A doscientos años del nacimiento de Karl Marx, su obra y su nombre permanecen como una marca indeleble que acompaña las luchas de todos los pueblos oprimidos y explotados del mundo. Como creación heroica, dejamos en manos de los luchadores y las luchadoras por un mundo más justo…
"This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focusing on a range of landmark comics from the 20th and 21st centuries, the discussion draws attention to the ongoing role of visual culture in framing testimony, particularly in relation to underprivil…
This thesis considers a theoretical tradition which is concerned with how adult literacies education might not always serve to socialise students into existing society, instead encouraging possibilities for desirable alternatives to it. Without this possibility, adult literacies…
Despite the end of apartheid in 1994 and the advent of democracy; the historical legacies of apartheid remain vivid in a post-apartheid society and inequality has worsened (IMF, 2020). As such, education is seen by many as a tool to address the persistent inequalities in South A…
The media has played a critical role in reproducing anti-Black violence in the United States, which has often harmed African American communities. Historically, the white press has depicted graphic imagery and descriptions of Black people being brutalized, with little ethical re…
For a long time, the veil has been a signifier of great contention in the cultural encounters between the West and the Muslim world. A great deal of research has been conducted on its meanings as it is received in (predominantly Western) contexts where the veil is interpreted as…
L’objectif de cette mini-thèse est d’étudier la vie de la femme dans Assèze l’Africaine de Calixthe Beyala. Dans ce roman, Beyala présente le tableau africain d’après les indépendances à travers les peines, les illusions et l’espoir de différents personnages féminins. Le lecteur…
If the potential of higher education to foster transformative, emancipatory learning is to be realized, it is necessary to consider the historical forces and social formations by which postsecondary education is (re)shaped. White supremacy operates in and on educational contexts…
In the United States, Black women often face a number of disparities due to historical systems of oppression, social determinants of health and intersecting aspects related to gender and race (Lewis et al., 2016; Thomas et al., 2011; Spates et al., 2020). These factors may affec…
Satire has many effects on its audience, from callous laughter at politicians to seriously thinking about the experienced social and political reality. This thesis explores satire’s effects on those who watch Kukly, a famously banned political satire show in Russia that is only …
The education system of the western world is a tool of hegemony used to command replication of an ontology rooted in oppression. Teachers interested in combating oppression must work toward decolonizing their praxis, a nuanced task accomplished with the help of critical inquiry …
The complexity of traumatic experiences and their influence on psychological wellness continues to expand and inform the clinical practice of trauma-specific interventions. Race relations within the United States have created and sustained long-standing pervasive issues that hav…
Is it possible for the victim of epistemic injustice to be appreciative of it? What we get from the literature is that victims of epistemic injustice are either unaware of, indifferent to, or resistant against, the injustices that they experience – never appreciative. But how sh…
Areas often called food deserts are sites that overlap physically and metaphorically with Black food geographies. Black feminist and womanist perspectives offer valuable insights when developing an understanding of these spaces because of the socio-historical construction of foo…
This dissertation engages poetic contemplations of nonhuman and human animals in order to propose what I call a vegan poetics : that is, an applied reading/writing practice in service of an inclusive liberatory struggle and by way of imaginative translation, transformation and e…
Native Hawaiians are overrepresented in both child maltreatment and foster care entry rates in Hawaii’s child welfare system. While these racial disparities are well-documented, less is known about the reasons for why they are happening. This multi-method study analyzed 2019 dat…
With the increasingly racialized schooling and social contexts of the ongoing anti-immigrant, anti-Latinx, and xenophobic national climate, there is an urgency to examine how K-12 Ethnic Studies (ES) classrooms can support Latinx students with navigating and confronting racializ…
In recent decades there has been an increased call for teacher preparation programs to incorporate social justice themes into their curricula. This is in response to glaring educational inequities that fall along racial, linguistic, and socio-economic lines, among others (Ladson…
This dissertation is a constructivist grounded theory study of queer fans and their overlapping interactions with fanfiction texts, online platforms, and each other. Informed by queer theory, assemblage theory, and other perspectives from Library and Information Science (LIS), M…