Sökning: "whiteness"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 178 uppsatser innehållade ordet whiteness.

  1. 1. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Hair : En intervjustudie om afrohår i relation till femininitet och skönhet

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusvetenskap

    Författare :Sara Abraham; [2024]
    Nyckelord :afro-textured hair; hegemonic femininity; whiteness; racialized beauty; Swedish exceptionalism.;

    Sammanfattning : This study aims to research the implications of Afro-Swedish women's relationship with their hair and how it pertains to their view of femininity and beauty. Four one-on-one semi-structured interviews with Afro-Swedish women were conducted to collect relevant material. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Writing Your Way out of a Cage : Agency and Dehumanization in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad

    Master-uppsats, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Författare :Alberto Ramos Vicario; [2024]
    Nyckelord :antiracism; slavery; American history; assimilationism; agency; discourse; antirasism; slaveri; amerikansk historia; assimilationism; agency; diskurs;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis analyzes the conceptualization of agency as a form of resistance against dehumanizing slavery discourses present in the narrative The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead. For the historical contextualization and the theoretical background, the scholarly work Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi is used. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Visualisering av tystade historier - En dekolonial kulturanalys av verket I firandet av vår kamp finns deras undergång

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Författare :Jennifer Turano; [2023-08-09]
    Nyckelord :Memorials; Whiteness; Non-whiteness; Decolonial artivism; Decolonial theory; Post-immigrant generations; Racism; Memory;

    Sammanfattning : The dominant narrative of history, prevalent in Sweden, is of a country which has no structural racism and that had no part in the colonization of the Americas or in the transatlantic slave trade. This is far from the truth, and this study connects Sweden’s role in the slave trade and as a country with colonial ambitions, as well as its history of racial biology, with the racialization of non-white bodies. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Produktion och reproduktion av vithet i bilderböcker

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Malmö universitet/Institutionen för barndom, utbildning och samhälle (BUS)

    Författare :Linda Waller; Tilde Englund; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Förskola; vithetsnorm; barnlitteratur; bilderbok; normkritik; de Andra; Erkännande; Kunskap;

    Sammanfattning : Syftet med den här studien är att undersöka om och hur vithetsnormen utmanas i barnböcker. Vi har besökt fem förskolor i södra Sverige för att genomföra undersökningen av barnböckerna. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Bathing into Belonging: An Exploration of International Students' encounters at the Swedish Sauna

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för etnologi

    Författare :Kara Stein; [2023]
    Nyckelord :sauna; body; autoethnography; home; affects; Sweden; Sara Ahmed; Cultural Sciences;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is an ethnographic exploration of Swedish sauna practices as experienced by international students at Lund University. The research objective is to navigate experiences of belonging and community formation that occur in the sauna, but also highlights how experiences of outsiderness and exclusion come to the fore in this highly sensorial environment. LÄS MER