Ethnic minority psychology in the 20th century: Reflections and meditations on what has been and what is next.

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 203-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
20Th Century

ISONYMY AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE PROVENÇAL-ITALIAN ETHNIC MINORITY

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. BIONDI ◽  
A. VIENNA ◽  
J. A. PEÑA GARCIA ◽  
C. G. N. MASCIE-TAYLOR
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Structure ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Genetic Isolation ◽  
Main Factor

Surnames were obtained for the second half of the 20th century from civil and religious marriage registers on fifteen Provençal-Italian and five Italian villages of Cuneo Province, Italy. To insert in the analysis an outward comparison, surnames from two Italian villages of Turin Province, one parish of Turin, one village of Alessandria Province and one village of Asti Province were also collected. Ethnicity does not seem to be the main factor affecting the present genetic structure of the Provençal-Italians. They are an open community, and evidence the end of the genetic isolation of the alpine populations.

scholarly journals Ex-neuter-gender nouns in Canadian Doukhobor Russian

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-287
Author(s):  
Veronika Makarova
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Small Group ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Gender Agreement ◽  
Feminine Gender ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century

Abstract This paper addresses the morpho-syntactic forms of ex-neuter-gender of Canadian Doukhobor Russian nouns. Doukhobor Russian is a near-extinct variety of Russian spoken by a small group of elderly Doukhobors (a religious and ethnic minority of Russian origins) residing mostly in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta. While Standard Russian has three noun genders (feminine, masculine and neuter), this paper demonstrates that in Doukhobor Russian, a neuter gender erosion has been taking place, whereby ex-neuter-gender nouns have been shifting their declension paradigms mostly to feminine F1 declension forms. Ex-neuter-gender words in Doukhobor Russian also mostly agree with pronouns, attributives, and numerals in feminine gender. They also predominantly agree in feminine gender with preterite verb forms. Two major subclasses of ex-neuter-gender nouns are identified: those in which the stem is stressed and those in which the stress is on the inflectional vowel. A stressed vowel in an inflectional suffix of the nominative and the accusative blocks the paradigm shift of ex-neuter-gender nouns, but does not prevent female gender agreement with attributives and preterite verb forms. The discussion identifies parallels of neuter-gender erosion in Doukhobor Russian with similar processes found in 19th and 20th century Russian dialects.

scholarly journals Dynamics of Control and Resistance: Reactions to the Modern Policy of Assimilation of the Travellers in Norway

Nordlit ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Rune Halvorsen
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Total Population ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Internal Relation ◽  
Private Charity ◽  
Western European ◽  
Assimilation Policy

For much of the 20th century, the Norwegian authorities pursued a strict assimilation policy towards Travellers (tatere/ romanifolket) and their culture. As was the case in many other countries, Travellers were constructed as "the other" (Riggins 1997, MacLaughlin 1999). When compared to other Western European countries, it is, however, surprising that Norwegian Travellers were seen as such a serious problem and threat during the 20th century. The 1845 census counted 1145 Travellers out of a total population of 1.3 million in Norway (Sundt 1852, SSB 1968: Table 13). A private charity organisation acting on behalf of the state registered 5129 "itinerants" in their archives from 1900 to 1959 (Haave 2000). These were the figures that worried the elites. This paper examines the modern assimilation policy and Travellers' reactions to this policy. In particular the paper analyses the internal relation between the modern assimilation policy and the emergence of collective demands for recognition as an ethnic minority and moral redress among Travellers in the 1990s.

Development of Reading Remediation for Dyslexic Individuals

2016 ◽  
Vol 224 (4) ◽  
pp. 240-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mélanie Bédard ◽  
Line Laplante ◽  
Julien Mercier
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Behavioral Data ◽  
Educational Neuroscience ◽  
Reading Remediation ◽  
Functional Brain ◽  
Neurophysiological Data ◽  
Brain Correlates ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Brain

Abstract. Dyslexia is a phenomenon for which the brain correlates have been studied since the beginning of the 20th century. Simultaneously, the field of education has also been studying dyslexia and its remediation, mainly through behavioral data. The last two decades have seen a growing interest in integrating neuroscience and education. This article provides a quick overview of pertinent scientific literature involving neurophysiological data on functional brain differences in dyslexia and discusses their very limited influence on the development of reading remediation for dyslexic individuals. Nevertheless, it appears that if certain conditions are met – related to the key elements of educational neuroscience and to the nature of the research questions – conceivable benefits can be expected from the integration of neurophysiological data with educational research. When neurophysiological data can be employed to overcome the limits of using behavioral data alone, researchers can both unravel phenomenon otherwise impossible to document and raise new questions.

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