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Diversity and Inclusion in the Brazilian Corporate Sector: The Interplay of Public and Private Discourses in a National Struggle for Human Rights
No full textThis senior thesis in Latin American Studies discusses the recent rise in Diversity and Inclusion trends in the Brazilian private sector as of 2021. It considers these corporate trends as cooptation mechanisms encroaching larger social demands for rights, while also promoting individual advancement inside the neoliberal late-capitalist logic. It also positions the Brazilian context inside a global network of geopolitical influences, which shapes the Brazilian way of making Diversity and Inclusion in very interesting and troublesome ways. The current government in the country is considered to be one that companies want to ideologically distance themselves from, while also avoiding the rupture of historical public-private ties, adding another layer of complexity to this market-mediated trend. Moving forward, a more critical approach to what diversity and inclusion really means inside this corporate context is necessary, so that minoritized populations can have fairer conditions for joining the labor force. This corporate movement is paving the way for new forms of conducting business transactions, in Brazil and in Latin America as a whole
Our Dam, Our Water: Re-imagining Egyptian and Ethiopian Relationships with the Blue Nile in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Conflict
Get PDFYour Best American Girl: Asian American Sexual Literacies in Family, Schooling, & Media
Get PDFThis dual thesis utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to examine Asian American sexual literacies in the distinct areas of family, schooling, and media using Critical Discourse Analysis to consider the role of power in knowledge and panopticism in normative sexual behaviors. I conceive of sex education in broad strokes as messages and sexual communications absorbed and challenged in different spaces such as the home, the predominantly white school, the liberal arts college, and the Asian/American media landscape. Centering of the voices of Asian American women and gender non-binary people aimed to discern the particular vulnerabilities in being the object of sexual fetish and exoticism. How do these individuals make sense of biculturalism, intergenerational conflict, and intersectional identities to develop sexual agency? I adapted Jean Kim’s Asian American Identity Development (AAID) framework to incorporate sexual identity development concurrently with racial identity. I collected data from eight semi-structured, qualitative interviews with college-age 1.5/second generation Asian American women/gender non-binary people of East Asian descent. Based on interview findings, I conclude with suggestions for sex education curriculum to promote an anti-racist, feminist perspective as well as directions for future research
