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Item The Canon Revisited: An Ethnographic Study on the Teaching of American Literature to U.S.-Mexican Students at Macario García High School(2001) Rodríguez, Rodrigo JosephThe overall purpose of this study is to explore sociocultural phenomena that surround the program and teaching of American literature at Macario García High School. Guiding this project are the following specific research questions: 1. How can one describe the sociocultural community in MGHS: history, physical setting, economic, political and aesthetic contexts, relations, beliefs, etc.? 2. What are eleventh grade English teacher participants’ perceptions of their U.S.-Mexican students and the American literature curriculum? a. What factors influence their perceptions? b. How do participants perceive themselves as teachers of American literature? 3. How can the process of curriculum selection of American literature for the eleventh grade be described? a. Are there specific selection criteria? b. Do criteria differ from the ones mandated by the school district? 4. How do teacher participants perceive intermediality in the schooling process related to literary study? How do students perceive it? 5. What theoretical explanation emerges in the findings of this study?Item The Ethnography and Ethnology of Franz Boas(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1963-04) White, Leslie A.Item Faculty Development Program Speaker Series: Dr. Lina Chhun(Center for Asian American Studies, 2021-03-22) Center for Asian American StudiesItem Revisiting “Black Downtown”: Spatial and Storytelling Practices in Austin, Texas(2020-05) Mata, Ryan Andrew; Campbell, CraigHarrison David Eppright, a multi-generational black artist, creates and participates in an everyday performance of culture and visibility through his capacity as a tour guide for the city and an ambassador for Austin’s visitor services. Harrison has a unique subjective experience affected by intersecting identities and oppressions, including those along the lines of race and sexuality. I examine how he assigns meaning to places that are fading, getting bulldozed, or enduring. This thesis explores how Harrison utilizes storytelling and walking tours in the shifting landscape of East Austin in order to find pride in “home” while making visible the cultural makeup being threatened by current circumstances such as gentrification and displacement. These neighborhoods in Austin, which were once designed as a “negro district”, now face the problem of losing their identity to a host of new development that has led to the pricing-out and displacement of mostly black and brown working-class residents and businesses.Item A World Without Words: Reconceptualizing Aphasia Through the Agency of Rape Survivors in America(2019-05) Garrett, Marina; Smith, ChristenThis study examines the overwhelming silence survivors of rape feel in the United States. Using a feminist activist anthropological framework, I examine the ways rape culture in the United States has caused rape survivors to feel they do not matter, which causes them to lose their ability to speak. The culture of silence that thrives within police departments across the U.S. is the first space of silence rape survivors encounter. As they move forward from their assaults, family members also create spaces of silence. The United States has developed a culture of aphasia around the topic of rape. This cultural aphasia affects survivors and causes them to lose the ability to speak in many aspects of their lives. However, the most common diagnosis for the trauma of rape is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and PTSD has no lens to examine or heal survivors with aphasia. Through the interviews with three survivors that experienced aphasia after rape, and my own experience with this silence, this thesis explores rape, silence and trauma through the lens of the anthropology of violence and trauma with the hope that theorists will develop further studies to develop a more holistic healing approach for rape survivors.