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Showing 1 to 20 of 17972 for “"American"”.
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African-American Attitudes Concerning African-American English
… significant studies done on the topic of African-American English. For the past quarter-century, a controversy over the recognition, value and use of African-American English has captured the attention of media, professionals, educators and parents nationwide. This study examined the opinions of …
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Narrative privacy : keeping secrets in contemporary Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American metafictions
… metafictional novels and short stories by Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American authors who use literary form to theorize the politics of ethnic privacy. These authors use metafictional strategies to situate the well-meaning desires of academic and popular readers for ethnic …
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Godparents Among Mexican-American and Anglo-American Catholics
… with the sponsor or godparent among Mexican American and Anglo-American Catholics. The primary purpose was to answer four questions: (1) Who is selected to be a godparent; (2) How he or she is chosen: (3) When the godparent is selected; and (4) What the parents expect the godparent to do for …
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Speaking American
<p>This thesis is a collection of four short stories and four poems. The stories and poems incorporate the usual emotions, experiences and situations that humans encounter on a daily basis.</p>
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All-American
All-American interrogates J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s definition of “American" in the 1782 text, Letters from an American Farmer, which inspired the Eurocentric, sexist and heterosexist ideals girding the notion of what is now called the “American Dream." Mainstream media project narratives …
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American Economic Imperialism and the Spanish-American War Era
American history and education always viewed the Spanish-American War era of 1898 as a time when imperialism unexpectedly became foreign policy. However, American imperialism would differ from the form it took in European countries. America would promote a “noble imperialism” that would elevate the …
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"Neurotic Nationalism: The ""American Disease"" in American Modernist Literature"
… preoccupation with mental illness in modern American literature and culture. By bringing into dialogue two disciplines which rarely seem to speak to each other---American modernist literary criticism and the history of psychiatry---my dissertation offers scholars of American culture a new way …
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Play Behavior of Korean-American and American Young Children
… play behavior of preschool children with Korean-American and American backgrounds. The subjects were thirty-two Korean-American and thirty-two American children from middle class family. The data were collected in the preschool located in two university communities using time-sampling technique. …
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The Family Process Model: Predicting Youth Behavior Problems in Mexican American, African American, and European American Families
… hardship on family functioning in European American and African American families, less is known about the processes mediating the effects of economic hardship on Latino families. The lack of research on the applicability of the family process model to Latino families is surprising as …
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Neil Gaiman's American Gods: An Outsider's Critique of American Culture
<p>In 2001, Neil Gaiman published American Gods, a novel of American life and mythology. As a British author living in the United States, Gaiman has a powerful vantage point from which to critique American culture, landscape, and ideology. Rich with re-invented deities, legends, mythic creatures, …
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Descent: American Individualism, American Blackness and the Trouble with Invention
… stiff or un-poetic in their attitudes toward the American truisms “individualism,” “blackness” and “invention.” Beginning with William Carlos Williams’ formulation of descent (as a practice necessary for establishing national literary identity) in <em>In the American Grain</em>, the project …
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The Alienated American
… important component to consider in the study of American political behavior. As a perceived sense of detachment or estrangement from society, alienation is just one dimension of Durkheim’s complex anomie resulting from rapid change (for good or ill) in society, the economy, or politics that …
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American Anxiety: Stories
This collection of stories largely deals with anxiety felt by people in small-town, rural America in the twenty-first century. Ranging from an old woman afraid of change to a veteran returning home to a people’s militia occupying a property, these stories reveal an often-overlooked perspective of …
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Early American drama
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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Asian American poetry, American poetry, and the critique of identity: Asian American poetry in comparative context, 1887-2005
… be dismissed. My analysis begins with Asian American poets who I see as challenging the different forms that racism takes across more than a century of Asian American writing. But I go on to suggest that the form these critiques take connect them to the work of American poets who outside of …
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