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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"U.S. Citizenship"”.
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Challenging Notions of U.S. Citizenship: The Contributions of Mexican Americans
… a nation of immigrants, in which the idea of “citizenship” has had very strong intrinsic values, and has divided those who “have it” from those who “don’t,” since the first legal construction of such categories in 1790. Longstanding contradictions, characterized by ceremonies awarding …
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Merchant Seamen, Sailortowns, and the Shaping of U.S. Citizenship, 1843-1945
… specifically over the nature and definition of citizenship. This argument is developed through examination of a series of encounters and negotiations that merchant seamen provoked from the piers, back alleys, and boardinghouses of the nation’s “sailortowns” from the 1830s through World War II, …
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Exceptional queerness: defining the boundaries of normative U.S. citizenship, 1876-1936
“Exceptional Queerness” tracks the cultural, legal, and medical narratives produced around moments of “discovery” wherein the female body of an individual whom a community knew to be male was revealed. This study investigates nineteen such cases, and tracks the ways in which the stories changed as …
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Remediating empire: constituting, documenting and re-mediating U.S. citizenship in Puerto Rico (1898-1941)
… archeology of American representations of U.S. citizenship remediated as governmental technology through three forms of media for the U.S. colonial possessions acquired in 1898. More precisely, through critical discourse analysis this research looks at interplays of U.S. government produced …
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Producing Good Citizens: Literacy and Citizenship Training in Anxious Times
… of spaces where those hoping to acquire full citizenship may have encountered literacy, I investigate how citizenship and literacy have been mutually but often contradictorily implicated for often disenfranchised individuals. Literacy became a way to measure the potential productivity of …
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Inherently Undesirable: American Identity and the Role of Negative Eugenics in the Education of Visually Impaired and Blind Students in Ohio, 1870-1930
… of the full rights and benefits of U.S. citizenship during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. </p><p>The end of a desirable citizenry was achieved through the outright exclusion of students with disabilities, and later through segregated classrooms in the common schools following states’ …
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Denationalized citizenship theory: what is the role of citizenship theory in homeland security?
… the many international variables, such as dual citizenship, that affect any interaction with many naturalized U.S. citizens is often overlooked. This thesis presents a qualitative synthesis of the different types of citizenship theory to discover what aspects of this theoretical work are …
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Mental Health and Ideals of Citizenship: Patient Care at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., 1903--1962
… changes in both psychiatrists' vision of U.S. citizenship and the institutional culture at St. Elizabeths. Physicians took an increasingly liberal view of race relations under Winfred Overholser, who succeeded White as superintendent in 1937 and was prompted by national developments to …
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Towards citizenship : experiences of seeking asylum on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity in the United States
… United States? How can we conceive a sense of citizenship belonging among this population? For LGBT asylum seekers in the United States, the notion of gaining formal status as a refugee and ultimately U.S. citizenship is often a long, challenging process. An extended waiting time for asylum …
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Mental health and ideals of citizenship: Patient care at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., 1903-1962
… of mentally-distressed men and women for proper citizenship. This enterprise is visible on the wards, in the consulting rooms, and in the outpatient clinics of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., one of the most widely-respected institutions of the era. Through an intensive analysis of …
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Ethnic Intimacy: Race, Law, and Citizenship in Korean America
… navigate the diverse meanings of law, race, and citizenship in New York City. Particularly, I focus on the relationship between Korean legal professionals and their coethnic clients comprised of mostly small business owners or manual laborers. This particular coethnic relationship exemplifies …
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Operation Paperclip and the Use of National Security: <em>Si vis pacem, para bellum</em>
… Americans once the intention to give them U.S. citizenship was made public. Those who opposed this move argued that this was the equivalent of rewarding former enemies and could open the United States and its citizens to unnecessary risk.</p> <p>By looking at Operation Paperclip and the …
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STEM crisis or STEM surplus?
… also varies according to location and U.S. citizenship. Yes, there is a "STEM Crisis" and no, there is not a "STEM Crisis". It depends on where you look.
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Latino encounters: Mexicans, Tejanos, and Puerto Ricans in postwar Michigan, 1929-1971
… migrants melded distinct claims to U.S. citizenship through interethnic and international conflicts over access to intermediary power, expressions of popular culture, and the politics of foodways. As this dissertation explores the meaning of conflict and collaboration between these three …
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In transit: travel and mobility in Latina art and literature
… move freely is to enact rights governed by U.S. citizenship. Mobility is thus an embodied social, cultural, and political exercise that informs the production of an ideal national subject. Yet, access to and participation in mobile practices is deeply fraught around issues of difference. This …
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Troubling the Water: Dismantling the Ideology of Separate Spheres
… of masculinity and femininity and define U.S. citizenship through successful gender performances. Finally, in my last chapter, I consider the sea journals of Lucy Kendall, Margaret Fraser, and Hattie Atwood; analyzing these materials, I claim that women’s “private” maritime writings illustrate …
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Black feminist aesthetics and cosmopolitanism, 1920s-present: Narratives of postcolonial Bildungsroman
… to critically engage the notion of American citizenship, negatively impacted by Jim Crow segregation laws and institutional racism more generally. By employing an intersectional analysis of black women’s narratives, I provide insight into black women’s diverse, yet also similar, set of …
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Immigration, inequality, and the state : three essays on the employment of foreign nationals in the United States
… never previously available outside the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (U.S. CIS) and U.S. Department of Labor (U.S. DoL), I assess agents' work legalization decisions that annually affect hundreds of thousands of workers. In so doing, I distinguish between competing theoretical …
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Republicans, Citizens, and Wards: Indian Voting in New Mexico and Arizona, 1598—1912
… distinct ideas of voting, town governance, and citizenship. Wary of dealings with large cadres of traditional village elders, they sought to implement a streamlined system of Indian town government whereby an Indigenous electorate voted for a governor, lieutenant governor, and other town …
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States of discretion: Black migrating bodies and citizenship in the United States
… as they cross the borders, and that define citizenship through reproduction, my dissertation foregrounds immigration (a pathway to citizenship) through this category that is disentangled from familial ties and reproduction alongside how racial logics regulate these immigrants. That is, while …