Browsing Culture and Politics Honors Theses by Title
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Caring for 'The Least of These': An Analysis of Social Justice Activism in the Black Church in the Twenty-First Century
(2019-04-15)During slavery, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Church played a significant role in providing African Americans a platform through which they could fight for freedom and civil rights, and it served ... -
Dismissed: How Rent Courts Process and Punish Low-Income Tenants in Washington, DC
(2019-04-15)Drawing from a year of ethnographic fieldwork in court, long-form interviews with tenants outside court, case law review, and a preliminary analysis of administrative court records, this research examines the central ... -
Fanfiction and the Transgression of Fandom Communities
(2016-07-25)Fanfiction, i.e. stories written online by fans, is often characterized as transgressive by the fans who write it and by those who are familiar with the phenomena. This paper attempts to understand what about fanfiction ... -
Ibn Dayfulla's Tabaqat: An Analysis of Proto National Identity under the Funj Sultanate (1504 - 1821)
(2014-04-17)In order to provide a better understanding of the current internal conflicts and political national identity of Sudan, this thesis examines the historical process of Islamization and Arabization of the region. It argues ... -
Investigating Accountability: Language Ideologies & Internalization at a New Mexican High School
(2019-04-11)This thesis considers the extent to which dominant language ideologies have become internalized in the attitudes of students and teachers at a New Mexican high school. Due to New Mexico’s multicultural past, its student ... -
Kenyan-Asians in Civil Society: Expanding the Imagined Community
(2016-07-24)Please refer to the full thesis posting. -
Living and Imagining City Spaces: The Case Study of Beirut
(2014-09)“Schein und Sein,” is a baroque German proverb that literally translates to image and reality or the illusionary and the real. The dichotomy between the image and the real, the imagined and the lived, served as the initial ... -
Mythrophrenia: Constructions of Modernity in Contemporary Arab Discourse
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Theatres of Resistance: Reclaiming Narratives of Agency in Post-Colonial India and Palestine
(2019-04-29)Within the current international system, post-colonial states construct narratives by imagining their histories and conceptualize what it means to be a state and who belongs within it. They have the political and institutional ...
