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- OF RACE AND RESISTANCE: INSIDE AND OUT OF ETHNIC LIVES IN MODERN LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAS.
- Creator
- Martin, Dyanne K., Esquilín Gosser, Mary Ann, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
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Race is a pressing issue that pervades discussions of public policy and societal matters in twenty-first century national cultures—even as those populations, paradoxically, turn toward increasing globalization. We need to understand now, more than ever, what race means to us and how and why it means in order for us to understand our deep investments in it. This study explores—through the genres of slave narrative, fiction, and memoir—the process of socio-semiogenesis by which people recognize...
Show moreRace is a pressing issue that pervades discussions of public policy and societal matters in twenty-first century national cultures—even as those populations, paradoxically, turn toward increasing globalization. We need to understand now, more than ever, what race means to us and how and why it means in order for us to understand our deep investments in it. This study explores—through the genres of slave narrative, fiction, and memoir—the process of socio-semiogenesis by which people recognize and perform race; it also examines the customs that allow people not only to form themselves in groups but also to disrupt, remediate, and invert the implicit racial codes that govern human interaction within and among such groups. This study offers a Peircean, triadic approach to the dialectics of race—an approach that seeks to find a space in which dialogue and healing might occur even as it sheds light on those shades of biology and culture that both form and divide us.
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- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013704
- Subject Headings
- Race, Dialectics, Ethnic studies
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- IMPACT OF OCCUPATIONAL IDENTITY: CUBAN EXILE FISHERMEN IN DADE COUNTY.
- Creator
- KHULY, MARGARITA ALEJANDRE., Florida Atlantic University, Villemez, Wayne J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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This study focuses on occupational identity of Cuban exile fishermen in Dade County, Florida, and the strength of this identity when faced with the Bahamian fishing conflict (1973-1975). It was hypothesized that this identity would become stronger because of this conflict. Other hypotheses predicted differences between perceived and actual fishing legislation in the United States, pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Cuba. The same comparison was made with occupational status. Subjective data...
Show moreThis study focuses on occupational identity of Cuban exile fishermen in Dade County, Florida, and the strength of this identity when faced with the Bahamian fishing conflict (1973-1975). It was hypothesized that this identity would become stronger because of this conflict. Other hypotheses predicted differences between perceived and actual fishing legislation in the United States, pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Cuba. The same comparison was made with occupational status. Subjective data was obtained from a questionnaire administered to fifty fishermen. Strength of occupational identity was not as strong as expected. Subjective views on fishing legislation and status did show a discrepancy with objective data. A number of fishermen conformed to all hypotheses, and further analyses attempt to explain the stronger occupational identity of this group.
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- 1975
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13721
- Subject Headings
- Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- KNOWLEDGE OF BLACK ACHIEVERS AND THE MOBILITY ATTITUDES, ASPIRATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS OF BLACK YOUTHS.
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- BOLLING, ERIC R., Florida Atlantic University, Tittle, Charles, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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The literature concerning achievement motivation suggests a relationship between youths' awareness of similar trait occupational role models and their mobility aspirations and expectations. The research study presented here was conducted to test the hypothesis that the amount of knowledge black youths have of black achievers is positively related to their mobility attitudes, and their occupational and educational aspirations and expectations. The data indicate that the hypothesized...
Show moreThe literature concerning achievement motivation suggests a relationship between youths' awareness of similar trait occupational role models and their mobility aspirations and expectations. The research study presented here was conducted to test the hypothesis that the amount of knowledge black youths have of black achievers is positively related to their mobility attitudes, and their occupational and educational aspirations and expectations. The data indicate that the hypothesized relationships are at best weak. However, the fact that the strong relationships generally cited as existing between parents' education and occupation and their children's mobility attitudes were also not found indicates a need for further research regarding the variables that could possibly influence black mobility aspirations and expectations.
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- 1973
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13604
- Subject Headings
- Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- BOARD ETHNIC AND RACIAL DIVERSITY: DOES IT IMPACT EARNINGS QUALITY?.
