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Browse by Specialisation "Transnational America: Politics, Culture and Society"
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(2021-06-28)Master North American StudiesIn the last few years, we have seen an increasing number of protests in response to police violence towards African Americans. During these protests the call to defund the police has frequently been heard. Books such as ... -
(2017-11-17)Master North American StudiesThis thesis aims to gain understanding of the reasons behind makeup being one of the most resilient products of consumer culture. It consists of a detailed analytical study of the makeup industry in the American marketplace ... -
(2022-06-24)Master North American StudiesAs of late, the American political climate has been nothing less than chaotic. The last two presidential elections have highlighted that there is no graceful defeat, little middle ground, and even less collaboration between ...
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(2022-02-28)Master North American StudiesWhen the Cold War drew to its conclusion, the Warsaw Treaty Organization and the Soviet Union were crumbling. This left many Eastern European countries in a state of uncertainty. NATO was a possible solution to solve their ...
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(2022-01-17)Master North American StudiesThe European Recovery Act, commonly known as the Marshall Plan, was a comprehensive fouryear aid package from the United States (US) that was meant to support the recovery of European states after the devastation of World ...
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(2021-06-28)Master North American StudiesThis thesis examines in what ways responses to anti-racism protests within the National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), and National Hockey League (NHL), by athletes and the sports leagues ...
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(2018-08-20)Master North American StudiesThe topic of this MA thesis is the evolvement of Beyoncé’s artistry from a media product to a Black activist. The main research question is: to what extent can the artistry of Beyoncé be considered feminist and how has ...
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(2017-08-31)Master North American StudiesThis thesis examines the portrayal of two characters of ethnic minorities in the popular Star Trek–franchise. Its primary purpose is to determine whether the portrayal of the African American lieutenant Uhura and the middle ...
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(2017-05-15)Master North American StudiesIn order to uncover the reasons behind Apple, Inc.’s 1997 recovery, this study analyses the possible Critical Success Factors (CSFs) that may have been of upmost importance in the unprecedented revival of Apple, Inc. over ...
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(2018-08-20)Master North American StudiesThis thesis examines the presence of a utopian discourse in a selection of Apple Inc. televised advertisements released from 1983 until 2017. Specifically, it analyzes in which ways these messages of utopianism can be ...
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(2018-08-28)Master North American StudiesMuch of the literature on gentrification is written from an economic perspective, with many different sub-discussions within the larger gentrification debate. Research done through a social and cultural lens is mostly ...
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(2020-07-03)Master North American StudiesThroughout the history of the United States the authority over a state’s electoral process has shifted four times from a state itself to the government and back. Although a state has the constitutional right to oversee its ...
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(2016-09-01)Master North American StudiesUniversal suffrage legitimizes democratic governance. The establishment of a repressive United States criminal justice system, however, has imposed strict qualifications on the right to vote. Signified by racialized mass ...
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(2017-08-30)Master North American StudiesIslam has become highly politicized post-9/11, the Islamophobia that has followed has been spread throughout the news media and Hollywood in particular. By using theories based on stereotypes, Othering, and Orientalism and ...
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(2020-07-15)Master North American StudiesThis thesis explores the dynamics between global and local politics by investigating the social, environmental and political effects of a NATO military air base in Geilenkirchen which hosts NATO’s Airborne Early Warning ...
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(2019-04-05)Master North American StudiesThis thesis explores the potential of the United States as Cultural Empire during the Marshall Plan years by analyzing three selected posters from the poster competition in 1950 and the well-known emblem of the aid program. ...
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(2015-08-15)Master North American StudiesThroughout American history, white men have had difficulty defining themselves and their gender. Manhood and masculinity have continually been redefined since the Revolutionary War. In the 1950s, the threat of the Cold ...
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(2016-09-30)Master North American StudiesThe thesis examines the ways in which American policies of economic developmental aid took shape in the early years of the Cold War. It combines historical research done at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, ...
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(2022-06-24)Master North American StudiesThis thesis analyzes hyperviolent games of the early 2010s to identify narratives that conceptually link ‘Violence’ with ‘America.’ The focus is on games by non-American studios, with the aim of investigating how outside ...
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(2021-07-26)Master North American StudiesThis thesis analyzes three important junctures in the political debate regarding the European defense policy in the decade after the Maastricht Treaty, which established the European Union. Throughout this period notions ...
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