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Stephenson, Nicole Brooke. "White People Problems? White Privilege Beliefs Predict Attitudes Toward Confederate Monuments." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou15971621983116.
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Spagni, Laura. "Il doppiaggio nella serie Netflix "Dear White People"." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2020. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/20843/.
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Lo scopo di questo elaborato è quello di approfondire il tema del doppiaggio, prima con un approccio teorico, poi pratico, analizzando il caso specifico della serie Netflix Dear White People. La prima parte di questo lavoro è dedicata alle tematiche e ai personaggi della serie, incentrata sulla vita universitaria di un gruppo di ragazzi afroamericani, ma anche alle motivazioni del regista e all’accoglienza da parte del pubblico. La seconda parte si occupa invece del doppiaggio dal punto di vista teorico, dandone una definizione e soffermandosi sugli aspetti più importanti e complessi di questa tipologia di traduzione audiovisiva. Infine, la terza parte di questo elaborato è dedicata allo studio del doppiaggio di un episodio della serie: la teoria del doppiaggio precedentemente osservata getta le basi e trova riscontro in quest’analisi, che prende in considerazione elementi culturali, slang, turpiloquio, modi di dire, espressioni tipiche dell’inglese e sincronizzazione labiale, per poi riflettere su alcuni passaggi più problematici dal punto di vista della traduzione, che, a mio avviso, non sono sempre stati risolti brillantemente.
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Jones, Simon. "White youth and Jamaican popular culture." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391512.
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Marsh, Timothy Laurence. "How to make white people happy : a short story collection." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/154de7ab-e437-487b-a234-4eeca5506c19.
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‘How to Make White People Happy’ is a creative and critical thesis that explores the nature of the journeying condition and the realities of cross-cultural immersion. The creative component is a collection of forty-three autobiographical stories that fuse elements of memoir, travelogue, satire and essay. In it, readers find docujournals about Indonesian slum life, hostile New Mexico cowboys, and star-struck pool boys who dream of fistfighting Chuck Norris. Alone in the city of Paris, a bereaved widow discovers some hard truths about travel and escapism, while on the bleak prairie barrens of Montana a grizzled recluse encounters a different kind of child’s play in an isolated barn. Readers also meet a dying Newfoundlander who dreams of an unusual cut of steak, two young lovers experimenting with the explicit in someone else’s house, and an abandoned Balinese orphan who rises to success in an elitist Anglo society. The exegesis which accompanies the collection focuses on western middle-class travel and discusses the influences and perceptions that drive it, primarily the influence of tourist media and its glorifications of travel life. Drawing from a range of scholars and writers such as Alain de Botton, James Clifford, Mark Twain, Gustave Flaubert and Charles Baudelaire, the commentary emphasizes that any alteration of our human condition occurs foremost through dynamic psychological shifts, rather than geographical ones. Other topics discussed include: belonging and displacement, the relationship between expectation and disillusionment, and aspects of travel narration, specifically humour, satire and point of view.
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Rennels, Tasha Rose. "“You Better Redneckognize”: White Working-Class People and Reality Television." Scholar Commons, 2015. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5766.
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This project documents the complex and interwoven relationship between mediated representations and lived experiences of white working-class people—a task inspired by the author’s experiences growing up in a white working-class family and neighborhood and how she came to understand herself through watching films and television shows. Theoretically guided by Foucault’s recognition that people are constituted in and through discourse, the author specifically analyzes how reality television articulates certain ideas about white working-class people and how those who identify as members of this population, including the author, negotiate such articulations. A focus on white working-class people is important considering their increasing presence in reality television and the ways in which they are frequently ridiculed in U.S. cultural discourse. Through a combination of qualitative methods, including critical autoethnography, interviews, interactive focus groups, and close textual analysis, the author focuses on three findings: (1) the lived experiences of white working-class people are complex and can be used to challenge essentializing stereotypes about this population prevalent in the media; (2) films and television shows are polysemic as evidenced by the varied responses of white working-class people; and (3) listening to those who are implicated in media sites can render more complex the analyses and critiques scholars provide as well as contribute to the recent increase of media studies that speak across multiple methods and boundaries.
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Longshaw, William Anthony. "People, myth and museums : constructing 'the people's past', and white working class Salford, 1945-2007." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.479182.
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Levy, Carla Selena. "Black and white mixed-race experiences : the voices of young people." Thesis, University of East London, 2011. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3484/.
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Official records show that the mixed-race population represent the fastest growing ethnic minority 'group' in Britain, and young people of a black and white 'racial' mix constitute considerable numbers. Such information resulted from changes in the 2001 census, where mixed-race people were first recognised as a distinct ethnic 'group'. There are two main streams of research around mixed-race individuals: traditional research, and a more recent 'new wave' of 'insider-led' research. The former pathologised these individuals, perceived to be 'marginal', 'mixed up', and confronted with problematic 'racial identities'. In contrast, the latter highlighted a more celebratory view, where mixed-race individuals themselves have indicated advantageous experiences, with fluid, multiple, yet stable racial identities across contexts. Nevertheless, such research presumes that 'racial identity' and categorisation are valid factors underlying individuals' experiences. This study took an exploratory psychological approach in order to listen to the voices of mixed-race young people. There was a focus on African Caribbean black and white mixed-race individuals as there have been concerns about them within social systems. Hence, seven black and white mixed-race young people were interviewed about their mixed-race experiences. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of the data indicated that such experiences increase in complexity across levels of context. A deconstructionist approach to self-definition, without any reference to 'racial identity', was highlighted. In addition, being categorised by others was experienced as restrictive and invalidating, highlighting issues of power. Shifting and binary positions of "difference" were identified, where being "in between" positions was experienced as conflict, or as a both/and experience. Rejection through racism was highlighted to lead to anger, where supported and independent coping strategies were utilised. An understanding of racism increased with age and education. Talking about mixed-race was powerful as it moved participants into a position of "difference" or therapeutic relief, however generally led them into a defensive position about their mixed-race. Implications for professional practice are discussed which highlight areas for training and policy development across services. Study limitations are explored, and further research is suggested.
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Ashforth, Teresa. "Aspects of communication between aboriginal people and representatives of white law." Thesis, Ashforth, Teresa (1990) Aspects of communication between aboriginal people and representatives of white law. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1990. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/51237/.
