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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"race, gender, class"”.
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Race, Gender, Class, and Schooling: The Role of Cultural, Social, and Symbolic Capital
The transfer of cultural, social, and symbolic capital shapes the educational processes and influences the educational outcomes of African-American students in desegregated environments. The stratified nature of capital fosters hierarchical dynamics between those who do and those who do not possess …
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Nappy Roots, Split Ends, and New Growth: An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry into The Experiences of A Black Female Educator, No Lye
… narrative inquiry, I explore the ways that race, gender, class, culture, and place shape who I was and how I became who I am as a Black woman educator. Family members, colleagues, community members, and students are the main characters in my stories. Building on the works of Collins (2000), …
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Black women, HIV/AIDS, and the media: communicating an epidemic in the hip hop era
… of domination—this analysis investigates how race, gender, class, and disease work in concert to inform media texts by and about black women living with the virus. Furthermore, this examination employs a textual analysis of the AIDS storyline on the black situation comedy Girlfriends, the AIDS …
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Returning the gaze from the margins: decoding representations of gender, race and sexuality in tourist images of Jamaica
… analysed in terms of their representations of race, gender, class and sexuality. The theoretical context of the thesis combines post-colonial theory with black feminist theory to make explicit the significance and relevance of conducting critical analysis of visual representations of Jamaica …
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The History of “Having It All”: Black and White Women and Work-Life Balance, 1890s-2010s
<p>This project traces the history of that at once vaunted and contested aspirational image, “the woman who has it all,” from the late nineteenth century through the early twenty-first, attending throughout to the complex intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality. It establishes both …
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Advanced ideas, Anachronistic landscapes: The Contradictions of Science in Machado de Assis
… particularly as they bear on questions of race, gender, class and nationality and as disseminated by scientific institutions.
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The Effects of the Government's Covid-19 Related Response on Migrant Women Living in Cape Town: Assessing the Coloniality of Citizenship in Post-Apartheid South African and the Potential for a New Citizenship Paradigm
… existing system continues to preserve unequal gendered citizenship rights based on colonial and apartheid hierarchies. Despite a rights based legal platform, the state reproduces racism, xenophobia and patriarchy, creating a multitude of vulnerabilities for black migrant women due to their …
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Funding Female Features: Crowdfunding for Gender Equity in the Film Industry
The U.S. feature film industry as a gendered organization, in which networks bound by race, gender, class and overt heterosexuality tend to exclude members of other groups. Hollywood filmmaking is a production process with high uncertainty about how to produce hits, resulting in discretion given to …
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Immigrant Identities and Geographies of Belonging: Jamaican Immigrant Organizations in Toronto
… various axes of identity including generation, race, gender, class and ethnicity influence Jamaican immigrants involvement in immigrant organizations and the impacts of their involvement on sense of belonging and identity. The research involved the examination of the relationship between place, …
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East Asian and “Extraordinary”: Intersecting Racial and Musical Identities in the Classical Music Solo Career
<p>A performer’s success within the classical music industry is reliant not only on musical merit but also on extramusical factors like race, gender, class, and culture, all of which influence a musician’s upbringing. For East Asian musicians, distinctions of merit can be accompanied by racialized …
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Searching for black girls: old traditions in new media
… practices, situated within the dynamics of race, gender, class, and politics. Critiques of technology include the rhetoric around the digital divide, as if access, skills and connectivity are the primary issues, as well as critiques of the alleged neutrality of technology. These critiques, …
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The Materiality of the Self: A Multimodal, Communicative Approach to Identity
… the critique of totalizing social categories (race, gender, class, etc.) and the emphasis on the contested boundaries of discursively articulated differences, this study also takes a poststructuralist approach to identity theorizing. Combined together, what I propose as a multimodal approach …
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Schoolin' women: hip hop pedagogies of black women rappers
… was used to examine the intersections of race, gender, class, and sexuality in black women rappers’ representations of black women’s identities. The analysis reveals that black women rappers teach important lessons about the representation of black women around questions of black women’s …
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Stranged marriages : unconventional matrimony in western American fiction.
… them. Embedded within marital conventions are traces of a society's assumptions regarding race, gender, class, sexuality, religion, and politics. Fictional marriages, therefore, traditionally signal a return to social order, an affirmation of the dominant values of a given culture. Some writers, …
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White Bodies, Black Gaze: Constructions of White Masculinity in White-Male Elite Discourses on Leadership and Diversity
… in their organizations who by virtue of their race, gender, class, and education, exercise much power and control in their organization. I used grounded theory methodology to highlight the communication strategies that white-male elites employed when talking about leadership and diversity. …
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The social shaping of cloud computing: an ethnography of infrastructure in East St. Louis, Illinois
… by critical perspectives at the intersection of race, gender, class, and technology, this research makes a contribution to the field of library and information science by describing how networked information systems can fail to meet the needs of community-based organizations that provide …
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The Doctor of District Six: exploring the private and family history of Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, City Councillor for District Six of Cape Town (1904-1940)
… about by the ways identities intersect with race, gender, class, religion and other ethos are revealed by focusing on the personal and the intimate. Situating Abdullah Abdurahman within global flows of people, ideas, faith communities, and political ideologies, this thesis allows insight into …
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Intersectionality in corporate South Africa: the experiences of African black female leaders
Research on gender inequality focuses on the two main biases against women: (1) agentic deficiency (perceptions that women have minimal leadership potential); and (2) agentic penalty (a backlash against counter-stereotypical behaviour from certain women). There has generally been an assumption that …
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Just Greening the Gulf: Sustaining Justice for Migrant Workers
… allocates certain workers to sectors based on race, gender, class, etc. Even the ways it is subverted incentivize and reinforce irregularity and precarity for the most vulnerable. Ultimately, I argue that while irregularity and precarity are mentioned in the Sustainable Development Goals that …
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"The Terror Within:" Neoliberalism and the Rhetoric of the Obesity Crisis
… and deepening existing marginalizations based on race, gender, class, and ability.</p> <p>Through its methodology, this dissertation project builds on rhetorical work in transnational feminism like that being done by Rebecca Dingo, Jennifer Wingard, and Eileen Schell. The project also draws on the …
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