Senior Theses 2002-2007

2007

"Seeking a Native Female Identity in Film: Narrative, Image and Experience" -- submitted by Davida Betsy Delmar

"Institutionalized Failure: The Troubled Relationship between African Americans and the American Public School" -- submitted by Micaela Dowdy

"A Critical Reflection on the Exhibit, Una Lucha Binacional (A Binational Struggle): Feminicide and the Emergence of Activism in Ciudad Juárez" -- submitted by Rochelle Mercedes Garza

"The Invisibility of the Black Good Bad Boy: The Construction of Black Masculinity in Contemporary United States of America" -- submitted by Tyler A. James

"Legacies: Asian American Women's Activism in San Francisco" -- submitted by Jessica Miyeko Kawamura

"The Success of Students Graduating from a Dual Language School: A Profile of Seven International Charter School Graduates" -- submitted by Liliana Ornelas

"The Phenomenon of William Hung: American Idol, Images, and Fan Communities in Cyberspace" -- submitted by Lam Thanh Phan

"AS220 Broad Street Studio: An Oral History Project" -- submitted by Laura Rubin

"Mind the Gap: Structural Racism and the Individualistic Discourse in Post-Katrina Response to the Cultural and Linguistic Needs of Latinos and Southeast Asians" -- submitted by Michael Santos

"Two Liberated Women of Singapore: Feminist Nationalism in Breaking the Tongue and Joss and Gold" -- submitted by Jane Mee Wong

2006

"Killing Men of Color: Narrative, Masculinity, and Racial Violence" -- submitted by Chloe Djenne Dugger

"The Making of Every Note Counts: A Critical Reflection on the Process and Product" -- submitted by Scott Linford

"Domestic Transnational Identities: Broadening the Scope of Urban Indian Literature" -- submitted by Phillip A. Sanchez

2005

"You Know What I Am Saying?: An Investigation of the Cultural Dimension of the Immigrant Paradox Among Hispanic Immigrants" -- submitted by Francisco J. Cabas

2004

"The Race of Country Music" -- submitted by Elizabeth Martinez

2003

"JACKSON STREET: The Politics of Space, Community, and Resistance among Japanese Americans and African Americans in Seattle, 1890-1950" -- submitted by Megan Asaka

"Health Care, Racial Formation, and Liberation: The Southeast Asian Experience" -- submitted by Vincent E. Chong

"Between Justice and Love" Southeast Asian Americans, Racial Politics, and Thoughts on Political Struggle" -- submitted by Kohei Ishihara

"Painting "'La gran familia puertorriqueña' in True Color: Myths and Realities of Puerto Rican Race Relations" --submitted by Nikhil Laud

"Race, Marxism, and Crisis: A Critique of Two Perspectives on the 'Prison-Industrial Complex'" -- submitted by Christopher Muller

"Revolver" -- submitted by Victor Francis Sta. Ana

"Transgressing Institutional Boundaries in Asian American Studies: A Student Intervention" -- submitted by Clement Tsao

2002

"'Bold When Strength is Wanted': A Collective History of Radical Asian American Activits in the 1940s and '50s" -- submitted by Miabi Chatterji

"Fashionable Otherness: A Study of Multiculturalism in Popular Culture in the Late 1990s" -- submitted by Chanyoung Kwak

"Contesting Locations: A Critical Analysis of a Korean American" -- submitted by Aimee Soyun Paik