Politics Capstones 2017

UNDERPOL, Volume 2 (2017) is a collection of senior capstones written by Politics students who collaborated to produce this journal under the advisement of Senior Thesis Advisor Deva Woodly.

Table of Contents

• 10 Satire in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: A Tool of Nonviolent Resistance
  by Samar Abdou

• 32 Procedure and Purpose: The Relational Politics of Community Courts
  by Elijah Anselm

• 52 Slander and Stigmatization: A Political History of Food Stampsby
  by Vik Bensen

• 72 Total Entertainment Forever: The Question of Ethical Media, The Rise of the Alt-Right, and the Problems with Being Entertained
  by Alex Berson

• 96 Intersectional Fat: The Fat Rights Movement’s Controversial Path to Ending Fat Discrimination in Contemporary America
  by Quinn Cordaro

• 116 “I’m Sorry, But the Zone is Currently Being Used by Two Other Students”: American University Regulation of Space and Speech
  by Emily Dabney

• 140 Alternative to the “Facts”: The Changes and Impact of News Media Coverage Throughout the 2016 U.S Presidential Election
  by Petra Jarrar

• 158 Political Gender Bending: A Visual Content Analysis of the Effects of Gendered Presentation Style on Voter Choice in the United States
  by Sean Rourke

• 178 Granted Asylum: United States Response to Central America’s Unaccompanied Minors by Shana Sanichar

• 196 Understanding the Biopolitics of Environmental Racism: Resistance & Reclaiming the Body
  by Andreah Santos

• 218 Discrepancy in Public School Education in the United States: Race, Income, and Effects on Upward Mobility
  by Victoria Schwartz
  

• 232 An Exploration of Space: African-American Ownership of Self and Property by Aaliyah West