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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"U.S. Imperialism"”.
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Empire Rules: Cultures of U.S. Imperialism in Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
… Empire, an amalgamation of settler colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism, which works through ahistorical and transhistorical cultural narratives. In turn, contemporary multi-ethnic writers uncover our obscured colonial and imperial histories and legacies that racialize, criminalize, and …
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The face of empire: the cultural production of U.S. imperialism in the Panama Canal Zone and California, 1904–1916
… (1904–1914) presented a template for expansive imperialism in Latin America in the twentieth century. After the highly publicized atrocities of the Philippine–American War (1899–1902) and the popular anti-imperialist movement at the turn of the century, imperial boosters required a new strategy. …
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Non-Native Grounds: Jewish Writers In American Empire
… in both America’s new, turn-of-the-century imperialism and its long and ongoing history of settler colonialism. This imperial concern has been overlooked because the rubric of the incoming migrant writer is hard to square with the expanding geography of imperialism. The dissertation argues …
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"An Army of Working Men:" Military Labor and the Construction of American Empire, 1865 to 1915
… labor force essential to the advance of U.S. imperialism. The project draws on government reports, military records, court-martial testimonies, memoirs, letters, and newspapers. It examines the U.S.’s military labor regime in pre-statehood California, the Reconstruction South, the …
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The Fulbright Program in Algeria (2008-2016): Higher Education, Soft Power, and Transnational Intellectual Subjects
… and the subaltern in relation France. While U.S. imperialism has been historically overshadowed by France’s hegemony in Algeria, U.S. soft power within HE has recently expanded significantly in the country due to the increasing role of the U.S. embassy in Algeria targeting young individuals who …
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At the Crossroads: African American and Caribbean Writers in the Interwar Period
… change, less acknowledged is the role of U.S. imperialism in constituting this newness. Caribbean experience is profoundly influenced by these events, and as African Americans sought fuller citizenship they could not ignore the workings of U.S. imperialism just south of the South. Far from …
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The Making of an American Imperialist: Major Edward Austin Burke, Reconstruction New Orleans and the Road to Central America
… New South that followed, and the period of U.S. imperialism in Central America in the late nineteenth century. The storied career of Major Edward Austin Burke—a Kentucky-born Louisiana Democrat who went on to become a proponent of expansionism and imperialism in Honduras—illuminates the …
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Mining bodies: U.S. medical experimentation in Guatemala during the twentieth century
… from systemic factors that included U.S. imperialism in the Central American and Caribbean region, a culture of medicine in the United States and Guatemala, health professionals’ paternalism, and racism. As this dissertation explores the historical factors that enabled doctors to construe …
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Towards Decolonial Climate Justice: An Analysis of Green New Deal and Indigenous Perspectives
… Because of the large role U.S. militarism and imperialism play in contributing to the climate crisis, decolonization must be central to climate justice projects. Marx's concept of the metabolic rift and the phenomenon of humans' separation from nature through colonial acts of dispossession and …
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Custodian of the Specie: White Women, Capital, and Slavery in the Hemispheric South
… white women into a historical account of U.S. imperialism by analyzing the literary works of a number of American women who traveled to or simply fantasized about Cuba during this period of intense and widespread interest in the island. It identifies white women not just as providing the …
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From Bushwick to Portland: Bori Girls of the Diaspora Revolutionizing the Puerto Rican Coming-of-Age Narrative
… imagery and fought against patriarchy, U.S. imperialism, and white supremacy through their writing. Writers like Esmeralda Santiago and Nicholasa Mohr have transformed the literary canon via the bildungsroman, highlighting the unique struggles of Boricua girlhood and proving that our stories …
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Trauma Of Empire: Violence, Minor Affect, And The Cold War Transpacific
… sites that the progressive temporality of U.S. imperialism has occluded. The writers I explore, including Jessica Hagedorn, Jane Jeong Trenka, Aimee Phan, and Ruth Ozeki, engage multiple historical scenes of the Cold War across the Pacific, from the metropolitanization of Manila and the refugees …
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Negotiating Race, Navigating School: Situating Hmong American University Student Experiences
… within the context of colonialism and U.S. imperialism in Laos. The study concludes that Hmong American students experience racial hostility within educational institutions in subtle and overt ways. Nevertheless, the study participants remained educationally persistent, due in part to: their …
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The Other at War: Performing the Spanish-Cuban-American War on U.S. and Cuban Stages
… of a staged American otherness questioned U.S. imperialism amidst the invasion. This project establishes a dialogue between the representation of Caribbean Otherness on New York stages and American Otherness in plays produced in La Habana to examine how national stages commented on the encounter …
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Of Roads and Revolutions: Peasants, Property, and the Politics of Development in La LIbertad, Chontales (1895-1995)
… nation-state and class formation, and U.S. imperialism. The formation and expansion of private property in land and the contested placement of municipal borders forms the primary locus for this analysis of changing agrarian relations. Over the course of the century explored in this …
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Archipelagoes of Aftermaths: Survivance, Imperialism, and Climate Change in New Orleans, Puerto Rico, and Hawai´i
… resist. Archipelagos of Aftermaths: Survivance, Imperialism, and Climate Change in New Orleans, Puerto Rico, and Hawai´i investigates climate change vulnerability and adaptation praxis in Afro-Indigenous, coastal and island communities navigating the intersecting dangers of U.S. imperialism and …
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The Contemporary Body Of Mexican Masculinities
… that through their efforts to overcome U.S. imperialism northern males in these texts are revealed as dominated subjects for whom national masculinity is a failing model for resistance. My second chapter analyzes how Carlos Reygadas's film Batalla en el cielo (2005) illustrates the …
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Sporting correspondents: African American baseball players in the Americas, 1910 – 1950
… and inequality as byproducts of U.S. imperialism. Sports figures did not grapple with the historical legacies of Spanish colonialism and slavery in Latin America. They also brought a touristic gaze that drew markers of difference and distinction between them and the people they …
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Reading foreign policy archives: how regime-made disasters, pointillism, and citizen-perpetrators underpin U.S. Empire-building
<p>This political project analyzes documents within the foreign policy archives of the Bush Jr., Obama, and Trump administrations to tell a story of how U.S. imperial relations are constructed to reproduce differential rule, exploitation, and the distribution of subject positions. Through a …
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'Not by might, nor by power, but by spirit': the global reform efforts of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, 1895-1939
… as a case study to explore U.S. cultural imperialism in India, Argentina, the Philippines, and Nigeria. USYWCA Secretaries aspired to create an apolitical and non-governmental space, which I have labeled “Y-space.” According to its proponents, Y-space would not only be located in physical …
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