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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"minority identity"”.
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Beyond Minority Identity Politics: Rethinking Progressive Islam through Food
… as a Muslim in America beyond the language of minority identity. I investigated the different ways Muslims negotiate the demands of Islamic dietary laws in their everyday lives by collecting primary data gathered through interviews with Muslims from different localities. The answers given by …
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The Roles of Resilience and Perceived Discrimination in Sexual Minority Identity Integration
… long moved away from public disclosure of sexual minority identity (i.e. coming out) as the theoretical apex of lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) identity development, it is still considered an important process of overall identity integration. Unfortunately public disclosure of sexual minority …
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Timing of Sexual Minority Identity Developmental Milestones and Well-Being among Three Generations of Gay Men
… minorities “come out” and reach other sexual identity milestones earlier than older generations, and earlier timing of sexual identity development may contribute to increased vulnerability to stigma. The present study aimed to contribute to limited research on the relationship between the …
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A Sociological Study of Atheism and Naturalism as Minority Identities in Appalachia.
… a sociological understanding of people who hold minority beliefs about spirituality and religion and to improve our sociological and social-psychological understanding of a-religious and alternatively religious people. Data were collected through indepth interviews with 10 atheist and 11 …
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The Relations Among Outness, Authenticity, and Well Being for Bisexual Adults
Outness, a proximal minority stressor for sexual minority people, demonstrated inconsistent relationships with well-being. A possible explanation for these varied findings is that characteristics of one’s sexual minority identity (e.g. identity prominence) moderate the relationship between proximal …
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The Contours of Secularism in South Asian Minority Writing
… intricate relationship between secularism and identity in South Asian minority writing. Though India and Sri Lanka were founded as secular states in the 1940s, they have consistently failed to protect the rights of religious and ethnic minorities since the 1980s. Thus, critics have been …
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Finskošvédská menšina a její identita v díle Kjella Westöa
This thesis examines the Swedish speaking minority in the area of Finland. Because Finland had been a part of the Kingdom of Sweden for some centuries, the Swedish language had a dominant position in Finland for quite some time. The Swedish language kept its high prestige even during the period of …
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Intersectionality and the stereotype content model: cognitive, affective, and behavioral consequences for multiply-categorized individuals
… theory states that individuals with multiple identity categorizations have unique experiences that are not simply predicted from the sum or average of their constituent categorizations but, rather, some interaction. The present study examined the utility of the stereotype content model (SCM) …
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From Autoroute to AutoBioBD: The minority voice in Bande Dessinée
… built upon here in order to explore the theme of minority voice in the Francophone arena of bande dessinée. This exploration is centred on discovering how and why artists and groups have used the medium to bring their voice to an ever-increasing BD readership. A range of approaches are taken to …
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ANALYZING CLINICAL PRESENTATION, SERVICE UTILIZATION, AND CLINICAL OUTCOME OF FEMALE SEXUAL MINORITY COLLEGE STUDENTS
… examining clinically-relevant trends for sexual minority women have found evidence of psychological distress and greater utilization of mental health services compared to heterosexually-identified women. However, the results of many research studies with this population have methodological …
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A Model of Individual, Relationship, and Societal Factors and Mental Health and Well-Being in Partnered Sexual Minority Women: The Central Role of Relationship Satisfaction
<p>Sexual minority women (SMW) are at increased risk for mental health disorders, substance abuse, and physical health problems compared to heterosexual women. For heterosexual individuals, romantic relationships have been found to be protective against a variety of health issues. Less research, …
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The nature of bi-ethnic identity in young adults of Asian and European descent and their perceptions of familial influences on its development
… was to identify the key constructs of bi-ethnic identity, the key familial influences, and other salient influences on bi-ethnic identity as perceived by young adults of Asian and European descent. The rapidly changing demographics of the United States provide an impetus for research on the …
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Identity Negotiation of Young Arab Muslim Women Attending College in the United States and France
… in the United States and France, negotiate their identity vis-à-vis multiple contexts of citizenship in secular state, gender, religion, culture, and race. Sixteen interviews were conducted, eight in Paris and eight in Chicago. Using the theoretical frameworks of social identity, cultural studies, …
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Negotiating Jewishness : identity and citizenship in the Leeds Jewish community
… and their impact on the integration of minority ethnic groups. This research into the history of Jewish integration into British society analyses the relationship between changing forms of British citizenship and the evolution of British Jewish identities. In so doing, it enhances our …
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Discourses of authenticity and national identity among the Irish diaspora in England
… personal identities and putative collective identity within discourses of Irishness as diasporic and as a minority identity within multicultural England. It is argued that 'authenticity' is central to both these positionings, but that personal constructions of authentic Irishness may differ …
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The Impact of Outness and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identity Formation on Mental Health
… between first disclosure, outness, sexual minority identity, and mental health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals. That is, while the relationship between LGB identity and mental health has been relatively consistently positive in the literature, the relationship between …
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Wege Der Verheißung: Jewish Thought And The Portrayal Of History In Franz Werfel’s Work
… of Werfel’s process of religious and political identity formation, no scholar has approached the question of religion and terrestrial harmony through a thorough examination of his dramatic experimentation with history. This dissertation provides close readings of the plays Paulus unter den Juden …
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Motherhood, Family, and Inequality in Contemporary Japan
… come to conceive of single motherhood as a minority identity. Like Koreans and the Burakumin minority, single mothers are not differentiated by visible or personal traits, but markers made identifiable through the family registration system. I further explore the everyday implications of …
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Reposicionamiento de identidad: Conflictos de representacion, performance y espacio en la literatura de mediados del siglo XX por tres escritoras chilenas
… of gender, race, class relations, and identity representation in mid-20<sup>th</sup> -century Chilean literature. I argue that a number of female writers in mid-twentieth century Chile played an important role in the construction of a national identity as they examined traditional …
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