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This thesis examines some of the means by which the discursive processes of White law can be said to disadvantage Aboriginal people in particular. It sees the legal system itself, by virtue of the hegemonic practice and rhetorical operations routinely engaged in by its various representatives, as being responsible for such an outcome. It suggests that a problem arises not only because of the difference between White and Aboriginal world views and ideology but also because of the privileging of the written over the spoken word in the regular chain of discourse in which Aboriginal people accused of breaking the law become involved. By tracing this chain of discourse, and by deconstructing some of the texts of the crucial discursive sites along the way, it endeavours to show that theirs is a disadvantage of such a special sort as to be in no small measure responsible for their over-representation in the Australian Criminal Justice System.
Chapter One - Saying and Doing - gives an overview of some of the specific ways in which the formation of assumptions by Whites about Aboriginal people and by Aboriginal people about Whites has determined the tenor of their interaction. By drawing on some well-established theories of communication and discourse analysis it endeavours to specify some of the potential risks attendant upon such interaction, both in a legal as well as in a discursive sense.
Chapter Two - Aspects of Evidence - explores some of the practical disadvantages experienced by Aboriginal people in relation to the evidence presented against them in court. It also attempts to assess some of the many attempts made by White legal authorities to counteract such disadvantages.
Chapter Three - Police Perspectives and Practice - goes into more specific detail regarding the background to negative police attitudes towards. Aboriginal people and the extent to which the modification of such attitudes Is or is not being adequately addressed in the context of contemporary police education.
Chapter Four - Positions and Positioning of Aboriginal People - examines some of the ‘White ways’ of speaking to and about Aboriginal people and notes some Aboriginal responses to, and perceptions of, such ways of speaking. It also scrutinises the way in which Aboriginal offences against White law can be not only stimulated by but also constructed by White discourse.
Chapter Five - Lawyers and Aboriginal people - looks at the situation facing lawyers in the context of their work with Aboriginal people. Again drawing on discourse theory, it endeavours, by analyses of two particular cases, to highlight some of the possible pitfalls, as well as the potential for success, in such work.
Chapter Six - Writing the Text - explores the genesis of, and examines in detail, a representative sample of the crucially-decisive written texts presented in court. It also records some ongoing and increasingly insistent complaints by Aboriginal people regarding their negative subjection to ‘legal discourse’. It finally concludes by setting into perspective, and suggesting alternatives to, some of the questionable practices which constitute the problem.
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Hardy, Stevie-Jade. "'What's white about multiculturalism'? : exploring everyday multiculturalism, prejudice and targeted hostility with young white British people in Leicester." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/29318.
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This study used the concept of everyday multiculturalism to explore how young White British people interpret, negotiate and engage with diversity and ‘difference’ in Leicester. Young people’s views and experiences were captured through employing an ethnographic strategy which facilitated observations, informal conversations and interviews, documenting auto-ethnographical experiences and questionnaire completion. The findings illustrate that the majority of young White British people living in Leicester view multiculturalism, in its ideological form, as being positive for England. However, when the sample was asked to reflect upon their own ‘everyday’ experiences of engaging with people from different backgrounds, the lived reality appears quite different. The findings demonstrate that the ways in which young people encounter and interact with diversity in mundane social spaces can be undermined by fear, prejudice and hostility. At its most extreme this unfamiliarity with ‘difference’ can motivate young people to actively disengage with the multicultural population around them. The intolerance and resentment towards ‘difference’ can be understood as the result of an interplay between socio-economic status frustration, a heightened importance of identity and place to certain groups of young people and the micro-multicultural context. Finally, this study used the concept of everyday multiculturalism to understand the motivation and causation of acts of targeted hostility, incidents in which the victim is selected on the basis of their perceived ethnicity or religion. This study demonstrates that incorporating the concept of everyday multiculturalism within existing theoretical explanations of targeted hostility, achieves a more sophisticated understanding of the real-life situational cues and contexts which give rise to acts of targeted hostility. It is only through a closer engagement with the real lives of young people that a more empirically rooted understanding of targeted hostility can be achieved, and more effective policy and practice recommendations can be developed.
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Elder, Catriona, and catriona elder@arts usyd edu au. "Dreams and nightmares of a 'White Australia' : the discourse of assimilation in selected works of fiction from the 1950s and 1960s." The Australian National University. Faculty of Arts, 1999. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20050714.143939.
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This thesis is an analysis of the production of assimilation discourse, in
terms of Aboriginal people’s and white people’s social relations, in a small
selection of popular fiction texts from the 1950s and 1960s. I situate these
novels in the broader context of assimilation by also undertaking a
reading of three official texts from a slightly earlier period. These texts
together produce the ambivalent white Australian story of assimilation.
They illuminate some of the key sites of anxiety in assimilation discourses:
inter-racial sexual relationships, the white family, and children and young
adults of mixed heritage and land ownership. The crux of my argument is
that in the 1950s and early 1960s the dominant cultural imagining of
Australia was as a white nation. In white discourses of assimilation to
fulfil the dream of whiteness, the Aboriginal people – the not-white – had
to be included in or eliminated from this imagined white community.
Fictional stories of assimilation were a key site for the representation of
this process, that is, they produced discourses of ‘assimilation
colonization’. The focus for this process were Aboriginal people of mixed
ancestry, who came to be represented as ‘the half-caste’ in assimilation
discourse. The novels I analyse work as ‘conduct books’. They aim to
shape white reactions to the inclusion of Aboriginal people, in particular
the half-caste, into ‘white Australia’. This inclusion, assimilation, was an
ambivalent project – both pleasurable and unsettling – pleasurable
because it worked to legitimate white colonization (Aboriginal presence as
erased) and unsettling because it challenged the idea of a pure ‘white
Australia’.
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Boggs, Jeremy. "We the "White" People: Race, Culture, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/9615.
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In 1902, in an effort to reestablish what they saw as whites' natural right to control government rule over blacks, the delegates to Virginia's Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902 declared the new constitution law that they felt reflected "the true opinion of the people of Virginia." This thesis argues that while Virginia's 1902 Constitution increased the political power of whites and decreased that of black Virginians, the reasons why they needed the document in the first place highlights an important aspect regarding the anxiety of many white Virginians in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Specifically, it helps to show how whiteness as a source of political and social power was not concrete or absolute, but rather was a reaction to the increasing presence and assertion of power by black Virginians. I argue that white Virginians, faced with the increasing political and social presence of black Virginians as equals, sought to reestablish their racial superiority through law and constitutional revision. However, by making their whiteness "visible"-- by continually reasserting their claim to legitimate power because they were "white"-- white Virginians revealed how unstable their racial world had become.Master of Arts
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Wylie, Dan. "White writers and Shaka Zulu." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002276.
