Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study examines African-American, Anglo-American, and Mexican-American attitudes toward masculinity ideology and the role of men in the family. Much research focuses on the impact various aspects of the family have on mental health outcomes and gender attitude differences amongst men and women, but little research investigates how the roles men are perceived to fulfill differ among and within racial/ethnic groups by assessing each racial/ethnic group for its specific culture and history. Comparatively, little research has been conducted on the gender role attitudes of minorities and economically disadvantaged individuals. There is not much literature on African-American men in the family and even less on Hispanic men, more specifically Mexican-American men. This study aims to fill these gaps in the literature by investigating attitudinal differences that vary across African-American, Anglo-American, and Mexican-American families in terms of attitudes towards three specific areas of masculinity: self-reliance, restrictive emotionality, and achievement status using quantitative and qualitative data from The Intersections of Family, Work, and Health Study (2004). This focus on masculinity ideology and the expected roles of men in the family will provide a broader context for understanding how to better assess attitudes towards masculinity ideology for racial/ethnic groups.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study presented one of the salient themes which emerged from the lived experiences of the women and men during their reflections, as subordinates, on their dialogue with their supervisors. The findings indicated that the subordinates in this study categorized their relationships with their supervisors as friendships, non-friendships/professionals, or family. Subordinates who reported being friends with their bosses, most often Caucasian Americans, seemed also to indicate having more rewarding superior-subordinate interactions. These relationships with their bosses opened other doors for them in there respective companies. Subordinates seeking or being afforded only non-friend/professional relationships with their bosses seemed to enjoy fewer professional favors or privileges than their counterparts. African American women, more so than other groups, tended to reveal having only professional relationships with their supervisors. Additionally, Latino/a American subordinates often had friendships with their bosses but many maintained that the likelihood or the quality of these friendships varied across races. The subordinates in this study who reported to family members were Caucasian American, and they appeared to have more genuine and personal dialogue with their supervisors than other groups.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Indian Americans have been mobilizing to challenge and rectify their racial and social marginality in the U.S. In this paper, I focus on what has become an increasingly important and emotional issue for Hindu American groups: the portrayal of Hindu and Indian culture within American academia. Indian Americans mobilize against the academy by questioning fundamental notions regarding Western culture and civilization that often tend to be at the heart of beliefs about American national identity. These challenges are mounted by arguing that many of these ideas about Western cultural and scientific superiority are Eurocentric, colonial, or neo-colonial fabrications that have no basis in historical reality, and that they are maintained to deny the contributions of non-Western groups like Indians. Indian Americans at the forefront of this movement emphasize revisionist versions of Hinduism and of Indian history that glorify "Indic" traditions as the original source for much of world civilization. In the process, Indian American leaders are redefining both the U.S. and India.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Although the term “women of color” literally refers to all groups of women who share the attribute of being nonwhite, it was, for many years, synonymous with Black women because of their pioneering and leadership role in expanding the concept of feminist ideology beyond white women. Reflecting the general patterns of research on race and ethnicity in the United States, the small but budding present-day literature about the political status of nonwhite women continues to center on African American women and their experience of gendered racism of the socioeconomically disadvantaged. With the current experiences of U.S. women of color located in disparate socioeconomic and demographic strata, and with Latinas replacing Black women as the largest group of U.S. nonwhite women today, we question whether a scholarship based in large part on observations of Black women can still hold true now that the field is more diverse and larger. Another question is whether there exists a particular sociopolitical bond among “women of color” due to the discrimination and structural oppression many face that may have the potential for coalition building across race/ethnicity. In this paper, we attempt to move beyond a black-white dichotomy and expand knowledge about the content and political significance of the category “women of color” by examining the aggregate structural conditions and individual attitudes and opinions of four nonwhite groups of political women. Using both U.S. Census data and a first-of-a-kind survey that includes over 500 women of African American, Latino, Asian American, and American Indian descent (as well as over 800 men of color) who served as popularly elected officials at state and local levels nationwide in 2006–7, we consider if and how these women can be treated as a political category.

Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: This study examined Asian American adolescents' adherence to Asian and European cultural values and their relationship to self-esteem, cognitive flexibility, self-efficacy as they relate to teaching. learning, and counseling.