Barrett, The Honors College Thesis/Creative Project Collection
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This thesis aims to enhance the academic conception of American anti-Semitism by analyzing the rhetorical visions of two distinctly American theologies: Christian Identity and Black Israelism. Using a theoretical framework that couches the rhetoric of both religious movements within their respective historical contexts, I seek to understand the persuasive appeals of the alternative histories that lead both movements to conclude that their racial group is descended from the ancient Israelites--a status both movements claim has been "usurped" by contemporary Jews. After contextualizing their rhetoric, I juxtapose the rhetorical vision of Christian Identity with that of Black Israelism, concluding that the former can be understood as a movement and narrative premised on racial hubris whose paranoid rhetoric makes meaningful contributions to the climate of anti-Semitism, while the latter constitutes a movement and narrative premised on historically-legitimated suspicion whose paranoid rhetoric, though invidious, does not constitute a comparable threat.
ContributorsRuben, Brian (Author) / Walker, Michael (Thesis director) / Mueller, Caroll (Committee member) / School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2018-05
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Masculinity presents itself in many forms, but only a few are accepted by society. Men are exhibiting exaggerated characteristics of hyper-masculinity that result in harm to themselves and others in order to meet society’s standards. This has generated a toxic sense of masculinity that generates men who glorify violence, objectify women, are misogynistic, and feel entitled. Not every man fits into the toxic masculinity category or even the hyper-masculinity category, however, they do fit into the failed masculinity category. Those who fall into this category do not receive the societal benefits that more masculine men do, like female attention. A relatively new movement has emerged from failed masculinity, the Involuntarily Celibate. They call themselves Incels and they meet online through chat forums to discuss their feelings about not having relationships or meeting society’s expectations of a man. The extreme Incels are known as Blackpill Incels, and they believe that their position in the world has no hope of improvement. This has resulted in threats against women online, and physical violence to women and society. The hate stratagem is used to categorize Incel chat posts and explain how they use hate speech to carry out this violence.
ContributorsBoyd, Sarah (Author) / Walker, Michael (Thesis director) / Lewis, Stephen (Committee member) / School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Contributor) / School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2019-05
Description
Music is a long time form of resistance, evident through scholarly journals about Gangsta rap for inner-city, African American youth. How does this translate to other minorities? Mexican drug ballads, known as narcocorridos, have been brushed off as violent and meaningless by the media since the 1930s. This thesis serves to redefine narcocorridos as another tool of resistance for the Latinx class, particularly drug traffickers and undocumented immigrants. As an attempt to provide insight into the living conditions, ideologies, and struggles of the voiceless Latinix class, this thesis analyzes a series of corridos (ballads) and narcocorridos. Theories of the hidden transcript, the badman, and the Mark of criminality were utilized to examine the lyrics of these corridos like its cousin genre, gangsta rap. Through the use of these theories, many counter-narratives and alternative histories of Latinx individuals were discovered. Narcocorridos in this thesis are argued as a tool used to resist negative dominant narratives and the Prison Industrial Complex was also concluded to be the main antagonist of those narratives.
ContributorsFoster, Marcelo Alejandro (Author) / Walker, Michael (Thesis director) / Graham, Lance (Committee member) / School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05