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Juju leaves in the center of a whirlwind: African American nature/culture mediation.
(1994)
Juju Leaves in the Center of a Whirlwind: African American Nature/Culture Mediation is concerned with how environmental relationships were primary in African Americans' early experience in the United States. This work ...
Beyond Bang! Pow! Zap!: Genre and the evolution of the American comic book industry.
(1997)
Comic books in America are produced and consumed in a particular environment. This environment has been shaped by three factors: the evolution of the industry as a system of production, the changing culture of readers of ...
Shamanism, sacred narratives, the sea, and the cedar in the art of John Hoover, Aleut sculptor.
(1997)
This dissertation is a study of the artistic work and thought of John Hoover, a little known American Indian sculptor who works primarily in Western red cedar. This study combines the approaches of art history and anthropology ...
Race, ethnicity, and the voice of the poetess in the lives and works of four late-nineteenth-century American women poets: Frances E. W. Harper, Emma Lazarus, Louise Guiney, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
(1992)
The dissertation explores the influence of contemporary critical discourse on the content and form of poems by four late-nineteenth-century women. It argues that late-nineteenth-century American women poets struggled with ...
Picturing the past: Photographs at the Library of Congress, 1865-1954.
(1992)
The subject of this dissertation is the acquisition and status of photographs at the Library of Congress from 1865 to 1954. The origins of the photography collection, assembled in the late-nineteenth century through the ...
A depth psychological analysis of Chicana/o narrative: Pocho, The Moths and Other Stories, and Under the Feet of Jesus.
(1997)
This dissertation explains and applies a depth psychological analysis to Chicana/o narrative, an approach not used by Chicana/o critics who mistakenly regard depth psychology as the purview of the mainstream literary canon. ...
Which Face? Whose Nation?
(Sage Publications, 1999)
This article examines medical inspections of immigrants arriving to U.S. ports and borders from the period 1891 to 1928. Comparing the activities of the U.S. Public Health Service at four immigration stations, the authors ...
Traitors and true Poles: Narrating a Polish-American identity, 1880-1939.
(1998)
While the Polish immigrant generation of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century produced relatively little literature in English, it created a significant, largely overlooked, body of Polish-language works supported ...
Disciplining the state: Organized civil servants, state formation and citizenship in the United States and Germany, 1880-1925.
(1996)
In this dissertation I analyze the intersection of structural shifts and institutional transformation in the expansion of the state's functions as employer in the United States and Germany during the late nineteenth and ...