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The figure of Shaka (c. 1780-1828) looms massively in the historical and symbolic landscapes of Southern Africa. He has been unquestioningly credited, in varying degrees, with creating the Zulu nation, murderous bloodlust, and military genius, so launching waves of violence across the subcontinent (the "mfecane"). The empirical evidence for this is slight and controversial. More importantly, however, Shaka has attained a mythical reputation on which not only Zulu self-conceptions, but to a significant degree white settler self-identifications have been built. This study describes as comprehensively as possible the genealogy of white Shakan literature, including eyewitness accounts, histories, fictions and poetry. The study argues that the vast majority of these works are characterised by a high degree of incestuous borrowing from one another, and by processes of mythologising catering primarily to the social-psychological needs of the writers. So coherent is this genealogy that the formation of an idealised notion of settler identity can be discerned, especially through the common use of particular textual "gestures". At the same time, while conforming largely to unquestioning modes of discourse such as popularised history and romance fiction, individual writers have attempted to adjust to socio-political circumstances; this study includes four close studies of individual texts. Such close stylistic attention serves to underline the textually-constructed nature of both the figure of Shaka and the "selves" of the writers. The study makes no attempt to reduce its explorations to a single Grand Unified Explanation, and takes eclectic theoretical positions, but it does seek throughout to explore the social-psychological meanings of textual productions of Shaka - in short, to explore the question, Why have white writers written about Shaka in these particular ways?
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Chan, Julie M. C. P. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Beyond the white box : creating innovative art spaces that transform people and places." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66880.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 186-194).
In the past few decades, arts organizations have played an increasingly significant role in the development of vibrant spaces that improve the livelihoods of people and transform the quality of the urban environment. Innovative art spaces - ones that devise new methods of approaching the creation of space using familiar elements - are gaining attention because of their ability to navigate the challenges of developing affordable and usable art space. These new models of art space, whether they are repurposed storefronts or sustainable buildings, have far-reaching effects on the physical, social, and economic fabric of their surrounding communities. This thesis examines four innovative art spaces in New York City, Boston, and the greater Los Angeles area. Each case study features unique approaches to space, programming, community engagement, cross-sector partnerships, funding, and sustainability. My focus is on the following questions: (1) What are the factors that make an art space innovative and transformative? (2) What are the successes and challenges in the development of these art spaces? (3) How can cities cultivate these types of art spaces? Through site visits, interviews with organizational leaders, funders, and other stakeholders, and research with secondary sources, I explore these questions and identify major themes that add to our understanding of how successful and innovative art spaces are conceived. This thesis offers recommendations for city planners, policymakers, arts organizations, and artist entrepreneurs on how to approach the development of art space, including adapting successful elements of these models in their own contexts.
by Julie Chan.
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Chachere, Karen A. De Santis Christopher C. "Visually white, legally black miscegenation, the mulatoo, and passing in American literature and culture, 1865-1933 /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p3128271.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 2004.Title from title page screen, viewed Jan. 10, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Christopher C. De Santis (chair), Ronald Strickland, Cynthia A. Huff, Alison Bailey. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 178-193) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Botha, Mike. "Unlocking the full potential of non-white male executives in South African corporations : success stories of non-white South African male executives." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97278.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2014.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Coloured males in top and senior managerial positions are not advancing at the same rate as males from other races in South Africa. In reality the Commission of Employment Equity is showing a decline for Coloured males in top and senior management positions. The purpose of this study was to understand what interventions organisations can implement to increase the number of Coloured males in leadership roles as well as ensuring their loyalty at an early stage in their careers. The aim of the study was to explore the experiences of Coloured males in senior managerial roles via the use of semi structured interviews. The study highlights the earlier influences that assisted with the advancement of Coloured males, the barriers they encountered and what success factors played a role in their career ascent. A qualitative approach was employed for the collection of primary data and involved interviews with fourteen Coloured males who are in senior management roles in the corporate sphere. The study together with literature reviewed, highlights the interventions that organisations can implement to ensure that Coloured males advance at the same pace as their White counterparts. In particular these interventions if done at an early stage of the careers of Coloured males it could lead to loyalty that will ensure that this constituency stays with the organisation.
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Webster, Colin Scott. "Local heroes : an empirical study of racial violence among Asian and white young people." Thesis, University of Leicester, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/30116.
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This thesis extrapolates from a six year area study of delinquency and victimisation among Pakistani, Bangladeshi and white young people in the North of England. In focusing on inter-ethnic violence between Asian and white adolescents and young adults in a specific locality, the study was struck by both the normality of violence in everyday life and its racialisation. Racial violence occurs when young people come into contact at the symbolic boundaries which surround 'colour coded' territories. These boundaries and territories shift and change as a result of attempts by different ethnic groups - white and Asian - to establish, defend and extend their neighbourhoods. As a result of these processes of attempting to create safe areas through the control of territory and public space, racial violence in the area declined, in the context of an unfolding story of Asian vigilante activity to defend Asian areas against incursions by white racists. The unintended consequence however, was that areas were further racialised, and social and racial segregation between ethnic groups was compounded. Young people, in achieving a modicum of community safety on the basis of an agreed racialisation of public space, reinforced and confirmed local forms of racism. Finally, because of Asian defence of their areas, racial violence became constructed as something which mainly happens to white young people. These and other findings, problematised accepted policy and academic understandings and definitions of racism and racial violence. An alternative theoretical framework for interpreting the empirical data offered ways of conceptualising racial violence that emphasised its specificity within and between different ways of conceptualising racial violence that emphasised its specificity within and between different British localities. Indeed, much of the empirical data points to the need to understand racisms in their specificity and locality rather than in terms of a monolithic understanding of 'racism' which reduces all different 'race' encounters to instances of a general and ubiquitous racism.
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Chakraborty, Kokila. "Understanding diabetes treatment behaviours : health risk decisions of Asian sub-groups and White people." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435202.
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Mueller, Max Perry. "Black, White, and Red: Race and the Making of the Mormon People, 1830-1880." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17463965.
