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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Ethnicity -- United States."”.
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Culture matters: factors affecting the persistence of European American and Asian women in two U.S. engineering doctoral programs
Over 50% of the students enrolled in engineering doctoral programs in the U.S. are foreign nationals, with the majority of these students coming from Asian countries (primarily China, Korea, India, and Taiwan). The present study was designed to better understand the factors that affect the …
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Performing Culture, Performing Me: Exploring Textual Power through Rehearsal and Performance
This thesis project explores Chicana feminist Gloria Anzaldúa's notion of a new mestiza consciousness, in which the marginalized ethnic American woman transcends her Otherness, breaks down the borders between her different identities, and creates a Thirdspace. Through the rehearsal and performance …
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Place, Disease and Mortality: Trimble County, Kentucky 1849-1894
<p>This researcher describes the characteristics of place...physical, cultural and human...of a small Kentucky county and looks at the incidence of disease and dying that occurred in that place in the last half of the nineteenth century. The impact of death on particular subsets of the general …
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Claybrook v. Owensboro: Equality, Integration, and Struggle
… from John Marshall Harlan, Justice of the United States Supreme Court and lone dissenter in Plessy v. Ferguson to Judge John Watson Barr, Justice of the United States Sixth Circuit in Paducah, also provide evidence of similar attitudes of both justices concerning race and equality. This …
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And They Entered as Ladies: When Race, Class and Black Femininity Clashed at Central High School
<p>“And They Entered as Ladies: When Race, Class and Black Femininity Clashed at Central High School,” explores the intersectionality of race, gender and class status as middle-class black women led the integration movement and were the focal point of white backlash during the 1957 Little Rock …
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At the Crossroads of Civil War
… to proclaim the crusade to end slavery in the United States.</p> <p>Though far from the decisive victory Lincoln sought, Antietam represented a critical turning point in the war as it eliminated any prospect of European intervention. Factoring in the Union’s multitude of advantages in manpower, …
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Striking Resemblance: Kentucky, Tennessee, Black Codes and Readjustment, 1865-1866
… examined the Black Codes' effect on specific states; however, no specific study has been done on the Black Codes of Kentucky and Tennessee nor has any study been made of these laws' relation to the antebellum Slave Code. This project therefore will represent an attempt to show that the Black …
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Wonders in the Deep: Faith and Religious Practice in the Shipboard Writings of American Sailors, 1810-1859
<p>While stereotypes of sailors as immoral, godless ne’er-do-wells flourish in mainland historical accounts, little attention has been paid to the records left by sailors that document their own faith and religious practices. This thesis examines the logbooks, journals, and diaries written by …
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Bricolage Propriety: The Queer Practice of Black Uplift, 1890–1905
… imaginary in a relatively small nodal point: the United States at the end of the nineteenth century. Through literary analysis and archival research on leading and marginal figures of Post-Reconstruction African American culture, this dissertation considers the progenitorial relationship of …