The nature and limitations of human freedom have been discussed for millennia and continue to be widely and enthusiastically debated today. This is not surprising, as our sense of freedom is felt to be an essential part of what it is to be human and many fundamental issues, such…
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This study investigates the portrayal of Black female characters in American sitcoms. Using content analysis, five different Black family sitcoms from the 1970s-2010s were used to determine whether the portrayal of Black female characters have, over the five decades in question,…
Contextual factors—environmental stimuli external to individuals—are historically understudied loci of leadership. This dissertation comprises two chapters exploring characteristics of distal and historical context that impose constraints on leaders. In the first chapter, I exam…
The main objective of this dissertation is to describe the way the foreigner is linguistically represented in classical Egyptian cinema from its beginning in the 1920s to the mid-1960s and, hence, to determine to what extent this representation is stereotyped. To show this, I ca…
This work is a combination of artistic and scholarly research about the southern Italian woman (terrona). By analyzing a variety of media, I investigate the southern Italian woman’s stereotype and I discuss how she has been represented in novels, movies, television shows, and po…
This paper reports the results of a study investigating the extent to which native speakers of American English associate specific personal qualities to native speakers of Arabic based solely on auditory information. 234 participants, recruited through online social networks, he…
The 101 wax cylinders made by Benjamin Ives Gilman at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 are some of the earliest known examples of recorded non-Western musics. This study examines the nine recordings that Gilman made at the Turkish Theatre on September 25th, 1893. The ana…
The current study investigated pre-adolescents' and adolescents' attitudes about social exclusion based on cultural membership, specifically exclusion of individuals from Arab descent. Developmental intergroup research on the Arab cultural identity is sparse, and given this is a…
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…
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…