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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.

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Coalition for Abolition: Strategic Alliances and Antiprison Activism in California's Central Valley

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Ethan Buckner
Department or Program
Independent Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

There are currently over 3 million people locked behind bars in United States prisons, jails, and detention centers. In this era of mass incarceration, prison abolitionists envision a world entirely without prisons. The politics of abolition are complex, and the...

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Uncovering the Collective Labor Behind the Singer/Songwriter: A Collaboratively Produced Album

Publication Date
2014-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Smith, Samantha A. M.
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

This project is an album consisting of nine original songs that I arranged, performed, and recorded at Vassar College. The accompanying thesis destabilizes the media construct of the independent singer/songwriter by interrogating the medium-specific space between the composition and the...

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