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Deported Veterans: The Unintended Consequences Of “Good Moral Character”, Jonathan Deras

Master's Theses

The purpose of this research is to argue that U.S. immigration policy, specifically the 1996 IIRIRA (also known as IIRAIRA), needs to change regarding the legal treatment of immigrant U.S. military veteran deportees due to the following concepts. The first concept is to articulate how the criminalization of immigration, and how the military system intersects to facilitate the Deportation of U.S veterans. A key concept in this analysis is the standard of “good moral character” set by the U.S. government that enlistees need to meet to be accepted into the military; this standard is also used against immigrant veterans during …

Cambodian Family Albums: Tian's "L'Année Du Lièvre", Angelica P. So

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This article explores how Franco-Cambodian cartoonist Tian’s graphic novel, L’année du lièvre [Year of the Rabbit], represents second-generation postmemory in the form of, what I call, a “Cambodian family album,” or a personal-collective archive. The album serves to convey to subsequent generations: 1) the history of the Cambodian genocide, 2) the collective memories of pre-1975 Cambodia preceding the Khmer Rouge takeover of Phnom Penh, and 3) the Cambodian humanitarian crisis and exodus of the 1970s-1990s. The conceptualization of the family album is derived from the literal translation, from Khmer into English, of the term “photo album” – “book designated for …

Cumulative Grief, Xuan Pham

Masters Theses

A written thesis to accompany the M.F.A. Exhibition Cumulative Grief, in which the artist's personal and familial narrative explores the complexity and nuances of racial grief.

Bomba And The Evolution Of Puerto Rican Activism In New York, Katherine Smith

Capstones

While Bomba, a traditional dance style that originated in Puerto Rico, has recently become more visible to a mainstream national audience, local activists in New York City have been working for years to promote the art and elevate the history of their community. For dance leaders like Milteri Tucker, Bomba dancing is not only a celebration of Puerto Rico’s African heritage, but an effective way to address social issues within the city’s local and Latino community. She is one of many activists in the city’s history that has used art and community try to uplift the culture and work on …

How Palestinian Aid Organizations Adapt To The Possibility Of Further Annexation And Rights Abuses In The Wake Of "The Deal Of The Century", Nadia L. Wiggins

Capstone Collection

This research explores the question, “To what extent has the ‘Deal of the Century’ impacted Palestinian aid organizations, and how might it impact them in the future?” The significance of this question lies in the fact that the “Deal of the Century” claims to solve one of the longest and most complex conflicts, yet it has not been sufficiently analyzed from a Palestinian perspective nor a humanitarian perspective. Furthermore, by presenting scholarly critiques of the deal and aid worker’s concerns, my hope is that an American audience may be convinced of the complicity of our government in devising a failed …

A Qualitative Study Exploring Attachment Through The Context Of Indian Boarding Schools, Melissa D. Olson (Zephier)

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This is a qualitative phenomenological exploration looking at how Indian boarding schools impacted Indigenous families and indicators of how their attachment was affected. Thirty-one semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 individuals who attended Indian boarding schools and 13 descendants of those who attended these schools. The interviews were conducted on a Northern Plains reservation where approval was obtained from that tribal college and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Results indicate knowledge sharers in both groups, individuals who attended boarding schools and those who descended from these individuals experienced critical impacts to their ability to form intergenerational attachments with subsequent generations due …

Isaac Gottesman's The Critical Turn In Education: From Marxist Critique To Poststructuralist Feminism To Critical Theories Of Race, Aaron A. Baker

Intersections: Critical Issues in Education

Isaac Gottesman's historiography, The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race, aspires to Illuminate the historical context in which critical educational theory evolved. To his credit, he seems to achieve that goal, and more: he establishes that the relationship between the history of critical educational theory and society’s reliance on education is a key to social justice. This book review, describes and evaluates each chapter of Gottesman's text, focusing on his successes and challenges.

The Munemitsu Legacy: The Japanese American Family Behind Mendez V. Westminster: California’S First Successful Desegregation Case, Annie Tang

Library Articles and Research

"Many Orange County, California schoolchildren know the name 'Mendez.' After all, the iconic name is front and center of the landmark civil rights case that desegregated several of the county’s public schools in 1947, preceding the 1954 Brown v. Board case on a national level. The Mendez family, one of five Latino families which challenged several school districts in the county on their practice of Mexican-only schools, had their name immortalized in history. But the Mendezes would not have been able to lead the legal charge if it was not for another family of color, the Munemitsus, the Japanese American …

The Evolution Of Defining Rape In The United States, Sophia Rhoades

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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Rethinking Race In The 21st Century, A New Approach For Future World-Making: Looking Back To Move Forward, Dylan Tarleton

