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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"chinese american"”.
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Intergenerational Congruence in Chinese American Young Adults
<p>Chinese American families are often underrepresented within the family therapy literature. This grounded theory study used a symbolic interaction framework to understand how second generation young adults locate themselves within the larger cultural context to construct an individual ideology. …
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Kinetic Family Drawings of Chinese-American Children
… of cultural backgrounds. Information on Chinese-American children and their families is limited even though the Chinese are one of the main minority groups in America and increasingly more Chinese are migrating here. This study sought to use the Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD) as a tool to …
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Chinese American Women, Identity and Education: A Qualitative Study
<p>This qualitative study explores how Chinese American women, as American-born children of new Chinese immigrants, have perceived and interpreted who they are, and how they become who they are while adapting to American society and negotiating with the interplay of race, ethnicity, class, and …
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The Online Dating Preferences of Chinese American Older Adults
… are mainly centered on White/Caucasian Americans. Furthermore, the only theoretical guide has been sexual strategies theory. This study fills the gap by using sexual strategies theory and acculturation theory to test Chinese American older adults dating preferences.</p> <p>The sexual …
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The Lived Experience of Chinese American Christians in Family Life
<p>Thirty-one percent of Chinese Americans affiliate with being Christian, making Christianity the largest religious group for the Chinese in the United States (Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, 2012) and Chinese churches are the leading religious institutions among Chinese in America (Yang, …
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Chinese American cultural identity in the urban landscape: Sunset Park, Brooklyn
… the conflict over living conditions between Chinese tenants and landowners in New York’s Chinatown. As a result of rising real estate prices and loss of small business services, great numbers of Chinese residents and businesses have moved out to new communities, such as Sunset Park, Brooklyn. …
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Community archives as agency: documenting Chinese American experiences in the U.S.
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Self-reported embarrassment between Chinese, Chinese American, and Caucasian American college students
… were any differences in embarrassment between Chinese, Chinese American, and Caucasian American college students. A related purpose was to determine if there were any behavioral characteristics associated with embarrassment among the three groups. A total of 137 college students were given the …
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Roots and wings: Empowering translanguaging pedagogy with Chinese American bilingual community teachers
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Chinese/Chinese American Students at the University of Mississippi From 1946 to 1975
… few people hardly noticed that a small number of Chinese/Chinese American students were actually attending UM prior to the historic integration by Meredith, a circumstance present in other southern universities that led historian Peter Wallenstein (1999) to describe these institutions as …
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The Writing on the Wall: Chinese-American Immigrants' Fight for Equality: 1850-1943
Early in the 1850s, a greater number of Chinese immigrants began to enter the United States, leading to a Sinophobic frenzy that would continue for decades. Throughout the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, Americans sought to exclude the Chinese …
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Across Lands: Double Consciousness and Negotiating Identities in Early Chinese American Literature, 1847-1910s
… dissertation analyzes the works of three early Chinese immigrant writers (Yung Wing, Yan Phou Lee, and Wong Chin Foo) and two mixed race writers (Edith Eaton and Winnifred Eaton) in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century North America in order to critique the formation of early …
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Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Chinese American Women Cancer Survivors Through Art Therapy
… on reducing stress and instilling hope for Chinese American immigrant cancer survivors, an underserved ethnic group in the mental health service community. A mixed methods approach was applied, using the DASS21 and Herth Hope Index (HHI) for quantitative data, and the Bridge Drawing art …
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Contours of child-parent conflict among South Asian American and Chinese American young adults
… ties appears so entrenched in the South Asian American worldview that for distressed adults, clinical problems often present as family conflict (Almeida, 2005; Tewari, 2000), and scholars recommend conceptualizing individual client problems using family therapy models (Inman & Tewari, 2003). …
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Neon signs, underground tunnels and Chinese American identity : the many dimension of visual Chinatown
… and Boston's Chinatown, as exemplified by three Chinese restaurants in the area. I use Erving Goffman's idea of everyday performance in order to dissect the ways in which people and spaces perform "Chinese-ness" for outsiders of the community. By focusing all three chapters on the material, …
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The relationship of language orientation and racial/ethnic attitude among Chinese-American primary grade children
… relationship between the language orientation of Chinese-American primary-grade children in the San Francisco Unified School District and their racial/ethnic attitude. Generally, Chinese-Americans are monolingual Chinese speakers (MCS), monolingual English speakers (BECS). These three linguistic …
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A comparison of child-rearing practices among Chinese, Chinese- American and non-Asian American parents
… similarities in child-rearing practices among Chinese, Chinese-American, and non-Asian American parents. <u>Variables</u>. The independent variables are the parents’ ethnic background (Chinese, Chinese-American, or non-Asian American) and the child’s sex (male or female). The dependent …
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