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Scogan's choice : Vachel Lindsay's short fiction, poetry, and prose
(2010-05)
Virtually all commentators on the work of Vachel Lindsay have seen his poetry and prose as primarily artistic and for the most part indecipherable. I have tried to show that Lindsay intended to address social construction ...
Constructing Afro-Cuban womanhood : race, gender, and citizenship in Republican-era Cuba, 1902-1958
(2011-08)
This dissertation explores continuities and transformations in the construction of Afro-Cuban womanhood in Cuba between 1902 and 1958. A dynamic and evolving process, the construction of Afro-Cuban womanhood encompassed ...
Engaging African American male students in predominately white community colleges : the impact of teaching excellence
(2011-12)
Although community colleges offer opportunities for diverse students to achieve their educational goals, African American males continue to rank at the bottom of most academic success measures such as semester-to-semester ...
Narrating racial ideologies : an ethnography of relational organizing at a working class Latino elementary school in Texas
(2011-12)
The purpose of this research was to document how racial ideologies were expressed in relational organizing practices in a working class Latino Elementary school
in Texas. By identifying dominant and subjugated racial ...
Groundings in anti-racism : racist violence and the 'War-on-Terror' in East London
(2011-05)
The interlocked social struggles waged by overlapping and diverse Britons of color for racial and social equality and everyday survival is the dynamic corollary of the contradictions engendered by the ruling relations of ...
The struggle for authenticity : blues, race, and rhetoric
(2011-05)
The concept of authenticity has been central to the human capacity to communicate for over two millennia, and it continues to enjoy wide usage throughout popular culture today. “Authenticity” typically conveys a sense that ...
A disaster on top of a disaster : how gender, race, and class shaped the housing experiences of displaced Hurricane Katrina survivors
(2011-05)
In this dissertation project, I examine the experiences of displaced Hurricane Katrina survivors in the context of post-disaster housing policies and practices. This research is based on two years of in-depth interviews ...
"A certain zest to his own enjoyment" : homoerotic competition, race, and the rise of a Southern middle class in The marrow of tradition
(2010-05)
This essay contends that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's "between men" thesis (1985) provides a particularly apt methodology for engaging The marrow of tradition (1901), a post-bellum novel concerned with the structure of the New ...
A fragmented paradise : the politics of development and land use on the Caribbean coast of Honduras
(2012-08)
Based on two years of multi-sited ethnographic research, the dissertation investigates Garifuna struggles over racial and cultural identity and land rights against the backdrop of neoliberal tourism development on the ...
Creating inclusive institutions : race-based affirmative action policies in higher education in the United States and Brazil
(2012-05)
"Creating Inclusive Institutions: Race-based Affirmative Action Policies in Higher Education in the United States and Brazil" is a comparative analysis examining the impact of race-based policies on university enrollment ...