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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.

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Diversity and Inclusion in the Brazilian Corporate Sector: The Interplay of Public and Private Discourses in a National Struggle for Human Rights

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Juliana Milani Viana da Silva
Department or Program
Latin American and Latino/a Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This senior thesis in Latin American Studies discusses the recent rise in Diversity and Inclusion trends in the Brazilian private sector as of 2021. It considers these corporate trends as cooptation mechanisms encroaching larger social demands for rights, while also...

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Speaking to the Silences: Black Women's Mediation of Historical Trauma and Healing

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Pétigny, Naimah Zulmadelle
Department or Program
Sociology Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Black women's trauma, which is largely unclaimed, un-mediated and unrecognized, is transgenerational. The physical, social, and psychological effects of holding on to a racialized history of trauma, caused by systematic and structural racism and sexism, continue to effect the identity...

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