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This dissertation uses the histories and doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) as case studies to consider how nineteenth-century Americans turned to religion to solve the early American republic’s “race problem.” I begin by approaching Mormonism’s foundational text, the Book of Mormon, as the earliest Latter-day Saints did: as a radical new lens to view the racialized populations—Americans of European, African and Native American descent (“white,” “black,” “red”)—that dominated the antebellum American cultural landscape in which the church was founded in 1830. Early Mormons believed themselves called to end all schisms, including racial ones, within the Body of Christ as well as the political body of the American republic. However, early Mormon leaders were not racial egalitarians. Their vision consisted not of racial pluralism, but of the redemptive “whitening” of all peoples. Whiteness—both as a signifier and even phenotype—became an aspirational racial identity that non-whites could achieve through conversion to Mormonism. As the church failed to become the prophesied panacea for American racial and religious divisions, its theology evolved to view race as fixed. Black and Mormon became mutually exclusive identities. And though based on Book of Mormon theology, the Mormons held out hope for mass Indian redemption, it was forestalled as the church focused on shaping white converts into respectable Mormons.
However, this history is not simply one of declension. Instead, the church’s evolving view on race arose out of the persistent dialectal tension between the two central, and seemingly paradoxical, elements of the Mormon people’s identity: a missionary people divinely called to teach the gospel to everyone everywhere, and a racially particularistic people who believe that God has, at times, favored certain racial groups over others. As Mormon identity became more racially particularistic, white Mormons began to marginalize non-whites in the “Mormon archive”— which I conceptualize as the written and oral texts that compose the Mormon people’s collective memory. However, a handful of black and Native Americans wrote themselves into this archive, claiming their place among the prophets and pioneers that mark membership in Mormon history. They understood that literacy signified authority, and thus with their own narratives, they wrote against what they believed was the marginalization of their historical subjectivity.Religion, Committee on the Study of
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Williams, Sandy IV. "Nigga Is Historical: This Is Not An Invitation For White People To Say Nigga." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5926.
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Over the past several years I have been on a quest to locate a world beyond the one I’ve been presented. I am interested in the history of atomic particles - like everything that radiates off of a monument (both literally and those things that are metaphorically reified) - invisible things, and the ways in which these things insect beyond our knowledge systems. This inquiry takes many forms. Mine is a conceptually based practice linked to record keeping and time, and the ways in which these concepts find plurality within our culture; or more pointedly, the importance that we attach to “time” and “the record”, as they relate to our “legacies”, “cultures”, or “the canon”; our histories and the ahistorical, the prehistorical, fantasies, the things that never happened but could’ve, imagined futures and parallel universes.
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Stringer, Henry C. "A comparison of selected marital characteristics in black-white interracial marriages and same race marriages." Connect to resource, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1240592754.
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Sallnow, Ann Elizabeth. "Equal but different : The experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic Young People in Mainly White Schools." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522278.
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Kuo, Tsuann. "The effects of eldercare on well-being and job performance comparison between Taiwanese-American and white working caregivers /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1716387031&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Kelley, Kevin J. "The division of household labor among Black, White and interracial couples." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 1987. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.
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Willcocks, Michael James. "Agent or client : who instigated the White Revolution of the Shah and the people in Iran, 1963?" Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/agent-or-client-who-instigated-the-white-revolution-of-the-shah-and-the-people-in-iran-1963(f1bdd6c7-ed4c-42cc-bcaf-2a2f0cde5e60).html.
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The White Revolution was a set of six reform measures put to the Iranian people via referendum on 6 Bahman 1341 (26 January 1963), based on a plan for social justice linked with economic development, encased in the concept of a bloodless revolution from the top. This did not happen unexpectedly; it was the culmination of events spanning several years, which accelerated during the John F. Kennedy Presidency. Various plans and reforms paved the way for the White Revolution and certain events as well as political and economic developments encouraged reform. There were similarities between plans and some reforms influenced others, or were shaped to suit different agendas. All played a part in instigating the White Revolution. This included Prime Minister ʻAlī Amīnī’s 15-point plan, the Shah’s Royal Farmān, the Third Development Plan, and the six-points of the White Revolution itself. The question this thesis seeks to answer is to what extent the Kennedy administration was responsible for instigating the White Revolution by influencing the various steps that paved the way for the 6 Bahman referendum?The United States had at its disposal various means by which it might apply pressure and influence development. This included, economic aid, military assistance, numerous advisers, agencies on the ground, plus support for the Shah and other Iranians. Given the Kennedy administration’s association with modernisation and development, the existing historiography has portrayed this period in US-Iranian relations as one of increased pressure on the Shah to reform with the White Revolution being the result of such pressure. This thesis makes an original contribution to knowledge by challenging this portrayal by providing the first detailed, analysis of the period 1961-63, utilising a vast array of newly released documents. This is not the first study to conclude agency on the part of Iran for the White Revolution, but is the first to do so though a detailed, balanced approach, which doesn’t ignore the significance of the US-Iranian relationship. Thus, this thesis is at the forefront of revisionist accounts of US-Iranian relations during the Cold War critiquing the portrayal of the Shah and others as mere tools of the US and reaching the conclusion that contrary to widely held beliefs it was Iranians rather than Americans who instigated the White Revolution by initiating and directing reform.
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Loo, Ryan K. "Assessing the Health-Related Service Needs of People Living With Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A Review of Ryan White Title II Needs Assessments." DigitalCommons@USU, 2005. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6213.
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The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) allocated $940 million in 2002, through Title II of the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, to help states improve the quality and availability of health related services for people living with HIV/AIDS . These resources are allocated based upon recommendations made by community planning committees, which in turn base their recommendations on HIV/AIDS needs assessments. A methodologically sound, comprehensive needs assessment is a critical component of effective resource allocation decisions. Poor needs assessments might lead to poor resource allocation decisions, which might have life-threatening consequences for people living with HIV/AIDS. Little is known about the quality of Ryan White Title II (RWTII) needs assessments. This dissertation identifies seven elements of a high quality needs assessment, which might serve as an assessment tool for funding agencies and as a guidance tool for grantees. The author uses the seven elements in a review of RWTII needs assessments to provide evidence pertaining to the current level of quality of RWTII needs assessments. The seven elements are then applied in a case study of improved practice to demonstrate how to adequately apply the key elements of a high quality needs assessment.
