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Dancing Between Worlds: Afrofuturism, Hybridity, Transculturalism, And The Orixás, Alicia Nascimento Castro
Dancing Between Worlds: Afrofuturism, Hybridity, Transculturalism, And The Orixás, Alicia Nascimento Castro
Dance (MFA) Theses
This research uses a multicultural lens to analyze the intersections of race and geography. It aims to acknowledge the corporeality of spiritual practices to investigate creative movement. Afrofuturism becomes a theoretical framework utilized as a space for liberation into the past, present, and future. Hybridity is adapted to examine identitdade dupla regarding national, racial, cultural, and lingual identities. The research explores Transculturalism by centering Blackness and interrogating the political powers of race in both the United States and Brazil. The physical manifestation utilizes the Black imaginary with choreography, set design, costuming, and musical composition as ideological frames for time travel …
The Impact Of Patriarchy On Stud Lesbians, Meilin Miller
The Impact Of Patriarchy On Stud Lesbians, Meilin Miller
Undergraduate Research Awards
Intersectional feminism informed how literary scholar bell hooks understands and interacts with the world. As a result, feminism is deeply intertwined in all of her commentaries and sociocultural analyses. In her 2003 book We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity, hooks writes about how male masculinity and blackness interact with each other in this society. Her proclivity towards feminism isn’t restrained. A majority of the book is dedicated to understanding how toxic patriarchy has victimized and empowered black men, specifically seeking to examine their relationship with black women. However, black masculinity in women is an area that hooks does …
"Buffy's A Superhero": Buffy And Her Place In Feminist History, Jill Marie Burger
"Buffy's A Superhero": Buffy And Her Place In Feminist History, Jill Marie Burger
Children's Literature (MA) Theses
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was a successful television show in the late 90s and early 2000s. Joss Whedon created a blonde, female heroine to combat the image of a weak female who runs down the alley and dies during horror movies. But does a simple role reversal create a feminist icon?
Feminism In Revolution: Women Of The 19th Century Anti-Tsarist Movements, Kayley Delong
Feminism In Revolution: Women Of The 19th Century Anti-Tsarist Movements, Kayley Delong
Undergraduate Research Awards
The climate of political upheaval in Russia over the course of the 19th century reached a violent climax in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in March of 1881. His death was the result of decades of civil unrest amongst Russian citizens who had taken hold of enlightenment ideas and sought justice for economic and social inequality. In a complex equation of issues and policies, the ways in which the women question combined with the surge of new ideas produced a unique and perfect storm. Russia was the epicenter of a collision between an underdeveloped infrastructure and changing philosophies about …
Brazen (Fall 2015), Hollins University
Brazen (Fall 2015), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Fall 2014), Hollins University
Brazen (Fall 2014), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Fall 2013), Hollins University
Brazen (Fall 2013), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Fall 2012), Hollins University
Brazen (Fall 2012), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Spring 2012), Hollins University
Brazen (Spring 2012), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Fall 2011), Hollins University
Brazen (Fall 2011), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Spring 2011), Hollins University
Brazen (Spring 2011), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Fall 2010), Hollins University
Brazen (Fall 2010), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Spring 2010), Hollins University
Brazen (Spring 2010), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Fall 2009), Hollins University
Brazen (Fall 2009), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Spring 2009), Hollins University
Brazen (Spring 2009), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Fall 2008), Hollins University
Brazen (Fall 2008), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Spring 2008), Hollins University
Brazen (Spring 2008), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
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Brazen (Fall 2007), Hollins University
Brazen (Fall 2007), Hollins University
Brazen - Gender & Women's Studies Department Newsletters
No abstract provided.