Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 309-328).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-315). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed May 29, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57-65).

Thesis (M.A.) in Communication--University of Maine, 2006. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-195).

Following the US Recession and global financial meltdown, many Americans lost their jobs and many more queuing for jobs in the labor market significantly lost their initial prospects of getting employed. Even before the onset of the financial turmoil, the labor market was still not equally receptive of persons of different colors, with the African Americans being the worst affected. The Critical Race Theory (CRT) and the Life Course Theory (LCT) are both made up of crucial tenets that were used to explain the disparities observed in awarding of job opportunities in various states across the US. The study used data collected through the Current Population Survey (CPS) administered by the US Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor and Statistics; surveys from December 2005, December 2008, and December 2011. It was hypothesized that youthful Americans of Black ancestry were the most likely to be denied a chance at employment, with increasing bias towards the South East; the disparities observed in awarding African Americans jobs decreases across advancing age groups; the rates of unemployment for older adults increase over the study period with racial and geographical biases; and that the likelihoods of employment for black and white Hispanics are similar to the probabilities of unemployment for blacks and whites respectively. Using the SPSS and ArcGIS software to develop logistic regression output and thematic mappings of geographic distribution of employment opportunities to members of black, white, and Hispanic backgrounds, the study found out that 1) there is higher concentration of low-likelihood for blacks’ employment among states in the East, without particular bias towards the South West, 2) older African Americans were more likely to secure employment opportunities than their younger counterparts, 3) the rates of unemployment among older members of society have increased tremendously across the three study periods, with the Western states rapidly emerging as leading zones of employment discrimination among the older cohorts, and finally, 4) the probabilities of unemployment amongst black and white Hispanics were not essentially similar to the likelihoods of either blacks or whites.

Pain is an integral part of the life experience. Furthermore, the factors that influence the experience of pain are dynamic. Of the various influencing factors, ethnicity has a growing literature that is revealing how an individual’s subjectivity that stems from ancestral and geographic origins is affecting this process of pain perception. The actual perception of pain has been shown to be quite different among different ethnicities. Ethnically motivated dispositions, in terms of coping, has also led to more questions on how effectively patients can be treated for pain when medicine often attempts to mandate objectivity. Moreover, the interaction and feedback that patients and providers give to each other is a powerful indicator of how pain is experienced and how successful the outcomes of treatment will be.

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of how members of the Indo-Guyanese community traveled from Guyana to New York City, carrying with them distinct understandings of Hinduism informed by their multiple dislocations and how they utilize religion as ideology and practice to help cultivate their identities as Indo-Guyanese Americans. I argue religion as a mobile concept, what I have termed as ‘religion on the move,’ gives a theoretical frame to understand how devotees adapt religion to help them navigate their identities in unknown territories. By studying more than devout individuals in places of worship, I have followed Caribbean Hinduism and Indo-Guyanese Hindus in New York City to various sites to appreciate how religion informs their experiences, operates on different scales (spatially, politically, and temporally), and negotiates power structures. I found that the Indo-Guyanese Hindu community asserts their ethnicity through Caribbean Hinduism to become visible, to overcome marginalization and to claim belonging in the United States. / 2019-10-17

This thesis explores the emergence of indigeneity among a group of post-foragers living on the eastern coast of Sumatra. In the past, despite the lack of definite ethnic boundaries and the fluidity of their identity, they were known as Utan (‘Forest’) or Orang Utan (‘Forest People’). Since 2006, however, many Utan have adopted the new ethnonym of Suku Asli (‘Indigenous People’) and begun claiming their position within the Indonesian State as an integrated and distinctive ethnic group – a group, that is, associated with a unique ‘tradition’ (adat) and a particular ‘indigenous’ identity. As Suku Asli, they have been trying to integrate this identity and protect the ‘ancestral’ lands with which it is thought to be intimately associated. The emergence of this identity does not reflect only their own aspirations but, also, their entanglement with a number of government development programmes or interventions aiming to transform the lives of local ‘tribespeople’. Throughout these contexts, the most important change has been the development of their indigeneity – an indigeneity which, in the context of Indonesia, is ‘imagined’ and recognised in a very particular way by the State. It is on the basis of this indigeneity that the Suku Asli have begun to re-configure their traditional identity and their place within the Nation State. Focusing on some of its most important manifestations and embodiments, the thesis attempts to chart the emergence of this indigeneity and relate it to the entanglement of the people and the government. Treating indigeneity as a perspective that is created between the locals’ traditionally fluid identity and the government development programmes, I describe some of the ways in which ‘tribespeople’ come to embody, resist and transform the government image of ‘indigenous people’ and accomplish their ‘modernisation’ – a ‘modernisation’ demanding, first and foremost, a distinctive and well-bounded indigenous identity.

