Table of contents
1. Chicanismo in selected poetry from the Chicano movement, 1969-1972: A rhetorical study
2. Teatro Chicano: The Los Angeles experience, 1979- 1980
3. Queer pasts now: Historical fiction in lesbian, bisexual, and gay film
4. Good fences: American sexual exceptionalism and minority religions
5. The making of the affective turn: U.S. imperialism and the privatization of dissent in the 1980s
6. City, Suburb, and the Changing Bounds of Lesbian and Gay Life and Politics in Metropolitan Detroit, 1945- 1985
7. "Gentiles by nature": Indian-Dutch relations in New Netherland/New York, 1524-1750
8. Queer Bodies and Queer Materials in Post-WWII American Texts
9. Remembering Anesthesia: Mesmerism and the Public Culture of Science in Nineteenth-century America
10. Lamenting Loss: Public and Private Grief in the Elegies of Poe, Dickinson, Alcott, and Crane
11. American Neon Signs: Illumination And Consumerism
12. Human liberation from below: Transnational origins of liberation theology, 1775-1975
13. Americans all! The role of advertising in re-imaging ethnicity in America: The case of the War Advertising Council, 1939-1945
14. "Go Harlem!" Chick Webb and his dancing audience during the Great Depression
15. From Steel to Slots: Landscapes of Economic Change in Postindustrial Bethlehem, PA
16. "For the voices": The letters of John Wieners
17. Echoes of the avant-garde in American minimalist opera
18. Archives of Transformation: A Case Study of the International Women's Network Against Militarism's Archival System
19. The presence and use of the Native American and African American oral trickster traditions in Zitkala-Sa's "Old Indian Legends" and "American Indian Stories" and Charles Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman"
20. A Chant of Dilation: Walt Whitman, Phrenology, and the Language of the Mind
21. From buddy film to bromance: Masculinity and male melodrama since 1969
22. The value of a pint: A cultural economy of American beer
23. Mind, media, and techniques of remediation in America, 1850-1910
24. Speculations: Art and Real Estate Development in Los Angeles, 1960-1986
25. Breaking the Iceberg: Ernest Hemingway, Black Modernism, and the Politics of Narrative Appropriation
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Document 1 of 25
Chicanismo in selected poetry from the Chicano movement, 1969-1972: A rhetorical study
Author: Sedano, Michael Victor http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1555372362?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: American literature; Hispanic American studies
Classification: 0591: American literature; 0737: Hispanic American studies
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences
Title: Chicanismo in selected poetry from the Chicano movement, 1969-1972: A rhetorical study
Number of pages: 173
Publication year: 1980
Degree date: 1980
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22348
ProQuest document ID: 1555372362
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Teatro Chicano: The Los Angeles experience, 1979- 1980
Author: Sauceda, Lora Kaye http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1556497662?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Theater; Theater History; Hispanic American studies
Classification: 0465: Theater; 0644: Theater History; 0737: Hispanic American studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, California
Title: Teatro Chicano: The Los Angeles experience, 1979-1980
Number of pages: 300
Publication year: 1982
Degree date: 1982
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Drama
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22938
ProQuest document ID: 1556497662
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Queer pasts now: Historical fiction in lesbian, bisexual, and gay film
Author: Du Plessis, Michael http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1555394540?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Comparative literature; GLBT Studies; Film studies
Classification: 0295: Comparative literature; 0492: GLBT Studies; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: Queer pasts now: Historical fiction in lesbian, bisexual, and gay film
Number of pages: 468
Publication year: 1993
Degree date: 1993
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22563
ProQuest document ID: 1555394540
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Good fences: American sexual exceptionalism and minority religions
Author: Prince Goodwin, Megan http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1548325803?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation is about the ways sexual difference complicates contemporary American religious pluralism, particularly since 1980. Suspicions of sexual deviance frequently haunt minority religions, regardless of their communities' mores or practices. To explore this issue, I engage a set of popular narratives that portray minority religions (Islam, Mormonism, and witchcraft) as predatory, coercing or duping vulnerable American women and children into religious nonconformity and sexual transgression. Federal agents, law enforcement officials, foreign policymakers, and others have used such narratives--and a desire to liberate their alleged victims--to justify restraining these "dangerous" forms of religious difference. Books like Under the Banner of Heaven, Not Without My Daughter, and Michelle Remembers, are part of a broad and persistent public discourse about the appropriate role and regulation of religious and sexual difference. My case studies indicate a persistent and troubling pattern of responses toward religious and sexual difference within the American public sphere. These narratives of contact with American religious minority communities provided significant material consequences and are symptomatic of a broader trend in American public discourse - one that simultaneously vaunts American religious tolerance and discourages religious and sexual difference. I present these stories and their public reception as contributions to an ongoing public negotiation of the kinds of beliefs and practices mainstream Americans will and will not tolerate. Media pundits, law enforcement officials, and Congress members have sanctioned interference into religious minority communities as efforts to liberate vulnerable American women and children. These polemics encourage attempts to rescue community members who are assumed to be too weak mentally or physically to resist presumably dangerous beliefs and practices. My case studies identify minority religious communities as especially given to gendered and sexual exploitation of American women and children. By locating the abuse of women and children in America's religious margins, these rhetorics of "liberation" encourage normative religious and sexual practices without violating a professed national commitment to religious freedom. Paradoxically, such liberatory rhetorics often work to constrain Americans' religious and sexual freedoms while doing little to prevent violence against women and children.
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Subject: Religion; American studies; Gender studies
Classification: 0318: Religion; 0323: American studies; 0733: Gender studies
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, America, Child abuse, Literature, Minority religions, Popular culture, Women
Title: Good fences: American sexual exceptionalism and minority religions
Number of pages: 282
Publication year: 2013
Degree date: 2013
School code: 0153
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303940460
Advisor: Styers, Randall
Committee member: Bivins, Jason, Maffly-Kipp, Laurie, McCloud, Sean, Hammer, Juliane
University/institution: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department: Religious Studies
University location: United States -- North Carolina
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622360
ProQuest document ID: 1548325803
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The making of the affective turn: U.S. imperialism and the privatization of dissent in the 1980s
Author: Stuelke, Patricia http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1547166148?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation traces the relationship between the cultural formations of 1980s U.S. imperialism and the ascendance of neoliberal capitalism. Analyzing government documents, popular and literary fiction, movement memoirs and photography, and popular music, the dissertation argues that neoliberal discourses, logics, and affects were articulated by state and university representations of U.S. imperialism, as well as by the feminist and solidarity movement cultures that attempted to oppose the United States' overt and covert interventions in the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean. The dissertation demonstrates how the university, the military, and the state reconfigured the materialist, anti-imperialist, and anti-racist imperatives of 1960s and 1970s movement cultural formations into fantasies of neoliberal recognition and tools for the production of neoliberal entrepreneurial subjectivities. But it also tracks how representations of U.S. imperialism provided resources for U.S. subjects to adjust affectively to new neoliberal dislocations and temporalities. Chapter 1 contends that sex radical memoirs by Kate Millet, Joan Nestle, Cherríe Moraga, and Samuel Delaney offered a vision of sexual solidarity politics that reinforced neoliberal arguments favoring economic privatization and apolitical citizenship. Chapters 2 and 3 show how these movement visions of desire and intimacy extended to the Caribbean and Central America, abetting U.S. imperialist violence and neoliberal economic transformations. I argue that Paule Marshall and Audre Lorde's cultural feminist attempts to reclaim a lost Caribbean heritage helped lay the affective groundwork for Grenada's neoliberalization, then examine how Central America solidarity movement culture, including fiction and photography by Barbara Kingsolver and Susan Meiselas, similarly naturalized neoliberal logics of privacy and intimacy. The second half of the dissertation turns to literary and popular culture, demonstrating how images and sounds of U.S. imperialism registered and soothed anxieties over new neoliberal economic conditions. Chapter 4 asserts that creative writing program fiction by Robert Olen Butler, Tobias Wolff, and Lorrie Moore mobilized the figure of the Vietnam veteran to offer readers a model for managing the volatility of post-Fordist capitalism. Chapter 5 contends that the pop/rock love-gone-wrong songs that scored the U.S. invasion of Panama offered a new genre of explanation for U.S. imperialism in the neoliberal age.
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Subject: American studies; American history
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Affect, Imperialism, Literature, Neoliberalism, Sexuality, Solidarity
Title: The making of the affective turn: U.S. imperialism and the privatization of dissent in the 1980s
Number of pages: 347
Publication year: 2013
Degree date: 2013
School code: 0017
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303948343
Advisor: Matthews, John T.
Committee member: Preston, Carrie J., Song, Min, Halter, Marilyn, Schulman, Bruce
University/institution: Boston University
Department: American and New England Studies GRS
University location: United States -- Massachusetts
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622820
ProQuest document ID: 1547166148
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City, Suburb, and the Changing Bounds of Lesbian and Gay Life and Politics in Metropolitan Detroit, 1945-1985
Author: Retzloff, Timothy Ford http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1542204520?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines the changing bounds of lesbian and gay life in metropolitan Detroit from 1945 to 1985 as exhibited in city and suburb and the politics of both. Within the city, threat of exposure and possible arrest affected the everyday lives of gay people, yet they found places to meet in a downtown cluster of white bars and in separate gay locations in black neighborhoods. Gays also met downtown in department stores, movie houses, and the Greyhound bus station, urban spaces that were interracial and were in the process of being economically and culturally supplanted. Meanwhile, the automobile served as a means of conveyance and a site for sex in itself. Gays became a moving target, though not always successful in evading police attention. Those traveling to gay sites in the city engaged in a queer sexual commute that reflected the divergent distances and patterns of gay sexual and social quest. Over time, economic conditions and ethnic and racial migrations favored placement of gay bars in new areas of the city. Gay ownership and a new availability of affordable real estate became engines of gay growth. At the same time, the baby boom and expressways, so germane to suburban development, similarly fueled an increase in the number and variety of bars and allowed for outward relocations that, by the 1980s, butted against the city's boundaries. All the while, gay and lesbian Detroiters created distinctive living space for themselves in feminist communes and apartments, a trend that culminated in a multi-faceted gay territory of bars, street cruising, and domesticity around the Palmer Park Apartment District. The dissertation reveals how gay and lesbian people were not only present in the suburbs, but were ingrained in the very families that so defined (and constricted) the suburban ideal. Lesbian and gay daughters and sons, friends and neighbors, even wives and husbands, lived in secrecy, masked by the presumptive heterosexuality of the suburban landscape and a premium on privacy. However straightjacketed, gay suburbanites navigated an environment in which they were vulnerable--especially those who transgressed gender norms--and found places in which to meet for socializing and sex. Some inner-ring and older industrial suburbs, with aging buildings and, relative to surrounding communities, larger African American populations, provided conditions in which suburban gay bars could operate. Private spaces, from adolescent bedrooms to fenced-in backyards, became sanctuaries of gay exploration and socializing. While some jurisdictions displayed outright hostility, and anti-gay communities became battlegrounds, other suburbs cultivated a cosmopolitan, live-and-let-live ethos that became attractive and welcoming to gay suburbanites. Finally, the dissertation shows how the social and cultural gay and lesbian life of city and suburb transformed emerging gay and lesbian political activism in metropolitan Detroit. Cautious homophile efforts of the 1950s and 1960s achieved mixed results. While Mattachine Detroit, situated in the city, managed to attract a mere dozen members, a similarly closeted Detroit chapter of ONE Incorporated, centered in the well-to-do suburb of Grosse Pointe, made important inroads among local liberal clergy. The urban-based Detroit Gay Liberation Front and its successor the Detroit Gay Activists embraced a new meaning of coming out, in turn creating the city's first gay newspaper, protesting police entrapment in city parks and at a suburban shopping mall, establishing the Green Carnation community center, and staging the city's first gay pride march. A wave of gay militancy culminated in Detroit with the passage of a new city charter that protected citizens from discrimination based on sexual orientation. As the imperative to come out reached gays who grew up or lived in the suburbs, the local movement became more moderate, mainstream, and effective within the parameters of traditional politics. Brian McNaught's hunger strike against the Detroit archdiocese energized a push for justice within the Catholic Church, while the Association of Suburban People endeavored to demonstrate gay political clout through lobbying and strategic visibility. The contrasting aims, activities, and character of Sappho Sisters Rising and Suburban Women Together highlight the generational and cultural differences between young, firebrand lesbians in the city and slightly older, settled middle-class lesbians in the suburbs. Three lasting institutions brought divergent factions together. The pioneering radio program Gayly Speaking showcased individuals and topics representing a broad range of gay and lesbian experiences and political views. The Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit reflected different facets of the community pushing for change. The Michigan Organization for Human Rights established a structure for statewide coalition and dialogue and played a key role in passing of an Omnibus Human Rights Ordinance for Detroit.
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Subject: American history; GLBT Studies
Classification: 0337: American history; 0492: GLBT Studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Suburb, Gay, Lesbian, Detroit
Title: City, Suburb, and the Changing Bounds of Lesbian and Gay Life and Politics in Metropolitan Detroit, 1945- 1985
Number of pages: 704
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321056549
Advisor: Chauncey, George
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580838
ProQuest document ID: 1542204520
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Document 7 of 25
"Gentiles by nature": Indian-Dutch relations in New Netherland/New York, 1524-1750
Author: Staggs, Stephen http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1548329323?accountid=14709
Abstract: This work evaluates the evolution of the cross-cultural encounters that took place between the Eastern Woodland Indians and the Europeans living in and around the Dutch colony of New Netherland during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It challenges a common view that the Dutch generally lacked curiosity about Indians, made no serious attempt to convert them, maintained a social distance from them, and were only interested in establishing commercial relationships with them. Using the extensive pamphlet and sermon literature and the records of the West India Company, Classis of Amsterdam, and patroonships available in the Netherlands as well as the records of the government of New Netherland available in the New York State Archives, the dissertation shows that Reformed leaders in the Dutch Republic viewed Indians as Gentiles worthy of evangelistic outreach. This characterization influenced the expectations of the Reformed clergy who were sent to convert the Indians living in and around New Netherland, and prefigured, to a certain extent, the relationships that developed between Indians and New Netherlanders. These sources also reveal that the Dutch were certainly curious about Indians. The main body of the dissertation is divided into six chapters. They survey the historiography of Indian-Dutch relations in New Netherland, highlighting scholarly work that has touched on the role and influence of the (Dutch) Reformed Church, examine the conceptualizations of Indians that the leaders of the Reformed Church presented in the Dutch Republic during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as well as the source of those images, the directions given to Reformed clergy sent overseas with regards to mission work and whether the clergy followed those directions, the impressions that Indians and colonists developed of one another, and the evolving nature of Indian-Dutch relations, and assess the efforts of the Reformed clergy in converting Indians. What emerges from the original sources are a series of complex, interdependent, and familiar relationships that developed between Indians and New Netherlanders during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Subject: American studies; European history; American history; European Studies
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0335: European history; 0337: American history; 0440: European Studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, New netherland, Native americans, Indian-dutch relations, Colonial new york, Protestantism, Reformed missions
Title: "Gentiles by nature": Indian-Dutch relations in New Netherland/New York, 1524-1750
Number of pages: 430
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0257
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303965227
Advisor: Brandao, Jose Antonio
University/institution: Western Michigan University
University location: United States -- Michigan
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3584782
ProQuest document ID: 1548329323
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Document 8 of 25
Queer Bodies and Queer Materials in Post-WWII American Texts
Author: Whalen, William http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1540841538?accountid=14709
Abstract: Although the primary subject of this dissertation is contemporary American literature and popular culture--individual chapters are devoted to careful studies of Octavia Butler's short story "Bloodchild," Cormack McCarthy's gothic novel Child of God, Chuck Palahniuk's epistolary novel Pygmy, and the track "It's Good" by hip-hop artist Lil Wayne featuring Drake and Jadakiss--I develop a reading of these contemporary texts that places them within much older and richer intellectual, spiritual, psychological, and even biological traditions. My primary focus is the human body, both literal and figurative, as the site of dynamic exchanges, movements, blockages, and productive potentialities. I argue that at times the contemporary novels in this dissertation treat the body as a figure for social formations, at other times they treat inanimate objects as figures for the human body, and at still other times they examine material bodies in a manner that is beyond the figurative. In all of these modes, their engagement with the human body must, I argue, be understood within a much broader intellectual tradition--one that stretches from antiquity to the present, one that includes mythical and spiritual traditions as well as scientific ones, one that reckons evolutionary biology with the metaphysical and the aesthetic, just to name a few. Methodologically I have found it necessary to bring together otherwise desperate discourses: Marxist humanism and science fiction; mythology, Freudian psychoanalysis, and scientific-medical accounts of neurology; Lacanian psychoanalysis, sacred texts, and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari; and media studies, evolutionary psychology, and queer theory. When addressing literature that simultaneously provides instructions for tapping into the body's productive potential, does cost-benefit analysis of bodily expenses and profits, narrativizes journeys into the body's coffers of possibility, and literature that takes the body as an aesthetic site of formal artistic expression as well as an always already processing and digesting zone of impressions and expressions that acts as a linchpin between one's exchanges within oneself and one's exchanges with the exterior environment, it is necessary to have an interdisciplinary approach that adds up to be more than the sum of their parts.
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Subject: Literature; American literature; Gender studies
Classification: 0401: Literature; 0591: American literature; 0733: Gender studies
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Bodies, Queer people, Cormack McCarthy, Chuck Palahniuk
Title: Queer Bodies and Queer Materials in Post-WWII American Texts
Number of pages: 144
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0668
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303913792
Advisor: Benjamin, Bret, Cohen, Tom
Committee member: Schwarzchild, Edward
University/institution: State University of New York at Albany
Department: English
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3620757
ProQuest document ID: 1540841538
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Document 9 of 25
Remembering Anesthesia: Mesmerism and the Public Culture of Science in Nineteenth-century America
Author: Shin, Paul J. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1542273950?accountid=14709
Abstract: The discovery of surgical anesthesia in the 1840s was arguably the most significant development in nineteenth-century Western medicine. It opened new operative horizons for surgeons and transformed patients's experience of pain. It was also contentious, followed by vitriolic arguments by several individuals over competing claims to being the original discoverer. Though historians and medical professionals have long taken an interest in examining these debates, they remain largely unresolved. While previous historical studies have enriched understanding of the early use of chemical anesthetics such as nitrous oxide or sulfuric ether in the nineteenth-century, they have obscured broader historical contexts in America that were integral to theorizing and implementing painless surgical techniques. As this dissertation argues, the 'discovery' of surgical anesthesia was deeply indebted to Mesmerism. Though relatively unknown today, Mesmerism was both widespread and popular in nineteenth-century America. It was written about in newspapers, medical periodicals, pamphlets, and books; could be found in theaters, opera houses, and proprietary museums; and was a subject of interest for religious and political reformers, artists, physicians, and workaday Americans. By the 1840s, it suffused almost every aspect of American culture. Once considered 'pseudo-science' or medical quackery by scholars, recent methodological and historiographical developments in the history of science have permitted new insight and appreciation of its historical significance. This dissertation assumes that rigorous historical examination of Mesmerism in the nineteenth- century United States yields valuable insight into the underlying cultural, social, and epistemological assumptions that determined what constituted scientific knowledge in the early Republic. Mesmerism exemplified nineteenth-century American understandings and assumptions about scientific knowledge. In an era before universities and laboratory research, citizens participated in what I term a 'public culture of science,' investigating matters of fact alongside trained naturalists and learned physicians. They avidly read about medical and scientific research in commercial newspapers and magazines; and frequented proprietary museums to take in curious, odd, and novel displays of scientific knowledge. It should come as no surprise that anesthesia was first demonstrated in such spaces. Insofar as museums and theaters tolerated and embraced risk, danger, and uncertainty--qualities fundamentally at odds with the professional values of nineteenth-century medical practitioners--they provided an ideal set of conditions necessary to test a novel, though unproven clinical intervention. More than any single individual, surgical anesthesia was the fruit of such a public culture of science. Nonetheless, this dissertation also draws attention to a relatively unknown figure, Robert Hanham Collyer, a British-American and his role in the early history of anesthesia. While health professionals and historians of anesthesia are likely familiar with the names William Morton, Horace Wells, and Crawford Long, he remains a relatively obscure actor in studies of the early history of anesthesia. Collyer was a well- trained physician. He began his medical studies in London, travelled to Paris for clinical experience, and took a degree from the Berkshire Medical College in rural Massachusetts. At the same time, he pursued a successful if not notorious career as a public showman of science. On stage, he exhibited mesmeric phenomena in breathtaking and sensational fashion, extracting teeth or electrocuting mesmerized subjects to prove that it was no hoax. Though clearly entertainment, his exhibitions dramatized recent developments in neuroanatomical and neurophysiological research that challenged traditional medical understandings of the human body. This dissertation provides the first in-depth examination of his exhibition career and published works. They also publicized and powerfully demonstrated that pain could be abolished during surgical operations. Despite the close historical association of Mesmerism and anesthesia, Americans would come to remember the latter in largely chemical terms. I argue that such selective remembrance of anesthetic discovery performed important cultural work in the late- nineteenth and early-twentieth-century United States. Through an examination of two public monuments--the Ether Monument (1868) in Boston Public Garden and the Crawford Long Memorial (1910) in Jefferson, Georgia-- this dissertation reveals how anesthetic memory was haunted by the Civil War; and fashioned to legitimate new institutionalized forms of authority and knowledge that would undermine America's nineteenth-century public culture of science.
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Subject: American studies; American history; Science history
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0337: American history; 0585: Science history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Mesmerism, History nineteenth century, Anesthesia, Medicine, Scientific knowledge, Public culture
Title: Remembering Anesthesia: Mesmerism and the Public Culture of Science in Nineteenth-century America
Number of pages: 294
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321058543
Advisor: Brown, Theodore, Nemerov, Alexander, Rogers, Naomi, Warner, John Harley
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580860
ProQuest document ID: 1542273950
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Document 10 of 25
Lamenting Loss: Public and Private Grief in the Elegies of Poe, Dickinson, Alcott, and Crane
Author: Smith, Joy http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545616068?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the elegies of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Emily Dickinson (1830- 1886), Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), and Stephen Crane (1871-1900) by situating them within the literary elegiac tradition and the nineteenth-century "Cult of Mourning." Poe, Dickinson, Alcott, and Crane are products of both traditions, and their elegies express the private and public mourning of a loved one, a popular public figure, or a catastrophic loss. The introduction defines the elegiac conventions and history, placing the nineteenth-century elegy in conversation with previous elegies by revealing shifts in form and treatment of the elegiac conventions. Chapter one contextualizes the elegy within the nineteenth- century customs associated with the "Cult of Mourning." Chapter two focuses on Poe's less frequently examined elegies--"The Sleeper" (1831), "The Paean" (1831; revised as "Lenore" [1843]), "To One in Paradise" (1833), and "To Annie" (1849)--as well as his most famous poems--"The Raven" (1845) and "Annabel Lee" (1849)--in order to explore the extent to which Poe's dark aesthetics influence his formal elegies. Chapter three progresses into the mid-nineteenth century by examining Dickinson's elegies and discussing her intellectual interest in death and nature, along with her skepticism of institutionalized religion, as influences upon her elegies. Chapter four positions Alcott in this tradition and treats the influence of Gothic and domestic literature in her works. The final chapter establishes the role that Naturalism plays in Crane's elegies and argues that the cynicism in his elegies anticipates Modernism. This study reveals these poets to be products of both the elegiac literary tradition and participants in nineteenth-century mourning customs. In particular, this study underscores the significant contributions of Dickinson and Alcott to a largely male- dominated elegiac tradition. By focusing on the lesser- known works of these authors within their literary and cultural context, this study makes an original contribution to the body of knowledge on Poe, Dickinson, Alcott, and Crane as elegists and to our understanding of the interrelationship between literary and cultural expressions of mourning in nineteenth- century American literature.
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Subject: American studies; American literature
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Alcott, Louisa May, American literature, Crane, Stephen, Dickinson, Emily, Elegies, Poe, Edgar Allen, Grief
Title: Lamenting Loss: Public and Private Grief in the Elegies of Poe, Dickinson, Alcott, and Crane
Number of pages: 152
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0170
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303922909
Advisor: Phillips, Philip
Committee member: Renfroe, Alicia Mischa Mischa, Gaitely, Patricia
University/institution: Middle Tennessee State University
Department: English
University location: United States -- Tennessee
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621269
ProQuest document ID: 1545616068
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Document 11 of 25
American Neon Signs: Illumination And Consumerism
Author: Osdene, Stefan http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1548325764?accountid=14709
Abstract: Neon signage heralded a revolution in American advertising that brought unparalleled scale, color, and boldness to product marketing beginning in the 1920s. This medium's appearance represented technological modernity by serving as a visual expression of mass electrification. Neon transformed nighttime cityscapes and roadsides from darkened environments into spaces that glowed with colored light. This dissertation examines the ways within which neon visually reinforced the presence of product advertising within the nightscape and consumer consciousness. It traces the cultural, technological, economic, and architectural forces that shaped neon's development between in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The deceptively mundane neon sign offers insight into how mass marketing impacted American culture. Neon served as an early form of electrical media. It used the ephemeral medium of light to communicate with the buying public. Its study enriches our understanding of technology's influence on consumerism and national advertising campaigns like those conducted by Budweiser or Ford. Neon remains an indelible feature of the American landscape. It has become synonymous with cultural icons such as Las Vegas and Times Square. Despite its visual prominence, its history has been under-examined. My dissertation differs from other works on the history of neon by emphasizing artifact driven analysis. This interdisciplinary dissertation draws upon art history, technological history, and mass communication in a manner far different from previous writings on electrical signage.
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Subject: American studies; American history; Art history
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0337: American history; 0377: Art history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Electrical history, History of electrical signs, History of neon, History of technology, Material culture, Visual culture
Title: American Neon Signs: Illumination And Consumerism
Number of pages: 232
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0262
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303935497
Advisor: Smart Martin, Ann
Committee member: Andrzejewski, Anna V., Penick, Monica, Schatzberg, Eric, Vaughn, Stephen L.
University/institution: The University of Wisconsin - Madison
Department: Art History
University location: United States -- Wisconsin
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621985
ProQuest document ID: 1548325764
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Document 12 of 25
Human liberation from below: Transnational origins of liberation theology, 1775-1975
Author: Barger, Lilian Calles http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1547939423?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines the transnational origins of what became a far-reaching theo-political movement and seeks to understand the cultural situation of its emergence. It sets the stage in the mid- 1960s and the 1970s, as a group of religious intellectuals radicalized by the political and social crisis in the American hemisphere brought a new method and a critical stance to their discipline in what became known as liberation theology. They represented those socially, economically, and politically excluded within the liberal political project by race, class, or sex. Liberationists sought to bridge the perceived gulf between the professed religious values of freedom and justice, on the one hand, and political exigencies, on the other, and awaken the political power of religion for social change. In a time of cultural crisis, they redefined the meaning of Christian salvation and modern notions of freedom as an integral liberation. Combining social thought, theological antecedents, and the history and experience subordinated groups, liberationists challenged the political legitimating role of theology that dominated the mid-twentieth century. The study illuminates how, situated within their respective marginalized groups, liberationists confronted the cultural and political crisis sweeping the hemisphere. Liberationists addressed the long history of revolutionary and social scientific thought, and theology's negotiations with modernity. It argues that by turning toward culture and the history of oppressed people and by deploying social theory, liberationists constructed an ideational bridge between values rooted in divine transcendence, the classic purview of theology, and political arrangements of power. Liberationists strove to heal the modern breach between the expectation of a divinely heralded future of freedom and justice, and political reality. Asserting a more thorough relocation of divine transcendence to immanence in history and redefining salvation as actualized in this world, they awakened the theological urgency of the political sphere. In the wake of a faltering liberal theological consensus, they changed the theo-political discourse and set the stage for the subsequent torrent of religiously inspired political engagement in the late twentieth century.
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Subject: Religion; Black studies; American history; Womens studies; Theology; Latin American Studies
Classification: 0318: Religion; 0325: Black studies; 0337: American history; 0453: Womens studies; 0469: Theology; 0550: Latin American Studies
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Black theology, Feminist theology, Intellectual history, Latin america, Liberation theology, Modernity
Title: Human liberation from below: Transnational origins of liberation theology, 1775-1975
Number of pages: 451
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0382
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303948701
Advisor: Wickberg, Daniel B., Hatfield, Charles
Committee member: Wilson, Michael L., Rabe, Stephen G., Rieger, Joerg
University/institution: The University of Texas at Dallas
Department: Humanities-History of Ideas
University location: United States -- Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622842
ProQuest document ID: 1547939423
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Document 13 of 25
Americans all! The role of advertising in re-imaging ethnicity in America: The case of the War Advertising Council, 1939-1945
Author: May, Jacqueline S. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1547940204?accountid=14709
Abstract: Throughout America's history the call for laborers has been filled by influxes of immigrants. Coinciding with the arrival of the first non-Anglo Saxon immigrants were negative attitudes about them, as they were deemed inferior and classified as lower-ranking "others" by the dominant culture that needed them. Thus, the cycle of need and resentment was born to be repeated throughout the Nation's history. In the first half of the twentieth century a shift occurred in American public perception of, and attitudes towards, immigrant groups including eastern European Jews, Italians and the Irish among others. This shift was marked primarily in terms of race: Some immigrants went from being considered black to white -- from illegitimate to legitimate by the dominant culture. One reason for the increased acceptance of these ethnic groups was a concerted campaign sponsored by the United States Government to promote an extended identity to groups that had previously been excluded from the mainstream. In particular, the goal was to create a sense of nationalism, or "Americanism," among diasporic immigrant groups, thus encouraging their participation in the war effort. The result of such campaigns was a re-imaging of ethnic groups previously classified as non-white and a path to perceived whiteness, and thus inclusion, for them. These campaigns, formulated by the Office of War Information and executed largely by the War Advertising Council, led to a marked increase in acceptance for immigrant groups by the dominant culture. By examining social messages through visual cultural artifacts this study explores notions about race, ethnicity, whiteness and the role of communication theory and practices in constructing (imaging) an identity of otherness." This study delineates the historical formation and subsequent partial de-construction (re-imaging) of negative depictions and some stereotypes of ethnic Americans. This research explores the sources of these attitudes and behaviors and how misconceptions, misrepresentations and centuries-old stereotypes of non-Anglo ethnic Americans have been fluid through changing social perceptions fueled, in part, by government interventions.
