Vassar College Digital Library

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.

Finding Feminism: The Ideologies of Hip-Hop from Black Women in Spaces of Higher Education

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2014-January-01
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Hip-hop is the most affluent subset of Black Culture today. The globalization and mass appeal of hip-hop has made this genre bigger than music; it's style, it's dance, it's art, and even literature. Hip-Hop music is a genre that is...

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Fiscal Multipliers in a Financially Globalized World

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2015-January-01
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This paper establishes a relationship between levels of dollariza- tion and the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus. We show that low dollarized economies experience an appreciation of currency from an increase in fiscal stimulus this causes a positive wealth effect leading...

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The "touch" versus the "see": tactility as a challenge against digital media in "Subway Therapy"

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2017-January-01
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The thesis explores how the tactile aspect of "Subway Therapy," a project in which people could write messages on sticky notes after the 2016 Presidential Election and post them on the subway walls in New York City, fosters an alternative...

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