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The People's Classroom: American Modernism and the Struggle for Democratic Education, 1860-1940.
(2013)
This dissertation examines the struggle for democratic education in California among public intellectuals, labor groups, and education reformers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I argue that this ...
Ethnographies of Legal Inclusion: Protection, Punishment, and Legal Fictions of Asian Immigrant Woman.
(2012)
In the San Francisco Bay Area, non-profit organizations make up one of the largest networks of legal services providers working specifically with Asian immigrant communities. Their work is the product of multiple political ...
Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions: Race, Nation, and Popular Culture in Cuban New York City and Miami, 1940-1960.
(2012)
“Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions” examines the relationship between popular black and white Cuban entertainers and the Cuban communities and broader Latino/a publics of New York City and Miami in the 1940s and ...
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 ...