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Consuming Empire: Food Aid, Hunger, and Benevolence in the Cold War Asia and Pacific
(2017)
This dissertation traces legacies of imperial intervention and cultures of debt in Asia and the Pacific Islands during the Cold War by reading U.S. food aid as an imperial discourse and an integral component to the ...
Stories in Red and Write: Indian Intellectuals and the American Imagination, 1880-1930.
(2011)
This dissertation examines cultural production by Indian intellectuals: Charles A. Eastman, Carlos Montezuma, Gertrude Bonnin, and Luther Standing Bear; four that represent an important cohort for identifying changing ...
Exceptional Visions: Chineseness, Citizenship, and the Architectures of Community in Silicon Valley.
(2011)
I examine the relationship between Chinese immigrants and economic development in the late twentieth-century and twenty-first century Silicon Valley as it transformed from a Cold War suburb founded on military defense ...
Puerto Rico and the Promise of United States Citizenship: Struggles around Status in a New Empire, 1898-1917.
(2010)
By invading and annexing Puerto Rico and other Spanish lands in 1898-1899, the United States took an imperial turn that unsettled its constitutional order. This dissertation traces responses by two groups—one within the ...
Master of Millions: King Corn in American Culture.
(2011)
Using research drawn from more than two dozen archives and repositories around the nation, and drawing upon sources as varied as scrapbooks, memoirs, trade cards, federal documents, private correspondence, newspaper articles, ...
We're All Hawaiians Now: Kanaka Maoli Performance and the Politics of Aloha.
(2012)
The Hawaiian renaissance of the 1970s produced an upsurge in Native Hawaiian political consciousness and nationalist sentiment that continues in the present day. Aspirations for Native Hawaiian federal recognition or ...
Poetics with a Promise: Performances of Faith and Gender in Christian Hip-Hop.
(2010)
Poetics With a Promise explores how African American Christian hip-hop artists negotiate tensions between the sacred and the secular in African American Christianity and in popular culture. Having first arrived on the ...
Empire of Culture: U.S. Entertainers and the Making of the Pacific Circuit, 1850-1890.
(2010)
During the mid-nineteenth century, the ongoing development of a robust and expansive U.S. culture industry dovetailed with the emergence of a recognizable Pacific world shaped by the integrative forces of colonialism and ...
Toys Make a Nation: A History of Ethnic Toys in America.
(2010)
This research examined representations of ethnic and racial difference in toys from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. The purpose was to identify the kinds of messages about race that have been ...
Liberal Imperialism: The Rise and Fall of Liberal Internationalism in U.S. - China Relations and the Origins of the Cold War, 1898-1945.
(2010)
This dissertation is a study of the rise and fall of liberal internationalism in U.S.-China relations from the late-nineteenth century until the end of WWII. I argue that framing the history of U.S.-China relations in this ...