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A miserable fit of the blues: Pragmatism, exceptionalism and the failure of American Marxism, 1900-1922.
(1991)
This study documents the encounter, on both philosophical and political terrain, between American pragmatism and European Marxism during the first two decades of the 20th century. I narrate the struggle to construct the ...
Home is the hunter: Representations of returning World War II veterans and the reconstruction of masculinity, 1944-1951.
(1994)
Popular culture narratives about World War II veterans produced between 1944 and 1951 were significant interventions in a postwar debate about the nature, function and value of masculinity. The soldier moving from the ...
Red blooded Americans: Mulattoes and the melting pot in United States racialist and nationalist discourse, 1890--1930.
(1997)
This dissertation analyzes American conceptions of Black-White racial mixing between 1890 and 1930. It tracks the conflicting influences of cultural and physical definitions of race on American categorizations of people ...
Chastening the rod: Sentimental strategies in three antebellum novels by women.
(1991)
This study explores the sentimental genre in three American novels written by women in the 1850s: Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World (1850), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), and Harriet Wilson's Our Nig ...
'A rigid government over ourselves': Transformations in ethnic, gender, and race consciousness on the northern borderlands, Michigan, 1805-1865.
(1998)
This work focuses on the comparative emergence of ethnicity among Michigan residents from Michigan's establishment as a distinct territory in 1805 through the Civil War. It employs a multidisciplinary approach that ...
A foreigner's gaze: The American films of Louis Malle.
(1992)
As a foreign auteur, Louis Malle has enriched the depiction of America generally presented on the screen by making marginal groups the center of his films, by examining the underlying ideologies that connect people to each ...
They did me a great wrong: History and meanings of the Japanese American exclusion and incarceration.
(1995)
This study argues that systematic and deliberate efforts were made to discursively erase the contradictions inherent in the exclusion and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Contradictions were rendered ...
'It did not seem like a hospital it seemed like home': Women's experiences as patients at Peterson's Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1902-1933.
(1999)
Using quantitative and qualitative analyses of nearly 500 patient records and letters between physicians and patients, this dissertation examines the history of a small private women's hospital in the Midwest from the ...
We have to learn to define ourselves, name ourselves, and speak for ourselves: Black teenagers, urban schools, writing and the politics of representation.
(1996)
This dissertation is a collection and exploration of the journal writings of a group of black urban high school students in Boston, Massachusetts who attended the Jeremiah Burke High School. These students created a history ...
Out of the blue: Black creative musicians and the challenge of jazz, 1940-1995.
(1997)
This dissertation is an intellectual history of African-American jazz musicians. Although the jazz community has devoted the majority of its intellectual energy toward the creation and performance of the music itself, ...