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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"White Americans"”.
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Social distances of white Americans to racial and ethnic minorities
This thesis examines social distances of white Americans to racial and ethnic minority groups by investigating how whites feel toward African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanic Americans. Three questions guide the study: (1) What is the relative order of whites' social distances to major …
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Multicultural education & perceptions of racial inequity among White Americans: a cohort analysis
… into the perceptions of racial inequality among White Americans. The phasal introduction of multicultural education (ME) in the United States has continually increased the exposure of newer cohorts of White Americans to diverse cultures and perspectives of social reality experienced by racial …
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Race, Class, and Health: Health Behavior and Hypertension in Black and White Americans
… research has shown that the health of black Americans is persistently worse than that of white Americans. The aim of this dissertation is to comprehend why these racial differences in morbidity and mortality exist. For this purpose racial differences in health behavior and hypertension are …
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Religion And Spirituality In Mental And Physical Well-Being Of Korean And White Americans
<p>An increasing number of researchers have confirmed the important role of religion and spirituality, not only in the psychological and emotional domains but also in physical health. Several researchers note that various forms of spirituality and religiousness can help Asian immigrants cope with …
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White Americans' Affect Toward African Americans: Predictive Power on Political Behavior and Measurement Problems
… of this study is to investigate the impact white affect toward African Americans has on whites' racial policy opinions. The study also identifies the difficulty of measuring affect in the traditional feeling thermometer. Moreover, the study introduces and tests a new method for measuring …
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Expanding methodologies to capture racial affect: White Americans’ emotional responses to racial injustice and White accountability
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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The homeownership gap : how the post-world War II GI bill shaped modern day homeownership patterns for black and white Americans
… Much is known of impact GI Bill benefits had on white veterans, but less is known of how black veterans, who accounted for one in thirteen WWII Veterans, were able to use them. This paper examines barriers black veterans faced to access and use the housing benefit, and examines the possible …
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Media Insensitivity To People Of Color: A Comparison And Contrast Of How African Americans Are Portrayed In Mainstream Media To White Americans
… American victims in a negative light while White Americans were not shown in the same light. James Holmes, the gunman in the 2012 movie theater shooting was portrayed by the Associated Press as a “Brilliant” science student. The narrative seems to soften when White Americans commit and I …
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The impact of television viewing on young adults' stereotypes towards Hispanic Americans
… on young adults' stereotypes towards Hispanic Americans. White American undergraduate students (N = 231) at a small private university in the western United States completed an anonymous self-administered group questionnaire. Regression analysis revealed that the Hispanic negative index is …
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Influences of Personal Standards and Perceived Parental Expectations on Worry for Asian American and White American College Students
… parental expectations and criticism compared to White Americans. Moreover, perceived discrepancies between parental expectations and academic outcome have been found to be related to psychological distress for Asian Americans. In studies with White Americans, discrepancies between expectations …
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A STUDY OF OPTIMISM, COPING STRATEGY, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG WHITE, KOREAN, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE OLDER ADULTS
… female older adults over age 65, including 124 White Americans, 124 Korean Americans and 125 African Americans residing in Columbia, South Carolina and Augusta, Georgia in the United States completed the questionnaire via face-to face interview.</p> <p>Factorial ANOVA regarding race and coping …
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The Effect of Ethnicity and Generation on Cultural Values
… group and then (n = 144) by generation. African Americans and White Americans, Baby Boomers and Generation Xers completed the Scale to Assess World Views (Ibrahim & Owen, 1994) at a grocery store in the Midwest. Results indicate significant differences between African Americans and White …
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A Comparative Study of Characteristics of High-Achieving Vietnamese and American (Anglo) High School Mathematics Students
… systematic differences between Vietnamese and white Americans (Anglos) who were getting A's and B's in higher level high school mathematics courses.
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"Two-ness," Identity, and Agency in Du Bois's Souls
… helps us see that the challenge that many non-White Americans face in attempting to embrace their American identity is a challenge to their self-respect: they can neither embrace nor reject their American identity without disrespecting themselves. Du Bois's solution to two-ness involves …
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Chinese-American and Japanese-American college students' perceptions and attitudes: Asian heritage in contact with the American cultural environment
… between Asian American experiences and those of white Americans. The significant differences found were differentiation based on physiognomy, stereotyping based on generalizations of ""model minority,"" and racism from negative perceptions of ""those Orientals."""
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(Mis)perceptions of Racial Wealth Inequality: The Role of Colorblind Racism and Implications for Public Policy
… of the largest racial disparities is the Black-White wealth gap, in which Black households hold 13% of the wealth of White households. Previous research demonstrates that White Americans tend to consistently underestimate this wealth gap. Across two main studies and a pilot study, I explored …
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Trust in doctors: Is there a black-white difference?
… is a significant difference between African Americans and white Americans in trust in doctors. This study uses data from the 2002 General Social Survey and ordinary least squares regression to reexamine this issue. It was expected that blacks are less likely to trust their doctors than whites …
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An exploration of racial identity, perceived racism, and religious orientation as predictors of cultural mistrust in African Americans
… persons of African ancestry in America by their white counterparts have conditioned this marginalized group to be mistrustful of their relations with white Americans. This response, known as cultural mistrust, significantly contributes to negative help-seeking attitudes and underutilization of …
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The Erotics of Race Suicide: The Making of Whiteness and the Death Drive in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920
… fear over the racial enervation of indigenous white Americans. Ross and other commentators on race suicide, most notably Theodore Roosevelt, proclaimed that the diminution of the indigenous white Americans was caused by their unwillingness to breed, signaling the self-destructive, “suicidal” …
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