The Mexican folk saint La Santa Muerte is one of the most popular saints in both Mexico and the United States today. She has devotees from different social, political and economic backgrounds. Santa Muerte is thus a religious ...

The 2008 Democratic presidential primaries are the most significant ones in American history. The primaries featured a viable African American candidate and a viable female candidate. Race and gender play a large role in ...

Trayvon Martin’s death and the arrest and trial of the shooter, George Zimmerman, sparked a national debate about race, given that Martin was an unarmed Black teenager. Media outlets, which have become increasingly politicized ...

This thesis examines which strategies/behaviors white self-proclaimed non- or anti-racist students employ when they are confronted with everyday racism. This qualitative research was conducted at Binghamton University, NY, ...

This thesis is focused on how to study Hollywood in a context of soft power. More specifically, how Hollywood provides audiences abroad with a window into American society and how it chooses to portray it. This thesis is ...

This thesis examines the complicated relationship between terrorism and the media. Specifically, it contains an analysis of the ways in which American newspaper media construct terrorism, with a focus on visual representations ...

After the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there was a strong feeling that the racial problems had been overcome. This idea was cemented when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008. The U.S. was now believed ...

Drugs have been influencing literature since the first literary texts were created. While being a reoccurring theme in many novels, various authors also stated that the use of drugs affected their writing. Several works ...