Racial, Gender, And Sexual Imagery And The Black Queer Man: An Excerpt From “I Cannot Go Home As I Am: Exploring Identity In Black Queer Men At Yale In The Context Of The Hiv/Aids Epidemic”,
2021
Yale University
Racial, Gender, And Sexual Imagery And The Black Queer Man: An Excerpt From “I Cannot Go Home As I Am: Exploring Identity In Black Queer Men At Yale In The Context Of The Hiv/Aids Epidemic”, Maxwell Richardson
The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal
Situated in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Black queer men were and continue to be one of the most affected groups by the epidemic. Looking back as to why, it is very apparent that intersecting themes of racism, homophobia, and masculinity norms, among various other forces contribute to the difficulty many Black queer men had in accessing agency in the epidemic. Through oral histories, as well as analysis of primary source material from the 1980s, I examine the topic of racial, gender, and sexual imagery as it informs and impacts the Black queer male identity throughout this time.
Co-Opted By U.S. Capital: A Diachronic Study Of Korean Americans’ Relation To The Model Minority Myth,
2021
Yale University
Co-Opted By U.S. Capital: A Diachronic Study Of Korean Americans’ Relation To The Model Minority Myth, Hannah Kwak
The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal
This paper examines the historical conditions within which Korean Americans became a “model minority,” linking transnational Korean history to the diasporic formations around the model minority stereotypes. It advances that Korean Americans’ conceptualization of their economic success borrows heavily from the narrative of Korea’s postwar economic development, which itself resulted from the nation’s desire to overcome the past of Japanese colonialism. For instance, the Korean American small business owners interviewed in Sai-I-Gu, a documentary about the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, emphasize the values of hard work, thrift, and sacrifice when telling their immigrant stories, echoing media representations of Korea’s postwar …
Operationalizing Culture: Refugees, Migration, And Mental Health In The Wake Of The Vietnam War,
2021
Yale University
Operationalizing Culture: Refugees, Migration, And Mental Health In The Wake Of The Vietnam War, Helena Bui
The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal
!e end of the Vietnam War led to the migration of hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees to the United States a"er political and economic upheaval. As another result, the refugees’ years of warfare, trauma, death, and injury began to manifest as unprecedented mental health issues that American physicians and researchers sought to understand. In this paper, I argue that American medical professionals— in good faith—operationalized [Vietnamese] culture to help themselves and their colleagues understand the mental health issues of Vietnamese refugees. Yet this operationalization acted as a double-edged sword. Viewing Western mental health discourse through the lens of Vietnamese …
Why Women Leave White Nationalist Movements: Exploring The Deradicalization Process,
2021
Yale University
Why Women Leave White Nationalist Movements: Exploring The Deradicalization Process, Julia Yingling
The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal
This essay aims to explore primarily why women leave white nationalist movements, and the possible role of gender in the radicalization and deradicalization of white women in white nationalist movements. This essay examines the narratives of three former white supremacist women - Angela King, Samantha, and Katie McHugh - and identifies patterns in their journeys. This study has a limited scope due to the small number of case studies available and needs further research. In attempting to connect different narratives of former white supremacist women in an under-studied area, I take the liberty to interpret their stories within the broader …
Western And Chinese Medicine In The History Of Community-Based Care In San Francisco’S Chinatown,
2021
Yale University
Western And Chinese Medicine In The History Of Community-Based Care In San Francisco’S Chinatown, Grace Chen
The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal
In fear-inciting epidemic, disease has often led to the disproportionate injury of minority communities through lack of equal access to medical care and implementation of prejudiced policies disguised as public health. In the United States, the use of infectious disease as a vehicle for the targeted suppression of Chinese Americans is no new phenomenon, from the discriminatory reactions to the 1900 San Francisco plague outbreak to the escalation of racial violence in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Here, I explore how Chinese immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries responded to inadequate public health care in San Francisco, including …
Immunity As An Integral Aspect Of Tribal Sovereignty: An Analysis Of The Supreme Court Case Michigan V. Bay Mills Indian Community,
2021
Yale University
Immunity As An Integral Aspect Of Tribal Sovereignty: An Analysis Of The Supreme Court Case Michigan V. Bay Mills Indian Community, Meghanlata Gupta
The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal
