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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"nativism"”.
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In Pursuit of Nativism: Is it in Arizona?
… to determine whether there is a resurgence of nativism in modern day Arizona. At the center of this study is Arizona Senate Bill 1070. Its anti-immigration laws, when coupled with involvement by privatized prison corporations in its formation, most notably the Corrections Corporation of …
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David Gilmour Blythe's Street Urchins and American Nativism
David Gilmour Blythe's street urchin paintings created during the 1850s are disturbing and often grotesque. The image of childhood that he created was quite different from that of his American contemporaries who adapted the romantic notion of the child from eighteenth-century English painters. …
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Migration, nativism, and party system change in Western Europe
This project explains the growth of the West European Radical Right in the late-1980s and early-1990s, using that explanation to model the growth of small, programmatically-focused ("niche") parties in previously stable party systems. I find that a key mechanism of niche party growth is the …
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Our Duty, Our Rights, Our America: Women in American Nativism 1830 - 1930
<p>This paper assesses the role women played in organizing and maintaining anti-Catholic nativist movements between 1830–1930. It analyzes women's motivations for joining nativist sororities and describes the activities they participated in. It pays special attention to women involved in antebellum …
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Nativism as an Influencing Force on Immigration Policy in North America from the 1850s to the 1930s
The aim of the paper is to support the claim that nativism and xenophobia were present in the United States of America, Canada, and Mexico alike in the period between the 1850s and the 1930s. Observing immigration waves and their reception in the aforementioned countries proves that certain …
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The U.S. Government's Investigation of E.B. Stahlman as an Enemy Alien: A Case Study of Nativism in Nashville
As a railroad executive for the Louisville and Nashville and then publisher for the Nashville Banner, Edward Bushrod Stahlman, a German immigrant, made many enemies. Stahlman's constant feuding with Luke Lea, who owned the rival Nashville Tennessean, led to an investigation of his citizenship …
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"America Beckons, Americans Repel": Nativism, Racial Stereotypes, and the Naturalistic Impulse in Frank Norris's McTeague
… stereotypes. I begin by defining the term "nativism," and go on to clarify Norris's relationship to the nativist movement in America. I also suggest that Norris relies on racial stereotyping not only as a strategy for ordering the complex milieu of turn-of-the-century San Francisco, but as a …
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The Early Development of Social and Economic Nativism in San Francisco and the Mining Regions of California 1848-1856
<p>This essay treats of the social and economic aspects of the nativist movement which developed in central California concurrently with the discovery of gold in 1848. Much of the early anti-foreign activity centered around San Francisco, the depot of the mines, whose polyglot population roused …
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No Foreign Despots on Southern Soil: The American Party in Alabama and South Carolina, 1850-1857
… southerners culturally and politically around nativism, an anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic ideology. This thesis studies nativism in the Deep South and challenges existing scholarship by Tyler Anbinder and William Darrell Overdyke. Anbinder claims that southern Know Nothings held little in …
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Populist thought in North and South Dakota, 1890-1900
… thought existed; yet, with the exception of nativism, these instances indicate no broad based sentiment. The North Dakota Populists, however, did protest the United States involvement in the Philippines.</p> <p>In contrast, South Dakota Populism represents a progressive movement centering on …
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Soldaten Des Westens: An Analysis of the Wartime Experiences of Three German-American Regiments from the St. Louis-Bellville Region
… mustered into service, they experienced less nativism within the Union Army of the Tennessee than Germans in the Union Army of the Potomac. In contrast to the predominantly German 43<sup>rd</sup> Illinois and 12<sup>th</sup> Missouri, the 30<sup>th</sup> Illinois was considered a native-born …
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The path to prominence: Nationalism and the Library of Congress, 1835-1897
… in the United States. Manifest destiny, mission, nativism, and cultural nationalism provided the impetus to build an institution that preserved, symbolized, and spread national thought and ideals. Five major congressional acts made the Library of Congress the national library. The expansion of the …
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K. Sello Duiker's realism: form, critique, and floating kingdoms
… that I am codifying as 'alter-native'. The alter-nativism is expressed not only by the 'interplay' of the 'lumpen' protagonists of the novels but by Duiker himself in the extra-generic marginalia to his short literary career. In order to give 'value' to the contention of this thesis as a whole I …
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Paddy and the Public: Irish Immigrants, New York City, and Mass Culture, 1830-1860
… Irish immigrants. Taking the study of antebellum nativism in a new direction, this thesis demonstrates that mass culture served as a primary vehicle for the creation and distribution of anti-Irish attitudes, fueled by actual events and circumstances, but also popular opinions and visual imagery.
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"Suffering in the shadows: ""undocumented"" Latin American immigrants, inequality, embodiment and health"
… deportation, gender based violence, racialized nativism, discrimination and othering, fragmentation of social ties, and internalized suffering), which results in differential exposure and susceptibility to poor health outcomes; (2) how “undocumented” Latino/a migrants respond to and contend with …
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The Utilization Of Local History In Teaching American Religious History: A Gilded Age And Progressive Era North Dakota Case Study
… such efforts and ideas as evangelism, reform, nativism, and the Great War as the pathway to a truly Christianized America. As a Doctor of Arts project, this research was integrated into a course on Religion in American Politics and Culture. The results of this case study in terms of student …
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“No Other Agency”: Public Education (K-12) in Washington State during World War I and the Red Scare, 1917-1920
… express and gain support for their long-standing nativism and anti-radicalism.
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AM I RADICAL, RIGHT? THE RADICAL RIGHT FAMILY IDEOLOGICAL OUTLOOK AND RADICAL RIGHT ATTITUDE AMONG THE PUBLIC
… right family and set it apart from others: nativism and authoritarianism. These core features are complemented by other ancillary elements, on which the debate is more open. The most discussed example is represented by the evolution of RRPs’ positions on economic issues. On this concern, …
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THE TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES AND STRUGGLES OF AFRO-CARIBBEAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN TEACHERS IN NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICTS
… to a system of racism, white dominance and nativism masked as patriotic values. Key findings include a deep analysis of agency which is a theme throughout the dissertation, neoliberal practices employed in the U.S. by corporations or state agencies to import women of color labor to the U.S., …
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