Policing AmericaPlease refer to the hyperlinks below if you want more details on given topics.Apr 13, 2021Apr 13, 2021
Christmas Trees (and other favorites) are actually Pagan (not Christian)Christmas is a popular world-wide holiday that is celebrated by 160 countries. In the United States, 90% of citizens (95% of Christians)…Dec 23, 2020Dec 23, 2020
Colin Kaepernick and What it Means to be AmericanColin Kaepernick is a professional football player most known for his very public protests of police brutality. Originally, his protests…Dec 7, 2018Dec 7, 2018
Voluntourism is Neo-ColonialismWith the promise of the future comes progress and the hope “to distance outselves from the religio-racial ideologies that reigned in the…Dec 6, 20182Dec 6, 20182
What it Means to be American: Manifest Destiny and the Language around “Civilization”The narrative of western expansion and Manifest Destiny tell a split story. One story is that settlers moved west in an unpopulated…Dec 6, 2018Dec 6, 2018
Women’s Racialized Reproductive Rights and “Americanness”When European settlers colonized North America, they had no clue that they would impact the role of women and reproduction pertaining to…Dec 4, 2018Dec 4, 2018
The Evolution of Race and Sports MediaSports are political. Anyone who says otherwise has ignored the history and circumstances around the evolution of both sports and culture…Nov 23, 2018Nov 23, 2018
Sports Media and American CultureMedia and sports reporting are what allows sports to make profit and allow people to have civic pride. That being said, sports reporting…Nov 23, 2018Nov 23, 2018
The Evolution of Gender and Sexuality in Sports MediaUnderstanding gender and sexuality through the lens of sports representation, either within the sports themselves or through the sports…Nov 23, 2018Nov 23, 2018
Political Outrage in News Media and Social MediaIn their book, The Outrage Industry, Berry and Sobieraj argue that a new incivility is arising in American political media. They find…Nov 23, 2018Nov 23, 2018