Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "Race"
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(2014-08-04)Department: HistoryThis paper employs the NAACP records, military records, oral histories, and newspapers to reconstruct the efforts of civil rights lawyer Thurgood Marshall and his NAACP colleagues to launch a full-scale investigation of ...
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(2021-07-09)Department: HistoryDuring the past three decades or so both national and international scholars have placed a great deal of attention on the history and lived experiences of peoples of African descent in Mexico. Researchers initially showed ...
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(2011-04-15)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that religious and cultural media are socially organized technologies of power that reproduce, maintain, circulate, and exchange historical myths on black womanhood, which black women and girls ...
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(2012-04-10)Department: ReligionI conducted ethnographic research on ritual, race, evangelical faith, and southern civil religion in the rural West Tennessee community of Bald Eagles. I asked: What can death rituals disclose about Southern evangelical ...
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(2011-05-05)Department: HistoryForging the Masculine and Modern Nation: Race, Identity, and the Public Sphere in Cuba and Mexico, 1890s - 1930s David C. LaFevor This dissertation explores the gendered, nationalist, and racial ideas around the introduction ...
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(2012-01-25)Department: SociologyIt has long been known that structural conditions impact crime and delinquency, including gang involvement. Youth living in neighborhoods characterized by concentrated disadvantage, including deep impoverishment, ...
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(2022-03-22)Department: SociologyThis dissertation introduces a re-conceptualization of differential racialization to capture how boundaries of group membership and community shift across various contexts, thereby producing racialized inequality within, ...
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(2019-07-18)Department: SpanishThis study analyzes the ever-fluid role of race within the characterization and representation of Peruvians, particularly those of African descent, in twentieth-century Peruvian novels. Employing the theoretical framework ...
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(2005-08-08)Department: EnglishIn His Trust and His Trust Fulfilled, his first two-reeler for Biograph, D.W. Griffith produces a romantic vision of a strong patriarchal system that is self-sustaining, transmitted and re-inscribed by its faithful members. ...
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(2018-11-16)Department: EnglishThis thesis examines 20th-century western hemispheric criticism of American imperialism as well as the hope for hemispheric cultural and racial multiculturation through education and cultural exchange. By analyzing the ...
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(2016-05-03)Department: Spanish and PortugueseThis dissertation illustrates how an understanding of Haiti in Dominican literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries beyond the negative, stereotypical literary conception linked to Dominican negrophobia and ...
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(2018-04-04)Department: SociologyAcross three interconnected studies, I use cross-sectional (Portraits of American Life Survey; 2012; N = 668) and longitudinal data (National Survey of Youth – Young Adults sample; 1994-2010; N=4,520) to analyze the ...
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(2012-07-24)Department: PhilosophyMy dissertation suggests a new approach to political and ethical questions surrounding immigration by providing an account of the ways that “illegal aliens” are constituted as subjects in the contemporary United States ...
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(2016-08-01)Department: EnglishDrawing on writings from the US, Cuba, Trinidad, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Liberia, my dissertation examines how ideas and experiences of racial categorization changed as Black individuals voluntarily crossed national ...
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(2023-07-11)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation argues that a sufficiently worked out concept of habit is crucial for understanding race, and specifically whiteness. It has become common for race theorists to think about white privilege as a matter of ...
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(2023-07-11)Department: PhilosophyThis dissertation argues that a sufficiently worked out concept of habit is crucial for understanding race, and specifically whiteness. It has become common for race theorists to think about white privilege as a matter of ...