http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75632 2026-06-15T08:21:42Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75767 Title: The Bumpy Generation: An Exploration of Cultural Tensions for Second-Generation Korean Americans Authors: Yi, Julie Abstract: Culture permeates many aspects of our lives, even in ways that we may not be conscious of. This article examines the way culture produces tensions for second-generation Korean Americans due to contrasting value systems in American and Korean cultures. More specifically, it explores the tenacity of Korean culture as it influences the everyday experiences of second-generation Korean Americans as they navigate their lives in American society. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75761 Title: Queer Constellations in the Big Easy: Making Space in New Orleans Authors: Brunet, Perrin Abstract: This article explores LGBTQ+ space-making practices and spaces in New Orleans, Louisiana. It analyzes spaces to understand why, how, and for whom they were made. I conducted interviews with LGBTQ+ New Orleanians and utilized queer geographical theory, to present LGBTQ+ spaces across New Orleans as “queer constellations” of time and space on the map of the city marking places of importance to individuals and/or the broader LGBTQ+ community. To differentiate between the various types of spaces found, I divided them into four categories: lost space, transient space, explicitly queer space, and non-explicitly queer space. Through an intersectional lens of gender, race, sexuality, and socioeconomic status, this article attempts to examine whether the diversity and globality of the city were reflected in its queer spaces. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75765 Title: Made in Italy by China: Human Impacts of Globalization on Modern Garment Production in Prato Authors: Durkin, Maura Abstract: Fashion employs more people on earth than defense and agriculture combined, and contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than all of Europe, making it a conspicuously key actor in the global economy and a villain in the health and sustainability of the planet. Humans today consume more clothing than ever before. As a result of this demand, garment production systems have been reorganized globally to provide the cheapest, most efficient workforce possible. Reliant on global connectivity, the industry exploits labor from marginalized communities who restructure their lives around the requirements of modern fashion—extreme flexibility and the ability to work grueling hours for low wages. It is well established that the fashion industry poses a threat to the environment. However, also implicated in garment consumption and production practices are the health and safety of workers that make clothing. In this article, I investigate how and why Prato, Italy is home to a significant population of Chinese migrants producing a specialized kind of low-cost fashion, pronto moda, often under hazardous conditions that have led to tragic factory disasters. Utilizing a theoretical framework of transnational relationships and localized distributions of labor, I analyze how migrants in Prato created a system of clothing manufacturing that significantly changed fashion fabrication, and the potential for disaster that exists therein. This case study is crucial in understanding how our culture of consumption has led us to these dangerous extremes and the global implications of our purchasing tendencies on both the natural world and our fellow humans. I argue that beyond implementing improved health and safety regulations in factories, the path toward an equitable fashion system—free of disaster—requires a societal and cultural reevaluation of how and why we buy the clothes we do. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75764 Title: Justice or Just Us? Social Death, Gang Injunctions, and the Creation of a Modern American Apartheid State Authors: Dreux, Xavier Abstract: This article will discuss the practice of civil gang injunctions in Southern California, its history, and civil court procedures. It explores the gang abatement method’s unconstitutionality through the lens of the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution, critiquing the unequal treatment of people of color in the justice system. Through philosophical theories of language and authoritarian control, the article will go on to discuss how a supposedly egalitarian nation like the United States could support and continue the utilization of such a harmful tactic. Finally, the article will contextualize gang injunctions with the South African practice of apartheid and argue that it fits the classification of an apartheid policy under the definitions of the international court and other international treaties. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z