Dissertation
ISOLATION AND THREAT: A STUDY OF WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY'S ETHNIC STUDIES AND UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND'S MAORI STUDIES
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
01/2014
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/116867
Abstract
This study analyzes how students in ethnic and indigenous studies departments in the United States and New Zealand understand their raced, classed identities within predominantly White campuses. The results from two years of research show that students in the University of Auckland's Maori Studies Department and Washington State University's Ethnic Studies Department struggle with "stereotype threat" as a minority population within their classroom and campus environment. The minority and indigenous students majoring/minoring in ethnic and indigenous studies found themselves isolated and hence `threatened' among a `sea of whiteness' on campus and likewise the White ethnic and indigenous studies majors/minors found themselves isolated and `threatened' within the ethnic and indigenous studies classroom.
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- Title
- ISOLATION AND THREAT: A STUDY OF WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY'S ETHNIC STUDIES AND UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND'S MAORI STUDIES
- Creators
- Maia Clay
- Contributors
- Jeannette Mageo (Advisor)Nancy Mckee (Committee Member)Carol Ivory (Committee Member)Richard King (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 212
- Identifiers
- 99900581644401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation