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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"American Orientalism"”.
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The subjects of modernism : mathematics, art, and the politics of value in twentieth-century United States
… domains and racialized social forms-particularly American Orientalism-in the twentieth-century United States. Observers and practitioners have long engaged in drawing relations between mathematics and the arts. Around the turn of the twentieth century, however, when mathematicians reconceived …
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Wok Palace 88
… 88,” is a parafictional and defunct Chinese-American restaurant brought back to life through the institutional process of excavating, archiving, and displaying. The restaurant is based around shutdown restaurants in Greater Boston including Eldo Cake House and Joyce Chen’s restaurants. Wok …
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HISTORY FROM THE MIDDLE: THE STUDENT INTERPRETERS CORPS AND IMAGINED AMERICAN ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM IN CHINA, 1902-1941
<p>The project of American economic imperialism in China during the first half of the twentieth century was first and foremost an imagined enterprise. This dissertation examines the role of the Student Interpreters Corps (SIC) in this endeavor. Studying language-trained intermediaries, this …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… of three uncommon commoners in the early American republic: Richard O’Brien (1758–1824), James Cathcart (1767–1843) and James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… of three uncommon commoners in the early American republic: Richard O’Brien (1758–1824), James Cathcart (1767–1843) and James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western …
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Invisible Humans, Visible Terrorists: U.S. Neo-Orientalism Post 9/11 and Representations of the Muslim World
U.S. neo-Orientalism as a new form of Orientalism was ushered in after 9/11. Although it operates within the frames of Said’s theory of Orientalism, U.S. neo-Orientalism offers new approaches to and representations of Islam and the Muslim world that have a different point of departure from that of …