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Browsing Interdisciplinary arts and sciences - Tacoma by Title
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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 ... -
Paradigms of American Identity: and the Struggle for a More Authentic Self
(2013-02-25)Three paradigms of identity are discussed in an exploration of how national identities as well as individual identities are formed. How important is it to participate in or identify with a "culture of origin" or transcend ... -
A People’s History of the Hilltop Private lives made Public
Tacoma’s Hilltop neighborhood has a history. A rich and colorful history made significant by the residents who have lived there and made vast contributions to that greater community. Yet of that documented past, the stories ... -
Perpetuating Colonization Through the Gaze of United States Media
Mass media play a significant role in maintaining unequal systems of power and perpetuating inequality and injustice. Using a Media Studies and Indigenous Epistemological framework, this thesis posits that news media deploy ... -
Play and performance: Creating Life Spaces in which Learning and Development Flourish
This thesis challenges dominant descriptions of the neurodiverse community by questioning the assumptions perpetuated by the medical model and other normative theories of human learning/development. Building off the ... -
Position Before Submission: Grappling with Gender and Hypermasculinity in Mixed Martial Arts
The intent of this thesis is to explore existing gender norms in mixed martial arts cultures. Masculinity is particularly valorized in sport, creating tension for female athletes who are forced to balance masculine norms ... -
Quarantine Kitchen: Examining the Role of Food and Food Experiences in Meaning-Making During Covid-19
This research questions how people made meaning of the COVID-19 pandemic through foodways and foodstuffs and explores the ways in which food operates as a symbol in cultural and social practices, fosters identity, and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
“That’s messed up”: A critical race analysis of Tacoma’s school desegregation and connections to youth experiences today
In 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Brown v. Board that separate but equal had no place in public education, thereby setting the course to racially desegregate America’s public schools. Whereas many school ... -
The Battle of Gentrification vs. Centrification: The role of nonprofits
This paper examines how local government, community based organizations, nonprofits, and grassroots advocacy groups can build community engagement, raise-up and prioritize the historical neighborhood, and champion the value ... -
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 ... -
The Confederate Battle Flag: Why is it perceived so differently in the US and Europe/Germany?
Abstract The Confederate Battle Flag: Why is it perceived so differently in the US and Europe/Germany? Karin Crelling Chair of the Supervisory Committee Michael Allen School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences I was born ... -
The Gender Playground: Co-Creating Gender Through Play and Performance
This thesis reviews the literature on theories of human development, gender identity anddevelopment, and play. I argue against prescriptive, colonial, stage-based theories of gender and development, which constrict them ... -
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 ... -
The Sharp White Background: An Autoethnographic Analysis of the Experiences of Undergraduate Women of Color
Throughout my experiences in higher education, I have felt isolated, alienated, and inadequate. At one point I asked myself, are my school experiences as universal as I think they are, and if so, what are the footholds ... -
"These are the Ghettos of Washington": Public Housing and Neoliberalization in Tacoma, WA
From 2000-2011, the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA) redeveloped a 188-acre worn down, family public housing neighborhood, into a mixed-income neighborhood. This occurred in an area with lagging private investment, and during ... -
The Third Shift: Paid Work, Care Work and Education
This paper explores how women’s current status in the workplace and the often unequal distribution of household labor are interrelated. Specifically, focus is placed on how women’s paid and unpaid labor is influenced by ... -
Transgender Vulnerabilities: State-Issued Identity Documents and Third Gender Options
Transgender people suffer appalling rates of exclusion, marginalization and physical violence. Existing liberal legal reform efforts to improve their lives have proved ineffective at preventing the violence and has not led ...