During the time period in Germany history from 1989-1990 known as the Wende, activist writing, movies, and mass protests highlighted the exclusion of racial minorities from Germany's unity story. These activists decried the racial violence and scapegoating that followed the mass…
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This thesis explores the notion of rurality as a form of constructed identity. Just as feminist and postcolonial studies identify the formation of hierarchies within gender and ethnicity, I argue that the rural is constructed as inferior in opposition to its binary counterpart, …
The purpose of this study is to investigate binary discourses of self and other constructed by Canadian media in the representation of Saudi women. One of the modest aims of this research is to expound on the status of centralized media coverage in Canada. Drawing on Hegel's mod…
Utilizing a heuristic methodology, this thesis examines the relationship of the Self with the Other in terms of the daily struggles of refugee children who are living in a protracted state of political conflict in the Occupied Territories of Gaza and the West Bank. This inquiry …
The focus of this thesis is to understand the ways public figures discuss 9/11, religious, or racial controversy to sustain or modify national identity and the legacy it holds in American society. By examining artifacts from three well-known political figures, 43rd President Geo…
How did the authors of the Hebrew Bible perceive the Cushites? The answer to this question provides insight into the way differences that modern scholars would classify as “racial” were understood in ancient Israel/Judah. By examining explicit biblical references to Cush and Cus…
This dissertation is an analysis of two cases of how cultural and legal discourses reinscribe the ethnic and religious boundaries around European identity. The first case is an analysis of the unprecedented European response to the Freiheitspartei's participation in the Austrian…
This dissertation examines how the representation of technology has been (re)producing, and/or (re)produced by, racial, ethnic, and national identities by drawing on "Japanese" as one concrete example. This examination entails three specific questions (1) how is "Japanese" repre…