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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"cultural authenticity"”.
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Asian American Children's Literature: A Qualitative Study of Cultural Authenticity
… children's trade books in terms of their cultural authenticity and to examine the perceptions of producers (authors) and consumers (teachers) as related to the cultural authenticity of such books. I wanted to understand the role of Asian-American children's trade books in research and …
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Denial of Cultural Authenticity: Asian Americans' Negotiation of Bicultural Identities
"Cultural inauthenticity results from the belief that one is not a ""true"" or genuine representation of the culture to which one is presumed to belong. As Americans continue to heavily rely on the framework of race for understanding social reality, cultural inauthenticity may result when one's …
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The Fallacy of Cultural Authenticity: The Simulacra and Cultural Appropriation in the Free Market through the Lens of Literature
<p>I. The Individual’s Pursuit of Cultural Authenticity: Music and Materialism in E.L. Doctorow’s <em>Ragtime</em> and Nella Larsen’s <em>Quicksand</em></p> <p>II. ‘Buying’ Into Culture: The Effect of Commoditization on the Cultural Artifact in Willa Cather’s <em>The Professor’s House</em></p> …
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A Trail of Stones and Breadcrumbs: Evaluating Folktales Published for Youth in the 20th Century, 1905--2000
… historical concerns and changing perceptions of cultural hegemony and authority. The synthesis of previously unrelated primary source materials and other emblematic professional publications provides an overview of the influences on evaluation of follitales published for youth and sheds light on …
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This Is Our Music: Authenticating Japanese Jazz, 1920-1980
… that characterize the mainstream. The search for cultural authenticity and a national voice in the arts has been a major endeavor of twentieth-century Japanese, not limited to the jazz culture. In the adoption and adaptation of a ""foreign"" art, in the cultural tensions provoked by that art, in …
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Landing Security: Risk, Endogeneity, and the Archives of Colonialized Planning in Morocco
… a manufactured path dependency as a proxy for cultural authenticity. I demonstrate, moreover, that the planning rationalities of the protectorate regime continue to guide the management of collective land in the contemporary Moroccan state, now bolstered by the legal and institutional legacies …
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Ornamenting Fingernails and Roads: Beautification and the Embodiment of Authenticity in Post-War Eastern Sri Lanka
… are salient technologies of community and cultural authenticity that build on histories of ethnic imaginaries.
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Back to Black: Black Radicalism and the Supplementary School Movement
… Black radical thought, that of essentialism and cultural authenticity. To illustrate how a Black radical approach can be understood, the position was applied to inequalities in schooling. Black radicalism argues for a Black independent education. Black supplementary schools are spaces organised …
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Exploring Intimacy and Authenticity in Greek Folk Music Documentaries: A Hybrid Form of Ethnographic Filmmaking
… folk music documentaries can embody intimacy and authenticity through a hybrid ethnographic filmmaking approach. Based on a body of 34 documentary films aired on Greek Television between 2017 and 2020, the study explores the intersection of autoethnography, reflective practice, and formal film …
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"""Proving Chamorro"": Indigenous Narratives of Race, Identity, and Decolonization on Guam"
… Chamorros in a specific way, as mestizo, whose cultural and linguistic lives have been extinguished, rendering them ""inauthentically"" indigenous. ""Authenticity,"" premised on conceptions of mestizo (race), has become the conceptual lattice through which Chamorros must navigate concerns about …
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'Gāpatia i Fa’anoanoaga': An Art Installation Reflecting on Burden and Loss Through a Migrant Experience
… with the exploration of Samoan matters of cultural significance such as heritage, religion, identity and family, in particular those customs pertaining to deaths and funerals. The mores and values implicit in these reflect the fundamental aspects of obligation and reciprocity in Samoan life …
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Dress as metaphor in diasporic fiction
… uses of dress in literary, political and cultural discourses. More broadly, the thesis is concerned with how shifts in style, as presented in literature, reflect and inform transitions in social structures in South Asia, and its diasporic communities, in the aftermath of colonialism and in …
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Understanding the relationships between tourism, and heritage conservation at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
… Cape Town's vision. Jetty 1 Museum holds immense cultural, historical, and social significance, serving as a repository of collective memory and a symbol of past struggles. Tourism is increasingly recognized as a dominant economic sector in South Africa. However, the rise of tourism at V&A …
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Fixin' To Tell: Cultural Preservation, Multiculturalism, And A Delicate Double Commitment In Appalshop's "Insider" Activism
… as it manifests in concepts of tradition and cultural authenticity, in the utilization of positive stereotypes, and in an asserted commitment to the "value of diversity." I consider how Appalshop's particular approach to place-based identity may perpetuate a process of cultural exclusion that …
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Composing community: social practice composition and the performance of community in choral works by Reena Esmail, Julia Wolfe, and David Lang
… Anthracite Fields, community as an expression of cultural authenticity (Muller 2002); and for David Lang and organizers in Chicago, Illinois on the 2017 performance of crowd out, community as a source of social capital (Putnam 2000). Taken together, these studies point towards ways that …
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Signifying the autobiographical memory on social media a semiotic analysis of food-themed imagery on Instagram
… wholesome, healthy and natural living (Fig. 26), cultural authenticity (Fig. 29), familial warmth and cultural familiarity (Fig. 33). These connotations were considered as an extension of a user’s sense of self and autobiographical memory. The conclusions identify how in the contemporary digital …
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Indigenous culture, heritage and tourism : an analysis of the official tourism policy and its implementation in the Province of KwaZulu-Natal
… The little that is packaged generally lacks cultural authenticity and the dignity associated with it. This research study has therefore, identified that Zulu culture is one of the most important reasons for patronage of foreign tourists. This was evident in comments coming from the filling-in …
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Code-switching Through Music and Performance: An Exploration of How Black High School Band Directors Navigate Dual Expectations
… how these directors navigate tensions between culturally authentic HBCU practices and Westernized, corps-style norms often privileged in predominantly White educational and adjudication systems. HBCU-style marching emphasizes high-energy choreography, bold brass sounds, and community-rooted …
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Freedom and Equality Now! Contextualizing the Nexus between the Civil Rights Movement and Drama
… from many sources. This study focuses on the cultural entity of theatre to examine the contributions of selected plays to the Movement. It investigates key theatre-related issues that framed the ethnopolitical debate between white supremacists, Black Nationalists, and racial integrationists to …
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