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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Racial categories"”.
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The number, width, and labels for racial categories
… between those perceived to be members of one's racial ingroup and those perceived to be members of a racial outgroup, and the degree to which these boundaries are influenced by category width (Pettigrew, 1958) and prejudice (McConahay et al., 1981). A morphing program produced target "persons" …
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“Others” (Lain-lain): Falling Between Racial Categories in Contemporary Malaysia
This thesis examines racial ontologies in Malaysia, particularly as they are reflected and shaped by the census and other forms of administrative documentation. By tracking the evolution over time of institutionally-operating racial categories, as well as focusing on their current iterations, this …
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Mental health service utilization, knowledge, stigma, and protective factors in a college student sample: The influence of racial categories and student-athlete status
<p>Students of color and student-athletes undergo unique stressors in college, such as discrimination and time constraints, that impact their mental health needs. They have shown more mental health stigma and less service utilization. This study explored these variables and groups using secondary …
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At the Margins of the Plantation: Alternative Modernities and an Archaeology of the "Poor Whites" of Barbados
… including Afro-Barbadians. Additionally, racial categories are interrogated through an analysis of complex and interracial genealogies of Below Cliff residents that call into question the legitimacy of determinate racial categories of black and white. I argue that Below Cliff is best …
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A resurgence of eugenics? The role of race in egg donation
… and clinics often classify their donors using racial categories. This research project sought to discover what role race played in the egg donation process, using racial matching and neo-eugenics as its theoretical frameworks. Ten semi-structured open ended interviews were conducted with nine …
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Race and identity of Brazilians in South Africa: an ethnographic study on racialization, habitus, and intersectionality
… gap and presents an ethnographic study about the racialised experiences of Brazilian migrants in South Africa, in order to explore the different processes of racialization that occur in South Africa and Brazil. The first part of the investigation focuses on the conflictual encounter between …
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A Life Course Perspective on the Social Determinants of Multiracial American Health
… data on the health of self-identified multiracial (two or more races) Americans. Subsequently, we know little about this population and existing health disparities. Three areas relevant to multiracial health include health status, health care service utilization, and health related to racial …
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Race Self-Labeling Choices of Multiracial Individuals
In 2000, the U.S. Census allowed multiracial people to select more than one race on the official U.S. Census survey for the first time in U.S. history. This resulted in a multiracial population of approximately seven million people that increased to approximately 9 million people on the 2010 U. S. …
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Belonging to the West Coast : an ethnography of St Helena Bay in the context of marine resource scarcity
… of Laingville, historically-contingent racial categories have become reinvigorated in a context resource scarcity.
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The Prospects of Personalising Medicine
… because evidence on the epistemic usefulness of racial categories in medicine can be transiently underdetermined and inductively risky. In Chapter 3, I interrogate the controversial use of racial categories in equations to predict kidney function and show that equations that include race in their …
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Cross -Border Critical Race Theory: Black and Native Fiction, American and Canadian Legal Policy
… with an American understanding of exclusive racial categories whereas Beatrice Culleton, Joan Crate, and Thomas King address Canadian beliefs in multiculturalism.
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Imperial Objects and Transpacific Subjects: Japan, China, and the United States at World's Fairs 1867-1915
… how “Chinese” and “Japanese” were constructed as racial categories through compounding visual representations at and around world’s fairs. These racializations were contradictory, mutable, and inextricably intertwined with shifting visual understandings of indigenous, Black, and white populations …
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"Ocular Proof": Race, Religion, and Gender in The Merchant of Venice and Othello
… is a study of the development of early modern racial categories in England - focusing on religion and skin color as primary modes of demarcation interwoven with other prevalent categories of language, ancestry/blood, nationality, and gender - as illuminated in William Shakespeare's <em>The …
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Racial differences in households' financial asset allocation, 1992-2004
… of Consumer Finances, this study investigated racial differences in households' financial asset allocation over the years. This study categorized the financial assets into four categories: equities held directly or indirectly, bonds held directly or indirectly, cash account and other financial …
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Locus of control and the preference for directive or nondirective therapeutic techniques in a military personnel population
… scores for psychotherapy preference between rank categories (employment and income levels) and racial categories. Insignificant results were obtained in the hypotheses addressing the difference in locus of control orientation between rank categories (employment and income levels) and education …
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Children's Understanding of Racial Classifications as a Function of Their Knowledge of Inheritance
… describing a transformation to a person's racial characteristics (that is, a change in external appearance from white to black or black to white features) and asked to what category the person belonged after the changes. To examine whether children treat race more like a biological change …
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Racial Identification Fluidity and Psychological Outcomes from Adolescence Through Young Adulthood
The present study examined whether shifts in racial identification categories between adolescence and young adulthood have psychological implications in adulthood. The present study was inspired by the work of Hitlin, Brown, and Elder (2006). Although there are many models for racial/ethnic …
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Semitic discourse: English identity and the nineteenth -century British novel
… and construct Christian English people as racially pure. One result of the growing presence of assimilated Jewish people living in England in the nineteenth century was the fear that they might pass undetected and pollute the "purity" of English blood. In response to this phenomenon, the …
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Performing samba: Aesthetics, transnational modernisms, and race
… to samba in ways that challenged and produced racial categories, celebrated the creativity of Black musicians and reinforced primitivistic notions of blackness. Analyzing an extensive archive of sound and text that includes commercial recordings of music, sheet music, newspapers, and writings …
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Dialogic Convergences of Spatiality, Racial Identity, and the American Cultural Imagination
… various consequences of the relationship between racial identity and spatialization in American cultural production. I assert that this relationship is uniquely dialogic, complexly impacting individuals as well as collective cultural groups, reciprocally affecting both social and physical spaces. …
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