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Policing America

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5 min readApr 13, 2021

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Policing America

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Darby Matt

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)…

4 min readDec 23, 2020

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Christmas Trees (and other favorites) are actually Pagan (not Christian)

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Darby Matt

Colin Kaepernick and What it Means to be American

Colin Kaepernick is a professional football player most known for his very public protests of police brutality. Originally, his protests…

5 min readDec 7, 2018

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Colin Kaepernick and What it Means to be American

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Darby Matt

Voluntourism is Neo-Colonialism

With the promise of the future comes progress and the hope “to distance outselves from the religio-racial ideologies that reigned in the…

4 min readDec 6, 2018

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Voluntourism is Neo-Colonialism

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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…

5 min readDec 6, 2018

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What it Means to be American: Manifest Destiny and the Language around “Civilization”

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Darby Matt

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…

4 min readDec 4, 2018

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Women’s Racialized Reproductive Rights and “Americanness”

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Darby Matt

The Evolution of Race and Sports Media

Sports are political. Anyone who says otherwise has ignored the history and circumstances around the evolution of both sports and culture…

6 min readNov 23, 2018

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The Evolution of Race and Sports Media

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Sports Media and American Culture

Media and sports reporting are what allows sports to make profit and allow people to have civic pride. That being said, sports reporting…

6 min readNov 23, 2018

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Sports Media and American Culture

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Darby Matt

The Evolution of Gender and Sexuality in Sports Media

Understanding gender and sexuality through the lens of sports representation, either within the sports themselves or through the sports…

10 min readNov 23, 2018

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The Evolution of Gender and Sexuality in Sports Media

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Darby Matt

Political Outrage in News Media and Social Media

In their book, The Outrage Industry, Berry and Sobieraj argue that a new incivility is arising in American political media. They find…

5 min readNov 23, 2018

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Darby Matt

Darby Matt

Drake University International Relations (MENA focused), Socio-Legal studies, religious studies and Arabic graduate. This is a blog-like post to learn and share

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