While Native nations in the United States have tribal sovereignty—that is, the inherent freedom and authority to govern themselves without outside control—non-Native actors have often challenged this institution within legal and political spaces. The United States court system, starting with the Marshall Court, has often attempted to define aspects of Indigenous sovereignty and federal-tribal relationships. The 2014 US Supreme Court case Michigan v. Bay Mills Indian Community is no exception, raising questions of sovereign immunity in the context of Indian gaming, tribal-state relationships, and land trusts. This paper first provides a general context for the case, identifying relevant historical events …
Interwoven Histories: A Chinese Family, A Yale Graduate And The Nanking Massacre,
2021
Yale University
Interwoven Histories: A Chinese Family, A Yale Graduate And The Nanking Massacre, Isabella Yang
The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal
Following the fall of Nanjing, the Republic of China’s capital, in December 1937 during World War II, Japanese soldiers conducted a series of atrocities against civilians in the region that lasted for months, infamously known as the Nanking Massacre. This paper takes a microhistorical approach to examining how these atrocities permanently affected civilians’ lives. Relying on oral histories and primary sources at the Yale Divinity Library, it explores two interwoven histories of wartime survivors: one of the Cao family residing just outside Nanjing when the atrocities happened, and another of a Yale graduate named Miner Searle Bates who took advantage …
For A New Ethics Of Reading: Analyzing Tea In The Harem’S Reception,
2021
Yale University
For A New Ethics Of Reading: Analyzing Tea In The Harem’S Reception, Hannah Kwak
The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal
This paper examines the extratextual materials that reified the novel/film Tea in the Harem as an archive of knowledge about the beur community. I argue that Tea in the Harem was subjected to what I call an anthropological approach to literature, a reading practice which instrumentalizes and subordinates the text to the historical reality which it is said to represent. Though in many ways entangled with the principles of French republicanism, the reception of Tea in the Harem is symptomatic of a more general phenomenon in which literatures of “the other” are expected to rehabilitate, educate, and civilize the majority …
“But The City Made Us New, And We Made It Ours”: Reflections On Urban Space And Indigeneity In Tommy Orange’S There There,
2021
Yale University
“But The City Made Us New, And We Made It Ours”: Reflections On Urban Space And Indigeneity In Tommy Orange’S There There, Meghanlata Gupta, Nolan Arkansas
The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal
Native American writers in the United States have often used literature to celebrate their communities, defy stereotypes, and share their histories on their own terms. In the past few years, this movement has seen another wave, with artists and scholars engaging in literary storytelling to shed light on Indigenous resistance efforts in the United States. Tommy Orange is no exception, writing about urban Indigenous life in his 2018 novel There There. While There There positions the city as a product of settler colonialism, the book also illustrates the ways in which urban Indigenous peoples subvert colonial mechanisms by celebrating tribal …
What Two Canonical Novels Tell Us About Linguistic Prejudice In United States Courts,
2021
Yale University
What Two Canonical Novels Tell Us About Linguistic Prejudice In United States Courts, Charlotte Van Voorhis
The Yale Undergraduate Research Journal
In this senior essay, I reflect on how African American English (AAE) is represented and perceived in our society. I establish that it is a regular and systematic variety of English. I investigate two novels, To Kill A Mockingbird and Their Eyes Were Watching God and whether their depictions of AAE accurately reflect its systematicity. I equate inaccurate representation in the novels with the disrespectful treatment of AAE and its speakers in the United States currently. I compare the treatment of AAE in the novels’ trials to its treatment in State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman (2013), in which Rachel …
Why Courageous Cuentos?,
2021
Cal Poly Humboldt
Why Courageous Cuentos?
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Author Bios,
2021
Cal Poly Humboldt
Artist Statements And Artwork,
2021
Cal Poly Humboldt
Artist Statements And Artwork
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
My Mother’S Roots Are From La Tierra De Huizaches, I Carry Her Roots Within Me,
2021
Humboldt State University
My Mother’S Roots Are From La Tierra De Huizaches, I Carry Her Roots Within Me, Selina Diaz Sumano
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Mí Gran Tatara Abuelo,
2021
Humboldt State University
Mí Gran Tatara Abuelo, Johanna Bonilla
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Dreaming Of The Future,
2021
Humboldt State University
Dreaming Of The Future, Emanuel Velasco
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Mis Raíces,
2021
Humboldt State University
Mis Raíces, Kathy Zamora
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
From Porterville To Humboldt,
2021
Humboldt State University
From Porterville To Humboldt, Lizet Santiago
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
El Centro De California,
2021
Humboldt State University
El Centro De California, Kacie “Kase” Figueroa
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
Her Personal Special Touch / El Toque Personal Especial De Ella,
2021
Humboldt State University
Her Personal Special Touch / El Toque Personal Especial De Ella, Jasmin Madrigal Carrillo
CouRaGeouS Cuentos: A Journal of Counternarratives
No abstract provided.
