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The (Geo)Politics of Beauty: Race, Transnationalism, and Neoliberalism in South Korean Beauty Culture.
(2012)
Departing from the current literature on cosmetic surgery, which largely asks why Korean women undergo procedures at the highest rates per capita globally and pathologizes them for doing so, The (Geo)Politics of Beauty: ...
(Play)Grounds for Dismissal: Ninas Raras in Transborder Children's Cultural Studies.
(2013)
This study instates the child as a unique, and often evaded, category of analysis. I investigate children's literature, television, and short films produced across México, the United States, and Canada that challenge ...
“Dirty Factory Town” or “A Good City?”: Neoliberalism and the Cultural Politics of Rust Belt Urban Revitalization.
(2013)
On July 4, 1984, AutoWorld opened in Flint, Michigan. A curious combination of Disney-style theme park and historical museum, the $80 million dollar urban revitalization project was also an attempt by a “Rust Belt” city ...
Consuming Empire: Food Aid, Hunger, and Benevolence in the Cold War Asia and Pacific
(2017)
This dissertation traces legacies of imperial intervention and cultures of debt in Asia and the Pacific Islands during the Cold War by reading U.S. food aid as an imperial discourse and an integral component to the ...
Stories in Red and Write: Indian Intellectuals and the American Imagination, 1880-1930.
(2011)
This dissertation examines cultural production by Indian intellectuals: Charles A. Eastman, Carlos Montezuma, Gertrude Bonnin, and Luther Standing Bear; four that represent an important cohort for identifying changing ...
Exceptional Visions: Chineseness, Citizenship, and the Architectures of Community in Silicon Valley.
(2011)
I examine the relationship between Chinese immigrants and economic development in the late twentieth-century and twenty-first century Silicon Valley as it transformed from a Cold War suburb founded on military defense ...
Puerto Rico and the Promise of United States Citizenship: Struggles around Status in a New Empire, 1898-1917.
(2010)
By invading and annexing Puerto Rico and other Spanish lands in 1898-1899, the United States took an imperial turn that unsettled its constitutional order. This dissertation traces responses by two groups—one within the ...
We're All Hawaiians Now: Kanaka Maoli Performance and the Politics of Aloha.
(2012)
The Hawaiian renaissance of the 1970s produced an upsurge in Native Hawaiian political consciousness and nationalist sentiment that continues in the present day. Aspirations for Native Hawaiian federal recognition or ...
Empire of Culture: U.S. Entertainers and the Making of the Pacific Circuit, 1850-1890.
(2010)
During the mid-nineteenth century, the ongoing development of a robust and expansive U.S. culture industry dovetailed with the emergence of a recognizable Pacific world shaped by the integrative forces of colonialism and ...
Toys Make a Nation: A History of Ethnic Toys in America.
(2010)
This research examined representations of ethnic and racial difference in toys from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. The purpose was to identify the kinds of messages about race that have been ...