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Subject: American history; Ethnic studies; Mass communications
Classification: 0337: American history; 0631: Ethnic studies; 0708: Mass communications
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, American immigrants, Propaganda, Advertising, Ethnic, World war 2, Identity construction
Title: Americans all! The role of advertising in re- imaging ethnicity in America: The case of the War Advertising Council, 1939-1945
Number of pages: 274
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0119
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303979033
Advisor: Fejes, Fred
University/institution: Florida Atlantic University
University location: United States -- Florida
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3584927
ProQuest document ID: 1547940204
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Document 14 of 25
"Go Harlem!" Chick Webb and his dancing audience during the Great Depression
Author: Wells, Christopher J. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1546987288?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines the career and music of Harlem drummer and bandleader William Henry "Chick" Webb (1905-1939). Foregrounding Webb's connections with audiences, it emphasizes local circumstances and dialogic, co-creative performer- audience relationships. While many scholars mark 1935- -when heavily arranged big band jazz became broadly popular--as the "Swing Era's" beginning, this project situates swing as a local genre in Harlem in the late 1920s and 1930s. Adopting conjunctural analysis from cultural studies, it emphasizes the particular sociopolitical and economic conditions in which Webb and other African American bandleaders and arrangers developed this music during the Great Depression. It explores the interplay between composition, improvisation, race, gender, dance, economics, urban geography, and political power through which Webb's deep sonic connections with local audiences developed. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the dissertation's three internal chapters are discrete methodological case studies that explore Webb and his music through spatial practice theory, carnal musicology, and critical discourse analysis. Spatial practice theory updates the classic "jazz itinerary" method--built here from over 1,000 clippings in African American newspapers--to follow how specific ballrooms and nightclubs, neighborhood dynamics, race and gender identities, political events, and ideologies informed Webb's tremendous stylistic diversity. Carnal musicology blends the author's experience as a vernacular jazz dancer with close readings of diverse historical source material and analytical tools from music theory to reconstruct and analyze Webb's live interactions with improvising lindy hop dancers at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. Critical discourse analysis routes critiques of Webb and singer Ella Fitzgerald from white male aficionados in the emerging field of jazz criticism through queer theory and critical race theory to connect jazz's aesthetic system with broader structures of white supremacy, patriarchy, and class privilege. The concluding chapter blends these perspectives to analyze Webb's 1937 battle of music with Benny Goodman's orchestra. Ultimately, the dissertation advances an immanence-focused, rather than transcendence-focused, approach that can investigate figures whose significance, like Webb's, stems primarily from their popularity with specific audiences in particular times and places. Through this paradigm, jazz studies can disentangle itself from the uncritically transcendent narratives that entrench jazz history within problematic discourses of American exceptionalism.
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Subject: African American Studies; Dance; Music
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0378: Dance; 0413: Music
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Webb, chick, Harlem, Jazz, Lindy hop, Social dance, Swing
Title: "Go Harlem!" Chick Webb and his dancing audience during the Great Depression
Number of pages: 282
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0153
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303943034
Advisor: Garcia, David F.
Committee member: Hall, Perry, Katz, Mark, Neal, Jocelyn, Tucker, Sherrie
University/institution: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department: Musicology
University location: United States -- North Carolina
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622509
ProQuest document ID: 1546987288
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Document 15 of 25
From Steel to Slots: Landscapes of Economic Change in Postindustrial Bethlehem, PA
Author: Taft, Chloe Elizabeth http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1543340999?accountid=14709
Abstract: From Steel to Slots: Landscapes of Economic Change in Postindustrial Bethlehem, PA uses ethnography, archival research, and analysis of the built environment to explore experiences of economic change in a former steel town now host to an industrial- themed casino. Community members in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, (population 75,000) regularly use the postindustrial landscape - itself a hyper-example of the transition from a manufacturing to service and finance economy - to embrace, grapple with, and interpret urban redevelopment initiatives since the late 1990s closure of the local Bethlehem Steel plant. Through the landscape, they also make sense of the larger trends of corporate-friendly regulations, shifting demographic patterns, and broad-scale globalization that these initiatives reflect. This dissertation moves beyond stock narratives of factory closures that emphasize economic rupture and social trauma, and it challenges perceptions of postindustrial landscapes as barren wastelands. Instead, From Steel to Slots stresses the continuities that stakeholders seek, find, and create in and through the landscape. An unwillingness to abandon memories of a "social contract" between corporation and community suggests that, for many residents, the built environment and its layered histories continue to support a postwar moral order, even as former sustaining social institutions, such as unions and factories, have been replaced by corporate agendas that privilege individualistic profit motivations. By combining ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2013 with archival research about Bethlehem's long and often contentious histories of heritage tourism, immigration, preservation, and redevelopment, From Steel to Slots argues that understanding how developers and residents value the past in the present to both legitimate high-risk investment schemes, such as the casino, and resist their hegemony has the potential to guide postindustrial redevelopment toward more mutually beneficial outcomes in twenty-first-century American cities.
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Subject: American studies; Cultural anthropology; American history
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0326: Cultural anthropology; 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Bethlehem PA, Casino industry, Postindustrialization, Historic preservation, Urban redevelopment, Built environment
Title: From Steel to Slots: Landscapes of Economic Change in Postindustrial Bethlehem, PA
Number of pages: 391
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321058697
Advisor: Dudley, Kathryn Marie
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580868
ProQuest document ID: 1543340999
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Document 16 of 25
"For the voices": The letters of John Wieners
Author: Stewart, Michael Seth http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1550353578?accountid=14709
Abstract: American poet John Wieners is thoroughly disenfranchised from the modern poetic establishments because he is, to those institutions, practically illegible. He was a queer self-styled poète maudit in the fifties; a protégé of political-historical poet Charles Olson who wrote audaciously personal verse; a lyric poet who eschewed the egoism of the confessional mode in order to pursue the Olsonian project of Projective (outward- looking) poetics; a Boston poet who was institutionalized at state hospitals. Wieners lived on the "other side" of Beacon Hill, not the Brahmin south slope, but the north side with its working-class apartments and underground gay bars. Though Wieners' work is considered preeminent by many of the second half of the century's most important poets, the ahistoricizing process of literary canon-building has kept him at the fringes of not just the canon, but the established taxonomy of the all the great post-war undergrounds - the mimeo revolution, the San Francisco Renaissance, Black Mountain, New York, and Boston poetry communities that he moved through. Why was Wieners so disenfranchised? How can we make him manifest within the discourses of twentieth-century poetry? My dissertation, a comprehensively edited and annotated Selected Letters with a critical introduction situating Wieners and his correspondence, will provide Wieners' readers and literature scholars with an invaluable resource, an autobiography in letters. To quote the mission Duncan urged upon Wieners for his magazine Measure, these Selected Letters will be a "ground of work" for many different kinds of readers, with enough annotation and context for the most curious, but edited in such a way that it's Wieners himself one is reading, a direct address with minimal editorial intrusion. Wieners dedicated his second book, 1964's Ace of Pentacles, "for the voices," and that is the title I take for this collection - for all the voices in Wieners' world, within and contemporaneous with the poem. With these Selected Letters, we can see Wieners' growth as a poet and as a person, as he cycles through his different selves and relationships.
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Subject: GLBT Studies; American literature
Classification: 0492: GLBT Studies; 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Black mountain, Boston, Correspondence, Gay, New american, Poetics
Title: "For the voices": The letters of John Wieners
Number of pages: 609
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0046
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303963636
Advisor: Alcalay, Ammiel
Committee member: Richardson, Joan, Greetham, David
University/institution: City University of New York
Department: English
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623761
ProQuest document ID: 1550353578
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Echoes of the avant-garde in American minimalist opera
Author: Ebright, Ryan Scott http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1546982638?accountid=14709
Abstract: The closing decades of the twentieth century witnessed a resurgence of American opera, led in large part by the popular and critical success of minimalism. Based on repetitive musical structures, minimalism emerged out of the fervid artistic intermingling of mid twentieth-century American avant-garde communities, where music, film, dance, theater, technology, and the visual arts converged. Within opera, minimalism has been transformational, bringing a new, accessible musical language and an avant-garde aesthetic of experimentation and politicization. Thus, minimalism's influence invites a reappraisal of how opera has been and continues to be defined and experienced at the turn of the twenty-first century. "Echoes of the Avant-garde in American Minimalist Opera" offers a critical history of this subgenre through case studies of Philip Glass's Satyagraha (1980), Steve Reich's The Cave (1993), and John Adams's Doctor Atomic (2005). This project employs oral history and archival research as well as musical, dramatic, and dramaturgical analyses to investigate three interconnected lines of inquiry. The first traces the roots of these operas to the aesthetics and practices of the American avant-garde communities with which these composers collaborated early in their careers. The second examines how the non-traditional modes of communication used by these operas-- whether narrative or technological--restructure the relationship between spectator and performer. The third line of inquiry takes a political approach, focusing on how these works perform exceptionalist notions of national identity. Through the construction of interdisciplinary frameworks that draw on theories of drama, narrativity, film, and sound studies, this dissertation presents a nuanced profile of the evolution of American opera. It also offers a musically-oriented perspective on cultural constructions of American identity, thus contributing to a growing body of scholarship on American exceptionalism. Finally, this dissertation documents the avant-garde's continued legacy as its aesthetics, practices, and politics transfer across genre, time, and space.
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Subject: American studies; Music; Performing Arts
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0413: Music; 0641: Performing Arts
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Aesthetics, American opera, Avant-garde, Exceptionalism, Minimalism
Title: Echoes of the avant-garde in American minimalist opera
Number of pages: 274
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0153
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303940163
Advisor: Katz, Mark
Committee member: Carter, Tim, Cohen, Brigid, Fauser, Annegret, Rupprecht, Philip
University/institution: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department: Musicology
University location: United States -- North Carolina
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622344
ProQuest document ID: 1546982638
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Document 18 of 25
Archives of Transformation: A Case Study of the International Women's Network Against Militarism's Archival System
Author: Cachola, Ellen-Rae Cabebe http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1550352971?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation describes the International Women's Network Against Militarism's (IWNAM) political epistemology of security from an archival perspective, and how they create community archives to evidence this epistemology. This research examines records created by Women for Genuine Security (WGS) and Women's Voices Women Speak (WVWS), U.S. and Hawaii based partners of the IWNAM. These records document the emergence of the IWNAM between 1997 and 2012, as women from the countries of South Korea, Japan, Okinawa, Philippines, Australia, Republic of Belau, Guam, Marshall Islands, Hawaii, U.S., Puerto Rico, and Vieques shared information about the negative effects of militarism and strategies of resistance. By describing the archival systems of WGS and WVWS, insight on the IWNAM's knowledge production and archive creation processes are revealed. The archive is conceptualized as the expression of a record creator's "will," an immaterial force that materializes through the dynamic creation of records and recordkeeping systems that coordinate resources and labor to build organizations, institutions and infrastructures. The IWNAM archive is embedded in the Imperial Archive, an imperialist will that creates bi- lateral security agreements, such as the Status of Forces Agreements (SOFA) between the U.S. and South Korea and the U.S. and Japan; and the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between the U.S. and the Philippines. The functions of these agreements are to adapt Westphalian philosophies of security, i.e. Eurocentric militaristic development and international relations, into new territories and contexts. Autoethnography, action research, and archival analysis were used to examine how the IWNAM's record creation and recordkeeping processes are driven by social practices and research to redefine security. The IWNAM archive is conceptualized as a complex adaptive system that facilitates public self-reflection on community embeddedness within militarized orders and creative agency to transform their conditions.
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Subject: Womens studies; International Relations; Ethnic studies; Information science
Classification: 0453: Womens studies; 0601: International Relations; 0631: Ethnic studies; 0723: Information science
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Community archives, Imperialism, Security agreements, Social movements, Women's activism
Title: Archives of Transformation: A Case Study of the International Women's Network Against Militarism's Archival System
Number of pages: 314
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0031
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303960710
Advisor: Gilliland-Swetland, Anne J.
Committee member: Drucker, Johanna, Blanchette, Jean-Francois, Camacho, Keith L.
University/institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Department: Information Studies
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623539
ProQuest document ID: 1550352971
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The presence and use of the Native American and African American oral trickster traditions in Zitkala-Sa's "Old Indian Legends" and "American Indian Stories" and Charles Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman"
Author: Byrd, Gayle http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1549976631?accountid=14709
Abstract: My dissertation examines early Native American and African American oral trickster tales and shows how the pioneering authors Zitkala-Sa (Lakota) and Charles W. Chesnutt (African American) drew on them to provide the basis for a written literature that critiqued the political and social oppression their peoples were experiencing. The dissertation comprises 5 chapters. Chapter 1 defines the meaning and role of the oral trickster figure in Native American and African American folklore. It also explains how my participation in the Native American and African American communities as a long-time storyteller and as a trained academic combine to allow me to discern the hidden messages contained in Native American and African American oral and written trickster literature. Chapter 2 pinpoints what is distinctive about the Native American oral tradition, provides examples of trickster tales, explains their meaning, purpose, and cultural grounding, and discusses the challenges of translating the oral tradition into print. The chapter also includes an analysis of Jane Schoolcraft's short story "Mishosha" (1827). Chapter 3 focuses on Zitkala-Sa's Old Indian Legends (1901) and American Indian Stories (1921). In the legends and stories, Zitkala-Sa is able to preserve much of the mystical, magical, supernatural, and mythical quality of the original oral trickster tradition. She also uses the oral trickster tradition to describe and critique her particular nineteenth-century situation, the larger historical, cultural, and political context of the Sioux Nation, and Native American oppression under the United States government. Chapter 4 examines the African American oral tradition, provides examples of African and African American trickster tales, and explains their meaning, purpose, and cultural grounding. The chapter ends with close readings of the trickster tale elements embedded in William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, The President's Daughter (1853), Harriett Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), and Martin R. Delany's Blake, or the Huts of America (serialized 1859-1862). Chapter 5 shows how Charles Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman rests upon African-derived oral trickster myths, legends, and folklore preserved in enslavement culture. Throughout the Conjure tales, Chesnutt uses the supernatural as a metaphor for enslaved people's resistance, survival skills and methods, and for leveling the ground upon which Blacks and Whites struggled within the confines of the enslavement and post- Reconstruction South. Native American and African American oral and written trickster tales give voice to their authors' concerns about the social and political quality of life for themselves and for members of their communities. My dissertation allows these voices a forum from which to "speak."
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Subject: African American Studies; American literature; Native American studies
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0591: American literature; 0740: Native American studies
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, African american trickster literature, Chesnutt, charles, Native american trickster literature, Old indian legends, The conjure woman, Zitkala-sa
Title: The presence and use of the Native American and African American oral trickster traditions in Zitkala-Sa's "Old Indian Legends" and "American Indian Stories" and Charles Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman"
Number of pages: 437
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0225
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303954214
Advisor: Karcher, Carolyn
Committee member: Drake, Jayne, Williams, Roland, Salazar, James
University/institution: Temple University
Department: English
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623120
ProQuest document ID: 1549976631
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A Chant of Dilation: Walt Whitman, Phrenology, and the Language of the Mind
Author: Borst, Anton F. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1550897542?accountid=14709
Abstract: A Chant of Dilation analyzes Walt Whitman's poetic engagement with two very modern ideas: the materiality of the mind and the discursive nature of science. During the antebellum period these ideas found expression in the popular science of phrenology, the theory that the mind was divided into various faculties physically located in different parts of the brain. This theory would find a ready audience in Whitman, a poet preoccupied with the body, the soul, and their connection. The writings and publications of premier American phrenologists Orson and Lorenzo Fowler, surveyed in this project, rhetorically mediated emerging conceptions of the brain-embodied self by exploring the relationship between religion and materialism. Phrenology also provided Whitman and its many followers with an empowering sense of self- knowledge based on its rich vocabulary of dozens of mental faculties. At the same time, by equating mind and brain and claiming the existence of innate, inheritable faculties, phrenology raised the possibility of biological determinism, unsettling seemingly essential beliefs in the soul, agency, and moral responsibility. In Whitman's correspondingly complex deployments of phrenological terms and themes, the poet embraces, confronts, and answers the implications of a material mind through the means most readily available to him as a poet: metaphor, ambiguity, and the performative use of language. By situating Whitman's response to phrenology alongside a number of Romantic and post-Romantic intellectuals similarly occupied by its language, including Georg Friedrich Hegel, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and William James, I demonstrate its hitherto overlooked cultural significance as a discourse that prompted philosophical concerns about the relationship between science, language, and the mind.
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Subject: American studies; American literature
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Materialism, Nineteenth century, Phrenology, Walt whitman
Title: A Chant of Dilation: Walt Whitman, Phrenology, and the Language of the Mind
Number of pages: 228
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0046
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303960673
Advisor: Richardson, Joan
Committee member: Kelly, William P., Reynolds, David S., Wilner, Joshua
University/institution: City University of New York
Department: English
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623536
ProQuest document ID: 1550897542
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Document 21 of 25
From buddy film to bromance: Masculinity and male melodrama since 1969
Author: Woodworth, Amy J. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1549976303?accountid=14709
Abstract: Men's tears are considered rare, and women's tears are considered profusive. Thus, we tend to think of tearjerkers and melodrama as the province of weepy women viewers. However, if we look back at the last several decades of Hollywood filmmaking, melodramas focused on men--or "male weepies"--have been a steady staple of American cinema. This dissertation explores cycles of male melodramas since 1969, placing them in their socio-historical contexts and examining the ways that they participate in public discourses about men, masculinity, and gender roles. Melodrama's focus on victims, bids for virtue, and idealizations of not how things are, but how they should be, have made it a fitting and flexible mode for responding to the changing social landscape of America since the rights movements of the 1960s. Specifically, these films consider both the ways that white capitalist patriarchy has circumscribed the public and private lives of men and the ways that advancements of women and racial minorities are impacting (white) men's lives. This study analyzes the rhetorical effects of these films through both textual evidence and popular reception. Chapters are organized by chronology and subgenre, discussing buddy films of the late 1960s and early 1970s ( Midnight Cowboy, The Last Detail, and Scarecrow ), paternal melodramas of the late 1970s and early 1980s ( The Great Santini, Kramer vs. Kramer, and Table for Five ), films of sensitive men in the early 1990s ( The Prince of Tides, Regarding Henry, and Philadelphia ), and black male weepies from the 1990s and 2000s ( Boyz in the Hood, Antwone Fisher, John Q, and The Pursuit of Happyness ). The epilogue also considers the developing genre of the bromance, a hybrid of melodrama and comedy. By classifying and analyzing these films as male melodramas, this dissertation challenges both the popular denigrating view that tearjerkers are "chick flicks," and the continued gender bifurcation within film studies' work on melodrama as a narrative mode, which tends to treat weepies as a female form of melodrama and action films as a male form of melodrama. While individual subgenres have received some critical attention, this dissertation is one of the first works to look at male weepies collectively. Putting the spotlight on male weepies reveals Hollywood's interest in gender and the emotional lives of men, though the films display a mix of progressive and conservative strains, often common in Hollywood filmmaking. Specifically, these weepies tend to question and often even reject traditional masculine ideals, and thus exhibit some forms of gender "liberation"; at the same time that they show men suffering under patriarchy and even the pressure to be powerful, these films also shore that power up for men by never forfeiting it. As such, these films reveal the dangers of Hollywood "doing" gender critique: however inadvertently, they contain feminist, anti-racist, and anti-homophobic challenges and re-inscribe the various privileges of characters (in terms of gender, race, sexuality, and often class). However, the films also dramatize the ability of people to change and to empathize with others, and often invite the viewer to do so, even across gender and racial lines. In this way, male melodramas reveal a complex response to social changes; they are marked by an interest in men changing and a more equitable society, even as fully giving up privilege seems difficult.
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Subject: American studies; GLBT Studies; Ethnic studies; Gender studies; Film studies
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0492: GLBT Studies; 0631: Ethnic studies; 0733: Gender studies; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Film, Gender, Masculinity, Melodrama, Men
Title: From buddy film to bromance: Masculinity and male melodrama since 1969
Number of pages: 235
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0225
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303957093
Advisor: Orvell, Miles
Committee member: Melzer, Patricia, Gaycken, Oliver, Levitt, Laura
University/institution: Temple University
Department: English
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623323
ProQuest document ID: 1549976303
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Document 22 of 25
The value of a pint: A cultural economy of American beer
Author: Beckham, J. Nikol http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545897552?accountid=14709
Abstract: As a material commodity beer has remained surprisingly unchanged since its discovery--composed of roughly the same ingredients, combined in roughly the same proportions, to achieve roughly the same product. What has been in dramatic flux, particularly over the past 100 years, is how beer is valued. This dissertation considers the numerous and complex ways beer has been and continues to be woven into the fabric of contemporary American life. Changes in the valuation of beer--for instance beer valued as a uniquely taxable and critically profitable source of depression-era internal revenue; as a means of supporting U.S. troops during WWII; as an exemplar of achievable value-added through branding; as a racialized social ill; as a catalyst for technological innovation in packaging and distribution; as emblematic of American masculinity; or as a touchstone of activism advocating sustainable practices of producing, distributing and consuming food and drink--are most often narrowly cast as products of economic change or products of cultural change. In crafting a historically and contextually contingent cultural economy of American beer, this project frames such changes as a complex articulation of the two and in doing so, advances a theory of culturally embedded valuation.
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Subject: American studies; Marketing; Communication
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0338: Marketing; 0459: Communication
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Craft beer, Cultural economy, Food systems, Material culture, Subculture, Value studies
Title: The value of a pint: A cultural economy of American beer
Number of pages: 349
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0153
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303939525
Advisor: Grossberg, Lawrence
Committee member: Palm, Michael, Pickles, John, Garcia, Jay, Dempsey, Sarah
University/institution: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department: Communication Studies
University location: United States -- North Carolina
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622302
ProQuest document ID: 1545897552
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Document 23 of 25
Mind, media, and techniques of remediation in America, 1850-1910
Author: Zino, Dominique http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1550353574?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation describes the way a renewed interest in picturesque aesthetics engaged the imaginations of writers, visual artists, philosophers, landscape designers, and collectors during the second half of the nineteenth century, reinvigorating a mode of inquiry that sanctioned the act of composing representations--mental, visual, and verbal--as a suitable response to social, political, and philosophical problems. The chapters that follow describe the understanding of the relationship between language, visual representation, and feeling that picturesque aesthetics formalized alongside the surface discourse of picturesqueness that was circulating through everyday genres, such as illustrated viewbooks, by the second half of the century. This dynamic picturesque sensibility becomes a technique for "remediating" nineteenth-century American culture in two ways: first, it grafts a younger American tradition of art, architecture, and literature onto an established European tradition to overcome and surpass any perceived deficiencies in the newer American tradition; secondly, it encourages an engagement with visual literacy in order to inspire interest in what might otherwise be perceived as more common and less awe- inspiring cultural sources. By the turn of the century, picturesque aesthetics in America becomes a tool for crafting self-fulfilling prophecies on local and national scales.
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Subject: American studies; American literature; Aesthetics
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0591: American literature; 0650: Aesthetics
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Dickinson, emily, James, henry, Picturesque, Emerson, ralph waldo, Remediation, James, william
Title: Mind, media, and techniques of remediation in America, 1850-1910
Number of pages: 209
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0046
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303963865
Advisor: Richardson, Joan
Committee member: Faherty, Duncan, Caws, Mary Ann
University/institution: City University of New York
Department: English
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623775
ProQuest document ID: 1550353574
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Document 24 of 25
Speculations: Art and Real Estate Development in Los Angeles, 1960-1986
Author: Newbury, Susanna Phillips http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1542192160?accountid=14709
Abstract: "Speculations: Art Real Estate Development in Los Angeles, 1960-1986," looks at how the convergence of real estate development, artistic practice, and cultural philanthropy has positioned art and its institutions as paramount drivers of economic development in cities today. I examine this convergence within the work of a set of related artists and developers working in the Los Angeles region as it grew into the national paradigm of postwar sprawl. Artists and architects such as Ed Ruscha, Lewis Saltz, William Leavitt, and Frank Gehry drew on the visual culture of this built environment, mediating and speculating on its changing nature. At the same time, many of the developers responsible for the construction of tract homes, strip malls, and subdivisions the artists pictured began second careers as local patrons of contemporary art, often collecting works by those same figures. When, in the later 1970s, such builder- philanthropists founded Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, on a disused lot of a stagnated downtown urban renewal project, they in essence placed contemporary art and artists at the heart of a project remaking Los Angeles' image as an aesthetically distinguished global economic and cultural capital.
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Subject: American studies; Art history; Architecture
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0377: Art history; 0729: Architecture
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: Speculations: Art and Real Estate Development in Los Angeles, 1960-1986
Number of pages: 424
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321056167
Advisor: Joselit, David
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580785
ProQuest document ID: 1542192160
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Document 25 of 25
Breaking the Iceberg: Ernest Hemingway, Black Modernism, and the Politics of Narrative Appropriation
Author: Bosse, Walter M. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545895226?accountid=14709
Abstract: This project redresses the scarcity of literary criticism that deals with the fictions of Ernest Hemingway in relation to black cultural productions of the twentieth century. Building from a postcolonial theoretical framework, it establishes a historicized dialogue in which African-American authors such as Langston Hughes and James Baldwin strategically confront, appropriate, and repurpose Hemingway's modernist narratives. This dialogue dramatizes my conviction that black writers of the Harlem Renaissance and post-Renaissance decades were tactically reading and resisting Modernism's central texts in ways that can be seen to anticipate critical deconstruction. Reading Hemingway through minority discourse thus gives this project a new purchase on his aesthetic choices, at the same time that it complicates and augments existing theories about influence, ingenuity, and power in twentieth-century African- American literature.
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Subject: Modern literature; American studies; American literature
Classification: 0298: Modern literature; 0323: American studies; 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Appropriation, Hemingway, Ernest, Baldwin, James, Hughes, Langston, Modernism, Race
Title: Breaking the Iceberg: Ernest Hemingway, Black Modernism, and the Politics of Narrative Appropriation
Number of pages: 165
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0045
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303935916
Advisor: Ash, Beth
Committee member: Corkin, Stanley, Rieke, Alison
University/institution: University of Cincinnati
Department: English & Comparative Literature
University location: United States -- Ohio
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622013
ProQuest document ID: 1545895226
Table of contents
1. An analytical study of the dramatic criticism of Joseph Wood Krutch as published in "The Nation", 1924-1952
2. Bob Hope and the popular oracle tradition in American humor
3. John Dewey and Martin Buber on communication and community
4. An interpretive communication study of images and roles of women in selected situation comedies from 1950-1975
5. The woman's film at Warner Brothers: 1935-1950
6. The film and television career of Franklin J. Schaffner
7. Restoring the myth of the presidency: A rhetorical study of televised campaign commercials in the 1976 presidential contest
8. Photography as communicative praxis: W. Eugene Smith's 'Pittsburgh' essay
9. Image construction in political spot advertising: The Hunt/Helms senate campaign, 1984
10. The effect of exchange rates and related macroeconomic variables on stock markets under alternative exchange rate regimes: A cross country study 1970-1987
11. Nuclear alienation: A literary analysis of race, space, and resistance surrounding the nuclear coloniality of Los Alamos, 1942-2012
12. Essays on the U.S. Housing Market Dynamics and Boom-Bust Cycles
13. Centralizing Rochester: A Critical Historiography of American Photography in the 1960s and 1970s
14. Through their eyes: Apache perceptions of Theodore Roosevelt School 1945-1975
15. Mass murder and the mass media: An examination of the media discourse on U.S. rampage shootings, 2000-2012
16. Organizational identity in the history of the Longy School of Music
17. Arcadia Americana: Landscape in American Art during World War II
18. Reinventing the Old West: Concordia Cemetery and the power over space, 1800-1895
19. Governance mechanisms and shareholder value: Evidence from the merger wave in the late 1990s
20. Little Capitalists: The Social Economy of Saving in the United States, 1816-1914
21. Mobile Americans: Geographic mobility and modernity in U.S. visual culture, 1860-1915
22. Working Girls: The History of Women Directors in 1970s Hollywood
23. The "feminized" city: New York and suffrage, 1870- 1917
24. "An Island in the South": The Tampa Bay Area as a Cultural Borderland, 1513-1904
25. American independent female filmmakers: Kelly Reinhardt in focus
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Document 1 of 25
An analytical study of the dramatic criticism of Joseph Wood Krutch as published in "The Nation", 1924-1952
Author: Green, Gordon C. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1554766056?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Theater History; Mass communications
Classification: 0644: Theater History; 0708: Mass communications
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: An analytical study of the dramatic criticism of Joseph Wood Krutch as published in "The Nation", 1924-1952
Number of pages: 330
Publication year: 1959
Degree date: 1959
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22307
ProQuest document ID: 1554766056
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1554766056?accountid=14709
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Document 2 of 25
Bob Hope and the popular oracle tradition in American humor
Author: Faith, William Robert http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1556124219?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Communication; Performing Arts
Classification: 0459: Communication; 0641: Performing Arts
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: Bob Hope and the popular oracle tradition in American humor
Number of pages: 387
Publication year: 1976
Degree date: 1976
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22323
ProQuest document ID: 1556124219
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1556124219?accountid=14709
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Document 3 of 25
John Dewey and Martin Buber on communication and community
Author: McDonnell, Joseph W. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1555314250?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Social research; Communication
Classification: 0344: Social research; 0459: Communication
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: John Dewey and Martin Buber on communication and community: [1]
Number of pages: 285
Publication year: 1978
Degree date: 1978
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22335
ProQuest document ID: 1555314250
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1555314250?accountid=14709
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Document 4 of 25
An interpretive communication study of images and roles of women in selected situation comedies from 1950-1975
Author: Meehan, Diana Marjorie http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1554419831?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Womens studies; Mass communications
Classification: 0453: Womens studies; 0708: Mass communications
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: An interpretive communication study of images and roles of women in selected situation comedies from 1950-1975
Number of pages: 127
Publication year: 1979
Degree date: 1979
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22343
ProQuest document ID: 1554419831
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1554419831?accountid=14709
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Document 5 of 25
The woman's film at Warner Brothers: 1935-1950
Author: Yeck, Joanne Louise http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553095188?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Womens studies; Film studies
Classification: 0453: Womens studies; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: The woman's film at Warner Brothers: 1935-1950: [1]
Number of pages: 422
Publication year: 1982
Degree date: 1982
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22257
ProQuest document ID: 1553095188
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Document 6 of 25
The film and television career of Franklin J. Schaffner
Author: Kim, Erwin http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553001694?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Biographies; Mass communications; Film studies
Classification: 0304: Biographies; 0708: Mass communications; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: The film and television career of Franklin J. Schaffner: [1]
Number of pages: 707
Publication year: 1983
Degree date: 1983
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22255
ProQuest document ID: 1553001694
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Document 7 of 25
Restoring the myth of the presidency: A rhetorical study of televised campaign commercials in the 1976 presidential contest
Author: DeChamplain, Mitties McDonald http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1557824982?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Marketing; Political science; Rhetoric; Mass communications
Classification: 0338: Marketing; 0615: Political science; 0681: Rhetoric; 0708: Mass communications
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: Restoring the myth of the presidency: A rhetorical study of televised campaign commercials in the 1976 presidential contest
Number of pages: 388
Publication year: 1987
Degree date: 1987
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22414
ProQuest document ID: 1557824982
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Document 8 of 25
Photography as communicative praxis: W. Eugene Smith's 'Pittsburgh' essay
Author: Banks, Anna http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1556120209?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Art history
Classification: 0377: Art history
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: Photography as communicative praxis: W. Eugene Smith's 'Pittsburgh' essay
Number of pages: 272
Publication year: 1989
Degree date: 1989
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22439
ProQuest document ID: 1556120209
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Document 9 of 25
Image construction in political spot advertising: The Hunt/Helms senate campaign, 1984
Author: Louden, Allan Dean http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1555794668?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Marketing; Political science; Mass communications
Classification: 0338: Marketing; 0615: Political science; 0708: Mass communications
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Helms, Jesse, Hunt, James B., Jr., North Carolina
Title: Image construction in political spot advertising: The Hunt/Helms senate campaign, 1984
Number of pages: 350
Publication year: 1990
Degree date: 1990
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22458
ProQuest document ID: 1555794668
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Document 10 of 25
The effect of exchange rates and related macroeconomic variables on stock markets under alternative exchange rate regimes: A cross country study 1970-1987
Author: Ibrahimi, Fatemeh Nazarian http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1559078427?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Finance
Classification: 0508: Finance
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences
Title: The effect of exchange rates and related macroeconomic variables on stock markets under alternative exchange rate regimes: A cross country study 1970-1987
Number of pages: 100
Publication year: 1990
Degree date: 1990
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Business Administration and Finance
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22667
ProQuest document ID: 1559078427
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Document 11 of 25
Nuclear alienation: A literary analysis of race, space, and resistance surrounding the nuclear coloniality of Los Alamos, 1942-2012
Author: Gomez, Myrriah http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545674227?accountid=14709
Abstract: My dissertation seeks to decolonize the modern account of New Mexico in atomic history and U.S. national myth by recovering the polyphony of voices of the men and women who were displaced and effaced by the scientific empire known today as the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The U.S. emerged as a world power after WWII as a result of the atomic bomb, and New Mexico was central to the development of atomic weaponry. The history of Los Alamos has been presented through nationalist discourse of an "American" city that was born overnight, which ignores how Indigenous people and Hispanas/os were forcefully removed from the land and became subjects of modernity. That is, under modernity, different forms of life were destroyed--human and non-human life. Indigenous, Hispana/o, and white locals were forced, through the necessities of a modernist political economy, to become workers at "The Lab." These people and their land have been permanently diseased by nuclear waste and dis-eased by the racism and classism that has pervaded the region. The U.S. government intended to emancipate U.S. residents from war, including New Mexicans. However, Los Alamos's role in the Manhattan Project and the U.S. government's reorganization of local epistemologies and hierarchies forced local people of color into subordinate positions in national discourse, and the critical thinking from this level "below" modernity was erased. My project draws from and extends labor historiographies and historiographies of industrialization of Los Alamos by examining testimonios and multiethnic literature by and about Chicana/o, Native American, Chinese American, Japanese, African American people for the purpose of contesting the master narrative and spatial poetics of this place. By introducing previously silenced voices to relay an alternative story of Los Alamos, I map a new epistemology of nuclear coloniality in northern New Mexico that may then be applied to other locations where nuclear coloniality has occurred. The term "coloniality" refers to the power structures that emerged from colonialism instead of focusing on the process of colonization itself.
