This dissertation explores the link between Fulbe ethnicity and Fulbe control of the entrepreneurial sector in Guinea following the liberalization policies that were instituted after April 1984, when the country's socialist regime fell. The study is based on a mixed method appro…
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This study examines how Political Entrepreneurs in the United States Congress responded to human rights abuses in six countries during the 1970s and 1980s: Cambodia, El Salvador, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Taiwan, and Uganda. It presents a four-point model for approaching t…
South Africa has a ruling dominant party, the African National Congress (ANC), which has been in power since apartheid ended in 1994. In national elections, the ANC has consistently received an overwhelming majority of the vote, even though the majority of South Africa's citizen…
This dissertation posits that the relationship between processes of regime change and cultural pluralism are mutually informing. It explains why it is possible that, despite the recurrence of ethnic tensions in a multicultural state like the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, a cou…
This study examined the ethnic identity of adult transracial adoptees between the ages of 18 and 34. Twelve adult transracial adoptees participated in the study. A self-administered survey, developed by the researcher, was used to measure the respondents' perceptions on transrac…
This is a historically based study of Nigerian economic policy, foreign and domestic. That history begins with the inception of British control in the nineteenth century and ends with the present dictatorship. While the study considers that entire history, special emphasis is gi…
As a multiracial country, one of the main concerns of Malaysia is maintaining political and economic stability in the process of achieving national integration. The plurality of society is a legacy of British colonialism and has contributed to occupational and geographical segre…
AbstractThe thesis explores the formation, implementation and execution of'Bantu administration' policies in the African 'reserves' of South Africa.The study begins with an examination of the institutions of segregation,the strains during the 1940s, and the responses of the gove…
My dissertation, "Marrying in and out of Whiteness: Twentieth-Century Intermarriage Narratives," examines shifting American perceptions of race, ethnicity, and whiteness through the formula of the intermarriage story. In each chapter, I do a comparative study of black/white inte…
The purpose of this study was to examine how gender and ethnicity were represented in both Chinese and Malay language reading textbooks currently used in primary schools of Malaysia. The aim of this textbook analysis was to determine the extent and manner in which the various gr…
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…
How do relatively weak ethnic minorities sustain coherent ethnic movements in the face of sustained state opposition? Although a large body of work analyzing ethnic conflict and national movements now exists, this literature provides surprisingly little help in understanding why…
There has been limited research examining gender role socialization and identity development in Jewish girls. This study examined the cultural influences of being Jewish and female, the role of Jewish mothers in their daughters' development, and the usefulness of self in relatio…
Racial microaggressions are brief, everyday exchanges that include denigrating messages to racial minorities. Microaggressions are the everyday verbal, nonverbal, offences, snubs, or insults whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative …
The influence of traditional African sculpture on Modern art at the turn of the century led many Western scholars to focus attention on its study and collection to the neglect of contemporary African art, which was until quite recently looked down upon as a by-product of Western…
As commodity, performance, and sonic intervention in social space, popular music is a ubiquitous presence in contemporary Indonesia. This ethnographic study investigates the meanings and uses of three ideologically distinct Indonesian popular music genres: dangdut, pop Indonesia…
The dissertation consists of an examination of the Alma-Ata demonstrations of 17–19 December 1986 in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (KSSR), which were sparked by Gorbachev's replacement of the long-serving Kazakh First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kazakhstan (CPK) D…
This dissertation examines the social construction of ethnic identities among Greek Cypriot children aged nine to twelve attending elementary school in Cyprus. More specifically, it examines how children construct and negotiate their identities in the social domains of everyday …