Essays about: "vithet"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word vithet.

  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. Black in the Ivory Tower: The Subversiveness of Black Women at Lund University

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Elsa Mertala; [2022]
    Keywords : Academia; Black women; labour; subversiveness; Lund University; Swedish Exceptionalism; Akademin; svarta kvinnor; arbete; subversiv; Lund universitet; svensk exceptionalism; Cultural Sciences; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In Sweden the research about Black people’s experiences in academia is quite limited, because of a self-image that is colourblind which prevents the acknowledgement of Black existence (practice, thought, bodies). This thesis is a cultural analytical attempt to contribute and widen the research field of critical studies in Swedish academia, through exploring Black female’s emotional and body experiences in the spatiotemporal space of Lund University. READ MORE

  4. 3. Now you see it, now you don’t - A literature-based study on identifying normative whiteness in relation to structural racism and social determinants of health

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för medicin

    Author : Laura Voutilainen; [2019-08-01]
    Keywords : whiteness; critical race and whiteness studies; social determinants of health; public health; structural racism; vithet; kritiska ras- och vithetsstudier; hälsans sociala bestämningsfaktorer; folkhälsovetenskap; strukturell rasism;

    Abstract : Background: Structural racism is increasingly regarded as a central issue for disparities in social determinants of health. Eliminating such structure can be seen as central for achieving racial health equity. READ MORE

  5. 4. Trans Library Experience : A qualitative research of trans experience and identity work in Swedish public libraries

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

    Author : Sofia Blick; [2019]
    Keywords : Trans identity work; Trans experience; Public libraries; Intersectionality; Orientation; Heterosexual matrix; Whiteness; Categorization; transidentitetsarbete; transerfarenhet; biblioteksupplevelser; folkbibliotek; intersektionalitet; orientering; den heterosexuella matrisen; vithet; kategorisering;

    Abstract : This essay examines how trans people experience Swedish public libraries, as well as how the library can be an integral part of their trans identity work. The data sample was collected through semi-structured phenomenological interviews with five trans and non-binary library users. READ MORE

  6. 5. Bound to Move: White Middle-Class Women’s Mobility in a Segregated City

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Author : Elisabet Holmgren; [2017]
    Keywords : trygghet; det offentliga rummet; klass; vithet; mobilitet; genus; cultural analysis; feminist ethnography; social sustainability; safety; urban segregation; public space; class; whiteness; gender; mobility; social hållbarhet; feministisk etnografi; kulturanalys; MACA; Cultural Sciences;

    Abstract : People’s everyday movements across the urban space matter. Indeed, for city planners looking to counter urban segregation processes, the issue of physical mobility is of prime concern as it bears the potential of overcoming ethnic and socio-economic divisions in the city. Yet, there is a lack of academic research matching this interest. READ MORE