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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"class and race"”.
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“Die manskap”: How gender, class and race inform understandings of violence among young ‘coloured men’ in contemporary South Africa
… seminal work in 1985 research into ‘men’ and the social construction of masculinities has grown exponentially. Today the literature exploring masculinities is vast and this review covers key texts beginning with international research that highlights the theoretical shifts in understanding …
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New distinctions : the impact of class and race on the cultural preferences of youth in Cape Town and Belo Horizonte
… largely focus on its historical, political and economical aspects while references to popular culture are commonly used to describe differences, often in combination with racial discourse, rather than explain them. As a result much of South African cultural sociology, especially with regards …
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Hierarchy Attenuating/Enhancing Organizational Environments and Intergroup Attitudes: Relationship of Racism, Classism, and Sexism in Multiracial and Monoracial Churches of the United States
… to lessen the social distance between Whites and minorities. The purpose of this study is to examine how racially hierarchy-attenuating and hierarchy-enhancing environments affect classism and sexism attitudes among congregations. The finding shows that multiracial churches promote H-A …
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Pubertal development in white and coloured urban schoolgirls
… groups in the Cape, controlling for social class. This study aimed to investigate: 1. The age of menarche and other stages of pubertal development of white and coloured school girls living in greater Cape Town. 2. The relationship between the age of menarche and the other stages of pubertal …
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Citizen youth : culture, activism, and agency in an era of globalization
… urban centres in Canada: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. I undertake this work within the context of rising moral and state claims about the apparent need for ‘good citizenship’ to be exercised by young people, alongside a late modern relationship between liberalism, neoliberalism, and …
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Identities at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality and class in a liberalising, democratising South Africa : the reconstitution of 'the Afrikaner woman'
… - at the intersections of gender, sexuality, class and race. Framed by the theoretical perspectives of Laclau and Mouffe, Foucault, and Butler, the study employs discourse analysis across three phases: Firstly, an analysis of Sarie women's magazine, as an instrument of a culturally-sanctioned, …
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The Seven Incarnations of a Debutante
… to remind us that meaning occurs at the borderland, or frontier, overlapping designated poetic spheres. In this thesis collection of poetry, I set out to explore the formation of identity as a boundary event where a sense of self is established through the construction of borders. In this …
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When Subcultures Become Careers: Working in Indie Rock
… subculture participants to industry workers. Expanding upon research on workers in culture industries, I conducted twenty-six qualitative interviews with workers in the industry, asking open-ended questions about their careers and experiences to understand how they establish and maintain careers …
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Boundaries and crossing points : children, geography, and identity in Fish Hoek valley
… is based on an ethnographic study with children and young people between the ages of 11 and 19, who attend formerly 'white' state schools in the Cape peninsula, South Africa. Since 1994 these schools have seen an increase in the racial diversity of the student population, but children continue to …
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Historical Study of the Highlander Method: Honing Leadership for Social Justice.
<p>Waging war against economic, political and social inequity, Highlander, founded in 1932 in Monteagle, Tennessee, near Chattanooga, served as a community-training center for southern industrial labor and farmers’ unions and as a major gathering place for black and white civil rights activists, …
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Constructing the Self Through Otherness in the Works of Gioconda Belli, Daisy Zamora, Michele Najlis, Vidaluz Meneses and Rosario Murillo
… Daisy Zamora, Michele Najlis, Vidaluz Meneses and Rosario Murillo began writing poetry in the seventies, they embarked on a quest to establish a new feminine identity free from the constraints imposed by traditional Nicaraguan society. This journey of self-definition as women would lead them to …
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Racializing white residues: seditious Anglo-Indians and others
… as a fragmented genealogy of colonial and post-colonial perceptions of Anglo-Indians. I open my dissertation by showing how, since the late-nineteenth century, Anglo-Indians were claimed to be only of part-European racial provenance, and tautologically had their bodies deemed sexually …
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Brother, Help Thyself: The Construction of a Gay and Bisexual Men's Health Movement before HIV/AIDS
This project traces the formation and development of a gay and bisexual men’s health movement before HIV/AIDS (1981-1996). The project is an effort to consider the lives and contributions of gay and bisexual men between the Second World War and the HIV/AIDS period. The creation and management of …
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The Hollow Class: African-American Class-Passing and the Popular
… presses to include popular fiction, television, and film for serious critical consideration. To contextualize my research, I use theories that critically examine popular literature, connecting to the work of Janice Radway and Keenan Norris, and I study the African-American focus on class as …
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Occupying the Pedestal: Gender Issues in Ellen Gilchrist
… never quite do, often simultaneously disrupting and confirming traditional notions of a "good Southern lady." Gilchrist shows how women occupy the pedestal as a form of refuge and also as a form of protest. These are women who, as they navigate the transition to a new South, are reluctant to …
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Youth perceptions of nature: a case study of “Matric EnWild” nature immersion camp
A study was conducted to understand youth perceptions of nature. Such perceptions determine youth attitudes and behaviours towards nature. Making sense of these attitudes and behaviours towards nature, there can be valuable insights generated towards the implications that such perceptions may have …
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Sisterhood or surveillance?: the development of working girls' clubs in London 1880-1939
… in multi-cultural London from the 1880s to 1939 and situates it within the context of gender, class and race. Part One places the clubs in their historicalcontext and critically examines issues of poverty, sexual purity, morality, femininity and ethnicity. The ways in which ideas about race …
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Community unions in Baltimore and Long Island : beyond the politics of particularism
… organizations that are tackling work and wage issues at the local level and includes two lengthy case studies of the Workplace Project in Long Island and Solidarity in Baltimore. The thesis is built upon five interconnected claims. First, that into the breach left by the decline of the …
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Discrimination, regulation, and design in ridehailing
… network companies (TNCs) like Uber and Lyft have replaced, supplemented, and disrupted traditional modes of transportation. The rapid growth of these companies makes equitable access to their platforms an issue that is simply too big to ignore. Indeed, these ridehailing services have …
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Representations of post-apartheid black womanhood in the novels of Angela Makholwa and Kopano Matlwa
… African authors, Kopano Matlwa (2006 & 2016) and Angela Makholwa (2017/2018) by placing them within the context of the changes in South Africa from the time of apartheid to the present. This study shows how these women interpret, through writing, the experiences of women and how women are …
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