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Subject: Comparative literature; Modern history; Hispanic American studies
Classification: 0295: Comparative literature; 0582: Modern history; 0737: Hispanic American studies
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Atomic bomb, Chicanas/os, Colonization, Los alamos, New mexico, Nuclear alienation
Title: Nuclear alienation: A literary analysis of race, space, and resistance surrounding the nuclear coloniality of Los Alamos, 1942-2012
Number of pages: 233
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 1283
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303919527
Advisor: Saldivar-Hull, Sonia
Committee member: Cantu, Norma E., Olguin, Ben V., Portillo, Annette, Trujillo, Patricia
University/institution: The University of Texas at San Antonio
Department: English
University location: United States -- Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621093
ProQuest document ID: 1545674227
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Document 12 of 25
Essays on the U.S. Housing Market Dynamics and Boom-Bust Cycles
Author: Ozdemir, Dicle http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1546717296?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation includes three essays on theoretical and empirical investigations into the U.S. housing market. Chapter 2 is to extend the dynamic relationship that exists between the US industrial production index, monthly national averages of mortgage loan amount and purchasing price indices for single family houses between the years of 1973 to 2012. The study is achieved by conducting both linear and nonlinear causality tests. For this purpose Vector Autoregression (VAR) approach is used, which is based on error correction model (ECM). We also apply a nonparametric test for Granger non-causality by Diks and Panchenko (2005, 2006) as well as the conventional linear Granger test on the return time series. To ensure that any causality is strictly nonlinear in nature, we also examine the nonlinear causal relationships of pairwise VAR filtered residuals. We find remaining significant bi and uni-directional causal nonlinear relationships in the return series. Chapter 3 is to investigate how the correlations between the U.S. housing market, the credit market and real GDP in the recession of 2007-2009 show different characteristics from the 2001 recession. To do this, we apply Stock and Watson's (1989, 1991, 1993) dynamic factor model with the Kalman filter to construct a coincident factor of the housing market and house credit market separately. We find that the house market and the credit market have strong relationships with real GDP. However, these relationships show some different characteristics for the house credit market in the latest 2007-09 recession from 2001 recession. Chapter 4 focuses on housing cycles, interest rate cycles and business cycles. A nonlinear two-state Markov switching model is used to obtain different regimes in housing cycles, in interest rate cycles and in business cycles. Smoothing probabilities for each cycle is established and, lastly, Filardo's (1994) time varying transition probability model is used to test whether each housing composite measure helps contribute to interest rate and business cycle turning points. The results indicate that the house and credit market common factors contribute to whether the economy remains in an expansionary state or moves into recession and in and high or low interest rate regime. The state of the housing and credit markets contain significant explanatory power for GDP and interest rate fluctuations.
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Subject: Economics
Classification: 0501: Economics
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Business cycles, Credit, Housing market, Markov switching, Reflexivity theory
Title: Essays on the U.S. Housing Market Dynamics and Boom-Bust Cycles
Number of pages: 110
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 1700
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303939167
Advisor: Nell, Edward
Committee member: Semmler, Willi, Proano, Christian, Kottman, Paul
University/institution: The New School
Department: Economics
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622270
ProQuest document ID: 1546717296
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Document 13 of 25
Centralizing Rochester: A Critical Historiography of American Photography in the 1960s and 1970s
Author: McDonald, Jessica S. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1539528972?accountid=14709
Abstract: Despite the status photography now claims in American art institutions and academia, its current position is largely the result of a period of rapid expansion in the 1960s and 1970s known as the "photo boom." This dissertation argues that the city of Rochester, New York, was a crucial hub during this expansion, yet remains largely excluded from the photographic literature. Rochester served as the base of operations for a constellation of figures and institutions working to build an infrastructure for the field, and advocating for photography's inclusion in a broad, interdisciplinary discourse on art, images, and contemporary culture. However, historical accounts of this period typically focus on the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, resulting in a limited understanding of the era's renewed sense of pluralism and critical engagement. Though not intended as a monographic study, this project focuses on the work of Nathan Lyons, the unifying force behind the programs at George Eastman House, Visual Studies Workshop, the Society for Photographic Education, and the Rochester "photo community" at large, and his efforts to investigate the full spectrum of diverse artistic practice that characterized the era. In doing so, this dissertation complicates the persistent historical division between "photographers" and "artists using photography." While other recent studies have attempted to decentralize the history of American photography, none has focused on Rochester. This dissertation aims to fill this important gap in the conventional history of photography while challenging its traditional linear structure.
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Subject: Art Criticism; Art history; Museum studies
Classification: 0365: Art Criticism; 0377: Art history; 0730: Museum studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts, American photography, Beaumont newhall, George eastman house, Museum of modern art, Nathan lyons, Visual studies workshop
Title: Centralizing Rochester: A Critical Historiography of American Photography in the 1960s and 1970s
Number of pages: 272
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0188
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303922442
Advisor: Crimp, Douglas
Committee member: Berlo, Janet, Westbrook, Robert
University/institution: University of Rochester
Department: Arts and Sciences
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621235
ProQuest document ID: 1539528972
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Document 14 of 25
Through their eyes: Apache perceptions of Theodore Roosevelt School 1945-1975
Author: Wade, Mary Ann http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545690927?accountid=14709
Abstract: Indian boarding schools have long been an unsettling chapter in the history of American education due to U.S. government efforts to erase Indian identity through the policy of assimilation. Previous research conducted on various Indian boarding schools has illuminated this topic and highlighted individual institutions and the effects they have had on the students who attended them. Through Their Eyes: Apache Perceptions of Theodore Roosevelt School 1945-1975 examines a unique case in the compendium of U.S. Indian boarding schools, in this instance, a B.I.A. operated school established in 1923 at the former site of Fort Apache, Arizona. To provide a context for this topic, a review of the literature presents an overview of historical events defining Indian education in the U.S., followed by a discussion of Indian boarding schools, Arizona and the Apache, Fort Apache, site of Theodore Roosevelt School, a portrait of the White Mountain Apache, the White Mountain Apache transition from pre- reservation to reservation era, and a snapshot of Theodore Roosevelt School (TRS) through the lens of previous research. This qualitative study features a sequential mixed methods design in which written open-ended surveys were first administered to all study participants, followed by eleven of the same subjects participating in oral interviews. Findings for individual research questions were reported through summary narratives and table shell displays. Study findings and conclusions indicate that between 1945 and 1975, Theodore Roosevelt School continued to promote the federal government mission of assimilation through a curriculum of general studies, English-only spoken in class, daily chores to encourage habits of industry, and church attendance on Sundays. While the school retained some of the military features of previous Indian boarding schools, Apache students coming from impoverished homes generally enjoyed their experience at TRS, and were willing to follow school rules and policies in exchange for an improved standard of living. Findings also demonstrate that Theodore Roosevelt School did not serve the purpose of acculturating and assimilating Apache students enrolled between 1945 and 1975, as they have chosen to remain on their reservation, largely insulated from mainstream society. These former students retained their native language and many aspects of their culture, and have not become indistinguishable from members of the dominant society. The school did serve an important purpose, however, in providing a refuge for underprivileged children who resided on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation at that time period. Implications of the study emphasize the challenges inherent in requiring reservation students who have never fully assimilated into mainstream culture to achieve in school at government prescribed levels, as measured by proficiency on standardized tests. Recommendations for practice include a list of activities to promote the social and emotional well-being, as well as academic success of Apache students. Recommendations for research include replication of study questions with other BIA schools in Arizona, a similar study on TRS from the perspective of former school staff rather than students, and the comparison of findings from the TRS study with that of other Indian boarding schools.
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Subject: Education history; Native American studies
Classification: 0520: Education history; 0740: Native American studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Education, Arizona educational history, Fort apache indian reservation, Indian boarding schools, Native american education, Theodore roosevelt school, White mountain apache
Title: Through their eyes: Apache perceptions of Theodore Roosevelt School 1945-1975
Number of pages: 299
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0391
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303921315
Advisor: Emanuel, Gary L., Dereshiwsky, Mary
Committee member: Hill, Frances Ann, Pullin, Rance
University/institution: Northern Arizona University
Department: Educational Leadership
University location: United States -- Arizona
Degree: Ed.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621160
ProQuest document ID: 1545690927
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Document 15 of 25
Mass murder and the mass media: An examination of the media discourse on U.S. rampage shootings, 2000- 2012
Author: Schildkraut, Jaclyn V. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1543368084?accountid=14709
Abstract: Nearly as soon as the first shot is fired, the news media already are rushing to break coverage of rampage shooting events, the likes of which typically last days or, in the more extreme cases, weeks. Though rampage shootings are rare in occurrence, the disproportionate amount of coverage they receive in the media leads the public to believe that they occur at a much more regular frequency than they do. Further, within this group of specialized events, there is a greater tendency to focus on those that are the most newsworthy, which is categorized most often by those with the highest body counts. This biased presentation can lead to a number of outcomes, including fear of crime, behavioral changes, and even copycat attacks from other, like-minded perpetrators. Following the 1999 shooting at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, the news media have compartmentalized different types of mass shootings. This fracturing has led to differential understanding of school shootings, workplace shootings, shootings at religious centers, and other mass shootings taking place in public forums (e.g., malls, movie theaters). In reality, there are few differences between these events, yet for some reason, they are covered differently. The result is not only a vast public misconception about them, but ineffective and redundant policies and legislation related to gun control and mental health, among other issues. In order to understand how the public comes to understand rampage shooting events, one must first understand how the stories are constructed by the media. This project seeks to undertake such a task by examining the social construction of rampage shootings that occurred between 2000 and 2012. In addition to understanding how these events are constructed both individually and as the phenomenon of rampage shootings, it enables the researcher to examine how this construction changes over time. As the media are by no means static, one could predict that the framing of these events would be equally as dynamic. There are a number of benefits to uniting different types of mass shootings under a single definition. First, topical research can be approached from multiple disciplines, which will allow for a more robust body of research. This can, in turn, lead to more streamlined and effective legislation and policies. Finally, understanding rampage shootings as episodic violent crime is beneficial because it allows for these events to be understood in the greater context of violent crime. This understanding ultimately can lead to more responsible journalistic practices, which can help to reduce the outcomes of fear and crime and moral panics over events that are both rare and isolated. This dissertation takes an important first step in understanding rampage shootings by examining them as a product of the news media. Berger and Luckmann's social construction theory provides a theoretical orientation through which to understand how these stories are constructed in the media, and Altheide and Schneider's (2013) qualitative media analysis provides a framework in which the content can be analyzed. A total of 91 cases were examined, representing rampage shootings that occurred in the first 12 years following Columbine. The overall findings of the study indicate that the coverage of these shootings consistently relied on Columbine as a cultural referent, that the media are used as a tool by claims makers pushing their personal agendas, and that the disproportionality of coverage in the media and its related content is highly problematic when considering public perceptions of these events. Limitations of the study, as well as avenues for future research, also are discussed.
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Subject: Journalism; Criminology; Mass communications
Classification: 0391: Journalism; 0627: Criminology; 0708: Mass communications
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Rampage shootings, Media discourse, Columbine, Sandy hook, Social problems
Title: Mass murder and the mass media: An examination of the media discourse on U.S. rampage shootings, 2000-2012
Number of pages: 248
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 1035
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321058277
Advisor: Stafford, Mark C.
Committee member: Felson, Marcus K., Bowman, Scott W., Muschert, Glenn W.
University/institution: Texas State University - San Marcos
Department: Criminal Justice
University location: United States -- Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3629135
ProQuest document ID: 1543368084
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Document 16 of 25
Organizational identity in the history of the Longy School of Music
Author: Powell, Alex http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545897800?accountid=14709
Abstract: The Longy School of Music existed as an independent organization from 1915 until 2012, when it was acquired by Bard College. Founded to provide vocational training in music, the Longy School soon expanded by adding preparatory studies for children and continuing studies for avocational learners. The school struggled throughout much of its history to manage its multiple identities and gain consensus, from both internal and external stakeholders, on a fundamental question: "who are we as an organization?" The lack of clarity in organizational identity and the failure to adequately manage the resulting multiple identities meant that the Longy School consistently struggled to define itself. This situation was an impediment to a thriving institution financially, programmatically, and culturally. Toward the end of the Longy School's existence as an independent entity, the long-standing issues had culminated in significant financial shortfalls, faculty dissatisfaction and the introduction of a faculty union, and the desire to seek a larger institution with which to merge. This complex crisis raises significant questions about how the school arrived at such a crossroads, and deeper understanding of the school's history of organizational identity provides insight into these developments. The purpose of this study was to determine the history of the Longy School's struggle to understand and manage its organizational identity - and how and why this dilemma had long-reaching consequences. Research questions that guided this inquiry included: 1) What was Georges Longy's original vision for the Longy School, how did this evolve during his tenure as director, and how did this shape the future organizational identity of the institution? 2) Who were the primary figures that helped shape the focus and mission of the school, and what did each of these leaders envision as the direction, strategy, mission, and future for the institution? 3) What implicit and explicit strategic plans for the school have existed, and how have these related to the development of the Longy School's organizational identity? 4) What were the major developments and changes in the curricula offered by the Longy School and what motivated these developments? 5) What were the perceptions of and expectations for the Longy School from both internal and external constituents?
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Subject: Arts Management; Higher Education Administration; Music education
Classification: 0424: Arts Management; 0446: Higher Education Administration; 0522: Music education
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Education, Music Education, Identity Management, Organizational Leadership, Community Music, Conservatory Education, Music in Boston
Title: Organizational identity in the history of the Longy School of Music
Number of pages: 246
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0017
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321083019
Advisor: Hash, Phillip
University/institution: Boston University
University location: United States -- Massachusetts
Degree: D.M.A.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3581084
ProQuest document ID: 1545897800
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Document 17 of 25
Arcadia Americana: Landscape in American Art during World War II
Author: Zhurauliova, Tatsiana http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1543813450?accountid=14709
Abstract: Arcadia Americana: Landscape in American Art during World War II charts the shift in the attitudes towards landscape in American art in the early 1940s. It focuses on works by Arshile Gorky, Pavel Tchelitchew, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi, three figures not associated with the same artistic movement or stylistic concerns, but whose common status as outsiders in America during the war defined their view of landscape, painting, and art's role in mediating both personal and geopolitical trauma. Closely linked to specific geographic locations within the United States, the work of these artists challenges the contemporaneous modernist trajectory of understanding landscape as either a metaphor for psychic space or a retrogressive embodiment of the historical tableau tradition. Instead, the works in question envision local scenery as a locus of the global, a place and space in which both domestic and international issues can be imagined and reshaped. The first chapter centers on Tchelitchew's painting Hide- and-Seek from 1940-42. Based on copious studies of the New England scenery, this "metamorphic landscape" renders visible the complex networks of queer communities within the unhomely space of wartime New York. The second chapter considers Kuniyoshi's paintings of desolate ruins from the early 1940s, in particular his Nevadaville from 1942. By locating the death and destruction of war on American soil, this image of a Western ghost town creates an unmitigated point of encounter between the viewer and the violence and devastation of their contemporary moment. The third chapter traces the development of Gorky's work in the early 1940s in relation to the artist's growing interest in the direct observation of nature and his wartime involvement with the theory and practice of camouflage. Together, this study contextualizes these works in relation to the shift in territorial visuality brought by war, while also addressing the contemporaneous discourse on the spatiality of difference in American society, constructed around the categories of race, sexuality, and national identity.
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Subject: Art history
Classification: 0377: Art history
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts, American art, Landscape, World War II, Arshile Gorky, Pavel Tchelitchew, Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Title: Arcadia Americana: Landscape in American Art during World War II
Number of pages: 255
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321063790
Advisor: Nemerov, Alexander
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580915
ProQuest document ID: 1543813450
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Document 18 of 25
Reinventing the Old West: Concordia Cemetery and the power over space, 1800-1895
Author: Gonzalez, Nancy http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1552722660?accountid=14709
Abstract: Utilizing Concordia Cemetery as a framework, this study analyzes the social and economic development of El Paso County and the surrounding areas after the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-48). The cemetery was a vast commercialized zone before it was a burial ground, and silenced histories, voices, and people that lived and thrived on this land are incorporated into this work. The role of the original owners, Hugh Stephenson and Juana Maria Ascarate, as well as the Mexican networks, intermarriage and Mexican American women, and the presence of ethnic Mexicans are subjects that are also examined. In addition, this dissertation interrogates the pioneer narrative and how the Concordia Heritage Association utilizes its power to produce historical narratives that emphasizes Anglo superiority and their contributions to the economic growth of the region, while they utilize this same power to silence certain aspects of the past.
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Subject: History; Regional Studies; Hispanic American studies
Classification: 0578: History; 0604: Regional Studies; 0737: Hispanic American studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Bandidos and outlaws, El paso, Texas, Ethnic Mexicans, Mexican American women, Texas cemeteries, Wild west shows
Title: Reinventing the Old West: Concordia Cemetery and the power over space, 1800-1895
Number of pages: 305
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0459
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303958243
Advisor: Chavez Leyva, Yolanda
Committee member: Shepherd, Jeffery, Dailey, Maceo C., Bixler Marquez, Dennis
University/institution: The University of Texas at El Paso
Department: History
University location: United States -- Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623405
ProQuest document ID: 1552722660
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Document 19 of 25
Governance mechanisms and shareholder value: Evidence from the merger wave in the late 1990s
Author: Kim, Changhyun http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1548325788?accountid=14709
Abstract: Corporate governance scholars have emphasized monitoring by institutional investors as a primary mechanism for resolving agency problems. However, the shareholders of acquiring firms experienced substantial wealth destruction during the M&A wave in the late 1990s in spite of increasing institutional ownership. I hypothesize that this paradox is due to behavioral difference in two categories of institutional investors (transient vs. dedicated). Empirically, I find that transient institutional investors encouraged M&A activities even during the unproductive, value-destroying M&A wave in the late 1990s. Furthermore, the level of transient institutional investors' ownership was negatively related to M&A performance measured by cumulative abnormal returns. By contrast, dedicated institutional investors did not significantly impact M&A performance. Overall, results suggest that during merger waves the monitoring by transient institutional investors fails to prevent shareholder value destruction and may actually encourage it.
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Subject: Management; Economics; Finance; Public policy; Banking
Classification: 0454: Management; 0505: Economics; 0508: Finance; 0630: Public policy; 0770: Banking
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Agency theory, Behavioral theory, Cash holdings, Corporate governance, Institutional investors, Managerial ownership
Title: Governance mechanisms and shareholder value: Evidence from the merger wave in the late 1990s
Number of pages: 104
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0153
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303941016
Advisor: Bettis, Richard A.
Committee member: Nerkar, Atul, O'Neill, Hugh, Aldrich, Howard E., Ouimet, Paige Parker
University/institution: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department: Business Administration
University location: United States -- North Carolina
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622392
ProQuest document ID: 1548325788
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Document 20 of 25
Little Capitalists: The Social Economy of Saving in the United States, 1816-1914
Author: Osborne, Nicholas http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1552714284?accountid=14709
Abstract: In the early nineteenth-century United States, many social reformers, public commentators, and legislators argued that workers must engage in prudent financial planning in order to remain independent in a capitalist economy. Their belief that personal mismanagement was the primary cause of poverty led some of them to create the first financial institutions to help Americans of limited means save and invest their earnings: savings banks. From this modest start rose both a widespread ideology that related personal financial practice to personal virtue and a multibillion dollar industry that used the savings of millions of American workers to finance government, business, and personal debt. "Little Capitalists" charts this evolution from the philanthropic savings banks of the early- nineteenth century to the myriad commercial, cooperative, and public financial institutions for the working classes of the early-twentieth century. It shows how conceptions of individual and civic responsibility interacted with actual savings practices to integrate American workers into the national economy, building the financial apparatus that funded the expansion of wage-labor capitalism by harnessing the capital of wage laborers themselves. American institutional savings pioneers sought to address increased poverty wrought by urban growth and the creation of a wage-earning class in the first half of the nineteenth century. These reformers organized the country's original savings banks on the premise that all workers were capable of saving some of their earnings- no matter how little-so that they could remain financially independent in times of unemployment, injury, or old age. Their institutions tried to teach workers how to save money by providing secure facilities in which they could do so in the small amounts that no other financial institutions would handle. They also offered depositors a chance to earn a small profit from interest paid on deposits. Because this interest derived from investing those deposits in securities, mortgages, and other loans, savings banks brought millions of nineteenth-century wage earners into the American economy as investors. In this way, these institutions promoted the idea that working-class depositors could be their own "capitalists." As more Americans saved growing amounts, legislators, political economists, social reformers, and other observers took it as evidence that any worker who exercised virtues like thrift and self-denial could save money. Because generations of Americans viewed these personal attributes as the bases of moral civilization, they increasingly looked to savings institutions to foster a better citizenry and nation. The US Congress chartered the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company after the Civil War not only to provide financial services to former slaves but also to train them for a life of citizenship grounded in the principles of free labor ideology. Likewise, a nationwide movement beginning in the late- nineteenth century brought together governments, educators, and bankers to create a system of school savings banks to inculcate virtue in children by teaching them how to save pennies and nickels. In both cases, the point was to mold a working class steeped in the social, political, and moral values that would make them amenable to the emerging system of wage-labor capitalism. Even as some savings institutions attempted social indoctrination, workers' growing deposits also demonstrated their financial power. From the 1870s to the 1910s, this motivated entrepreneurs and legislators to design and encourage new institutions to collect savings deposits and invest them widely, including: industrial life insurance firms, employee thrift plans, trust company and commercial bank savings departments, and a postal savings system. Meanwhile, organizations like building and loan associations slowly added the extension of working- class credit to the collection of working-class savings. These new institutions gave many Americans increased discretion over how to save (and spend) money. But as they began to utilize them, workers also became a significant component of the nation's for-profit finance economy as both creditors and debtors. In the process, they assumed new financial risk. "Little Capitalists" outlines this history. It shows how a group of social experiments designed to foster an independent working class in the early-nineteenth century spawned, by the second decade of the twentieth century, both an ideology of saving at the center of popular perceptions about good citizenship and a small finance industry that was indispensable to the American economy.
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Subject: American history; Economics
Classification: 0337: American history; 0501: Economics
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Banks, Capital, Capitalism, Finance, Savings, Thrift
Title: Little Capitalists: The Social Economy of Saving in the United States, 1816-1914
Number of pages: 423
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0054
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303926693
Advisor: Foner, Eric
University/institution: Columbia University
Department: History
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621502
ProQuest document ID: 1552714284
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Document 21 of 25
Mobile Americans: Geographic mobility and modernity in U.S. visual culture, 1860-1915
Author: Baradel, Lacey http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545895714?accountid=14709
Abstract: Throughout U.S. history, commentators have claimed Americans' restlessness as an important--even distinctive--national trait. Such assertions gained particular prominence during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as the growth of transportation networks, increased immigration and urbanization, and rise of an industrial capitalist economy spurred an unprecedented flow of people and goods. This dissertation adapts and expands recent, cross-disciplinary scholarship on the social, political, and ideological significance of geographic mobility in the United States to understand how the visual arts shaped these notions. Specifically, through a diachronic analysis of three case studies, this dissertation examines the ways that genre artists and their audiences turned to representations of geographically mobile subjects to probe the politics of modern life during the period between the Civil War and World War I. Chapter 1 reconsiders genre paintings that Eastman Johnson produced during the 1860s and 1870s in relation to growing concerns about the socioeconomic effects of increased spatial mobility during and after the Civil War. Chapter 2 examines artworks by Thomas Hovenden, Robert Koehler, and John J. Boyle at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago that engaged the Fair's rhetorical linking of Americans' geographic mobility with the United States' recent economic and cultural ascendancy. Chapter 3 turns to work by the Ashcan artists, especially John Sloan, to consider how visual engagement with themes of geographic mobility evolved to suit an urban context at the turn of the twentieth century. Sloan's depictions of urbanites moving through the city explore the social and psychological isolation affecting crowds of daily commuters and the seemingly impenetrable barriers between economic classes, even as rich and poor moved through the city in close proximity to one another. Together, the works studied in this dissertation illuminate how depictions of mobile subjects opened a critical space to explore the shifting social relationships of modern life during a period in which profound political, economic, technological, and demographic transformations seemed to further unsettle a highly mobile American public.
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Subject: Art history
Classification: 0377: Art history
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts, American art, Johnson, Eastman, Genre painting, Geographic mobility, Sloan, John, Hovenden, Thomas
Title: Mobile Americans: Geographic mobility and modernity in U.S. visual culture, 1860-1915
Number of pages: 314
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0175
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303935848
Advisor: Leja, Michael
Committee member: Beckman, Karen, Foster, Kathleen A., Shaw, Gwendolyn DuBois
University/institution: University of Pennsylvania
Department: History of Art
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622006
ProQuest document ID: 1545895714
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Working Girls: The History of Women Directors in 1970s Hollywood
Author: Smukler, Maya Montanez http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1549976967?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines the relationship between the feminist movement and Hollywood during the 1970s, specifically as it impacted the hiring practices and creative output of women directors working in the film industry. Due to the activism of the feminist movement, in particular the feminist reform efforts of the Women's Committees of Hollywood's professional guilds--the Directors Guild, the Screen Actors Guild, and the Writers Guild--the number of women directors in 1970s Hollywood began to increase compared to previous decades. From the mid-1930s till the mid-1960s, only two women filmmakers had careers as directors in Hollywood: Dorothy Arzner and Ida Lupino. This research reveals that between 1966 and 1980 there were at least fifteen women making movies in the commercial film industry: Karen Arthur, Anne Bancroft, Joan Darling, Lee Grant, Barbara Loden, Elaine May, Barbara Peeters, Joan Rivers, Stephanie Rothman, Beverly Sebastian, Joan Micklin Silver, Joan Tewkesbury, Jane Wagner, Nancy Walker, and Claudia Weill. However, in spite of this increase, the overall numbers were bleak. Women directed only 0.19 percent of the 7,332 feature films made between 1949 and 1979. By studying the biographies and filmographies of the fifteen women directors making feature films during this era, this dissertation explores how the progress that took place during the 1970s was paradoxical: feminist reform efforts made possible a noticeable rise in the number of women directors at the same time that Hollywood's institutional sexism continued to create obstacles to closing the gender gap.
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Subject: Womens studies; Labor relations; Film studies
Classification: 0453: Womens studies; 0629: Labor relations; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, 1970s hollywood, Communication and the arts, Directors guild, Feminist movement, Gender, Women directors
Title: Working Girls: The History of Women Directors in 1970s Hollywood
Number of pages: 409
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0031
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303957529
Advisor: Bergstrom, Janet L.
Committee member: Caldwell, John T., Field, Allyson N., Williams, Juliet A.
University/institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Department: Film and TV (MA or PHD) 0010
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623358
ProQuest document ID: 1549976967
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Document 23 of 25
The "feminized" city: New York and suffrage, 1870-1917
Author: Santangelo, Lauren C. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1550892110?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines suffragists' changing relationship to America's largest metropolis from 1870 to 1917. It analyzes how advocates of the ballot perceived women's place in the city, how they mobilized the diverse groups of women that Gotham attracted, and how they interacted with the city's private, commercial, and public spaces. The study demonstrates that while suffragists benefitted from Gotham's resources--its restaurants and hotels, its busy streets and feminized retail districts, its national publishing houses and nascent film industry--many activists also viewed the metropolis as an arena for violence and vice that endangered respectable women. Initially, these concerns prevented them from mobilizing the city's resources. In order to win the vote in New York State in 1917, suffrage advocates had to move from being intimidated by the metropolis to harnessing it for their ends. While other scholars have detailed the importance of changing arguments and new leadership in the woman's rights campaign, this dissertation documents how the physical environment, urban social networks, and changing visions of the city shaped a major segment of the suffrage movement. In the process, it ties women's political protest to urbanization and the urban experience, exploring the interaction between these phenomena across five decades and demonstrating that New York City was more than simply a stage on which women's activities took place. It was an integral player in the drama.
