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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Racial formation"”.
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Filipino American college student identities: exploring racial formation on campus
… within the college environment to create racial and ethnic identities that are unique to individual campus communities and their surrounding geographic regions. Through the narratives of Filipino American college students in California and Illinois, I examine the ways that the Filipino …
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Between two flags: cultural nationalism and racial formation in Puerto Rican Chicago, 1946-1994
… a period of sustained growth and repeated transformations. Throughout this period, cultural nationalism proved itself a valuable tool to mobilize support for multiple and competing political projects, including both those that supported and those that rejected independence for the island of …
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Inventing "crime" in a lawless land: legal conflict, racial formation, and conquest in the North American interior
… the boundary line with the United States, and a racial hierarchy in which the ""Natives"" were considered dependents on the company and the Métis as ""half breed"" subjects who had no claim to land and independence as indigenous peoples. In this project, I examine propaganda published by …
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The Role of Care Practices, Mutual Aid, and Racial Formation in Black Newcomer Practitioners’ Lived Experience Within Organizations: A Critical Qualitative Inquiry
… the U.S. social service sector. The study uses racial formation theory (Omi & Winant, 2014) to conceptualize how participants experienced their racial identity formation and how racism shapes their personal and professional roles. The study also employed a Black feminist theoretical lens to …
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Structural Inequality and Hypervisibility from Childhood to Adulthood in Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man and Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
… that emphasize the hypervisibility of the racialized body. Baldwin and Rankine share an epistemological voice insofar as they both write from within the confines of lived racial visibility that demands emotional regulation.</p> <p>Though separated by nearly four decades, the formally …
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DOIN’ IT FOR THE CULTURE: DEFINING BLACKNESS, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY ON BLACK TWITTER
… sparked conversations about the lived racial experience of Black people, racism, food, culture, Black pride and Black family holiday traditions. The hashtag #AskRachel started a robust conversation about what constitutes Blackness and Black culture in response to the Rachel Dolezal …
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BEYOND HONORARY WHITENESS: IDEOLOGIES OF BELONGING AND KOREAN ADOPTEE IDENTITIES
… adoption contributed to constructions of race – racial meanings and a racial order – and the effects on Korean adoptees’ identity development. This dissertation asks the following questions: What role has Korean adoption played in the U.S. racial formation? What role do various levels of social …
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"""The Great Spirit of Solidarity"": The Illinois Valley Mining Communities and the Formation of Interethnic Consciousness, 1889--1917"
… The Illinois Valley Mining Communities and the Formation of Interethnic Consciousness, 1889--1917 uses the concept of transnationlism to examine the processes of Americanization and working class formation. The study focuses on the way in which working class residents of the multiethnic and …
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"You Can't Put People In One Category Without Any Shades of Gray:" A Study of Native American, Black, Asian, Latino/a and White Multiracial Identity
… to explore variations in the development of racial identities for multiracial Virginians in the 21st century by focusing on the roles that physical appearance, group associations and social networks, family and region play in the process. Simultaneously, this study seeks to explore the …
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Problematizing discourses of feminicide in Guatemala : feminist universalism, neoliberal subject formation and hypervisibility
… is being waged. Intersectionality and a gendered racial formation theory provide a more nuanced basis from which to undertake an analysis of gender violence and feminicide, and the grounds for devising effective long-term strategies for ending violence in its myriad forms. Second, I argue that the …
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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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Becoming la raza: Chican@ counterpublicity and rhetorics of the Viet Nam War
… 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 activists at the end of …
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The Malayan Dilemma: Race, Power and State Formation in Malaya
… unravels the history behind the making and transformation of the country’s three major race categories – Malay, Chinese, and Indian – as the legacy of a series of power struggles dating back to the British and Japanese colonial eras. This study departs from prior studies that have not …
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An Investigation of Multiracial Adults' Attitudes Towards Interracial Marriage
Given the rise in interracial marriages as well as the rise of the Two or More Races population (Morin 2015; Colby and Ortman 2015), social scientists are struggling to explore new means and theoretical frameworks for how these trends will impact the American society. Recognizing the unique …
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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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Living the differences: ethnicity, gender and social work
… to be understood in the context of a moment of racial formation and social regulation in which specific black populations were managed through a regime of governmentality in which 'new black subjects' were formed. These 'new black subjects' were constituted as 'ethnic-minorities' out of an …
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Listening to the Lomax archive: the sonic rhetorics of American vernacular music in the 1930s
… and music’s rhetorical roles in myth making, racial formation, cultural eloquence, progressive thought, and historiography. While recent scholarship has identified the sonic elements of rhetoric’s classical roots, I argue that vernacular, folk, or “roots” music can be a key element—a sonic …
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Chasing blackness: re-investing value and Mexico's changing racial economy
… social, and political element to the notion of “racial economy”. I argue that race, ethnicity, and culture have an historic value that helps to define their current value within the neo-liberal multicultural state and can therefore be traded in a limited number of ways. In this way, the logic of …
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A Black Feminist's Critique of the Crooked Room of Medicine (CRoM): Innovation of Thick Studies and the Gender, Race, Weight (GRW) Matrix
… Black women in the US experience fatphobic and racial discrimination while being "cared for" by western institutional medicine. I argue that discourses like the FIOP, though framed as benevolent clinical theories, do more harm than good: not only do they multiply pathologize so-called "fat" …
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Performing (Non)Profit, Race, and American Identity in the Nation's Capital: Arena Stage, 1950-2010
… socially reproduces and contests economic, racial, and national hierarchies. There is a dearth of scholarship on U.S. regional theatre because of middlebrow anxiety and yet, for that very reason, regional theatre demands attention as a fitting example of the site of struggle over different …
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