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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, ...
The Architecture of Longing: Objects, Affect, and the Poetics of Home in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture.
(2014)
This dissertation argues that the concept of “home” is a key site for negotiating twentieth-century anxieties about individual and national identity. Taking up various cultural productions such as novels, world’s fairs, ...
The Samoan Cause: Colonialism, Culture, and the Rule of Law.
(2014)
Most scholars of U.S. empire are confounded by American Samoa and often conceptualize the territory as an exceptional and benevolent site of colonial practice. This dissertation is an examination of the many Samoan causes ...
Labor on Display: Ford Factory Tours and the Romance of Globalized Deindustrialization.
(2014)
This dissertation examines twentieth and early twenty-first century American industry’s use of factory tours and exhibitions to construct the U.S. as a postindustrial nation, to frame labor as resistant to forward progress, ...
Beyond the Playing Field: The Rise of College Football and the Educated Elite in the Progressive Era United States.
(2014)
This dissertation investigates Progressive Era college football in order to examine how members of the educated elite—a class with greatest access to or affiliation with higher education—used college football as a platform ...