Results for "race and ethnicity"

Projects

Religion, Race, and Place Project

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Description:

A multimethod project that examines the role of religious beliefs and institutions in shaping health guidance among marginalized populations. This project seeks to illuminate the multidimensional role of religion in…

Faculty

Ann Twinam

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Women's and Gender Studies, History
Research Interests:

Colonial Spanish America, 15-18th century Spain, the Hispanic imperial world. Current projects include a monograph entitled "Purchasing Whiteness: Unofficial and Official Passing in Colonial Spanish America…

Luis Urrieta

Affiliated Departments:
Curriculum and Instruction, Center for Mexican American Studies
Research Interests:

Identity, agency, and social movements in education with a focus on Chicana/o and Indígena education; native methodologies and educational research; citizenship and social studies education; activism as a social…

Angela Valenzuela

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Mexican American Studies, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, Curriculum and Instruction, Educational Leadership and Policy
Research Interests:

Urban education from a sociological and multicultural perspective, with a focus on minority youth in schools, particularly at the K-12 level. Other areas of interest include immigration, human rights, and U.S.-Mexico…

Fatima Varner

Affiliated Departments:
Human Development and Family Sciences
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Fatima Varner's major research interests include the roles of ethnicity, gender, and context on parenting, family processes, and adolescent outcomes.

Maria Wade

Affiliated Departments:
Anthropology, Religious Studies, Center for European Studies
Research Interests:

ethnoarchaeology; ethnohistory/historical anthropology; Native American prehistory and history; dynamics of culture change; power; ethnicity; gender; ceramic technology; Texas, Northern Mexico; Plains. Europe; Iberia…

Juliet E K Walker

Affiliated Departments:
John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, History, African and African Diaspora Studies
Research Interests:

African American history; antebellum slavery; black business history and political economy; black intellectual history; African American women's history
Professor Walker is presently engaged in a book-…

Samuel Watkins

Affiliated Departments:
Radio-Television-Film, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, African and African Diaspora Studies
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The "new urban market” (a dynamic web of industries, products, market segments, sensibilities, and cultural narratives that signal the arrival of profound shifts in how entertainment and educational media…

Jennifer M Wilks

Affiliated Departments:
African and African Diaspora Studies, Comparative Literature, English, John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
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Professor Wilks recently finished Carmen in Diaspora: Adaptation, Race, and Opera's Most Famous Character (forthcoming from Oxford University Press), a cultural history of adaptations of the Carmen story set…