| Final Research Paper Titles and Topics
English 85/"Whiteness" and Racial Difference Prof. Peter Schmidt/English Dept/Swarthmore College Spring 2001 |
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| Jacqueline Aponte, "On Race in Cyberspace: A Case Study of the MUD [Multi-User Domain] Game Modus Operandi" | |||||
| Kent Bassett, "The U.S. White Working Class and the Negation of the Other" [comparative analysis of the work of historians David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, and Alexander Saxton, The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California] | |||||
| Cristina Cardemil, "Racial Discrimination: A Social Force Affecting Physical Health?" [on recent debates over hypertension studies considering race as a factor] | |||||
| Karl Heideck, "Race on the Internet: Inescapable Identity" [discusses message posts on the okayplayer.com site] | |||||
| Crescent Martin, "Multifaceted Assimilation: An Examination of Milton Gordon's Theory of Assimilation" | |||||
| M. Kanani Milles, "Searching for a Fluid Identity: 'Self'-Determination for Multiracial Individuals" [with special focus on Hawaii] | |||||
| Walter José Perez, "Blackness and Constructions of Puerto Rican Identity," with special focus on the work of Juan Flores and Lillian Guerra | |||||
| Jason Skonieczny, "The Drug Race: An Intervention on the Discourse Surrounding the Significance of Blackness in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000)" | |||||
| Zenzile Stokely-White, "From Cornrows to Afros: A Brief Historical Look at Beauty in the Black Community" [special focus on bell hook's essay "Black Beauty and Black Power" from Killing Rage, and Kathy Peiss' Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture | |||||