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Subject: American history; Womens studies
Classification: 0337: American history; 0453: Womens studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, New York, Women's suffrage, Gotham, Women's rights, Political protest
Title: The "feminized" city: New York and suffrage, 1870-1917
Number of pages: 314
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0046
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303961120
Advisor: McCarthy, Kathleen D.
Committee member: Deutsch, Sarah, Kessner, Thomas, Markowitz, Gerald, Kish Sklar, Kathryn
University/institution: City University of New York
Department: History
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623569
ProQuest document ID: 1550892110
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Document 24 of 25
"An Island in the South": The Tampa Bay Area as a Cultural Borderland, 1513-1904
Author: Bell, Gregory Jason http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545895239?accountid=14709
Abstract: Although physically part of North America, peninsular Florida extends southward into the Caribbean. This geographic proximity resulted in a reciprocal relationship with Cuba that long transcended geopolitical borders. Much of the peninsula was also socioeconomically tied to the continent, but the Tampa Bay area was not. Rather, a number of variables delayed its Americanization and southernization until the beginning of the twentieth century. Initially, the Tampa Bay area was a Caribbean periphery. Its original inhabitants came from the Caribbean and maintained a maritime lifestyle. After the Columbian Exchange and subsequent warfare led to their extinction, southeastern Amerindians moved in and made adaptive shifts, including establishing strong relationships with Hispanics in Cuba and at fishing ranchos along the Gulf coast. Although both the Spanish and the British intruded in local affairs, they were unable to break these ties. With the formation of the United States, the Tampa Bay area soon became a borderland caught between competing cultural hearths-- American and Caribbean. White Americans grew increasingly frustrated over Florida's status as a refuge for fugitive slaves, who established a community in the Tampa Bay area and began trading with Cuba. Florida's Amerindians, then known collectively as Seminoles, began harboring these fugitives and incorporating them into their society. In response, the United States took possession of Florida in 1821 and removed the Seminoles from all but the southernmost peninsula. Hispanics, allowed to remain in the Tampa Bay area, maintained and even strengthened its Caribbean connection. White rural Crackers largely filled the void left by the Seminoles, selling cattle to the Cuban market. Southern planters also moved to the area but achieved little economic success. As a result, slavery failed to establish an adequate foothold, and the Bay area remained a diverse cultural frontier for the remainder of the antebellum period. The Civil War and the subsequent Union naval blockade of Florida temporarily disrupted the Cuban cattle trade, but Bay area residents turned to blockade running to the Caribbean as a means of survival. During Reconstruction, Cuba served as an economic lifeline for the Tampa Bay area, providing an eager market for local lumber, seafood, and cattle. The Bay area remained largely isolated from the United States until the 1880s, when the "Plant System" connected Tampa to the South via the railroad and the Caribbean via steamships. This transportation network opened the area to development and created economic opportunities that led to a multicultural population boom. Cubans and black Americans moved to the area, finding employment. Whites became a minority, which delayed the implementation of Jim Crow segregation until after the Spanish-American War, when the Tampa Bay area embraced the New South trinity of industrialization, racial segregation, and Lost Cause mythology. The southernized white civic elite then rewrote the area's history, nearly erasing its multicultural past. Despite their efforts, Tampa's sizeable and economically influential Hispanic population infused the city with an undeniable Latin character, making it unique within the American South.
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Subject: American history; Hispanic American studies
Classification: 0337: American history; 0737: Hispanic American studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Caribbean, Cuba, Florida, Hispanics, Tampa Bay
Title: "An Island in the South": The Tampa Bay Area as a Cultural Borderland, 1513-1904
Number of pages: 546
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0045
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303935855
Advisor: Phillips, Christopher
Committee member: Roark, James L., Durrill, Wayne K., Sunderland, Willard
University/institution: University of Cincinnati
Department: History
University location: United States -- Ohio
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622007
ProQuest document ID: 1545895239
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Document 25 of 25
American independent female filmmakers: Kelly Reinhardt in focus
Author: Hall, E. Dawn http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545616034?accountid=14709
Abstract: Female directors are historically underrepresented in the film industry. By studying the careers of independent women directors, scholars can identify their opportunities and challenges to create a more diverse and equitable industry. After synthesizing recent studies of women in film, this project focuses on the career of Kelly Reichardt as one example of the creative methodology, production, and content of women's work in the indie sector. After the introduction, a current snapshot of American independent female filmmakers' careers, chapter one introduces Reichardt's early influences and growth. Chapters two through five focus on micro-budget production decisions that affect content, aesthetic, and cinematic choices. Chapter two analyzes Reichardt's experimental techniques and feminist themes in her first feature RIVER OF GRASS (1995) and begins a discussion of genre mixing that extends to subsequent films. Chapter three examines her turn, after a twelve- year hiatus from filmmaking, to minimalism and a focus on cultural concepts of masculinity in OLD JOY (2006). In her next film, WENDY AND LUCY (2008), highlighted in chapter four, Reichardt responded to a lack of political will in addressing the pervasiveness of poverty and homelessness, issues complicated by gender. The chapter also explores ecofeminist themes of human collateral in the wake of natural disasters. With her largest budget to date, Reichardt made MEEK'S CUTOFF (2010), a feminist Western that critiques contemporary political landscapes, as detailed in chapter five, which also discusses her strategic uses of slow cinematic techniques and 1.37:1 screen ratio. The conclusion draws from Reichardt's production model to address issues facing women in film. By chronicling Reichardt's career and production methods, this project explores women's underrepresentation and attempts to draw conclusions about female career longevity in the independent sector. Reichardt offers a contemporary, sustainable career model for independent filmmakers; one that does not aspire to commercial success, but instead impacts scholarly and industry communities. With Kathryn Bigelow, Sofia Coppola, and Nicole Holofcener, Reichardt belongs to a small group of American women filmmakers with a distinctive and growing body of films. This project hopes to expand the existing body of research and support changes in perception and opportunity related to women in the film industry.
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Subject: Womens studies; Film studies
Classification: 0453: Womens studies; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Ecofeminism, Independent films, Reichardt, Kelly, Masculinity studies, Neorealism, Female filmmakers
Title: American independent female filmmakers: Kelly Reinhardt in focus
Number of pages: 172
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0170
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303921964
Advisor: Badley, Linda
Committee member: Hollings, Marion, Helford, Elyce
University/institution: Middle Tennessee State University
Department: English
University location: United States -- Tennessee
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621197
ProQuest document ID: 1545616034
Table of contents
1. A historical study of cooperative Protestant religious film in America from 1914 to 1972
2. The beginnings of gay cinema in Los Angeles: The industry and the audience
3. Celluloid egghead: The portrayal of the intellectual in the American film 1930-1976
4. Exotic, historical, escapist, "sword and sorcery" motion pictures produced in America
5. A history of RKO Radio Pictures, Incorporated 1928- 1942
6. Theatrical realism: An American film style of the fifties
7. The cinematographic style of James Wong Howe
8. An experimental densitometric/optical analysis of John A. Alonzo's style of cinematography
9. The woman's film at Warner Brothers: 1935-1950
10. The Woman's Film: A rhetorical analysis from the work of John M. Stahl
11. The film and television career of Franklin J. Schaffner
12. Visual pleasure and the masochistic aesthetic: The Von Sternberg/Dietrich Paramount cycle
13. Popeye the union man: A historical study of the Fleischer strike
14. The Warner Brothers film musical, 1927-1980
15. A critical study of the screwball comedy film, 1934- 1941
16. Raoul Walsh
17. Warner Brothers' crusade against the Third Reich: A study of anti-Nazi activism and film production, 1933 to 1941
18. The Jewish collective fantasy in American film
19. The genre of historical adventure in the movies
20. Billy Wilder and comedy: An analysis of comedic and production techniques in "Buddy Buddy"
21. Clint Eastwood: An ideological study of his films, star image, and popularity
22. Meetings with the mother: The maternal and spectatorial pleasure in film
23. That pudgy colossus of movie melodramas: The films of Alfred Hitchcock, the melodramatic tradition, and the postwar discourse on irony
24. The Myth of Movement: Lucinda Childs and Trisha Brown Dancing on the New York City Grid, 1970-1980
25. Exercise and behavior change in adult women transitioning into society: A documentary film and analysis
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A historical study of cooperative Protestant religious film in America from 1914 to 1972
Author: Bridges, Joseph Lewis http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1554769895?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Religious history; Film studies
Classification: 0320: Religious history; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Communication and the arts
Title: A historical study of cooperative Protestant religious film in America from 1914 to 1972
Number of pages: 329
Publication year: 1975
Degree date: 1975
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22320
ProQuest document ID: 1554769895
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1554769895?accountid=14709
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Document 2 of 25
The beginnings of gay cinema in Los Angeles: The industry and the audience
Author: Siebenand, Paul Alcuin http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1585905589?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: GLBT Studies; Film studies
Classification: 0492: GLBT Studies; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, California
Title: The beginnings of gay cinema in Los Angeles: The industry and the audience: [1]
Number of pages: 355
Publication year: 1975
Degree date: 1975
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22237
ProQuest document ID: 1585905589
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Celluloid egghead: The portrayal of the intellectual in the American film 1930-1976
Author: Johnson, Timothy Wayne. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1555954904?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Film studies
Classification: 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: Celluloid egghead: The portrayal of the intellectual in the American film 1930-1976: [1]
Number of pages: 177
Publication year: 1977
Degree date: 1977
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22328
ProQuest document ID: 1555954904
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Document 4 of 25
Exotic, historical, escapist, "sword and sorcery" motion pictures produced in America
Author: Ball, Jimmy Lloyd http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1568037714?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Film studies
Classification: 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: Exotic, historical, escapist, "sword and sorcery" motion pictures produced in America: [1]
Number of pages: 352
Publication year: 1977
Degree date: 1977
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22241
ProQuest document ID: 1568037714
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1568037714?accountid=14709
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Document 5 of 25
A history of RKO Radio Pictures, Incorporated 1928- 1942
Author: Jewell, Richard Brownell http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553084155?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: American history; Film studies
Classification: 0337: American history; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: A history of RKO Radio Pictures, Incorporated 1928-1942: [1]
Number of pages: 776
Publication year: 1978
Degree date: 1978
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22246
ProQuest document ID: 1553084155
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553084155?accountid=14709
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Document 6 of 25
Theatrical realism: An American film style of the fifties
Author: Beguiristain, Mario Eugenio http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1568036635?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Film studies
Classification: 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: Theatrical realism: An American film style of the fifties: [1]
Number of pages: 667
Publication year: 1978
Degree date: 1978
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22242
ProQuest document ID: 1568036635
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Document 7 of 25
The cinematographic style of James Wong Howe
Author: Rainsberger, Todd Jeffrey http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1552951314?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Cinematography
Classification: 0435: Cinematography
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: The cinematographic style of James Wong Howe
Number of pages: 450
Publication year: 1979
Degree date: 1979
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22249
ProQuest document ID: 1552951314
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Document 8 of 25
An experimental densitometric/optical analysis of John A. Alonzo's style of cinematography
Author: Tilford, Arthur Robert http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1568037849?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Cinematography
Classification: 0435: Cinematography
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: An experimental densitometric/optical analysis of John A. Alonzo's style of cinematography
Number of pages: 242
Publication year: 1980
Degree date: 1980
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22252
ProQuest document ID: 1568037849
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Document 9 of 25
The woman's film at Warner Brothers: 1935-1950
Author: Yeck, Joanne Louise http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553095188?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Womens studies; Film studies
Classification: 0453: Womens studies; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: The woman's film at Warner Brothers: 1935-1950: [1]
Number of pages: 422
Publication year: 1982
Degree date: 1982
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22257
ProQuest document ID: 1553095188
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Document 10 of 25
The Woman's Film: A rhetorical analysis from the work of John M. Stahl
Author: McLane, Betsy Ann http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1554413092?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Rhetoric; Film studies
Classification: 0681: Rhetoric; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Communication and the arts
Title: The Woman's Film: A rhetorical analysis from the work of John M. Stahl
Number of pages: 284
Publication year: 1982
Degree date: 1982
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22364
ProQuest document ID: 1554413092
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Document 11 of 25
The film and television career of Franklin J. Schaffner
Author: Kim, Erwin http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553001694?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Links: http://RT4RF9QN2Y.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ve r=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF- 8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQuest+Dissertations+%26+The ses+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:diss ertation&rft.genre=dissertations+%26+theses&am p;rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Kim%2C+Erwin &rft.aulast=Kim&rft.aufirst=Erwin&rft.dat e=1983-01- 01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&a mp;rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=The+film+and +television+career+of+Franklin+J.+Schaffner&rft.is sn=&rft_id=info:doi/ http://RT4RF9QN2Y.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ve r=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF- 8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQuest+Dissertations+%26+The ses+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:diss ertation&rft.genre=dissertations+%26+theses&am p;rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Kim%2C+Erwin &rft.aulast=Kim&rft.aufirst=Erwin&rft.dat e=1983-01- 01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&a mp;rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=The+film+and +television+career+of+Franklin+J.+Schaffner&rft.is sn=&rft_id=info:doi/
Subject: Biographies; Mass communications; Film studies
Classification: 0304: Biographies; 0708: Mass communications; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: The film and television career of Franklin J. Schaffner: [1]
Number of pages: 707
Publication year: 1983
Degree date: 1983
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22255
ProQuest document ID: 1553001694
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Document 12 of 25
Visual pleasure and the masochistic aesthetic: The Von Sternberg/Dietrich Paramount cycle
Author: Studlar, Gay Lynn http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1555314130?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Film studies
Classification: 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts, Von Sternberg, Josef, Dietrich, Marlene
Title: Visual pleasure and the masochistic aesthetic: The Von Sternberg/Dietrich Paramount cycle: [1]
Number of pages: 552
Publication year: 1984
Degree date: 1984
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22389
ProQuest document ID: 1555314130
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Document 13 of 25
Popeye the union man: A historical study of the Fleischer strike
Author: Deneroff, Harvey Raphael http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553123817?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Labor relations; Film studies
Classification: 0629: Labor relations; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: Popeye the union man: A historical study of the Fleischer strike
Number of pages: 334
Publication year: 1985
Degree date: 1985
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22261
ProQuest document ID: 1553123817
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Document 14 of 25
The Warner Brothers film musical, 1927-1980
Author: Hoover, John Gene http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553101781?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Music; Film studies
Classification: 0413: Music; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: The Warner Brothers film musical, 1927-1980: [1]
Number of pages: 484
Publication year: 1985
Degree date: 1985
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22262
ProQuest document ID: 1553101781
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Document 15 of 25
A critical study of the screwball comedy film, 1934-1941
Author: Byrge, Duane Paul http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1556121807?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Film studies
Classification: 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: A critical study of the screwball comedy film, 1934-1941: [1]
Number of pages: 241
Publication year: 1985
Degree date: 1985
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22392
ProQuest document ID: 1556121807
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Document 16 of 25
Raoul Walsh
Author: Cardwell, David Webb http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553101782?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Film studies
Classification: 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: Raoul Walsh: [1]
Number of pages: 193
Publication year: 1985
Degree date: 1985
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22258
ProQuest document ID: 1553101782
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Document 17 of 25
Warner Brothers' crusade against the Third Reich: A study of anti-Nazi activism and film production, 1933 to 1941
Author: Colgan, Christine Ann http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553101788?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: European history; Modern history; Film studies
Classification: 0335: European history; 0582: Modern history; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: Warner Brothers' crusade against the Third Reich: A study of anti-Nazi activism and film production, 1933 to 1941: [1]
Number of pages: 838
Publication year: 1985
Degree date: 1985
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22259
ProQuest document ID: 1553101788
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Document 18 of 25
The Jewish collective fantasy in American film
Author: Dworkin, Marc Steven http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1556119664?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Links: http://RT4RF9QN2Y.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ve r=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF- 8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQuest+Dissertations+%26+The ses+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:diss ertation&rft.genre=dissertations+%26+theses&am p;rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Dworkin%2C+M arc+Steven&rft.aulast=Dworkin&rft.aufirst=M arc&rft.date=1986-01- 01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&a mp;rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=The+Jewish+ collective+fantasy+in+American+film&rft.issn=&a mp;rft_id=info:doi/ http://RT4RF9QN2Y.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ve r=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF- 8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQuest+Dissertations+%26+The ses+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:diss ertation&rft.genre=dissertations+%26+theses&am p;rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Dworkin%2C+M arc+Steven&rft.aulast=Dworkin&rft.aufirst=M arc&rft.date=1986-01- 01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&a mp;rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=The+Jewish+ collective+fantasy+in+American+film&rft.issn=&a mp;rft_id=info:doi/
Subject: Judaic studies; Film studies
Classification: 0751: Judaic studies; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: The Jewish collective fantasy in American film: [1]
Number of pages: 292
Publication year: 1986
Degree date: 1986
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22400
ProQuest document ID: 1556119664
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Document 19 of 25
The genre of historical adventure in the movies
Author: Taves, Brian http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553002081?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
Links: http://RT4RF9QN2Y.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ve r=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF- 8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQuest+Dissertations+%26+The ses+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:diss ertation&rft.genre=dissertations+%26+theses&am p;rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Taves%2C+Bria n&rft.aulast=Taves&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft. date=1988-01- 01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&a mp;rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=The+genre+of +historical+adventure+in+the+movies&rft.issn=&a mp;rft_id=info:doi/ http://RT4RF9QN2Y.search.serialssolutions.com/?ctx_ve r=Z39.88-2004&ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF- 8&rfr_id=info:sid/ProQuest+Dissertations+%26+The ses+Full+Text&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:diss ertation&rft.genre=dissertations+%26+theses&am p;rft.jtitle=&rft.atitle=&rft.au=Taves%2C+Bria n&rft.aulast=Taves&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft. date=1988-01- 01&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.spage=&a mp;rft.isbn=&rft.btitle=&rft.title=The+genre+of +historical+adventure+in+the+movies&rft.issn=&a mp;rft_id=info:doi/
Subject: Film studies
Classification: 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: The genre of historical adventure in the movies: [1]
Number of pages: 611
Publication year: 1988
Degree date: 1988
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22270
ProQuest document ID: 1553002081
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Document 20 of 25
Billy Wilder and comedy: An analysis of comedic and production techniques in "Buddy Buddy"
Author: Hadley, Richard Parker http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1555273751?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Film studies
Classification: 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: Billy Wilder and comedy: An analysis of comedic and production techniques in "Buddy Buddy": [1]
Number of pages: 282
Publication year: 1989
Degree date: 1989
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22447
ProQuest document ID: 1555273751
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Document 21 of 25
Clint Eastwood: An ideological study of his films, star image, and popularity
Author: Cheatham, Richard Beau http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1555370115?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Biographies; Film studies
Classification: 0304: Biographies; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts
Title: Clint Eastwood: An ideological study of his films, star image, and popularity: [1]
Number of pages: 421
Publication year: 1992
Degree date: 1992
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22475
ProQuest document ID: 1555370115
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Document 22 of 25
Meetings with the mother: The maternal and spectatorial pleasure in film
Author: Desjardins, Mary Regina http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553175377?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Film studies
Classification: 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: Meetings with the mother: The maternal and spectatorial pleasure in film: [1]
Number of pages: 235
Publication year: 1992
Degree date: 1992
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22277
ProQuest document ID: 1553175377
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Document 23 of 25
That pudgy colossus of movie melodramas: The films of Alfred Hitchcock, the melodramatic tradition, and the postwar discourse on irony
Author: Mader, Shannon http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1553036603?accountid=14709
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Subject: Film studies
Classification: 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: That pudgy colossus of movie melodramas: The films of Alfred Hitchcock, the melodramatic tradition, and the postwar discourse on irony: [1]
Number of pages: 204
Publication year: 2002
Degree date: 2002
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22287
ProQuest document ID: 1553036603
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Document 24 of 25
The Myth of Movement: Lucinda Childs and Trisha Brown Dancing on the New York City Grid, 1970-1980
Author: Graham, Amanda Jane Lamarra http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1539528782?accountid=14709
Abstract: The Myth of Movement: Lucinda Childs and Trisha Brown Dancing on the New York City Grid, 1970- 1980 is set in New York City during the 1970s, a decade during which recession struck Manhattan became a post-industrial stage for young artist-innovators. This dissertation focuses on two of these innovators, choreographers Lucinda Childs and Trisha Brown. Their dances of the period performatively intervened in otherwise overlooked city spaces in order to reveal the architectural and economic topography of the City in flux and the shifting, often porous, demarcation between public and private spaces. My chronological investigation proposes that Childs's and Brown's site situated dances reflected crucial ideological and physical changes in the metropolitan fabric. First concentrating on their outdoor, loft-studio, and gallery and museum performances of the early to mid 70s, and afterward on their dances for the proscenium stage, I establish the growing cultural and economic legitimacy of post-Judson postmodern dance. The move to the proscenium may seem like a betrayal of their earlier work, yet I allege that the ideas and methods that Brown and Childs generated in alternative spaces during the first part of the decade patently influenced how they later negotiated the theater. The choreographic structures that Brown and Childs employed during the 70s, in particular grids, were indicative of experimental choreographic formalism and a relevant response to the choreographers' urban environment. Dancing in the metropolitan grid and on aesthetic grids, I argue that Brown and Childs illustrated the symbiotic relationship between bodies and the landscape. Each of my chapters is a case study of one of their grid dances. In chapter one I discuss Brown's Roof Piece (1971, 1973, remounted 2011); in chapter two Childs's Calico Mingling (1973); in chapter three Brown's Locus (1975); in chapter four Childs's Dance (1979, remounted 2009). By alternating between dances by Brown and those by Childs I attempt to demonstrate the confluence between their choreographic concerns over the course of the decade and highlight their divergent techniques.
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Subject: Art history; Dance
Classification: 0377: Art history; 0378: Dance
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts, Lucinda childs, New york city, Postmodern dance, Site specificity, Trisha brown, Urban development
Title: The Myth of Movement: Lucinda Childs and Trisha Brown Dancing on the New York City Grid, 1970-1980
Number of pages: 259
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0188
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303921896
Advisor: Crimp, Douglas
Committee member: Saab, Joan, Haidu, Rachel, Doran, Robert
University/institution: University of Rochester
Department: Arts and Sciences
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621195
ProQuest document ID: 1539528782
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Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 2014
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 25 of 25
Exercise and behavior change in adult women transitioning into society: A documentary film and analysis
Author: McWilliams, Stephen http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1548006626?accountid=14709
Abstract: Since the introduction of cinema, both non- fiction and fictional films have been used by film makers, artists, and interest groups to change minds and mold opinions. Documentary films in particular, have a history of being used in a variety of ways to further political causes, raise social or patriotic awareness, or as a call to personal activism. In this project, the use of well designed, aesthetically pleasing documentaries have been advocated for potential use in the field of sport psychology to create awareness of the work of practitioners in order to promote healthy behaviors. Filmmaking can serve the field in a number of creative ways. A recent film is submitted as a demonstration of how a well crafted film can be utilized within the field as both a advocacy piece and an educational resource. There has been a long, historical relationship between sports and film. Throughout cinematic history there have been numerous films, both narrative and documentaries, both about sports or subjects that included sports in their story. Sports lend themselves to narrative and documentary storytelling. As a filmmaker, I was drawn to a story about a non- profit organization, "Gearing Up," which uses a bicycle exercise program to help women in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. The film explores the effectiveness of a therapeutic model developed by "Gearing Up" founder, Kristin Gavin. The production of the film, and my involvement as the producer and director, inspired me to explore the further use of documentary film as both a classroom teaching tool and a vehicle that can inspire behavioral change.
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Subject: Behavioral psychology; Womens studies; Kinesiology; Health education; Film studies
Classification: 0384: Behavioral psychology; 0453: Womens studies; 0575: Kinesiology; 0680: Health education; 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Psychology, Health and environmental sciences, Education, Documentary, Film as social change, Film in the classroom, Self determination and exercise, Sports films, Women in recovery
Title: Exercise and behavior change in adult women transitioning into society: A documentary film and analysis
Number of pages: 146
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0225
Source: DAI-B 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303944260
Advisor: Sachs, Michael
Committee member: Butcher, Lois, Schifter, Catherine, Salzer, Mark
University/institution: Temple University
Department: Kinesiology
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622589
ProQuest document ID: 1548006626
Exotic, historical, escapist, "sword and sorcery" motion pictures produced in America: [1] Ball, Jimmy Lloyd. University of Southern California, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1977.DP22241.
A historical study of cooperative Protestant religious film in America from 1914 to 1972 Bridges, Joseph Lewis. University of Southern California, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1975. DP22320.
The beginnings of gay cinema in Los Angeles: The industry and the audience: [1] Siebenand, Paul Alcuin. University of Southern California, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1975. DP22237.
Reclaiming Space: Buildings in Modernist Literature and Film Banerjee, Sreenjaya Ria. City University of New York, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3623682.
Surface to surface: war, image & the senses in the screenic era Schrag, Adam. University of Minnesota, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2013.3620905.
American motion picture distribution with an analysis of the independent distribution of "successful" American feature films: 1970-1983: [1] Donahue, Suzanne Mary. University of Southern California, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1984. DP22380.
The knight errant, medieval and modern: A comparative study of the character in medieval literature and contemporary American literature and film: [1] Saba, Behrouz. University of Southern California, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1979.DP22251.
Science, fiction, and film: A study of the interaction of science, science fiction literature, and the growth of cinema: [1] Cook, Bruce Randall. University of Southern California, ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1976.DP22322.
Preview The method, from Stanislavski to Hollywood: The transition of acting theory in America from stage to screen (1900-1976) Blum, Richard A.. University of Southern California, 1976. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1976.DP22326.
Preview A historical-critical study of the films of Richard Brooks: With special attention to his problems of achieving and maintaining final decision-control: [1] Frost, Francis Patrick. University of Southern California, 1976. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1976.DP22238.
John Steinbeck in films: An analysis of realism in the novel and in the film: A non-teleological approach: [1] Davis, Gary Corbett. University of Southern California, 1975. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1975.DP22235.
A history of the Screen Writers' Guild (1920--1942): The writers' quest for a freely negotiated basic agreement Wheaton, Christopher D.. University of Southern California, 1974. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1974. DP22234.
Preview The Patriotic Play: Roosevelt, Antitrust, and the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry Samuelson, Mary Gelsey. University of California, Los Angeles, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3622670.
Disruptive Convergence: The Struggle Over the Licensing and Sale of Hollywood's Feature Films to Television Before 1955 Porst, Jennifer Anne. University of California, Los Angeles, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3623453.
A critical analysis of the musical theatre productions of George Abbott Hess, Dean William. University of Southern California, 1975. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1975. DP22912.
The life and teaching of Donald S. Reinhardt: Brass pedagogue, 1908--1989 Cook, Brian Christopher. Boston University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014.3581014.
A History of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College of the City University of New York 1938- 2010 Archer, Peter A.. Boston University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3581000.
The history of jazz education in New Orleans: An investigation of the unsung heroes of jazz education Torregano, Michael James, Sr.. Boston University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014.3581101.
A descriptive study of the most popular high school plays in the United States produced by members of the National Thespian Society, 1938-1954: [1] Wattron, Joseph Frank. University of Southern California, 1957. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1957.DP22306.
Tony Sarg: Puppeteer in America, 1915-1942 Hunt, Tamara Robin. University of Southern California, 1975. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1975. DP22909.
The Merced Theatre of Los Angeles: An analysis of its management and architecture, 1870-1879 Huber, Robert Christopher. University of Southern California, 1980. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1980. DP22930.
The writing of 'Androboros': An historical study and annotation of America's earliest extant play Davis, Peter Allen. University of Southern California, 1980. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1980.DP22928.
Shakespeare's contemporaries on the American stage before the Civil War Larson, Carl Frederick William. University of Southern California, 1979. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1979. DP22926.
The use of theater abroad in United States government international cultural relations (1949-1975) Soucek, Carol Boyce. University of Southern California, 1975. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1975.DP22913.
A critical study of the origins and characteristics of documentary theater of dissent in the United States Lion, Paul Dexter. University of Southern California, 1975. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1975.DP22910.
A historical study of the New York Lyceum Theatre under the management of Steele MacKaye, 1884-1885 Marienthal, Hal. University of Southern California, 1966. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1966.DP22907.
A historical study of the stage directing theory and practice of David Belasco: [1] Modisett, Noah Franklin. University of Southern California, 1963. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1963. DP22309.
A historical study of actor Will Geer: His life and work in the context of twentieth-century American social, political, and theatrical history Norton, Sally Osborne. University of Southern California, 1981. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1981.DP22932.
Redefining education: a grounded theory study Hansen, Emma L.. Capella University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014.3620682.
Closest to the Heart --- The Life of Emerson Hynes: A Biographical Study of Human Goodness with a Focus on the College Years Cofell, Jeanne Lorraine. University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3580582.
Political disasters: The politics of U.S. disaster relief, 1927-2005 Schuster, Natalie M.. University of Houston, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014.3580822.
"The pastime of millions": James B. Haggin's Elmendorf Farm and the commercialization of pedigree animal breeding, 1897-1920 Sergent, Amber Fogle. University of Kentucky, 2012. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2012. 3584213.
The rhetoric of character legitimation: Geraldine A. Ferraro and the 1984 vice-presidential campaign Baaske, Kevin T.. University of Southern California, 1989. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1989.DP22438.
Compelled to Volunteer: American Conscientious Objectors to World War II as Subjects of Medical Research Bateman-House, Alison S.. Columbia University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014.3621579.
The Work of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Making of American Colonialisms in Cuba and the Philippines, 1898-1913 Jackson, Justin F.. Columbia University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3621211.
Cancer Viruses and the Construction of Biomedicine in the United States from 1900 to 1980 Scheffler, Robin Wolfe. Yale University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3580849.
When the West Turned South: Capital and Culture in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1940 Offenburger, Andrew Charles. Yale University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3580790.
Our Enemy's Enemy: Human Rights and the U.S. Intervention in El Salvador, 1977-1992 Wilsman, Adam R.. Vanderbilt University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014.3584407.
Mansfieldism: Law and politics in Anglo-America, 1700- 1865 Buehner, Henry Nicholas. Temple University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014.3623118.
The Fight Over John Q: How Labor Won and Lost the Public in Postwar America, 1947-1959 Burstein, Rachel. City University of New York, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3623277.
In but not of the revolution: Loyalty, liberty, and the British occupation of Philadelphia Sullivan, Aaron. Temple University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3623272.
