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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 ...
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 ...
Measuring maternal worth : racial science in Mexican obstetrics, 1869-1936
(2012-05)
This thesis explores the connections between scientific politics and maternal healthcare in Mexico between 1869 and 1936. In sum, I propose that scientific and elite debate about female biology was related to broader ...
Between practice and the classroom : the making of masculinity and race in the mis-education of Black male student-athletes on a college campus
(2012-05)
This project argues that American college sports involving Black male athletes (primarily football and men’s basketball) at Gulf Coast State University (GCSU) actively construct and impact local knowledge about Black ...
Sex, drugs and Barbie : gender verification, drug testing, and the commodification of the black female athlete
(2012-08)
Representations of black female sporting bodies, when taken as what Susan Bordo (1997) refers to as “texts of culture,” operate as sites for an interrogation of the production and maintenance of ideologies of race, gender, ...
"Listen to what your jotería is saying” : pain, social harm, and queer Latin@s
(2015-05)
In this dissertation, I investigate how transgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (TLGBQ) Latin@s have experienced social harm during the late 20th and early 21st centuries, what is the socio-historical context for ...
Race, gender, and a primary diagnosis of depressive/mood disorders : outcomes from the National Rehabilitation Services administration data file
(2015-05)
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is the leading cause of disability in the United States for persons 15 through 44 years of age, affecting about 6.7 percent of the ...
"We kind of bro out with each other too." Gender, race and sexuality on and off the rugby pitch
(2013-05)
This study examines the experiences of women rugby players to understand how gender informs their participation in a sport described as masculine. Considering how race, gender, and sexuality constitute women’s identities ...
Academic and social influences of underrepresented adolescents' perceptions of opportunity and plans for the future
(2016-08)
Sociologists of education have long stressed the importance of students’ expectations for their subsequent success. Yet, an insufficient amount of previous work has considered how academic and social psychological factors ...
The pleasure is all ours : race and queerness in the Promised Land
(2012-05)
This paper calls for a queer art and politics that treats identity categories such as race, gender, sexual orientation, class and others as co-constitutional. With the writer's one-man show, Promised Land: A Radical Queer ...