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Railroading Black Families: African American Men, Family, and Labor in Post-Emancipation Georgia.
(2016)
This dissertation examines the role of work and family in shaping black men’s masculine identity in the post-emancipation South, focusing in particular on the transition to railroad work in Georgia in the late 19th century. ...
Authorized Agents: The Projects of Native American Writing in the Era of Removal.
(2015)
This dissertation examines how Native American writing and performance mediated between tribal nations and colonial institutions during the period of Indian removal. It analyzes collaborative publications by writers, ...
Latino/a Youth Subcultures in Elizabeth, New Jersey: Memory, Spacemaking, and Citizenship, 1980s-1990s.
(2016)
“Latino/a Youth Subcultures in Elizabeth, New Jersey: Memory, Spacemaking, and Citizenship, 1980s-1990s” is a case study that documents youth experiences of coming of age in the house, hip hop, club kid, goth, and skate ...
The Narratives of Interfaith Parents Raising Their Children With Jewish Identities: An Emerging Discourse.
(2010)
The purpose of this dissertation is to describe an emerging social discourse as found in the narratives of interfaith parents raising their children with Jewish identities, and to demonstrate how in social work practice ...
Chicago's First Urban Indians---the Potawatomi.
(2011)
For the last several decades, scholars have been intrigued with the ways that some American Indians resisted assimilation into the mainstream of the dominant culture of the United States. Chicago's First Urban Indians---the ...
The Othello Effect: The Performance of Black Masculinity in Mid-Century Cinema
(2011)
This dissertation attempts to theorize the performance of black masculinity in the mid-twentieth century as a cultural process, by analyzing films with narratives that creatively confronted the problem of race and intercultural ...
Transformative Acts: Arab American Writing/Writing Arab America.
(2012)
This dissertation explores Arab American writing and the intersections from which it originates, chronicling the emergence of Arab American literature throughout the twentieth and into the twenty first century, and situating ...
(Her)itage: Literary Tourism and the Popular Legacies of Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, and Beatrix Potter.
(2015)
This dissertation theorizes tourist engagements with famous literary women through an examination of the popular legacies of Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, and Beatrix Potter. Little Women (1868-1869, American), Anne ...