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"Go and Make Disciples": Evangelization, Conversion Narratives, and Salvation in Puerto Rican Protestant Evangelical Salsa Music.
(2011)
ABSTRACT
“Go and Make Disciples”: Evangelization, Conversion Narratives, and Salvation in Puerto Rican Protestant Evangelical Salsa Music
by
Luis A. Vazquez
Chair: Matthew J. Countryman
Since the origin and ...
Rituals of Return in African American Women's Twentieth Century Literature and Performance.
(2012)
A substantial body of African American Studies scholarship has demonstrated how the unresolved pain, suffering, and violence of the past impacts the present, and,furthermore, how African American women writers and performers ...
A River Imaginary: Nature and Narrative in the Columbia River Gorge.
(2010)
The Columbia River, one of the most dominant geographic features of the Pacific Northwest, drains nearly 259,000 square miles of territory as it traverses local, state, and national boundaries. From its headwaters in ...
The Company that Taught the World to Sing: Coca-Cola, Globalization, and the Cultural Politics of Branding in the Twentieth Century.
(2011)
Straddling the conventionally separate spheres of business history and cultural history, policy making, advertising, and mass entertainment, my dissertation traces Coca-Cola’s trajectory from a local business in Atlanta, ...
The Head, the Heart, and the Hands: Hampton, Carlisle, and Hilo in/as Circuits of Transpacific Empire, 1819-1887.
(2013)
The topic of federal American Indian Industrial boarding schools has inspired one of the most abundant historiographies in American Indian History. Yet, as my dissertation demonstrates, a wide and critical gap exists in ...