- Creator
- Mungai, Ann W. Nduati, Thevenot, Maya, Florida Atlantic University, School of Accounting, College of Business
- Abstract/Description
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I examine whether and how racially/ethnically diverse board impacts the quality of reported earnings. Agency theory suggests that the board of directors acts as a robust governance mechanism to reduce opportunistic managerial behavior that may harm shareholders' wealth. Further, diversity coalesces a variety of attributes from different directors that are valuable in predicting organizational outcomes. The majority of extant literature focuses on gender-diverse boards and various firm...
Show moreI examine whether and how racially/ethnically diverse board impacts the quality of reported earnings. Agency theory suggests that the board of directors acts as a robust governance mechanism to reduce opportunistic managerial behavior that may harm shareholders' wealth. Further, diversity coalesces a variety of attributes from different directors that are valuable in predicting organizational outcomes. The majority of extant literature focuses on gender-diverse boards and various firm outcomes, while little is known about how directors' race/ethnicity affects earnings quality. Using a sample of firms publicly traded in the U.S., I find that increased board racial/ethnic diversity is associated with better earnings quality as proxied by lower discretionary accruals and lower probability of internal control weaknesses and financial statement restatements. I further examine whether firms with increased diversity (racial/ethnic and gender diversity) enjoy incrementally higher earnings quality than other firms. However, I fail to find support that racial/ethnic and gender intersectionality is associated with improved earnings quality. Lastly, based on critical mass theory, I test whether an industry descriptive norm is necessary for firms to enjoy increased earnings quality. I find that racial/ethnic directors have a meaningful impact on a firm's earnings quality regardless of the level of diversity; even firms with lower than the industry descriptive norm of racial/ethnic diversity enjoy improved earnings quality.
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- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013754
- Subject Headings
- Boards of directors, Ethnic diversity, Corporate profits
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Evelyn Waugh and the Jews.
- Creator
- Bittner, David Jonathan, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
- Abstract/Description
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The anti-Semitism of Evelyn Waugh went beyond mere literary characterization. A study of Waugh's attitudes toward Nazism, Zionism, and World War II provides evidence that the Jewish characterizations in Waugh's work were underlined by stable and settled negative convictions regarding the Jewish people. Waugh's anti-Semitism had surprisingly little to do with Christian religious teaching but may almost entirely be attributed to upper-class British snobbism and his view that Jews were agents of...
Show moreThe anti-Semitism of Evelyn Waugh went beyond mere literary characterization. A study of Waugh's attitudes toward Nazism, Zionism, and World War II provides evidence that the Jewish characterizations in Waugh's work were underlined by stable and settled negative convictions regarding the Jewish people. Waugh's anti-Semitism had surprisingly little to do with Christian religious teaching but may almost entirely be attributed to upper-class British snobbism and his view that Jews were agents of capitalism, democracy, and secularism. Before the Holocaust Waugh gave his anti-Semitism free and unrestrained rein in his novels. After the Holocaust Waugh tried to blunt anti-Semitism in his novels, but the anti-Semitic outlook was so ingrained in him that he was not entirely successful. There are ample signs of old prejudices at play in his post-war writings. Waugh also denied many of his Jewish characters an authentic Jewish voice.
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- 1989
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14504
- Subject Headings
- Religion, General, Literature, English, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La identidad racial y cultural en la obra de Alicia Yanez Cossio.
- Creator
- Baez, Marcela A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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Alicia Yanez Cossio, an established novelist and short story writer from Ecuador, reflects on the most serious social problems in her country. She is especially concerned with the Ecuadorian people's identity. In her works she describes how the Church and State, which promote and maintain a patriarchal social structure, have perpetuated the devaluation of women that began with the conquest. This study analyzes how women confront and define their gender as well as their race in two novels:...
Show moreAlicia Yanez Cossio, an established novelist and short story writer from Ecuador, reflects on the most serious social problems in her country. She is especially concerned with the Ecuadorian people's identity. In her works she describes how the Church and State, which promote and maintain a patriarchal social structure, have perpetuated the devaluation of women that began with the conquest. This study analyzes how women confront and define their gender as well as their race in two novels: Bruna, soroche y los tios (1972) and La cofradia del mullo del vestido de la Virgen Pipona (2002). As she traces Ecuadorian history, Yanez Cossio draws paralellisms between the loss of identity and gender, and focuses on the repercussions this has had in the lives of Ecuadorian women. Through the characters she offers possible solutions. This thesis analyzes the writer's perspective of the identity problem in this South American country and the fight of its people, most specifically women, to recover their identity by recognizing their indigenous roots and their gender, in a social environment that denies either are significant or relevant.