From the "hour of her darkest peril" to the "brightest page of her history": New perspectives on the Battle of New Orleans Roumillat, Shelene C.. Tulane University, 2013. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2013. 3622720.
Toiling in the vineyards: American security and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1968 Pembleton, Matthew. American University, 2014. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 2014. 3619301.
The awakening: The female in business in the twentieth century American novel Poggi, Gerald Egidio. University of Southern California, 1982. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1982. DP22547.
Early development in America, 1825-1850, of travel books as literature Greer, Ann Lucille. University of Southern California, 1955. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1955. DP23006.
Preview A history of Missouri literature, 1780-1930 Jacobs, Elijah L.. University of Southern California, 1948. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1948. DP22992.
The awakening: The female in business in the twentieth century American novel Poggi, Gerald Egidio. University of Southern California, 1982. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1982. DP22547.
A broken bundle of mirrors: Identity in the work of John Barth Aklonis, Judith Livingston. University of Southern California, 1977. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1977. DP22531.
The serialized novels of William Dean Howells, 1878- 1890 Schneider, Clarence Elmer. University of Southern California, 1957. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1957. DP23014.
A critical study of the works of Thomas Wolfe Johnson, Stanley L.. University of Southern California, 1955. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1955. DP23007.
The treatment of the Quaker as a character in American fiction, 1825-1925 Kimber, Thomas. University of Southern California, 1953. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1953. DP23003.
The satire of Ambrose Bierce: Its objects, forms, devices, and possible origins Sheller, Harry Lynn. University of Southern California, 1945. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1945. DP22991.
The conception of the novel as presented by the leading English and American novelists since 1800 St. John, William Errle. University of Southern California, 1936. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1936.DP22981.
The reception of the writings of Joseph Conrad in England and the United States from 1895 through 1915 Van Slooten, Henry. University of Southern California, 1957. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1957.DP23017.
D. H. Lawrence and America: A bibliographical and critical study of the influence of the United States and Mexico on the thought and writing of D. H. Lawrence Tedlock, Ernest Warnock. University of Southern California, 1950. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1950. DP22997.
The reception of Oliver Goldsmith's non-dramatic works in the United States: 1768-1900 Mitchell, Daniel T.. University of Southern California, 1958. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1958. DP23019.
The American Civil War and some English men of letters: Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Arnold, Kingsley, Hughes, Trollope, Thackeray, and Dickens Waller, John O.. University of Southern California, 1953. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1953.DP23004.
The conception of the novel as presented by the leading English and American novelists since 1800 St. John, William Errle. University of Southern California, 1936. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1936.DP22981.
Toward savage peace: A conflict of narratives in J. Roberts Oppenheimer's public discourse, 1945-1967 Tanno, Dolores V.. University of Southern California, 1990. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1990.DP22462.
The political preaching of Jerry Falwell: A rhetorical analysis of the political preaching of Rev. Jerry Falwell in behalf of the Moral Majority during the 1980 political campaign Buckelew, Roy Edward. University of Southern California, 1983. ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing, 1983.DP22369.
Table of contents
1. A historical-critical study of the films of Richard Brooks: With special attention to his problems of achieving and maintaining final decision-control
2. Three worlds of Western punishment: A regime theory of cross-national incarceration rate variation, 1960- 2002
3. Precarious Politics: Working Class Insecurity and Struggles for Recognition in the United States and South Africa, 1994-2010
4. Manifestations of Transcendence in Twentieth- Century American Fiction: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carson McCullers, J.D. Salinger, and Cormac McCarthy
5. Textbook vs. Historical Fiction: Impact on Social Studies Students
6. From the "hour of her darkest peril" to the "brightest page of her history": New perspectives on the Battle of New Orleans
7. Toiling in the vineyards: American security and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1968
8. From Deliberation to Participation: John Dewey's Challenge to Contemporary Democratic Theory
9. "The battle for freedom begins every morning": John Hervey Wheeler, civil rights, and New South prosperity
10. Liberty in Full: Justice Stephen Field's Cooperative Constitution of Liberty
11. The Fight Over John Q: How Labor Won and Lost the Public in Postwar America, 1947-1959
12. Mansfieldism: Law and politics in Anglo-America, 1700-1865
13. Experts, Eggheads, and Elites: Debating the Role of Intellectuals in American Political Culture, 1952-2008
14. In but not of the revolution: Loyalty, liberty, and the British occupation of Philadelphia
15. The Politics of Vice and Virtue: Sex Panics, Faith- Based Activism and the Secularization of Sin
16. The Oligarchic Mind: Wealth and Power in the Political Thought of John Adams
17. The Work of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Making of American Colonialisms in Cuba and the Philippines, 1898-1913
18. Battling destiny: Soldiers' letters and the anti- colonial discourse in the Philippine-American war
19. The Indochina Syndrome: War, memory, and the Franco-American conflict over Vietnam, 1963-1973
20. Institutionalizing Class Conflict: Gouverneur Morris on Mediating Class Warfare through Separation of Powers
21. Persuasive elements in the preaching of George Whitefield
22. Fictionality in the United States, 1789-1861
23. Watts, our town: "Nothing about us, without us, is for us" an auto-ethnographic account of life in Watts, Los Angeles, California
24. Spatial relationships in high-dimensional, international, and historical data
25. The Death of the Law: Sovereignty, Sacrifice, and Civil War America
26. Living in Never-Never Land: The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Oil in the 1970s
27. Firearm injury prevention: Understanding firearm policy diffusion, 1993-2010
28. The Army's orphans: The United States Army replacement system in the European campaign, 1944-- 1945
29. Personalism and Popular Genres: American Catholic Fiction after Vatican II
30. Diplomatic subtleties and frank overtures: Publicity, diplomacy, and neutrality in the early American Republic, 1793-1801
31. Museum Networks The Exchange of the Smithsonian Institution's Duplicate Anthropology Collections
32. Hypnotically refreshed testimony in the United States: A socio-historical analysis of admissibility standards
33. Unspoken prejudice: Racial politics, gendered norms, and the transformation of Puerto Rican identity in the twentieth century
34. Popular Front Movements: Antifascism and the Makings of a Global Left during the Depression
35. "Relocating the revolution": The American Revolution and social reform in historical romances of antebellum America
36. "It was like dancing on a grave": Eviction and Displacement in Los Angeles 1994-1999
37. National child maltreatment response and foster care entries: 2005-2010
38. When the West Turned South: Capital and Culture in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1940
39. Sovereignty in the Age of Securitization: A Study on Borders and Bordering in the United States after 9/11
40. Our Enemy's Enemy: Human Rights and the U.S. Intervention in El Salvador, 1977-1992
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Document 1 of 40
A historical-critical study of the films of Richard Brooks: With special attention to his problems of achieving and maintaining final decision-control
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Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: Film studies
Classification: 0900: Film studies
Identifier / keyword: Communication and the arts
Title: A historical-critical study of the films of Richard Brooks: With special attention to his problems of achieving and maintaining final decision-control: [1]
Number of pages: 326
Publication year: 1976
Degree date: 1976
School code: 0208
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
University/institution: University of Southern California
Department: Cinematography
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: DP22238
ProQuest document ID: 1552940592
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1552940592?accountid=14709
Copyright: Copyright ProQuest, UMI Dissertations Publishing 1976
Database: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Full Text
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Document 2 of 40
Three worlds of Western punishment: A regime theory of cross-national incarceration rate variation, 1960- 2002
Author: DeMichele, Matthew Todd http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1547695025?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation offers an explanation of cross national incarceration rate variation for 17 industrialized countries for the second half of the 20 th century. Both historical case studies and time-series cross-section analyses are used to provide an institutional explanation of incarceration rate differences. Borrowing from Weber's Sociology of Law and comparative legal scholarship, it is suggested that three types of legal thinking exist among western democracies--Common, Romano-Germanic, and Nordic law. A regime approach commonly applied in political economic explanations of welfare state development is used to quantify the legal and criminal justice institutional differences between 1960 and 2002 to assert that there are 'three worlds of western punishment' in the post-War period. The countries used in this analysis are similar in numerous ways, but historically embedded legal differences have resulted in different trial structures, judge-attorney relationships, rules of criminal evidence, and lay participation that influence the amount of incarceration in each country. The historical case studies demonstrate how important events set countries on particular developmental paths such as the power of defense attorneys in common law, despite their original exclusion from trials; the choice of scientific legal principles as a basis for an objective law blending Roman and Germanic legal principles; and the Nordic's amalgamation of common and Romano- Germanic legal principles. These legal institutions are complimented by political economic variables that suggest that the presence of more left leaning political parties, centralization of wage bargaining, and labor organization provide a further break on the drive to incarcerate. The quantitative findings support the legal regime approach as well as political economic variables while controlling for crime and homicide rates. KEYWORDS: Sociology of Law, Political Sociology, Comparative Sociology, Time-series Cross-section Analysis, Sociology of Punishment
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Subject: Law; Political science; Criminology
Classification: 0398: Law; 0615: Political science; 0627: Criminology
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Political sociology, Sociology of law, Comparative sociology, Time-series cross-section analysis, Sociology of punishment
Title: Three worlds of Western punishment: A regime theory of cross-national incarceration rate variation, 1960-2002
Number of pages: 135
Publication year: 2010
Degree date: 2010
School code: 0102
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303997891
Advisor: Janoski, Thomas
University/institution: University of Kentucky
University location: United States -- Kentucky
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3584052
ProQuest document ID: 1547695025
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Precarious Politics: Working Class Insecurity and Struggles for Recognition in the United States and South Africa, 1994-2010
Author: Paret, Marcel Emil http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1550352684?accountid=14709
Abstract: The closing decades of the 20 th century were devastating for the working class. Across the globe the widespread embrace of free markets led to growing capital mobility, flexible and informal employment, and union decline. A key result of these shifts was the expansion of the precarious working class: insecurely employed, low-income, and non-unionized segments of the urban working class. Scholars have increasingly highlighted this transformation, but they have paid little attention to collective struggles emerging from the precarious working class. Members of the precarious working class are instead commonly dismissed as too weak or fragmented to engage in politically relevant action. We thus know very little about their political orientation: what do members of the precarious working class struggle for, who do they struggle against, and from where do they derive power? This dissertation is a study of precarious politics, which refers to the political content of collective struggles by members of the precarious working class. The study focuses on two groups that were actively engaged in collective struggles during the late 1990s and 2000s: low-wage noncitizen workers in California, United States; and poor citizen communities in Gauteng, South Africa. The two groups shared a common structural position based on insecure employment and livelihood. But they also reflected the uneven development of the precarious working class across the world system. Low-wage noncitizen workers in California were prototypical of the precarious working class under advanced capitalism, which was increasingly organized around insecure formal sector employment and international migration. Poor citizen communities in Gauteng were, in contrast, prototypical of the precarious working class under peripheral capitalism, which was increasingly organized around high unemployment, informal economic activity, and "internal" rural-to-urban migration. In both cases precarious politics were rooted in demands for recognition, dignity, and respect. Given their marginalization, recognition was an important end in itself for members of the precarious working class. But it was also a source of symbolic leverage, enabling them to compensate for their detachment from unions and lack of economic leverage. Symbolic leverage was, in turn, crucial for achieving more concrete ends. Given the economic insecurity of the precarious working class, economic struggles for basic survival were central. But economic struggles in both places fed into and overlapped with citizenship struggles around official inclusion in the political community, broadening the terrain of precarious politics. Beyond this basic similarity, precarious politics in California and Gauteng were very different. Oriented towards participation, low- wage noncitizen workers in California sought to increase their access and leverage within the economy and society. Their economic struggles were organized around an Equal Opportunity politics, which sought access to the labor market and basic labor protections, while their citizenship struggles were organized around a Membership Inclusion politics, which sought official legal status and freedom from criminalization. Oriented towards protection, poor citizen communities in Gauteng instead sought to protect themselves against the ravages of the market. Their economic struggles were organized around a Collective Consumption politics, which sought state delivery of basic public goods, while their citizenship struggles were organized around a Membership Exclusion politics, which sought the expulsion of noncitizen outsiders. Precarious politics in California and Gauteng thus ran in opposite directions as they moved from economic struggles to citizenship struggles. Whereas low-wage noncitizen workers in California sought to broaden the political community, poor citizen communities in Gauteng sought to contract it. Labor responses to precarious politics tended to reinforce the divergence. Understanding the struggles of low-wage noncitizen workers as crucial to their own revitalization, unions in California embraced precarious politics as part of a broader labor movement. This fusion affirmed the recognition of the precarious working class, reinforcing their struggles for participation. Focused on negotiating with the state and protecting their own privileges, unions in Gauteng treated precarious politics as separate from the labor movement. This separation isolated the precarious working class from broader struggles, reinforcing their struggles for protection. The concept of precarious politics provides a new lens for examining working class struggles in an age of marketization and insecurity. Using this lens, the two case studies show that a common precarious politics is emerging in very different parts of the globe, but that it takes very different forms depending on where the precarious working class is located within the world system.
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Subject: Political science; Public policy; South African Studies
Classification: 0615: Political science; 0630: Public policy; 0654: South African Studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Citizenship, Working class insecurity, Precarious politics, Precariat, Working class struggle, South Africa
Title: Precarious Politics: Working Class Insecurity and Struggles for Recognition in the United States and South Africa, 1994-2010
Number of pages: 169
Publication year: 2013
Degree date: 2013
School code: 0028
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303962103
Advisor: Burawoy, Michael
Committee member: Smith, Sandra, Evans, Peter, Watts, Michael
University/institution: University of California, Berkeley
Department: Sociology
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623645
ProQuest document ID: 1550352684
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Manifestations of Transcendence in Twentieth-Century American Fiction: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carson McCullers, J.D. Salinger, and Cormac McCarthy
Author: Noble, O. Alan http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545680935?accountid=14709
Abstract: At the beginning of the twentieth century, the secularization of American society poses a unique problem for fiction writers. As a number of scholars in various fields have established, humans desire and are oriented towards the transcendent, but in an increasingly secular world, the transcendent ceases to be conceivable as a reality irreducible to the material universe and instrumental reason. In response to this tension, American authors of the twentieth century sought alternative visions of transcendence which would not betray or challenge immanent materialism. Looking at the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carson McCullers, J.D. Salinger, and Cormac McCarthy, this study traces various manifestations of transcendence in literature during this period. The thesis of the study is that a desire for the transcendent is a major preoccupation of twentieth-century American fiction, as authors tried to conceive of the otherworldly in immanent, materialist imagery and language, and that by tracing these manifestations of transcendence we gain a richer understanding of the texts, the literary period, and the social milieu out of which they arise.
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Subject: American literature
Classification: 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Mccullers, carson, Mccarthy, cormac, Fitzgerald, f. scott, Salinger, j. d., Secularism, Transcendence
Title: Manifestations of Transcendence in Twentieth- Century American Fiction: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Carson McCullers, J.D. Salinger, and Cormac McCarthy
Number of pages: 251
Publication year: 2013
Degree date: 2013
School code: 0014
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303926686
Advisor: Ferretter, Luke
Committee member: Jenkins, Philip, Russell, Richard R., Donnelly, Phillip J., Ford, Sarah K.
University/institution: Baylor University
Department: English
University location: United States -- Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621501
ProQuest document ID: 1545680935
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Textbook vs. Historical Fiction: Impact on Social Studies Students
Author: Rider, Amanda http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1547940382?accountid=14709
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of adding historical fiction novels as a supplement to the textbook in an eighth grade social studies course. This qualitative study focused on student interest and feedback as their social studies class was altered through the addition of historical fiction novels. The research questions were formulated to determine how instructional delivery of the teacher changed with the addition of historical fiction novels, and how the additional teaching tool affected the students. Using qualitative methods, the data was collected through student and teacher interviews, as well as researcher memos. Four findings were indicated: (a) the social studies teacher greatly impacted student interest and learning, (b) students found social studies to be both an engaging and difficult experience, (c) students placed a low value in textbooks while recognizing their necessity, and (d) students had a positive perception of historical fiction novels. The implications of this study are that positive perceptions of the teacher directly correlate to positive perceptions of the American History course, and the addition of historical fiction novels increases student understanding and empathy.
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Subject: Instructional Design; Middle School education; Social studies education; American literature
Classification: 0447: Instructional Design; 0450: Middle School education; 0534: Social studies education; 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Education, Social studies, Novel, Textbook, Student interest, Historical fiction
Title: Textbook vs. Historical Fiction: Impact on Social Studies Students
Number of pages: 96
Publication year: 2013
Degree date: 2013
School code: 1483
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303965456
Advisor: Banaszak, Ronald
University/institution: Aurora University
Department: Education
University location: United States -- Illinois
Degree: D.Ed.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3584793
ProQuest document ID: 1547940382
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From the "hour of her darkest peril" to the "brightest page of her history": New perspectives on the Battle of New Orleans
Author: Roumillat, Shelene C. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1547165617?accountid=14709
Abstract: For two hundred years the history of the Battle of New Orleans has suffered from the neglected state of the historiography on the War of 1812 and the static state of the Battle's orthodox narrative. This dissertation identifies and deconstructs the central themes of the Battle's orthodox narrative. It reveals how these long standing presumptions surfaced through the Battle's public commemoration in the nineteenth century and have fostered misleading perceptions about Louisiana's involvement in the war, the defense preparations undertaken in New Orleans prior to Andrew Jackson's arrival, and the so-called unity that was achieved through the victory. By incorporating the actions and experiences of women and the enslaved into the Battle's history, this dissertation exposes the traditional marginalization of these groups in accounts of the Battle and its subsequent memorialization. It shows that the absence of women and the enslaved in the cultivation of the Battle's public memory was a deliberate measure taken by white slaveholding elites to preserve racial and social divisions that were blurred by the Battle's symbolic message of the power of unity. The actions of a third group, free men of color, are examined to illustrate how critical they were to the victory and how dangerous the memory of their service was to white slaveholding elites, especially in the 1850s. These new perspectives on the Battle and its public commemoration challenge the unchanging nature of the Battle's history and indicate that there is far more to the Battle's story than has ever been told.
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Subject: American history
Classification: 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Jackson, Andrew, Battle of new orleans, Free colored militia
Title: From the "hour of her darkest peril" to the "brightest page of her history": New perspectives on the Battle of New Orleans
Number of pages: 275
Publication year: 2013
Degree date: 2013
School code: 0235
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303946257
Advisor: Sparks, Randy J.
Committee member: CLARK, EMILY, POWELL, LAWRENCE N.
University/institution: Tulane University
Department: History
University location: United States -- Louisiana
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622720
ProQuest document ID: 1547165617
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Toiling in the vineyards: American security and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1968
Author: Pembleton, Matthew http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1647431475?accountid=14709
Abstract: The story of America's "war on drugs" usually begins with Richard Nixon in 1971. However, the history of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics--the country's first drug control agency--suggests that the drug war's roots lay in the years following WWII, when the U.S. government began to consistently depict drug control as a paramilitary conflict and first stationed agents overseas to disrupt the flow of drugs to American shores. Analysis of the ideology and foreign policy of the early drug wars shows how the U.S. government interpreted addiction and organized crime as profound threats to the American people. Skeptical of public health efforts to reduce demand, the FBN believed that reducing the global supply of drugs was the only way to contain the slavery of addiction. In effect, America applied a foreign policy solution to a domestic social crisis. The FBN's effort to bring the rest of the world into line behind American expectations on drug control demonstrates how consistently U.S. policymakers have assumed that security at home could only be achieved by through some form of hegemony abroad.
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Subject: American history; Modern history; International Relations; Criminology
Classification: 0337: American history; 0582: Modern history; 0601: International Relations; 0627: Criminology
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, American foreign relations, Drug enforcement administration, Federal bureau of narcotics, Law enforcement, National security, War on drugs
Title: Toiling in the vineyards: American security and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1968
Number of pages: 429
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0008
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303881589
Advisor: Kuznick, Peter
Committee member: Friedman, Max P., Kraut, Alan, McCoy, Alfred
University/institution: American University
Department: History
University location: United States -- District of Columbia
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3619301
ProQuest document ID: 1647431475
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From Deliberation to Participation: John Dewey's Challenge to Contemporary Democratic Theory
Author: Jackson, Jeffrey Charles http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545684631?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation uses John Dewey's democratic theory to lead contemporary democratic thought away from the principles endorsed by deliberative democracy. I argue against the widely- accepted view that Dewey should be classified as a forefather of deliberative democracy, and I show instead that Dewey's theory effectively exposes shortcomings in deliberative theory. Dewey associates democracy with the possibilities for individuals to participate in the governing of their lives, and he highlights how these possibilities are affected no less by social and economic inequality than by political institutions, and how political institutions themselves cannot be isolated from the effects of social and economic inequality. On Dewey's terms, then, democracy involves a continuous process of overcoming interrelated social and political obstacles to individual self-government, rather than the achievement of a particular kind of deliberation within political forums. Deliberative theorists, by contrast, must isolate the political and social realms when they indicate that deliberative reason-giving in political forums will neutralize the effects of unequal social status. Dewey's theory in fact illustrates the need for democracy itself to evolve in its methods for achieving self-government, rather than being solely equated with deliberative reason-giving. Dewey shows us that, under conditions of structural social inequality, the practice of deliberation may produce undemocratic effects, and that non-deliberative practices such as broad-based social movements may be necessary to overcome such inequality. Dewey's position also would make the process of overcoming social inequality into a central aim of democratic theory. Some deliberative theorists do note (as an addendum to their focus on deliberation) that such inequality must be reduced, but they fail to explain how such a requirement could be attained through the deliberative practices they describe. Finally, Dewey can also demonstrate the potential value of "participatory democracy" (now widely assumed to be incorporated by deliberative democracy) to contemporary democratic thought. Participatory theory primarily advocates the democratization of both political and non-political authority structures, and Dewey's focus on continuously overcoming interrelated political and social obstacles to individual self- government can cogently illustrate the insights of participatory theory which are independent of deliberative theory.
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Subject: Political science
Classification: 0615: Political science
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Deliberation, Democracy, Dewey, john, Hegel, georg wilhelm friedrich, Participation, Pragmatism
Title: From Deliberation to Participation: John Dewey's Challenge to Contemporary Democratic Theory
Number of pages: 286
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0031
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303924941
Advisor: Dienstag, Joshua
Committee member: Pateman, Carole, Sissa, Giulia, Kellner, Douglas
University/institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Department: Political Science
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621436
ProQuest document ID: 1545684631
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Document 9 of 40
"The battle for freedom begins every morning": John Hervey Wheeler, civil rights, and New South prosperity
Author: Winford, Brandon Kyron Lenzie http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1546929620?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines the battle for racial and economic equality between the 1930s and 1960s through the life of banker-lawyer John Wheeler. It argues that Wheeler's New South prosperity vision consistently demanded full citizenship rights in order to obtain economic power for African Americans. More importantly, it served as a catalyst and an overall reminder to whites that the welfare of the entire region was forever bound to the economic plight of its black citizens. At the peak of his career, Wheeler was North Carolina's most prominent black leader and arguably the most influential civil rights figure in the South. He received presidential appointments under Kennedy and Johnson and was elected president of the Southern Regional Council, an organization that gained notoriety through meticulous research and publications about the movement. Wheeler was based in Durham where he became Mechanics and Farmers Bank president, which was one of the largest black-owned institutions in the country. He headed the Durham Committee on Negro Affairs, a powerful political organization in the state. In a career that spanned five decades, Wheeler shrewdly confronted racism, which placed blacks in a perpetual state of economic inferiority rooted in Jim Crow segregation. In the 1950s and 1960s, Wheeler focused intently on equality of opportunity in education, employment, housing, politics, and public accommodations. A key component became the idea of "freedom of movement," which he equated to unrestricted access to resources on the path to a completely integrated society; he also viewed this as critical to New South prosperity. As his access to political power increased, Wheeler compelled government agencies to hire qualified black professionals, while also pushing for their inclusion in policymaking decisions. He believed that blacks had to help implement non-discriminatory policies and be among the group charged with interpreting new laws. As a behind-the-scenes negotiator, he coordinated an expansive network of resources, which he effectively used to achieve many of his civil rights and economic objectives. By exploring Wheeler's unique sphere of black leadership, this work captures the larger relationship between black institution, their connections to political and economic power, and ultimately the "brokering" of the civil rights movement.
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Subject: American history
Classification: 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, African american history, African american leadership, Black business history, Civil rights history, Civil rights movement, North carolina history
Title: "The battle for freedom begins every morning": John Hervey Wheeler, civil rights, and New South prosperity
Number of pages: 513
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0153
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303943126
Advisor: Leloudis, James L.
Committee member: Hall, Jacquelyn D., Hildebrand, Reginald F., Feimster, Crystal N., Jackson, Jerma A.
University/institution: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department: History
University location: United States -- North Carolina
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622516
ProQuest document ID: 1546929620
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Liberty in Full: Justice Stephen Field's Cooperative Constitution of Liberty
Author: Carrington, Adam M. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545680300?accountid=14709
Abstract: In this dissertation, I examine 19 th century Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field's understanding of liberty. Scholars often define Field's liberty solely as opposition to government regulation. I challenge this position, arguing that Field articulated a fuller liberty, one which encompassed liberty both from and through government action. Justice Field saw the Constitution as pursuing this fuller liberty, with certain provisions protecting individual rights through government regulation and others by restraining such regulation. To show Field's perspective, I focus on two sets of Constitutional provisions which Field saw as cooperating toward a full liberty. The first consisted of the Due Process Clause and the states' police power. The Due Process Clause protected expansively-defined individual rights against impairing state action while the police power protected the same rights from non- governmental threats. The second set of provisions was state and national police power. I show how Field believed that all government wielded a police power for the purpose of protecting individual rights, with the state and national governments cooperating by pursuing this common purpose within their distinct spheres. I then turn to Field's use of the Declaration of Independence and the common law to interpret liberty's Constitutional meaning, showing how these documents displayed the context which informed the Constitution. Finally, I conclude with a brief discussion of how Field's cooperative Constitution of liberty might provide a useful context for contemporary judicial debates over liberty's meaning and application.
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Subject: Law; Political science
Classification: 0398: Law; 0615: Political science
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Constitutional law, Due process, Fourteenth amendment, Liberty, Police power, Field, Stephen
Title: Liberty in Full: Justice Stephen Field's Cooperative Constitution of Liberty
Number of pages: 253
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0014
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303926334
Advisor: Nichols, David K.
Committee member: Nichols, Mary P., Waltman, Jerold L., Bridge, David, Corey, Elizabeth C.
University/institution: Baylor University
Department: Political Science
University location: United States -- Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621471
ProQuest document ID: 1545680300
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The Fight Over John Q: How Labor Won and Lost the Public in Postwar America, 1947-1959
Author: Burstein, Rachel http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1548715522?accountid=14709
Abstract: This study examines the infancy of large- scale, coordinated public relations by organized labor in the postwar period. Labor leaders' outreach to diverse publics became a key feature of unions' growing political involvement and marked a departure from the past when unions used organized workers--not the larger public--to pressure legislators. The new recognition of the liberal public as an important ally and the creation of a program for targeting it signaled larger shifts in the American labor movement: the embrace of bureaucracy akin to other major postwar institutions; the promotion of politics over collective bargaining as the defining objective of the labor movement; the prominence of a new, educated class of labor leaders; and the deradicalization of American unionism in favor of the postwar liberal consensus. The dissertation details PR approaches of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and Congress of Industrial Organizations' (CIO) at particular crisis points in the late 1940s and 1950s, after World War II and before the emergence of the civil rights movement and New Left. These campaigns were responsive and defensive and showed the difficulty labor leaders had in controlling the terms of debate, even as they were successful in maintaining rhetorical popular support. The case studies examined in this dissertation are: 1) the AFL and CIO's efforts to defeat the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947; 2) the role of politics--particularly the 1948 election and the third party campaign of Henry Wallace--in forcing CIO leaders to expel communist unions from their ranks; 3) the 1955 merger of the AFL and CIO and labor's efforts to counter the trope of "big labor" in a world in which large institutions and elite groups increasingly vied for control; and 4) the AFL-CIO's efforts to redefine itself in the face of accounts of union corruption during Congressional hearings on racketeering in organized labor from 1957 to 1959. In all of these cases, labor leaders positioned themselves and the union members they represented as part of a larger public committed to the same political objectives. Ultimately, this was a losing bet; they traded relevance for acceptability.
