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"'Cause you're Asian": Influence of the model minority stereotype as a source of social comparison affecting the relationship between academic achievement and psychological adjustment among East Asian American high school students
Ethnicity and institution-building in Africa
Racial inequality and homeownership transitions in the US, 1968--2003
Youth groups and youth savers: Gangs, crews, and the rise of Filipino American youth culture in Los Angeles
Interface of ethnic and national attachment: Perceptions of group discrimination as a moderator of subgroup asymmetry
Seeking knowledge from the cradle to the grave: An exploratory study of Islamic preschools in Southern California
Barely subsisting, surviving, or thriving: How parents' legal status and gender shape the economic and emotional well-being of Salvadoran transnational families
International graduate students, the F-1 visa process, and the dark side of globalization in post 9/11 American society
Motherhoods and childhoods in transnational lives: Gender and ethnic identities among Japanese expatriate families in Los Angeles
Father-involvement and child behavior and cognitive development in poor and near-poor African American single-mother families
Invisible racism: Male, hegemonic whiteness in higher education
Balancing the values of Ethnic Studies and academe: Exploring efforts to advance the organizational stability of American Indian and Asian American studies
Urban Indians in a silver city, Zacatecas, Mexico, 1546--1806
Circling the underground: Transnational movements in urban dances and literatures
Visual impairment and myopia among first graders from three school districts in Southern California: Racial/ethnic disparities, yearly trends, geospatial distribution, and relative influence of individual, neighborhood, and school determinants
The bio scare: Anthrax, smallpox, SARS, flu and post-9/11 U.S. empire
You've got a friend: Adolescent friendship choices, dynamics, and implications for future stratification
The role of maternal resiliency in the multi-level pathways between race/ethnicity and birth outcomes in Los Angeles County
Suenos indocumentados: Using LatCrit to explore the testimonios of undocumented and U.S. born Chicana college students on discourses of racist nativism in education
Women of color student leaders: The role of race and gender in community college transfer readiness
Bolstering bonds and building bridges: Social capital in law student organizations
Casting diaspora: Cultural production and Korean identity construction
Where are you REALLY from? Raced curriculum, racial identity, and a project for a fuller humanity
South of Hope: The impacts of US - Mexican state-level restructuring and faltering corn production on the lives of Indigenous Zapotec maize farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico
The second immigrant generation in Germany
Ethnic entanglements: A comparative study of Arab American and Chicano literatures
How White teachers experience and think about race in professional development
Vulnerable Sensations: Compositions of Imperiled Personhood, Intimacy and Citizenship in 21st Century Social Change
The Racial Constitution of the Public: Four Exercises in Historicizing the American Polity
Revolutions in Microcosm: Migration, Meaning, and Mothering by Iranian-Americans
On the Cosmopolitan Frontier: Jews and Social Networks in Nineteenth-Century Los Angeles
Affective Archives: Racialized, Immigrant, and Gendered Labor and the Politics of Shame and Empathy in Chicana/o Literature
Language as Power: The "Black-White" Binary and the Discourse of Racial Hierarchy
Legacies of Immigration: Children of Immigrants' Experiences Navigating Higher Education
Discrimination, Drugs, and Alcohol Among Latina/os in the United States
Stereotyping and Bias: The Nexus of Gender and Ethnicity
Contemporary Arab American Theater and Performance in the United States: Restaging and Recasting Arab America in Theater, Film, and Performance
Toward a Filipino/a Critical (FilCrit) Pedagogy: A Study of United States Educational Exposure Programs to the Philippines
Un-Settling Questions: The Construction of Indigeneity and Violence Against Native Women
Black Boundary Lines: Race, Class and Gender among Black Undergraduate Students
Racism, Education and Life Trajectory: A Qualitative Case Study of Young Adults Using a Critical Race Theory Perspective
Marriage and Mistura: Black-White Interracial Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro
Shifting landscapes: A longitudinal study of racial self-identification in multiracial adolescents
Soulfully Resistant Transferistas: Understanding the Chicana Transfer Experience From Community College and Into the Doctorate
Forbidden Femininities: Reimagining the Cultural Politics of Queerly Racialized Femininity in Queer Theory and Chicana/o Studies
Immigrant ethnic neighborhoods, inward focus, and travel mode choice
Growing Up Muslim in America: Managing Multiple Cultures in Everyday Life
Echandole Ganas: Undocumented, Latino Students Fighting for Collegiate Survival in their United States Homeland
Hoops, History, and Crossing Over: Boundary Making and Community Building in Japanese American Youth Basketball Leagues
Black Americans Diversity: Academic Achievement, Ethnic Identity, and Ethnic Socialization among African American and Nigerian American Youth
Hurdling barriers Labor and employment experiences of Asian Americans with disabilities
Old Oyo Influences on the Transformation of Lucumi Identity in Colonial Cuba
Spatial aspects of secondary migration of Hispanics in the US
(Mixed) Race Matters: Racial Theory, Classification, and Campus Climate
Theorizing the Racial and Gendered Educational Experiences of Chicanas and Native American Women at the Ph.D. Level in Higher Education: Testimonios of Resistance, Defiance, Survival, and Hope