Inspired by recent acts of mass violence motivated by hate, this work considers hate speech from a sociolinguistic perspective by combining corpus analysis and discourse analytic methods. The goals of this work are twofold. ...

Income inequality in the U.S. has risen over the past three decades but has increased unevenly both across and within industries. Meanwhile, the use of information and communication technology (ICT) has increased explosively. ...

American art museums have long been elite, white, male dominated spaces where white, Euro-American women have appeared as merely muses or subjects of artworks. Rarely are women of color represented in the museum in artworks ...

In the summer of 2017, the city of Charlottesville, Virginia became a bloody battleground between those who wanted to take down a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee and those who thought the statue was a sacrosanct ...

This thesis investigates why conspiracy theories have been a constant fixture of American society since the founding of the United States, specifically why they come about and what purpose they serve. By isolating a period ...

U.S. Navy SEALs have become ubiquitous in the years since SEAL Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden during Operation Neptune Spear in 2011. SEAL narratives and stories can be found in bookstores, movie theaters, newspapers, ...

Woody Allen established himself as a household name in the 1960s. His half-century long career is celebrated for its generation of numerous memorable female characters and sullied by back-to-back scandals in 1992. For 25 ...

This thesis explores the challenges of memorializing the Slocum Massacre, a white massacre of the black community living in the area of Slocum, Texas in 1910. In doing so, it considers a combination of sources including ...