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Career development patterns of Cheyenne/Arapaho women in rural Oklahoma.
(1998)
The study was designed and implemented to identify Cheyenne/Arapaho women's perceptions of career direction in their lives. Many factors were considered as the women were interviewed; family structure and history, influential ...
Other names I have been called: Political resurgence among Virginia Indians in the twentieth century.
(1998)
Historically, Virginia's indigenous Indian tribes have been subsumed under non-Indian racial categories. Typically, Virginia Indians were classified as "free persons of color, " somewhat in midpoint on the bi-racial ...
Correlates of academic success for ethnic minority students enrolled at a predominantly Anglo university.
(1998)
Further work and research is recommended to better quantify cultural factors of academic success. Additionally, systemic changes at the university level such as the development of formal, structured mentoring relationships ...
Kiowa cultural values and persistence in higher education.
(1998)
Historically, the presence of American Indians on college and university campuses was disproportionate to their numbers in the common schools. Within the last three decades this trend changed. Though their attendance figures ...
To be Indian (hyphen) American: Communicating diaspora, identity and home.
(1998)
This idea of cultural fusion is best examined utilizing Jean Gebser's theory of civilizational expression. In his text, The Ever-Present Origin (1949/1985), Gebser explains the structures of consciousness as ways of being ...
Ethnic identity and intergroup communication among Korean Americans and Vietnamese Americans in Oklahoma.
(1998)
Ethnic identity is frequently characterized as having objective, subjective, and situational components. Separating these components becomes difficult especially when research taps into the personal, diverse experiences ...
Yuchi social history since World War II: Political symbolism in ethnic identity.
(1998)
From allotment to the current day, most scholars assume the various towns that originally formed the Creek polity have become assimilated into a single homogenous Creek culture. The Yuchi community has maintained a separate ...
Social identity and ethnic formation: Some epistemological implications for liberal social philosophy.
(1998)
Ethnic nationalism increasingly concerns social philosophers, who frequently deal with it either in the context of defending liberal individualism with concomitant deep autonomy, which viewpoint seems antithetical to the ...
Black business students' post-baccalaureate employment expectations: What are they and from where do they originate?
(1998)
The purpose of this study was to generate grounded theory concerning post-baccalaureate employment expectations of Black college students enrolled in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs.) The objective has ...
Fictive kinship, racial identity, peer influence, attitudes toward school, and future goals: Relationships with achievement for African-American high school students.
(1998)
This study examined the relationships among measures of fictive kinship, racial identity, attitudes towards school, influence of peers, and future goals and achievement among African American high school students. The study ...