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- 2005
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13200
- Subject Headings
- Literature, Latin American, Anthropology, Cultural, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Ethnicity and immunization compliance.
- Creator
- Spitznagle, Carol Lee., Florida Atlantic University, Hayes, Janice S.
- Abstract/Description
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This study examined the relationship between ethnicity and parents' compliance with immunizations of their children. Recent studies have shown that compliance rates for immunizations of children who were two years of age were below the standards set by the American Academy of Pediatrics due to both health system barriers and family/child barriers. A survey of pediatric patients was conducted utilizing a convenience sample of 66 parents of children between the ages of twenty and twenty-eight...
Show moreThis study examined the relationship between ethnicity and parents' compliance with immunizations of their children. Recent studies have shown that compliance rates for immunizations of children who were two years of age were below the standards set by the American Academy of Pediatrics due to both health system barriers and family/child barriers. A survey of pediatric patients was conducted utilizing a convenience sample of 66 parents of children between the ages of twenty and twenty-eight months. The subjects were interviewed to determine factors affecting immunization compliance, including cultural factors consistent with the theoretical framework of Madeline Leininger. The statistical analysis of the sample responses revealed an ethnically diverse sample of two year old hospitalized children whose immunization compliance was 53%. No statistically significant correlations (≤0.05) were noted among the socioeconomic, system barriers, or educational barriers when compared among the ethnic groups in the study, however trends were demonstrated.
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- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15642
- Subject Headings
- Immunization of children, Ethnicity, Health attitudes, Patient compliance
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Acculturative Stress in Second Generation Haitian Americans.
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- Horne, Cassandre, Keller, Kathryn B., Florida Atlantic University, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
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Second generation Haitian Americans have a unique set of challenges created by the fluid balancing of three cultures. This group has to be able to understand and function appropriately between the American culture, Black American culture, and the Haitian culture. Balancing and living in between multiple cultures while trying to grow in autonomy and adulthood can affect the mental health of emerging adults. Youth transitioning into adulthood struggle with gaining independence while finding...
Show moreSecond generation Haitian Americans have a unique set of challenges created by the fluid balancing of three cultures. This group has to be able to understand and function appropriately between the American culture, Black American culture, and the Haitian culture. Balancing and living in between multiple cultures while trying to grow in autonomy and adulthood can affect the mental health of emerging adults. Youth transitioning into adulthood struggle with gaining independence while finding their way in their identity. This stress coupled with cultural expectations are increasing stress levels in this population and age group. This study implemented a mixed methods approach to explore if acculturative stress had an effect on the mental health of second generation Haitian Americans. Also, explored in this study is the degree of stress experienced by this population. Resulting themes revealed that Haitian parents and culture were strict, a dual identity, and lack of awareness/ support for mental health in the culture were stressors. Themes of admiration for the Haitian culture and resiliency serve as possibilities as to why many continued to be educated members of society.
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- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013820
- Subject Headings
- Haitian Americans, Stress, Psychological, Acculturation, Haitian Americans--Ethnic identity
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- ETHNIC AND RACIAL CONFLICT IN MIAMI SINCE THE CUBAN INFLUX, 1960-1985 (FLORIDA).
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- O'HARE, PATRICK JAMES., Florida Atlantic University, Mohl, Raymond A., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
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Miami experienced considerable ethnic and racial tension after the Cuban influx began in 1960. Large numbers of Cuban, and later Haitian immigrants altered the social complexion of the city. During this period of rapid change, the Cuban, Anglo and black communities attempted to improve their standard of living. Economic and political competition created hostility among the ethnic groups. In the twenty-five year period ending in 1985, the groups perceived that the gains of one came at the...
Show moreMiami experienced considerable ethnic and racial tension after the Cuban influx began in 1960. Large numbers of Cuban, and later Haitian immigrants altered the social complexion of the city. During this period of rapid change, the Cuban, Anglo and black communities attempted to improve their standard of living. Economic and political competition created hostility among the ethnic groups. In the twenty-five year period ending in 1985, the groups perceived that the gains of one came at the expense of the others. This attitude spawned ethnic and racial tension that prevented cooperation and adversely affected the social harmony within the city to this day.