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Martens, Jeremy C. "An easy prey to temptation--, white south african perceptions of 'coloured people in the era of segregation, 1928-1945." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq20669.pdf.
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Bender, Alexis A. "Rolling Manhood: How Black and White Men Experience Disability." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12052006-164005/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2006.Charles A. Gallaghe, committee chair; Kirk W. Elifson, Mindy Stombler, committee members. Electronic text (142 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 28, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 21-133).
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Sanderson, Leon B. "Empowering senior adults through the role of grandparenting." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p018-0107.
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Walters, Handri. "Continuity and change after apartheid : a study of racial categories among white people in a rural area of the Western Cape." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/20045.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The 1994 election seems to stand as a clear divide between past and present in South Africa. But while it was believed that this election would catapult South Africa into a promising new era of democracy and equality, it has become all too clear that the transition was unfortunately limited to the political sphere. Despite some progress being made in the economic sphere, we still have a visible correlation between race and class – a correlation that certainly stems from the apartheid era, signifying a definite continuity of an era long past. In the social sphere we have also struggled to achieve complete integration. We find that racial categories of old have remained an important part of the ‘new’ South Africa. While we were promised a non-racial country, government policies such as Affirmative Action and Black Economic Empowerment have been a constant reminder of supposed racial differences – signifying another continuity of apartheid. While the post-apartheid period can be summarised as a period of change, we find that it can also be summarised by the continuities of the past. It was found that, specifically in my research area, a rural farmers’ community, the continuities of the past are visible in the everyday structures of society. For my research subjects, white Afrikaners, it was found that the 1994 election proved to be no ‘road to Damascus’ regarding beliefs about the racial other. I found that interracial social interaction is still governed by fixed racial boundaries that are rarely crossed and, if crossed, this is done so conditionally. These boundaries seemed to be reinforced by the active socialisation of a community. While many argue that the post-apartheid period has brought on an identity crisis for white Afrikaners, I found that my research subjects have failed to encounter such a crisis, as they have held on to fixed racial boundaries in an attempt to preserve and protect their identity. We find ourselves in a time where we are urged to move beyond our apartheid past, yet many are unable to do so. But the question remains: given our past, should this come as a surprise to anyone?
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die verkiesing van 1994 staan as ‘n duidelike skeiding tussen die verlede en die hede in Suid-Afrika. Maar al is daar geglo dat hierdie verkiesing Suid-Afrika in ‘n belowende nuwe era van demokrasie en gelykheid sou inskiet, het dit al hoe meer duidelik geraak dat die oorgang ongelukkig tot die politieke sfeer beperk was. Ten spyte van vordering in die ekonomiese sfeer, vind ons nog steeds dat daar ‘n sigbare ooreenkoms tussen ras en klas is – ‘n ooreenkoms wat seer seker geërf is vanaf apartheid en dui op ‘n definitiewe voortsetting van ‘n era wat lankal verby is. In die sosiale sfeer sukkel ons ook om volkome integrasie te bereik. Ons vind dat die rasse-kategorieë van ouds steeds ‘n belangrike deel van die ‘nuwe’ Suid Afrika bly. Hoewel ‘n nie-rassige land belowe is, dien regeringsbeleide soos Regstellende Aksie en Swart Ekonomiese Bemagtiging as ‘n konstante herinnering aan sogenaamde rasseverskille – nog ‘n voortsetting van apartheid. Terwyl die post-apartheid tydperk opgesom kan word as ‘n tydperk van verandering, vind ons dat dit ook opgesom kan word deur voortsettings van die verlede. Veral in my navorsingsgebied, ‘n plattelandse boeregemeenskap, het ek gevind dat die voortsettings van die verlede sigbaar was in die alledaagse strukture van die samelewing. Vir my navorsingssubjekte, blanke Afrikaners, is dit gevind dat die 1994-verkiesing geensins gedien het as ‘n ‘pad na Damaskus’ in terme van oortuigings aangaande die ‘ander’ ras nie. Ek het gevind dat interrassige sosiale interaksie steeds regeer word deur gevestigde rasse grense wat selde oorgesteek word, en indien wel oorgesteek, word dit voorwaardelike gedoen. Dit wil voorkom of hierdie grense versterk word deur die aktiewe sosialisering van die gemeenskap. Terwyl baie outeurs argumenteer dat die post-apartheidtydperk ‘n identiteitskrisis vir blanke Afrikaners tot gevolg gehad het, het ek gevind dat my navorsingssubjekte nie so ‘n krisis ervaar het nie omdat hulle vasklou aan gevestigde rassegrense in ‘n poging om hul identiteit te bewaar en beskerm. Ons vind onsself in ‘n tyd waar ons aangespoor word om verby ons apartheid verlede te beweeg, maar steeds is baie mense nie in staat om dit te doen nie. Die vraag bly staan: gegewe ons verlede, kom dit vir enigiemand as ‘n verrassing?
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Dean, Brandon. ""Certain Reservations Should Be Made for the White People in Our Country": Reevaluating Michikinikwa's Path from Warrior to Diplomat, 1795-1812." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1564741493466128.
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Clay, Olivio J. "Racial differences in health care utilization betwen older African American and Caucasian Medicare beneficiaries." Birmingham, Ala. : University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007. https://www.mhsl.uab.edu/dt/2009r/clay.pdf.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2007.Title from PDF title page (viewed Sept. 21, 2009). Additional advisors: Richard M. Allman, Karlene K. Ball, Monika M. Safford, David E. Vance. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-72).
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Talbot, Marc Robert. "Why people in haematological and oncological care avoid or delay seeking medical treatment for infections caused by low white blood cell counts." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3836.
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This article reports the findings of a grounded theory study of the processes involved in adherence and treatment seeking delay for febrile neutropenia in chemotherapy patients. Interviews were conducted with 12 patients. Six theoretical constructs were generated, namely ‘Recall of Treatment Advice’, ‘Impact of Emotions’, ‘Influence of Social Networks’, ‘Symptom Monitoring Behaviour’, ‘Symptom Interpretation’, and ‘Preparation and Journey Time’. A model was developed to reflect the complex interplay between these theoretical constructs. Data extracts are presented to illustrate the grounding of the model in patients’ accounts, and the model is discussed with reference to previous theory and research.
