Pakistan, an apathy toward …
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America’s Enabler: How Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad Contributes to Racial Inertia
… if unintended effect is to reify the current racial hierarchy. Drawing primarily from current events and an Afropessimist framework, I attempt to illustrate how this work, and others like it, occupy a specific space in the cultural zeitgeist bent to a specific purpose: obfuscating contemporary …
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The Kneel for Social Justice: Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, and The Black Lives Matter Movement
… towards the athletes was influenced by the racial landscape of the United States in 2016. This thesis is a critical discourse analysis of user generated comments on the social media platform Instagram in response to Kaepernick’s and Rapinoe’s protest to determine public perception of athlete …
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Ethics, Eugenics, and Public Education in Georgia (1910-1965)
… affected by eugenics? 2) To what extent were the racial views of Georgians affected by scientific proclamations? 3) What role did the public schools play in educating the populace about eugenics? This research will focus primarily on the scientific racial dynamic of America during the twentieth …
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From Curiosity to Controversy: American Perception of Japanese Immigrants, 1853-1924
… ethnocentric notions of civilization and racial hierarchy. Using federal and state legislation as chronological anchors, this study relies primarily on West Coast newspapers as mirrors of community discourse. Rather than viewing the press as creators of opinions, I adopt George Lundberg’s …
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She ain't no mammy: African American midwives' utilization of Ma'at in the preservation and continuation of African epistemology
… of the African women’s body built on a false racial hierarchy where Black women were at the bottom, the lowest tier of society. She has had to endure unimaginable horrors within the confines of a racist, patriarchal society that was antithetical to the preservation of African spirit and …
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Just Like Everyone Else? Locating South Asians in 21st Century American Popular Media
… status that South Asians occupy in the American racial hierarchy. In <italic>Just Like Everyone Else? Locating South Asians in 21st Century American Popular Media,</italic> I examine audience perceptions of South Asian/Indian characters and actors in American popular media. My research is guided …
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Southern Pride and Yankee Presence: The Limits of Confederate Loyalty in Civil War Mississippi, 1860-1865
… and nation, revealed a struggle over the racial hierarchy that demonstrated continuity between the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras.
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The 'Civilizing Process' and the Politics of Conservative Womanhood in America, 1890-1930
… they regarded as central to civilized life: racial hierarchy, sexual restraint, traditional marriage, and suffrage for women. The three women at the heart of this thesis, Rebecca Felton, Alma White and Estelle Reel, each invoked the concept of the ‘civilizing process’ to affirm different …
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Hope, fear, shame, frustration : continuity and change in the expression of coloured identity in white supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994
… people (hope), their intermediate status in the racial hierarchy (fear), the negative connotations, especially that of racial hybridity, with which it was imbued (shame), and finally, the marginality of the Coloured community (frustration).
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Yellow over black: the precolonial and colonial history of race in Korea, 1883-1945
… period (1883-1910), Koreans constructed imagined racial inferiors, especially Blacks and American Indians, without their corporeal presence, and in doing so centrally shaped Korean racial identity from its beginning. By proposing the concept of the colonially vulnerable to call attention to the …
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Interracial Friendships in the US: A Better Understanding of Presence and Variation
Objective. Previous studies have examined interracial friendships, typically within educational settings, in relation to racial prejudice without taking in to account the formation of interracial friendship. I address the void in the literature regarding the presence and formation of adult …
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Protectors of the Peace: Baptist Church Tribunals and the Construction of American Religious and Civil Authority, 1780-1860
… whites strengthened the region's consolidating racial hierarchy, disproportionately focusing their disciplinary proceedings at their black brethren. Furthermore, religious dissension wrecked trans-Appalachian Baptist churches during the 1820s and 1830s, leading to a decline in disciplinary …
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White Beauty: The Portrayal of Minorities in Teen Beauty Magazines
… It also led to additional perspective on racial hierarchy, long standing stereotypes in the mass media and the White standard of beauty. Although a content analysis cannot be used to determine media effects, this study adds to the body of research on the portrayals of minorities in …
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Sexual Knowledge and Learning in Apartheid South Africa, c. 1950-1990
… 1994. The apartheid regime imposed a stringent racial hierarchy that extended to educational institutions, influencing the dissemination of sex education. Access to school-based sex education was severely limited and often skewed by race, with significant disparities in educational content and …
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Unsettling whiteness : Kipling's Boers and the case for a white subalternity
… of South Africa's deeply intertwined racial and political history. While his Indian writing is also informed by an imperial ideology, Kipling's South African writing is more overtly dogged by imperial contradictions and a lack of thematic and narrative clarity. As such, his Indian …
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Unruly Sisters: Moravian Women, Dissent, and the 18th Century North Carolina Piedmont
… excessive materialism and a widely accepted racial hierarchy, which challenged the simple life of the Moravian community. I argue that although historians of Moravians have explored the dissent in the Salem community, they have not considered the desires of Moravian women and how their …
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Arkansas’s cotton plantocracy: the role of POWs in establishing postwar labor systems
… the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union (STFU), a biracial union of sharecroppers and farmworkers. Furthermore, Arkansas’ segregationist practices influenced labor policies, as maintaining a distinct racial hierarchy remained a priority through these years of transition. Only certain people could …
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Caught in the mirror: Fictional representations of "cyborgs" and "serials" in postmodern American technoculture.
… agendas by engendering the mutually exclusive, racially influenced perspectives of both Harawayan cyborg politics and radical U.S. feminism. Two science fiction stories by Octavia E. Butler, a black American writer, illustrate the translation of gender hierarchy into racial hierarchy. A …
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