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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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Colonial Imaginaries: Reconstructing French Indochina through Cultural Artifacts

Publication Date
2021-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Nguyen, Nam
Department or Program
Media Studies Program
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

This senior project examines the colonial conquest of Indochina on the part of the French during the last half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century not purely as a geographical and historical phenomenon, but...

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White Food, Black Spaces: Food, Privilege, And Gentrification In Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Loewen, Samantha C.
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

This project seeks to investigate the intersections of race, class, and food: examining how access and acceptance to good quality food is shaped and changed through the process of gentrification. I ask why it is predominately upper-middle class whites that...

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