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Showing 1 to 20 of 1394 for “"American studies"”.
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Tracking Keywords in American Studies
<p><em>Tracking Keywords in American Studies</em> is a computational text analysis project that provides interactive data visualizations which allow for deeper analysis of issues and discourses in the American Studies journal <em>American Quarterly</em>. Taking inspiration from <em>Keywords for …
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An Exploration of Modern American Cultural History: An Undergraduate American Studies Course Proposal
… the curriculum for an undergraduate level American Studies course that uses three themes as its basic organizational structure. Through an interdisciplinary humanities methodology, the project specifically examines the way in which American cultural products (art, literature, and film) are …
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The Effects of Asian American Studies on Asian American College Students' Psychological Functioning
Because Asian American college students are commonly perceived to be highly achieving and functioning, psychosocial outcomes other than academic achievements are understudied. Nonetheless, stereotypes and racism have consistently been shown to be detrimental to Asian American students' …
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THE FOUNDATION AND CENTER OF AMERICAN STUDIES; AN INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORIES AND CULTURES - A SYLLABUS
… is the foundation and should be the center of American Studies. One way to facilitate such an effect on the discipline is to expose community college students to American Studies early, by offering an elective course about Native American communities within the US. The heart and soul of this …
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A study of the Project for American Studies in the Secondary Schools and its effect on curricular change
The purposes of this study were to determine the effect of the exogenous polyamines, spermidine and spermidine, on growth of crown gall tumors, to assay levels of spermidine and spermine in normal and crown gall tumor tissue and to determine the effects of selected anti-tumor compounds on growth of …
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Dialectical dimensions: the emergence and evolution of African American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1968-2008
… inception, proposed as a discipline was Black Studies that could spur new knowledge by countering Eurocentric modes of hegemony. Land grant institutions and public colleges, such as the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I), have an unique capacity and obligation to residents to …
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When we speak our languages : ideologies of language loss and revitalization
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. American Studies, 2010
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The making of folk identity : politics, consumption, tradition, and rebellion in the folk music revival movement
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. American Studies, 2010
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The cinema of Haile Gerima : black film as a liberating cinema
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. American Studies, 2010
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An examination of the manifest functions, latent functions, and dysfunctions of fraternities and sororities
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. American Studies, 2010
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Place and the ESOL Student in the Middle School Environment
… Speakers of Other Languages) was shaped by American Studies scholarship.</p>
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Dramaturgy: Kurt Well's 'Street Scene': An American Opera and the American Immigrant's Experience
… process and the connection of the production to American Studies.</p>
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THE IMPORTANCE OF TEACHING MEDIA LITERACY: A CULTURAL APPROACH TO NAVIGATING MEDIA LANDSCAPES
… it automatically result in a society of engaged Americans capable of distinguishing between fact and fiction amid the unstoppable surge of media artifacts filling their Facebook and Twitter streams. This thesis constructs an American Studies- and communication-based theoretical framework to teach …
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LIKE A DUCK ON WATER: CHINESE ACADEMIC MIGRANTS IN THE U.S. AND THEIR SUBURBAN WEEKEND CHINESE SCHOOL
… and well-behaving, and scholarship in gender studies, Asian-American studies, science and technology studies, and (sub)urban studies has barely acknowledged this group. This dissertation documents how a group of Chinese academic migrants engage with everyday struggles around their paradoxical …
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Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Race and Martyrdom in America, 1830-1968
… figures, resulting in a variegated canon of American martyrs outside the strict bounds of religious tradition. As a contribution to religious studies, American studies and African American studies, this dissertation identifies and examines the language, imagery and trajectory of the strain of …
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Wilderness and Wall Street: Privilege, Community, and Restraint in Literature of the New York Frontier
In the American Studies tradition, the frontier has long been equated with unfettered individualism---imagined in symbolic opposition to the restraint on individual action required by community. The current study reconsiders the role of literature in promoting frontier individualism at the expense …
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Germany and the Bund movement in the United States, 1923-1938
<p>Recent studies of the Bund have emphasized the movement's chronological development and its relationship with Germany. Although this dissertation will utilize the chronological approach, it will also examine Germany's evolving views concerning Americans of German ancestry. For example, was the …
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Philosophical blindness and the black subject: the deconstruction of a discipline
… and analysis of the content of the Black American Philosophical and Education Project. Of particular interest to me is the historical pursuit and experience of the study of Philosophy in the American higher education system by Black American students. This study is located at the …
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The Home as Refuge: Locating Homeplace Theory Within the Afrocentric Paradigm
… within the discipline of Africology/Africana Studies/African American Studies.
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