Copyright (c) 2013 Connecticut College All rights reserved. http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp Recent documents in History Honors Papers en-us Fri, 22 Mar 2013 14:20:22 PDT 3600 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/18 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/18 Fri, 18 May 2012 09:20:02 PDT Galen Byrne http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/17 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/17 Fri, 18 May 2012 09:20:01 PDT Catherine Mullaley http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/16 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/16 Fri, 18 May 2012 09:20:01 PDT Katherine Turro http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/15 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/15 Fri, 18 May 2012 09:20:00 PDT Carolyn Wesnousky http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/14 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/14 Fri, 18 May 2012 09:19:59 PDT Richard Worsman http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/13 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/13 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:29:59 PDT Emily Logan http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/12 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/12 Tue, 31 May 2011 12:23:28 PDT Rebecca Reel http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/11 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/11 Mon, 30 May 2011 11:30:53 PDT Elizabeth Barnett http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/10 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/10 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:16:56 PDT Erin Wilson http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/9 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/9 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:16:55 PDT Jane Thompson http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/8 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/8 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:16:53 PDT American Girl markets dolls and books toward girls. Their original product line, which features historical characters, mobilizes history to teach moral lessons. This paper breaks down these morals to search for hegemony, a discourse that marginalizes minority readers. In this quest to uncover hegemony, the paper deals with issues of narrative perspective and socialization. Regarding narrative perspective, the paper asks, “Whom do these books deem normal in America? Whom do these books deem other in America?” Regarding socialization issues, this paper asks, “What value and behaviors do these books condone as part of acceptable American Girlhood? What values and behaviors are deemed totally aberrant and unacceptable?” In establishing normative perspectives and trajectories, the books raise issues about race, socioeconomic class, gender roles, religious identities, and nationalism. Given this particular line of questioning, this paper falls under the contemporary historical pursuit to problematize the very idea of historical accuracy, to uncover excluded voices from the traditional canon. The paper concludes that American Girl use history to perpetuate hegemony over young women in the United States.

]]> Nicole LaConte http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/7 http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/histhp/7 Fri, 27 May 2011 14:16:51 PDT The term environmental justice did not become a part of academic discourse until the 1970s; however, the facts of environmental injustice predate the concept. Minority and low-income communities have historically born a disproportionate burden of the environmental harm associated with economic progress while reaping few of the benefits. The history of the building of the Cross Bronx Expressway from 1948 to 1972 and the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike of 1968 both involve what today can be labeled an environmental justice struggle in response to environmental injustices. Under the radar of the mainly white environmental movement, African Americans and others made strides to combat the harm to their communities and to the environment they encountered. Environmental injustice has been built into the laws of the federal government, and it has funded projects that perpetuate environmental injustice; therefore, the federal government of the United States has been a perpetrator of environmental injustice. Economic hardship, segregation, suburbanization, the construction of highways, urban renewal, and the desire to achieve growth at any coast have laid the groundwork for the environmental injustices of today. During the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike, the civil rights struggle was seen as entirely separate from the mainstream environmental movement that was active during the same time; however, the two movements share common goals and could have benefitted from working together to achieve these goals. Transparency and community participation in government are essential to environmental justice. In order to achieve environmental justice, a city street needs to be seen as just as important to preserve as a mountaintop.

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