| dc.contributor.advisor |
Roberts-Miller, Patricia, 1959- |
| dc.creator |
Coulson, Douglas Marshall
|
| dc.date.accessioned |
2009-09-03T21:03:32Z |
| dc.date.available |
2009-09-03T21:03:32Z |
| dc.date.created |
2009-05 |
| dc.date.issued |
2009-09-03T21:03:32Z |
| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-05-142 |
| dc.description.abstract |
This report examines the rhetorical strategies employed in several judicial cases during the 1920s in which the U.S. government contested the racial eligibility of Hindus for naturalization under a law providing that only “white persons” were eligible for naturalization. Through a close examination of the arguments and evidence in the cases, the report argues that the decisions in the cases were inextricably linked to the the conflict between the British and a rising Hindu nationalism movement in the struggle for Indian independence during the period surrounding World War I, and thereby highlight the significance of a wide variety of group identities to racial identification as the courts in the cases negotiated the boundaries of America’s global identity through the lens of race. |
| dc.format.mimetype |
application/pdf |
| dc.language.iso |
eng |
| dc.subject |
Rhetoric
|
| dc.subject |
Race
|
| dc.subject |
Whiteness
|
| dc.subject |
Identity
|
| dc.subject |
Naturalization
|
| dc.subject |
Law
|
| dc.subject |
Prerequisite Cases
|
| dc.subject |
India
|
| dc.subject |
Hindu
|
| dc.title |
“The white man’s burden” : rhetorical constructions of race and identity in U.S. naturalization cases from India, 1914-1926 |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember |
Murphy, Gretchen, 1971- |
| dc.description.department |
English
|
| dc.type.genre |
Thesis |
| dc.type.material |
text |
| thesis.degree.department |
English
|
| thesis.degree.discipline |
English |
| thesis.degree.grantor |
The University of Texas at Austin |
| thesis.degree.level |
Masters |
| thesis.degree.name |
Master of Arts |
