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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"racial classification"”.
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The basis of racial classification: Ancestry-informative marker versus social context
Racial classification is very important in American life as it has a significant impact on many social issues. There have been different approaches to the basis of racial classification. In the latter part of the 19th century, race was believed to be biologically determined. Mid-20th century …
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Assessing Shifting Racial Boundaries: Racial Classification of Biracial Asian Children in the 2000 Census
This study examined the racial identification of biracial Asian children by their parents, in a sample (N=9,513) drawn from 2000 Public Use Microdata Series Census data (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series 2009). I used competing theories of Asian assimilation to examine how characteristics of …
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Making sense of the Census: Racial classification and racialization of Middle Eastern & North African (MENA) Americans
… experience daily racism that contradicts this racial classification. The past decade has seen an increase in MENA communities’ activism to add “MENA” as a federal race-ethnicity category. With this study, I sought to better understand MENA individuals’ experiences when they encounter …
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Contextualising black women's identity in South Africa through the apartheid archive's system of racial classification: an intersectional African feminist analysis of race, class, and gender within South Africa's political history.
… Black woman through apartheid system's racial classification by centralising oral history archives as a decolonial methodological tool to understanding how Black women's lived experiences and identities become deeply embedded within the broader social and political systems. The data …
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Perfectly White: Light-Skinned Slaves and the Abolition Movement 1835 - 1865
… Southerners, rethink how they decided a person's racial classification. Light-skinned slaves were living proof of the evils of the American slave system and they were one of the tools abolitionists used to help end slavery.
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Experiential Blackness: Race, Identity, and Memory in Contemporary Dominican Society
… methodology that shows how individuals, despite racial classification, understand and relate to blackness in the past and in the present. A consideration of the unique and traumatic histories of the Trujillo dictatorship (1930-1961) and the authoritarian rule of Joaquín Balaguer (1966-1978) in …
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A Snowball Effect: a Pandemic’s Impacts on Household Food Insecurity in the United States
… have the highest food insecurity than any other racial classification. Higher educational attainment and income levels improve household food insufficiency, while households with more than one kid are more likely to be food insecure. Similarly, households with more adults in the pandemic have …
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Assessing the accuracy of the zygoma for estimating ancestry using geometric morphometrics in a South African sample
… historical peopling of SA and historical forced racial classification. Age-related changes and antemortem tooth loss did not confound the ancestral variation in size, despite minor changes in zygomatic shape being associated with these two factors. These confounders did not impact ancestry …
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Growth patterns of hispanic and caucasian children
… infants and children. The label Hispanic is a classification that identifies ancestry from a Spanish-speaking country. Racial classification of Hispanics can include White, Asian, Black, and East Indian. In this study, Hispanics were defined as people whose ancestors were from Mexico. The label …
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The curse of Ham: An Africentric-postcolonial reading of Genesis 9:18-27 in the context of the coloured people of the Cape, South Africa
… unpacks the notion of Gam, and the ethnic and racial classification ‘coloured', and seeks to trace the origins of these terminologies and concepts dating back to the colonial period, and how they came to be linked to the biblical ‘Ham'. This dissertation interrogates the extent to which …
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A comparison of the needs and experiences of first-year African American and Caucasian students at eight private Indiana colleges
… their first year and examined the data based on racial classification. Finally, the study investigated how the two racial groups of students expressed satisfaction with their college choice at the end of one year of enrollment.Institutions were selected which had the largest number of African …
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Diabetes Fatalism, Self-Efficacy, and Self-Management Among Arab Americans
… captured in national health datasets due to racial classification practices. Psychosocial and contextual factors influencing diabetes self-management in this population remain poorly understood.</p> <p><strong>Purpose/Aims:</strong> The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among …
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Ancestralidade como fator de risco para hipotireoidismo: estudo da coorte ELSA-BRASIL
Introduction– Genomic ancestry refers to the genetic relationship between an individual and their ancestors, from whom they biologically descend. The self-reported ancestry of the Brazilian population is subject to important genomic divergence and there are sensitive markers capable of stratifying …