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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"American Languages, Literatures, and Cultures"”.
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Dispossession, Realism and the History of Neoliberalism in Peru and Colombia (1964-2014)
This dissertation belongs to the fields of Latin American literary studies, Marxist literary criticism, and Andean studies. Throughout the dissertation, I explore profound connections between these fields to study the historical dimension in the Peruvian and Colombian novels of the second half of …
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STORY CIRCLES FOR ASIAN AMERICAN FEMINISTS IN THE ONGOING COVID-19 ERA
This dissertation study was first and foremost motivated by a desire to uplift and center the voices and stories of an often invisibilized group of people in education and literacy scholarship: Asian and Asian American women, feminists, and gender nonconforming people. In this effort, I brought …
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White Power and Profit in New England School Desegregation, 1964–1972
Until 1963, despite Brown v. Board and the court-ordered and government-incentivized desegregation that followed, most schools in New England continued to exclude nonwhite children systematically. I argue that this began to change when desegregation became profitable for powerful white New …
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Imperial Objects and Transpacific Subjects: Japan, China, and the United States at World's Fairs 1867-1915
Imperial Objects and Transpacific Subjects explores the manifold constructions of transpacific empire as an accumulation of visual representations and political actions connecting the United States, China, and Japan at world’s fairs. My project serves two purposes. First, I propose that the control …
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THE MYTH OF THE SLAVELESS SOCIETY: BLACK POLITICS AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF ANTISLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1641-1783
… permitting the expansion of Indigenous and Black enslavement across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This narrative was, even at its creation, fatuous, illogical, and palpably erroneous. Nevertheless, it had a tangible impact on the shape of bondage and freedom in Massachusetts. …
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TRANSLATING GENRE: POST-2003 IRAQI FICTION AND CRITIQUES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
… explores Iraqi fiction written in Arabic and published in English translation since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and occupation. Reading in both Arabic and English, I focus on texts that Anglophone publishers market as genre fiction. Iraqi writers, I contend, use genre fictional conventions …
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What’s Race Got to Do with It? Race, Gender, and Sexual Politics in East Asian Americans’ Interracial/-Ethnic Relationships
This dissertation examines how East Asian Americans in heterosexual interracial/-ethnic romantic relationships navigate their unions’ mixed-race status across various social contexts—in natal families, among East Asian communities, and within their own relationships. Drawing on 163 in-depth …
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UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN OPPORTUNITY: FACTORS INFLUENCING ENGAGEMENT AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN IN THE U.S. CORPORATE WORKPLACE
… FACTORS INFLUENCING ENGAGEMENT AMONG AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN IN THE CORPORATE WORKPLACE John Mackey Raghu Krishnamoorthy Employee engagement is widely recognized as a driver of organizational success, yet African American men in U.S. corporate environments often face exclusionary structures that …
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The Scientist and the Jaguar: Sacred Plants and the Politics of Knowledge in the northwestern Amazon, 1849 - 2023
… a plant derivative native to the Amazonian lowlands that I describe as a “plant-being.” The project traces how a transnational network life and human scientists sought to transform ayahuasca from a sacred being into a scientific object and biomedical therapeutic from the 1850s to the present. …
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Contesting Lineage: #ADOS and the Online Reparations Discourse
… examines the online influence campaign #ADOS and its messaging in the online black public sphere to influence reparations and other policies targeting African Americans. Research was conducted using a set of 36 hourlong YouTube videos by the influence campaign’s leaders alongside SuperChat …
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The Anti-Marriage Plot in the Age of Informal Empire, 1850-1930
… emerged in the nineteenth century where marriage and its adjacent forms—alliance, coalition, union, association—became extraordinarily fraught proxies for understanding a convoluted, Anglo-centric world-system. In reading novels by José Mármol (Amalia), Anthony Trollope (The Prime Minister), …
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STATECRAFT IN BLACK: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, PARTY POLITICS, AND THE RISE OF ETHNORACIAL INSTITUTIONS IN BRAZIL
… exclusion from decision-making arenas, and systemic exposure to both state and social violence. In response to these enduring inequalities, state- and municipal-level governments have established a range of institutional measures, including anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action …