Browsing by Journal Title "CTSJ: Journal of Undergraduate Research"
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Being Japonaise: Understanding the Authentic Implications of Fusion Cuisine
The transition from cooking to culinary art is one of the manifold manifestations of the specializations of a society and its foray into the perfection of the physical representation of general ideology. Cooking is born ... -
Bodily In/Securities at the Airport Border
Counterterrorism efforts after 9/11 brought about a new era in airport security, intensifying the surveillance and militarization of the border like never before. Yet those changes have not affected everyone equally: They ... -
Brutal Justifications: Media Narratives of Twentieth Century Lynchings and Twenty-first Century Police Executions
ABSTRACT: Dominant narratives treat lynching as a thing of the distant past and police violence as aberrant and isolated. Yet, many critical anti-racist observers have called today’s police executions of black bodies ... -
Cognitive Dissonance in the Self-Identifying Processes of Multiracial People
This essay discusses the effects of internalized racism on multiracial people, specifically those who claim a mix of white and non-white. The paper first establishes the opposing representations of whiteness and racialized ... -
Criminally Insane: Discursive Mutations of the Dangerous Individual
The psychopath is a historically ill-defined and overused diagnostic category. This paper analyzes the discursive development and cultural permutation of the psychopathic personality within psychiatry and law to reveal not ... -
Derrida and Conflict
This article suggests that Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive theory of pure forgiveness of the unforgivable is a persuasive philosophical concept that nonetheless breaks down at the moment when it enters into a political ... -
Disciplinary Power and the Subversion of Student Protest on U.S. University Campuses
ABSTRACT: The university campus has continually been a center for political performance and student activism; however, this article examines they ways in which universities subvert and undermine student activism. Analyzing ...