Browsing by Subject "identity"
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American-Born “Confused” Desi?: An Exploration of Indian-American Biculturalism and Bilingualism
(2023-04-21)Our feelings of social connectedness play a major role in our psychological wellbeing. For immigrants and ethnic minorities, cultural communities assist in developing positive social connections and social identities around ... -
Confronting the 'Post-Conflict’ Label: An Exploration of Ethno-Sectarian Identity in Northern Ireland and Cyprus
(2016-04-27)Ghosts of conflict haunt many societies around the world. In those that remain divided, sectarian sentiment governs societal norms and structures. Assigning the 'post-conflict' label to these societies marginalizes the need ... -
Denying Difference: Japanese Identity and the Myth of Monoethnic Japan
(2015-07-09)In this thesis, I tackle the notion of identity within the very specific sociocultural space of Japan. I critique the conception of Japanese identity as it has emerged in concert with the West through the 19th and 20th centuries. ... -
Documenting Chile: Visualizing Identity and the National Body from Dictatorship to Post-Dictatorship
(2016)I study three contemporary Chilean works of visual culture that appropriate and re-assemble visual material, discourse, and atmosphere from the bureaucracy of the military state. I examine Diamela Eltit’s textual performance ... -
Finding a Box for the Multicultural: The Power of Language and the Overcoming Strengths of the Multicultural
(2013-04-24)With each Census in the United States, the number of citizens who identify with multiple racial or cultural categories has slowly elevated. Nevertheless, this nation still lacks a language with which to identify such persons. ... -
Genealogy, Circumcision, and Conversion in Early Judaism and Christianity
(2010)In his important work, The Beginnings of Jewishness, Shaye J. D. Cohen has argued that what it meant to be a Jew underwent considerable revision during the second century B.C.E. While previously a Jew was defined in terms ... -
Learning to Listen, Learning to Be: African-American Girls and Hip-Hop at a Durham, NC Boys and Girls Club
(2009)This dissertation documents African-American girls' musical practices at a Boys and Girls Club in Durham, NC. Hip-hop is the cornerstone of social exchanges at John Avery, and is integrated into virtually all club activities. ... -
Outgroup Similarity as a Source of Cognitive Dissonance: An Investigation of the Turncoat Effect
(2010)A long tradition of social psychological research suggests that perceptions of similarity and common ground can promote more harmonious relations among otherwise diverse social groups. Yet perceived similarity with and ... -
People and Identities in Nessana
(2008-04-22)Abstract In this dissertation I draw on the Nessana papyri corpus and relevant comparable material (including papyri from Petra and Aphrodito and inscriptions from the region) to argue that ethnic, linguistic and imperial ... -
The Persian Persecution: Martyrdom, Politics, and Religious Identity in Late Ancient Syriac Christianity
(2011)According to the Syriac <italic>Acts of the Persian Martyrs</italic>, the Sasanian king Shapur II began persecuting Christians in Persia soon after Constantine's death in 337 CE. Previous studies of the <italic>Acts</italic> ... -
Topics in Rational Choice Theory
(2008-04-29)Rational Choice theory includes a broad body of research that attempts to account for how people act in a variety of contexts, including economic, political and even moral situations. By proposing, most generally, ... -
Who am I in English? Language as the Face of Identity in Bilingual Individuals
(2018-08-31)How does switching to a life in a foreign language and culture affect one’s identity? Specifically, I ask: Do I have a true self unaffected by language and culture, or am I merely a construct of my environment? Studies ...
