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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 267 avhandlingar innehållade ordet race.

1. 6. An infrastructure of freedom : Atlanta, race, and the struggle over public transportation in the capitalist city

   Författare :Marcus Mohall; Don Mitchell; David Jansson; Theresa Enright; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; public transportation; transit; transit struggles; transportation; planning; mobility; politics of mobility; transportation politics; infrastructure; capitalism; race; USA; US South; Atlanta; Social and Economic Geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis provides a multiscalar analysis of the production and struggle over the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA), the main transit system in metro Atlanta. It examines how the actions and visions of the state, capital, and transportation activists intersect to structure how and to what extent transit systems can be organized to realize their distinctive potential to allow urban residents to meet their basic mobility needs. LÄS MER

3. 7. The Promises of the Free World : Postsocialist Experience in Argentina and the Making of Migrants, Race, and Coloniality

   Författare :Jenny Ingridsdotter; Mats Lindqvist; Jenny Gunnarsson Payne; Catrin Lundström; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; political discourse theory; ethnography; Argentina; race; whiteness; coloniality; postsocialism; social inequality; subject positions; migration; gender; class; intersectionality; ethnography; post structuralism; Latin America; Soviet Union; identities; differentiation; ethnology; economic crisis; mobility; auto-ethnography; colonial settlement; diaspora; humanities; Ukraine; Russia; Historical Studies; Historiska studier; Östersjö- och Östeuropaforskning; Baltic and East European studies; Ethnology;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the narrated experiences of a number of individuals that migrated to Argentina from Russia and Ukraine in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union. The over-arching aim of this thesis is to study the ways in which these migrants navigated the social reality in Argentina, with regards to available physical, material, and socioeconomic positions as well as with regards to their narrated self-understandings and identifications. LÄS MER

4. 8. From Slaves to Princes : The role of NGOs in the construction of race and ethnicity in Salvador, Brazil

   Författare :Örjan Bartholdson; Gudrun Dahl; Dorothea Hilhorst; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social movements; NGOs; Afro-Brazilian; race; ethnicity; foreign activists; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Sammanfattning : Global forms and changes affect all spheres of human life-worlds; not least how we interpret and create systems of meaning in our respective habitats. A merging of global and local reflections and actions often causes ideological transformations and discursive shifts. LÄS MER

5. 9. Love ain't got no color? : Attitude toward interracial marriage in Sweden

   Författare :Sayaka Osanami Törngren; Björn Fryklund; Anders Wigerfelt; Charles Westin; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Interracial marriage; attitudes; race; Contact Hypothesis; group position; prejudice and stereotypes; colorblindness; perception of difference; mixed methods; Interrnarriage; attityder; race; kontakthypotes; gruppositioner; fördomar och stereotyper; färgblindhet; perception av skillnad; mixed methods; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on the geographical area of Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden, and examines the majority society’s opinions and attitudes toward interracial dating, marriage and childbearing. The dissertation is driven by two theoretical frames: the theory of race as ideas constructed through the perception of visible differences and the theory of prejudice and stereotypes. LÄS MER

7. 10. Black and Swedish : racialization and the cultural politics of belonging in Stockholm, Sweden

   Författare :Lena Sawyer; Mittuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Race; Belonging; Sweden; Cultural Politics; Ethnology; Etnologi;

   Sammanfattning : Black and Swedish: Racialization and the Cultural Politics of Belonging in Stockholm March 2000 Lena S. Sawyer, B.A., MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY M. LÄS MER