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Showing 1 to 20 of 252 for “"Americas"”.
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Writing of the Americas
… the different forms of writing within the Americas, establish connections between the systems, and discuss the impact of European colonization. Writing systems within the American Continents contain a vast array of different indigenous systems that first started around 1000-900 BCE and …
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REMEMORY: Territorial Justice in Both Americas
… collectives of Black and Indigenous women in the Americas to fight for housing, land, and territorial justice. I put organizers from the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) in conversation with ancestral miners in Colombia's Cauca region, and finally with Moms 4 Housing in West …
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The work of death in the Americas
… of national culture as it emerges in the Americas during the early nineteenth century. The writing, consumption and preservation of these texts reveal not only the psychic life of community but also the material basis for that psychic life. Writing and reading, the production and …
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Embodying the Americas through Antigone and Medea
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Paleogenomics in the Americas: demography, adaptations, and resilience
… history of an indigenous population from the Americas through the lens of ancient DNA. In recent years, major advances in DNA sequencing have allowed for the utilization of ancient DNA on a grand scale. We now have the ability to examine the whole genomes of ancient individuals and examine the …
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these americas: Black and Indigenous Poetics Exhausting the Human
My dissertation maps a poetics of the Americas through the work of Black and Indigenous poets. I draw on a wide array of interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies to examine lineages of poetic practice in the Americas through their interrelated literary, historical, material, spiritual, and …
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Utopia And Commons: Enclosure And Blank Slate In The Americas
… original 1516 text and the conquest of the Americas that lies behind it; several agrarian and communal projects in the Americas situated at the intersection of modernity, imperialism, land, and history; postapocalyptic narratives that find their logic in the revelation of a primal utopian …
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Writing hybridity: identity, dialogics, and women's narratives in the Americas
… After the arrival of the Spaniards to the Americas, the need to restrain cultural mixture and therefore define “hybridity” was pressing. Thus, the discourse of mestizaje appears first to differentiate Spaniards from non-Spaniards, and later to give a fixed national identity to Spanish …
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The Kaleidoscopic Unsaid: Voice, Memory, and Body of the Afro-Americas
… of Afro-diasporic subjects in the Americas through the kaleidoscopic unsaid. In this metaphor the kaleidoscope is the global power structure while the unsaid is the articulation that emerges for these subjects within this world order. Using three case studies that reveal how the …
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Routes and Networks of Mexican Abstraction Across the Americas (1958-1970)
… of artistic exchange that stretched across the Americas, this dissertation contributes new scholarship on the histories of Latin American and abstract art.
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The Second Lost Cause: Post-National Confederate Imperialism in the Americas.
<p>At the close of the American Civil War some southerners unwilling to remain in a reconstructed South, elected to immigrate to areas of Central and South America to reestablish a Southern antebellum lifestyle.</p><p>The influences of Manifest Destiny, expansionism, filibustering, and southern …
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Sporting correspondents: African American baseball players in the Americas, 1910 – 1950
… African American Baseball Players in the Americas, 1910-1950” argues that black sportswriters and sojourning ballplayers worked as critical international correspondents for black news publications in the first half of the twentieth century. After spending summer or winter months in Latin …
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Prehistoric polymer engineering : a study of rubber technology in the Americas
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 2003.
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Inuit and Iroquois and Inca, Oh My: Societal Formation in the Americas
… evolution and societal development in the Americas. This study examines the most probable ways in which the Inuit, Iroquois, and Inca societies might have developed without European influence. By applying anthropological political evolutionary theory to the three case studies, probable …
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Putting the winner-loser effect in context: presidentialism & democracy in the Americas
This project concerns the winner-loser effect on individual citizens’ political attitudes and behaviors. The process of electoral politics mandates that voters win or lose in tandem with their preferred political candidates. As such, the relationship of such voters vis-à-vis the government and the …
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The invention of order: modern spatial concepts and the emergence of the Americas
… process through the invention of the Americas as the New World and only later temporalized as progress, maturity, and development in the eighteenth century. My argument is developed by engaging in a comparative philosophical dialogue with texts from the Latin American, Caribbean, and …
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A phenology-guided deep learning framework for advanced soybean yield prediction in the Americas
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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A demographic and dietary history of ancient dogs in the Americas using ancient DNA
… humans to multiple continents, including the Americas and Australia. The close relationship between humans and dogs makes dogs a valuable proxy when studying human history. In this study, we use ancient dog remains from the Americas to gain an understanding of their demographic and dietary …
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