Sökning: "American History"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 241 uppsatser innehållade orden American History.
1. 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)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
2. Publicly approved wars : How soft power is used to sway public opinion
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Sammanfattning : The United States has always been a very prominent user of hard power and has in most of its existence wielded a great amount of it, seen by their long military history. Another power the United States has a vast amount of is soft power, begging the question how this power has been utilized in the past, to for example create public support for military intervention. LÄS MER
3. Gestaltningen av det spansk–amerikanska kriget 1898 : En kvalitativ studie av den svenska pressdiskussionen kring det spansk–amerikanska kriget 1898
Kandidat-uppsats, FörsvarshögskolanSammanfattning : The American press has been given a significant amount of attention regarding their role in enabling the Spanish–American war. Even though there is a debate regarding how much the so called yellow press contributed to the causes of war, a significant amount of research points to how the American press was filled with speculations and propaganda which certainly added fuel to the fire. LÄS MER
4. Diversifying a Museum Collection and the Politics of Representation : A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Acquisition Policies and Implementation of Diversity Strategies at Stockholm's Moderna Museet in the 21st Century
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetikSammanfattning : Since 1958, Moderna Museet has housed Sweden’s largest collection of Swedish and international modern and contemporary art. This thesis examines the 21st-century collecting strategies and policy development of Moderna Museet, with a focus on diversity and representation, using intersectional theory and queer studies. LÄS MER
5. Visualisering av tystade historier - En dekolonial kulturanalys av verket I firandet av vår kamp finns deras undergång
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaperSammanfattning : 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
