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(Her)itage: Literary Tourism and the Popular Legacies of Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, and Beatrix Potter.
(2015)
This dissertation theorizes tourist engagements with famous literary women through an examination of the popular legacies of Louisa May Alcott, L.M. Montgomery, and Beatrix Potter. Little Women (1868-1869, American), Anne ...
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 ...
Machismo(s): A Cultural History, 1928-1984.
(2015)
This dissertation is a cultural history of machismo in U.S. English from 1928 1984. I argue that uncritical reproduction of the term machismo augmented the racialization of Latina/os and furthered white anxiety over ...
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 ...
Gardens in the Machine: Cultural and Environmental Change in Detroit, 1879 - 2010.
(2015)
This dissertation argues that parks, gardens, yards, and other landscapes created by residents and city leaders are crucially important to understanding the history of metropolitan Detroit, Michigan between 1879 and 2010. ...