Self-injury is a growing public health concern that impacts individuals of all ages, genders, and racial-ethnic backgrounds. While research on self-injury has primarily been conducted from a psychological and clinical perspective, this dissertation takes a social psychological a…
This dissertation examines the uses and meanings of the so-called Mudéjar aesthetic in sixteenth century New Spain (colonial Mexico). Its focus on the luxury arts, especially on cloth, clothing, and ceramics, offers a shift from the traditional focus on architectural history to …
The subject of my dissertation is cinematic constructions of African immigrant and French identities. I analyze Vivre au Paradis (Bourlem Guerdjou), Soleil Ô (Med Hondo), La Noire de… (Ousmane Sembene), and Mémoires d'immigrés (Yamina Benguigui) from cultural, aesthetic, and pol…
Land and landscape art are invariably loaded with connotations fundamental to cultural identification, and urban settings and cityview motifs offer some of the most accessible and sharable cultural associations. Indeed, with their recognizable buildings, cityscapes can provide a…
Questions of racial and cultural identity have almost become endemic in current Africana, American, cultural and humanistic studies. So too have issues concerning subaltern resistance to, and/or determined self-integration into, dominant cultures. This study has been conceived a…
In 1909 the neighborhood-turned-metropolis of Tel Aviv was founded by sixty Jewish families from Jaffa, one of the oldest cities in the world. From the start Tel Aviv has been imagined and portrayed by its leaders and residents alike as both a “city from the sands” and as the “f…
This study examines styles of sociability and bodily practices in Zabi d, a town in the Republic of Yemen. This work addresses how women's personal and familial identities are constituted through bodily practices of adornment and modesty. Their families' wealth, generosity, and …
This thesis draws on the experiences of 21 young people transitioning from a special school for students with labels of moderate learning difficulty, to further education college. Taking a disability studies approach, that is, viewing disability as a social and political respons…
Employing critical race theory as a theoretical and analytical framework, this thesis explores the nature, structure and purpose of Islamophobic discourse, and offers two central contributions to the scholarly debate on Islamophobia. First, it contributes to the literature on th…
Around eighty percent of cross-border mergers do not succeed. Despite a substantial body of literature offering guidance on how to make them work, success remains elusive. Regardless of strategic direction, involving macro-level planning, restructuring of positions and improved …
The dissertation examines the critical issues of ethnic and gender identities through the lives of Fulani girls in New York City (NYC), and, in a public international high school in the City exploring their efforts to fit-in within their multiple worlds while at the same time ma…
In recent years, a significant body of scholarly works has noted that the multi-national Soviet regime paradoxically fostered ethnic identities among many groups that had previously lacked such identities. For example, the ethnic designations of the peoples of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz…
This project examines the emergence and expansion of Legato, the Turkish collegiate lgbt network, from the perspective of the globalization of digital technologies and lgbt identities. The triple perspectives of globalization studies, research on lgbt youths' use of digital tech…
When international graduate students and their families participate in study abroad experiences, there are many challenges and opportunities that accompany these experiences. Depending on the context of the study abroad experience, some might be characterized as both opportuniti…
Little research has been done on how ideology and identity are reflected within pop culture in Saudi Arabia. This thesis analyzes a set of comics created by Saudi artist Abdullah Jabber. These comics are notable for discussing some issues in Saudi community. The artist chose to …