Essays about: "’whiteness’"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 76 essays containing the word ’whiteness’.
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1. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. READ MORE
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2. Bathing into Belonging: An Exploration of International Students' encounters at the Swedish Sauna
University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologiAbstract : This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of Swedish sauna practices as experienced by international students at Lund University. The research objective is to navigate experiences of belonging and community formation that occur in the sauna, but also highlights how experiences of outsiderness and exclusion come to the fore in this highly sensorial environment. READ MORE
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3. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : The discourse on beauty has primarily been focused on the white gaze to prescribe its normative standards. The white gaze conceptualizes the way in which beauty is dwelled on within society: the foisting of Caucasian-looking beauty canons on black women, and the veneration of whiteness as superior. READ MORE
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4. Gender, Sexuality, Race, Nationality, and Religion in Greek Education. : A Critical Discourse Analysis of a Political Education Schoolbook.
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Tema GenusAbstract : Feminist and Educational research on schoolbooks in the Greek educational context has discussed the ways in which gender or nationality or religion are being portrayed but has failed to touch upon sexuality and race (and other categories) and deploy an intersectional feminist perspective in their approaches, focusing only on one category. This thesis aims to fill the gap identified in the literature and investigate the portrayal and intersection of gender, sexuality, race, nationality, and religion in the discourses of selected texts of the Political Education schoolbook used in the first grade of highschool and the ways in which this portrayal and intersection challenges or reinforces hegemonic exclusionary discourses, power dynamics and hierarchies. READ MORE
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5. The Aesthetics of Assault
University essay from Lunds universitet/FilmvetenskapAbstract : Comparing contemporary legislation and social debates to films and TV-shows from the 2000s and 2010s, this study shows a change in approach to the subject of sexual assault from an intersectional angle. The analysis describes a more individual, neo-liberal angle in the early 2000s, and a more holistic and societal angle in the 2010s. READ MORE
