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Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Subject "Asian American studies"
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A Taste of Freedom: The Meaning & Experience of Work for Formerly Incarcerated Asian Pacific Islander individuals
Asian American and Pacific Islander (API) incarceration rates have risen since the 1990s as part of the rise in incarceration of Black, Brown and low income communities. The school to prison pipeline is also known as a ... -
Adaptive Resilience of Community Organizations Serving Older Asian American Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Community-based organizations (CBOs) play a central role in helping older Asian American adults access critical services. Older Asian American adults are at a higher risk for negative outcomes from COVID-19 compared to ... -
American Han
This dissertation approaches arguments that appear in recent discourses on han. Han, an emotion commonly identified as a characteristic of a Korean national and personal ethos, is considered a passive form of Korean grief ... -
Asian American Forms: From Realism to Modernism
(2012-08-10)The subject of this dissertation, to boldly state it, is the history of Asian American literary formation. The tradition of formalist criticism of literature, reaching down from the Russian formalist school, has been ... -
Bad Refugees: Manufacturing Statelessness at the Margins of Global Northern Citizenship
Written in conversation with critical refugee scholars who have theorized about the politics of cultural memory as it concerns formal state and community-based negotiations over how to remember the Vietnam War, this ... -
"The Call of God": Korean American Women's Activism in the Pacific Northwest
(2013-07-25)This study examines the multidimensional history of Korean American Christian women's activism in the Pacific Northwest between 1940 and 2012. Few scholars have explored Korean American women's experience in American ... -
Contemporary Popular Culture and the Politics of Asian American Representation, Resistance, and Cultural Production
(2012-08-10)Despite their increasing visibility in mainstream popular culture, problems in Asian American representation continue to manifest. For example, there is renewed interest in infantilizing, colonial images of Asian women, ... -
Contemporary racism and the Asian American experience: The impact of lifetime racial microaggression stress on psychological functioning and risk behavior in Asian American young adults
Asian Americans are considered a “model minority” in the United States, conferring an implied status of privilege among racial minority groups. This stereotype results in misperceptions about the incidence and consequences ... -
Culture and intimate partner violence: The impact of loss of face, acculturation, and trauma history on Asian American women's in-the-moment behavioral intentions and risk perception
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been shown to be a significant problem in Asian American communities. Further, victimization may be particularly significant among Asian American college women due to data suggesting ... -
Decolonizing Okinawa: Social Science, Agriculture, and US Militarism, 1945-1972
“Decolonizing Okinawa” destabilizes the alleged opposition of colonialism to nationalism to reconceptualize the assertion of radical anticolonial politics. It argues that the US military exploited the popular desire for ... -
Early Bilingual Development: Expanding Our Understanding of Family Language Policy in Heritage Language Maintenance
The increased attention given to immigrants’ English proficiency and their academic achievement in schools has blinded society to the issues associated with heritage language (HL) loss that children of immigrants face. ... -
Embodying Liberatory Education: The Values and Hopes of Asian Non-Binary and Women Movement Makers
Asian movement makers (organizers, community educators, artists, and healers) engaged in liberatory movement spaces continue to teach the next generation through modeling action, hosting educational workshop, engaging ... -
Empire’s Imagination: Race, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity in ‘Local’ Hawaiʻi Narratives
My dissertation, “Empire’s Imagination: Race, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity in ʻLocal’ Hawaiʻi Narratives,” addresses the history of U.S. empire in Hawaiʻi, arguing that empire persists into the present through the ... -
Engaging Immigrant Religious Organizations in HIV/AIDS Education: The Role of Social Networks
The higher rates of religious affiliation among immigrants and the expansive role of religious organizations in community life point to immigrant religious organizations' potential as an influential site for HIV/AIDS ... -
Engaging Immigrant Religious Organizations in HIV/AIDS Education: The Role of Social Networks
The higher rates of religious affiliation among immigrants and the expansive role of religious organizations in community life point to immigrant religious organizations' potential as an influential site for HIV/AIDS ... -
From "Little Brown Brothers" to "Forgotten Asian Americans": Race, Space, and Empire in Filipino Los Angeles
(2014-04-30)Through archival research, close readings of literary works, and oral histories, this dissertation traces the various formations of Filipino American urban space in Los Angeles from the 1920s to the 1980s under the backdrop ... -
From Sleepless in Seattle to "I Seoul U": How Korean Gay Men Narrative, Negotiate and Reproduce Discourses of Race, Culture, Religion and Sexual (In)Visibility
In both Seattle and Seoul, Korean gay men have often been constructed as marginal, whose perpetual invisibility to the public sphere has been attributed to intensely-heterosexist cultural configurations complicated by ... -
Going Toward the Ghost: The Poetics of Haunting in Contemporary Asian American Poetry
This dissertation considers how social, historical, and political contexts “haunt” the work of Asian American poets. How does history (i.e. war, colonialism, and marginalization) impact the work of Asian American poets ... -
How Asian American students experience campus culture in their first year attending a rural, primarily White institution (PWI)
Asian Americans are a diverse population and represent the fastest growing population in the United States with increasing demographic representation in the Southern United States. Additionally, they represent the highest ... -
How Asian American Women Perceive and Move Toward Leadership Roles in Community Colleges: A Study of Insider Counter Narratives
(2013-07-23)Asian American women are often misunderstood and disfranchised due to stereotypes and microaggressions, and they are frequently excluded from the mainstream leadership agenda in higher education discourse. Using critical ...