This 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 ...

Universal 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 ...

Throughout 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 ...

In 2006 John Hulsman and Anatol Lieven presented ethical realism as a viable alternative to U.S. foreign policy at the time. This thesis examines whether this alternative works by analyzing Barack Obama's foreign policy ...

The aim of this thesis is to define how transfer from the original writing of Edgar Allan Poe into a comic book can harm or complement the source. The Classics Illustrated adaptations of the original short stories and poems ...

Bruce Springsteen is known for writing songs about the experiences of the American working class. In this thesis, I analyze the significance of the themes mobility and place in Springsteen’s lyrics, and how these themes ...

In the summer of 2013, whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked classified documents of the United States intelligence organization NSA to the press. The documents, of which the magnitude and scope were unprecedented, shocked ...

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 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 ...