Browsing by Subject "Racism"
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Microaggressions, diabetes distress, and self-care behaviors in a sample of American Indian adults with type 2 diabetes
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018)American Indian/Alaska Native people experience the highest age-adjusted prevalence of type 2 diabetes of any racial group in the United States, as well as high rates of related health problems. Chronic stressors such as ... -
Miles is NOT the Problem: Examining the Effects of Racism on Students of Color in the Literary Canon Through Counterstory
(2019-12-13)The English Language Arts classroom has depended on canonical texts for years. These texts have commonly been known for their use of literary and rhetorical devices. Through the history of fiction, very few books have ... -
Political economic racism : California's policy regarding its Asian immigrants.
(2011)From 1848 - 1943, California enacted a policy known as political economic racism: the act of discriminating against a particular ethnic group economically through the political process. The target of their legislation was ... -
Terror Management Theory, Religious Orientation, and Dissociation: Addressing Allport's Paradox of Religion and Racism
(2014-04-30)Abstract This dissertation addresses the paradoxical relationship between religion and racism. Specifically, this study combines elements of terror management theory (TMT) and the dissociation model to examine the potential ... -
(Un)decidable Stereotypes: Anti-Racist Satire in Popular American Literature from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth Century
(2022-05-13)This dissertation examines the satirical strategy that employs racial stereotypes to critique racism. I read the work of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles W. Chesnutt, Dorothy Parker, and Langston Hughes and explore how this ...