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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 ...
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 ...
Master of Interdisaplinary Studies
(2014-02-24)
This thesis explores how the Republican Party (US) and the Labour Party (UK) were successful in becoming the rare examples of third parties that displaced a major party to become one of the major parties in a two-party system. In exploring this question the thesis first examines the political science `rules of the game' that ...
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 ...
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 ...
The River Twice
The River Twice is a combination of prose, poetry, and visual imagery that explores identity formation, narrativity, and the medium of language as material for art production. The work is a semi-autofictional account of chronic illness, anxiety, grief, love, and friendship. Four distinct sections work together and independently ...
Navigating the American Healthcare System as an Obese Person: Developing Effective Community-Based Treatment Strategies for Healthcare Providers
Obesity is a public health concern associated with increased medical costs and poorer health outcomes, but it is also associated with minority status and this social context has important healthcare implications. Ten interviews were conducted in the Tacoma, WA area to identify common weight-loss barriers, and health literacy ...