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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Racial representation"”.
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The effect of racial representation on rejection sensitivity
This study examined how racial representation within small group settings impacts experiences of social rejection among people of color. Grounded in Minority Stress Theory and Rejection Sensitivity Theory, this project explored whether the presence of racial diversity can reduce expectations of …
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Classical Christian Education and Racial Representation: A Mixed Method Study
ABSTRACT CLASSICAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND RACIAL REPRESENTATION: A MIXED METHOD STUDY Miranda Renea Webster, Ed.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2019 Chair: Dr. Jeffrey Michael Horner This explanatory sequential mixed method study examined the extent and state of racial diversity and …
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Board and Staff Representation and Grantmaking in Community Foundations: The Effect of Racial Representation, Intersectionality, and Donor Control
… for understanding the connection between representation and outcomes, positing that passive representation, which is bureaucrats share the same demographic origins as the general population, will result in active representation, which is producing policy outputs that benefit the interests …
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Staging race: Blackness, performance, and citizenship in Afro-Latin American writers (1940-2000)
… project investigates the body as a medium of racial representation by looking at five Afro-Latin American artists in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia between 1940-2000. In conversation with performance studies and critical race studies, my project analyzes the emergence of an Afro-Latin American …
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Home Is Where the Hot Tamale Is: Rediscovering the Delta
… to the region in the early 20th century, its racial representation in the Delta, and its future as chefs across the nation seek to interpret the regional cuisine. Further, this thesis analyzes the hot tamale’s components that tell why and how the hot tamale became a staple, and the story of …
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From Trial to Triumph: Representations of African Americans in Museum Exhibits
… and culture at six museums to explore issues of racial representation, collective identity, and cultural authority. I conduct a systematic two-part investigation of exhibition practices across Black-owned/operated and mainstream museums, one of each in three different cities (Chicago, IL; …
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Racial Optics and its Influence on Teacher Curricular Decision-Making in Secondary Social Studies
… studies teachers represent various political, racial, and ideological perspectives. It remains unclear how social studies teachers choose curricula and balance the racial representation they present and the implications for students' racial lenses and understanding of race in the past and …
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Role-Ing While BIPOC: Understanding the Experiences of Table Top Role Playing Game Players of Color
… settings. There have been attempts to improve racial representation in these games; however, the research revealed that significant improvements are still needed to approach equitable representation. Ultimately, implications for gamification in schools and hobby settings and steps for creating …
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The Portrayal of the Family Unit In Children’s Choice Award Books
… of family in plot, family unit, and cultural/racial representation. The study found that the Children’s Choices books did not display all types of families and the prevalence of diverse family units found in real American homes was not represented in the Children's Choice Award Books. The …
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American pseudo-realism: the subversion of black agency in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935)
… narrative regarding American opera and the representation of blackness therein. Considering the opera both in its premiere iteration and as an institution of tokenization that has supplanted the equitable representation of black artists and narratives within this genre, I consider how this …
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Mindsets: lived experiences of black actuarial science students
… the University of Cape Town (UCT). With the underrepresentation of black African students in South Africa's actuarial science exacerbating societal imbalances, the research aims to unveil their experiences and factors shaping these students' mindsets. Mindsets are influenced by parental feedback, …
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The Erotic Work of Asian American Activism: Harnessing Kink, Queer, and Sex Worker Praxis
… The paper then analyzes the role of race and racial representation in the history of the BDSM (Bondage/Dominance, Dominance/Submission, and Sadomasochism) subculture from the 1950s to 2020s, tracking the emergence of groups like the Asian American Feminist Collective (AAFC) and the Asian …
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Speaking Up For Generic Asians in Charles Yu’s <em>Interior Chinatown</em>
… and literature to showcase the depths of the racial issues faced by Asian Americans. I will use Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown as a framework to express the major issues faced by the Asian American community and the concern brought up by implications made within the novel. Scholars such as …
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Race and stereotypes in new media: an examination of how Internet news frames persons of color
… performed reveal that stereotypes and misrepresentation persist in Internet news. Specifically, Arabs are represented at a rate far greater than one would expect and associated with terrorism. Native Americans are under-represented in comparison to their rate within the U.S. population and …
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Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890–1905
… further, these texts show how integral racial representation at the end of the nineteenth century is to our ideas about sexual transgression. In the manner of <em>bricolage</em> — art produced with whatever is at hand — these novelists worked within and outside the dominant culture of …
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Own Your Politics: The Entanglement of Resistance and the Luxury Fashion Industry
… resistance. Most notably, the persistence of racial inequality and the cultural output of minority groups advances an ulterior form of resistance whose project, while coterminous with economic exploitation, is not perfectly delineated within its terms. In the second chapter, I engage with such …
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Examining Texas diversity : identifying the composition of diversity and the coverage of a minority-related issue in the top ten daily Texas newspapers
A newsroom may be fast-paced and exhilarating; and the prestige of reporting, editing or managing for a well-known newspaper in the United States is a dream that aspiring journalists long for. The first goal of this study is to examine the existing diversity in the top ten daily Texas newspapers. …