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Adkins, Sasha. "From Disposable Culture to Disposable People: Teaching About the Unintended Consequences of Plastics." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1513941070990328.
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Sato, Takahiro. "Asian international doctoral students' assimilation into adapted physical activity graduate programs while attending predominantly white institutions of higher education within the Big Ten Conference." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1173114523.
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Duran, Antonio Alberto. "An Intersectional Grounded Theory Study Examining Identity Exploration for Queer Collegians of Color at Historically White Institutions." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1554222778730153.
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Pople, Clair Elizabeth. "Gifted Black and Biracial Students at a Predominantly White Gifted School." PDXScholar, 2015. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/2347.
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The underrepresentation of gifted Black and Biracial students is a pervasive problem in and of itself, and indicates a much larger struggle of disproportionality of Black and Biracial students who are not called upon or supported in efforts to meet their academic potential. Therefore, an evaluation of the inequity generated by gifted education is warranted. It is true that the majority of gifted programs are often predominantly White. Accordingly, Black and Biracial students who qualify for gifted programs may face unique challenges in their development of racial identity and their socio-emotional health.
Using ethnographic techniques, this case study explored the ways that Discovery School, a predominantly White gifted school (PWGS), addresses race. It asked how Black and Biracial students at Discovery School understood themselves as racial beings. The fundamental research questions that guided this study were: (1) how is race addressed at a PWGS, and (2) how does a student of color feel Otherness at a PWGS? The case study was designed, and findings were analyzed, through the theoretical lens of critical race theory.
Data was collected through several means, including interviews, surveys, direct observation, and email prompts. Interviews were conducted with four gifted students of color, three teachers, and three parents. Surveys were sent home for student participants and their parents to fill out together. Teachers and administrators were asked to complete two email interview questions. Throughout the data collection, I frequently observed students learning and playing at the school and recorded field notes.
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1. Talented and gifted students thrive in programs that are uniquely tailored to meet their advanced academic and cognitive needs.
2. Policies and inadequate communication act as barriers for gifted Black and Biracial students.
3. Within a positive educational community, racial microaggressions- including the silencing of racial dialogue and individual bullying- exist.
The results of this study suggest that Discovery School operates in ways that benefit the participants of the study. Overall, the student participants (and most parent participants) were satisfied with their experiences at Discovery School. Additionally, results indicate that Discovery School could strengthen their program with a commitment to diversifying the student population and implementing culturally responsive pedagogy and antiracist practices that change the consciousness of education professionals and offer support systems for gifted Black and Biracial students, and develop curriculum that is more reflective of students of color.
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Ali, Saima. "The prevalence and clinical impact of depression in South Asian and White European people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes in the UK." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/35286.
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Depression and diabetes are both common chronic disorders affecting people worldwide. Diabetes is characterised as a metabolic disorder often involving laborious self-management reduced health-related quality of life and often the prospect of diabetes related complications. Depression on the other hand, is a mood disorder associated with high levels of personal disability, lost quality of life, multiple morbidity and an increased risk of mortality. The adverse effects of depression may be especially detrimental in people with diabetes. This thesis presents the results of a programme of work beginning with two systematic reviews which demonstrate that the prevalence of depression is almost doubled in those with type 2 diabetes relative to those without and in addition is associated with worsened health related quality of life in those with comorbidity. The second phase of the research involved examining ethnic differences in the prevalence of depression as well as associations between depression and glycaemic control in secondary care patients with diabetes. Although depression did not explain ethnic differences in glycaemic control, the findings suggested that depression may be under-diagnosed in South Asians with diabetes. A need was highlighted to examine the prevalence of screen detected depression in a multiethnic population with type 2 diabetes relative to a suitable control group. The results from the final phase of the research concluded that although the prevalence of depression was not higher in primary care patients with type 2 diabetes compared to those without diabetes, the prevalence of depression in people with diabetes is nonetheless high, particularly in South Asians. Furthermore, findings from the final stage of the research conclude that depression is seriously under-diagnosed in people with type 2 diabetes, particularly in South Asians. The findings emphasise the need to improve the detection and management of depression to reduce inequalities in both depression and diabetes care.
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Lewis, Kirstin. "'That queue is just for white people. Is that one for black ones? Where do I go then?' : mixed heritage children's experiences of school." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2013. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10017998/.
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In inner London 7.5% of the school population is of mixed heritage, yet little is known about their experiences in the education system. Data from the 2001 Census shows that over half of mixed heritage children under the age of 16 have social backgrounds that suggest a strong middle class dimension, yet, as a group, they have persistently underachieved at school. This challenges associations between social class and success at school suggesting that other factors might well influence school experience. This thesis explores how mixed heritage children's school experiences are shaped by the ways in which others perceive their identities and make assumptions about their lives, based mainly on the colour of their skin. It examiners why some children are more able to develop the resilience to cope with these experiences than others. An inductive approach to data gathering was used. Exploratory interviews were conducted with an opportunity sample, semi structured interviews with education professionals and focus groups with a small-scale sample of mixed heritage children in an inner London Borough. Themes that emerged challenge suggestions that we have moved to a point where ethnic and racial groupings are less relevant than data on children's social backgrounds, suggesting that all mixed heritage children, regardless of social background, experienced racial discrimination, teachers' inaccurate perceptions about their identities and backgrounds and low expectations of their abilities and aptitude for learning. Whilst educational professionals explained that they knew little about these children and were unaware of any issues they faced, children appeared to be "invisible" at school, absent from policies and curriculum materials. Many lacked opportunities to discuss their identities both at home and school. These issues particularly influenced boys' school experiences. Whilst this research enables many mixed heritage childrens's voices to be heard for the first time, it argues that the challenges many face present a threat to their capacity to fulfil their potential and their sense of belonging in the school community.
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Dema, Tshering. "Engaging remote communities in technology design for connecting people to and through nature." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/211484/1/Tshering_Dema_Thesis.pdf.
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Dominant citizen science paradigms to support species conservation typically rely on large, distributed populations to gather or analyse data. Engagement approaches are primarily utilitarian and individualistic. This dissertation rethinks the way we engage citizens and communities to combat the problem of species loss. Long-term socio-technical design research was carried out focusing on the critically endangered, White-bellied Heron in remote communities of Bhutan. The thesis contributes practical design outcomes, a co-design method that emphasizes “network of relations” and findings from a long-term technology trial. It shifts design foci towards ‘stewardship beyond monitoring’ with a holistic view to enhancing nature engagement.
