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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Mascots"”.
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An American spectacle: college mascots and the performance of tradition
“An American Spectacle: College Mascots and the Performance of Tradition” seeks to understand how college football and its attendant events (termed here “An American Spectacle”) became a vehicle for cultural production by individuals and institutions in specifically raced, gendered, and classed …
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Cultural Appropriation: The Continued Phenomena Of American Indian High School Mascots
… controversial conversation about American Indian mascots and their use nationwide. This research study added to the body of knowledge regarding American Indian mascots by specifically engaging in the phenomenon from the perspective of leaders in positions of power within a public school.</p> …
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The influence of brand-equity mascots used by U.S. food, beverage, and restaurant companies on the diet of American children and parents
… beverage and restaurant companies use brand mascots to influence the dietary preferences and choices of children and their parents. This M.S. thesis is comprised of two studies that address this knowledge gap. The first study conducted a nutrient-profile analysis of 20 food, beverage, and …
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In-Group/Out-Group Dynamics of Native American Mascot Endorsement
<p>The use of Native American names and mascots by professional and college sports teams has become a controversial issue. However, very litde research has investigated attitudes towards Native Americans, regarding relationships between team names and mascots on prejudice and discrimination. This …
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Why Mike the Tiger is the Best Mascot Ever
… because the world knows that there are no other mascots better than Mike the Tiger at LSU! Case Closed!</p>
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Erratum : an exploration of language, the fragmentary, and the gaps in the narrative of the everyday
… a brainstorming tool for new logos and cartoon mascots. After the Language Saturation Shift of the 2030's, when the traditional alphabet could no longer support the density of meaning packed into each word, these symbols were adopted to allow for a greater range of nuance to be presented within …
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Outside the Lines of Gilded Age Baseball: Profits, Beer, and the Origins of the Brotherhood War
… violence on the field, cheating, gambling, mascots, team finances, and racism in baseball. The dissertation illuminates various Social and economic aspects of life in Gilded Age America as well. Finally, it helps explain the importance of a little-understood era in the baseball’s history …
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Narrative branding in support of anthropomorphised personality: A case study of the South African dog influencer industry
… characters on social media exclusively. These mascots therefore make a case for harnessing the power of multimodal and transmedia narrative structure in advertising, dispersing the canine character across a range of platforms. It must be noted that in this paper, the term “dog influencer” has …
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Differences in Levels of Sports Team Identification and Sports Fan Motivation Among American Indian and Caucasian University of North Dakota Students
… should investigate the extent to which team mascots, nicknames, and logos influences spectator identification and fan motivation. Hopefully this study will contribute to the existing literature on the controversy regarding UND's "Fighting Sioux" mascot, nickname, and logo, and be the basis …
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Seeing the State with Transgender People: Gender, Caste, and Neoliberal Development in Kerala, India
… transgender Keralites have been fashioned as mascots of development within Kerala’s subnationalist political field by a range of players—political parties, social movements, and state- and state-allied agencies. Through 24 months of ethnographic field work across 2018-22, this dissertation …
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A critical postmodern response to multiculturalism in popular culture
… identity and debates surrounding sports mascots. Each case study recycles racial and ethnic stereotypes for a variety of political purposes, drawing out the connections and tensions between postmodernism and multiculturalism. A postmodern critique of multiculturalism may offer antiracist …
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American Images of Childhood in an Age of Educational and Social Reform, 1870-1915
… genre painters portrayed boys as defiant mascots of the nation, in communion with nature, at odds with social institutions like the school. These painters foreran the realist “Ashcan School,” whose paintings of misfit children illustrated the vices of the growing, clashing American city. …
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INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES ON CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ART, INDIGENOUS AESTHETICS AND REPRESENTATION
… re-appropriating or indigenizing ideas, symbols, mascots, the colonial gaze. I discuss re-presentation of Native arts and the ongoing development of Indigenous aesthetics through recent exhibitions, current scholarship, Native curatorial practice and the ethnographic narratives of Native artists. …
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Alternative media for public pedagogy: "Chief" concerns and human agency
To demonstrate how the growing influence of alternative media in civil society correlates with the rise of social movements and their influence on contemporary manifestations of resistance, this research uses critical ethnographic methodologies to document the narratives of alternative media …
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Chief Illiniwek: understanding the controversial discourse and the politics of power
Prominent discourses surrounding the Chief Illiniwek mascot controversy on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus, between the years of 2000-2007, will be examined using textual analysis. Utilizing Tribal Critical Race Theory as a guiding framework for the analysis, various materials …
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Amazonification: A Warehouse Worker’s Manifesto
This research-creation dissertation portfolio draws upon strategies of art-activism and uses a manifesto format to critique and subvert the exploitative labour practices of the Amazon corporation. Linked to each portfolio chapter is a custom-made, online 3D art project, or digital thinking object, …