This thesis examines representations of identities that are specific to Francophone West Africa, as depicted in the films produced in the region since the 1990s. The films are set in the countries of Senegal, Mali and Burkina Faso, among the ethnic groups that form the diverse demographic landscape of the region, and they portray stories and characters that strongly relate these films to the local ways of belonging. While existing research in the field of African film studies focuses on how films from Francophone West Africa portray postcolonial or national identities, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the depiction of identities that are linked to the region’s ethnic cultures. This thesis demonstrates that the local ways of belonging and the practices, rituals and beliefs which these identities rely on continue to have vital significance for representation in Francophone West African cinemas. Using textual analysis as a base for its arguments, this thesis is underpinned by an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that combines extensive contextual research into various West African practices, rituals and beliefs with the philosophical works on cinema by Gilles Deleuze. A number of the concepts Deleuze defines help significantly in the understanding of time and identity in the films, and the interpretative nature of Deleuze’s work offers the opportunity to bridge the gap in film theory application in studies of Francophone African cinema. By applying this diverse theoretical approach to its investigation of the intertwining local identities, the thesis highlights the necessity of an intersectional approach to analysing identity representation in Francophone African cinemas. It is the first study of representations of ethnically-linked identities in the field of African film studies.

182f. / Submitted by Oliveira Santos Dilzaná (dilznana@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-08-29T19:06:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Mestrado Evandro Rabello.pdf: 6110297 bytes, checksum: f79ae1acf7bf03fa641dbc7e387f6478 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Ana Portela(anapoli@ufba.br) on 2013-09-02T17:05:20Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Mestrado Evandro Rabello.pdf: 6110297 bytes, checksum: f79ae1acf7bf03fa641dbc7e387f6478 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-09-02T17:05:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertação de Mestrado Evandro Rabello.pdf: 6110297 bytes, checksum: f79ae1acf7bf03fa641dbc7e387f6478 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / O fenômeno da imigração alemã no estado da Bahia tem sido pouco investigado no âmbito acadêmico, a despeito da existência de registros diversos sobre este tema. No cenário nacional de desenvolvimento de pesquisas sobre a imigração, sobretudo a européia, a Bahia usualmente merece poucas e breves menções, especialmente em se tratando de imigrantes de etnia alemã. Este trabalho pretende, pois, somar-se à literatura já existente, contudo lançando luz sobre, mais especificamente, a denominada colônia alemã de Salvador, estabelecida nesta cidade desde as primeiras décadas do século XIX. A colônia é apresentada aqui sob as perspectivas histórica e etnográfica com o intuito de permitir compreender suas peculiaridades e inserção na cidade de Salvador. Os aspectos próprios da trajetória desta colônia, desde a sua organização, até a atualidade, são descritos neste trabalho, assim como as formas de manutenção dos hábitos, costumes e persistências culturais, caracterizando a manifestação da etnicidade deste grupo em si mesmo e em suas relações com a sociedade envolvente. The phenomenon of the German immigration in the state of Bahia has been little investigated in the academy, despite the existence of various records on this topic. On the national scene for the development of research on immigration, especially the European, Bahia usually deserves few and short terms, especially in the case of the ethnic German immigrants. This paper aims, therefore, add to the existing literature, however shed light on, more specifically, the here so-called Salvador German colony, established in this city since the first decades of the nineteenth century. The colony is presented here under the historical and ethnographic perspectives in order to understand its peculiarities and allow insertion in the city of Salvador. The aspects of the history of this colony, from its organization until the present, are described in this work, as well as ways of maintaining the habits, customs and cultural persistence, characterizing the expression of ethnicity in this group in itself and in its relations with their environment. / Salvador