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Contini, Alice. "Italian racialized women and feminist activism : Exploring discourses of white women in Italian feminist activism work." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-175386.
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The starting point of this study is the common assumption that the Italian society is based on a patriarchal ideological system in which racism is often normalized. The binary distinction between women and men in Italian society has evolved into discussions and awareness raising on genderbased violence or violence against women. As intersectionality has become a central point in Italian contemporary feminism, this study uses the analysis of topics related to the historical creation of the idea of Italian-ness, migration and the influence of right-wing politics in current gender related issues as the basis of a feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. With this in mind, using intersectional theory, postcolonial feminism, and studies of whiteness, the study aims at exploring as to which extent the discourses of three white Italian women, who identify as feminist activists, influence the presence of racialized Italian women in their work. This study should create academic data and contribute to a research that is extremely limited on these topics.
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Costilla, Julia. "A Black Practice that Has Won White People: Symbol, History and Devotes in the Cult of Lord of the Miracles in Lima (XIX-XXI Centuries)." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2016. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/79003.
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El culto al Señor de los Milagros se manifiesta en la ciudad de Lima cada mes de octubre con una imponente convocatoria durante sus procesiones y se reactualiza en las prácticas de sus miles de fieles alrededor del mundo. Como parte de una investigación mayor orientada a indagar en la historia de este símbolo religioso desde mediados del siglo XVII, me propongo aquí avanzar desde su institucionalización (1771) y seguir su trayectoria durante el períodorepublicano para profundizar en cómo se forjaron los principales significados que hoy expresa este cristo entre la población peruana: una identidad nacional mestiza y una tradición afrodescendiente. Metodológicamente seguiré el abordaje de la antropología histórica, articulando fuentes de etnografía y archivo y aplicando un enfoque histórico-antropológico. Demostraré así cómo la definición del culto en tanto “práctica negra que ha ganado a los blancos” puede sintetizar el derrotero de este símbolo religioso en dos niveles: en términos de su tricentenario proceso histórico y en términos de las representaciones sobre ese proceso.The cult of Lord of the Miracles takes place every October in Lima with an extraordinary attendance and it renovates on the practice of thousands of devotes around the world. Within a larger study of the history of this symbol from XVII century, I will follow him from his colonial institutionalization (1771) to his republican trajectory in order to explore how his mayor meanings were made up: a mestizanational identity and an afrodescendent tradition. Methodologically, I will use the approach of historic anthropology, with ethnographic and archive sources and with an anthropological-historical point of view. In this way, I will demonstrate how the cult definition as “black practice that has won white people” can summarize the itinerary of that symbol on two levels: in terms of his tricentenary historical process and in terms of representations about that process.
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Burgess, Melissa Faye. ""You Can't Put People In One Category Without Any Shades of Gray:" A Study of Native American, Black, Asian, Latino/a and White Multiracial Identity." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32728.
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This study seeks to explore variations in the development of racial identities for multiracial Virginians in the 21st century by focusing on the roles that physical appearance, group associations and social networks, family and region play in the process. Simultaneously, this study seeks to explore the presence of autonomy in the racial identity development process. Using Michael Omi and Howard Winantâ s racial formation theory as the framework, I argue that
a racial project termed biracialism, defined as the increase in the levels of autonomy in self identification, holds the potential to contribute to transformations in racial understandings in U.S.
society by opposing imposed racial categorization. Through the process of conducting and analyzing semistructured interviews with mixed-race Virginia Tech students I conclude that
variations do exist in the identities they develop and that the process of identity development is significantly affected by the factors of physical appearance, group associations and social
networks, family and region. Furthermore, I find that while some individuals display racial autonomy, others find themselves negotiating between their self-images and societyâ s
perceptions or do not display it at all. In addition to these conclusions, the issues of acknowledging racism, the prevalence of whiteness, assimilation and socialization also emerged
as contributors to the identity development process for the multiracial population.Master of Science
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McCullugh, Erin Elizabeth. ""Heaven's Last, Worst Gift to White Men": The Quadroons of Antebellum New Orleans." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3269.
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Visitors to Antebellum New Orleans rarely failed to comment on the highly visible population of free persons of color, particularly the women. Light, but not white, the women who collectively became known as Quadroons enjoyed a degree of affluence and liberty largely unknown outside of Southeastern Louisiana. The Quadroons of New Orleans, however, suffered from neglect and misrepresentation in nineteenth and twentieth-century accounts.
Historians of slavery and southern black women, for example, have written at length on the sexual experiences of black women and white men. Most of the research, however, centers on the institutionalized rape, victimization, and exploitation of black women at the hands of white males. Even late into the twentieth century, scholars largely failed to distinguish the experiences of free women of color from those of enslaved women with little nuance in regard to economic, educational, and cultural differences. All women of color -- whether free or enslaved -- continued to be viewed through the lens of slavery. Studies that examine free women of color were rare and those focusing exclusively on them alone were virtually nonexistent. As a result, the actual experiences of free women of color in the Gulf States passed unnoticed for generations. In the event that the Quadroons of New Orleans were mentioned at all, it was normally within the context of the mythologized balls or in scandalous tales where they played the role of mistress to white men, subsequently resulting in a one dimensional character that lived expressly for the enjoyment of white males.
Due to the relative silence of their own voices, approaching the topic of New Orleans’ Quadroons at length is difficult at best. But by placing these women within a wider pan-Atlantic framework and using extant legal records, the various African, Caribbean, French, and Spanish cultural threads emerge that contributed to the colorful cultural tapestry of Antebellum New Orleans. These influences enabled such practices as placage and by extension, the development of an intellectual, wealthy, vibrant Creole community of color headed by women.
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Farris, Victoria E. ""I Wish They Would . . ."| The Role White Student Affairs Professionals Can Play in Disrupting Systemic Racism in the Supervision of People of Color in Higher Education." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10829181.
