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Anthropology and Sociology Senior Individualized Projects: Recent submissions
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Reconceptualizing Third Culture Kids (TCKs) : Investigating Transnational Non-place Identity and Problematizing the Concept of Third Culture Kids
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This qualitative research is grounded in the experiences of children raised transnationally in highly mobile worlds. Traditionally in research these people have been referred to as Third Culture Kids (TCKs), however the ... -
Resurfacing Slave Patrols Within "Modern" Police Subject Matter
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)This essay compares similarities in the relationship between slave catchers and slaves, pre and post Civil War, to the relationship between modern day law enforcement and African American communities. The author argue that ... -
The Chosen Frame(s) : Constructing STEM Groups for Underrepresented Minority Students at Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)In the United States, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is a highly valued discipline because it upholds the economic wealth in the nation. However, the number of underrepresented minority students ... -
The Politics of Solidarity : Working in cooperation through Violent and Non-Violent Militancy
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This research examines the ideologies and practices of white radical leftist organizations such as Students for a Democratic Society, it's various iterations, and The White Panther Party. This is accomplished through ... -
No Simple Gift : Neoliberalism and the Kalamazoo Promise
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)In November 2005, it was announced that a group of anonymous donors had contributed funds to provide the full tuition cost at any in-state college or university to graduates of Kalamazoo Public Schools. This scholarship ... -
Constructing New Realities in Dzaleka : Exploration of Power and Agency in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2019)The purpose of this research is to explore power and agency within refugee camps. To do so, this paper surveys relevant literature overviewing broad institutions that manage displacement, and then centers the conversation ... -
The Influences on Intention : Albany, NY as a Case Study of Refugee Agencies in Relation to the State and Neoliberalism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This research project investigates the motivations and priorities of local refugee agencies in Albany, NY, as compared to the U.S. federal resettlement system and its corresponding neoliberal objectives. The focus is on ... -
Screaming Xicago: How Identity Built the Lower West Side
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)This report utilizes the majority Mexican Chicago Neighborhoods of Pilsen and Little Village alongside the majority suburb of Cicero to examine the relationship between space and power. Specifically, the communities within ... -
The New Museology : Indigenous Appropriation and Decolonial Possibilities
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)The museum in the community of San Francisco is a first step towards this idea of recuperation. As outlined in the previous chapter, the museum gives space to members of the community to analyze and remember their history, ... -
"Turn Around for Free College" : The Role Real Estate Agents and Agencies Play in the Process Of Gentrification in the Context ofthe Kalamazoo Promise
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)The Kalamazoo Promise is a place-based scholarship program that attempts to shift the economic reality of Kalamazoo, Michigan. This research project analyzes the marketing strategies real estate agents and agencies implement ... -
Cash Rules Everything Around Me : Conceptualizing Universal Basic Income Within Capitalism and Across Political Ideology
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)One of the most prominent ideas currently being tossed around in the public policy arena is that of a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Defined as "an income paid by a political community to its members on an individual basis, ... -
The Achievement Gap : A Critical Ethnography of the Factors Which Perpetuate the Gap in Academic Achievement Between Races
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2018)The gap in academic achievement between minority (African American and Latino) students and non-minority students, also known as the racial Achievement Gap, has been a major issue within schooling in the United States. ... -
Conceptualizing Charter Schools : Class Reproduction and Education
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)This research contextualizes larger debates regarding school choice, educational consumption, and charter schools within the perspectives of parents, teachers, and board members from three charter schools located in a ... -
False Diversity and Cultural Wealth : How Do First Generation College Students of Color Experience College and How Do They Deal with Their Experience?
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)First-generation college students of color have had an increasing presence in four year colleges and universities, which has challenged these institutions of higher education in serving a progressively diverse student ... -
The African American Experience Abroad
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)Most of the literature surrounding study abroad focus on white middle to upper-class women experiences abroad, excluding narratives from various racial and other minority groups. Research that does address diversity and ... -
Imagining the Future of The City of Champions : Inglewood in an Era of Development
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)In 2014, the City of Inglewood announced the City of Champions Revitalization Initiative that would bring in a new NFL Stadium for the Los Angeles Rams and Chargers, retail space, housing units, and more to the heart of ... -
An Analysis of Sexual Assault Education and Anti-Sexual Assault Policies : A study of Kalamazoo College
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)This study analyzes the systems of power that construct and normalize sexual violence. Furthermore, The author assesses the ways that systems of power like patriarchy and racism systematically perpetuate sexual violence ... -
Fa 'a Samoa and China : The interface of indigenous socio-political systems, legacies of colonialism, and (re)imaginations of race in the independent state of Samoa
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)In an exploration of the way that race operates in Samoa, this qualitative research project studies the intersection of the Fa'a Samoa - the socio-political governance system of Samoa, the recent Chinese migration in the ... -
The Perception of the Public : White Versus Black Police Officers
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)The author writes, “A lot of people say that white cops are racist and this is why their children are being killed by people that are supposed to protect them. I hear this a lot in Chicago, the city that I come from. By ... -
A Look at Social, Economic and Structural Determinants that Shape and/or Influence Attitudes and Perspectives about the Environment in Highland Park, Los Angeles
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2017)This research paper analyzes results from my research conducted in Highland Park, Los Angeles that had 22 respondents. The goal going into this project was to focus on the perspectives and attitudes towards climate change ...
