Vassar College Digital Library

Vassar Scholarship

Vassar Scholarship, the institutional repository formerly known as Digital Window, reflects the research and scholarly output of the Vassar College community.  It provides access to a variety of collections, including senior theses and projects across a wide range of disciplines.

Wanted: Smart Students from Poor Families Neoliberal Multiculturalism & Diversity in the New Racial Capitalism

Publication Date
2014-January-01
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The primary objective of this senior thesis is to explore how the logics of access, affirmative action, equal opportunity, educational pipelines, and diversity have been constructed, defined, and understood in contemporary U.S. American higher education; and how these meanings and...

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Whose 'Nature' is it in? The Navajo Generating Station and the Politics of Nature, Space and Colonialism in Northern Arizona

Publication Date
2015-January-01
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Department or Program
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Page, Arizona is home to the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired power plant that provides the power for the Central Arizona Project (CAP) and other consumers of electricity in the Southwest. Though the plant is not owned by the Navajo...

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