Browsing by Subject "race"
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(2013-07-30)Department: ReligionThis dissertation engages the sermons of African American women with the purpose of learning more about their preaching content and style. I begin by exploring the social location of African American women, and how their ...
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(2014-07-23)Department: SociologyThis dissertation examines the extent to which charter schools redress longstanding racial inequalities in education. Charter schools have emerged amid competing public agendas which stem, in part, from the contradictions ...
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(2012-07-24)Department: EnglishIn this project, I use four Caribbean- and African-American female-authored texts—Paule Marshall’s Brown Girl, Brownstones (1959); Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994); Natasha Trethewey’s Native Guard (2006); ...
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(2019-05-13)Department: Political ScienceRace and politics have been intimately connected since the country’s founding. I argue that this link allows politics, through partisanship, to shape Whites’ beliefs about race and racial groups. Through four empirical ...
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(2016-12-09)Department: SpanishThe Whitening Project in Venezuela, ca. 1810-1950 Alana Alvarez Dissertation under the direction of Professor Ruth Hill Simon Bolívar’s (1783-1830) still-popular and demagogical notion of the Venezuelan ...
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(2014-04-26)Department: ReligionThis dissertation argues that in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England there was a rise of black ethnic rhetoric in religious preaching and texts. Appropriated from the language and culture of the Renaissance, ...
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(2013-07-30)Department: EnglishIn this essay, I wish to study Frances Burney’s theorization of history in her preface to The Wanderer, and her choice to frame Juliet’s representation through narrative deferrals and silences as the means through which ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: HistoryHISTORY VEJA AND BRAZILIAN RACE RELATIONS THE GAZETA DA TARDE AND THE CASE OF TIRA-COURO NICOLETTE M. WILHIDE Thesis under the direction of Dr. Marshall Eakin and Dr. Jane Landers The first paper examines ...
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(2012-12-17)Department: Community Research and ActionNeighborhoods across the United States are still segregated along racial lines. This dissertation contains three linked analyses that test the most prominent explanations for contemporary racial residential segregation. ...
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(2019-06-07)Department: ReligionThis dissertation develops a theological-political account of the criminalization of black and economically dispossessed peoples and sketches toward a political theology in pursuit of a world freed from it. It begins by ...
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(2020-03-18)Department: English“[O]ur eyes locked,” reflects Chester Himes’s black protagonist Bob Jones about his mutual gaze with the “peroxide blonde,” “then she deliberately put on a frightened, wide-eyed look . . . as if she was a naked virgin and ...