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Subject: American history
Classification: 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Unions, Labor, American federation of labor, Congress of industrial organizations, Taft-hartley act
Title: The Fight Over John Q: How Labor Won and Lost the Public in Postwar America, 1947-1959
Number of pages: 278
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0046
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303956454
Advisor: Freeman, Joshua
Committee member: Brown, Joshua, Kessner, Thomas, Nasaw, David, Taylor, Clarence
University/institution: City University of New York
Department: History
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623277
ProQuest document ID: 1548715522
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Mansfieldism: Law and politics in Anglo-America, 1700- 1865
Author: Buehner, Henry Nicholas http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1549975965?accountid=14709
Abstract: Lord Mansfield is typically remembered for his influence in common law and commercial law, and his decision in Somerset v. Stewart, which granted a slave, brought to England, habeas corpus to refuse his forced transportation out of that nation by his master. Mansfield's primary position as Chief Justice of King's Bench in England, which contributed most of the only published material from him, shielded him from any scrutiny about his wider influence in general British governance in the period of his public career, roughly 1740-1790. Mansfield played a large role in the general government of the British Empire. Beginning with his role as Solicitor General in 1742 and continuing after he became Chief Justice in 1756, Mansfield interacted and advised the highest members of the British ruling elite, including the monarch. Because the nature of British governance in the 18 th Century was very porous, Mansfield partook in the exercise of legislative (through his seats in the House and Commons and Lords), executive (through a formal seat on the Privy Council and later in the King's Closet), and judicial (through his roles as Solicitor and Attorney General, Chief Justice of King's Bench, and temporary positions as Lord Chancellor) power practically simultaneously throughout his career. In these capacities, Mansfield contributed to imperial policy at a critical moment. He was a champion for the British Empire as the beacon of the most perfect society at that time-a perspective he developed through his education and experiences during the crucial formative years of the British nation. He channeled his support for Britain into a seemingly rigid dogma that saw any threat or challenge to British authority or culture as inherently illegitimate. In this regard, Mansfield favored British domination over the other imperial powers, and he immediately rejected the earliest complaints of the Americans over British rule. Because of the nature of his position within British governance, Mansfield's view remained constant in a government that witnessed continual turnover. The potential of Mansfield's influence was not lost upon the public. Many factions from "true Whigs," such as John Wilkes, and American patriots viewed him as the epitome of the problem with the British government--its seemingly arbitrary, unconstitutional, and tyrannical posture toward everything. Mansfield posed a particular challenge for these groups because he was a Chief Justice, and they believed he was supposed to adhere to a strong notion of justice. Instead, they saw him continually leading their repression, and so they questioned the basis of the whole British system. Through pamphlets, newspapers, and visual prints, these groups identified Mansfield as a key conspirator, which they attributed to an anti-British disposition. In these ways, Mansfield and his opponents squared off over the definition of true Britishness internally and imperially. When these opponents gathered enough strength (Londoners during the Gordon Riots, and Americans with their War of Independence), they aimed to pull down Mansfield and his comrades for their violations. The former failed to overthrow society, but they arguably hastened a change in government. The latter succeeded in their movement to exit the Empire. The Revolution was not a total transformation for the Americans, however. They struggled to define their new nation and America had similar imperial aspirations. In this environment, Mansfield was the quintessential symbol of early national leaders' bipolar attitudes towards Britain. Some leaders such as John Adams embraced their British heritage, and used Mansfield as a model to develop a strong, centralized, commercial nation. Other leaders such as Thomas Jefferson saw Mansfield as the chief villain to the idea of America. Jefferson coined the phrase "Mansfieldism," which he identified as a caustic relationship between law and government that favored the development of political and legal elitism that challenged the interests and participation of common citizens. Jefferson viewed Mansfield as the essential symbol of the American anti- revolution. These first-generation independent Americans both remembered Mansfield for his direct participation in the imperial crisis, but for Adams and his fellow Federalists, they had to initiate redemption for Mansfield to justify their program to create America. The redemption was successful. American institutions used Mansfield to fine-tune the balance between their British heritage and uniquely American outlook. As successive generations of Americans emerged into the political sphere, they remembered his seemingly progressive positions on law and society as presented through his court decisions over his actual participation against their independence. Especially through a selective reading of his decision in Somerset , Mansfield became the legal prophet for abolitionist nationalism. His decision arguably provided a legal precedent against the institution of slavery, but it more importantly transformed into the moral imperative of the movement. In this manner, Mansfield became fully redeemed among Americans. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)
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Subject: European history; American history
Classification: 0335: European history; 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, American revolution, Anglophilia, Colonial political thought, Imperial crisis, Lord mansfield, Mansfieldism
Title: Mansfieldism: Law and politics in Anglo-America, 1700-1865
Number of pages: 376
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0225
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303954184
Advisor: Waldstreicher, David
Committee member: Klepp, Susan, Glasson, Travis, Hadden, Sally
University/institution: Temple University
Department: History
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623118
ProQuest document ID: 1549975965
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Experts, Eggheads, and Elites: Debating the Role of Intellectuals in American Political Culture, 1952-2008
Author: Brown, Michael J. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545649884?accountid=14709
Abstract: Intellectuals are at once whipping boys and wonder workers in American politics, targets of hatred and vessels of hope. "Experts, Eggheads, and Elites: Debating the Role of Intellectuals in American Political Culture, 1952-2008," emphasizes the contested place of intellectuals in American public life after World War II, when changing modes and mechanisms of intellectual discourse, the expanded scope of science and the state, global ideological and military rivalry, and the growth of higher education heightened attention to the role of intellectuals in society. Scholars are beginning to challenge the dominant narrative about intellectuals in this period, which focuses on a perceived decline in the quality and quantity of intellectual life in the public sphere. "Experts, Eggheads, and Elites" intervenes in this historiography by shifting the focus to debates about the role of intellectuals rather than accounts of their rise and fall. This project argues that the definition of the intellectual was itself a site of contest on multiple terrains during the six decades after World War II. Those seeking to claim the title for themselves, those seeking to impose it on others, and those wrestling with social and political change asked: what are intellectuals, what are their obligations to society, and how, if at all, are they compatible with democracy? Americans offered an array of responses to these questions in theoretical and polemical essays and books, letters to the editor, letters to thinkers they admired or detested, and letters to each other. Many offered their answers in deed as well as in word; they sought to enact the role of the intellectual even as they continued to think about what that role might mean. "Experts, Eggheads, and Elites" recovers the complexity of these debates and provides a framework for understanding their contours across time by holding up a series of telling moments when their foci, participants, and terms changed. The chapters discuss how the work of Noam Chomsky, Richard Hofstadter, bell hooks, H. Stuart Hughes, Irving Kristol, Christopher Lasch, C. Wright Mills, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Cornel West, and others both engaged in and elicited debates about the role of intellectuals in politics. These cases show how such debates are a lens through which to view shifting anxieties about and aspirations for democratic politics in the United States after World War II.
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Subject: American history; Political science
Classification: 0337: American history; 0615: Political science
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, American politics, Intellectuals
Title: Experts, Eggheads, and Elites: Debating the Role of Intellectuals in American Political Culture, 1952-2008
Number of pages: 842
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0188
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303921360
Advisor: Westbrook, Robert B.
Committee member: Borus, Daniel H., Johnson, James, Tucker, Jeffrey
University/institution: University of Rochester
Department: School of Arts and Sciences
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621162
ProQuest document ID: 1545649884
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Document 14 of 40
In but not of the revolution: Loyalty, liberty, and the British occupation of Philadelphia
Author: Sullivan, Aaron http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1548964825?accountid=14709
Abstract: A significant number of Pennsylvanians were not, in any meaningful sense, either revolutionaries or loyalists during the American War for Independence. Rather, they were disaffected from both sides in the imperial dispute, preferring, when possible, to avoid engagement with the Revolution altogether. The British Occupation of Philadelphia in 1777 and 1778 laid bare the extent of this popular disengagement and disinterest, as well as the dire lengths to which the Patriots would go to maintain the appearance of popular unity. Driven by a republican ideology that relied on popular consent in order to legitimate their new governments, American Patriots grew increasingly hostile, intolerant, and coercive toward those who refused to express their support for independence. By eliminating the revolutionaries' monopoly on military force in the region, the occupation triggered a crisis for the Patriots as they saw popular support evaporate. The result was a vicious cycle of increasing alienation as the revolutionaries embraced ever more brutal measures in attempts to secure the political acquiescence and material assistance of an increasingly disaffected population. The British withdrawal in 1778, by abandoning the region's few true loyalists and leaving many convinced that American Independence was now inevitable, shattered what little loyalism remained in the region and left the revolutionaries secure in their control of the state. In time, this allowed them to take a more lenient view of disaffection and move toward modern interpretations of silence as acquiescence and consent for the established government.
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Subject: American history; Military history
Classification: 0337: American history; 0722: Military history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, British, American revolution, Disaffection, Loyalty, Occupation, Philadelphia, Revolutionary war
Title: In but not of the revolution: Loyalty, liberty, and the British occupation of Philadelphia
Number of pages: 334
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0225
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303956362
Advisor: Waldstreicher, David
Committee member: Urwin, Gregory, Klepp, Susan, Van Buskirk, Judith
University/institution: Temple University
Department: History
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623272
ProQuest document ID: 1548964825
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Document 15 of 40
The Politics of Vice and Virtue: Sex Panics, Faith-Based Activism and the Secularization of Sin
Author: Akbeg, Trisha Williams http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1537803096?accountid=14709
Abstract: Traced back to its foundation in colonial New England, American morality policy was designed to regulate moral behavior, reinforce Christian values and punish those who challenged the dominant hegemony. Many of those earliest laws specifically targeted illicit sexual expression and obscenity: the focal point of this dissertation. American morality policy has been expanding for the last three centuries, due in large part to the reform efforts of faith-based activists who have continued to carry the Puritan's torch. In this dissertation, I investigate the strategic evolution of faith-based activism and also the expansion of morality policy, which developed in response to one another. I argue that evangelical activists have achieved many of their legislative goals through the application of a two- fold strategic repertoire that is both repetitive and innovative. By examining three case studies, the masturbation panic of the mid-nineteenth century, the white slavery panic of the early twentieth century, and the present-day "culture war," I reveal a historical pattern in which activists, operating within or supported by faith-based organizations, manufacture and/or capitalize on moral panics as a strategy to mobilize support, shape discourse and legitimate their claims. I also investigate how activists maneuver to achieve their policy objectives. I trace their successes and failures, showing how activists have been forced to make tactical shifts, transitioning from federal to local solutions and moving away from faith-based arguments to secular legal strategies as a result of constitutional challenges and increased secularism and sexual liberalism in modern American society and the courts. I argue that conservative faith-based activists have become increasingly skilled with regard to how they deploy panic as a rhetorical tool, frame their claims, and adapt their legal arguments in reaction to court challenges and mounting resistance. Strategic innovation has made it possible for faith-based activists to remain influential in the political sphere. With every success, precedents with long-lasting consequences are established, state power is extended and faith- based values are institutionalized; ultimately, legitimating the values of a well-connected minority over the majority.
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Subject: Religion; Political science; Sociology
Classification: 0318: Religion; 0615: Political science; 0626: Sociology
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Moral panic, Social movements, Faith based activism, Sexuality, Morality Policy, Framing
Title: The Politics of Vice and Virtue: Sex Panics, Faith- Based Activism and the Secularization of Sin
Number of pages: 394
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0080
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321014051
Advisor: Baggett, Jerome
University/institution: Graduate Theological Union
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580554
ProQuest document ID: 1537803096
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The Oligarchic Mind: Wealth and Power in the Political Thought of John Adams
Author: Mayville, Luke http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1542097657?accountid=14709
Abstract: Today's students of wealth and politics have understood the power of wealth largely in terms of purchasing power. It has been hypothesized and to some extent demonstrated that wealth buys political influence by bankrolling campaigns, purchasing media space, and funding lobbying efforts. John Adams, by contrast, traced the political influence of wealth not just to its purchasing power but to its grip on the human mind. Though he was no stranger to the purchase of political influence, Adams repeatedly urged his readers to appreciate sentiments like sympathy and admiration for wealth as less tangible but no less potent sources of oligarchic power. This dissertation draws on the political writings of John Adams to reconstruct an unfamiliar understanding of the political power of wealth. In his letters, essays, and treatises Adams explored in subtle detail what I shall call the "oligarchic mind"-the unique set of psychological dispositions that all but guaranteed the political influence of wealth. Specifically, he traced the influence of wealth to the deep admiration for the rich felt by the public and to the insatiable thirst for that same admiration felt by society's most ambitious. It was the grandeur of wealth, and not merely its purchasing power, that accounted for its immense political influence. I have divided this dissertation into two parts to reflect the two quite different methods of intellectual history that I have employed. Before turning to a reconstruction of Adams's theory of oligarchy, I set the stage in the first two chapters by disentangling his thought from two lines of late-eighteenth-century constitutional theory. Adams scholars have overlooked the centrality of oligarchy in his thought by reading him as an apologist for elite power. His most significant political writings have been read as efforts to advocate for an English- style "balanced constitution" that would limit democracy to one part of government pitted against aristocratic and monarchical elements. In chapter one I correct this interpretation by situating Adams's Defence of the Constitutions within a transatlantic debate about the desirability of British-style "balanced government." I demonstrate that in the context of this debate Adams was uniquely preoccupied with the danger posed by an overweening aristocratic class. Chapter two contrasts Adams's thought with that of the most prominent framers of the United States Constitution. Against those who have understood his writings as harmonious with the counter-majoritarian political theory undergirding the United States Constitution, my analysis demonstrates that Adams differed sharply from the Federalist framers, most notably in his estimation of the political power held by socioeconomic elites. Adams argued that even in the modern republican era when formal class distinctions had been abolished, a "natural aristocracy" of birth, beauty, and especially wealth would continue to wield preponderant power. In the third and fourth chapters I reconstruct Adams's understanding of oligarchic power by situating his thought within a more sweeping intellectual context. In chapter three, I demonstrate through an analysis of his Discourses on Davila that Adams moved beyond a certain republican tradition of conceiving of oligarchic power in material terms. Drawing on the moral psychology of the Scottish Enlightenment, Adams conceived of oligarchy as a product of certain widespread psychological dispositions. In chapter four, I reconstruct Adams's understanding of the problem of oligarchic ambition by contrasting two conceptions of "natural aristocracy" found in a famous exchange of letters with Thomas Jefferson. I demonstrate that although Adams did not reject the possibility that oligarchic ambitions could be redirected towards republican ends, he departed from Jefferson's classical republican idea of a meritocracy of virtue and talents.^ In the conclusion I suggest that consideration of the psychological sources of oligarchy reveals a neglected set of normative concerns. If the power of wealth derives, in part, from public admiration of wealth, it would seem important to ask how such power might be curbed or contained. Perhaps those interested in the corrosive effects of money in politics should not limit their focus to the regulation of lobbying and campaign finance, but should widen their scope to consider the regulation of public sentiments. What means do modern democracies have at their disposal to divert public admiration away from wealth? John Adams's writings suggest that one strategy is to create and maintain offices and stations that attract the admiration of the public. When honor and esteem is attached to judgeships, secretariats, and high elected offices, such stations might compete with the grandeur of wealth for the admiration of the public.
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Subject: Political science
Classification: 0615: Political science
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, John Adams, Oligarchy, American political thought, Aristocracy, Inequality, Wealth
Title: The Oligarchic Mind: Wealth and Power in the Political Thought of John Adams
Number of pages: 218
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321054095
Advisor: Smith, Steven B.
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580766
ProQuest document ID: 1542097657
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The Work of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Making of American Colonialisms in Cuba and the Philippines, 1898-1913
Author: Jackson, Justin F. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545676530?accountid=14709
Abstract: Between 1898 and 1913, the limited manpower and resources of the United States Army forced it to employ thousands of Cubans and inhabitants of the Philippines to fight the Spanish and Philippine-American and Moro Wars and conduct civil administration in Cuba and the Philippines. The colonial military labor of Cubans and Philippine islanders both affirmed and challenged the claims of American political and military leaders that the United States practiced a liberal and benevolent form of colonial and neo-colonial rule. In the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, the U.S. army's exploitation of ordinary colonial subjects breathed new life into often coercive colonial institutions, such as Chinese migrant contract labor, forced labor for public works such as roads, and the impressment of interpreters and guides and other intermediaries for military operations. The impact of American military labor relations in war and occupation endured well into periods of civilian rule in these countries, shaping the politics of race and immigration, infrastructure development and public obligation, and the civil apparatus of colonial and neo-colonial states.
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Subject: American history; Military history
Classification: 0337: American history; 0722: Military history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Colonialism, Empire, Imperialism, Labor, Military, Work
Title: The Work of Empire: The U.S. Army and the Making of American Colonialisms in Cuba and the Philippines, 1898-1913
Number of pages: 456
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0054
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303922121
Advisor: Foner, Eric
University/institution: Columbia University
Department: History
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621211
ProQuest document ID: 1545676530
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Document 18 of 40
Battling destiny: Soldiers' letters and the anti-colonial discourse in the Philippine-American war
Author: Bailon, Rowena Quinto http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1548319685?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation is about how the Anti- Imperialist League, an organization of American intellectuals and elites protesting the United States government's expansionist policy, utilized soldiers' letters in formulating American anti-colonial discourse during the Philippine-American War. My dissertation studies the relationship between soldiers' letters and the critique of empire. It shows that soldiers constructed an alternate discourse that revealed the ruthlessness of empire and challenged the expansionist rhetoric of the state. By demonstrating how soldiers' letters revealed the dilemmas and paradoxes of American Empire, I argue that these narratives provided a crucial foundation for the anti-colonial discourse that paved the way for legislation that placed the Philippines on the path to independence and self-determination. This dissertation bases its study on the cultural history of ideas, not only because it gives a new reading of the Philippine-American War, but also because it will be the first to position soldiers' letters at the center of its narrative. The Philippine-American War, the anti- imperialists writings, and the role of the Anti-Imperialist League have largely been neglected within the fields of history, literature, and memory. While a few scholars have focused on the Philippine-American War and the Anti-Imperialist League, no one has written about the importance of soldiers' letters in the formation of anti- colonial discourse. This will be of interest to scholars writing or studying history, and literature, as well as those focusing on United States and Philippine diplomatic history, colonialism, imperialism, nationalism, anti-colonialism, memory, and race.
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Subject: American history; American literature; Military history
Classification: 0337: American history; 0591: American literature; 0722: Military history
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Anti-colonial discourse, Anti-imperialist league, Imperialism, Manifest destiny, Philippine-american war, Soldiers' letters
Title: Battling destiny: Soldiers' letters and the anti- colonial discourse in the Philippine-American war
Number of pages: 304
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0382
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303937255
Advisor: Rabe, Stephen G.
Committee member: Edmunds, R. David, Hatfield, Charles, Roemer, Nils
University/institution: The University of Texas at Dallas
Department: Humanities-History of Ideas
University location: United States -- Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622140
ProQuest document ID: 1548319685
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Document 19 of 40
The Indochina Syndrome: War, memory, and the Franco- American conflict over Vietnam, 1963-1973
Author: Snyder, Douglas J. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545678614?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines how competing memories of the First Indochina War (1945-1954) influenced disagreements between U.S. and French policymakers about the American war in Vietnam. The thesis seeks most fundamentally to determine why American policymakers rejected advice about Vietnam from France--the Western ally with a unique connection to Southeast Asia--and why exactly the United States was so averse to considering its guidance in the course of an increasingly problematic war. Based on extensive research in U.S. and French archives, it provides a new international framework for understanding why the Vietnam War lasted as long as it did. It advances not only scholarship on the Vietnam War, U.S. foreign policy, and U.S.-French relations but also contributes in new ways to the study of the global Cold War. The dissertation begins its analysis in August 1963, when French president Charles de Gaulle called for the neutralization of Vietnam, and concludes with the January 1973 Paris Peace Accords. Throughout this time, each side clung to different understandings of the French defeat by Vietnamese anticolonial nationalists. Although a handful of U.S. and French officials looked past their differences to pursue potential opportunities for peace, most U.S. leaders dismissed comparisons to the earlier war as the French offered suggestions to demonstrate the challenges facing the current American military effort. Competing ideas about the nature of the Cold War world and antagonistic perceptions of the other nation infused each country's perspective on the relevance of the French example. These ideas and perceptions in turn limited the potential for significant breakthroughs to communicate more effectively about the broader assumptions driving U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
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Subject: History; International Relations; Military history
Classification: 0332: History; 0601: International Relations; 0722: Military history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, First Indochina War, Vietnam War, France, Franco-American relations
Title: The Indochina Syndrome: War, memory, and the Franco-American conflict over Vietnam, 1963-1973
Number of pages: 201
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0051
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303924682
Advisor: Zeiler, Thomas W.
Committee member: Schulzinger, Robert D., Hanna, Martha, Osgood, Kenneth A., Bearce, David H.
University/institution: University of Colorado at Boulder
Department: History
University location: United States -- Colorado
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621414
ProQuest document ID: 1545678614
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Document 20 of 40
Institutionalizing Class Conflict: Gouverneur Morris on Mediating Class Warfare through Separation of Powers
Author: Bissex, Christopher J. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545680253?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation argues that Gouverneur Morris, one of the primary authors of the Constitution, was driven by a uniquely American political theory, which brought together aspects of the class-based mixed regime with strict separation of powers, but is not reducible to either of those doctrines. Morris thought that class warfare was an inevitable feature of politics, but that separation of powers provided the proper institutional framework for controlling this conflict. He successfully instituted his vision in the Constitution - in particular he was the man most responsible for the creation of a popular, independent, republican executive. In Morris's view, the popular president would balance against the special interests of the wealthy in Congress, mediating the socioeconomic class conflict that he thought was an unavoidable part of politics. The result, according to Morris, would be a peaceful and prosperous society, secure in the blessings of liberty.
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Subject: American history; Political science
Classification: 0337: American history; 0615: Political science
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Political institutions, American political thought, Morris, Gouverneur, Class warfare
Title: Institutionalizing Class Conflict: Gouverneur Morris on Mediating Class Warfare through Separation of Powers
Number of pages: 196
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0014
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303926273
Advisor: Nichols, David K.
Committee member: Nichols, Mary P., Clinton, W. David, Bridge, Dave, Rios, Christopher M.
University/institution: Baylor University
Department: Political Science
University location: United States -- Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621465
ProQuest document ID: 1545680253
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Document 21 of 40
Persuasive elements in the preaching of George Whitefield
Author: Cotney, Alan Wayne, Jr. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1547349942?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation argues that eighteenth century evangelist George Whitefield effectively demonstrated the practice of urgently preaching to persuade men with the gospel of Jesus Christ. It will argue that Whitefield utilized all of the persuasive elements at his disposal to persuade his audiences with the gospel. The introduction defines persuasion and explains the need for a dissertation on Whitefield. Chapter one provides a brief biographical sketch of Whitefield's life and ministry, including several relationships that significantly influenced his thought and practice. Chapter two offers a description and evaluation of Whitefield's theology and methodology as it relates to his preaching ministry. Whitefield's preaching can be divided into two distinct parts: the content of his sermons and the style of his delivery. Chapter three is an evaluation of the content of Whitefield's sermon manuscripts, while chapter four describes the manner in which he delivered those sermons. In many cases, Whitefield's manuscripts seem to be different than the descriptions of his sermon delivery and need to be evaluated separately to more accurately critique his preaching. Finally, chapter six offers a proposal concerning the contemporary significance of Whitefield's persuasive preaching. The conclusion provides a summary of the work and suggests areas for continued research.
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Subject: Religious history; Theology
Classification: 0320: Religious history; 0469: Theology
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Awakening, Election, Persuasion, Justification
Title: Persuasive elements in the preaching of George Whitefield
Number of pages: 267
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 1342
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321085532
Advisor: Akin, Daniel
University/institution: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
University location: United States -- North Carolina
Degree: D.Min.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3581129
ProQuest document ID: 1547349942
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Document 22 of 40
Fictionality in the United States, 1789-1861
Author: Koenigs, Thomas http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1541905531?accountid=14709
Abstract: In 1798, Charles Brockden Brown sent Thomas Jefferson a copy of his "American Tale" Wieland and a lament: "Whatever may be the merit of my book as a fiction, it is to be condemned because it is a fiction." Brown speaks to the pervasive suspicion of fiction in the early republic. Yet, even as many American novelists claimed that their books were "Founded in Fact," those writers who broke the taboo against fictionality did so with a sense that the mode had special advantages. Faced with this antifictional discourse, American writers interrogated the dangers and possibilities of the fictional mode, seeking to harness the mental processes elicited by different forms of fictionality for a range of pedagogical, political, and social projects. By approaching fictionality as a set of historically variable structures of supposition rather than a stable, genre-defining characteristic, this dissertation restores to view the varied logics of fictionality that the history of the novel has tended to normalize, including many that do not conform to the conception of fiction-reading as a private leisure activity that became hegemonic in the late 19th century. Part I of this dissertation offers an overview of the American antifictional discourse and examines the rise of the nonfictional novel in the United States. It considers the diverse strategies of authentication through which writers tried to sever the popular novel genre from its suspicious fictionality. Because early Americans worried that fiction would separate its citizens from civic life, fictionists with political aspirations felt compelled to advance elaborate arguments for the mode's value. Part II, "Republican Metafictions," takes up a group of 1790s fictions--by Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Royall Tyler, and Brockden Brown--that advanced arguments for fiction's value within the very arena of republican politics to which the mode was generally regarded as opposed. While republican fictionists sought to recode fiction as a political genre, other writers embraced its perceived separation from publicity, positing it as an ideal vehicle for shaping the private conduct of young women. Part III, "Fictionality and Female Conduct," turns to fictions interested in influencing female behavior in the years from 1797 to 1822. These chapters explore the competing theories of didactic fiction espoused by Judith Sargent Murray, Tabitha Tenney, Leonora Sansay, Rebecca Rush, and Catherine Maria Sedgwick (among others) in order to trace the consolidation of fiction-reading as a discipline of private self-cultivation in the early nineteenth century. From the 1820s to the 1840s, the inclusion of historical subject matter changed from a means of disciplining fictionality to a means of licensing it. In the 1820s, the historical novel sought to distance itself from fiction and claimed an association with history, justifying itself as a vehicle of historical knowledge. By the 1830s and 40s, historical novels claimed distinction from history, seeking evaluation in a framework of value specific to fiction. Part IV situates this shift in relation to the rise of historical societies in America and changing ideas about what constitutes history. It explores how the historical novels of the 1820s justified their projects within a framework of value shared with historiography, insisting that fiction's suppositional reference creates knowledge about the past that factual history cannot. It then unpacks the terms on which historical fiction disavowed this project of historical knowledge and came to reproduce the logic of the domestic fiction from which it had once claimed distinction. This shift crystallizes the way in which fiction-reading, regardless of subject matter, came to be seen as a private leisure activity oriented towards self-fashioning and aesthetic appreciation. Part V then shows how this conception of fiction-reading as a private act divorced from political controversy came to shape even those fictions that broke with it. It explores how writers such as George Lippard and Harriet Beecher Stowe used fiction's perceived marginalization from politics and the public sphere to establish their texts' authority as instruments of social criticism. My history closes, perhaps counter- intuitively, with a nonfictional text: Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Jacobs highlights both her narrative's resemblance to and distinction from novels, simultaneously inviting and disallowing forms of identification associated with fictionality. In early America, fictionality was a contested site at which writers and movements imagined and reimagined how texts could affect, persuade, educate, and move readers. This dissertation is an anatomy of the theories and forms of fiction circulating in the young republic, a literary history that, by resisting teleological genre history, does justice to the remarkable diversity of early American fiction. But more than a reconsideration of fiction's place in American literature, it is a history of how these diverse fictionalities shaped the way in which Americans thought and argued about the pressing political and cultural issues of their moment from national politics to gendered authority to the intimate violence of slavery. It is an account of how the historical contestations over, to use Brown's words, "the merit" of books "as fiction" structured social struggle in antebellum America.
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Subject: American literature
Classification: 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, American fiction, American novel, American literature to 1865, HIstory of the novel, Nineteenth- century American literature
Title: Fictionality in the United States, 1789-1861
Number of pages: 559
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321053920
Advisor: Warner, Michael, Campbell, Jill, Smith, Caleb
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580733
ProQuest document ID: 1541905531
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Document 23 of 40
Watts, our town: "Nothing about us, without us, is for us" an auto-ethnographic account of life in Watts, Los Angeles, California
Author: Gonzalez, Cynthia http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1541538016?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation explores the historic and existing popular media and scholarly construction of Watts--a 2.5-mile suburb of South Los Angeles--vis-à-vis an auto-ethnographic account of life in Watts. Identified as a Black urban ghetto, Watts has a long-standing history of marginalization in which residents suffer from limited access to basic resources (e.g. education, work, health) that perpetuate poverty and violence in the community. In the social sciences and popular media, urban ghettos have been characterized as spaces densely inhabited by minority groups forced to live in deprived conditions that perpetuate social and health disparities. Such dominant narratives have obfuscated the lived experiences of discrimination in these spaces. For this reason one of the most severe race riots in L.A. history--the 1965-Watts Revolt--though intensely studied is largely misunderstood. Rather, it has become a trope from which scholarship and popular media aim to represent the communities and lives of people there in its totality. Since this revolt, community participation in social and economic development programs has declined. Additionally, the community's future is threatened by disappearing activism and gentrification projects that may not aim to displace the residents, but may do so inadvertently. In this dissertation, I demonstrate that despite dual legacies of cultural inheritance and survival, over the past 50 years, Watts has been misrepresented as a powerless community. In an effort to set the record straight, this auto- ethnographic study engages the following methodological tools: postcolonial, critical race, and feminist theories of representation and identity formations; a review of historical and social science literature on Watts and "ghettos" in general, interviews and archival research in Watts, and my own experience as an engaged resident of Watts. In addition, I critically examine the persistent reductive representation of Watts as a poverty-stricken backward community, addressing in particular, how such representations have impacted the current residents of Watts and their identity. The auto-ethnographic methodological and analytical approach of my research enables me to address the limitations of historical and contemporary scholarship conceptualizing Watts, its residents, and the idea of the urban ghetto.
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Subject: Cultural anthropology; Social research; Sociology
Classification: 0326: Cultural anthropology; 0344: Social research; 0626: Sociology
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Ethnography, Race relations, Representation, Social violence, Urban development, Watts
Title: Watts, our town: "Nothing about us, without us, is for us" an auto-ethnographic account of life in Watts, Los Angeles, California
Number of pages: 229
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0392
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303918285
Advisor: Towghi, Fouzieyha
Committee member: M'Panya, Mutombo, Gonzalez, Pablo, Watkins, Tim
University/institution: California Institute of Integral Studies
Department: Social and Cultural Anthropology
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621048
ProQuest document ID: 1541538016
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Document 24 of 40
Spatial relationships in high-dimensional, international, and historical data
Author: Knippenberg, Ross William http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545674278?accountid=14709
Abstract: My dissertation, "Spatial Relationships in High-Dimensional, International, and Historical Data" examines the effects of distance not only in a geographical sense, but also in a higher dimensional sense where statistical distance metrics are widely used. The first two chapters of my Ph.D. thesis are closely related, and together they represent an attempt to develop a new method for computing index numbers, which are applications of statistical distance metrics. I consider distance metrics on categorical shares data, for example the proportions of a consumer's income spent on food, clothing, entertainment, and housing. Distance metrics are frequently used on such data, although all suffer from an essential flaw, which is that they treat each category as a separate, orthogonal dimension. That is, each metric assumes that every category is equally different from every other one. That assumption would be like saying Fuji apples are equally as different from Gala apples as either are to oranges, and then the distance metric is like adding apples to apples as well as apples to oranges. Because of this, the policy conclusions reached through distance measures could be greatly distorted. The third chapter of my dissertation looks at the effect of railroads on retail prices in the United States from 1851-1892. Consistent with the theory of comparative advantage, railroads in more remote areas caused the price of agricultural goods to increase and the price of manufactured and imported goods to decline.
