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An Exploration of Black Church Leaders' Intentions to Develop Critical Consciousness among African-American Students
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In: Dissertations (2021)
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The benefits of imbedding literacy and skill development into content while embracing culture and diversity in the classroom
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In: Master's of Arts in Teaching (MAT) Action Research (2021)
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Perceptions and determinants of partnership trust in the context of Community-Based Participatory Research
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In: Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice (2020)
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THE PEOPLE WHO “BURN”: “COMMUNICATION,” UNITY, AND CHANGE IN BELARUSIAN DISCOURSE ON PUBLIC CREATIVITY
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In: Doctoral Dissertations (2020)
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The main intellectual problem I address in this study is how everyday communication activates the relationship between creativity, conflict, and change. More specifically, I look at how the communication of creativity becomes a process of transformation, innovation, and change and how people are propelled to create through everyday communication practices in the face of conflict and opposition. To approach this problem, I use the case of communication in modern-day Belarus to show how creativity becomes a vehicle for and a source of new social and cultural routines among the independent grassroots communities and initiatives in Minsk. On one level, I show how local research participants communicate six cultural identities through a cultural discourse when they speak about public creativity in Belarus. Additionally, I show how these categories of identity are structured as oppositional cultural codes, such as “State” vs. “People” or “Indifferent people” vs. “Talented, really creative people,” and how these discursive oppositions reflect a similar dynamic found in Ruthenian/Russian culture where the continuous interplay of opposing values has been a foundation of cultural unity throughout history. On another level, I show how the participants of these grassroots communities problematize the existing ideas and practices of being a Belarusian and of being a citizen in general. The prevailing cultural myth suggests that Belarus, like many post-Soviet spaces, is inferior to the “progressive” “West” and the “USA.” However, this is not the way Belarus is symbolically constructed in the grassroots communities I studied. The Belarus they envision living within is a place of togetherness, of synergetic cooperation, and with the emergence of alternative mythology and everyday routines out of which cultural, business, and social innovations arise. On yet another level, this research suggests that the process of creativity is, in its essence, a process of innovation, transformation, and change. I argue that such creative transformative processes in the society involve conflict, opposition, a struggle with everyday reality, out of which innovations come to life.
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and Cultures; and Historical Methodologies; Anthropological Linguistics and Sociolinguistics; Art Practice; Belarus; Civic and Community Engagement; Comparative; Contemporary Art; Critical and Cultural Studies; cultural discourse analysis (CuDA); cultural identity; Discourse and Text Linguistics; Eastern European Studies; Epistemology; European Languages and Societies; Folklore; Indigenous Studies; International and Intercultural Communication; Language Interpretation and Translation; Linguistic Anthropology; Modern Art and Architecture; Other Arts and Humanities; Other Communication; Other Languages; Other Linguistics; Other Philosophy; Other Political Science; Other Social and Behavioral Sciences; Other Sociology; Philosophy of Language; Place and Environment; Politics and Social Change; Public creativity; Qualitative; Quantitative; Race and Ethnicity; ritual; Russian Linguistics; Social and Cultural Anthropology; social change; Social Psychology and Interaction; Societies; Sociology of Culture; Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies; Speech and Rhetorical Studies; Theory and Criticism; Urban Studies; Urban Studies and Planning
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URL: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations_2/1923
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2981&context=dissertations_2
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Oral History Interview with Nafeesa Mahdi on July 16, 2020
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In: Dream Storytelling Interviews (2020)
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When Personal Raises Political: Experience of Racial Discrimination and Distrust of Authorities Among Children of Immigrants
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In: The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (2020)
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Oral History Interview with Nabintou Doumbia on December 20, 2020
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In: Dream Storytelling Interviews (2020)
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Oral History Interview with Shaykh Momodou Ceesay on October 24, 2020
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In: Dream Storytelling Interviews (2020)
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Partnership of NH-ME LEND and New Mainers Public Health Initiative to Offer Training Experiences With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations
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In: Poster Presentations (2019)
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Roads to Resettlement: A Global Analysis of Refugee and Migrant Integration Policies Through Education-based Non-Profits
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In: Syracuse University Honors Program Capstone Projects (2019)
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Numeracy and Social Justice: A Wide, Deep, and Longstanding Intersection
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In: Numeracy (2019)
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Differential Responses to Constraints on Naming Agency among Indigenous Peoples and Immigrants in Canada
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In: Anthropology Publications (2019)
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Voices from Minority-majority Communities in Southwest Kansas
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In: Center for Engagement and Community Development (2018)
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IT TAKES A VILLAGE-SCHOOLING OUT OF PLACE: SCHOOL EXPERIENCES OF BLACK AFRICAN YOUTH IN WATERLOO REGION
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In: Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) (2018)
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Bells for Books Community Service
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In: International Journal of Undergraduate Community Engagement (2017)
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Developing and Implementing Civic Engagement Programmes in Dublin 15
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In: The ITB Journal (2017)
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Grassroots Diplomacy and Vernacular Law: The Discourse of Food Sovereignty in Maine
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In: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2017)
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Cultivating Leaders of Indiana: Global Collaborations and Local Impacts
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In: Purdue Journal of Service-Learning and International Engagement (2017)
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The ANALA Collaborative: UMass Boston’s Asian American, Native American, Latin@ and African Diaspora Institutes
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In: Barbara Lewis (2017)
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Uncovering the processes and consequences of Egyptian immigrant parental involvement in their children’s education: Bridging cultural differences
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In: Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) (2017)
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