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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"racial ideologies"”.
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Last (Un)Fair Deal Goin' Down: A Case Study On The Racial Ideologies And Projects Advanced By The Blues Tourism Industry In Clarksdale, Mississippi
… commodification may be woven into the fabric of racial inequity are indispensible when conducting research on African American music tourism in the United States, as white consumers and producers may attach invidious racial mythologies to such heritage, while the industries themselves often take …
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Immigration Discourses in the U.S. and in Japan
… of this study was to investigate how systems of racial inequality and dominance produced at macro-institutional level discourses are reproduced and/or challenged in micro-interpersonal everyday discourses regarding immigration/foreign workers in the U.S. and in Japan. To establish a link between …
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“Poor forsaken colored girls:” Rebecca Latimer Felton, white supremacy, and prison reform, 1865-1900
… was constructed around both gendered and racial ideologies that linked so-called "proper" womanhood to whiteness and marked black women as subhuman, impure, and unable to be reformed, and that this served to exclude black women from the designation of 'woman' and therefore from the Women's …
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Pro-Black, Pro-White, or Proactive: Examining Predictors of Implicit Racial Bias in Black Participants
The majority of research examining implicit racial bias has focused on the biases held by White participants (Jost, Banaji, & Nosek, 2004). By contrast, the implicit racial bias of minority group members has been largely overlooked, despite the potential for these associations to provide new …
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Not So Magical: Issues with Racism, Classism, and Ideology in Harry Potter
… are also focused on the battle against racial purification and the threat of a strictly homogeneous magical society. This thesis examines the intricacies and depth of the racial ideologies presented in the books, as well as how they can be equated with historical and real world issues. …
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Multidimensional ethno-racial status in Latin American contexts of mestizaje
… I propose a framework to explain ethno-racial status in contexts of mestizaje (Spanish for ethno-racial mixture). Ethno-racial status refers to the combination of socially ranked and individually embodied ethno-racial characteristics. These characteristics represent distinct dimensions …
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From My Living Room to Yours: A Grounded Theory Typology of Racial Discussions on YouTube
… theory and iterative discussion analysis of racial discussions collected from YouTube’s most popular videos on three days in February, 2012. The categories of discussion are outlined as hostility to racial subjects, overt racism, and racial stereotyping. Possibilities for how these trends are …
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Making public politics private: A narrative study of apartheid racial ideology and its effects on white teenage female sexual desire in post-apartheid South Africa
… coded in private tastes and not political ideologies. Theoretically I examine how historical public discourses come to function as personal norms, expressed as personal desire not political ideology. Literature has shown that these racial ideologies function both to fetishize the Other in …
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Magic Mulatto: Barack Obama's Biracial Body and Race Performance
… the ways President Barack Obama navigates his biracial identity through race performances in his discourse. Born to a Kenyan father and European mother, Obama was in a unique position to speak on racial issues, especially since occurrences of racial violence began to debunk the myth of a …
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Variations in Educational Attainment Among DIfferent Latino Subgroups
… institutional discrimination, intertwined with racial ideologies are preventing Hispanics from achieving higher levels of education. The purpose of this study was to determine whether Latinos are less likely to complete at least a bachelor's degree than their non-Latino peers, and to determine …
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Literature and the Long Postwar: Recuperating the Post-45 Veteran
… It argues that depictions of an aggrieved, often racialized veteran have been obscured for implying disapproval of a war that has been racially re-remembered and culturally protected as “good.” Retracing the World War II veteran in postwar cultural production elucidates a “problem” figure, for …
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"Most Great Reconstruction": The Baha'i Faith in Jim Crow South Carolina, 1898-1965
… for its longstanding commitment to promoting racial harmony, interfaith dialogue, and the moral education of children and youth. Its message was simple and powerful: in the Orient in the middle of the nineteenth century, Christ had returned. His new name was Baha'u'llah, the "Glory of the …
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Modernism's Scarlet Letter: Plotting Abortion in American Fiction, 1900--1945
… abortion with economic, sexual, aesthetic and racial ideologies. In the days before sex-ed classes and pro-life and pro-choice abortion rhetorics, these abortion plots taught readers how to look for, shop for, talk about, and respond to illegal abortions. Their plottings of abortion also …
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Güeras, Morenas, y Prietas: Mexicana Color Lines and Ethnoracial Sameness-Difference
This interdisciplinary study documents the ethnoracial identities and racialized experiences of women of Mexican descent residing in the greater Tampa Bay region and the multiple meanings that they assigned to race and color categories. Tampa's in-between status, straddling North and South and …
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"The sea is in our blood" : community and craft in Kalk Bay, c. 1880-1939
… fishing community at Kalk Bay. However, should racial ideologies and commitment to monopoly capitalization of the industry be set aside by the state, the Kalk Bay fisherfolk could survive, albeit in altered and diminished circumstances.
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Reading Nation in Translation: The Spectral Transnationality of the Malaysian Racial Imaginary
… terms ignores the fact that national racial ideologies both actively shape and are shaped by globally circulating ideas about race. An understudied site in postcolonial studies, Malaysia--formerly known as Malaya--is an exemplary case that unsettles this binary opposition. Informed by …
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"Interracial dating in a ""color-blind"" society: romantic attraction and ideologies among college men"
While there is a vast literature concerning interracial relationships, few investigations examine basic tenets of romantic attraction (e.g., similarity and familiarity) and intergroup ideologies (e.g. color-blind racial ideology or multiculturalism) simultaneously. The current study uses a …
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A Canada in the South: Marronage in Antebellum American Literature
… the US context because it does not comport with racial ideologies of assimilation and integration. This dissertation aims to demonstrate the extent to which marronage engages with contested, complicated, often nonliberal meanings of freedom for enslaved and fugitive African Americans in the …
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Social Modeling in Computational Simulations: Racial and Ethnic Representation in Videogames and Virtual Reality Systems
… strategies typically focus on representing racial and ethnic identity only as graphics-level customizations and often rely on racial stereotypes [222]. Race and ethnicity are tied to social systems,histories, embodied experiences, interpersonal interactions, and discourse [129, 72, 48] which …
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Literacies and racial ideology: a black Colombian young male's learning and participation in an urban school
… study of the relationships between literacy and racial ideology in Surgir, a school in the city of Cali, Colombia. This study focuses on Yeison Daniel, a black Colombian young male’s learning and participation in the school and in the classroom. His learning and participation are framed within …