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Challenging And Subverting Girlhood And Motherhood In Contemporary Egyptian Children's Literature, Zahrah Tahsiyn Bashir Jan 2016

Challenging And Subverting Girlhood And Motherhood In Contemporary Egyptian Children's Literature, Zahrah Tahsiyn Bashir

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Sanctioned Silencing, Symbolic Resistance: Race, Space, And Dispossession In A Marginalized South African Community, Killian Richard Miller Jan 2016

Sanctioned Silencing, Symbolic Resistance: Race, Space, And Dispossession In A Marginalized South African Community, Killian Richard Miller

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

My field work and the written portion of my ethnography work through issues of marginality, state apparatuses, illusions of freedom, and making meaning in a context of oppression. All these power dynamics are historically-situated within the cultural context and community of Hangberg, a place forged by the race-based forced removals of Apartheid. British and Dutch colonization, Apartheid's racial regime, and the post-Apartheid oligarchical state, are all historical and contemporary authoritative forces that are impacting the everyday lives of people in Hangberg. Perspectives of power also serve as examples …


"All This For A Film You Haven't Seen": Reflections On Much Loved, Sarah A. Weinstein Jan 2016

"All This For A Film You Haven't Seen": Reflections On Much Loved, Sarah A. Weinstein

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Preaching Prosperity: Christian Missions To Jamaica In The Early To Mid-19th Century, Shalea Athene Del Villar Jan 2016

Preaching Prosperity: Christian Missions To Jamaica In The Early To Mid-19th Century, Shalea Athene Del Villar

Senior Projects Spring 2016

The Hampden Estate is one of the oldest sugar estates in Jamaica and to this day the rum that comes from its distilleries is still well known throughout Europe and the rest of the world. Perhaps a little more obscure is that circa 1824 a Presbyterian chapel was established on the estate. This event is unremarkable enough except that one may not expect to find that, although many of the mostly Scottish staff of the surrounding estates including overseers and bookeepers came, many were not able to find seats. This was because the enslaved of the plantation were occupying the …