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"Of Low Grade Mexican Parentage:" Race, Gender, and Eugenic Sterilization in California, 1928-1952.
(2015)
This dissertation argues that from the 1920s into the 1950s tropes of disability deployed through the notion of “feeblemindedness” converged with nativist concerns over Mexican immigration to mark certain Mexican-origin ...
"Out of This Confusion I Bring My Heart": Love, Liberation, and the Rise of Black Lesbian and Gay Cultural Politics in Late Twentieth Century America.
(2015)
This dissertation investigates themes of liberation and love in post-civil rights Black LGBT literary cultures. Tracing love as a political trope in African American literary history, I demonstrate how it operates as a ...
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. ...
Muslim First, Arab Second: A Strategic Politics of Race and Gender
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005-10)
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, ...