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- 1987
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14419
- Subject Headings
- History, United States, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Jews of greater Miami: An historical perspective.
- Creator
- Shaw, Martin., Florida Atlantic University, Mohl, Raymond A.
- Abstract/Description
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The principal purpose of this thesis is to provide an historical perspective on the Jewish presence in Greater Miami from its beginnings in 1896 to the present. In the early years, Jews were forced to endure widespread anti-Semitism. However, by the 1950's Jewish tenacity largely defeated the exponents of bigotry. Jewish entrepreneurship produced an environment that resulted in world-wide recognition of Miami Beach and its environs as the ultimate winter resort area. During this process,...
Show moreThe principal purpose of this thesis is to provide an historical perspective on the Jewish presence in Greater Miami from its beginnings in 1896 to the present. In the early years, Jews were forced to endure widespread anti-Semitism. However, by the 1950's Jewish tenacity largely defeated the exponents of bigotry. Jewish entrepreneurship produced an environment that resulted in world-wide recognition of Miami Beach and its environs as the ultimate winter resort area. During this process, Miami's Jews built a strong sense of community that revolved around a variety of religious and cultural institutions. By 1975, the Miami area's Jewish population reached 289,210. Since then, an aging population, indifferent leadership, Black militancy, a vast crime increase, and a Hispanic population explosion contributed to a Jewish exodus that brought about a precipitous decline of Jewish population to 202,000. In nine decades, the Jewish presence has gone from spectacular growth to alarming decline.
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- 1992
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14855
- Subject Headings
- Jews--Florida--Miami--History, Miami (Fla)--Ethnic relations
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Immigrant political and social involvement: motives and organizational contexts.
- Creator
- Jensen, Lene Arnett, Jack Miller Forum, Department of Political Science, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2009-01-30
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT186666p
- Subject Headings
- Immigrants -- United States -- Political activity, Ethnic relations -- Political aspects, Ethnicity -- Political aspects -- United States, Cultural pluralism -- United States
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- Set of related objects
- Title
- Heartland Germans: Cultural maintenance in mid-nineteenth century America.
- Creator
- LaVigne, Madelyn Witt., Florida Atlantic University, Engle, Stephen D.
- Abstract/Description
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Midwestern Germans who populated Indianapolis, St. Louis, Chicago and St. Paul represented a kind of cultural identity that revealed an ethnic pride. Through the church, the press, their language, social organizations and political involvement, these Germans demonstrated the tenacity of a people willing to risk the security of their homeland for a better life in America and in the process established a set of cultural norms that reflected a significant attempt to maintain their ethnic...
Show moreMidwestern Germans who populated Indianapolis, St. Louis, Chicago and St. Paul represented a kind of cultural identity that revealed an ethnic pride. Through the church, the press, their language, social organizations and political involvement, these Germans demonstrated the tenacity of a people willing to risk the security of their homeland for a better life in America and in the process established a set of cultural norms that reflected a significant attempt to maintain their ethnic identity. During the years 1830-1870, the pull of cheap and available land fueled the chain migration that led to the largest influx of German immigrants in American history. German insistence on the maintenance of their cultural distinction, while achieving full acceptance as Americans, reveals the tenacity of one ethnic group not to be lost in the "melting pot" of American folklore, but rather to fully, identifiably contribute to their new homeland.
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- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13338
- Subject Headings
- German Americans--Ethnic identity, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, German Americans--Middle West--History
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Vision of Theophilus: resistance through orality among the persecuted Copts.
- Creator
- Guirguis, Fatin Morris., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
- Abstract/Description
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This study is a literary and ethnographic examination of The Vision of Theophilus, a fourth century Coptic narrative, as influential counter-narrative and source of counterdiscourse against the narrative created by the historically dominant Egyptian Arab Muslim state. It shows that The Vision has provided the Copts with the means to articulate their identity as different from their oppressors through its function as a repository of Coptic ideology, history and knowledge. Specifically, it has...