Binghamton University Undergraduate Journal

Color blindness, the end of race, and white privilege are but a few phrases that begin to capture the messy confusion of a zeitgeist that is 21^st century discussions on race. At a time when race is such a necessary topic to delve into, it seems that there is a lack of history injected into the conversation. Race becomes an external motor of history, racism pathological and immovable. An unthinking decision. In other words, race and racism, from the standpoint of an organizer or academic in the 21^st century, becomes near impossible to break down and work against. …

The Chinese In California: Archaeology And Railroads At The Turn Of The Century, Evelyn Hildebrand

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Research on Chinese sites in California have focused on ethnicity, ethnic relations, and the material expression of ethnicity all of which are key issues in overseas Chinese archaeology. Chinatown sites produced data that helped define Chinese culture and experience in historical California. One railroad construction work camp site identified in 2016 located in the Cajon Pass in the late 1800’s offers the potential for insight into the lives of the workers. Chinese occupation in San Bernardino is not well understood, and the site may offer information on the culture, traditions, and integrations of the workers. Thousands of Chinese men left …

Luther Legacy Conference: Martin Luther And Antisemitism January 20, 2020

Consensus

This document contains the entire proceedings of the Luther Legacy Conference

Examining The U.S. Wars On Vietnam, Laos, And Cambodia As The Production Of Neo-Colonialism, Aiden Gregg

University Honors Theses

I interrogate the colonial and neo-colonial histories of the U.S. wars on Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos within the context of racialized and gendered labor accumulation, the production of difference through violence as a legitimation of colonial extraction, and ongoing neoliberal economic coercion. I examine genocide and ecocide as interdependent processes in the production of dependency and underdevelopment. I reject a common narrative of temporal and spatial disconnection which separates the wars from current economics and examine the violences which both produce and result from an economy based on growth.

Acknowledging Our Past: Race, Landscape And History, Alea Harris, Kaycia Best, Dieran Mcgowan, Destiny Shippy, Vera Oberg, Bryson Coleman, Luke Meagher, Rhiannon Leebrick Ph.D., Phillip Stone

Student Scholarship

This book is the product of nearly a year's worth of student research on Wofford College's history, undertaken as part of a grant by the Council of Independent Colleges in the Humanities Research for the Public Good initiative. The research was supervised and directed by Dr. Rhiannon Leebrick.

"Guiding Research Questions:

How did Wofford College and its early stakeholders support and participate in slavery?

How is the legacy of slavery present in the landscape of our campus (buildings, statues, names, etc.)?

How can we better understand Wofford as an institution during the time of Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era? …

Website Capture: Native American Programs, University Of Maine, Native American Studies Program

General University of Maine Publications

Through the Native American programs website, you can access information about Native American Studies, the Wabanaki Center, the Native American Tuition Waiver and Scholarship Program, and information about University of Maine programs that promote, support and provide educational opportunities for and about Wabanaki peoples across the State of Maine and beyond.

President Barack Obama, 50 Obama Birthday Celebration, Republic Of Palau Postal Service

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Palau,, Sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

44th President Of The United States, Barack Obama, Maldives Post

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Maldives, sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

The Gambia, Gambia Postal Services Corporation

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

"President Barack Obama, Vice President Joseph Biden", Gambia, Sheet of 2 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

U.S. President Barack Obama, London, England, General Post Office (Tuvalu)

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

President Obama with HM Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, Tuvalu, sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

55th Aniversário Da Organizaçã Da Undade Africana, Correios Da Guiné-Bissau

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Guine-Bissau , sheet of 5 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

Barack Obama, 44th President Of The United States, Svg Postal Corporation

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

'Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.' , Bequia, Grenadines of St. Vincent, sheet of 4 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

Barack Obama Entre En Function, Office De La Poste Guinéenne

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Republique de Guinee, sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

Personnages Du Monde, Barack Obama, Société Tchadienne Des Postes Et De L'Épargne

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Republic du Tchad, sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

São Tomé E Principe, Correios De São Tomé E Príncipe

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Young Barack Obama in New York City, S. Tomé e Príncipe, Sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

São Tomé E Principe, Correios De São Tomé E Príncipe

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Barack Obama, Sarah Obama, S. Tomé e Príncipe, Sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. no date given.

Barack Obama, 44th President Of The United States, Republic Of Palau Postal Service

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Change Has Come to America, Palau, sheet of 4 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

Les Presidents Americains, Office De La Poste Guinéenne

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Republique de Guinee, sheet of one stamp. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

President Obama Visits Ireland, Svg Postal Corporation

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Mustique, Grenadines of St. Vincent, sheet of 4 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

President Obama Visits Saudi Arabia, St. Kitts & Nevis Postal Services

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Nevis, sheet of 5 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.

Barack Obama, 44th President Of The United States, Svg Postal Corporation

Rodney Lawrence Hurst, Sr. Stamp Collection

Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington, Union, Grenadines of St. Vincent, Sheet of 6 stamps. The President Obama International Stamp Collection. No date given.