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Colorism is a topic not frequently discussed in the African American community. My research focuses on representations of colorism in American drama. Using this research, I am workshopping a creative performance piece about...

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This project analyzes the issues experienced by Japan's largest minority group, the hisabetsu burakumin. Using a variety of burakumin and non-burakumin sources, I explore how the group's identity is constructed, why they are...

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Fauset's texts offer a repository of precisely what critic Alain Locke labeled retrograde: seemingly outdated plotlines and tropes that draw upon multiple literary, historical, and popular cultural sources. This essay aims to...

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This project will seek to look at the Harlem Renaissance's hidden figure, Jessie Fauset. Jessie Fauset was born to an A.M.E. minister and his wife as one of ten children in Camden County New Jersey and raised in Philadelphia....

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