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The Effects Of Contact With Asians And Asian Americans On White American College Students: Attitudes, Awareness Of Racial Discrimination, And Psychological Adjustment, Khanh T. Dinh, Traci L. Weinstein, Melissa Nemon, Sara Rondeau Oct 2008

The Effects Of Contact With Asians And Asian Americans On White American College Students: Attitudes, Awareness Of Racial Discrimination, And Psychological Adjustment, Khanh T. Dinh, Traci L. Weinstein, Melissa Nemon, Sara Rondeau

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On the basis of acculturation theory, explicating mutual influences between different cultural or ethnic groups coming into contact, this study focused ‘‘on the other side of acculturation’’ theory by examining the effects of intercultural contact with Asians and Asian Americans on the psychosocial experiences of White American college students. Participants (N = 315), undergraduates attending a public university located within the state of Massachusetts, completed a survey that assessed demographic and personal characteristics, acculturation (extent of intercultural contact with Asian people and Asian cultures), attitudes towards Asians and Asian Americans, awareness of institutional discrimination and blatant racial issues, and psychological …


Acculturative And Psychosocial Predictors Of Academic-Related Outcomes Among Cambodian American High School Students., Khanh T. Dinh, Traci L. Weinstein, Su Yeong Kim, Ivy K. Ho Jan 2008

Acculturative And Psychosocial Predictors Of Academic-Related Outcomes Among Cambodian American High School Students., Khanh T. Dinh, Traci L. Weinstein, Su Yeong Kim, Ivy K. Ho

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This study examined the acculturative and psychosocial predictors of academicrelated outcomes among Cambodian American high school students from an urban school district in the state of Massachusetts. Student participants (N = 163) completed an anonymous survey that assessed demographic characteristics, acculturative experiences, intergenerational conflict, depression, and academicrelated outcomes. The main results indicated that acculturative and psychosocial variables were significant predictors of academic-related outcomes. Specifically, students’ Cambodian cultural orientation was positively associated with their beliefs about the utility of education and sense of school membership, while students’ Anglo/White cultural orientation was positively associated with their grade point average, educational aspirations, and …


The Narration Of Collective Trauma, Kalina M. Brabeck, Ricardo Ansilie Jan 2008

The Narration Of Collective Trauma, Kalina M. Brabeck, Ricardo Ansilie

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The 1998 murder of African American James Byrd, Jr., in Jasper, Texas, activated narrative strategies within the community that sought to give coherence to, or otherwise appropriate and utilize this trauma for a variety of purposes. Via interviews with community civic and religious leaders, and analysis of their public statements to the media, this article uses psychoanalytic and anthropological frameworks to examine the psychological and structural needs to narrate trauma; struggles over whose narrative holds sway; the emerging "story" that Jasper presented to the world in an attempt to define itself and narrate what transpired and why; and implications for …