Browsing Critical Ethnic Studies Senior Integrated Projects by Title
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BIPOC Educational Spaces : An Analysis of Personal Experiences Working in Kalamazoo Public Elementary Schools
(2023-03-01)Within this paper I seek to detail and record a collective experience as a childcare worker within Kalamazoo Public Schools, as established through my personal experiences and my coworkers’ and other employees’ who have ... -
A Case for Shapeshifting
(2023-03-01)Through a series of essays, interviews, poems, illustrations, and a single speech, A Case for Shapeshifting thinks through and recognizes the ability to be shaped by change and to shape change. By identifying beings as ... -
Coming to an Understanding: A Theoretical and Personal Critique of Empathy
(2017)The intention of this essay is to critique the concept of empathy. We will look at what empathy is, why it occurs, and ways in which empathy can do more harm than good. I outline the ways in which acts of empathy have ... -
Emplumada
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Envisioning a Better Education for Our Kids : An Exploration of the Summer Camp Experience
(2022-11-01)This SIP brings to light the importance of education outside of traditional Western academia, through the use of summer camps. Since 2016, I have worked as a camp counselor at a camp in Northern Michigan called Camp ... -
Fading Decaying Slipping
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The Finality of the Colonial Spirit : Critical imaginations of Home at the US-Mexico Border
(2020-04-01)Understanding the struggles that queer migrants face when making Home proves historically that one is always in response to the economic shifts of the world. It shifts one’s identity in order to more readily fit within the ... -
Hornet Scholar Institute
(2017)As stated on Kalamazoo College’s Diversity and Inclusion webpage, “Kalamazoo College is committed to fostering a campus climate and academic experience in which our diverse community of learners can thrive.”1 This ... -
NailTrap : A Web of Dynamic Linear Perspectives Through Poetic Entanglements of Nail Salons, Family (politics), Stories and Vietnamese Diasporic Understandings
(2020-04-01)A poetic argument of Vietnamese refugees settled in the U.S. through the nail salon space as they ‘belong’ there but not in other spaces; reveal entanglements of relationships between family, community, customer/technician, ... -
On the Importance of Indigenous Language Revitalization in Sustaining Sacred Relationship with Nature in Oaxaca, Mexico
(2021-02-01)This project explores the ways in which language is organized by distinct cultural values surrounding human relationship with nature. In particular, many indigenous languages demonstrate the capacity for mutually beneficial ... -
Reciprocal and Collaborative Work in Oaxaca: The Story of Los Mecos, the Traditional Dance of San Juan Bautista Coixtlahuaca
(2023-01-01)This text seeks to critically examine different forms of cross-cultural investigation through an anti-colonial lens, beginning to hopefully undo often extractive relationships between academics and indigenous communities. ... -
The Unspeakable Terror : Medical Exploitation on African and Indigenous Bodies
(2020-09-01)Medical experimentation is a prominent tool used to perpetuate Euro-centric hegemonic ideologies by utilizing the bodies of innocent black and indigenous men and women who were enslaved or captured by European colonizers. ...