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Ethnographies of Legal Inclusion: Protection, Punishment, and Legal Fictions of Asian Immigrant Woman.
(2012)
In the San Francisco Bay Area, non-profit organizations make up one of the largest networks of legal services providers working specifically with Asian immigrant communities. Their work is the product of multiple political ...
The Inevitable and the Invisible: Stories of Race and Class in Two New York Museums.
(2013)
The Invisible and the Inevitable: Stories of Race and Class in Two New York House Museums examines the direct and indirect forces that shape two historic sites, and by extension, narratives of American racial and class ...
Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions: Race, Nation, and Popular Culture in Cuban New York City and Miami, 1940-1960.
(2012)
“Authentic Assertions, Commercial Concessions” examines the relationship between popular black and white Cuban entertainers and the Cuban communities and broader Latino/a publics of New York City and Miami in the 1940s and ...
Welcoming Strangers: Hospitality In American Literature and Culture.
(2012)
“Welcoming Strangers” explores the question of hospitality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literary studies. It deploys the concept of hospitality as an analytical category to critique discourses of empire, ...
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. ...
The (Geo)Politics of Beauty: Race, Transnationalism, and Neoliberalism in South Korean Beauty Culture.
(2012)
Departing from the current literature on cosmetic surgery, which largely asks why Korean women undergo procedures at the highest rates per capita globally and pathologizes them for doing so, The (Geo)Politics of Beauty: ...
(Play)Grounds for Dismissal: Ninas Raras in Transborder Children's Cultural Studies.
(2013)
This study instates the child as a unique, and often evaded, category of analysis. I investigate children's literature, television, and short films produced across México, the United States, and Canada that challenge ...
"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 ...
“Dirty Factory Town” or “A Good City?”: Neoliberalism and the Cultural Politics of Rust Belt Urban Revitalization.
(2013)
On July 4, 1984, AutoWorld opened in Flint, Michigan. A curious combination of Disney-style theme park and historical museum, the $80 million dollar urban revitalization project was also an attempt by a “Rust Belt” city ...