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Justice Denied: Impunity During and After the Salvadoran Civil War
(2008-11-05)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 ... -
Kamagasaki: The Legacy of Poverty and Uprising in Urban Spaces
(2013-03-19)Osaka has long been a hub of labor and industry in Japan. The Kamagasaki district near the famed Osaka Loop Line became the epicenter of day labor, even originating its own type of labor market – yoseba. Formally renamed ... -
Kings of Bachata : Aventura, Migration and Dominican Nationalism in a Transnational Context
(2009-12)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 ... -
La Lucha por el Agua, la Lucha por la Vida: The Political Economy of Water Privatization in Cochabamba, Bolivia
(2006-05)This paper examines the failure of the attempt to privatize the water utilities in the city of Cochabamba, Bolivia. A large popular uprising against dramatically rising costs for water was not effectively managed by a weak ... -
Look Who's Laughing: Black Buddies, Bodies, and Unlaughter in the Neo-Slave Narrative
(2013)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 ... -
The Loud Liberation: Family, Feminism, and the First Reality Television Show
(2012)My research examines the popular reactions to the 1973 PBS series An American Family, the first reality television show, as a lens to explore the prevailing attitudes of family and gender in 1973. The 1970s were a particularly ... -
Marginalization and veneration: the contradictions in perceptions of Japanese biracial celebrities
(2010-03-23)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. -
Molgulid Ascidians Share a Unique Gene Complex
(2011-06)Typical chordate features found in ascidian tadpole larvae have been evolutionarily lost several times independently within the Molgulidae family. While tailed molgulids retain a tail with muscl ... -
Morphological integration of foreign elements in Russian: a comparison of bilingual speakers in Lithuania and Estonia
(2010-03-23)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. -
A Musical Collaboration: the Orchestras of Auschwitz
(University of Washington Libraries, 2015)In the historiography of the Holocaust, the subject of music is often disregarded in favor of politics, and when it is mentioned it is done so in passing. This paper seeks to understand how Nazis used music as a tool to ... -
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting: A Reevaluation of the First Edition
(2011-12)The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting, first published in 1679, has been hailed as the most influential guide to painting ever produced in China, yet there is little evidence in support of this assertion. A close ... -
Neighborhood and Nation in Neoliberal Times: Urban Upheaval, Resistance, and National Identity in Buenos Aires, Argentina
(2010-05)In the wake of the devastating Argentine economic crisis of 2001, Buenos Aires has undergone one of the largest real estate booms in the city’s history – a boom that is fundamentally reconfiguring the urban landscape. In ... -
Organizing Precarious Workers in the CIO Era: The International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America
(2013)This paper examines the history of the International Fishermen and Allied Workers of America (IFAWA) in the Puget Sound and Alaska from its roots in the early 1930s until dissolution in 1952. Many fishermen were misclassified ... -
The Port Madison Area in the 1870s and 1880s: An Integrated Community
(2008-10-29)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 ... -
Pushed Ashore: Coast Guard Screening on the Seattle Waterfront
(2011-12)In 1950s, the United States Coast Guard operated under security regulations which vested them with absolute power in determining what laborers had access to maritime employment in national ports. At the end of World War ... -
Radical Politics and Emotional Liberation: Thane Summers Road to the Spanish Civil War
(2011-03-11)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 ... -
Rainier Brewery : Landmark of our Industrial History
(2009-12)The Rainier Brewery has been a Seattle institution for over a hundred years. As a keystone of Seattle’s pre-Prohibition Brewing Industry and home of Emil Sick’s Rainier Beer, the Rainier Brewery complex at 3100 Airport ... -
Rape and the Law: An Examination of the Relationship between Sexist Cultural Attitudes and Washington State’s 1975 Rape Law Revision
(University of Washington Libraries, 2015)In 1975, Washington State’s legislature approved a complete overhaul the state’s rape statutes. As was the case in many states, societal assumptions about sex and gender roles were embedded in Washington’s rape law prior ... -
Rationality of Inaccurate Science: Britain, Cholera and the Pursuit of Progress in 1883
(2007-08-03)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 ... -
Re-Imagining Identities: Racial and Ethnic Discourses within Seattle’s Habesha Community
(University of Washington Libraries, 2014)My research explores the means by which identities of “non-white” Habesha (Ethiopian and Eritrean) immigrants are negotiated through the use of media, community spaces, collectivism, and activism. As immigrant ...