RSS 1.0Electronic Dissertations and Theses - Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies
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This collection presents theses and dissertations completed by graduate students in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University
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Interrogating Moral Mothers, Mama Grizzlies, and Women Warriors: Towards a Queer Transnational Feminist Antimilitarism
(2013)This project examines the neoliberal context and public discourses that have surrounded the "War on Terror"--especially the rhetorical hijacking of feminism--and the impact on feminist antimilitarism. The primary research ... -
Campaign For Edutainment: Afrocentric Philosophy and Hip Hop Pedagogy as a Method For True Liberation
(2013)The constructions of Black identity seldom come from self-identification, but are more derived from the depictions created and endorsed by Western definitions of Africa and the Diaspora. These stereotypes depict Blacks as ... -
IS THERE POTENTIAL FOR EDEN ON DIVISION STREET: ANTI-COLONIAL DISCOURSE, MIGRATION AND THE GOD OF NATIONALISM
(2012)In the past few decades, Puerto Rican Cultural Studies have explored divergent subject positions regarding cultural performance and Puerto Ricans' political and migratory history. Using correspondence with former FALN ... -
The Black Power Movement and the Black Student Union (BSU) in Washington State, 1967-1970
(2012)This dissertation centers on the Black Student Union (BSU) at the University of Washington and Washington State University, during the late-1960s. It traces how the first BSU organization was formed at San Francisco State ... -
EXPRESSIONS OF RESISTANCE: INTERSECTIONS OF FILIPINO AMERICAN IDENTITY, HIP HOP CULTURE, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
(2012)The unique relationship to colonization for Filipinos has challenged Filipino Americans in their identity development and understanding of Philippine history. Although American exceptionalism has been heavily indoctrinated ... -
Vietnamese American Identities: How Race, Gender, and Class are Reflected in the Cultural, Language and Technological Barriers
(2011)This dissertation examines the intersection of race, gender, class with language, cultural and technological barriers as reflected in the experience of first and 1.5 generation Vietnamese American refugees, immigrant ... -
Game on Girl: Identity and Representation in Digital RPGs
(2011)This dissertation explores the connections between identity and gaming, essentially asking the question "What does it mean to be a gamer?" to a population not often associated with the stereotypical gamer. Although much ... -
Philip Ahn, the Little Big Man: Seeing In Yellow
(2011)This paper examines Philip Ahn's constructed media representations in his three movies, Back to Bataan, Macao, and Battle Hymn, and discloses the hidden ideology behind his screen images. He carries the honoring modifier ... -
Nsyilxwcen Indigeneities In a Bi-National Controlled Territory
(2010-07-15)Notes to the Viewer: This film was made with help from the wqna=qin-x or syilx people, for our people and the ancestors. It is dedicated to all the people to help us remember to stay awake/aware in this world where the ... -
Malleable Okanagan (wqna=qin-x) Existences
(2010-07-14)This personal website as well as most of my visual work over the years calls into question constructions of "nation" and "America" to re-establish and acknowledge the Indigenous land-memories of the landmasses of North, ... -
Machismo and geographies of hope
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Culturalist revolutions
(2005)