Essays about: "Native Americans"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 18 essays containing the words Native Americans.

  1. 11. Transcultural Zone: Hybridity and Frontier Theory in Callahan’s Wynema: A Child of the Forest.

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Caroline Browé; [2015]
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    Abstract : The terms “Indian” and “Native American” do not only signify the indigenous peoples of America, but also includes stereotypical features and descriptions that are created by the Euro-Americans. The aim of this essay is to investigates what Indian identity is in Alice Callahan’s novel Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1981), and whether it promotes Indian stereotype or not. READ MORE

  3. 12. Teaching History through The Last of the Mohicans

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Zaher el-Shami; [2014-10-09]
    Keywords : Literature; James Fenimore Cooper; The Last of the Mohicans; Gender; Native Americans; Colonialism;

    Abstract : This essay explores how effective literature can be when used to teach history utilizing James Fenimore Cooper‟s The Last of the Mohicans, in order to teach students two specific historical events, as well as historical gender roles and norms. It does this by first looking at how literature has been employed by others to teach history with pedagogical goals in mind, followed by examining gender roles from the period the novel has as its setting, including the period the novel itself was written in. READ MORE

  4. 13. History Unchained, the visual representation of Slavery in mainstream Hollywood Cinema

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Tabitha Mcneill; [2014]
    Keywords : Hollywood; Slavery; Django Unchained; Quentin Tarantino; racism; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : Through Hollywood film history there have been several, mostly inconvenient topics, that have been kept away from public conscience through the film industry and governmental censorship. Amongst the genocide on Native Americans and homosexuality, the topic of american slavery has been underrepresented in mainstream Hollywood. READ MORE

  5. 14. Social Dialogue and Labour Relations in United States' Federal Indian Law and Policy: Alien Concepts?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Marc Gorrie; [2012]
    Keywords : Native Americans; Tribes; Tribal Nations; Tribal; Indigenous; Indians; American Indians; Sovereignty; Self-determination; Alien Tort Claims Act; ATCA; Labour Relations; ILO; International Labour Organization; Consultation; Prior Consultations; Governance Conventions; American Legal History; Traditional Occupations; United States Federal Indian Law and Policy; Law and Political Science;

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  6. 15. Racial Conflict in the United States of America : A Deconstructive Perspective on Native Speaker by Changrae Lee

    University essay from Engelska

    Author : Amin Beiranvand; [2010]
    Keywords : Racial conflict; mistreatment of immigrants; Deconstruction; Korean Americans and African Americans;

    Abstract : Written about the time of the Golden Venture incident, Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker makes a particular reference to that incident, whereby implying that particular immigrants, on the grounds of their racial identities, are mistreated and considered as aliens by some Americas. While some whites discriminate against immigrants, there is widespread ethnic tension between Korean Americans and African Americans. READ MORE