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Interpreting Black Women’S Narratives About The Foster Care System As Counterstorytelling, Shanae Nelson
Interpreting Black Women’S Narratives About The Foster Care System As Counterstorytelling, Shanae Nelson
Honor Scholar Theses
This research examines Black mothers’ narratives about the foster care system as counterstorytelling. This study analyzes the different ways Black mothers challenge systemic oppression through Critical Race Theory. This study offers a critical insight into the challenges Black mothers encounter with the foster care system and the different state actors that participate in maintaining common stereotype of Black mothers as poor parents. This project highlights the the role of the foster care system in suppressing Black mothers’ ability to care for and protect their children. This study critiques the state’s hypersurveillance and hypercriminalization of Black mothers and by extent, Black …
Manning Up At Depauw: Performing Fraternal Masculinity On A Liberal Arts Campus, Rachel Higson
Manning Up At Depauw: Performing Fraternal Masculinity On A Liberal Arts Campus, Rachel Higson
Honor Scholar Theses
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The Model Minority Myths: Racism And Sexism Against Asian-American Community, Yingda Guo
The Model Minority Myths: Racism And Sexism Against Asian-American Community, Yingda Guo
Honor Scholar Theses
This project aims to investigate the negative influences of the model minority stereotypes to Asian Americans. The model minority myth is the idea that members from a minority group with Asian heritages are considered to achieve a higher degree of educational and socioeconomic success than the average population. Asian Americans are usually perceived as model minorities who achieve high educational and socioeconomic success without many negative experiences in the U.S. However, a closer examination of the model minority myth indicates that this idea is quite generalized and misleading, which cannot stand for the diversity and complexity of Asian American experiences. …