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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 ...
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, ...
California’s Cross: A Cultural History of Pentecostalism, Race, and Agriculture.
(2016)
California’s Cross explains how Okie and Mexican Pentecostalism came to be in the Central Valley, a site marked by ethnic labor flows into the fields of industrialized agriculture. I argue that the simultaneous processes ...
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 ...
Crip Native Woman: The Hispanic American Philippines and the Postcolonial Disability Cultures of US Empire.
(2016)
This dissertation examines how Filipino intellectual cultures, “ilustrados”, and postcolonial enlightenment discourses assert political sovereignty through self-fashioning as able-minded subjects. I argue that Spanish and ...
Bodega Surrealism: The Emergence of Latin@ Artivists in New York City, 1976-Present.
(2011)
This dissertation examines the cultural activism, or artivism, of two community-based art communities and projects that originated in the 1970s within the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City: the New Rican Village ...
Beauty, Bodies, and Boundaries: Pageants, Race, and U.S. National Identity.
(2010)
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine relationships among race, gender, and U.S. national identity using twentieth- and twenty-first-century beauty pageants as case studies. Each chapter focuses on the decade ...
Authentic Arabs, Authentic Christians: Antiochian Orthodox and the Mobilization of Cultural Identity.
(2010)
My dissertation agues that Arab American Christians construct and market a specific Arab cultural identity within the space of the church. I focus on the Antiochian Orthodox Church in the U.S., which is an ancient Christian ...
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 ...
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 ...