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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Racial Oppression"”.
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A Theory of Racial Oppression and Liberation
… position, and moves directly into an analysis of oppression, appealing to five basic ""premises"" which delineate the boundaries within which any adequate theory of oppression must function. The chapter concludes by claiming that a successful theory of oppression, which must be understood in terms …
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Negotiation of 1.5 and Second Generation Filipino Canadian Identity: Language, Internalized Racial Oppression and Ethnic Identity
… identities while navigating Canadian society as racialized minorities. In total, 12 initial participants completed a single semi-structured interview, 11 participants completed a follow-up interview, and 1 participant completed a second follow-up interview. Findings reveal that language and …
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The effects of self-monitoring and appropriated racial oppression on online dating self-presentation for multiracial individuals
… experiencing high levels of appropriated racial oppression, engaging in higher self-monitoring of aspects of their ethnic identities. Links have also been demonstrated between online dating and engagement in self-monitoring. The purpose of this study was to examine a model for how …
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The Impact of Media Influence About Hair Texture on Internalized Racial Oppression, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Efficacy
… influence about hair texture, b) internalized racial oppression, c) ethnic identity, and d) self-efficacy. This work employed structural equation modeling to test the hypothesized model for the impact of media influence about hair texture on internalized racial oppression, ethnic identity, and …
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Resisting Racial Oppression: Ethnic Identity & Critical Consciousness as Pathways to Thriving for Young Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
… own positive development within the context of racial oppression (García Coll et al., 1996). This explanatory sequential mixed-method study examined how 393 BIPOC-identifying youth (ages 18-25) thrive amid racial oppression. Survey results initially indicated that higher levels of perceived …
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Book of Empire: The Political Bible of U.S. Literary Modernism
… radical critique of empire, nation-building, and racial oppression that defies conservative notions supporting those undertakings. For Willa Cather, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Hurston, the Bible is a source of moral authority they use to challenge the imperialist, colonialist, and nativist …
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Hip Hop, Bluegrass, Banjos, and Solidarity: Race and Class Histories in Appalachia U.S.A
… as a potential place of resistance against racial and class injustice. Arguing for a thick cross-racial solidarity movement, I examine the history of Black oppression from slavery to current modes of oppression such as mass incarceration and colorblind constitutionalism. The presence of …
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Her-story in Motion: Racialized Women's Narratives Resisting Race and Gender-based Violence on Transit
Public transit is essential for racialized women’s access to employment, education, and social opportunities. However, the prevalence of violence against women has established public transit environments that fail to ensure women’s safety. Hierarchical power structures and patriarchal norms within …
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The Cleanse
… named Nola finds herself at the forefront of a racial struggle for survival amidst a crumbling nation. One century after a Black genocide of the 2040's, Nola lives in a maroon community named Omega, built inside an Appalachian mountain for refuge while chaos ensues outside its walls. Fighting to …
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White Antiracist Identity: A Communication Case Study
… maintaining an oppositional identity (against racial oppression) at the same time as one is a member of an oppressor class. Emphasis is given to communication strategies whites used to manage problematic interactions, particularly in contexts of interracial distrust. Current antiracist training …
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Wounded (Soul)diers in the Classroom: A Study of Black TAs in a Predominantly White Classroom
… etc.) of engaging and enduring conflicts in racialized classrooms. Furthermore, attempting to address CRTs 6th element as noted by Matsuda et al. (1993) of working toward the end of racial oppression by engaging in reflection and action to effectuate change, this study draws on the active …
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Relationships between Ethnicity, Attitudes toward Institutional Authority, and Hope in the African American Community
… how the presence of societal authority and oppression can impact individual and community capacity for hope and full freedom. Researchers have discussed concepts such as attitudes to authority, suggesting that some individuals are naturally more resistant to authority (Rigby, 1985). However, …
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"Undone by Murmurs of Love": Traumatic Legacies and the Struggle for Personal and Communal Identity Formation in Toni Morrison's Trilogy
<p>Implications of racial oppression on personal and collective African American identity formation in Toni Morrison’s trilogy are explored in this thesis. Morrison reconstructs African American history in her trilogy, but she also enacts a cultural healing through content and form. Impossible …
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Narratives Of Southern Contact Zones: Mobility And The Literary Imagination Of Zora Neale Hurston And Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
… who became friends with each other beyond their racial background in the segregated South, shared physical and social mobility and the interest in the Southern folk cultures. They wrote fiction about the region and its folk cultures while continuously moving back and forth between their Southern …
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Tourist Harlem: Sidewalks, Cyberspace, and the In/Visibility of Race
… of this research is to identify forces of racial commodification in the tourism industry and analyze the role of digital technologies in this process. This research is important because tourism and digital technologies are active sites of racial formation and inequality, and TripAdvisor …
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Race, gender and empire: transnational and transracial feminism in the first novels of Pauline Hopkins and Olive Schreiner
… their female characters from the patriarchal and racial oppression prevalent in each context. This thesis argues that reading the two in tandem offers unique insight into a specifically transnational and transracial feminist consciousness emerging at the turn of the nineteenth century. Identifying …
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The Colored Sense of Awareness: An Analysis of African American Perceptions of Race and Communication in the Workplace
… have immeasurably experienced racism and racial oppression in various forms and in many sectors of the American society. One of the sectors that the racial inequalities of our past have affected is the employment sector. Many Americans experience the workplace on a daily basis and …
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Infectious Agents: Race and Environment in Nineteenth-Century America
… preservation and at risk of contamination. While racial oppression is often analyzed through the discrete parameters of the body, with skin color or blood indicating the mark of the "other," my literary study concerning both race and environment reveals that bodies and places are not necessarily …
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A Game of Roads: The North Omaha Freeway and Historic Near North Side
… and substandard housing. Through years of racial oppression and quarantine, peaking with the proposal and construction of the city’s North Freeway, the small community has slowly become a helpless shadow of its former self. In the last two decades, the city’s Urban Development Board, along …
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Apartheid and resistance in the political economy of gentrification: The dialectics of black working-class struggles in Atlanta, Georgia, 1970-2015
… U.S. cities must be understood as a dialectic of racial class struggle defined primarily through black working class collective resistance to urban reorganization. Second, this project argues that neoliberalization and subsequent gentrification in Atlanta served as a structural form of anti-poor …
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