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The Hightower Symposium constitutes the culminating event of students' academic development within the Anthropology and Sociology major. Hightower provides a challenging public occasion for senior majors to present their Senior Integrated Projects (SIPS, formerly known as Senior Individualized Projects) to their own student "colleagues," to faculty, parents, and internship supervisors.
The Hightower Symposium began out of a conviction that Dr. Raymond Hightower's life, professor at Kalamazoo College from 1934 to 1971, can remain a particular source of inspiration within the Anthropology and Sociology major.
Abstracts are generally available to the public, but PDF files are available only to current Kalamazoo College students, faculty, and staff. If you are not a current K College student, faculty, or staff member, email us at dspace@kzoo.edu to request access to this material.
The Hightower Symposium was not held in 2020 and 2021.
All materials in the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive are subject to Title 17 of the U.S. Code. All rights reserved. Unless otherwise stated, authors retain the copyright for all content posted to the Kalamazoo College Digital Archive.
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Extreme Green: An Evaluation of Far-Right Ecologism as a Social Movement
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2023)Both climate change and the rise of the far-right across America in the twenty-first century have the potential to increase radicalization and collective action. As the effects of climate change increase, some may find ... -
“What’s the choice? You have no choice”: Charter Schools Marketing Better Education by Selling Discipline and Choice and Its Effects on Public Education
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2023)Charter schools have been a booming industry in recent years, especially in the city of Chicago, where there are advertisements marketed all around the city from the public trains and buses to billboards on the highway. ... -
BIPOC Educational Spaces: An Analysis of Personal Experiences Working in Kalamazoo Public Elementary Schools
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2023)BIPOC Educational Spaces: An Analysis of Personal Experiences Working in Kalamazoo Public Elementary Schools is a telling of stories from my time as a childcare worker in Kalamazoo Public Schools. It includes anecdotes ... -
Heckscher-Ohlin Model: A Theoretical Examination on Capital and Labor Movement in 2-Country Case – The United States and Vietnam
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2023)International outsourcing in the past few decades has emerged as a common practice among developed countries that outsource production to third-world countries whose labor cost is just a fraction of what they pay at home. ... -
Maintaining Community and Identity as a Ugandan Post Expulsion
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2023)On August 4th, 1972, Asians in Uganda woke up to a nightmare: they had 90 days to leave the country, an order put in by Idi Amin, the President of Uganda. The expulsion left a large part of Uganda’s population under extreme ... -
Hay comida en la casa: The Role of Food in Intergenerational Relationships of Mexican Mothers Away from their Homes and How Mothers Pass Down Culture Through Food
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2023)Hay comida en las casa is a phrase many Latinx mothers have said and many Latinx children have heard. It translates to "there is food at home." This is usually said when a child wants McDonalds or any outside food instead ... -
Internal Framing and Structural Overhaul: An Exploration of the Bargaining for the Common Good Model in the Chicago Teachers Union
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2023)Over the last decade, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has gone on strike twice, pioneering the Bargaining for the Common Good model of collective bargaining. The purpose of this study is to determine if the organizational ... -
Power, Influence, and Decision-Making: Emergency Department Healthcare Workers’ Responses to Pediatric Patients With Suicidal Ideation
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022)Healthcare workers are in a unique position in that they can both be oppressed and take part in the oppression. This research focuses on the duality of healthcare workers treating suicidal ideation in this space: how ... -
K Student's Experiences With the School-to-Prison Pipeline in Their Public High Schools
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022)The purpose of this study was to understand the ways in which the experiences of current Kalamazoo College students varied during their high school years, as well as the extent to which this variation relates to ... -
No hay agua: Water Scarcity Affecting Farmers in Ensenada BC, Mexico Catalyzing the Requirement for Adaptation Methods to be Implemented
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022)Maneadero is a coastal municipality part of Ensenada Baja California Mexico which has been an agricultural hotspot for the past few decades. I conducted an autoethnographic qualitative research project where I interviewed ... -
Beso Con Brown Baba: Queering Familial Space Through the Poetics of Mariposa Consciousness
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022)Beso con Brown Baba: Queering Familial Space through the Poetics of Mariposa Consciousness is a telling of stories from my familial upbringing. It invokes the human condition where there is love and violence. ... -
”Illegality” and Bordering Politics surrounding Latinx Migrants: Through a Legal Lens
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022)This paper argues that “fear" or assumed danger regarding the Latinx body, is present due to how borders transfer on to the body, rather than how the border is embodied further discussed by author Paloma Villegas, and ... -
Who Is a Math Person? Belonging in Mathematics for Latina and Black Women
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2022)In this project, I investigated what influences the sense of belonging in mathematics for Latina and Black women. In this study, seven Latina and Black female identifying participants who had considered, are, or were ... -
The Kurdish Movement: Toward Democratic Confederalism and Kurdish Feminism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)This project examined the existing literature surrounding the issues in Kurdistan, the Kurdish people, and the Kurdish Workers’ party (PKK). Intertwined there is a number of different analyses surrounding the Kurdish ... -
Where ICONS Tread
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)How do we personally address that which makes us uncomfortable? In a world leering at us from all angles, it can be difficult not to feel as if one is subjected to the gaze or whims of factors far beyond the individual ... -
The Influences on Intention: Albany, NY as a Case Study of Refugee Agencies in Relation to the State and Neoliberalism
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)This project investigates the objectives of refugee agencies in Albany, NY in relation to the U.S. federal resettlement system. Neoliberalism is identified as a driving force of state objectives, which grew out ... -
Marie Laveau: Transgressing Powerful Gentility and Darkness
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2019)Through this project I sought to learn the ways in which Marie Laveau, the powerful Voodoo Queen of New Orleans helped shape religious practices and experiences for people of color in the south during the nineteenth century. -
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. ... -
“A Beacon of Hope”
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)Non-governmental organizations play a vital role in society by providing public services to communities in which they operate. Research has analyzed the impact these organizations attain on communities and the amount ... -
Charter Schools and the Consumption of Education
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College, 2018)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 ...
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