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Showing 1 to 20 of 173 for “"racial studies"”.
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Sir Abe Bailey : his life and achievements
… with the Abe Bailey Institute of Inter-Racial .Studies (now called. 'Centre for Inter-Group Studies') and the Abe Bailey Bursary, the latter being a grant to help university students finance their studies. But, it is probably true to say that not much more is known about this man which …
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Education, Identity, and the New Asian Americans: The Case of Japanese Immigrant Families in the Midwest
While mindful of the institutional and structural conditions leading to their subordination, this study also locates how the process of self-definition has shaped how the participants have co-created a distinctive image of their cultural and ethno-national identities. Therefore, this research …
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Malay Natives and New Citizens: Negotiating Cultural Citizenship in Malaysia
Part I discusses theoretical concerns and perspectives and outlines a general historical overview of Melaka, and to some extent of Malaysia. Part II describes constructions of diverse social identities and their interconnections in the social relational system. Part II also demonstrates how …
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Korean Women in America: Gender -Role Attitude and Depression
… study do not support the theories of previous studies on gender role attitude and mental well-being that suggest liberal gender role attitudes lead to greater psychological well-being. Issues of ethnic sensitive practice and the need for mental health services to Korean-American wives are …
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Asian -Americans in the Social Work Profession: Perceptions of Organizational Fairness as a Mediator of Work -Related Outcomes
This study has investigated a theoretical and observed (or not observed) link between the glass ceiling literature and social justice theory, a link not previously established in the empirical literature. The study answers to the call for theory development and empirical work on race and ethnic …
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Caregiving and Schizophrenia: Understanding the Worldview of Asian Indian Families
"This qualitative study with six Asian Indian families focussed on understanding the caregiving processes involved when one of their members is afflicted with schizophrenia. It looked at the beliefs, values, and meanings associated with schizophrenia within the context of Asian Indian cultural and …
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Mapping Cultural Models of Authority
"As the United States' workforce becomes more diverse, the incidence of cross-cultural supervision will increase. Cross-cultural supervision is a workplace situation in which the culture of the supervisor and of the subordinate differ. Anecdotal evidence and cross-cultural psychological theory …
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A Theory of Racial Oppression and Liberation
"This dissertation is a formulation of a theory of racism that transcends the narrow focus upon individual intentions and attitudes, capturing the ways and means by which it becomes an ""institutionalized"" part of the larger social context. I argue that this larger institutional level of racism is …
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Cooperation and Conflict Between Muslim Immigrant Mothers and Daughters in the Negotiation of Girls' Sexual Conduct
Separate group discussions and individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 30 Muslim immigrant mothers and 38 daughters (age range 14--20) in the state of Illinois during 2001--2002. Analyses revealed that for this group, negotiations in each area were rarely characterized by conflict, and …
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Experiencing Ethnicity: A Case Study of White, Black, Latino, and Asian Adolescents in an Urban High School
The findings reveal that the process of ethnic identity development in adolescence varies significantly by ethnic group membership. The data reveal that current institutional conceptualizations of ethnicity do not represent the range of ethnic groups in the school and do not capture the complexity …
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Comparing Parent -Child Dinnertime Interactions in Two Cultures
Based on the first study, the second study developed an episodic coding system to investigate parental praise in these two cultures. Three process models of praise with distinctive communicative content were uncovered. Two models focus on adherence to parental expectations, which promote the …
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Reality Bites? The Cultural Politics of Generation X and Youthful White Masculinities in Sport and Popular Culture in 1990s America
… grounded in the ideas of the British cultural studies tradition and the relatively new field of whiteness studies."
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Project Salud: Studying Activity of Latinos - Underestimated
Recent census figures suggest that Latinos are the largest ethnic minority group in the United States, however, examination of the physical activity levels and the correlates and outcomes of activity have employed samples primarily composed of non-Latino Whites. The present study examined the …
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Homegirl Going Home: Hip Hop Feminism and the Representational Politics of Location
… feminism as it relates to hip hop culture, media studies, and third wave feminism. The overall dissertation project interrogates epiphanic moments of heightened awareness of the situated self when the real and symbolic Black female body meet.
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Embodiments of Difference: Representations of Vietnamese Women in the U.S. Cultural Imaginary
This dissertation is about how the U.S.'s political and economic relationship with Vietnam produced and maintains a neocolonialist agenda through its media representations of Vietnamese women. This neocolonialist agenda began with the U.S. attempt to police global politics by intervening in the …
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The 1970's as Hollywood's Golden Economic Age: A Critical, Interpretive Analysis of the Blaxploitation Cinematic Movement
The direction of this dissertation is to focus on the relationship between Hollywood and African-Americans at the point where a fiscal crisis and social-political climate came together to produce blaxploitation. In three critical narratives it will focus on the production of Shaft, the success of …
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Spatial Presentation in Children's Drawings: Why Do Japanese Children Draw in Their Own Particular Ways
… school yard,"" a theme investigated in earlier studies by Elliot Eisner (1967) and Claire Golomb (1983). Drawings were classified according to 14 categories of spatial treatment proposed by Eisner (1967) and based on the relationship between the ground and figures, and overlappings. In addition …
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Collaboration, Partnerships, and the Involvement of Racial /Ethnic Minorities With Public Outdoor Recreation Resources: An Interorganizational Collaboration Theory Perspective
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003.
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