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"Of Low Grade Mexican Parentage:" Race, Gender, and Eugenic Sterilization in California, 1928-1952.
(2015)
This dissertation argues that from the 1920s into the 1950s tropes of disability deployed through the notion of “feeblemindedness” converged with nativist concerns over Mexican immigration to mark certain Mexican-origin ...
Authorized Agents: The Projects of Native American Writing in the Era of Removal.
(2015)
This dissertation examines how Native American writing and performance mediated between tribal nations and colonial institutions during the period of Indian removal. It analyzes collaborative publications by writers, ...
The Othello Effect: The Performance of Black Masculinity in Mid-Century Cinema
(2011)
This dissertation attempts to theorize the performance of black masculinity in the mid-twentieth century as a cultural process, by analyzing films with narratives that creatively confronted the problem of race and intercultural ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Lost in Transplantation: Knowledge Production and Memory at U.S. Land Grant Colleges in Colonial and Cold War Japan
(2017)
The U.S. land grant college model was transplanted to the northern and southern islands of the Japanese archipelago in the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, respectively. My dissertation investigates exactly ...
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 ...