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2012

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The Red Revolution From The Perspective Of Visual Cultural Studies: A New Chapter In Art, Commerce And Corporate Social Responsibility, Caroline Karanja Jan 2012

The Red Revolution From The Perspective Of Visual Cultural Studies: A New Chapter In Art, Commerce And Corporate Social Responsibility, Caroline Karanja

American Studies Honors Projects

This honors project is a critical examination of Project RED, a corporate campaign designed to heighten the appeal of a set of consumer products to a transnational youth demographic by associating these products with the eradication of HIV/AIDS in Africa. The project seeks to understand Project RED in the context of visual cultural studies in the tradition of the Birmingham School, and also of critical work on the use of culture as a tool for corporate growth. The project rests on a close reading of visual texts, including a HBO documentary and a set of advertisements, that constitute Project RED.


Trans(Nacional) Bodies In Motion: Reframing Violence And Resistance In Mexicana Performance And Chicana Theater, Gabriella Deal-Márquez Jan 2012

Trans(Nacional) Bodies In Motion: Reframing Violence And Resistance In Mexicana Performance And Chicana Theater, Gabriella Deal-Márquez

American Studies Honors Projects

This project considers how Chicana playwrights Cherríe Morgana and Josefina Lopez, as well as Mexicana performance and video artists, Astrid Hadad and Xomena Cuevas, use performance as a space of cultural and political resistance. These cultural and racialized constraints, social marginalization, as well as real physical violation and pain. I interrogate performance through a feminist lens as a site for understanding violence against women. This thesis seeks to generate reactive dialogues that grant women agency by giving a voice to existing silences.


Faces Of The Future: Race, Beauty And The Mixed Race Beauty Myth, Clara Younge Jan 2012

Faces Of The Future: Race, Beauty And The Mixed Race Beauty Myth, Clara Younge

American Studies Honors Projects

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