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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Critical Race Studies"”.
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Staging race: Blackness, performance, and citizenship in Afro-Latin American writers (1940-2000)
… 1940-2000. In conversation with performance studies and critical race studies, my project analyzes the emergence of an Afro-Latin American public sphere through distinct yet interconnected forms of art and activism. In particular, my study focuses on Abdias do Nascimento’s experimental …
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If There Wasn’t Farming, Somebody Wouldn’t Eat: Small Scale Agriculture, Community Autonomy, And Food Sovereignty In Mississippi
… a multi-scalar method of analysis, the research studies issues from the perspective of individuals, communities, institutions, as well as national and transnational systems. The work draws from previous scholarship in environmental studies, agroecology, critical race studies, rural sociology, …
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Trans Metamorphoses: Gender, Race, and Classical Receptions
… angel. Drawing together trans theory, premodern critical race studies, and classical reception history, I construct a long genealogy of what we now call transgender, in which racial difference is inextricable from the assignment of sex. Through close readings of popular romance, early drama, …
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Using Intersectionality Theory to explore the experiences of students from African Caribbean and South Asian heritage and who have a Special Educational Need and/or Disability (SEND) in Further Education.
… Intersectionality Theory concepts, Dis/ability Critical Race Studies explore the intersections of race and ability to platform those whose experience may otherwise be invalidated and/or under-researched. This study aims to gain insights into students who experiences intersect of their race, …
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Searching for black girls: old traditions in new media
"Critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values, that is, that it is not the result of the actions of impartial, disembodied, unpositioned agents. Technology consists of a set of social practices, situated within the …
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A Whole New World: Students with Disabilities Transition to Postsecondary Education
… This study utilized components from Disability Studies in Education approach, Disability Critical Race Studies (DisCrit), Acculturation, and Diverse Learning Environment frameworks in analyzing first-year students with disabilities’ experiences. Using a mixed-methods approach to investigate both …
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FROM KIN TO KIND: ARMENIAN RACIALIZATION AND THE MEDIATION OF THE “HUMAN” IN THE LATE-TO-POST OTTOMAN EMPIRE
… the ‘Human’ in the Late-to-Post Ottoman Empire” traces the interspecies dynamics of racialization in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish republic through the perspective of one of the empire’s ethnominority communities: Armenians. It asks who was considered a proper “human” and who an …
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Species Panic: Interspecies Erotics in Post-1900 American Literature
… Theoretically, this project yokes animal studies and posthumanism (Donna Haraway, Dominic Pettman, Kathy Rudy) with queer theory and critical race studies (Mel Y. Chen, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Alexander Weheliye) as its central driving forces. This theoretical backdrop informs my reading of …
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Tracing the Invisible Borders of Canadian Citizenship: Critical Analysis of Social Work with Noncitizens
… notion of citizenship as a social good through critical analysis of Canadian social work with noncitizens. Drawing on multidisciplinary scholarshipcritical border scholarship, Indigenous studies, critical race studies, settler colonial studies, affect theories, and Foucaults notion of powerI …
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In Harm's Way: How Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Practices Steered Marginal People to Marginal Land
… racialization of space. I contribute to urban studies scholarship by demonstrating how the growth machine creates a cityscape stratified by race and class. Second, I contribute to environmental justice research by firmly highlighting flooding vulnerability as an environmental justice issue and …
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Impossible Subjects: Racial Politics, Citizenship, and Spatial Mobility in Chilean Cinema of Late Neoliberalism (2011-2020)
… decade (2011-2020). In Chile, the collapse of race into class has meant that the power of racial politics in articulating regimes of social difference has often been overlooked. However, the films analyzed here show the convoluted way in which race and nation have historically been interwoven, …
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In the Image of Industry: Indigeneity and Migrant Labor in the Making of Filipino America
… presents a cultural and labor history of race in 20th century Filipino America through the political-economic conditions that displaced lowlands peasants and indigenous groups from Northern Luzon in the 19th century. It argues that the constellation of contradictory identities that …
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Dominance and radical submission in seventeenth-century drama: chastity, fairness, and silence in portrayals of Mar(r)iam(ne), Sophonisba, and Cleopatra
<p>This thesis conducts an extensive reading of early modern English playwrights’ interpretation of ancient royalty. I survey a series of seventeenth-century plays concerning Mariamne I, the Carthaginian noblewoman Sophonisba, and Cleopatra VII. I argue that the English stage produced two models of …
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The Dialectics of Form: Reification and Genre in Early Twentieth-Century American Literature
… through which the shifting formations of race and gender reproduce or challenge transnational capitalism’s reifying processes. My readings of articulations of racialized and gendered subjectivity during two pivotal periods in US history offers a new way of understanding the historical …
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The Limits of Social Citizenship: Unemployment Insurance and the Reproduction of the South African Racial Capitalist State, 1937-2023
Three decades following the end of apartheid, racial stratification continues to be reproduced along historically constituted lines. In this dissertation, I ask how the institutionalisation of unemployment insurance during the periods of segregation (1910-1947) and apartheid (1948-1994) continues …
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Obscure, unclassed and undefinable: social immobility for mixed races in the nineteenth century presented in Jude the Obscure and Of One Blood
… who are outcast based on what I call a “class-race-intellect disagreement.” By revealing the life and struggles of the mixed-raced individual, I will show how the class systems used by western nations not only maintained the financial, social, professional, educational, etc. disparity between …
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Playing American: race and citizenship in American theatre and performance during the Great War, 1917-1919
This dissertation explores the intersection of race and citizenship in American theatre and performance during US active engagement in the Great War through focusing on performances by and about German immigrants and African American soldiers. Quickly after President Woodrow Wilson requested a …
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Carceral civil society: Citizenship and communities in a U.S. prison
Couched in frameworks of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality, this dissertation uses the lenses of citizenship and civil society to examine communities in a men’s medium security Illinois state prison. Prisons are spaces removed from free civil society where every aspect of associational …
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The Globalization of Cosmetic Surgery: Examining BRIC and Beyond
… the exacerbation of pre-existing class, color, race, and gender prejudice by hyper-consumerism; the perception of the beauty industry and global beauty pageants as a gateway to the "modern" world's stage; and the practice of “Westernized” cosmetic surgery becoming synonymous with concepts of …
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