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"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 ...
Mental Disability and the Right to Vote.
(2015)
Nearly forty states disfranchise people based on their mental status. Despite the patchwork of laws limiting the voting rights of people with mental disabilities, one of America’s largest minority groups, few researchers ...
States of Exceptionalism: Race, Violence, and Governance.
(2015)
“States of Exceptionalism: Race, Violence, and Governance,” illuminates the role of racial ideologies in the organization and institutionalization of state power during the first quarter of the twentieth century, and shows ...