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  • An ethnographic crossing : voices from the Latino community in Yamhill County, Oregon

    Creator:
    Nicklous, Nan Gilmore
    Abstract:
    Changing demographics in Oregon, accompanied by a rising Latino population, serve to dispel myths that we live in homogeneous, monolithic communities. Migration studies indicate migration is reshaping communities, contributing to ethnic diversity thus challenging our notion of identity and culture. Through the medium of oral histories and ethnography, this study...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Yamhill County, Oregon AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Nan Gilmore Nicklous for the degree of Master of

  • Exile in one's homeland : Yung Wing and the Chinese Educational Mission

    Creator:
    Yao, Yingxia
    Abstract:
    This thesis examines the influence of Christian missions on Yung Wing (1828-1912) during the nineteenth century, when China was beginning to encounter the West. Yung was the first Chinese graduate student to enter an American institution of higher education (Yale College, 1854). As a Westernized Christian intellectual, he strove to...
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    Masters Thesis
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    small village of Nan Ping (now Zhuhai). China in 1828 was still isolated, with no ports open to