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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"American citizenship"”.
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Doorway to the Competitions of Life: African American Citizenship and Access to Higher Education
… the legal mechanisms designed to extend full citizenship rights to African Americans have failed. Although this failure affects many facets of the lives of African Americans, this study analyzes how the legal limitations placed on African American citizenship influence access to higher …
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Dark Stars of the Evening: Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920
… Stars of the Evening: Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920 </em>demonstrates that black performers in Germany developed wide networks in the performance world as they sought artistic opportunities beyond the racist circumscription of the American …
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America's Rhetorical Revolution: Defining Citizens in Benjamin Rush's Philadelphia, 1783--1812
This is a study of the creation of a distinctly American citizenship during the Early Republic. By focusing on Philadelphia, and by examining Benjamin Rush's institutions and the dialogues that he engaged in, I argue that the foundations of American citizenship produced the possibility of an …
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Black feminist aesthetics and cosmopolitanism, 1920s-present: Narratives of postcolonial Bildungsroman
Black American cosmopolitan artists, writers, and performers enjoy a strong, yet underappreciated, history dating back to the nineteenth century. This case study seeks to shed light on the recent history of twentieth-century black feminist narratives of artists and performers, living out a …
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How Does Religion Shape Filipino Immigrants` Connection to the Public Sphere? Imagining a Different Self-Understanding of Modernity
… does religion shape immigrants` understanding of American citizenship? 2) How do immigrants constitute a sense of empowered citizenship via the civic and religious institutions they navigate? 3) Does religion act as a preserving force of traditional Filipino culture within American society? 4) To …
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Behind the Banner of Patriotism: The New Orleans Chapter of the American Red Cross and Auxiliary Branches 6 and 11 (1914-1917)
… founded the New Orleans Chapter of the American Red Cross in 1916. The Chapter expanded in 1917 with the addition of two black Auxiliary Branches chartered by nurses Louise Ross and Sarah Brown. Although Jim Crow dictated the division between the Chapter and its Branches within the …
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"The pen among our people" : strategies of survivance and assimilation resistance in indigenous rhetoric from Indian newspapers, lawsuits, and society journals, 1870-1924
… rights under the law, and the campaign for American citizenship by the first Indian rights organization consisting of all-Indigenous members. My hope is to highlight the many ways Indigenous peoples utilized contemporaneous mediums to challenge the loss of sovereignty, culture, and life.
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"We Heard Canada Was a Free Country": African American Migration in the Great Plains, 1890-1911
… lens to examine the migration of Black Americans from Oklahoma to Canada in the early 20th century. Although scholars have documented this movement, they have not fully explored the vital and durable transnational connections among African American immigrants themselves. The use of …
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Does Money Indeed Buy Happiness? “The Forms of Capital” in Fitzgerald’s Gatsby and Watts’ No One is Coming to Save Us
… acclaimed texts that concern themselves with American citizenship—F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em> and Stephanie Powell Watts’ <em>No One is Coming to Save Us</em>—I analyze the claims made about citizenship identities, rights, and consequential access to said rights. I ask, how …
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Jus meritum : alien military service and naturalization in the United States
This dissertation draws on theories of citizenship and civil-military relations, historical policy analysis, and contemporary polling data to argue that the principle of jus meritum or citizenship for military service is a long-standing route to political incorporation. While it does not have the …
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That We May Exert Our Influence More Powerfully: Race, Politics and Identity in Ohio's Southeast Borderland, 1802-1865
… Black migration, and the rights of free African Americans created a hostile political climate for African Americans. Despite anti-Black legislation and the fragility of freedom along Ohio's southern border, African Americans continued moving into Southeast Ohio, forming small communities across …
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Ethnic Intimacy: Race, Law, and Citizenship in Korean America
… navigate the diverse meanings of law, race, and citizenship in New York City. Particularly, I focus on the relationship between Korean legal professionals and their coethnic clients comprised of mostly small business owners or manual laborers. This particular coethnic relationship exemplifies …
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"""By the people"": representative literature and democratic representation in the United States, 1890-1930"
This dissertation examines American literary writing that also asks and answers these questions about the authors of popular government and the means to represent them. I include three case studies from 1890-1930 focused on the work of Hamlin Garland, Vachel Lindsay, and James Weldon Johnson. Each …
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Collateral Damage: The De-Americanization of Muslim Americans After 9/11
… 9/11 has had on the everyday lives of Muslim Americans. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with South Asian and Arab American Muslim men and women living in the Chicago area, the data reveals Muslim Americans have been subjected to the process of de-Americanization, which is the stripping …
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Service and Citizenship: Examining the Historical Relationship between Immigration and Military Service in the United States
… order to gain the political and civil rights of citizenship. I begin with a history of immigration and military service, throughout American history. I particularly concentrate on World War II, a pivotal moment for immigration and the military. I will then cover the historiography that informed …
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"""Lines of Spiritual Motion"": The Realization of American Catholic Fiction, 1845-1965"
… revises major literary forms as negotiates American culture and doctrinal orthodoxy to create an American Catholic community. My research in Catholic print culture suggests, on the contrary, that religious writers responded to complex, interwoven political and theological concerns of the …
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The Post-Neoliberal Citizen: Immigrant Identity as the New Service Learning Center
… language these initiatives use regarding global citizenship, through the lens of the rhetorics of neoliberalism. Much of service-learning scholarship has, I argue, taken for granted the idea of citizenship; that is, the political subjectivity of participants in these programs has been articulated …
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Pedagogy and profit: Multiethnic literature, gender and young adult publishing
… notions of social responsibility tied to American citizenship. There were five major eras within the history of young adult literature, each of which responded to changing notions of citizenship. Chapter Two is a case study of <em>The House on Mango Street</em> (1984) by Sandra Cisneros …
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COGIC ethic of self-surrender: an interpretation of the tradition of protest inherent to Black Pentecostal practices
Scholarship on Black American religious life has historically understood Black Pentecostalism as unconcerned with the socially-challenging lived experiences of its congregants. Many scholars and lay observers, maintaining that such Pentecostal religious life has no identifiable political dimension, …
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The Protest Song: Bridge Leadership, Sonic Innovation, And The Long Civil Rights Movement
This dissertation tells a new story of the American Civil Rights Movement through the woman’s singing voice. The dissertation explores what is possible when political music is disentangled from patriarchal narratives of leadership and artistic genius. “The Protest Song” contends that women across …
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