Browsing by Subject "Identity"
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Brown Sugar and Spice: Exploring Black Girlhood at Elite, White Schools
(2019)Black girls who attend elite, predominantly white schools face a host of unique challenges and tasks in achieving a positive, resolved gendered-racial identity; they must learn to reconcile external and potentially negative ... -
From Silent Exodus to the Fellowship Hall: The Ecclesial and Ethnic Identities of Korean Americans in Oregon
(2021)ABSTRACTFrom Silent Exodus to the Fellowship Hall: The Ecclesial and Ethnic Identities of Second-Generation Korean Americans in OregonbyDaniel Jaewook LeeDate:_____________________Approved: _________________________Dr. ... -
From Silent Exodus to the Fellowship Hall: The Ecclesial and Ethnic Identities of Korean Americans in Oregon
(2021)ABSTRACTFrom Silent Exodus to the Fellowship Hall: The Ecclesial and Ethnic Identities of Second-Generation Korean Americans in OregonbyDaniel Jaewook LeeDate:_____________________Approved: _________________________Dr. ... -
Going Away to Find Home: A Comparative Study of Heritage/Homeland Tourism
(2011)In this dissertation I explore the "homing desire" (Brah 1996:193) of American diasporas. I argue and show how identities are constructed as primordial. Specifically, I am interested in how homeland tourism, group ... -
Identity Change Impacts Autobiographical Reconstruction of Identity-Relevant Events: Influences of the Self-System on Remembering
(2016)The focus on how one is behaving, feeling, and thinking, provides a powerful source of self-knowledge. How is this self-knowledge utilized in the dynamic reconstruction of autobiographical memories? How, in turn, ... -
Is Lady Justice Blind? Reading Brazil's 2012 Affirmative Action Decision Through the Struggle for Gender Equality
(E-Legis - Revista Eletrônica do Programa de Pós-Graduação da Câmara dos Deputados, 2017-12) -
Leadership for Thriving: A Framework to Lead the Business Community to Sustainable Behaviors
(2023-04-25)Climate change is a complex problem whose solution is still far from being on track. Although we have advanced a lot in terms of knowledge and awareness of the problem, we are struggling to transition to sustainable actions. ... -
Luke, the Jews, and the Politics of Early Christian Identity
(2018)This dissertation explores the nature of early Christian identity in relation to non-Christian Jewish alterity as these are portrayed in the Gospel of Luke. Recent study of the relationships among Jews and Christians in ... -
Minor Mobilities: A Historical Analysis of Little Saigon through Oral History
(2022)After the Vietnam War ended in 1975 many Southern Vietnamese were displaced and forced to relocate. Many of those refugees settled into an area located in Orange County, California and for the past fifty years have worked ... -
Reclaiming Self: An Augustinian Understanding of the Importance and Power of the imago Dei.
(2021)The following work explores identity from overlapping vantage points; biblical/theological, historical and practical to establish a robust understanding of identity in our present time. This thesis explores the ontological ... -
Reclaiming Self: An Augustinian Understanding of the Importance and Power of the imago Dei.
(2021)The following work explores identity from overlapping vantage points; biblical/theological, historical and practical to establish a robust understanding of identity in our present time. This thesis explores the ontological ... -
RECONSTRUCTING RACISM: TRANSFORMING RACIAL HIERARCHY FROM “NECESSARY EVIL” INTO “POSITIVE GOOD”
(Social Philosophy and Policy, 2017)Copyright © 2017 Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation. Our theoretical claim is that racism was consciously (though perhaps not intentionally) devised, and later evolved, to serve two conflicting purposes. First, racism ... -
Remembering the Righteous: Sarcophagus Sculpture and Jewish Patrons in the Roman World
(2017)Sarcophagi belonging to Jewish patrons are an important source of evidence for reconstructing the variety of ways that ancient Jews interacted with visual culture in Late Antiquity. During this period, from the 2nd to 5th ... -
Shattered Moments: The Fall From My 30-Foot Pedestal
(2015-05-19)Part One of my final project consists of a series of creative non-fiction stories detailing a traumatic accident I experienced in 2009. The stories examine my physical recovery and reflect on my emotional recovery process. ... -
The Distant Reach of the Middle East: How Perceptions of Conflict Affect Jewish Israeli American and Palestinian American Identity
(2008-04-17)This interpretive study examines how narratives and collective memories about the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict affect the identities of Jewish Israeli Americans and Palestinian Americans today. In contrast to Charles ... -
The Future of Christian Identity in the Episcopal Church
(2017)Recent surveys show that the number of Americans who claim no affiliation with a church body has doubled in the last decade. In addition to the unaffiliated, those who are affiliated with a church body are spending less ... -
Ummah : The Identity Negotiations of Muslims in the United States
(2019)This dissertation examines Muslims in the United States and the way they negotiate the boundaries of their group identities. Muslims in the U.S. are an extremely diverse spectrum of Muslim communities with different histories, ... -
Walking Backwards: How the Re-Storying of Collective Identity Unlocks the Potential for Churches to Make Significant Changes to their Congregational Practices
(2023)How do churches change? In the life of congregations, collective identity informs congregational practice which, in turn, informs collective identity, forming a reinforcing loop that artificially prevents congregations from ... -
Yellow in White Suits: Race, Mobility, and Identity among Grown Children of Korean Immigrants
(2014)Children of post-1965 Asian immigrants experience a different mode of social incorporation than other people of color. They achieve marked socioeconomic advancement but racism and discrimination continue to haunt ...
