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Item “There’s nothing wrong with doing something good” : a phenomenological study of early elementary black males’ understanding of heroes, role models and citizenship(2017-05) Johnson, Marcus Wayne; Brown, Keffrelyn D.; Brown, Anthony L. (Associate professor); Salinas, Cynthia; Urrieta, Luis; Green, TerranceThe educational and social condition of many students, in particular that of African American males, continues to be a concern and draws the attention of scholars, teachers, administrators, and parents attempting to understand current challenges and opportunities. Various approaches strive to improve present-day circumstances. In efforts to seemly redress problematic conditions, the concept of role modeling is acknowledged as one of the foremost solutions to addressing the needs of young Black males. As an introduction to role models, the participants’ perceptions of heroes were taken into account. Additionally, as a way to extend the discourse on role models, the notion of citizenship was examined. Interestingly, although young Black males remain a focus of role model and mentoring approaches, their voices and perspectives are rarely included, as they are talked to and talked about, but rarely asked to contribute to this dialogue. Combining a critical childhood studies approach and a phenomenological lens to explore the lived experiences of young Black boys towards prioritizing their understanding of heroes, role models and citizenship, this study sought to gain insight from those most impacted by educational and social policy – young children. The implications of this research study emerge for the areas of early elementary education, social studies, citizenship, and meaning-making in the new digital age.Item Uncontainable Zapata : iconicity, religiosity, and visual diaspora(2015-12) Vargas Santiago, Luis Adrián; Flaherty, George F., 1978-; Giunta, Andrea; Chambers, Edward (Eddie); Cordova, Cary; Gonzalez Mello, Renato; Guernsey, Julia; Tejada, RobertoThis dissertation examines the iterations and scatterings of the icon of Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata in Mexico and the U.S. during the twentieth century. In theorizing Zapata as an uncontainable icon, this project interrogates its irrepressible nature, shifting from one realm of signification to another as part of an incessant diaspora of images between Mexico and the U.S. Looking at the intertwining of image-making and religious structures surrounding the invention and reinvention of narratives around modern Mexico, this project unfolds the diverse and often contradictory mutations of Zapata’s icon, and its distinct ability to embody diverging political, gender, racial, and ethnic agendas across borders and time. Performing close readings of select visual and filmic works, each chapter focuses on the dominant ideologies, the local, national and geopolitical values, and the myriad affects permeating the social activations and uses of Zapata’s icon. Chapter One considers the tensions between visualizations of historical Zapata that he promoted himself during the 1910s through photographic means and the contemporaneous negative representations in cartoons and newspapers that rendered him as a barbarian Indian, a rapist and disrespected revolutionary charro. Chapter Two analyzes how post-revolutionary intellectual elites, particularly muralist Diego Rivera, gradually converted the late Zapata into the consummate hero of a nationalist and socialist program that, drawing heavily on Catholic forms, served to reconcile the country’s diverse ethnic and political factions, while encompassing its various cultural backgrounds through the homogeneous idea of mestizaje. Chapter Three concerns the scattering of his icon on U.S. soil: first in Anglo-American contexts, where he served to reinforce forms of American exceptionalism during the Great Depression and Cold War America, and then within the Chicana/o movement where his icon served Indo-Hispanos in New Mexico and Mexican-Americans in California to embody and promote complex ideas of race, belonging, citizenship, and nationalism. Finally, the dissertation considers the case of modern Zapatistas in Chiapas, as a call to challenge the internal limits, as well as the external borders, of our discipline so as to engage a transnational art history of the Americas.