The purpose of this study was to explore how Hip Hop informed the construction of gendered racial and sexual identities among Black women at predominately white institutions (PWIs). Ten Black women undergraduates at a PWI in the midwestern region of the US engaged in individual and focus group interviews, which included participating in an…

The focus of this article is the result of an unexpected finding in a life narrative qualitative study. The research was conducted in a predominately White, research-extensive Midwestern state university and it explored how gender, ethnicity, and college experiences affected five undergraduate Latina students' perceptions of their academic…

This exploratory narrative inquiry examines the experiences of Asian/American female school and district leaders as they mediate racism and sexism. Grounded in Asia Critical Race Theory (AsianCrit) and feminism, this study theorizes how Asian/American women are ascribed as hard-working and subservient "lapdogs," while simultaneously…

The African American Policy Forum and the Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies states, "The risks that Black and other girls of color confront rarely receive the full attention of researchers, advocates, policymakers, and funders." The limited awareness of the challenges that Black girls face perpetuates the…

The third wave feminist studies in science education take the stance that science teaching is political and that social change is possible through interrogating power inequalities and decentering science to balance out power. For science educators, this means developing an awareness of "positionality," which I define here as a…

Points out that the images and voices of Jewish women are largely absent from prime-time television. Links feminist theory and images of women as signals of systemic troubles in a community to mass communication theory. Provides a multidisciplinary approach for considering "doubly" and "triply" oppressed minority women. (SR)

The public controversy which developed between 1896 and 1920 in the Canadian prairie provinces over the question of immigration is examined in this paper. It is shown that although many of the social, political, religious and cultural characteristics which have differentiated the prairies have been a result of ethnic diversity, the predominantly…