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  • Leadership and Loyalty Revisited : Catholic Latinas and Leadership

    Creator:
    Morales-Warming, Melissa
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    White women’s experiences with major institutions, the church included, often are generalized to other women’s experiences, much like how the experience of men in often represented as the experience of all humankind. In 2001 Elaine Howard Ecklund studied white lay women in the Catholic Church and explored two questions: What...
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    . __________________________________________________________________ Melissa Morales-Warming, Author ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This thesis has been a long

  • The Knee That Shook America: A Case Study of Colin Kaepernick and Historical Analysis of Protest

    Creator:
    Okonkwo, Charles
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    America is said to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. With the unfair treatment of people of color in this country, however, one would believe that somewhere in the fine print, they were excluded from that phrase. The very foundation of this country was...
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    boycott. This 13-month long protest saw 99% of the Black population participate. This action led to the

  • The Indian New Deal and the Effects it had on Federally Recognized Tribes

    Creator:
    Hall, Gabriann
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    This paper covers the impact of Franklin D Roosevelt's, "Indian New Deal" and the effect it had on federally recognized Indian tribes. I have taken an in-depth look at specific areas of New Deal legislation including the Indian Reorganization Act, the Johnson O'Malley Act, and the Indian Arts and Crafts...
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    devastating to Indians on several levels and had long lasting effects. Prior to the allotment process

  • Barbie Feathers: Writing Native Women

    Creator:
    Hedges, Jamie Lewis
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    Literature has often misrepresented Natives and women. I involved Native Women in researching and editing my novel to fairly and accurately represent them. in open-ended interviews they described their experiences of nature, enjoyment, and discrimination as well as their critiques of the novel itself. Descriptions were of discrimination as perceived...
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    collectively perceive their environment from the inside out, (Tyler 1969; cf. Strauss 1992) and then apply

  • Oppression from Within : AIM, Heteropatriarchy, Settler Colonialism, and the Death of Anna Mae Aquash

    Creator:
    Whitebear-Cupp, Luhui
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    This thesis describes how heteropatriarchal, settler colonialism impacted Indigenous communities' systems in power and control, particularly with the American Indian Movement during the 1960s-1970s. Further, the gendered divides this created within the American Indian Movement are described. The murder of Anna Mae Aquash is revisited as an act of gendered...
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    made, as described by Maracle, had long lasting effects in Native communities that can be felt to

  • Chingasos y Putasos : Examining Cultural and Structural Violence among Mexican American Youth

    Creator:
    Lerma, Zandro E.
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    In this thesis, I examine Johan Galtung’s theory of violence and discuss how his concepts of cultural and structural violence helps explain the problem of direct violence among Mexican American youth. I argue that cultural violence, mainly dominant narratives of colonialism and masculinity, cause some Mexican American youth to act...
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    boy grew up not long after the Chicano movement, and he felt comfortable identifying as a Chicano

  • Transnational feminism and the microfinance (r)evolution : excavating microlending from neoliberalism

    Creator:
    Ireland, Heather Montes
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    This study employs interdisciplinary methods to make transnational feminist sense of the microfinance phenomenon. Drawing upon a combination of discourse approach, textual analysis, political economics and critical theory construction, I fused a feminist critical discourse approach to excavate microfinance from neoliberalism. I designed an economic justice framework and executed an...
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    disciplinary research, such as planning an overall approach and identifying research questions, it also