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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Social marginalization"”.
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Living docility and dissent: U.S. small town girls' social media use within social marginalization
Following in a long history of social panic over females’ lack of safety with new communication technologies, in the US, society has defined adolescent-aged females using social media in a familiar binary fashion: they are either “at-risk” or “reckless” in their involvements (Cassell & Cramer, …
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Afflictions of tradition: trends and consequences of traditional African American foodways
… it is important to highlight the historical social significance of African American foodways, known as soul food. Using personal narratives from former slaves and individuals recollecting American life during socially traumatic times, - including life under Jim Crow laws, the Great …
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Black Youth Educational Under-Achievement Problem: How Peer Influence, Social Attitudes, Education Policy, & Family Circumstance Unite to Maintain this Problem in the Ontario Public School System
… anti-black sentiment, contemporary economic and social marginalization of black people, and discriminatory policies and practices in the Ontario public school system, are all factors that combine to produce the deviant black-youth-identity we talk so much about today.
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Desiring Devastated Landscapes: Love After Ecological Collapse
… and kinship at the theoretical intersections of social marginalization and environmental decline that are more helpful for speaking to intimacies with and in damaged environments.</p>
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Last (Un)Fair Deal Goin' Down: A Case Study On The Racial Ideologies And Projects Advanced By The Blues Tourism Industry In Clarksdale, Mississippi
… by multiple racial groups possessing disparate social and economic power. With these bearings in mind, this thesis assesses the impact of blues tourism development on the experiences of, and between, blacks and whites in Clarksdale, Mississippi, an endemically impoverished Delta city populated …
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Effects of Messages About Genetics, Race, and Health on Public Opinion About Personalized Medicine and Health Policy
… a rapid pace, there is growing concern about the social and ethical consequences of these advances. One area of concern that merits more empirical research is the impact of messages linking genetic traits with racial differences. Research in this area is important because recent studies have shown …
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History, identity, and the marginalized: an analysis of selected works by Han Shaogong and Su Tong
… in the four works are characterized by their social marginalization; all refer to aspects of human nature in general, and to the "Chinese nature" or cultural character in particular. Similarly, marginalized motif in each work underscores an alternative viewpoint. Regional discourse, myth, …
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The meaning of motherhood: adolescent childbearing and its significance for poor Dominican Haitian women
This article looks at how a group of marginalized young women, in the Dominican Republic, understand and conceptualize the experience of becoming a mother at an early age. The dominant discourse on adolescent motherhood frames the phenomenon as problematic. Adolescent motherhood is typically …
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Illinois mindful wellbeing: A community-based implementation of an adapted mindfulness-based intervention with low-income adults
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Fishing and hunting in the Amazon floodplain : linkages among biodiversity conservation, rural livelihoods and food security
… societies in these regions are witnessing major social and environmental changes, including; rapid urbanisation, population growth, (unequal) socio-economic development, nutritional transitions, policy alterations, habitat conversion and climatic change. Despite the potential importance of these …
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Something Wicked: Witches and Rhetorics of Resistance
… magic to reinforce the existing power symbolic/social order. Like Covino (2000), I dub the latter magi as “sorcerers, and they are markedly different than their witch counterparts. Unlike sorcerers, witches threaten the status quo because she/they transform the material with their transgression. …