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481	A Place Like This: An Environmental Justice History of the Owens Valley - Water in Indigenous, Colonial, and Manzanar Stories Embrey, Monica 01 May 2009 (has links) This text provides an environmental justice analysis of the stories of the people who lived in the Owens Valley, who watered its land and cultivated its crops—pine trees, apple trees, and kabocha alike. Telling the personal stories of challenge and resistance that manifested alongside the oppressive forces of military and state domination provides the opportunity to align forcibly relocated, exploited and incarcerated people’s struggles throughout time. This text starts with The Nü’ma Peoples who were the first humans to live in the Owens Valley and continues with the struggle for empire between rival colonial empires of agriculture and distant urban cities. Its final chapters end with an in-depth and personal exploration of the unconstitutional incarceration of 117,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the United States during World War II. All the while it weaves in poetry, art and grassroots stories of resistance. It is a call to action for Environmental Studies and Ethnic Studies Departments to link the critical analysis within their disciplines to tell more accurate histories. environmental justice water history Japanese American internment Native American Owens Valley American Politics Asian American Studies Demography, Population, and Ecology Ethnic Studies Gender and Sexuality Native American Studies Place and Environment Politics and Social Change Race and Ethnicity Regional Sociology Social and Cultural Anthropology
482	Tribal Selves: Subversive Identity in Asian American and Native American Literature Suzuki-Martinez, Sharon S., 1963- January 1996 (has links) No description available.
483	Direct marketing and Asian American in Inland Empire Hutabarat, Laura Louisa 01 January 2003 (has links) This thesis employed a series of surveys of Asian Americans residing in the Inland Empire to determine their personal views towards direct marketing. Data is broken out by age, gender, ethnicity and employment status. Asian American consumers -- Attitudes Direct marketing Consumer behavior Marketing
484	Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled Ideologies at the 1905 World's Fair in Portland, Oregon Cleland, Kat 17 June 2013 (has links) This thesis examines the experiences of fairgoers at the Lewis and Clark Centennial, American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair held in Portland, Oregon from June to October of 1905. Historians have framed world's fairs and international expositions as sites of legitimating narratives and restagings of empire and nationhood. This thesis focuses on women, Asian Americans, and Native Americans who interrupted and disrupted the performance and exhibition of U.S. imperialism in the specific case of Portland, Oregon. It considers who benefitted from or endured loss in the demonstrations of imperial culture at the Fair. Following the premises that metropolitan and colonial histories should be considered in the same analytical field and that the systemic power of domestic imperialism in the United States extended beyond Native Americans into the experiences of most nonwhite American communities, this thesis adds a metropolitan approach to Native-American history and, in turn, applies a more colonial approach to the study of African-American, Asian-American, and working-class women's histories. In three chapters, this study explores a range of disruptions at the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial - patched over by the Exposition's civic elites and overlooked by previous historians of the Fair - that shed light on the politics of race, class, and gender within the processes of empire and nation building in the turn-of-the-century West. Or.) African American Studies Asian American Studies Indigenous Studies
485	Human Capital Formation and Return Migration within Mong Communities in Rural/Semi-Rural Northern California Yang, Chong 01 January 2021 (has links) This research uses computational grounded theory to explore the human capital formation and stay/return migration experiences of well-educated Mong adults living in various rural/semi-rural Northern California localities within Butte, Yuba, and Sutter Counties. Rural vitality is dependent on the return of these well-educated rural-raised adults. Out-migration of rurality’s best and brightest contributes towards a brain drain and the hallowing out of rurality’s human capital. Findings of this research is conveyed using two research articles examining two different points on the continuum of rural vitality. The first article examines 19 Mong adults’ educational experiences within their rural communities and college education. The second article examines the experiences and factors for the same Mong adults to stay or return. The seven emerging themes describe Mong students’ social capital within their communities towards educational attainment and place affinity. Education Asian studies Southeast Asian studies Hmong Human Capital Mong Northern California Rural Social Capital Asian American Studies Education Educational Leadership Ethnic Studies Migration Studies Race and Ethnicity Rural Sociology Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology
