Purpose. The purpose of this study was to assess staff perceptions of four U.S.-Saudi Diplomatic Corps, the embassy in Washington, DC, and the three consulates in New York, Houston, and Los Angeles regarding the implementation of virtual teams. This study applied the adaptive st…
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Jewish education is the key to Jewish identity formation and continuity. The majority of Jewish children in the United States receive their Jewish education in Jewish supplementary schools. This study used various methods to create a profile of teachers who currently teach in th…
This dissertation demonstrates how Bangladeshi immigrant identity is constructed through a process of negotiating transnational racial discourses, and state and everyday racial categories. Immigrant history, in the U.S. has been written within the framework of “ethnic/cultural p…
This study connects Los Angeles' recent economic, social, and spatial transformations to the experiences of its black inner-city population. Since the 1980s, intensifying a process that can be traced back to at least the 1940s, L. A.'s social classes and ethnic groups have been …
Republics throughout history have relied upon the active participation of citizens. Citizens act within particular traditions that can become corrupted or forgotten over time. For that reason, the imitation of particular exemplars has been of crucial importance for political lif…
This dissertation examines how women, as a group, and domesticity, as a system of gender relations, shaped the Cold War conservative ascendancy. After World War II, when California reached new heights of electoral importance as the most populous state in the nation, the greater …
A novel preceded by a scholarly introduction, EVEN SATAN SPOKE HEBREW employs a variety of metafictional devices—collage, appropriation, borrowing, minoring, framing, indeterminacy, textual parody, obtrusive narration, structural constraints—in an attempt to propose a deliberate…
This ethnography explores the music and dance performance practices during lifecycle rituals such as baby naming ceremonies, weddings, and funerals among first-generation Ghanaian and Senegalese immigrants in Los Angeles. By comparing the musical performance practices of two Wes…
The aim of this thesis is to enhance the knowledge on exposure to size fractions of airborne particulate matter and their components and to find more intensive information on sources of indoor and outdoor size fractionated particles. In the first part of the study, the physical …