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Esibanens: A story about a little racoon causing mischief
(2009/03/31)
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California’s Cross: A Cultural History of Pentecostalism, Race, and Agriculture.
(2016)
California’s Cross explains how Okie and Mexican Pentecostalism came to be in the Central Valley, a site marked by ethnic labor flows into the fields of industrialized agriculture. I argue that the simultaneous processes ...
Machismo(s): A Cultural History, 1928-1984.
(2015)
This dissertation is a cultural history of machismo in U.S. English from 1928 1984. I argue that uncritical reproduction of the term machismo augmented the racialization of Latina/os and furthered white anxiety over ...
Crip Native Woman: The Hispanic American Philippines and the Postcolonial Disability Cultures of US Empire.
(2016)
This dissertation examines how Filipino intellectual cultures, “ilustrados”, and postcolonial enlightenment discourses assert political sovereignty through self-fashioning as able-minded subjects. I argue that Spanish and ...
Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City, 1976-Present.
(2011)
This dissertation examines the cultural activism, or artivism, of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village ...
Beauty, Bodies, and Boundaries: Pageants, Race, and U.S. National Identity.
(2010)
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine relationships among race, gender, and U.S. national identity using twentieth- and twenty-first-century beauty pageants as case studies. Each chapter focuses on the decade ...
Seeing Conquest: Colliding Histories and the Cultural Politics of Hawai'i Statehood.
(2009)
Situated in comparative ethnic studies, American studies, and cultural history, this dissertation offers a kind of “history of the present,” a genealogy of the complex interplay between different Asian American groups, ...
The Church and the City: Detroit's Open Housing Movement.
(2008)
The church is an integrating feature of the city, and both are important for each other. The withdrawal of white congregations from Detroit’s racially changing neighborhoods following W.W. II created a moral crisis. ...
Authentic Arabs, Authentic Christians: Antiochian Orthodox and the Mobilization of Cultural Identity.
(2010)
My dissertation agues that Arab American Christians construct and market a specific Arab cultural identity within the space of the church. I focus on the Antiochian Orthodox Church in the U.S., which is an ancient Christian ...