Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Latin American Studies"
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(2018-03-13)Department: Latin American StudiesStarting in 1960, a 36-year Civil War ravaged Guatemala ultimately leaving 200,000 people dead and 45,000 people disappeared. The violence that drove Guatemalans from the country during the war eventually saw a boomerang ...
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(2018-04-11)Department: Latin American StudiesIn the antebellum American South, slaves and free blacks from across the Atlantic World went to court to petition for their freedom from illegal enslavement. US legal officials primarily cared whether or not slaves could ...
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(2012-04-23)Department: Latin American StudiesIn 1968, a military coup surprised Panama, placing political power in the hands of populist leader General Omar Torrijos Herrera. Recuperation of the Panama Canal remained a high priority to the government, and Torrijos ...
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(2016-03-28)Department: Latin American StudiesThis study seeks to understand the ways in which colonial settlements, located within the Municipality of Gurupá, in the Lower Amazon Basin in Brazil, played a key role in the formation of ribeirinho culture. The term ...
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(2014-04-11)Department: Latin American StudiesI investigated the stereotypes of Brazilians identified as black using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods–unobtrusive observation, 12 informal interviews, and a content analysis of 33 newspaper issues ...
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(2022-03-29)Department: Latin American StudiesConditional cash transfer (CCT) programs have been implemented in several countries around the world as a tool for building human capital. There is significant evidence to suggest that CCTs have helped get more children ...
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(2022-03-24)Department: Latin American StudiesArgentine and Brazilian contemporary cinema provide thorough documentation of the avenues through which neocolonialism rears its head in modern Latin America. In the following work, four films are given treatment to provide ...
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(2011-04-18)Department: Latin American StudiesThis thesis evaluates the impact of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program, Bolsa Família, on educational outcomes with special attention to student performance. In Brazil, CCTs in education first appeared ...
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(2023-03-22)Department: Latin American StudiesThe goal of this research and thesis is to recover and compare archaeological, historical and ethnographic evidence to better understand the impacts of economic exchange between more complex societies and less complex ...
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(2007-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesCultural factors affecting food preference and tarwi consumption in three departments of the Peruvian Andes were evaluated. This study suggests that tarwi consumption in Peru is location specific. Moreover, the contact ...
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(2019-03-25)Department: Latin American StudiesUsing various forms of ethnographic methods including interviews, site visits, and participant observation, I examine how Afro-Brazilian entrepreneurs resist anti-blackness through their products, labor, and a process I ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: Latin American StudiesIndigenous language speaking students from Latin America are hidden within the larger Spanish speaking, Latinx student population and are Latinized as demonstrated through this study within a school district in the ...
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(2014-06-24)Department: Latin American StudiesA general disregard for literary works of eighteenth-century Latin America continues to characterize scholars’ attitudes towards the era. The prevailing past and current scholarly approaches to these works have portrayed ...
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(2021-03-31)Department: Latin American StudiesIn 2016, former Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos struck a peace deal with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia – Ejército del Pueblo (FARC-EP) which brought an end to the guerrilla group’s prolonged ...
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(2006-08-01)Department: Latin American StudiesSince 1871, approximately 150,000 Syrians and Lebanese have immigrated to Brazil, struggling to preserve their Arabic culture and identity even as they have assimilated to Brazilian society. Previous scholars have ...
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From Guatemaltecas to Guerrilleras: Women’s Participation in the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (2017-04-03)Department: Latin American StudiesOn January 19, 1972, the first cadre of the Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (EGP) – a political-military organization that used guerrilla warfare to combat violent state repression during Guatemala’s civil war – entered ...
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(2011-04-12)Department: Latin American StudiesThis thesis examines the impact of the recent recognition of indigenous autonomy in Bolivia on democracy in that country. Over the past several decades, the Bolivian central government has attempted to improve the quality ...
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(2022-03-27)Department: Latin American StudiesHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the largest public and global health problems. In 2015 the World Health Organization (WHO) put forth the Treat All recommendation for HIV, which officially states that countries ...
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(2014-04-02)Department: Latin American StudiesThis paper creates a contextualized narrative of the history of Amazonian development projects. This project will examine understandings and representations of nature and the Amazon, and how these representations, and their ...
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(2010-04-20)Department: Latin American StudiesThis thesis reinterprets the writings of the Brazilian Catholic intellectual Alceu Amoroso Lima, in particular, his work in the 1930s. A leading Catholic intellectual and one of the most important laymen in the country, ...