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Showing 1 to 20 of 162 for “"American identity"”.
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Understanding American identity: an introduction
Why are Americans' identity narratives important for national security? This thesis utilizes a qualitative approach to analyze American identity narratives in U.S. history and contemporary society. The historic disagreement over the distribution of the fundamental American value of liberty makes …
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Epigenetic Traits, Computerized Tomography And Native American Identity
… potentially define population affinity. Native American skeletal collections have been diminishing after the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Epigenetic traits have the potential to indicate population affinity in the event cultural affiliation cannot be …
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Building a Muslim-American Identity: An Islamic College
In contemporary American culture Islam is often misrepresented and misunderstood. This thesis seeks to revive the Islamic intellectual tradition by using architecture and campus planning to construct a more accurate understanding of Islam in an American context. Designing an institution for Islamic …
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Performing American Identity in Great Britain, 1880-1914.
… and exhibition in Britain by a variety of Americans in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. It emphasizes how this travel and work prompted Americans to consider their identity and work in ‘national’ terms, identifying two broad strains of American identity that were consolidated through …
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Policy Advocacy and the Performance of Muslim American Identity
… <p>Understood in purely strategic terms, Muslim American foreign policy advocacy post- 9/11 seems puzzling, since it appears to confirm the perception of Muslims as outsiders concerned not with American interests, but with those of other nations. This work argues that in order to explain why …
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Asian American identity in the collegiate music school setting
… was to examine the experiences of three Asian American students in a collegiate music school setting. Semi-structured interviews were utilized to discuss how their families influenced their decision of pursue a career in music and how they might have experienced discrimination, both within and …
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Navigating the (Im)Perfect Performances of Queer Iranian-American Identity
… systems, creates an unfinished portrait of queer identity. For queer people of color, negotiating queer identity is always in relation to their nationality, race-ethnicity, class, gender, religion, and family. While many queer of color stories share similar obligatory cultural norms, the legal …
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The Rhetoric Of The Hip Hop Hustler: Shifting Representations Of American Identity
<p>The nature of American identity is highly contested in the twenty-first century. This dissertation seeks to understand how this state of uncertainty produces a rhetorical opening for new and unimagined rhetorical possibilities. As citizens lose faith in the narratives that have defined national …
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The Ladies’ Land League and Irish-American Identity in the American South
… capitalism and the development of Southern Irish-American identity.</p>
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Picturing a Nation Divided: Art, American Identity and the Crisis over Slavery
<p>In 1859, Arkansas artist Edward Payson Washbourne produced a lithograph entitled the Arkansas Traveler. Based upon a popular folktale originating twenty years earlier, Washbourne used the image to convey his understanding of the crisis over slavery in the western territories. Artists in north …
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Outside and Inside: Representations of Interracialism and American Identity in White Jazz Autobiography
… dissertation explores concepts of race, national identity, and gender formation in fifteen autobiographies published by white male American jazz musicians— that is, jazz autobiographies written by male subjects who self-identified, and were identified by their collaborators and by the general …
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Impossible Whiteness: Race, Gender, and American Identity in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… and show how gender, particularly, disrupts American whiteness. I deconstruct the various ways in which whiteness is defined legally, culturally, and in the marketplace, and demonstrate how Edith Wharton, Anzia Yezierska, and F. Scott Fitzgerald trace these standards of whiteness and the …
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Sino Ako? (Who am I?): Exploring Filipino American identity In Philippine Studies courses
… (U.S. Census, 2010). Despite this and an American colonial past, the American education system has failed to depict Filipino and Filipino American history accurately in its textbooks and courses. In addition to this, studies have indicated that young Filipino Americans often have …
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Moving: knowledge, image, embodiment and Iranian-American identity in the post-911 USA
This dissertation ascribes an extended methodology of auto-ethnography to the problem of apprehending the cultural and affective crossways symbiotic with post 911, late capitalism, in the United States and on the Transnational Stage. It introduces a performative approach derived from Somatics and …
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Colonizing the Mind: The Library as a Site for Colonial American Identity Formation
… culture to navigate individual and community identity in a decidedly unstructured atmosphere—the period shortly before the complete onset of American nationalism. The process of "becoming American," the development of an identity tied to a specific location that emphases class mobility and …
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The Role of Collective Memory and Cultural Trauma in Arab American Identity Formation
… cultural traumas and memories that shape Arab American identity in the US, and how such events influence their interactions and relationships with other Arab and non-Arab Americans. Drawing on memory and trauma literature, this study highlights the impact of collective memory and cultural …
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Neon signs, underground tunnels and Chinese American identity : the many dimension of visual Chinatown
What is Chinatown? Is it an imaginary construct, a real location, or a community? Is it an ethnic enclave only available to insiders, or a fabricated environment designed specifically for tourists? This thesis attempts to reconcile the multiple ways in which Chinatowns in the U.S. are conceived, …
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Coming to Terms with Our Routes: The Impact of Family Estrangement on Asian American Identity
… phenomenon, particularly in the Asian American diaspora. Research on Asian American families often frames intergenerational conflict as a cultural clash between assimilated youth and unassimilated elders, reinforcing essentialized views of Asian identity and obfuscating the broader …
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Performing (Non)Profit, Race, and American Identity in the Nation's Capital: Arena Stage, 1950-2010
… theatre and the negotiation of race and national identity in the United States. Arguably the closest institution the U.S. has to a national theatre, the company was the first regional theatre to send a profitable new play to Broadway and now brands itself as the largest theatre devoted to …
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