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  Kids Talk Back to the News

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  Renee Hobbs Media Education Lab, University of Rhode Island, Harrington School of Communication and Media

  April 17, 2013

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  Curator's Note Children in the upper elementary grades are beginning to feel like stakeholders in the world ... Ebrahimi Bazzaz worked with a group of preadolescent children over the course of four weeks, beginning with ...
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  A History of Violence: politics, profits, and the changing face of the WWE

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  David Ray Carter Film Critic

  August 16, 2010

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  the cast of the WWE’s NXT interrupted the main event, destroyed set pieces, and, beginning at 0:27 in ...
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  History Repeats Itself?: How Wrestling Regards Its Performers

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  Bryan Alvarez Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Weekly

  August 20, 2010

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  mid-30s, or even mid-40s.  This is not learning from history, but at least it's an example that ...
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  Nasty, Brutish, and Short: "Game of Thrones," History, and the Violence of Women's Lives

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  Thomas J. West III Syracuse University

  September 24, 2014

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  events, and its people (or at least their worlviews) are drawn from and based on those in the one we ...
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  Queer Privates, Public Protests

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  Queers for Public Education Toby Beauchamp, Abigail Boggs, Cynthia C. Degnan, and Liz Montegary -- University of California, Davis

  May 03, 2010

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  wondered why queer politics were part of the demonstration to begin with. Like many students protesting ...
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  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories

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  Eric Hamako Shoreline Community College

  September 28, 2009

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  The Yellow Peril rises from the grave... to get your White women! Orientalist themes in zombie stories race rape Orientalism Asian racism violence zombie horde Taken Resident Evil, Yellow Peril Arab Muslim sexual assault gang rape Curator's Note   In ...