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Sexual Violence in a Native American Community: Native American Women Speak Out
Researchers utilizing quantitative methods have established that sexual violence against Native American women is a severe and persistent problem in Native American communities. Currently, Native American women suffer some of the highest and most violent rates of sexual victimization in the United States; experts estimate ...
Words Can Hurt: An Investigation into How Racially Coded Language Was Advanced in Ferguson to Promote a Conservative Agenda
Abstract Words Can Hurt John Phillip Burns This thesis examines the intersection between public statements and private thought surrounding a recent political event as a way to understand the discourse of race relations in America today. Ferguson. The very utterance of the word holds vastly differing meanings to differing ...
The Casino Economy: Indian Gaming, Tribal Sovereignty, and Economic Independence for the Puyallup Tribe of Indians
The Emerald Queen Casino is a landmark in Tacoma, Washington that was made possible by the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act of 1988, a federal law establishing the governing structure for Indian gaming and which subsequently provided the opportunity for substantial economic independence to emerge for American Indian tribes across ...
HIVAIDS Social Stigma and Visual Art
The purpose of this research is to examine the development and progression of HIV/AIDS stigma within a social structure of power and powerlessness from the early 1980s to the 2010s, through a case study of selected visual images. I focus on the social aspect of how HIV/AIDS is given social stigmas that cause as much suffering ...
Structural Racisim in the Prison Industrial Complex
My thesis concerns the institutionalization of racism in the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC), also known as the Criminal Justice System. The Criminal Justice System encompasses all correction and law enforcement agencies including courts, police, prisons, etc. I focus on three questions: (1) why are there proportionally more ...
A Temporary Hometown: Gendered Labor and Social Citizenship in Bremerton, Washington, a Domestic Military Colony
Evelyn Nakano Glenn’s application of T. H. Marshall’s tripartite citizenship (2002) informs intersectional understandings of racialized and gendered labor in the historic development of the United States’ imperial colonialism and military industry. Recent place attachment studies challenge assumptions of belonging, home and ...
Digital Activism: How Social Media Prevalence has Impacted Modern Activism
Social media has brought significant changes to all spheres of our social existence, particularly modern activism. While many researchers have analyzed the use of social media in activist movements, there has been little scholarly work on the impacts and implications of social media, particularly as they pertain to language ...
Human Rights Enforcement at the International Criminal Court: An Interdisciplinary Proposal for a Multi-level Approach Based on Wendt and Habermas
This paper examines the conditions that must be met in order for the International Criminal Court to develop a more robust structure for human rights enforcement. Drawing upon the proposal of Alexander Wendt and theories in the discipline of International Relations, as well as the proposal of Jürgen Habermas and insights from ...
Boeing's Behavior in a Liberalized Marketplace: The 787 Dreamliner Project and Impact on Puget Sound Workers
Discourse on the outsourcing of commercial aircraft production has taken place in the fields of economics and labor studies, each with differing observations. Cloud (2011) and Greenberg et al. (2010) argue Boeing's pervasive outsourcing, with the goal of cutting labor costs and maximizing profits, has negatively impacted ...
Alone and Unafraid: Observations on Functional Leader Intervention in Decentralized Organizations
Today’s organizations whether political, non-profit, or commercial have adjusted their way of thinking to fit the twenty-first century’s atmosphere of instantaneous information and shifting market places. As such these organizations have had to adapt and rapidly adjust in this fluid space becoming more decentralized in their ...