This study explores intergenerational racial injustice conversations in Asian American households by focusing on conversations that occurred following the death of George Floyd. Asian American historical oppression, Eastern versus Western ideologies, and intergenerational commun…
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This research study investigates the perceptions, identities, and typecasting issues surrounding Asian American commercial dancers in Los Angeles through personal and historical contexts. My own experience as a commercial dancer in Los Angeles has led to questions about typecast…
This autoethnographic study explored my academic experiences as a first-generation Afghan woman within the American education system. A finite lens was used to review detailed narratives from sixth grade through the present day. The guiding question for this study was: How have …
The purpose of the study was to determine if the western developed leadership impacted the promotion of Confucian Asians into an administrative position. In addition, this study aimed to determine if current leadership ideas harm advancement for Confucian Asians and to fill a ga…
The short stories in Dreamers explore American masculinity in the twenty-first century. They also examine and complicate Asian-American identity at a time when decades-old stereotypes persist in the culture. In the title story, a war veteran returns home from Afghanistan to find…
Cancer rates are rising among the South Asian population and, more specifically, among South Asian American women from India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. About 1 in 9 Pakistani women will suffer from breast cancer at some point in her life. Research shows many cancer deaths could b…
Pledging Transnational Allegiances: Nationhood, Selfhood, and Belonging in Asian American and Jewish American Narratives, represents a comparative study of immigrant fiction that traces its development over the course of the twentieth century. The use of Jewish American and Asia…
Asian Indian American women are an understudied population in college and are often considered with other Asian American students even though there are important differences. The purpose of this critical life history project was to address the paucity of research on Asian Indian…
The present project investigated the role of ethnicity, Asian American (AA) cultural immersion level, and examiner-examinee racial match on commonly-used neuropsychological and personality measures (Studies One and Two, respectively). As hypothesized, culturally-different respon…
Since 1990, the South Asian population in America has exhibited massive growth, as large numbers of immigrants from India, Pakistan, and other South Asian countries have arrived in the United States. Yet limited empirical psychological research has been conducted assessing race-…
In the United States, the recognition and acceptance of those who identity as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) has generally seen an upward trend since the 1980s (Drake, 2013). Despite this trend, conservative Christians who maintain a traditional reading of the Bible are likely …
A central concern of much of the emergent literature of Asian American women is the question of how identity is defined. Living in, and writing from, what has been called the 'between worlds' condition engenders an often contradictory and frequently shifting sense of identity in…
This research entails gaining a deeper understanding of how Asian Americans relate to racial violence as direct and indirect victims of hate crime. In doing so, this study examines the role of hate crime and how Asian Americans manage to cope with subtle and overt expressions of…
This dissertation analyzes the film performances of Sabu to connect perceptions of Indian-ness across the multiple geographies of colonial India, Britain and the United States. Sabu was an Indian child star featuring in popular British and Hollywood films including Elephant Boy …
Postcolonial critics often assume that Christianity is an oppressive Western religion that imposes cultural and political "colonization" and is therefore intentionally "subverted" or "ironized" by contemporary Asian American writers. From the perspectives of Christian literary a…
This dissertation focuses on Asian American literature and popular culture, concentrating specifically on the rhetoric of authenticity in the multicultural era. Briefly, I argue that multicultural imperatives have produced the unforeseen effect of underscoring--and in many cases…
This project contextualizes and analyzes the writings of Winnifred Eaton, the first published Asian American novelist. Of biracial descent (Chinese-British), Eaton was born into an extremely hostile North American racial environment, as demonstrated by the passage of the 1882 Ex…
In the past two decades, a significant number of revisionist literature has been published by queer Asian theologians challenging orthodox teachings on homosexuality and gender identity. The issue that the Asian American church faces today is pressure from society and culture to…
Objectives: To determine latent subgroups of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and examine the associations between the subgroups, alcohol use disorder (AUD), and chronic medical conditions among AAPIs and whether risks for chronic medical conditions differ by a hist…