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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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“ Simultaneous Victimization and Complicity”: Intersections of the Indian Settler, Caste, and North American Settler Colonialism

Publication Date
2023-May-05
Authors
John, Ann
Department or Program
American Studies Program
Political Science Department
Document Type
Senior Capstone Project
Access Level
Open
Abstract

This project aims to concurrently theorize how settler colonialism, white supremacy, and brahmanism manifests in North America through the actions and implications of high caste, first-generation Indian immigrants in the second half of the 21st century. I assert that dominant...

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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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