Browsing by Subject "Identity"
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A Case of Mistaken Identity: State and Cultural Constructions of Mapuche Womanhood Through Activism Undergraduate
(2021-11-02)This paper will first discuss the Chilean state and Chilean feminists’ understanding of Mapuche women’s identity. I will argue that the Mapuche are used as a means to an end, then discarded when they have served their ... -
Central Dissent : Fall 2017
(2017)The Central Dissent: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality is an interdisciplinary academic journal published by New Plains Student Publishing and sponsored by the UCO Women’s Research Center and BGLTQ+ Student Center. The ... -
Central Dissent : Fall 2018
(2018)The Central Dissent: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality is an interdisciplinary academic journal published by New Plains Student Publishing and sponsored by the UCO Women’s Research Center and BGLTQ+ Student Center. The ... -
Central Dissent : Fall 2019
(2019)The Central Dissent: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality is an interdisciplinary academic journal published by New Plains Student Publishing and sponsored by the UCO Women’s Research Center and BGLTQ+ Student Center. The ... -
Central Dissent : Fall 2020
(2020)The Central Dissent: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality is an interdisciplinary academic journal published by New Plains Student Publishing and sponsored by the UCO Women’s Research Center and BGLTQ+ Student Center. The ... -
Concerning gamer identity: An examination of individual factors associated with accepting the label of gamer
(2019-03)This study examined characteristics of players that self-identified as gamers. Participants (N=476) were asked to complete an online survey and provide information about their video game play. Analyses of the survey responses ... -
Crafting Culture: Tapping into Identity and Place through the Craft Beer Movement in Oklahoma
(2019-05-10)In this anthropological study, I take an ethnographic approach to analyzing the constructions of identity in Oklahoma through the craft beer movement. I use the concept of a “sense of place,” where I take a look into the ... -
Double Consciousness and African American Principals in the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area: A General Inductive Qualitative Study
(2024-05-10)There is an underrepresentation of African American head public school principals in the United States of America. The growth of multi-ethnic student populations in cities amplifies this situation. Principals leading diverse ... -
The effects of interactional identity traits (gender, partisanship, and veteran status) on candidate evaluations and electorate voting behaviors in U.S. Congressional elections
(2023-05-12)Every year, the political candidates who run in the U.S. congressional elections become more and more diverse; there are more women, more veterans, more members of ethnic group minorities in Congress. Political candidates ... -
Feminine power through the performance of gender and identity : subverting patriarchal standards and the gender binary
(2021)This thesis examines strategies for exercising feminine power within patriarchal settings; in particular, it addresses the ways in which female characters access varied forms of power through gendered performances that ... -
FÚTBOL IN THE HEARTLAND: MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS, TRANSNATIONAL CULTURAL IDENTITY, AND RECREATIONAL SPORT IN OKLAHOMA CITY
(2015-05-05)When immigrants traverse international borders they bring with them many cultural practices and traditions from their lives back home. This research focuses on how a modern sport, fútbol (soccer), operates as a cultural ... -
No One Can Place Me in a Box: Exploring the Identity Status of Adult Third Culture Kids
(2015-08-14)Given the mixed findings on Adult Third-Culture Kids’ (ATCKs) identity development, the study explored whether ATCKs’ identity problems, particularly identity moratorium, were in fact related to their relativistic thinking ... -
“The Thought of Being a Part of What You Could Not Become”: Colonial Education and the Resistance of Young Minds
(2021)This project engages with the colonizer’s use of the colonial education system to penetrate the colonized people’s pre-colonial cultural systems and the way it leads to the destruction of any already-formed understandings ... -
White Cherokees on Red Earth: Blood and Belonging
(2021-12-17)In this thesis, I address White Cherokee identity, the historical trajectory it emerges from, and some of its political consequences. White Cherokee identity comes from social arrangements, place relationships, and ...