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Aesthetics & Politics: A Brief History Of Japan & The Us’S 20th Century, Ricky Brown May 2022

Aesthetics & Politics: A Brief History Of Japan & The Us’S 20th Century, Ricky Brown

Theatre Thesis - Written Thesis

This paper is a look at the combination of aesthetics and politics and how that combination effected the lives of black Americans, Japanese women and the people of Korea under Japanese occupation during the early 1900s.


A Resurrected Revolution: Riot Grrrl Remembered, Revived, And Redefined, Rachael A. Nuckles May 2021

A Resurrected Revolution: Riot Grrrl Remembered, Revived, And Redefined, Rachael A. Nuckles

Women's History Theses

How has the Riot Grrrl movement of the 1990s been remembered and redefined? Riot Grrrl is typically remembered as an organized movement based on universal girl love which made the personal political, when in reality it had multiple leaders, many manifestos, and several identities beyond just the college educated white women commonly associated with the creation of its girl power agenda. Memory formation is a process. This dominant narrative that emerged about Riot Grrrl was constructed overtime by a number of participants, but also contradicts the lived experiences of many grrrls. To make sense of this tension, this thesis relies …