486	“The Reliability of Cross-Cultural Communication in Contemporary Anglophone Arab Writing” ALHAJJI, ALI A. 31 December 2018 (has links) No description available. American History American Studies American Literature Asian American Studies Australian Literature Bilingual Education Canadian Literature Communication Comparative Literature Ethnic Studies Foreign Language Language Literature Middle Eastern History Middle Eastern Literature Middle Eastern Studies Minority and Ethnic Groups Near Eastern Studies Personality Psychology Rhetoric British and Irish Literature postcolonial Anglophone Arab narrative cross-cultural communication unreliability
487	Biracial/Multiracial Student Perceptions of Student Academic Support Services at a Predominantly White Public Institution Fischer-Kinney, Julie A. January 2012 (has links) No description available. Academic Guidance Counseling African American Studies Asian American Studies Black Studies Educational Leadership Ethnic Studies Higher Education Higher Education Administration Hispanic American Studies Minority and Ethnic Groups Multicultural Education Native American Studies biracial multiracial support services predominantly white institution student academic support services student perceptions student success local student success model triangulation focus groups
488	Rendering the Other: Ideologies of the Neo-Oriental in World of Warcraft Vlisides, James C. 15 May 2013 (has links) No description available. American Studies Asian American Studies Asian Studies Computer Science Cultural Anthropology Ethnic Studies Information Science Information Systems Information Technology Mass Communications Mass Media Rhetoric Social Research Sociology Technology Technical Communication American Cuilture Studies Video Games Ideology Althusser Said Asia Orientalism World of Warcraft Play Thesis Race Materialism Capitalism Gold Farming Play Immersion Postmodernism
489	Ethical Wondering in Contemporary African American and Asian American Women's Magical Realism Na Rim Kim (16501845) 07 July 2023 (has links) <p>The term magical realism traces back to the German art critic Franz Roh, who in the early twentieth century applied it to (visual) art expressing the wondrousness of life. However, this definition has been eclipsed over time. Reorienting critical attention back to magical realism as the art of portraying wonder and wondering, I explore the magical realist novels of contemporary African American and Asian American women writers. Specifically, I examine Toni Morrison’s <em>Paradise</em> (1997), Jesmyn Ward’s <em>Sing, Unburied, Sing</em> (2017), Karen Tei Yamashita’s <em>Through the Arc of the Rain Forest</em> (1990), and Ruth Ozeki’s <em>A Tale for the Time Being</em> (2013). In wonder, all frames of reference at hand suddenly become inadequate. Simultaneously, the subject’s interest is heightened. As such, the act/experience of wondering may lead to humility and respect, the two attitudes at the base of any ethically flourishing life—a life that flourishes <em>with</em> others. For this reason, the Asian American woman writer and peace activist Maxine Hong Kingston espoused wondering. Affiliated with groups marginalized within the US, like Kingston my writers also promote wonder. I examine how these writers, through compelling use of both content and form, guide their readers toward a particular kind of wondering: wondering with an awareness of how the act/experience might lead to ethical flourishing.</p> Cultural theory Comparative and transnational literature Ecocriticism Literary theory North American literature Stylistics and textual analysis Epistemology Ethical theory Phenomenology Magical Realism Wonder Ethics African American Women's Literature Asian American Women's Literature Contemporary Literature Maxine Hong Kingston Toni Morrison Jesmyn Ward Karen Tei Yamashita Ruth Ozeki Paradise Sing, Unburied, Sing Through the Arc of the Rain Forest A Tale for the Time Being
490	The After Effects of Colonialism in the Postmodern Era: Competing Narratives and Celebrating the Local in Michael Ondaatje’s <i>Anil’s Ghost</i> Pillainayagam, Priyanthan A. 25 May 2012 (has links) No description available. Asian American Studies Asian Studies Canadian Literature Comparative Ethnic Studies Families and Family Life Forensic Anthropology Gender Studies History Holocaust Studies Human Remains International Relations Language Arts Literature Minority and Ethnic colonialism postmodernism Jean Francois Lyotard (meta)narratives local Michael Ondaatje Anil's Ghost South Asian Sri Lanka independence civil war NGO&8217 s identity truth mystery/detective fiction personal stories buddhist genocide

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