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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Racial and ethnic identity"”.
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"""I am not beneath you because I am from a different continent, I am also like you!"": Nigerian college students make meaning of racial and ethnic identity at a predominantly white institution"
For college students, academic and social issues play a huge role in their higher education experience. This experience is exceptionally complicated for diverse Black populations, who often have to negotiate their complex racial and ethnic space in the United States. My research investigates …
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A Phenomenological Study of Racialized Experiences of Asian Adopt Adoptees
<p>This study examined the nature and meaning of racial and ethnic identity as described by adult Asian adoptees who were transracially and internationally adopted. Particular focus of the study examined the racialization experiences and the relationships between racial and ethnic identity and …
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Social Modeling in Computational Simulations: Racial and Ethnic Representation in Videogames and Virtual Reality Systems
Computational simulations such as videogames and virtual reality (VR) systems already pervasively attempt to represent aspects of human identity, including modeling race and ethnicity-related phenomena. However, existing strategies typically focus on representing racial and ethnic identity only as …
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DIS/REORIENTATION OF CHINESE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS’ RACIAL AND ETHNIC IDENTITIES IN THE U.S.: COMMUNICATING RACE AND ETHNICITY IN THE GLOBAL-LOCAL DIALECTIC
Each year, thousands of Chinese international students come to the United States to further their education. Most of them need to adjust their identities in some degrees to adapt to U.S. American social and cultural contexts. One key transition that is significantly under discussed and often …
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"""The longer I live here the more I see it"": Exploring length of residence, group identification and race-related stress among black Caribbean immigrants"
… among length of residence, group identification (racial and ethnic identity) and race-related stress for a sample of Black Caribbean immigrants (n = 96). Participants were recruited through university student organizations, community establishments and snowball sampling. It was hypothesized that …
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Forging Our Path: Exploring Career Mobility Among Women of Color in Collegiate Higher-Level Leadership Positions
… has placed women at a professional disadvantage and adding the intersectionality of racial and ethnic identity along with other identities has resulted in fewer opportunities for career advancement to senior and executive positions. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the …
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The Role of Leisure in the Reproduction of Race and Ethnicity Among Korean Americans
… Americans developed three different types of racialized ethnic identities: (a) diasporic ethnic identity---developed beyond the confines of a nation state and intermixed with assigned racial identity; (b) ethnic American identity---developed in reference to the American society and combined …
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Performing Blackness in a Mulatto Society: Negotiating Racial Identity through Music in the Dominican Republic
<p>My dissertation analyzes Dominican racial and ethnic identity through an examination of music and music cultures. Previous studies of Dominican identity have focused primarily on the racialized invention of the Dominican nation as white, or non-black, often centering on the building of Dominican …
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The Relationship Between Racial Identity, Ethnic Identity, and African-American Acculturation and their Contribution to Psychological Well-Being
… studies which address the relationships between racial/ethnic identity and acculturation in the African-American community, the purpose of this study was threefold: 1) explore the relationship between racial identity and African-American acculturation; 2) examine racial and ethnic identity …
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Giving a voice to diverse men's experiences of infertility
… has given preference to the experiences of women and couples who seek medical assistance for infertility (Almeling & Waggoner, 2013), while research on infertility experiences of heterosexual men are still rare given that approximately 50% of infertility cases involve men’s infertility (Culley, …
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A Comparative Study of Giving and Volunteering Patterns Among Adults with Seventh-day Adventist and Other Christian Religious Identities
… to do more with less, it is important to understand the mechanisms that build and sustain two key resources-individual giving and volunteering. Research indicates that there is a great deal of variation in the extent to which individuals provide help. An integrative theoretical model is utilized …
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Harry E. "Indian" Miller: Spectacles of Identity in the Early Twentieth Century American Southwest
… archeologist, sideshow impresario, zookeeper, and Route 66 curio shop owner who spent most of his adult life promoting himself as an Apache known as Indian Miller, Chief Crazy Thunder. Miller insisted on his Native American heritage despite the fact that he was born to a European-American …
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Creole Resistance in Louisiana from Colonization to Black Lives Matter: Activism’s Deep-Rooted Role in Creole Identity
<p>Creole identity within Louisiana emerged as a result of French colonization and as a means of classification denoting birthplace but developed into a cultural identity specific to the lived experience of residents of Louisiana. An often-overlooked aspect of Creole identity is its role within the …
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The construction of identity through race and ethnicity : coloured South African women in Western Australia
The formation of ethnic and racial identity is important psychologically. Mainstream psychological theory and research on identity has been criticised for its failure to adequately address the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups in society. The purpose of my research was to centre …
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Challenging Mental Health Concerns among Black Caribbean Immigrants
The racial and ethnic diversity of the United States continues to evolve due to increases in immigration from nearly all parts of the globe, including the Caribbean region. Like the U.S., this region can also be considered a melting pot of cultures, with the Afro-Caribbean population widely …
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Food-related behaviors and attitudes around racial and ethnic foods in US adults who live alone
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01