Show moreThis study is a literary and ethnographic examination of The Vision of Theophilus, a fourth century Coptic narrative, as influential counter-narrative and source of counterdiscourse against the narrative created by the historically dominant Egyptian Arab Muslim state. It shows that The Vision has provided the Copts with the means to articulate their identity as different from their oppressors through its function as a repository of Coptic ideology, history and knowledge. Specifically, it has helped them resist the erosion of those aspects of their cultural identity targeted by colonial practices through its promotion of the Coptic language, pride in Coptic history, and Christianization of the landscape. This study also suggests that The Vision tradition has helped alleviate the conditions of material and economic oppression of Copts. Drawing upon theories of Foucauldian genealogy and postcolonialism my research examines the development of Coptic identity and subjectivity in relation to assimilation practices. Using oral studies and ethnopoetics, this study traces the process of composition, transmission, stabilization and systemization of The Vision over sixteen hundred years and its dispersion over a wide geographic region from Egypt to Ethiopia, Syria, and the US. My research suggests that the resilience and effectiveness of The Vision as oral tradition lies in the stability of its core message and its ability to absorb and adapt peripheral changes to the needs of each given historical period. Close analysis of this core message as gleaned through comparative manuscript study also supports important revisions to its datation, and enables us to claim its Coptic authenticity. Previously, the only academic scholarly work concerning The Vision centered on its diffused Syrian and Ethiopian variants while its Coptic manuscript history remained largely unknown., This study, which emphasizes the specifically Coptic origins, history and significance of The Vision of Theophilus, therefore fills a vital scholarly gap: Locating cultural resistance and agency in orality, this study shows how The Vision has historically acted (and still acts today) as a repository of Coptic history and culture enabling Copts to articulate a separate identity over long periods of time, and amidst a wide range of historical and socio-economic factors.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/1927607
- Subject Headings
- Copts, History, Oral tradition, Religion and politics, Persecution, History, Copts, Ethnic identity, Ethnic relations, Social aspects
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Maori renaissance: The reclamation and evolution of Maori cultural identity through the arts.
- Creator
- Zaitz, Cynthia, Comparative Studies Program, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2008-10-24
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT165276p
- Subject Headings
- Maori (New Zealand people), Ethnicity -- Oceania, Group identity -- Oceania, Maori language
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- Set of related objects
- Title
- Chinese in southeast Florida, 1900-1992.
- Creator
- Gordy, Josephine Shih., Florida Atlantic University, Dow, Tsung-I
- Abstract/Description
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Chinese immigrants flocked to the West Coast of the United States when gold was discovered in the mid-1800s. Early Chinese sojourners answered California's call for cheap and reliable laborers. Those Chinese pioneering families who settled in Southeast Florida in the land boom years of the 1920s were not sojourners; they intended to make this country their home. They left behind not only the legacy of the Chinese grocery store tradition, but an educated progeny as well. The absence of a...
Show moreChinese immigrants flocked to the West Coast of the United States when gold was discovered in the mid-1800s. Early Chinese sojourners answered California's call for cheap and reliable laborers. Those Chinese pioneering families who settled in Southeast Florida in the land boom years of the 1920s were not sojourners; they intended to make this country their home. They left behind not only the legacy of the Chinese grocery store tradition, but an educated progeny as well. The absence of a Chinatown facilitated the assimilation process. Yet it did not deter the community's efforts to maintain Chinese culture and tradition, which is achieved partly through the various Chinese language schools and partly through the publications of Chinese newspapers. The Chinese-American community in Southeast Florida is made up of Chinese immigrants from Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and their native-born offspring. Contributing to Florida's rapidly growing Asian-American population, the Chinese make up a dynamic segment of the Sunshine State's new multicultural society.
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- 1994
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15104
- Subject Headings
- Chinese Americans--Florida., Chinese--Florida., Florida--Ethnic relations.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The influence of parenting practices on ethnic identity and social and academic outcomes.
- Creator
- Williams, Vickie Annette, Florida Atlantic University, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
- Abstract/Description
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The present study examined the relation between parenting practices and adolescent ethnic identity, behavior problems, and academic achievement. Four hundred and sixty-nine adolescents completed questionnaires assessing perceptions of parenting, ethnic identity, and social adjustment. Grades and achievement scores were obtained from participating schools. The study addressed four aims: (1) Examine the relation between parenting practices and adolescent outcomes; (2) Examine the relation...
