Identity Evropa, a white-nationalist organization designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, publicly presents
itself as an “identitarian” group whose mission is to advocate for white “identity” ...
Segregation and racism have systematically existed in the United States for hundreds of years. Today, though there have been strides taken in alleviating these inequalities, they manifest themselves in new ways. In Strawberry ...
Chisme is gossip, literally translated. However, chisme is also a means of transferring knowledge, and affirming connection within transnational families. In my upbringing, chisme has carried a negative connotation of idle ...
This thesis is an exploration into the queer skateboarding scene of New York City in two parts. The first part, Queering the Park, is an experimental ethnographic film about Jamie Peralta, a queer and trans skateboarder ...
This project explores the groups and processes that come together to create the space of Puentes Hacia el Futuro— the education after school program of a community-based organization serving the Latinx migrant population ...
Urban art is a source of contention in Rome, Italy despite the fact that graffiti, a form of urban art, originated in Rome in 16th century BC. The tension between contemporary and ancient art is therefore written on its ...
Performance ethnography is a new approach to anthropological research that uses theatre to identify and critically examine power structures as they exist in everyday life. Researchers using this methodology aim to work ...
Right now, there are more people living in cities than outside of them. At the same time, the sustainability of our cities continues to become less and less certain. Low-density urban settlements have been held up by some ...
While there is a significant amount of literature on peacemaking procedures after an armed conflict, there has not been much study on reconciliation processes after a violation of trust and humanity. This thesis looks at ...
In October of 1948, a young interracial couple from Los Angeles won the right to marry, and in doing so overturned California’s state miscegenation law. Andrea Pérez, a Mexican American woman, and Sylvester Davis, an African ...
Before the Spanish invasion of the 1520s, the feather artisans of the Purhépecha Empire in modern-day Michoacán crafted sacred objects that held value for their religious and social significance. By the 1550s and 1560s, ...
This thesis examines the role of African-American newspapers as conduits for African-American literature during the Harlem Renaissance. Since the 1827 debut of the Freedom’s Journal, the black press has been a defender for ...
Greek interactions with indigenous Sicilians in the Archaic Period have traditionally been examined through the lens of violent colonization by historians from Ancient Greece all the way through the mid-20th century. ...
This thesis discusses the formation of Sephardic Jewish identity in Argentina in the first decades of the twentieth century. Jews began migrating to Argentina in large waves beginning at the end of the nineteenth century, ...
In the early 1830s, blackface minstrelsy burst onto the American entertainment landscape and remained a dominant form of popular culture for the rest of the century. Unsurprisingly then, as the first United States naval ...
After British forces defeated the Irish in the Nine Years War (1594-1603), Gaelic Earls fled the country and left large tracts of land in their wake. Shortly thereafter King James I reorganized the island’s natural landscape ...
This thesis uses the framework of borderlands studies, which defines how situations in the area between nations or borderlands were quite different from other regions. In general, state power is much more volatile in ...
Los murales de Diego Rivera explícitamente pedían acción política por parte del espectador, y su visión aceleró la formulación de un proletariado consciente de clase en México que deseaba abogar por sus propios intereses ...
Este trabajo se centra en dos películas, 'NO' (2012) dirigida por Pablo Larraín y 'El violín' (2008) dirigida por Francisco Vargas, para resaltar los contextos sociales y políticas que dan lugar a varios problemas de la ...
The National Stadium of Chile, constructed in 1938, sits in the southwest region of Santiago as part of an expansive sports center. The largest stadium in the country, throughout its life it has hosted a vast array of ...