Justice Denied: Impunity During and After the Salvadoran Civil War is an examination of three infamous atrocities of the Salvadoran civil war and attempts to bring the those responsible to justice. The Salvadoran civil war ...

Since the 1960’s, Dominican bachata music has been associated with the poorest, blackest sectors of Dominican society. Recently, however, young Dominican music groups in New York City, most famously Aventura, have popularized ...

This paper examines how humor broaching the topic of slavery can move beyond poor taste into savvy critiques of how historical narratives are formed. Two neo-slave narratives drive the exploration: Charles Johnson’s Oxherding ...

Japan is a country undergoing a crisis of aging. This study examines how biracial celebrities are perceived in Japan in an attempt to discover whether that country will accept immigration as a way to solve its population crisis.

This study analyzes and compares languge contact relations between Russian and Estonian and Lithuanian. The author examines acoustic and phonological cues which may play a role in a speaker's use of foreign words and morphemes.

In the wake of the 2001 Argentine economic crisis, Buenos Aires has undergone the largest real estate boom in the city’s history. In the midst of a whirlwind of urban development, several middle class neighborhood activist ...

This paper examines the nature of the interactions between the Native American community living on the Port Madison Indian Reservation and the settler community directly across the bay, known as Port Madison, Bainbridge ...

This paper is a case study analyzing what mobilized one volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Thane Summers, who did not have the kind of social experiences associated with other members of the Brigade and why they ...

An 1883 cholera epidemic in Egypt had British officials struggling to prove that the disease had originated in that country, rather than from a British ship. A reading of primary materials from the era suggest that England ...

Critical Reconstruction is an architectural and city planning theory developed by the German architect, Josef Paul Kleihues in the 1960's. This paper explores the theory's application in the Berlin district of Friedrichstadt. ...