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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"Systems of Oppression"”.
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Emotional or Behavioral Disorder (EBD) and restrictive placement: an analysis of systems of oppression in research, practice, & policy.
Before and following the passage of the Education for all Handicapped Children Act (EHA; now known as IDEA), special education or de facto special education practices have been informed by systems of oppression such as racism and ableism. Within this context, students from racially-minoritized …
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Improving Organizational Climates at HBCUS: Leveraging the Voices of Underrepresented, Minority Women Faculty and Instructors
… study explores lived experiences of underrepresented,minority (URM) women faculty and instructors at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), examining how they navigate and respond to the complexities of structural and systemic barriers in higher education. Drawing …
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(Not so) Silent Survivors: A Qualitative Intersectionality Study on Asian American Women Survivors of Sexual Violence
… Despite the well-documented harmfulness of sexual violence, there is a dearth of research examining sexual violence against Asian American women. This study sought to amplify the voices of Asian American women survivors and expose the impact of interlocking systems of oppression (e.g., …
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Narratives of Resistance: Undergraduate Chicanas Navigating the World with Critical Literacy and a Mestiza Praxis
<p>Against a backdrop of rising fascism in the racial-capitalist patriarchy of the U.S., this dissertation study explores the questions, “How do Chicanas in undergraduate programs develop criticality to take action against systems of oppression, and how do they make sense of their social …
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Comorbidity of disordered eating and depression: Examining intersectional inequities and cardiometabolic health consequences across the life course
Traditional epidemiologic research has often neglected the degree to which interlocking systems of oppression may (1) describe the distribution of population health inequities and (2) moderate health exposure-outcome associations. Grounded in an intersectional framework, this three-aim dissertation …
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Using Hip Hop to Explore Minority Youths' Critical Consciousness of the Food System
Historical contexts of trauma have created a complex relationship with African Americans and farming. Further, the lack of urban participation within the food system has resulted in little knowledge of how food is produced or understanding of environmental impacts of food and fiber production. The …
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Navigating Identity Through Education in Literature and in the Classroom
… between education, identity formation, and oppression, drawing from psychosocial and sociocultural perspectives. I delve into how education serves as a critical arena where individuals encounter various internal psychological conflicts and external social influences that shape their sense of …
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Embodied and Emotional Knowledge of Oppression: Positive Contributions of a Relational Feminist Standpoint Theory
This project is an exploration of how traditional epistemological methods have failed to or cannot make room for understanding the oppression of particular groups of people. My goals are explicitly feminist in that I aim to work to uncover these understandings so as to dismantle this oppression. …
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When Being Sick Makes Us Sicker: A Black Feminist Approach to Financial Toxicity
… have a significant impact on our quality of life. They matter to people. Unfortunately, there are vast inequities in healthcare and health outcomes in the United States on the basis of race, gender, and class. Often, being sick makes people sicker, especially those impacted by the …
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Ending Poverty? Critical Interrogations of Class Subjectivities, Agency, and Ideologies in Discursive and Embodied Texts From a U.S. Nonprofit
… and performances related to one U.S. nonprofit organization attempting to end poverty, referred to as Transforming Poverty Partnerships (TPP). The author analyzes training materials, interview transcripts, and performance texts documented through participant observation. This study reveals …
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RESISTANCE TO CULTURAL SEXUAL OBJECTIFICATION: MEASUREMENT DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION.
… ways in which women may be subverting systems of oppression, the current study surrounds development and validation of a quantitative measurement tool centered on resistance to sociocultural beauty ideals and physical standards of appearance. Theoretical reviews, focus group interviews …
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Stranger's Location: Interrogating Apartheid Spatial Legacies and the Idea of Home in New Brighton
My research focusses on certain aspects of dispossession that are a result of apartheid and some of the different forms it takes. I am particularly concerned with the repercussions of racial segregation in the form of apartheid architecture and ‘township planning', as well as social issues such as …
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The Social Construction of Language: Identity, Reality, and Trauma in American Composition Courses
<p>The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the ways in which instructors have the potential to reinforce or disrupt systems of oppression and power in the composition classroom through language, writing, and rhetoric. I draw upon pedagogical and rhetorical theorists, to analyze how language …
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Revealing whiteness: how one group used social media to uncover and challenge white supremacy operating in municipal political online messages
… via social media has shown that to achieve profound change, information needs to reach traditional news outlets before attention from those in power will take notice. Further research notes that people of colour experience higher rates of online abuse as opposed to white people. A case study …
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Counter-Narratives of Palestinian-American Youth: Resistance, Resilience and Transnational Identity
… can better support students in this process of negotiation and development of a positive transnational identity. Through the collection of counter-narratives, this research works to disrupt the Islamophobic dominant narrative that pervades the educational system and other institutions as well …
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Colonial world-making in future technological landscapes: a qualitative comparative case study of the Sophia the Robot and Miquela Projects
… Little attention is given to the intention of these private actors. This increases the risk of missing the ways in which private political and economic interests shape future technological imagining. From Jeff Bezos floating space coloniesto Mark Zuckerberg's reality bending ‘metaverse', …
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Zombified and Traumatized: Healing in Black Women's Zombie Literature
… construct literary experiences that reflect the systems of oppression that define their American experience within the horror genre. Through their explorations of race relations in an imaginative and boundless sphere, they provide a portrayal of reality that transcends time. Yet, scholars have …
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The Doll Project As A Liberatory Art Intervention For Conscious Raising And Trauma Relief In A Chicago Marked By Violence
… to build community, heal and resist systemic oppression and community violence; as well as promote self-care, empowerment, and a sense of purpose. Participants engaged in community-based art therapy to build and heal communities impacted by gun violence; using an ecological model. This "Doll …
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Images of Change: Language and Power in the Works of Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison has identified, as one of her projects, the question of what societal forces make intellectual domination possible, and how this domination can be transformed into personal revelation and choice. Many of her fictional characters undergo a transformation from intellectual domination to …
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Flexible Habits of Race and Gender: Political Agency and Identity Transformation in Schools
… to race and gender through the cultivation of habits, including dispositions, bodily comportment, and ways of interacting. Classroom situations divided by gender and color lines, which lack communication, cooperative learning across difference, and integration of all classroom members, often …
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