Show moreThe present study examined the relation between parenting practices and adolescent ethnic identity, behavior problems, and academic achievement. Four hundred and sixty-nine adolescents completed questionnaires assessing perceptions of parenting, ethnic identity, and social adjustment. Grades and achievement scores were obtained from participating schools. The study addressed four aims: (1) Examine the relation between parenting practices and adolescent outcomes; (2) Examine the relation between parenting practices and ethnic identity; (3) Examine the relation between ethnic identity and adolescent outcomes; and (4) Explore whether these associations vary across ethnic groups. It was hypothesized that parenting practices would influence adolescent outcomes similarly regardless of ethnicity. Specifically, it was hypothesized that parental involvement, autonomy granting, and strictness/supervision would be associated with fewer behavior problems and higher school grades for African Americans, Anglo Americans, and Cuban Americans. Additionally, it was expected that parental strictness/supervision, autonomy granting, and involvement would predict ethnic identity for African Americans and Cuban Americans, but not Anglo Americans. Finally, it was expected that ethnic identity would be associated with outcomes for African Americans and Cuban Americans, but not Anglo Americans. The findings revealed that parenting practices were associated with adolescent outcomes for African Americans, Anglo Americans, and Cuban Americans. For African Americans, strict parenting was negatively related to behavior problems, but unrelated to academic achievement. Parental autonomy granting was negatively related to behavior problems. For Anglo Americans and Cuban Americans, parental strictness/supervision, autonomy granting, and involvement were negatively related to behavior problems. Parental autonomy granting and strictness/supervision were positively related to academic achievement for Anglo Americans, but unrelated to academic achievement among Cuban Americans. Parenting practices predicted ethnic identity for Cuban Americans, but not African Americans or Anglo Americans. Ethnic identity was related to behavior problems for African Americans, but it was unrelated to Cuban American and Anglo American adolescent outcomes. The findings from this study provide insight into the unique contribution of parenting practices and ethnic identity to adolescent behavior problems and academic achievement. As expected, parenting practices were associated with adolescent outcomes, and similarities rather than differences characterized these associations in the three ethnic groups. Ethnic identity was related to adolescent outcomes with variations as a function of ethnicity. A central focus of this study was to distinguish parenting practices from parenting styles. This distinction is key when attempting to identify specific parental behaviors that contribute to adolescent adaptation. Changing demographics underscore the need for continued study of how parenting practices and ethnic identity influence adaptation among adolescents from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
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- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12605
- Subject Headings
- Psychology, Social, Psychology, Developmental, Sociology, Individual and Family Studies, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Gender, race, class and the problem of meaning: Black female rappers as a site for resistance.
- Creator
- Biferie, Michelle Joanne, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Abstract/Description
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The issue of oppression becomes all the more complicated when it is realized that the language used by the dominant culture and, to a certain extent, those who are subordinate to that culture, is not only race- and class-biased but phallogocentric as well. It is primarily through language that social customs, beliefs and practices are normalized and viewed as "common sense" by the people engaging in them. Since it plays an integral role in constructing the "reality" for any given group of...
Show moreThe issue of oppression becomes all the more complicated when it is realized that the language used by the dominant culture and, to a certain extent, those who are subordinate to that culture, is not only race- and class-biased but phallogocentric as well. It is primarily through language that social customs, beliefs and practices are normalized and viewed as "common sense" by the people engaging in them. Since it plays an integral role in constructing the "reality" for any given group of individuals, language is anything but a benign method of communication among human beings. Certain groups, however, often manage to break with the dominant discourses and rewrite the language. From within the hip-hop subculture, black female rap artists emerge as a challenge to misogyny and racial bigotry by resisting the hegemonic modes which construct and control the human subject.
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- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14891
- Subject Headings
- Women's Studies, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mass Communications
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Strategies for effective communication with Hispanic students: An analysis of student responses to recruitment viewbooks used by colleges and universities.
