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Plantain Stain, Loreli Mojica
Plantain Stain, Loreli Mojica
Senior Projects Spring 2018
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
Assata Shakur: The Battle For Memory In The Imagined Borderlands, Joe Kaplan
Assata Shakur: The Battle For Memory In The Imagined Borderlands, Joe Kaplan
Summer Research
This work focuses on the former Black Panther, Assata Shakur, and her exile in Cuba. It probes Shakur’s identification with the maroon, or escaped slave, to examine how the experience of exile creates a sense of rootlessness and alienation from national identity, and how memory can come to reshape one’s inclusion within various “imagined communities.” Shakur occupies a liminal space, a borderlands existence, between the two nations in which she has lived. I trace her memories of the terror she experienced in the U.S, the ethnocentrism inherent in the act of becoming American, and how her imagination has been shaped …
Fear Of Forgetting: How Societies Deal With Genocide, Emily O. S. Gelber
Fear Of Forgetting: How Societies Deal With Genocide, Emily O. S. Gelber
CMC Senior Theses
This thesis discusses how certain societies (Germany, Israel, and Argentina) that have been involved in two documented cases of genocide in the 20th Century -- one that was the source for and falls within the United Nations Treaty definition of genocide (the Holocaust), and one that does not (the Dirty War in Argentina) --have dealt with these events in their recent past. In dealing with these issues, the thesis employs the analysis of genocide developed by the Argentine scholar, Daniel Feierstein, who has proposed that all genocides progress through a series of steps that first create what he calls …