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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"US South"”.
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The Little Magazine in the US South, 1921-1945
… examines literary magazines in the American South during the ‘Southern Renaissance’, a period of cultural flourishing in the region associated with authors such as William Faulkner. This period also saw the little magazine boom, where hundreds of cheaply printed magazines with small …
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Plantation America: the US South and the Caribbean in the literary culture of empire, 1898-1959
… system, far from an idiosyncrasy of the southern United States, was a transnational formation that spread across the US South, the Caribbean, and parts of Latin America, forming a cross-border cultural sphere often called “Plantation America.” How have US and Caribbean writers understood …
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The politics of race and mental illness in the Post-Emancipation US South : Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane in historical perspective
… the nature of racial power relations in the US South during Reconstruction. It asserts that not only did racism thrive, but that the white population also sought methods of re-subjugating the black population during this period. Using primary sources, I argue in chapter three that whites …
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The Economics of management effort in planted forests: an empirical analysis of fertilization and thinning prescriptions of Pinus taeda in the US South
… they should fertilize, thin and clearcut must be answered. We take advantage of an experiment established in 5 different states in the US South. Forest inventory data was collected for different combinations of thinning densities where some of them received fertilization. We use the Land …
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Life History and Management Methods for Blueline Tilefish (Caulolatilus microps) from the United States Mid-Atlantic Region
<p>Blueline tilefish (<em>Caulolatilus microps</em>) have recently undergone an increase in landings from waters off the US Mid-Atlantic region (Virginia-Massachusetts). Currently, life history characteristics of blueline tilefish in this area are undescribed. Additionally, appropriate indices of …
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Land use and development over the long run
… comprises three essays on the role of land use in economic development over the long run. As is natural for many theses, "development" here is defined in a range of ways. The first essay considers the long-run effects of historical land concentration on agricultural investment and …
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Speaking in Wild Tongues: The Borderlands of Eudora Welty and Alice Walker
… tongue and the dentist. Beginning with a discussion of Anzaldúa’s concept of the wild tongue, this project asks how writers across the US South depict unruly tongues and infelicitous speech. Methodologically, this thesis inverts the comreading model in literary studies of reading Third World …
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Redignifying LaVilla: Visualizing and Recentering Black Epistemologies in the Revitalization of LaVilla, Jacksonville, Florida
… a pivotal moment for Black Landscapes in the US South in which the City of Jacksonville is looking to use public space to acknowledge and preserve local Black history. As the downtown area transforms, there is a need for grounding revitalization in a reparative process that is informed by …
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Maximizing Impact: A Grounded Theory Study of Primary Nursing Relationships in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
… nurse and the family which can be complex because of involvement of the parents in the NICU environment. The few extant studies of PCN relationships in the NICU are either dated or conducted in regions outside the United States. Classical Grounded Theory (CGT) was used to study relationships …
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From Walter Scott to Cormac McCarthy : Scottish Romanticism and the novel from the American South
This thesis argues for the previously underemphasized influence of Scottish Romantic-era writing on the novel from the US South, demonstrating the formative impact of writers such as Walter Scott and James Hogg on the development of Southern writing, but also the ways in which Southern writers …
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Explaining Foreign Policy Change on the Korean Peninsula
… by both cooperation and conflict between various states. Two major issues affect these international relationships, (1) the North Korean nuclear crisis, (2) the power competition between the US and China. There are four major actors in these relations, South Korea, North Korea, the US and …
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Slavery and Sickness in the Lower Mississippi Valley, 1803-1860
… of the slave plantation system of the antebellum US South between 1803 and 1860. Specifically I explore the Lower Mississippi Valley area of the region, sometimes referred to as the ‘Cotton Kingdom.’ At the project’s heart is the question of how the region’s disease ecology, and the measures …
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Student Radicalism in Tennessee, 1954-1970
… activism, and one of the few examinations of southern student activism, it broadens the understanding of New Left student radicalism from its traditionally defined hotbeds in the Northeast and the West Coast. It also argues for a consideration of student radicalism that incorporates white and …
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The Household Survival Strategies of Manufacturing Workers Displaced in Henry County and the New River Valley, 1990-2010
In this dissertation, I use interview data to answer three questions concerning the deindustrialization of southwest and southside Virginia. First, how have Radford City, Montgomery County, Pulaski County, the City of Martinsville and Henry County been affected by plant closures and mass layoffs at …
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Health risk perception of Karoo residents related to fracking, South Africa
… Hydraulic Fracturing (fracking) has been on the South African (SA) energy agenda since 2010 as a potential alternative energy source to coalmining. Internationally, the desirability of fracking is debated due to increasing evidence of the environmental and health risks fracking poses. However, …
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Reconstructing Somerset Place: Slavery, Memory and Historical Consciousness
… the development of Americans' historical consciousness of slavery during their nation's long transition into freedom. It employs manuscript sources; oral histories and interviews; public documents, records and reports; and material artifacts in order to trace Somerset's gradual shift from a site …
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And They Entered as Ladies: When Race, Class and Black Femininity Clashed at Central High School
… 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 Central High School crisis. Six of the nine black students chosen to integrate Central High School were carefully …
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The virgin's daughters: Catholic traditions and the post-colonial south in contemporary women's writing
… texts of contemporary women writers who consciously engage dominant Catholic, American, and southern ideologies in their narratives and who posit Louisiana as a liminal, hybrid space. Building upon postcolonial concepts of hybridity and performance of cultural memory, I trace a “pathway” to …
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The Wind Goes On: 'Gone with the Wind' and the Imagined Geographies of the American South
… in 1939. The novel and film have amassed numerous accolades, inspired frequent reissues, and sustained mass popularity. This dissertation analyzes evidence of audience reception in order to assess the effects of Gone with the Wind's version of Lost Cause collective memory on the construction of …
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Constrained spaces of prenatal care: South Asian immigrant women in New York City
Abstract The aim of this research is to examine use of prenatal care by South Asian immigrant women in New York City, focusing not only on barriers to care but also women’s reliance on multi-scalar, place-based social networks and resources. Recently, public health analysts have raised concern …