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Dangerous or Endangered: Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban American by Jennifer Tilton
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2012-12)
Moving Femininities: Queer Critique and Transnational Arab Culture.
(2015)
Moving Femininities focuses on three diverse and eminent figures of Arab femininity: the Golden Era Egyptian belly dancer Samia Gamal (1924-1994), the pan-Arab storyteller of The Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade, and ...
Fear and Threat in Illegal America: Latinas/os, Immigration, and Progressive Representation in Colorblind Times.
(2014)
“Fear and Threat in Illegal America” is a cultural studies critical discourse analysis of how Latinas/os are interpellated as “illegal aliens” as a mode of U.S. neoliberal social regulation by progressive public policy, ...
Sights of Racial Violence: New Media Technologies and Acts of Watching, Memory, and Legitimation.
(2016)
This dissertation explores the relationship between race, technology, and media cultures by examining the phenomenon of watching anti-Black violence in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American culture. Through selected ...
Regionalism and Cosmopolitanism in Edith Wharton’s Old New York
(University Press of Florida, 2016)
The text of the essay from the published book, and enhanced versions of its illustrations, are both available. Substantive abstract: Reading Edith ...
"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 ...