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Crossing The Century: Cross-Dressing In Turn-Of-The-Twentieth-Century San Francisco, Alexander Jin , '19
Crossing The Century: Cross-Dressing In Turn-Of-The-Twentieth-Century San Francisco, Alexander Jin , '19
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This paper explores cross-dressing in the San Francisco Bay Area at the turn-of-the- twentieth-century (c.1890-1910) and narrates the extraordinary lives of Edward James Livernash and Milton Matson, two individuals who were arrested on cross-dressing related charges in 1891 and 1895/1903 respectively. I attempt to show how the criminalization of cross-dressing was closely intertwined with the rise of modern sexuality, arguing that anti-cross-dressing laws operationalized the policing of bodies, the creation and maintenance of (fictionalized) fixed identities vis-à-vis binaries, and the reassertion of male power. I further argue that these shifts in how the state defined and regulated bodies demonstrates one …
Regulating Paradise: Following The Changing Culture Of Smoking In Buenos Aires, 2003-2018, Naomi Caldwell , '19
Regulating Paradise: Following The Changing Culture Of Smoking In Buenos Aires, 2003-2018, Naomi Caldwell , '19
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This paper examines the rapid change in smoking culture in Buenos Aires, from celebrated to medicalized, following the ratification of the World Health Organization’s treaty for tobacco control in 2003. It attempts to use the cigarette to pen the narrative of how cultural habits, sociability, and expressions of national and individual identity are transformed and regulated by both global and local actors, to evaluate how the global tobacco agenda has been translated to the local realities of Buenos Aires.
The Women Of Father Knows Best, The Andy Griffith Show, And Julia, Elizabeth Curcio , '19
The Women Of Father Knows Best, The Andy Griffith Show, And Julia, Elizabeth Curcio , '19
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Father Know Best, The Andy Griffith Show, and Julia enforced traditional gender roles through their depiction of women as a mother, wife or an object to admire. Focusing on the themes of motherhood, women’s roles in society, women in the professional world and portrayal of race within the episodes, this paper discusses how the shows limited women’s roles on television to traditional gender norms of women as domestic beings.
Agent Provocateurs Invade The Cottages: An Examination Of Norms, Space And The Consequences Of Policing Practices In 20th Century London, Marit Vike , '19
Agent Provocateurs Invade The Cottages: An Examination Of Norms, Space And The Consequences Of Policing Practices In 20th Century London, Marit Vike , '19
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This essay examines the relationship between the police, the public, and those who engaged in homosexual practices in the nineteenth century in London. By specifically looking at a case study of the agent provocateurs in London’s public urinals using newspapers, individual confessions, and public committee reports, this essay attempts to show how this space battle to regulate public space can be an example for how the broader regulation of sexual deviancy has been exercised. I contend that the fact that the compromising methods of agent provocateurs in the twentieth century provoked counter investigations and public backlash, demonstrates how increased efforts …
Political Goals: Soccer As A Language Of Politics In Kenya, Dan Siegelman , '19
Political Goals: Soccer As A Language Of Politics In Kenya, Dan Siegelman , '19
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Soccer is Kenya’s most popular sport, watched by almost every Kenyan. Soccer has a long history in Kenya, beginning with its introduction in the colonial period, when it was used by British colonists as a way to teach Kenyans European morals and values. In the postcolonial period, football was a similar political tool for Kenyan nationalist leaders, who built a sense of Kenyan identity on the back of the national team. But the Kenyan team has largely failed to produce results based on its level of support. Faced with political challenges like corruption and the persecution of dissidents, soccer has …
If We Must Die: Armed Self-Defense During The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1967, Martin Palomo , '19
If We Must Die: Armed Self-Defense During The Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1967, Martin Palomo , '19
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This paper looks over the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1967 and analyzes the role that armed self-defense played during this period. By looking at the violence that erupted following the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Case, it becomes evident that African Americans, both men and women, used arms to protect their communities while simultaneously challenging Jim Crow through nonviolent civil disobedience. By the mid-1960s, armed self-defense groups, which had typically been small and informal, began to evolve into more organized paramilitary groups that defended nonviolent protesters and openly challenged white violence.
No Last Words: Class, Cultural Production, And The Black Radical Tradition In The Pre-Classical Civil Rights Movement, 1909–1948, Anna Livia W. Y. B. Chen , '18
No Last Words: Class, Cultural Production, And The Black Radical Tradition In The Pre-Classical Civil Rights Movement, 1909–1948, Anna Livia W. Y. B. Chen , '18
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This paper argues that the strategic shape of the 1954–1965 classical civil rights movement was neither inevitable nor a simple progression of American values, but was the result of extensive ideological contestation during the pre-classical civil rights movement. Between the inflection points of 1929 and 1948, two ideologies, one rooted in Progressive Era racial stewardship and the other in the Black Radical Tradition, engaged in a Gramscian “war of position” for leadership of their coalition against white supremacy. An important tool in this Pre-Classical War of Position was cultural production.“