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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"20th century U.S."”.
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Telling Girlhood: Girls' Studies, Reparative Trauma And 20Th Century U.S. Popular Culture
This project is meant to be a contribution to the fields of girls' studies and feminism and media studies. Girls' studies, in its current iteration, is partially a response to a boom in the 1990s of interest in girls as a market for media and advertising. Girls' studies is largely concerned with …
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Catastrophic Christianity: an Iconological Study of the Messianic Idea in American Protestant Christianity Circa 1900-1940
… serve as heuristic devices to explicate early 20th century U.S. culture, revealing two ideological impulses that encapsulate collective responses to the anxieties of the age: authoritarian-populism and catastrophic-utopianism. Four case studies, encompassing four different genres of media, …
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Analysis of Post-Cranial Traits for the Assessment of Biological Distance among Temporally Distinct New World Populations of African Descent
… ancestry: Newton Plantation series (17th-19th century Barbados; N = 16); two subsamples from the Hamann-Todd (HT) series (U.S.) based on birth year, 1865-1900 (N = 66) and 1901-1915 (N = 62); and the Forensic Databank Collection (FDB) (20th century U.S.; N = 137). It was anticipated that …
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Cognitive Fictions: The Evolution of Identity in Late-Nineteenth Century Fiction and Science
… of race and gender in the late-19 th and early-20th century U.S., one that challenges inherited assumptions about the relationships among aesthetics, science, and embodied identity. Histories of turn-of-the-twentieth century U.S. culture commonly depict a shift from interiorizing to social …
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'The False Song of Globalism': Anti-Globalist Politics and Ideology in the United States from 1945 to 2000
… most significant political trends of the 21st century. When then-candidate Trump denounced globalist policies and elites in his 2016 Presidential campaign, he introduced the American public to a new term: ‘globalism’. Since then, anti-globalist populism has become the definitive political …
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Aerial Empire: contested sovereignties and the American West
… control over the region in the twentieth century. A combination of white encroachment, warfare, diplomacy, and violence had transferred the region from Native to non-Native populations by the late nineteenth century. This process involved claiming western air, but appropriating the lower …
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MANNING THE TVA: WHITE MASCULINITIES AND ENGINEERING AT THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, 1933-1953
This dissertation seeks to address the use of gender and race in constructing U.S. engineering identity. It analyzes individual and institutional identities at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) between 1933 and 1953 through a model of multiple white masculinities. Predominantly drawing on oral …