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- Creator:
- Woodruff, Ta Ta Neshe Lecole
- Description:
- White terrorism is a phenomenon that is underexamined within the scholarship. This study is designed to add to the limited body of research on white terrorism by using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine two white men who have authored massacres. The articles from mainstream media reports are being examined through the lens of van Dijk’s CDA theoretical approach. Mainstream media reporting supports a narrative that promotes white men as an unexamined and benign character within the discipline of journalism. These acts disempower minoritized people, as they are penalized and overpoliced within quotidian lived experiences. Although journalism is not the only institution that protects white males, the corporate unit is the most visible to the public. The benign tropes allocated to white people should be available to all; however, this is not the case for terrorism. This level of institutional unfairness creates a system in news reporting that confirms the modus operandi of whiteness and white supremacy in journalism. To abate racism, the scholarship as an institution must examine, interrogate, expose, and name white men as terrorists.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Department:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Kurak, Ivana
- Description:
- The author's research began with these questions: How far away from social norms did the hippies go regarding gender roles? Were women ever freed from these expectations? What did family life on the communes look like? This research argues that counterculture women were practicing gender equality through social and economic means resulting from communal living. Mainstream society had regulated gender roles to the public sphere and the domestic sphere. Communes represented a third sphere, a new experimental ground safe from mainstream criticisms and economic pressures. This thesis explores everyday women's lives in the counterculture and the complex roles they created within these new societies. This form of inquiry will help fill the historiographical void that revolves around hippie women living on communes.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Grimm, Nicole Franchesca
- Description:
- The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) provides an opportunity for innovative approaches of assessing groundwater models and water budgets. Advanced models calibrated with groundwater elevation alone may not accurately reflect residence times or aquifer storage turnover times, as uncertainty remains over recharge and seepage rates to deep aquifers. This study compares groundwater residence times based on isotopic signatures with those based on output from the Butte Basin Groundwater Model (BBGM). Comparison of these independent observational and numerical estimates allows for assessment and refinement of the model’s reliability for sustainable management of the groundwater basin.
This study focuses on 210 wells located in Butte County, with an emphasis on 45 production and monitoring wells screened over the heavily pumped Tuscan Formation. Groundwater with an apparent age of less than 70 years is dated using the 3H/3He method, and longer residence time estimates are based on radiogenic 4He concentrations. Samples from nested monitoring wells provide greater resolution with depth than samples from long-screened production wells, which typically reflect a broad mixture of ages.
Independent estimates of residence times are based on output from the BBGM. The Z-budget subroutine was applied to model output to examine the water budget over specific hydrostratigraphic layers, including the Tuscan Formation. The output budget from the model gives the volume of water in storage in each aquifer layer and the inflow and outflow rates; therefore, the mean residence time is readily calculated.
The isotopic data indicate a wide range of groundwater ages and recharge sources with stream water recharging younger water (water table and modern water) and foothill and mixed precipitation recharging older water (pre-modern and fossil water). Of the 45 samples from the Tuscan Formations, half contain a portion of modern water with an average age of 31 years and show evidence of substantial dilution of modern water with pre-modern water. Eighty-seven percent of Tuscan wells contain pre-modern and fossil water, with an average age of ten thousand years.
The mean residence time from the model for the targeted Tuscan layers in the Vina and Durham subregions from the model is 25 years. The model outputs a single turnover time, analogous to ‘piston’ flow. If we more appropriately assume an exponential age distribution for the same mean residence time, this translates to only 6 % of all water being older than 70 years, much less than determined from isotopic ages (87 %). More importantly, the exponential age distribution predicts no water older than 500 years, whereas the isotopic data indicate fossil water in 58 % of the Tuscan wells. While the model captures the residence time of the younger portion of groundwater ages, the difference in model and isotope-derived residence time for older groundwater provides an opportunity to improve the model calibration to include these fossil waters. By neglecting this older component of water, recharge rate estimates may be unrealistically high, which could allow unsustainable pumping under some management scenarios.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Creator:
- Huanaco, Miguel
- Description:
- There have been many scholarly works written about Mexico’s Movimiento de Acción Revolucionaria (MAR) or revolutionary action movement; however, there has never been a scholarly work written about its founder Professor Gómez Souza. Ninety percent of the scholarly works written about the MAR are only available in Spanish, limiting their distribution to a broader audience of non-Spanish readers and restricting their research availability for scholars. I saw the need to both write a scholarly work about Professor Gomez Souza and to add to the existing literature about the MAR for a broader audience. This MA thesis project is ninety-percent archival, gathered and translated from Spanish declarations of formerly imprisoned MAR militants. Yet completing research on Mexico’s Dirty War was not easy because accessing archival records about the MAR and Professor Gómez Souza is difficult. The Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS) archives have been sealed, and they were briefly unsealed during the Vicente Fox presidency in 2002, only to be partially resealed again at the end of his presidency. The archival declarations used for this project come to us at a costly price. DFS agents extracted testimonials from MAR militants after hours of questioning and torture, which raises the question about the accuracy of these declarations. However, these archives are all that the historical community has, and we will use them as a window into Professor Fabricio Gómez Souza and the MAR. The archives used were gathered from the Archivo General de la Nación, and donated by Guerrero’s ex-truth
commission, or (COMVERDAD) and are now compiled on a non-profit online database for the world to read the injustices of the Dirty War.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Padmanabhan, Chitra Vijay
- Description:
- This ethnographical research is geared towards understanding the lived experiences of South Asian LGB persons, residing in the United States. The thesis proposes that a strong LGBT cultural competency framework is needed to overcome challenges faced by South Asian sexual minorities. With this idea, the research delves into core aspects of South Asian culture using Geert Hoefstede’s cultural taxonomy. Also, the paper engages in in- depth identity construction of South Asians from macro, meso and micro factors. The scope of the research also includes immigration, group dynamics of South Asian diaspora and individual-level standpoint in ethnic South Asian social spaces. To achieve this the study, uses Harry Wolcott ethnographical methodology for data collection and analysis. Finally, the research sums-up on all cultural factors that affect integration of South Asian LGB persons into mainstream society as well as in-group South Asian circles. The larger aim is to bridge the gap in cross-cultural study, which is deeply rooted in western traditions of thinking.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- East Bay