Mixed opinions of cute heavy metal band Babymetal reveal a genuine misunderstanding of historical Japanese musicianship and heavy metal scenes, while also exemplifying racist and misogynistic attitudes that are endemic to the heavy metal community as a whole. Drawing on Kimberle…
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Research on Asian American career development has found that Asian Americans' occupational interests are typically predominant in the Realistic and Investigative areas, that interests may not necessarily be related to their occupational choices, and that self-efficacy beliefs an…
Children’s multilingual education is a topic of vital concern among immigrant parents, and this topic has been addressed in different cultural contexts, such as European and North American. However, there is limited research focusing on the subject among Chinese immigrants in Ca…
My dissertation draws on cultural and political theory as well as visual arts, literature, and music to examine how Western empire is constructed through Orientalist knowledge and also contested through decolonial, feminist, and anti-racist aesthetics. “Terrorist Threats” relies…
This dissertation utilizes a comparative analysis of Asian American and Arab American poetry in order to examine how the works produce mosaic portraits of these peoples. The subjects addressed by the three Asian American and three Arab American poets selected vary in their scope…
This study examines the marital experiences of American-born South Asian Muslim women in interracial marriages of their choosing. This study reflects on the lived experiences of eight American South Asian Muslim women’s bicultural identities and their traditional specific cultur…
The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand whether and how Central Asian female students’ identities change because of their studies in American higher education and cross-cultural encounters. Using a basic interpretive approach, I interviewed six female students fro…
This qualitative dissertation, positioned within a critical consciousness conceptual framework examined the shared experiences of eight Southeast Asian youth, as they engaged in an activism internship at a movement-based youth program. It documented the internship, within the co…
While Muslim Americans are one of the fastest growing communities in the United States, very little is known about their mental health needs or concerns. In an effort to better understand their mental health needs, this study explores the attitudes towards the diagnosis and trea…
Bu çalışma, insan onuru, kırılganlık ve ötekileştirme kavramları bağlamında uzun süreli belgesel fotoğraf çalışmalarını konu almaktadır. Çalışmanın temel sorusu, her dakikada 2.3 milyon fotoğrafın çekildiği bir çağda, kırılgan grupların ve ötekileştirilen kişilerin uzun süreli g…
This dissertation examines questions of political solidarity across uneven difference by focusing on how processes of information coordination, production, and circulation shape social movements formations. I demonstrate how shifting relationships between marginalized people and…
Research regarding attachment with God and differentiation of self has a robust foundation in the literature, however, cross-cultural studies are limited. This study examines attachment with God, individualism, collectivism, and differentiation of self in second generation Chris…
This dissertation proposes an alternative reading and grouping of Korean American cultural production as diasporic ethnopoetics, and focuses on how vernacular works unfold aesthetic space for the mediation of transpacific histories and local memories. This approach does not yiel…
This thesis examines the unequal employment opportunity that women and people of color face in the American film and television industry and the rhetoric of meritocracy that justifies the marginalization of racial and gender minorities in Hollywood workplace. I argue that the sa…
Members of racially marginalized communities resist oppression through collective acts of protest and solidarity. Though these acts have been well documented throughout history, there is limited work in psychology examining Asian American own-group activism and solidarity with o…
Despite Asian Americans being one the fastest growing ethno-cultural group in the U.S., there is limited research on Asian American women specifically. The purpose of this paper is to explore existing literature on their sexual expression and behavior, and how religion and cultu…
This dissertation examines the various meanings of modernity in the history of Korean pop music, focusing on several crucial turning points in the development of K-pop. Since the late 1980s, Korean pop music has aspired to be a more advanced industry and establish an internation…
This study seeks to understand how undergraduate Filipinx Americans develop historical consciousness and what the impacts of this are on their racial identity. The roots of Filipinx American historical erasure date back to colonization of the Philippines, both Spanish and U.S. o…