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Subject: Economics; Economic history; Economic theory
Classification: 0501: Economics; 0509: Economic history; 0511: Economic theory
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Distance metrics, Gravity equation, Index number theory, International trade, Law of cosines, Railroads
Title: Spatial relationships in high-dimensional, international, and historical data
Number of pages: 131
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0051
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303923975
Advisor: Iyigun, Murat
Committee member: Alston, Lee, Martins-Filho, Carlos, Liu, Xiaodong, Masters, Ryan
University/institution: University of Colorado at Boulder
Department: Economics
University location: United States -- Colorado
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621355
ProQuest document ID: 1545674278
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Document 25 of 40
The Death of the Law: Sovereignty, Sacrifice, and Civil War America
Author: Jacbs, Layne Justin http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1540784918?accountid=14709
Abstract: What sort of thing is America such that we can kill and die for it? What sort of persons are Americans such that we can take these life and death stakes on ourselves? What, in other words, do death and violence communicate about the meaning of America and of being an American? In this dissertation, I offer answers to these questions by constructing a political theology of American sacrifice. This account interweaves methodological, descriptive, and evaluative components. At a methodological level, this project - as a work of political theology - is built around two central distinctions. One of these is the difference between the means and ends of politics, which I speak of in terms of "power" and "meaning," respectively. The other is between relative power and meaning, which I speak of as "law" or "justice," and absolute power and meaning, which I speak of as "sovereignty" or "love." Sacrifice, as I mean it, is political killing and dying that uses absolute power to produce and reveal absolute meanings. By offering a specifically political theological account of American sacrifice, then, this dissertation inquires about sovereign killing and dying in America - about our killing and dying in pursuit of love. At a descriptive level, this dissertation argues that America's politics of sacrifice is ultimately an expression and instantiation of its two great democratic ideals - namely, those of freedom and equality. The ideal of freedom, I argue, names for us Americans the proper means of political sacrifice - that is, the way in which the power over life and death is and ought to be exercised. By contrast, equality is the primary end of our political sacrifice. Equality is what is absolutely meaningful about our politics of death; it is that ideal for which we Americans sacrifice. The ultimate purpose of this dissertation, though, is neither methodological nor descriptive but evaluative. At this level, I argue that, when it comes to its politics of sacrifice, America is a country divided and, indeed, at war with itself. On the one hand, we Americans relate to our politics of sacrifice in ways that are excessively concerned with ourselves. As it defines our relationship to freedom this excessive self-concern takes the form of the vice of fear , which is a refusal to sacrifice - and therefore a refusal of freedom. And as it defines our relationship to equality, this excessive self-concern takes the form of the vice of pride , which is a love of self that refuses to love others - and which, therefore, is a refusal of equality. On the other hand, I argue that, in spite of our vices, it is possible to discern in our collective experience as Americans a sacrificial politics that embodies a virtuous alternative, a radically different vision of what American freedom and equality can and should be. The virtue that marks this counter- politics' relationship to freedom - that stands as an alternative or antidote to the vice of fear - is courage. Courage does not shrink from sacrifice but rather embraces it - and in this act, courage just is absolute freedom itself. Meanwhile, the virtue that marks this counter-politics' relationship to equality is charity. Charity does not just love the self but loves the self and others - which is to say, it loves everyone equally. But while the goal of this dissertation is to account for the political theology of American sacrifice as such, I nevertheless situate this project within a specific period in American history. I work out my argument in the context of the Civil War era, by which I mean not just the four years of the war itself but also the decades of controversy and crisis that preceded the war and built to its massive crescendo. I situate this account here for a number of reasons, but the most important is this: I believe the Civil War era reveals these two orders of American sacrifice with unsurpassed clarity. In this era, we can immediately perceive the broader American civil war - the conflict pitting fear and pride against courage and charity. And therefore, in this era, we can directly confront both the horrifying pitfalls and the grand possibilities of our American endeavor.
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Subject: Theology
Classification: 0469: Theology
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Civil war, Sovereignty, Slavery, Political theology, Sacrifice, Martyrdom
Title: The Death of the Law: Sovereignty, Sacrifice, and Civil War America
Number of pages: 363
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321051247
Advisor: Volf, Miroslav
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580718
ProQuest document ID: 1540784918
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Document 26 of 40
Living in Never-Never Land: The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Oil in the 1970s
Author: McFarland, Victor R. S. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1542109958?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines the history of the oil crisis between 1970 and 1980. It argues that the crisis was more than the two supply shocks of 1973 and 1979; it was a sustained increase in prices and a transformation of the global oil market that spanned the entire decade of the 1970s. I focus on the connections between American energy policy and U.S. relations with Saudi Arabia, treating energy as an issue that blurred the boundaries between domestic politics and foreign affairs and posed new and unexpected challenges to American policymakers during the 1970s. Events abroad had a profound impact on the domestic scene in the United States, as the oil crisis drove up the cost of energy, helped throw the American economy into the turmoil of "stagflation," and undermined the political standing of all three presidents to serve during the decade. At the same time, domestic politics created a powerful set of constraints on U.S. policymakers that limited their options in responding to the oil crisis. Nixon, Ford, and Carter all sought to achieve energy independence at home, but they could not overcome the daunting technical, economic, and political obstacles that stood in the way. Instead, U.S. energy policy came to look outward in an attempt to secure the continued flow of oil from the Persian Gulf region, and particularly from Saudi Arabia. This dissertation also emphasizes the agency of Saudi Arabia. The oil boom made the kingdom far richer than before, and gave it new forms of power and influence in global affairs. Saudi elites chose to cooperate with the United States, but only within certain limits. They valued the United States as a strategic partner against threats from the Soviet Union or local actors like Iraq and Iran, but they strongly opposed U.S. policy on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and publicly distanced themselves from the United States. The Saudi monarchy encouraged the United States to increase its military involvement in the Gulf, but simultaneously prohibited the United States from establishing military bases on Saudi territory. The conflicted nature of the relationship between Washington and Riyadh was shaped by the preferences of both actors, and the way that Saudi Arabia and the United States cooperated closely behind the scenes while often choosing to downplay their partnership to their own domestic audiences.
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Subject: History
Classification: 0578: History
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences
Title: Living in Never-Never Land: The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Oil in the 1970s
Number of pages: 376
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321054385
Advisor: Gaddis, John Lewis
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580768
ProQuest document ID: 1542109958
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Document 27 of 40
Firearm injury prevention: Understanding firearm policy diffusion, 1993-2010
Author: Rexing, Christen Jean http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1548979891?accountid=14709
Abstract: Annually firearms kill more than 30,000 individuals and injure more than 50,000 individuals, resulting in costs of $45 million to over $1 billion in the United States. Traditionally firearms were addressed as a criminal justice problem, but for more than 30 years, public health and injury prevention specialists have worked to address the problem of firearm injuries through surveillance, education, research, and laws. Firearm legislation is multijurisdictional across the federal, state, and local governments, but the majority of activity is at the state levels. Firearm injury prevention efforts must navigate a politically diverse arena dominated by social regulatory politics in order to affect change. This study presents newly analyzed data on seven firearms laws: child access prevention, minimum age to purchase/possess a handgun, stand your ground, large capacity ammunition limits, Saturday night specials and assault weapons bans. A goal of the study was to create a 50 states longitudinal dataset in order to investigate the relationship between internal state political and demographics characteristics and firearm policy diffusion. The study findings are presented across three manuscripts, which address the trends of enactment of the laws, the analysis of the six gun control laws, and an analysis of one permissive firearm law (stand your ground laws). A panel data set was created from publicly available sources for each state from 1993 to 2010. General Estimating Equations (GEE) were used to evaluate the impact of citizen pressures, lobby pressures, legislative characteristics, and demographic data on the adoption of the seven selected laws. Study findings identified waves of adoption of the firearm laws across politically and demographically similar states in the early study years (1993-94) and the later study years (2005-10). States with Democratic state governments were more likely to pass gun control laws while states with Republican state governments were more likely to pass stand your ground laws. Poverty was also a statistically significant variable for the passage of the laws: states with lower poverty levels were more likely to pass gun control laws while states with higher poverty levels were more likely to pass stand your ground laws. However, aside from legislation to ensure consistency with federal law, most states are not responding to the public call for regulation as measured by the enactment of the selected laws. Instead, a trend of permissive firearms laws is rapidly spreading across the 50 states. Firearm injury prevention advocates should not be deterred by political environments. Rather, they should respond to cues to optimize change for injury prevention. Understanding mechanisms for firearm policy adoption, such as the role of legislative characteristics may help researchers and firearm injury prevention advocates focus limited resources to introduce bills in policy- friendly states. This dissertation contributes to the firearm injury prevention literature by applying policy diffusion theories and analysis techniques to firearm injury prevention efforts. Findings support the literature that internal state political and demographic characteristics guide the adoption of firearm laws.
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Subject: Public health; Criminology; Public policy
Classification: 0573: Public health; 0627: Criminology; 0630: Public policy
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Health and environmental sciences, Diffusion, Firearms, Gun control, Injury prevention, Policy adoption
Title: Firearm injury prevention: Understanding firearm policy diffusion, 1993-2010
Number of pages: 154
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0225
Source: DAI-B 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303955952
Advisor: Ibrahim, Jennifer K.
Committee member: Mullin, Megan, Hausman, Alice J., Vernick, Jon
University/institution: Temple University
Department: Public Health
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623243
ProQuest document ID: 1548979891
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Document 28 of 40
The Army's orphans: The United States Army replacement system in the European campaign, 1944-- 1945
Author: Klinek, Eric William http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1548716509?accountid=14709
Abstract: Military historians have been debating the U.S. Army's World War II replacement system for decades, but no one has completed a detailed study of the War Department's policies and practice. Authors have focused primarily on how combat units overcame the system's limitations, but they have not conducted an in-depth examination of its creation, structure, and function. Nor did they question why infantry divisions had to devise their own replacement policies in the first place. The extant literature is too celebratory of the army and utilizes ultimate victory as a measure of efficiency and effectiveness. Such a myopic view has prevented these earlier studies from evaluating how the replacement system affected the overall course of the European war. This dissertation breaks new ground by presenting a comprehensive overview of the replacement system--from the War Department down to the squad, and from the last days of World War I through the post-World War II years. It will elucidate a process of failed administration and implementation at the highest levels of the War Department and army, but it will also relate a "grassroots" story of success at the divisional level and below. The War Department's managerial approach to the utilization of military manpower was both inefficient and wasteful. The army largely overlooked the impact of individuality, morale, psyche, experience, and training on a soldier's performance. Its insistence on rushing men to the line once combat operations began meant that it often neglected to train, orient, and equip replacements in a manner conducive to their favorable and effective integration into combat units. The GIs at the front, both veterans and replacements alike, suffered for this oversight.
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Subject: Military history
Classification: 0722: Military history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Army ground forces, European theater of operations, Infantry divisions, Replacement system, United states army, World war ii
Title: The Army's orphans: The United States Army replacement system in the European campaign, 1944-- 1945
Number of pages: 521
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0225
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303955228
Advisor: Urwin, Gregory J. W.
Committee member: Lockenour, Jay, Bailey, Beth, Showalter, Dennis
University/institution: Temple University
Department: History
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623195
ProQuest document ID: 1548716509
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Document 29 of 40
Personalism and Popular Genres: American Catholic Fiction after Vatican II
Author: Kilpatrick, Nathan http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545684946?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation explores the Catholic literary landscape in America after the Second Vatican Council using the framework of former Pope John Paul II's Thomistic personalism as a theological correction to the aesthetic problem of overly reductive, formulaic fiction of popular genres such as the Western. From within this framework, this dissertation argues that post-Vatican II American Catholics revise and employ popular forms of literature as a means to articulating foundational premises of Christian orthodoxy in a way that is fundamentally different from their Catholic predecessors, Flannery O'Connor or Walker Percy. Indeed, the works by novelists Ron Hansen and Alice McDermott demonstrate a rich and vibrant experience of the faith as it is lived, and their method of positing the truthfulness of Catholicism is to create complex, dynamic characters who reveal the fundamental goodness of each human being when considered in light of Christian teachings and who also disrupt the rigidity of formulaic popular genres. In doing so, these novelists reflect a post-Vatican II concern for the laity and its vernacular expressions that deviates but maintains connections to the larger Catholic tradition. Therefore, this work offers an argument on behalf of contemporary literature that responds to the postmodern aesthetics and modes of literature dominant in discussions of contemporary fiction in complex ways: neither rejecting the technical and methodological insight of aesthetic and philosophical postmodernism, these novels resist the recourse to formalized nothingness that contemporary critics argue is the basis for postmodern religious fiction. The vision of Catholicism more precisely, and Christianity more generally, which emerges from these authors' works exhibits a careful attentiveness to the particular ecclesial, political, and aesthetic crossroads of the contemporary situation and a faithful reaction to the encroaching nothingness that lifts up small but substantial, tenuous yet tenacious and positive though critical affirmations of the dignity of human beings, created by God and living in communities of the committed, faithful few.
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Subject: Religion; American literature
Classification: 0318: Religion; 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Philosophy, religion and theology, Second Vatican Council, Catholic Church, Religious fiction
Title: Personalism and Popular Genres: American Catholic Fiction after Vatican II
Number of pages: 300
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0014
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303926549
Advisor: Wood, Ralph C.
Committee member: Ferretter, Luke, Ford, Sarah K., Setina, Emily E., Wright, J. Lenore
University/institution: Baylor University
Department: English
University location: United States -- Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621488
ProQuest document ID: 1545684946
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Diplomatic subtleties and frank overtures: Publicity, diplomacy, and neutrality in the early American Republic, 1793-1801
Author: Wong, Wendy H. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1549975957?accountid=14709
Abstract: Americans view neutrality in the 1790s as the far-seeing wisdom of the Founders and a weak power's common-sense approach to a transatlantic war in which it could not afford to get involved. Far from this benign image of prudence, however, neutrality in the Early Republic was controversial: it was a style and paradigm of foreign policy that grappled with the consequences of a democratic politics exacerbated by diplomatic crises. Far from promoting tranquility, neutrality provoked uproar from the very beginning. Intense print battles erupted over sensational exposés of foreign influence and conspiracy, reverberating through the international, national, and local levels simultaneously. Print exposés of foreign intrigue provoked partisan warfare that raised the larger, unsettled (and unsettling) issues of the national interest, the exercise of federal power, and the relationship between the people and their government. This dynamic reflected and exacerbated preexisting sectional fissures in the union, triggering recourse to the politics of slavery. As a result, the politics of slavery calibrated the competing national visions of the emerging Federalists and Republicans, defining the limits of American independence while challenging the ability of the United States to remain neutral. Drawing on the efforts of diplomatic historians, political historians and literary scholars, this work illustrates the mutually constitutive relationship between print politics, foreign relations, and the politics of slavery in the Early Republic. It argues that neutrality was a style of foreign policy that both political parties used to contain sectionalism and faction, and that print politics and the politics of slavery combined to create a dynamic that made that style malleable.
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Subject: American history; Political science
Classification: 0337: American history; 0615: Political science
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, American culture, American revolution, French revolution, Neutrality, United states foreign relations, United states politics
Title: Diplomatic subtleties and frank overtures: Publicity, diplomacy, and neutrality in the early American Republic, 1793-1801
Number of pages: 364
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0225
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303957086
Advisor: Immerman, Richard H.
Committee member: Waldstreicher, David, Klepp, Susan E., Onuf, Peter S.
University/institution: Temple University
Department: History
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623321
ProQuest document ID: 1549975957
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Museum Networks The Exchange of the Smithsonian Institution's Duplicate Anthropology Collections
Author: Nichols, Catherine http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1546985010?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines a practice of scientific museums in the 19th and early 20th centuries: the exchange of their duplicate specimens. Specimen exchange facilitated the rise of universal museums while creating a transnational network through which objects, knowledge, and museum practitioners circulated. My primary focus concerns the exchange of anthropological duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution from 1880 to 1920. Specimen exchange was implemented as a strategic measure to quell the growth of scientific collections curated by the Smithsonian prior garnering to the broad political support needed to fund a national museum. My analysis examines how its practice was connected to both anthropological knowledge production, particularly in terms of diversifying the scope of museum collections, and knowledge dissemination. The latter includes an examination of how anthropological duplicates were used to illustrate competing explanations of culture change and generate interest in anthropological subject matter for non-specialist audiences. I examine the influence of natural history classification systems on museum-based anthropology by analyzing how the notion of duplicate was applied to collections of material culture. As the movement of museum objects are of particular concern to anthropologists involved in repatriation practices, I use specimen exchange to demonstrate that while keeping objects is a definitive function of the museum, an understanding of why and how museum objects have been kept or not kept in the past, particularly in terms of the intentions and value systems of curators, is critical in developing an ethically oriented dialogue about disposition of museum objects in the future.
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Subject: Cultural anthropology; Science history; Museum studies
Classification: 0326: Cultural anthropology; 0585: Science history; 0730: Museum studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Collections, Collections management, Exchange, Material culture, Museum, Smithsonian institution
Title: Museum Networks The Exchange of the Smithsonian Institution's Duplicate Anthropology Collections
Number of pages: 758
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0010
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303941856
Advisor: Toon, Richard
Committee member: Parezo, Nancy J., Isaac, Gwyneira L., Jonsson, Hjorleifur R.
University/institution: Arizona State University
Department: Anthropology
University location: United States -- Arizona
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3622443
ProQuest document ID: 1546985010
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Hypnotically refreshed testimony in the United States: A socio-historical analysis of admissibility standards
Author: Nix, Christine A. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1544188588?accountid=14709
Abstract: Skepticism surrounds the use of hypnosis as a means of recovering forgotten witness memory during a criminal investigation. Questionable induction techniques are contributory factors for concerns of suggestibility and rejection of hypnotic recall as evidence in criminal trials. This study contributes to the existing literature with an examination of acceptance and rejection standards by state jurisdictions of hypnotically refreshed testimony for examining the admissibility standards in individual states. The socio- historical trends analysis determined: (1) the historical trends of acceptance or rejection of hypnotically refreshed testimony as evidence; (2) issues that prevent the acceptance or enhance the rejection of hypnotically refreshed recall; and (3) whether standards of admissibility remain static from the case of first impression to the most current court holding. This dissertation, a qualitative socio-historical study, was conducted using available secondary and primary information regarding hypnotically refreshed testimony as evidence in criminal courts due to the lack of research related to similarities or differences in court decisions. A keyword search in WESTLAW Campus, LEXIS-NEXIS Academic, and LoisLaw Connect databases began with hypnosis and continued with two additional searches within the results utilizing the terms hypnotically refreshed testimony and hypnotically refreshed admissibility , respectively. The population for this study was the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The jurisdiction selected was the highest court at the state level, courts of last resort, or final appeal. A random sample selection for this study emanated from the 300 cases heard in state courts with final decision-making authority. Forty-five cases decided in highest state appellate courts formed the sample along the organizational structure of the U.S. Circuit regions. The review of the historical trends reflected three seminal cases in 1980 and 1981 of State v. Mack (Minn. 1980), State v. Mena (Ariz. 1981), and State v. Hurd (N.J. 1981) that influenced the path of hypnotically refreshed testimony. Future research should include a content analysis of court transcripts of witness testimony and issues addressed by both the defense and prosecution. Other research is needed to enhance existing or establish certification programs for practitioners conducting hypnosis interviews during the course of a criminal investigation. KEY WORDS: Admissibility, Hypnosis, Historical trends, Hypnotically refreshed testimony
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Subject: Social research; Law; Criminology
Classification: 0344: Social research; 0398: Law; 0627: Criminology
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Admissibility, Hypnosis, Hypnotically refreshed recall, Hypnotically refreshed testimony, Refreshed memory, Witness recall
Title: Hypnotically refreshed testimony in the United States: A socio-historical analysis of admissibility standards
Number of pages: 176
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0374
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321067576
Advisor: Oliver, Willard M.
University/institution: Sam Houston State University
University location: United States -- Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580935
ProQuest document ID: 1544188588
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Unspoken prejudice: Racial politics, gendered norms, and the transformation of Puerto Rican identity in the twentieth century
Author: Borges, Cristobal A. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1549976513?accountid=14709
Abstract: The dissertation uses border theory to craft a comparative study that explores the promotion of the white jíbaro in Puerto Rico throughout the twentieth century and the challenges to that racialized identity that emerged simultaneously. Through a biographical approach that examines the lives of José Julio Henna (1848-1924), Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (1874-1938), Muna Lee (1895-1965), Juano Hernández (1896-1970), Ruby Black (1896-1957), Luis Muñoz Marín (1898-1980), Pura Belpré (1899-1982), Inés Mendoza (1908-1990), and Roberto Clemente (1934-1972) as symbols of Puerto Ricanness and contributors to its definition, the dissertation analyzes the racial and gendered inequalities that persisted during twentieth century Puerto Rico. Those prejudices can still be encountered on the island, as well as throughout the contours of numerous Latin American regions. The project seeks to bring forth constructive comprehensions about the creation of identities with inherent prejudices and a method for uncovering how they have been challenged. It also decenters the jíbaro from Puerto Ricanness and challenges nationalist identities. The dissertation before you is an unwrapping of how the pueblo of Puerto Rico refashioned its communal identity. The goal is to expose racist injections and patriarchal constructs into it. The argument is presented in two parallel parts. First, I look at how Puerto Rican identity has been infused throughout the twentieth century with a continual promotion of whiteness and male superiority in an attempt to construct a unified cultural nationalism that could wrestle some control away from United States colonial power structures while replicating them. Second, I examined how throughout the century puertorriqueños challenged that identity and developed new understandings of puertorriqueñidad that began a process of creolization for their identity that is still unveiling itself.
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Subject: Latin American history; American history; Caribbean Studies; Political science; Public policy
Classification: 0336: Latin American history; 0337: American history; 0432: Caribbean Studies; 0615: Political science; 0630: Public policy
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Gender, Identity, Luis munoz marin, Puerto rican politics, Puerto rico, Race
Title: Unspoken prejudice: Racial politics, gendered norms, and the transformation of Puerto Rican identity in the twentieth century
Number of pages: 234
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0459
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303957871
Advisor: Deutsch, Sandra McGee
Committee member: Shepherd, Jeffrey P., Topp, Michael, Rohrleitner, Marion
University/institution: The University of Texas at El Paso
Department: History
University location: United States -- Texas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623381
ProQuest document ID: 1549976513
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Popular Front Movements: Antifascism and the Makings of a Global Left during the Depression
Author: Fronczak, Joseph http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1540785815?accountid=14709
Abstract: "Popular Front Movements" is a transnational history of the Depression-era world's political economy. It takes, however, an unconventional approach to political economy, connecting popular politics--the everyday, local self-assertions of common people--to the world economy. To make sense of the global reach of fascism and antifascism during the Depression, I suggest that these two political forms worked as the popular politics of the global economic order. As a work of U.S. in the world history, this dissertation connects archivally-researched analysis of fascist and antifascist movements in U.S. cities such as New York, Chicago, and Minneapolis with archivally-researched analysis of counterpart movements in cities such as Paris, Pondicherry, Accra, and Saigon. From such a transnational perspective, one sees the makings of global fascism and antifascism out of the local social conflicts that poured out of these cities' factories, marketplaces, and streets during the Depression. This dissertation, then, offers a plebeian retelling of transnational intellectual exchange at a particularly cosmopolitan moment in U.S., and global, political thought. Indeed, I argue that the ideas that ultimately defined the global politics of the Depression era, those of fascism and antifascism, emanated not from international affairs of statecraft or transnational networks of intellectuals but rather from the practices of popular politics--from street fights and mass demonstrations to riots and sitdown strikes--performed by common people. I examine such practices to extract the often unspoken political ideas embedded within them, and then I trace the traffic of such practices, and the ideas smuggled within them, around the globe. "Popular Front Movements" claims that the antifascist left produced a moment of widespread social revolutionary possibility in 1936, one of the global "moments of madness" identified by political scientist Aristide Zolberg as endemic to modernity. This ephemeral flash of social revolution during the depths of the Depression witnessed common people who had endured years of everything gone wrong nonetheless act as if, as one participant aphorized, "everything is possible." Around this world turned upside down, "popular front" served as the moment's keyword. In France and Spain, the left confederated as the popular front and won elections; in the United States, the New Deal's re-election emboldened the left and was understood as the birth of an American popular front. "Popular Front Movements," however, examines not the popular front's formal political triumphs but rather the popular politics that not only enabled electoral success but then also seized on the opportunities opened by it. Around the world, from Johannesburg to Harlem and from Havana to London, the popular front's repertoire of informal practices generated new political possibilities. In early 1936, the Chilean left united, citing the inspiration of popular fronts not only in France and Spain but also those in China, Brazil, Cuba, Argentina, Colombia, and Ecuador: across the mid-1930s, the left not only radicalized, it globalized. Indeed, by the end of 1936, transnational solidarities had forged a global left. The popular front's primary source of social revolutionary possibilities was the global sitdown strike movement of 1936. No previous history has grasped the global amplitude of the sitdown movement, which this dissertation details from its origin inside a Firestone rubber tire plant in Akron, Ohio, to such far-flung reaches as the Michelin rubber plantation at Ben Cui, Indochina. Along the way, I unearth evidence of sitdowns from Paris to Port-of-Spain on Trinidad, Algiers to Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona to Detroit. Furthermore, I argue that a cosmopolitan body of ideas, particularly tactics of nonviolence taken from contemporary India, informed the early sitdown strikes in Akron and the ensuing explosion of sitdowns across the United States. The U.S. sitdowns, in turn, served as blueprints for sitdowns in cities such as Kingston and Buenos Aires, The worldwide circulation of the sitdown tactic, seen as a working-class intellectual itinerary, exemplifies my claims of a common people's global exchange of practices and ideas. From such exchange, I argue, emerged a global left. As a work of U.S. in the world history, "Popular Front Movements" seeks to distinguish itself in two ways. First, by rooting its claims in the ideas produced by common people, it answers the field's growing concern about its tilt toward élite history and offers instead a methodology for the transnational history of ideas from below. Secondly, based on archival research in multiple countries and languages, it traces the transmission of political ideas across six continents to globalize its account of transnational exchange.
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Subject: History; Political science
Classification: 0578: History; 0615: Political science
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Fascism, Antifascism, Great Depression, Social Movements, International History, Transnational History
Title: Popular Front Movements: Antifascism and the Makings of a Global Left during the Depression
Number of pages: 596
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321051124
Advisor: Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580689
ProQuest document ID: 1540785815
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Document 35 of 40
"Relocating the revolution": The American Revolution and social reform in historical romances of antebellum America
Author: Lauzon, Autumn R. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1545616000?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines American historical romances published between 1820 and 1860 by authors who situated contemporary concerns and social critiques within the historical setting of the American Revolution. The eight major texts treated in this study are James Fenimore Cooper's The Spy (1821); Lydia Maria Child's The Rebels; or, Boston before the Revolution (1825); Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" (1832); Catharine Maria Sedgwick's The Linwoods; or, "Sixty Years Since" in America (1835); George Lippard's Blanche of Brandywine; or, September the Eleventh, 1777 (1846); William Wells Brown's Clotel; or, the President's Daughter (1853); William Gilmore Simms's Woodcraft; or, Hawks About the Dovecote (1854); and Herman Melville's Israel Potter (1855). By looking deeper into stories that, on the surface, appear to be mere historical romances glorifying the Revolution, I evaluate the ways these authors covertly expressed nineteenth- century social anxieties during a period that was experiencing rapid and dramatic political, social, and cultural change. Chapter one describes the social changes of the antebellum period that inspired, and are subtly addressed in, the romances; chapter two analyzes the treatment of George Washington, moving from the mythologized version by Sedgwick to a more ambivalent depiction by Lippard; chapter three discusses the use of Skinners, violent marauders who took advantage of the disruption caused by the Revolution for material gain, to represent social tensions attending class mobility; chapter four examines how women writers voiced their concerns about women's roles in the domestic, social, and political spheres through their progressive portrayals of intelligent Revolutionary-era women; chapter five investigates the treatment of slavery, racial inequality, and black characters who have major roles in the plots of the historical romances; and chapter six discusses the writers who were skeptical of the popular trend of glorifying the Revolution and wrote more realistically about the complications and negative consequences many people endured because of the American Revolution and its aftermath. Ultimately, this study responds to a call put forth in Betsy Erkkilä's 2003 article "Revolution in the Renaissance," in which Erkkilä suggests American Renaissance literature be reevaluated by privileging the connections between literature and the historical events that inspired it. This dissertation analyzes the texts in relation to each other, thus creating conversations between these historical romances that have been missing from current scholarship on nineteenth-century American literature.
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Subject: American literature
Classification: 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Sedgwick, Catherine Maria, Lippard, George, Melville, Herman, Cooper, James Fenimore, Child, Lydia Maria, Simms, William Gilmore, Historical romances
Title: "Relocating the revolution": The American Revolution and social reform in historical romances of antebellum America
Number of pages: 226
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0170
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303922251
Advisor: Ostrowski, Carl
Committee member: Renfroe, Mischa, Lavery, David
University/institution: Middle Tennessee State University
Department: English
University location: United States -- Tennessee
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3621219
ProQuest document ID: 1545616000
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Document 36 of 40
"It was like dancing on a grave": Eviction and Displacement in Los Angeles 1994-1999
Author: Sims, John Revel http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1550353088?accountid=14709
Abstract: Little is understood about displacement in urban contexts. Some of the difficulties that have impeded previous research are methodological as the data necessary for displacement research tends to be speculative, prohibitively expensive, or difficult to obtain. The greater problem I argue is conceptual. Outside of Neil Smith's rent gap hypothesis or the philosophy of property rights, there is little theoretical ground that explains urban displacement or facilitates analysis. Within the literature on urban change, where displacement would seem to have a strong theoretical foundation, displacement tends to exist uncomfortably between a range of theories from the neoclassicist's preference for atomized rational choice, the Chicago School's tenacious equilibrium mechanisms, and most recently, a version of demographic invasion based in economic restructuring. This research on evictions in Los Angeles seeks to challenge these conceptual and empirical shortcomings. Through a spatial pattern analysis of over 70,000 geographically referenced evictions, four distinct geographies of displacement are shown to have existed between 1994 and 1999 in Los Angeles including Downtown, Hollywood, Koreatown, and South Los Angeles. Logged transformations of eviction rates in the 381 census tracts comprising the area of study are furthermore regressed to three factors for each of the six years of the study. Results provide evidence that two of these factors are statistically correlated with eviction rates. The first factor is negatively correlated with eviction rates and describes deterrence to eviction based on relative affluence, educational attainment, and racial segregation in the form of high proportions of whites relative to other racial groups. The second expresses investment in desirable locations through average property sales and nonfamily households and is positively correlated with eviction rates. Taken together, the spatial pattern and spatial regression analyses confirm that evictions are socio-spatial phenomena forming three types of displacement in Los Angeles: (1) poverty- and race- related; (2) investment-related; and (3) a combination of poverty-, race-, and investment-related displacement. The four geographies of displacement are furthermore investigated using exploratory data analysis and archival methods to uncover the specific role that property owners played in each. The results of this research demonstrate that gentrification only partially explains one of the four displacement geographies while the other three are non- or pre-gentrifying contexts more appropriately described through growth machine strategies, uneven development, negative spillover effects, and financial restructuring. The dissertation ends with a call for a number of policy recommendations including a right to counsel in eviction cases and increased tenant organization.
