Essays about: "American history"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 127 essays containing the words American history.

  1. 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)

    Author : Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Keywords : antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    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

  3. 2. Publicly approved wars : How soft power is used to sway public opinion

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Ville Sternbeck; [2024]
    Keywords : Soft Power; Public Opinion; American Military Intervention; Afghanistan War; Taiwan Crisis;

    Abstract : The United States has always been a very prominent user of hard power and has in most of its existence wielded a great amount of it, seen by their long military history. Another power the United States has a vast amount of is soft power, begging the question how this power has been utilized in the past, to for example create public support for military intervention. READ MORE

  4. 3. Diversifying a Museum Collection and the Politics of Representation : A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Acquisition Policies and Implementation of Diversity Strategies at Stockholm's Moderna Museet in the 21st Century

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

    Author : Jonas van Kappel; [2024]
    Keywords : Moderna Museet; museum collections; art acquisition policies; diversity discourse; gender representation; intersectionality; queer studies; performativity; art donations; mixed-methods; museology;

    Abstract : Since 1958, Moderna Museet has housed Sweden’s largest collection of Swedish and international modern and contemporary art. This thesis examines the 21st-century collecting strategies and policy development of Moderna Museet, with a focus on diversity and representation, using intersectional theory and queer studies. READ MORE

  5. 4. Woven from Hundreds of Flowers : Religion, Conflict, and Collective Memory in Nepal as Seen Through Deepak Rauniyar’s Film White Sun

    University essay from

    Author : Zara Luna Hjelm; [2023]
    Keywords : Nepal; Nepali Civil War; Religion; Gender; Film; Film Theory;

    Abstract : This thesis examines how religious traditions, collective memory, and conflict are represented in the Nepali film White Sun (2016), which was co-written and directed by Deepak Rauniyar. The film focuses on an anti-regime partisan who returns home to the rural areas of Nepal to bury his father. READ MORE

  6. 5. The "Black Butterflies": Color in God Help the Child and the Inverted White Gaze

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Claudia Bern; [2023]
    Keywords : Chromatism; Dark Beauty; Ebony-Black Beauty; White Beauty; Black Skin; Blue-Black Skin; Afro-textured Hair; Black Color; White Mask; Slavery; Race Prejudice; Black Identity; Toni Morrison; God Help the Child; Africanist in Literature; Black Beauty in Media; Whiteness; Inverted White Gaze; White Gaze; Black Gaze.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : 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