South Africa has a ruling dominant party, the African National Congress (ANC), which has been in power since apartheid ended in 1994. In national elections, the ANC has consistently received an overwhelming majority of the vote, even though the majority of South Africa's citizen…
"37" Result
Sort By:
This study examines how Political Entrepreneurs in the United States Congress responded to human rights abuses in six countries during the 1970s and 1980s: Cambodia, El Salvador, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Taiwan, and Uganda. It presents a four-point model for approaching t…
Racial microaggressions are brief, everyday exchanges that include denigrating messages to racial minorities. Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, offences, snubs, or insults whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative …
This study examined the ethnic identity of adult transracial adoptees between the ages of 18 and 34. Twelve adult transracial adoptees participated in the study. A self-administered survey, developed by the researcher, was used to measure the respondents' perceptions on transrac…
This is a historically based study of Nigerian economic policy, foreign and domestic. That history begins with the inception of British control in the nineteenth century and ends with the present dictatorship. While the study considers that entire history, special emphasis is gi…
This dissertation posits that the relationship between processes of regime change and cultural pluralism are mutually informing. It explains why it is possible that, despite the recurrence of ethnic tensions in a multicultural state like the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, a cou…
As commodity, performance, and sonic intervention in social space, popular music is a ubiquitous presence in contemporary Indonesia. This ethnographic study investigates the meanings and uses of three ideologically distinct Indonesian popular music genres: dangdut, pop Indonesia…
The dissertation consists of an examination of the Alma-Ata demonstrations of 17–19 December 1986 in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (KSSR), which were sparked by Gorbachev's replacement of the long-serving Kazakh First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (CPK) D…
This dissertation examines the social construction of ethnic identities among Greek Cypriot children aged nine to twelve attending elementary school in Cyprus. More specifically, it examines how children construct and negotiate their identities in the social domains of everyday …
The influence of traditional African sculpture on Modern art at the turn of the century led many Western scholars to focus attention on its study and collection to the neglect of contemporary African art, which was until quite recently looked down upon as a by-product of Western…
The purpose of this study was to examine how gender and ethnicity were represented in both Chinese and Malay language reading textbooks currently used in primary schools of Malaysia. The aim of this textbook analysis was to determine the extent and manner in which the various gr…
My dissertation, "Marrying in and out of Whiteness: Twentieth-Century Intermarriage Narratives," examines shifting American perceptions of race, ethnicity, and whiteness through the formula of the intermarriage story. In each chapter, I do a comparative study of black/white inte…
How do relatively weak ethnic minorities sustain coherent ethnic movements in the face of sustained state opposition? Although a large body of work analyzing ethnic conflict and national movements now exists, this literature provides surprisingly little help in understanding why…
Ethnic diversity in Belgium health care is a growing problem. Based on birth certificates from 1995 and 1998 the perinatal epidemiology of Turkish, Moroccan and Belgian women in Flanders is described. A higher percentage of pregnancy diabetes in Moroccan women but only half the …
This dissertation explores the cultural traditions and identity affiliations of Islamic communities of Arab descent (keturunan Arab ) in Eastern Indonesia. It further explores the role of Arab-Indonesian culture in the larger Indonesian Islamic community. Arab-Indonesian communi…
Formed on the basis of an Islamic nationalism, the Pakistani state failed to successfully forge a supranational identity subsuming local affiliations. This paper finds that the inability to build a nation of the diverse polity has created challenges to the state's legitimacy. Fu…
Your family has a hankering--a yen for chicken tikka masala or queso fundido, for shrimp pad thai or a Philly cheesesteak--and they want it bad. So you decide to eat out at a local ethnic or roadside restaurant, or do take-out. It's expedient, but is the food really that good? R…