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Dangerous or Endangered: Race and the Politics of Youth in Urban American by Jennifer Tilton
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2012-12)
"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 ...
The Narratives of Interfaith Parents Raising Their Children With Jewish Identities: An Emerging Discourse.
(2010)
The purpose of this dissertation is to describe an emerging social discourse as found in the narratives of interfaith parents raising their children with Jewish identities, and to demonstrate how in social work practice ...
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 ...
The Transformation of American Philanthropy: From Public Trust to Private Foundation, 1785-1917
(2017)
This dissertation examines the early history of philanthropic enterprise in the United States. I use the legal and administrative records of nineteenth-century philanthropic foundations, as well as the popular debates they ...