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The Chicana/o Countryside: A Visual History of California's Central Valley, 1965-1985
(2017)
Rural Chicana/o art, a style of politicized Mexican heritage visual culture produced in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, has yet to receive substantial critical attention despite the prominence of agrarian ...
Lost in Transplantation: Knowledge Production and Memory at U.S. Land Grant Colleges in Colonial and Cold War Japan
(2017)
The U.S. land grant college model was transplanted to the northern and southern islands of the Japanese archipelago in the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, respectively. My dissertation investigates exactly ...
The Transformation of American Philanthropy: From Public Trust to Private Foundation, 1785-1917
(2017)
This dissertation examines the early history of philanthropic enterprise in the United States. I use the legal and administrative records of nineteenth-century philanthropic foundations, as well as the popular debates they ...
Uniform Threat: Manufacturing the Ku Klux Klan's Visible Empire, 1866-1931
(2017)
This dissertation examines a symbol central to the racial consciousness of the contemporary United States: the white robe and hood worn by members of the modern Ku Klux Klan. In this cultural history of Ku Klux Klan regalia, ...
"Those Who Say Don't Know and Those Who Know Don't Say": The Nation of Islam and the Politics of Black Nationalism, 1930-1975
(2017)
This dissertation demonstrates the centrality of the Nation of Islam (NOI) and black nationalist politics to the modern black freedom movement. The Nation of Islam’s activism in prisons, courtrooms, and on college campuses ...
Indigenous Trading Women of the Borderland Great Lakes,1740 to 1845
(2017)
This dissertation illustrates the role of indigenous trading women in significant events that shaped the borderlands Great Lakes region, including the French and Indian War, the American Revolutionary War, the Northwest ...
Consuming Empire: Food Aid, Hunger, and Benevolence in the Cold War Asia and Pacific
(2017)
This dissertation traces legacies of imperial intervention and cultures of debt in Asia and the Pacific Islands during the Cold War by reading U.S. food aid as an imperial discourse and an integral component to the ...