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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 ... -
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 ... -
The Universal to the Material: Social Citizenship, a Politics of Becoming and New Deal Labor Organizing in Chicago Meatpacking
The body of literature surrounding the concept of social citizenship developed in the mid-20th century in order to address social inequality in Western democracies. The concept drew on human rights literature to argue that ... -
Unmarked and unheard: Voices of working class White men in an Appalachian borderland
This thesis responds to Walls and Billings (1977) call for a study of work in an Appalachian cultural context. Given this, intersectionality theory along with Marx's theory of alienation guide the analysis. Since ... -
Urban Agriculture: Using Community Systems of Agriculture as a Solution to Homelessness and Unhealthy Food Sources
(2012-09-13)For those persons living on the edge of the socioeconomic periphery lack of employment, nutritional food sources and housing resources has led to an increase of homelessness over the past decade. This paper focuses on these ... -
The War With No End: Sentencing Disparities in the "War on Drugs" and National Trends that are Defining a Nation
(2013-07-25)The most industrialized nation in the world is the country with the highest rate of incarceration. Of over 2 million people incarcerated in the United States, over half of those imprisoned are Black-Americans. This report ... -
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 ...