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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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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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Deconstructing the Asian-American Student: Storytelling through Portraiture

Publication Date
2015-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Michelle Yuan
Department or Program
Education Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Archive Only
Abstract

The model minority stereotype was coined in 1966 to describe the Japanese and their post-World War II success, but it quickly generalized across all Asian ethnic groups. Today, although many Asians resist this stereotype, many Americans—both Asian and non-Asian—embrace it...

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Historical and Contemporary Modes of Racism in Baltimore, Maryland

Publication Date
2013-January-01
Document Type
Senior Capstone Projects
Authors
Magill, Alexandra
Department or Program
Earth Science and Geography Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Abstract

Baltimore is divided into spaces of luxury and wealth and spaces of poverty
and destitution. How did Baltimore come to be materially and spatially segregated by race, and how have those boundaries remained in a post‐Civil Rights era of purported...

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