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The purpose of this study was to understand the role that White people can play in dismantling systemic racism and oppression in the supervision of people of color in student affairs. The primary goal of the study was to better understand, from the perspectives of people of color, how systemic racism and bias in the supervision of people of color could be disrupted and what role, if any, White people can play in the disruption. Using a critical race theory (CRT) framework, the study sought to outline how White people can demonstrate allyship and engage in dismantling systemic racism. This was a qualitative research study using a CRT framework. The researcher conducted 20 interviews with participants who all identified as student affairs professionals of color about their experiences with workplace racism, what inclusive workplaces would look like, and how White folks can play a role in contributing to an inclusive environment. The findings showed that workplace racism was prevalent among participants, with many outlining experiences with bias or racism in multiple roles and on different campuses. Further, all 20 participants agreed that there is a role for White folks to play in fostering inclusive environments. Based on participant descriptions and a CRT lens, a framework emerged for White people who seek to engage as allies and accomplices to racial justice in student affairs. This framework includes: learning, understanding, self-reflection, and action on the individual, group, and organizational levels.
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Tilton, Abigail C. "The health status of people living with HIV/AIDS and in treatment in the United States." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5339/.
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Vulnerable populations comprise a growing number of people living with HIV/AIDS and are at increased risk for poorer health outcomes. The purpose of this research was to approximate the effect of the Ryan White CARE Act on the health status of people living with HIV/AIDS who were receiving medical care in the United States. The vulnerable populations model was utilized to identify appropriate variables for analysis as well as to provide a sequencing for the testing of models. Data analyzed in this study came from the 1996 Baseline Survey of the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study (HCSUS), a cooperative study between RAND and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (now known as the Agency for Health Care Quality and Research). Three analyses sequences, using different dependent variables, to estimate health status were conducted. In the first analysis, health status was measured by CD-4 count and stage of illness. In the second analysis, only CD-4 counts were used for health status. In the final analysis, health status was estimated based on AIDS diagnosis. Each of the three analyses included the same independent variables: race, gender, education, sexual orientation, income, insurance status, region of the country, receipt of case management, perceived health, and level of antiviral therapy. The three analyses suggested similar results. Specifically, that African Americans and women had better health status as compared to whites and men, respectively. Additionally, insurance, case management, and antiviral therapy were associated with poorer health status. Factors such as education, income, and region of the country yielded inconsistent results between models. To better understand the effect of the Ryan White CARE Act on health outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS, future research should consider inclusion of a variable that more directly measures the CARE Act, such as payer source for medical care.
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Horn, Stuart George. "Cultural background and Bender Visual Motor Gestalt test performance : comparison of the performance of Xhosa and white South African adolescents using the Pascal-Suttell scoring system." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1008564.
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The quality of the Bender-Gestalt performance of 22, normal, white South African male adolescents and 22, normal, Xhosa male adolescents, aged between 17 and 22 years, was investigated. The Pascal-Suttell scoring system was used. The mean score of the white adolescents was significantly below that of the Xhosa adolescents. It was found that while the mean score of the Xhosa adolescents was within one standard deviation of Pascal and Suttell's normative 'high school' mean, the mean score of the white adolescents was below that of the normative mean and not within one standard deviation of the mean. The results lend support to the findings that Bender performance is related to cultural background. It is suggested that the Pascal-Suttell tables may be in need of revision. The advisability of standardising tables, which are culture specific, for clinical use· in the Southern African context, is indicated.KMBT_363
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Harrison, Vernon Ray. "Mean and strong like liquor and some real fine people enactments of the progressive white Southern man in the Drive By Truckers' albums Southern rock opera and The dirty south /." Thesis, [Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Libraries], 2009. http://purl.lib.ua.edu/84.
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Valencia, Ricardo. "The Making of the White Middle-Class Radical: A Discourse Analysis of the Public Relations of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador between 1980 and 1990." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23792.
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This study explores the role of public relations in the formation of a collective identity of the activists of the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) between 1980 and 1990. CISPES was a radical U.S.-based organization comprised of a majority of white college-educated members. CISPES had two goals: 1) stop the U.S. military assistance to El Salvador, and 2) support the Salvadoran revolutionary movements that were fighting a U.S.-backed government. Through interviews, discourse analysis and historical research, this work shows that CISPES used as currency the whiteness of its activists, in conjunction with its educational background, to influence public opinion and policy-making in the U.S. The formation of CISPES as a white organization was partially achieved by continuous negotiations with Salvadoran radicals living in the U.S. Early in the 1990s, CISPES' collective identity as a white organization entered in crisis as internal debates on gender and race along with social changes in the national and international levels challenged dominant views and the status quo of whiteness and what this implies in political, social, and cultural spheres. This work proposes two models: the intersectional recruiting process and the ideological identity model of public relations. Both models were created using dialectical methodologies that understand public relations and social movements as processes of permanent contradictions between social conditions and ideology/discourse creation. This dissertation has real applications because it reveals how activist public relations can help the global struggle for social justice.
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Witt, Michelle Pambrun, and Michelle Pambrun Witt. "Understanding the Sunrise Ceremony as a repository of cultural traditions and values: an exploration of ritual as a means for studying the health of the Apache people." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/627129.
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The intent of this exploratory study was to discover the cultural significance of an Apache ritual, the Sunrise Ceremony, as it relates to the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of the Apache individual, family, and community at large. The ethnographic methodology was used to gather data because this design provided the most systematic and flexible process to generate the widest range of information necessary for describing this culture from the native's
point of view. Four culturally relevant domains were developed and analyzed to reveal five cultural themes, including "It's my strength," "Women are the core of living here," "It Tells You the Story of the Beginning," and "Change is Sad--Alcohol is Bad." The findings suggest that because the Sunrise Ceremony is central to the Apache way of life, its values and culture, an understanding of the Sunrise Ceremony can assist in the development of accurate nursing assessments and successful interventions to improve the collective health and well being of the Apache people. Additionally, recommendations for nursing practice and further research are proposed.
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Quintal, Shanda. "Fair to Middlin’: How the Mediocre White Male Trope as the Exemplar of Human Experience and Universal Truth Fails to Adequately Prepare the Diverse Field of Contemporary Actors and Audiences in Film, Television and Theatre Today." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2678.
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Non-traditional casting has been a controversial practice in film, television and theatre that was implemented to offer people of color and women opportunities which had previously been available to white or male performers. The following is a case study documenting the process by which I have discovered that non-traditional casting as a practice contributes to the oppression of people of color as well as supports the status quo of the white patriarchy. This case study is analyzed from the historical, sociological, psychological and philosophical theories and ideologies relevant to the unsuccessful attempt of a female actor of African-American descent at portraying a white, Evangelical, male minister. It concludes with an invitation and an approach to making better people.