- Creator
- Botero, Nancy Renee, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Abstract/Description
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This study examines effective strategies of communication with Hispanic students through the use of printed material, specifically recruitment viewbooks used by colleges and universities. The Hispanic market is significant in south Florida. As colleges and universities begin to seek to communicate the benefits of their institutions to this population, it is important to produce printed communication in a manner that appeals to members of the Hispanic culture. Using a qualitative approach...
Show moreThis study examines effective strategies of communication with Hispanic students through the use of printed material, specifically recruitment viewbooks used by colleges and universities. The Hispanic market is significant in south Florida. As colleges and universities begin to seek to communicate the benefits of their institutions to this population, it is important to produce printed communication in a manner that appeals to members of the Hispanic culture. Using a qualitative approach through focus group research, Hispanic freshmen students of a community college and upper division students at a public university were asked a series of open-ended questions about their preferences in the use of language, photographs and several design elements of three publications. One college viewbook represented a majority enrollment of Hispanics. The second viewbook represented a university that is culturally diverse. A third viewbook represented a university that has Hispanic enrollment of less than 4%.
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- 1999
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/15621
- Subject Headings
- Business Administration, Marketing, Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Mass Communications, Education, Higher
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Using the visual to "see" absence: the case of Thessaloniki.
- Creator
- Stein, Nancy Carol., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract/Description
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Thessaloniki, a city with an Ottoman, Byzantine, and Sephardic past, is located in the Balkan area of Macedonia, in northern Greece. Its history is the story of people who have come from someplace else. For several hundred years, the majority population of the city was comprised of Spanish speaking Sephardic Jews who contributed to all aspects of the development of the city. This significant presence is no longer visible unless one specifically knows where to look for its traces. It is not a...
Show moreThessaloniki, a city with an Ottoman, Byzantine, and Sephardic past, is located in the Balkan area of Macedonia, in northern Greece. Its history is the story of people who have come from someplace else. For several hundred years, the majority population of the city was comprised of Spanish speaking Sephardic Jews who contributed to all aspects of the development of the city. This significant presence is no longer visible unless one specifically knows where to look for its traces. It is not a history that has been silenced or erased, but rather obliterated. In this dissertation, I present the documented presence and transformations of the Jewish population in Thessaloniki from the earliest contributions to present day. This work on absence uses visual anthropology to explore the present day urban environment through an ethnographic account of the city of Thessaloniki. . This is a work about what happens when intentionally omitted histories remain absent from the public sphere. What remains physically present but unrepresented proves equally important in creating and reinforcing memory. Our relationship to our environment also may be compromised by what is absent. This project examines absence through the circumstances by which the past is represented in the present, and looks at how the past is experienced in ways that may be used to invoke, challenge, or re-direct the way a community is remembered.
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3361054
- Subject Headings
- Jews, History, Sephardim, History, Ethnic relations, Social life and customs, History, Ethnic relations, History
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- La polâitica de la identidad y la universidad: el ejemplo de la literatura Hispâanica.
- Creator
- Currie, Caitlin., Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College
- Abstract/Description
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This project examines politicization of the university. Critics have long charged that politics, and specifically identity politics, has infiltrated the classroom via radical professors. Scholars who lament the decline of the western canon claim that a massive wave of new untested works - largely written by women and people of color - have replaced the works of dead white men leaving our students ill-prepared. While most of the scholarship in this area has been written in the area of English...
Show moreThis project examines politicization of the university. Critics have long charged that politics, and specifically identity politics, has infiltrated the classroom via radical professors. Scholars who lament the decline of the western canon claim that a massive wave of new untested works - largely written by women and people of color - have replaced the works of dead white men leaving our students ill-prepared. While most of the scholarship in this area has been written in the area of English literature departments, this project focuses on the field of Hispanic Literature. If identity politics has challenged the canon in the university, it is expected that within identity-based disciplines the infiltration of politics should be substantial. To test the politicization of the university, I examined 38 Hispanic Literature survey courses from a variety of American universities. I found a high degree of consistency among these syllabi and concluded that critics of the university have at best overstated their case.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/165334
- Subject Headings
- Spanish literature, History and criticism, Ethnic groups in literature, Multiculturalism in literature, Interdisciplinary approach in education
- Format
- Document (PDF)
