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Reading Toni Morrison: Rethinking Race And Subjectivity With Giorgio Agamben And Joan Copjec, Gabriela Marie Salazar
Reading Toni Morrison: Rethinking Race And Subjectivity With Giorgio Agamben And Joan Copjec, Gabriela Marie Salazar
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The school of thought articulated by critical theorists Giorgio Agamben and Joan Copjec differ from each other in methodology, approach, and language. Yet, both Agamben and Copjec each write to reject positivist notions of ethics, which each theorist identifies as rooted in the same ideological apparatuses that propagate exclusionary and violent actions. By turning away from pre-given ethics and ideology, these writers attempt to delineate why these philosophies have been the vehicle of violence and racial oppression, and reiterate the importance of turning away from such thought in order for the subject to conceptualize a new way of being and …
The Impact Of Stigma On The Mental Health Of Resettled African And Asian Refugees, Victoria M. Baptiste
The Impact Of Stigma On The Mental Health Of Resettled African And Asian Refugees, Victoria M. Baptiste
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
The global refugee crisis worsens day-by-day, with millions of refugees forced to seek safe haven abroad. Pre-migration trauma exposure contributes to disproportionately higher rates of psychopathology, especially among torture survivors and women. The extant literature has largely focused on the effects of pre-migration factors; however, increasingly, researchers recognize the critical impact of post-migration living difficulties (PMLD) in exacerbating refugee mental health. One example of a PMLD is stigma, defined as a socially devalued attribute (e.g., minority race, ethnicity, sex). A robust literature documents the deleterious effects of stigma on psychological functioning, but few studies of refugees have explored stigma, which …