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Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 269 avhandlingar innehållade ordet race.

  1. 21. Peripheral apolipoprotein E and its emerging role in neurodegenerative disease

    Författare :Andreas Giannisis; Henrietta M. Nielsen; Kim Kultima; Johan Ankarklev; Cheryl Wellington; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Alzheimer’s disease; apolipoprotein E; humanized-liver mice; race; diet; neurokemi med molekylär neurobiologi; Neurochemistry with Molecular Neurobiology;

    Sammanfattning : The human apolipoprotein E gene (APOE) is polymorphic and coding for three common alleles; ε2, ε3, and ε4. Carriers of the ε4 allele are at a higher risk of developing sporadic late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). This association appears to be influenced by inherited traits, race, and sex. LÄS MER

  3. 22. Ett främmande element i nationen : Svensk flyktingpolitik och de judiska flyktingarna 1938−1944

    Författare :Karin Kvist Geverts; Torkel Jansson; Lars M. Andersson; Mattias Tydén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sweden; refugee policy; discrimination; antisemitism; organizational culture; “race”; gender; Jewish refugees; Second World War; the Holocaust; 1938−1944; the Foreigner s Bureau; the National Board of Health; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; social categorization; History; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : The aim is to increase our understanding of the mechanisms of social categorization and discrimination, as well as the connection between them. This has been accomplished by examining Swedish refugee policy towards Jewish refugees during the Second World War and the Holocaust, as conducted by The Foreigner’s Bureau of the National Board of Health and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs during 1938−1944. LÄS MER

  4. 23. Vithet i svensk spelfilm 1989-2010

    Författare :Hynek Pallas; Astrid Söderbergh Widding; Claire Thomson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Critical whiteness studies; whiteness; Sweden; Swedishness; Swedish cinema; class; ethnicity; race; gender; phenomenology; kritiska vithetsstudier; vithet; svenskhet; nation; svensk film; etnicitet; klass; genus; fenomenologi; Film; Filmvetenskap; filmvetenskap; Cinema Studies;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyzes whiteness in Swedish fiction films between 1989 and 2010. It examines the relationship between whiteness and nation in Sweden, and whiteness as a national Swedish symbol and how this is reformulated at different times in history. LÄS MER

  5. 24. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets” : The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849

    Författare :Johan Wijkmark; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Orm Øverland; Karlstads universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adam Seaborn; Symzonia; James Fenimore Cooper; Monikins; Sea Lions; Edgar Allan Poe; “MS. Found in a Bottle; ” Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Peter Prospero; “The Atlantis; ” Antarctic literature; 19th-century American literature; utopia; Symmes; hollow earth; evolution; great chain of being; race; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines a small body of 19th-century American literature about the Antarctic: Adam Seaborn's (pseud.) Symzonia (1820), Edgar Allan Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833) and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Peter Prospero's (pseud. LÄS MER

  7. 25. Apartheid, liberalism, and romance : a critical investigation of the writing of Joy Packer

    Författare :John A. Stotesbury; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; South African women’s writing; popular romantic fiction; memoirs; apartheid; colonialism; liberalism; memory; literary amnesia; propaganda; roman a these; race; gender; patriarchy.;

    Sammanfattning : This is the first full-length study of the writing of the South African Joy Packer (1905-1977), whose 17 works of autobiography and romantic fiction were primarily popular. Packer’s writing, which appeared mainly between 1945 and 1977, blends popular narrative with contemporary social and political discourses. LÄS MER