Past research has demonstrated the negative effects of media stereotypes on implicit and explicit attitudes across various forms of media. Because video games are a relatively new form of media, there is almost no research on the influence of video game stereotypes on people's a…
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This thesis looks at the trajectory of Arabs' portrayal in Hollywood films. It seeks to examine the historical, political as well as the cultural parameters that triggered Hollywood's interest in Arabs representation and the role these parameters played in drawing the limits of …
The Politics of the Veil is an attempt to undermine the negative stereotype, widely held in the West, that the veil is a symbol of Muslim women's oppression in Islam. My main argument is that the popular Western notion that the veil is a symbol of Muslim women's oppression is a …
Since its publication in 2003 Marijane Satrapi's Persepolis series, it has met surprisingly little negative criticism in comparison to other recent, highly commercialized memoirs written by Iranian women. For instance, Azar Nafisi's Reading Lolita in Tehran has sparked an intere…
This thesis examines the work of the first Turkish American writer Selma Ekrem's autobiography Unveiled in search of answer to the question: “How did Turkish women handle the way they were perceived by Americans at the beginning of the twentieth century, after an era of Oriental…
This research examines the nature of the relationship between cognition and foreign policy decision making. The basic argument is that contrary to traditional, maximum-utility, rational models of decision making, there are a number of possible factors impacting the decision maki…
Contemporary representations of the veiled Arab woman in US popular culture are often determined by the attending stereotype of Arab women as oppressed and silent victims of their own culture, a stereotype that has endured for over a century in the US as manifested in the recurr…
This dissertation examines perceptions of Russia in German military leadership between 1871 and 1914. Focusing on the Great General Staff of Imperial Germany, it analyzes images, particularly ethnic stereotypes and perceived national traits of the inhabitants of the czarist empi…
Toplumsal cinsiyet stereotipleri üzerine mevcut literatürde pek çok çalışma bulunmaktadır. Toplumsal cinsiyet alanında çalışan akademisyenler, mevcut bir olguyu inceledikten sonra farklı olgularla karşılaşmışlar ve yeni eleştiri alanları edinmişlerdir. Bu stereotipler, toplumun …
Recent studies of Limited English Proficient (LEP) Latino immigrants in South Carolina have demonstrated that Latinos encounter language barriers when accessing healthcare services and feel that they are treated unfairly based on their ethnicity. The purpose of this research was…
Did the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, carried out by extremists from the Middle East, affect the way Hollywood portrayed Middle Eastern characters in films? This content analysis compares Middle Eastern characters in films from the five years before September 11, 2001…
This study examines U.S. newspaper representation of Muslim-Arab women post 9/11 with an aim of better understanding how women are portrayed in relation to religion, society, politics and the economy. Through a discourse analysis, I examined local articles from across the nation…
Arab American Muslims are one of the most misunderstood ethnic and religious groups in the United States. To many Americans, Arabs and Islam seem alien and shrouded in mystery. As a relatively new immigrant group, the education and social adjustments of Arab American Muslims has…
The effect of exemplification on the perception of social issues has received much attention from scholars. Building on Zillmann's exemplification theory and psychological theories of stereotyping, this study examined whether categorization and/or stereotyping of a news exemplar…
This thesis is an exploration of the representations in contemporary writing of cultural identity in a country which is at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, colonial legacy, neocolonial ventures, and postcolonial ambitions. By analyzing the works of three of Morocco's m…
More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement and forty years after passage of Title IX, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less statu…
More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement and forty years after passage of Title IX, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers. Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less statu…
"The Inuit are a familiar part of Canadian identity but also exotic residing in the remote Arctic. The mix of the familiar and the exotic has resulted in the creation and perpetuation of a number of "White Lies." These are stories that have been developed over long periods of ti…