Essays about: "Racial Performance"

Found 5 essays containing the words Racial Performance.

  1. 1. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

    University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

    Author : Nimrod Numan; [2023]
    Keywords : Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

    Abstract : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. READ MORE

  3. 2. Predicting preterm birth with machine learning methods

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Zélie Isabelle E Dresse; [2022]
    Keywords : preterm birth; prediction; machine learning; race; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Preterm birth is a leading cause for birth complications and neonatal mortality in the world. It remains difficult to predict whether a preterm birth will occur, which hinders the possible use of prevention treatments. This thesis investigates the use of machine learning models in the prediction of spontaneous preterm birth. READ MORE

  4. 3. Visions of justice and unequal realities: A study of the prioritization of land claimants in the South African Land Restitution Program

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Rebecca Sunnerås Jonsson; [2020]
    Keywords : South Africa; Land Reform; Land Restitution; Human Rights; Instrumental Development; Law and Political Science; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world. The issue of land ownership highlights racial and economic inequalities as the country fights to overcome the enduring legacy of apartheid. The Land Restitution Program seeks to redress victims of land dispossession, addressing both national development and individual justice. READ MORE

  5. 4. Racial Performances On Social Media - A study of the Sweet Brown memes

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Simone Sevel-Sørensen; [2019]
    Keywords : Racial Performance; Internet memes; Minstrelsy; Digital Blackface; Internet Culture; Race; Representation;

    Abstract : Abstract:Social Media has become a powerful tool in several aspects. It can mobilize movements, rallying for social or political causes, and it can bring people together to share experiences or interest on a global platform. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Impact of Affirmative Action on Employees' attitudes towards equality : To BBBEE or not to BBBEE? A field study in South Africa

    University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : Johanna Björnsund; Frida Grundström; [2016]
    Keywords : Affirmative action; B-BBEE; Apartheid; Employee attitudes; Organizational culture; Group identity; Diversity; Prejudice; Group integration; Equality;

    Abstract : Background- South Africa, the most southern country at the African continent as the name depicts, is a country where Apartheid has prevailed the historical and contemporary landscape of the nation.  The era of Apartheid, being a system of discrimination and segregation, produced racial imbalances within the South African society and polices of affirmative action was enforced as an attempt to redress the racial inequalities. READ MORE