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Subject: Geography; Public policy; Urban planning
Classification: 0366: Geography; 0630: Public policy; 0999: Urban planning
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Business improvement districts, Displacement, Eviction, Gentrification, Land rent, Redevelopment
Title: "It was like dancing on a grave": Eviction and Displacement in Los Angeles 1994-1999
Number of pages: 269
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0031
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303959837
Advisor: Leavitt, Jacqueline
Committee member: Estrada, Leobardo, Goetz, Edward, Mukhija, Vinit
University/institution: University of California, Los Angeles
Department: Urban Planning 0911
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623506
ProQuest document ID: 1550353088
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National child maltreatment response and foster care entries: 2005-2010
Author: Chahine, Zeinab http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1548716454?accountid=14709
Abstract: This study involves secondary analysis of the national administrative data contained in two major federal child maltreatment and foster care data systems, the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) and the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) for 2005 to 2010. The study examines the data related to screening in and determination of maltreatment reports (child maltreatment response), as well as the provision of services to children referred for maltreatment from 2005 to 2010. The purpose is to determine how the child welfare services/child protective services systems (CWS/CPS)' responses to child maltreatment contributed to the 17% decline in foster care entries from 2005 to 2010. Consistent with one of the underlying study hypotheses, some evidence shows shifts in CWS/CPS systems' responses to child maltreatment toward increased family engagement. The findings indicate that despite the increase in numbers of children screened in for maltreatment nationally, substantiation for all types of maltreatment (especially neglect, and physical and sexual abuse), declined. At the same time, unsubstantiated findings and assignment to v differential or alternative response increased from 2005 to 2010. Consistent with the decline in substantiation, post investigation services or post response services (including foster care) also declined. The decrease in the percentage of children who received post investigation foster-care services was commensurate with the percentage decrease in substantiation of maltreatment, while the percentage decrease in "other" post investigation services, which includes home-based services, was much less than the reduction in foster care services. Although changes in child-maltreatment data trends are observed for the entire population of children involved with the CWS/CPS system from 2005 to 2010, there are variations based on the demographic characteristics of children. The study indicates a substantial decrease in disproportionality of Black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander children in the child welfare system, although these groups continued to be overrepresented. Correlatively, Hispanic/Latino children increased as a proportion of the total population involved in child welfare, although they continued to be slightly underrepresented. In addition, there was a large increase in Hispanic/Latino children with unsubstantiated findings who received "other" post investigation services. The increase in the proportion of Hispanic/Latino children and the decrease for other racial ethnic groups, especially Black or African American and White children, contributed to most of the observed reduction in the foster care entries between 2005 and 2010. There is some evidence of CWS/CPS' increased targeting of services, including foster care, to younger children and older adolescents from 2005 to 2010, with some exceptions for children under 1 year of age. Compared to older children, children 0 to 4 accounted for a much higher proportion of the total children provided CPS responses and services in 2010 than they did in 2005. The decline in post investigation services, including foster care, was lowest for vi children 1 to 4 years of age and highest for children under 1 year of age and for children 11 to 15 years of age. Children under 1 year of age continue to be highly overrepresented despite the decrease. The decrease in the number of children 11 to 15 years of age placed due to behavioral reasons was one of the other major contributors to the decline in foster care population from 2005 to 2010. Possible explanations for all of these trends and implications for child welfare policy and research are offered.
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Subject: Social work; Public policy
Classification: 0452: Social work; 0630: Public policy
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Abuse and neglect, Child maltreatment, Child protection, Child welfare, Foster care, Placement trends
Title: National child maltreatment response and foster care entries: 2005-2010
Number of pages: 372
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0046
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303956539
Advisor: Epstein, Irwin
Committee member: Mallon, Gerald P., Tolliver, Willie, Testa, Mark
University/institution: City University of New York
Department: Social Welfare
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3623284
ProQuest document ID: 1548716454
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When the West Turned South: Capital and Culture in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1940
Author: Offenburger, Andrew Charles http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1542203868?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation explores the nature of U.S. expansion into the Southwest and Mexican North at a time when the Western frontier had purportedly ended. Between 1880 and 1940, U.S. capitalists portrayed Mexico as the next frontier. They invested millions of dollars in railroads, mines, agriculture, and other natural resources that seemed to promise imminent wealth to those who sought it. Historians have characterized this period as either one of U.S. economic omnipotence, thus at least partly accounting for the Mexican Revolution, or as one of a long tradition of failed dreams and fugitive landscapes. By tracing the ideologies used to develop Mexico, along with the experiences of capitalists and families, this dissertation reveals a more complicated history of the United States' influence on its southern neighbor. In contrast to the dominant views cast in corporate booster materials, the experiences of Americans and other foreign colonists suggest that the borderlands was formed by negotiation between U.S. and settler ideologies and the peoples they encountered in Mexico. Chapter One reveals how boosters relied on romantic Western tropes and ideologies to push for investment and colonization in the Mexican North, while such glowing visions exaggerated both opportunities for settlement and the extent of U.S. influence. Chapter Two shows how Protestant missionaries explicitly targeted--and employed--women to gain entrance behind Catholic thresholds in Mexico, and how recipients of the Protestant message used it on their own terms for personal or communal improvement. Chapter Three explains how a colony of South African Boer families formed in Chihuahua in 1903 and, like other colonies in northern Mexico, viewed the location as a proxy for settlement in the U.S. West. Chapter Four analyzes the history of U.S. development in Sonora and how, as part of this history, the new Revolutionary order attempted to pacify rebelling Yaquis. Chapter Five unpacks Yaqui moments of resistance--against capitalists, against the Mexican government--through oral history interviews, which reveal the centrality of Yaqui kin networks to cultural survival from the Porfiriato to the new revolutionary administrations. Apart from this dissertation's central objective, of analyzing how the American West turned south to Mexico, this study makes two additional interventions in borderlands historiography. First, it reveals how this borderlands history contributed to a shifting definition of U.S. empire, away from a model of territorial acquisition and towards one of resource extraction. While Latin Americanists have debated the role that American development played in fomenting revolution in Mexico, U.S. historians have lost sight of Mexico as a place of imperial encounter. This imperial transformation linked the borderlands region to other frontier zones further afield. Second, it is written from a perspective of making and breaking "home lands," a framework put forth by Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken in their 2010 book, Home Lands: How Women Made the West. By emphasizing the experiences of women and families in this region, this dissertation is able to undercut the economic imperialist model, on the one hand, and the fugitive model, on the other. The home lands framework draws attention to the sporadic negotiations that transpired between U.S. capitalists, foreign families, and indigenous and national Mexicans from the extension of U.S. railroads into Mexico to the administration of President Lázaro Cárdenas.
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Subject: Latin American history; American history
Classification: 0336: Latin American history; 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences
Title: When the West Turned South: Capital and Culture in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1880-1940
Number of pages: 298
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321056266
Advisor: Faragher, John Mack
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580790
ProQuest document ID: 1542203868
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Sovereignty in the Age of Securitization: A Study on Borders and Bordering in the United States after 9/11
Author: Longo, Matthew http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1541924095?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation focuses on borders, sovereignty and citizenship, after 9/11. Drawing from qualitative research on contemporary US bordering policy and practice, I reveal borders to be increasingly thick , multi-faceted and bi-national - rather than thin, legal-topographical instantiations of state sovereignty. At perimeters , states are creating thick webs of infrastructure and law-enforcement that extend many miles inland, and co-locating forces on either side of the line, creating de facto overlapping jurisdictions. At ports of entry , states have moved towards risk-based adjudication of admission, engendering a regime of cross-border data-sharing and interoperability, resulting in binational ports of entry. This new inter-sovereign alignment has great normative and geopolitical significance: when states co-manage their borders in a shared battle against global flows, sovereignty at the border becomes paradoxically both joint and empty , challenging our notions of sovereignty-qua- territoriality (indivisible state rule over a territorial jurisdiction) and sovereignty-qua- decisionism (the ultimate and decisive nature of sovereign choice). This heralds a new phase in border functionality in which borders are not designed for states to oppose one another, or to oppose migratory flows, but rather join forces in the shared fight against transnational migratory flows. This new sovereign alignment could accord with principles of justice, or could not ; the dissertation concludes by evaluating the potential benefits and harms of this geopolitical order, offering a blueprint for how it might be shaped in a just manner.
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Subject: International Relations
Classification: 0601: International Relations
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Borders, Frontier, Sovereignty, Securitization, Citizenship, Globalization
Title: Sovereignty in the Age of Securitization: A Study on Borders and Bordering in the United States after 9/11
Number of pages: 423
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0265
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321053999
Advisor: Benhabib, Seyla
University/institution: Yale University
University location: United States -- Connecticut
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580758
ProQuest document ID: 1541924095
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Our Enemy's Enemy: Human Rights and the U.S. Intervention in El Salvador, 1977-1992
Author: Wilsman, Adam R. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1549548526?accountid=14709
Abstract: Abstract not available.
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Subject: American history; World History; International Relations
Classification: 0337: American history; 0506: World History; 0601: International Relations
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Human rights, United States, El Salvador, Reagan, Ronald, Foreign relations, Carter, Jimmy
Title: Our Enemy's Enemy: Human Rights and the U.S. Intervention in El Salvador, 1977-1992
Number of pages: 386
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0242
Source: DAI-A 75/09(E), Mar 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781321028720
Advisor: Schwartz, Thomas A.
Committee member: Gerstle, Gary, Eakin, Marshall, Bess, Michael, Gill, Lesley
University/institution: Vanderbilt University
Department: History
University location: United States -- Tennessee
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3584407
ProQuest document ID: 1549548526
Table of contents
1. Honoring the Ancestors: Historical Reclamation and Self-Determined Identities in Richmond and Rio de Janeiro
2. Networks and empires in the maritime borderlands: East Florida, 1763 to 1811
3. "No More Shall Be a Dull Book": The Aesthetics of History in Antebellum America
4. In search of purity: Popular eugenics and racial uplift among New Negroes 1915--1935
5. Paul Martin Heerwagen, 1883-1938 Southern interior decorator: Exploring architectural, ornamental, social, and cultural heritage through interior decoration
6. Objects of confidence and choice: Professional communities in Alabama, 1804-1861
7. The life and leadership of William P. Foster: The maestro and the legend
8. Nothin' but 'ligion: The American Missionary Association's Activities in the Nation's Capital, 1852 - 1875
9. Minor Moves: Growth, Fugitivity, and Children's Physical Movement
10. Guardians of historical knowledge: textbook politics, conservative activism, and school reform in Mississippi, 1928-1982
11. Desegregation at Kansas City's Central High School: Illuminating the African American student experience through oral history
12. Southern Enlightenment: Reform and Progress in Jefferson's Virginia
13. A beacon of light: Tougaloo during the presidency of Dr. Adam Daniel Beittel (1960-1964)
14. Savage Hunger: Cannibalism and the Discourse on Slavery in the United States and Caribbean
15. Views of the future state: Afterlife beliefs in the deep south, 1820-1865
16. Deconstructing whiteness, redefining southern literature: Bringing back African American voices into Southern literature
17. Religion-based Homonegative Messages, Depression, and HIV Risk in Black Men Who Have Sex With Men
18. Straddling the Color Line: Social and Political Power of African American Elites in Charleston, New Orleans, and Cleveland, 1880-1920
19. Plantation modernism: Irish, Caribbean, and U.S. fiction, 1890-1950
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Honoring the Ancestors: Historical Reclamation and Self-Determined Identities in Richmond and Rio de Janeiro
Author: Barrett, Autumn Rain Duke http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1532208289?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation focuses on how history is made meaningful in the present. I argue that within the United States and Brazil, historic narratives and sites are employed in legitimizing and contesting past and contemporary social inequity. National, regional, and local narratives tell the stories of how communities and their members came to be who and where they are in the present. Social hierarchies and inequity are naturalized and/or questioned through historic narratives. Formative education includes telling these stories to children. Commemorative events and monuments tell and re-tell stories to community members of all ages. Enculturation of historical identities, the positioning of self within historic trajectories that connect the past to the present, occurs throughout one's lifetime, developing and shaping one's sense of self. How are members of multicultural, former slaveholding nations, such as the United States and Brazil, taught to see themselves in relationship to the history of slavery? Is this past meaningful in daily life? How are historic sites and figures representing the history of slavery and resistance made meaningful to people in terms of personal, local, and national histories? What pasts are made relevant to whom and for whom? Do ideas of race inform narratives of the past? If so, how and toward what end? Analysis is focused on community action and discussions surrounding two historic cemeteries where the remains of enslaved Africans were interred in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: the Richmond African Burial Ground, in Virginia and the Cemitério dos Pretos Novas in Rio de Janeiro. Upon each site a revolutionary figure is memorialized - Gabriel in Virginia and Zumbi dos Palmares in Rio de Janeiro.
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Subject: Black studies; Cultural anthropology; Latin American Studies
Classification: 0325: Black studies; 0326: Cultural anthropology; 0550: Latin American Studies
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Historical Anthropology, Rio de Janeiro, Racism, Brazil, Virginia, Identity
Title: Honoring the Ancestors: Historical Reclamation and Self-Determined Identities in Richmond and Rio de Janeiro
Number of pages: 569
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0261
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303953491
Advisor: Blakey, Michael L.
University/institution: The College of William and Mary
University location: United States -- Virginia
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580401
ProQuest document ID: 1532208289
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Networks and empires in the maritime borderlands: East Florida, 1763 to 1811
Author: Boucher, Diane M. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1526409390?accountid=14709
Abstract: In the late eighteenth century, possession of the maritime province of East Florida passed from the Spanish to the British and back to the Spanish empire. Inter-imperial war and rivalries produced political, demographic, social, and economic transitions that challenged imperial, individual, and community commitments to East Florida frontier development. Empires and inhabitants shared interests in reaping the benefits of natural resources and lucrative regional and Atlantic trade. From 1763 to 1811, the British and Spanish subsidized administrative and military expenses, and the commercial and agricultural advancement of the colony. Inhabitants of European, African, and Native American backgrounds integrated into mutually beneficial networks of exchange understood their relationship to empire as reciprocal. When authorities upheld commitments to protect lives, property, and community pursuits, inhabitants supported government policies and joined in defensive measures. Inter-imperial and international hostilities impacted the province. Invaders crossed the surrounding waters to threaten East Florida residents. The American, French, and Haitian revolutions disrupted imperial objectives in the Americas and revealed imperial weaknesses. In the absence of governmental protections and subsidies, disgruntled inhabitants withdrew support to prioritize individual and community interests. As empires and nations attempted to control the transnational and transatlantic flow of people, goods, and ideas across and beyond the political boundaries of colonial East Florida, inhabitants and communities relied on multiethnic regional networks and resources to negotiate, alter, and even defy imperial prerogatives.
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Subject: American history; World History
Classification: 0337: American history; 0506: World History
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, East Florida history, Frontier borderlands, Spanish East Florida, Atlantic World, Social networks, British East Florida
Title: Networks and empires in the maritime borderlands: East Florida, 1763 to 1811
Number of pages: 320
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0048
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303913976
Advisor: Klooster, Wim
University/institution: Clark University
University location: United States -- Massachusetts
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580256
ProQuest document ID: 1526409390
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"No More Shall Be a Dull Book": The Aesthetics of History in Antebellum America
Author: Modestino, Kevin M. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1530192628?accountid=14709
Abstract: In the first half of the nineteenth century, historians in the United States described their work as an aesthetic practice. The romantic nationalist George Bancroft claimed that historical writing ought to provide readers with a series of beautiful images that would "secure the affections" of the American people for the U.S. Constitution. William H. Prescott, author of volumes on the age of conquest, introduced his most popular work by claiming that he wanted to present his readers with a "picture true in itself" and, through his vividly imaginative descriptions, "to surround them in the spirit of the times." For this generation of historians, their magisterial texts were not simply more or less true accounts of European experience in the New World or the story of the nation's revolutionary origins, they were paintings in words--expressionistic and romantic images that would make the passions, conflicts, and virtues of previous generations available to their readers as an imaginative experience. Scholars have long understood the various forms of historical consciousness of the nineteenth-century as producing national, imperial, and racial orders in their imagination of the United States as the locus of a linear and progressive flowering of liberty in the New World. My project supplements these totalizing accounts by examining the central texts of nationalist history through the lens of literary analysis to demonstrate how their aesthetic dimensions both enabled and disrupted such a political and temporal imagination. Romantic history emerged in an era of pronounced temporal crisis for the United States. On the surface, these historians sought to provide readers with experiences of an otherwise inaccessible revolutionary past that would help bind a nation confronting fears about dissolution in exponential westward growth, immigration, and the sectional crisis over slavery. Yet, when we look closer at these texts, we realize that they contain covert recognitions of the vitality of struggles for freedom taking place elsewhere--in Haiti, Mexico, or West Indian abolition--that exceeded the terms of U.S. racial republicanism and claimed futures at odds with nationalism's sense of historical preeminence. Both compelled and horrified by the assertion of black freedom throughout the Atlantic world, the beautiful and haunted images of romantic history registered the irruptive force of transatlantic political movements nominally inadmissible within U.S. historical discourse. While romantic historians developed aesthetic norms for confronting and disavowing alternatives to national orders of time and political progress, abolitionist writers held fast to these disruptions to construct an aesthetics of slave revolution. In the second half of my dissertation, I examine the trajectory of this black radical tradition from the abolitionist historians of the antebellum period to the twentieth-century thinkers who adapted and transformed these aesthetics into a comprehensive anti-imperialism. Considering writings by William C. Nell, Martin R. Delany, W.E.B. Du Bois and C.L.R. James I argue that this tradition did more than reconstruct histories of black political life that had been suppressed by white supremacist orders of knowledge. These writers vitalized history with alternate models of freedom as immediate, proliferating, and eruptive--even when they also sought for signs of racial progress in a linear model. In their vivid descriptions of an experience of freedom that was irreducible to linear models of progress, these texts produced what Walter Benjamin once described as "the constructive principle" in materialist history: "where thinking suddenly halts in a constellation overflowing with tensions, there it yields a shock to the same." This shock of overflowing tensions is the moment when history becomes aesthetic--when imaginative excess overturns the narrative form of history. I ultimately argue that the aesthetics of history can help us reconsider the political stakes of historical scholarship, allowing us to think about the writing of history as an ongoing encounter with freedom that always exceeds the limits of factual, analytical and discursive accounts of what has been.
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Subject: African American Studies; American studies; Black studies; American literature
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0323: American studies; 0325: Black studies; 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, American, Antebellum, Nell, William C., Delany, Martin R., Du Bois, W. E. B., James, C. L. R., Aesthetics, African-American, Black Atlantic, Historiography, Nineteenth century
Title: "No More Shall Be a Dull Book": The Aesthetics of History in Antebellum America
Number of pages: 254
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0066
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303869730
Advisor: Wald, Priscilla
Committee member: Ferraro, Thomas J., Marr, Timothy, Donahue, Joseph
University/institution: Duke University
Department: English
University location: United States -- North Carolina
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3618578
ProQuest document ID: 1530192628
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In search of purity: Popular eugenics and racial uplift among New Negroes 1915--1935
Author: Sherman, Shantella Y. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1530423075?accountid=14709
Abstract: "In Search of Purity: Eugenics and Racial Uplift among New Negroes, 1915-1935" examines the reinterpretation of eugenic theories by Black scholars, who helped integrate the science into a social movement for racial uplift. Areas of analyses include: The Talented Tenth, links between ideas about social degeneracy and physical hygiene, eugenics courses and professors at Howard University, hereditarian, and colorism. Guiding principles of African American-led eugenic theory are examined alongside the fading imagery of the Old Negro that consisted of stereotypes scattered throughout plantation fiction, blackface minstrelsy, vaudeville, and Darwinism. Specifically, terms like germ plasm (negative characteristics transmitted through genes through continual selection, unchanged, from one generation to the next) , and racial hygiene (a public health platform designed to eliminate, among other ailments, venereal disease and promote healthy reproduction within a race) are analyzed in their relation to popular discourses about Black cleanliness that included "moral fitness" and intellectual ineptness. Ideologies that intrinsically tied blackness to social degeneracy and criminality, as well as terms like full-blood and mulatto, are also examined. Links between standards of beauty, desirability, and marriage-worthiness in relation to those ideas are also critiqued. Of particular interest is the impact of racial hygiene discourses on African-American advertising through the promotion of products to lighten skin and straighten hair in order to eliminate noticeable signs of racial inferiority.
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Subject: African American Studies; Black history; Womens studies; Medicine
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0328: Black history; 0453: Womens studies; 0564: Medicine
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Health and environmental sciences, Eugenics, Heredity, Internal racism, New Negro, Racial uplift
Title: In search of purity: Popular eugenics and racial uplift among New Negroes 1915--1935
Number of pages: 332
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0138
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303873249
Advisor: Jones, Jeannette Eileen
Committee member: Jones, Jeannette E., Jacobs, Margaret, Jagodinksy, Katrina, Lawrence, Susan, Honey, Maureen
University/institution: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Department: History
University location: United States -- Nebraska
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3618815
ProQuest document ID: 1530423075
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Document 5 of 19
Paul Martin Heerwagen, 1883-1938 Southern interior decorator: Exploring architectural, ornamental, social, and cultural heritage through interior decoration
Author: Johnson, Antoinette Fiduccia http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1537043566?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation focuses on the life and works of an early twentieth-century interior decorator from Fayetteville, Arkansas--Paul Martin Heerwagen. It examines the roles of interior design and decorative painting in the preservation of heritage. Specifically, it explores how the interpretation of interior decoration and architecture can contribute to our knowledge and understanding of the social and cultural heritage of the people who commissioned and used it. Heerwagen contributed to and helped to form the profession of interior decoration in the New South during his career as a decorator, 1883-1938. He implemented his interior designs and painted wall decoration in notable buildings in Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Texas during a prosperous period of fast growth and unbridled construction. The structures he decorated attracted fanfare at their openings, helping to bring national attention to regional architectural development and Southern craftsmanship. The clients who commissioned Heerwagen were among the most financially successful in the South. Through his artistry, they sought to portray an image of taste, wealth, and culture. While the grandeur of the interiors promoted his career, Heerwagen's European heritage also contributed to his professional success as newly wealthy clients projected status by adopting continental style and values. This dissertation examines architectural fashion and ornament popular during Heerwagen's decorative career. The narrative explores the roots of the prevalent fashion and the reasons it became desirable in the United States. It also investigates Heerwagen's activity as an interior decorator, including his use of murals, application of decorative ornament, and the artistry of his decorative painting. Three of Heerwagen's projects are my case studies. These selections span the course of his decorating career and represent a variety of building types--residential, government-sponsored, and entertainment architecture. The case studies examine the McKinney Residence in El Dorado, Arkansas, the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, and the Strand Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana. They are representative of over thirty Southern buildings that have been identified as including Heerwagen decoration.
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Subject: American history; Art history; Architecture
Classification: 0337: American history; 0377: Art history; 0729: Architecture
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Decorative painting, Heritage, Interior decoration, Paul Martin Heerwagen
Title: Paul Martin Heerwagen, 1883-1938 Southern interior decorator: Exploring architectural, ornamental, social, and cultural heritage through interior decoration
Number of pages: 250
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 1231
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303907999
Advisor: Banta, Brady
Committee member: Chappel Traylor, Deborah, Hawkins, Ruth
University/institution: Arkansas State University
Department: Heritage Studies
University location: United States -- Arkansas
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3620364
ProQuest document ID: 1537043566
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Document 6 of 19
Objects of confidence and choice: Professional communities in Alabama, 1804-1861
Author: Reidy, Thomas Edward http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1537087664?accountid=14709
Abstract: Objects of Confidence and Choice considered the centrality of professional communities in Alabama, from1804 to 1861. The dissertation highlighted what it meant to be a professional, as well as what professionals meant to their communities, by examining themes of education, family, wealth patterns, slaveholding, and professional identities This project defined professionals as men with professional degrees or licenses to practice: doctors, lawyers, clergymen, teachers, and others. Several men who appeared in this study have been widely studied: William Lowndes Yancey, Josiah Nott, Dr. J. Marion Sims, James Birney, Leroy Pope Walker, Clement Comer Clay, and his son, Clement Claiborne Clay. Others are less familiar today, but were, in many cases, leaders of their towns and cities. Names were culled from various censuses and tax records and put into a database that included items such as age, marital status, children, real property, personal property, and slaveholding. In total, the database included 453 names. The study also mined a rich vein of primary source material from the very articulate professional community. Objects of Confidence and Choice indicated that professionals were not a social class but a community of institution builders. In order to refine this conclusion, a more targeted investigation of professionals in a single antebellum Alabama town will be needed.
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Subject: American history
Classification: 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Alabama slaveholding, Clement c. clay, Harry toulmin, Harry watson, J. marion sims, Thomas fearn
Title: Objects of confidence and choice: Professional communities in Alabama, 1804-1861
Number of pages: 222
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0004
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303898778
Advisor: Rothman, Joshua D.
Committee member: Rable, George C., Giggie, John M., Green, Jennifer R., Kohl, Lawrence F.
University/institution: The University of Alabama
Department: History
University location: United States -- Alabama
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3620160
ProQuest document ID: 1537087664
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Document 7 of 19
The life and leadership of William P. Foster: The maestro and the legend
Author: Walker, Richard L., Jr. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1526012778?accountid=14709
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the life and leadership of William P. Foster. As an acclaimed African American band director, the history of Foster was considered a parable rather than a leader who had made important contributions to the progression of band theory, practice, and performance both nationally and abroad. This misconception is an omission within the history of ethnomusicology, music education, music literature, band philosophy, as well as higher education leadership. Focusing on his 52-year tenure at Florida Agriculture and Mechanical University as director of bands as well as over 45 years as the music department chair allowed for a better understanding of what inspired Foster's concepts for band leadership and development in higher education. Utilizing a qualitative case study approach, this study examined the life of Foster through the unique stories of seven purposefully selected African American band directors with at least 25 years' experience and direct access to Foster. Participants selected were former students of Foster and music education alumni of Florida A&M; University. This provided a deeper understanding of how the participants utilized Foster's techniques, leadership, and teachings. An analysis of the study participants' experiences yielded five emergent themes: highest quality character, excellence in leadership, great communicator, respect, and outstanding musicianship. This study used the servant leadership model, specifically the seven pillars of servant leadership, to examine Foster's band and academic leadership experiences. The findings of this study serve as a dependable source about how Foster swayed audiences to remain in the stands during halftime performances. Concomitantly, reflections of the participants in this study give credence to Foster's ability to transform collegiate bands administratively, ethically, technically, and culturally. Moreover, the research describes Foster's impetus to change the band's marching style and appearance during a time of segregation. These findings may also be used to inspire future leaders in higher education who aspire to focus on the developmental needs of their constituents.
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Subject: African American Studies; Educational leadership; Education
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0449: Educational leadership; 0515: Education
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Education, Higher education, Historically black colleges and universities, Leadership, Marching band, Music education, Servant leadership
Title: The life and leadership of William P. Foster: The maestro and the legend
Number of pages: 231
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0094
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303853470
Advisor: Hinton, Kandace
Committee member: Howard-Hamilton, Mary, Finnie, Jimmy
University/institution: Indiana State University
Department: Educational Leadership, Administration, and Foundations
University location: United States -- Indiana
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3617677
ProQuest document ID: 1526012778
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Nothin' but 'ligion: The American Missionary Association's Activities in the Nation's Capital, 1852 - 1875
Author: Toler, Herbert H., Jr. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1527108914?accountid=14709
Abstract: Missionary zeal in Washington, D.C. was at its height during the two decades following the opening of the Civil War. Religious organizations and their affiliates descended upon the city as its black population swelled from 10,983 in 1860 to 48,377 in 1880 - one of the largest urban black populations in the United States. Ten years after the first missionaries of the American Missionary Association (AMA) began evangelizing in the District of Columbia, AMA teachers initiated the instruction of contraband, freedmen, and free blacks in the fundamentals of education. The mission was to retool and prepare blacks in the transition from slavery to freedom. Given the numerous milestones in understanding missionary work (labor) in the rural south, little has been said about missionary activities in urban/metropolitan south by historians whose foci has been the deep south, aspects of missionary duties, and notable personnel. This study focuses on one missionary organization that significantly contributed to the urbanization of blacks in Washington, D.C. - to determine the outcome of its work in the life of free men and women in the city and to understand the origins of its historical legitimacy and legacy. At the center of this study were more than five thousand American Missionary Association (AMA) digital frames of papers which provide a clear understanding of what took place during this critical period. From such papers, personnel, ideas, and occurrences can be closely followed to reconfigure the organization's past. Additionally, records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands provided a more concise view of the AMA's effects on the black community of Washington. Combined with more traditional sources, those materials have broadened the way to a better understanding of the nature of the black experience and the factors which shaped that urban experience in Washington, D.C. after the Civil War. The enormity of the challenge was so great that a few missions and mission workers folded soon after they began - leaving those who most needed to be rescued to fend for themselves. For most missionaries, the call to mission work had a deeper meaning that was displayed in the inner sanctum of the organization's relief - in their efforts to normalize the lives of the freedmen and freemen with traditional institutions such as the schools, churches, and work. The inability of the AMA's mission work among the black community in Washington to make greater social, economic, and religious strides by the end of the Reconstruction Era, is tied to the uniqueness of Washington, D.C. and the organization; the shear size of the migration and nature of the city left an overwhelming void that was impossible to fulfill. Ultimately, it was those who were first responders that failed to provide comprehensive aid in the transition from slavery to freedom - to bring a permanent program that lifted blacks in Washington out of lower class bondage. The combination of staffing issues, poor administration, high mindedness, a burgeoning missionary field, and Republican influence did not allow the American Missionary Association to commit fully to lasting change among Washington, D.C.'s black population. Thus upon the exodus of missionaries and benevolent associations, those who made it to the "promised land" were left with nothin' but `ligion.
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Subject: Religion; Religious history; American history
Classification: 0318: Religion; 0320: Religious history; 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, American missionary association, Black people, Education, Freedmen's bureau, Reconstruction, Washington D.C.
Title: Nothin' but 'ligion: The American Missionary Association's Activities in the Nation's Capital, 1852 - 1875
Number of pages: 341
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0054
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303847721
Advisor: Foner, Eric
University/institution: Columbia University
Department: History
University location: United States -- New York
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3617387
ProQuest document ID: 1527108914
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Document 9 of 19
Minor Moves: Growth, Fugitivity, and Children's Physical Movement
Author: Curseen, Allison Samantha http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1530478130?accountid=14709
Abstract: From tendencies to reduce the Underground Railroad to the imperative "follow the north star" to the iconic images of Ruby Bridges' 1960 "step forward" on the stairs of William Frantz Elementary School, America prefers to picture freedom as an upwardly mobile development. This preoccupation with the subtractive and linear force of development makes it hard to hear the palpable steps of so many truant children marching in the Movement and renders illegible the nonlinear movements of minors in the Underground. Yet a black fugitive hugging a tree, a white boy walking alone in a field, or even pieces of a discarded raft floating downstream like remnants of child's play are constitutive gestures of the Underground's networks of care and escape. Responding to 19th-century Americanists and cultural studies scholars' important illumination of the child as central to national narratives of development and freedom, "Minor Moves" reads major literary narratives not for the child and development but for the fugitive trace of minor and growth. In four chapters, I trace the physical gestures of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Pearl, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy, Harriet Wilson's Frado, and Mark Twain's Huck against the historical backdrop of the Fugitive Slave Act and the passing of the first compulsory education bills that made truancy illegal. I ask how, within a discourse of independence that fails to imagine any serious movements in the minor, we might understand the depictions of moving children as interrupting a U.S. preoccupation with normative development and recognize in them the emergence of an alternative imaginary. To attend to the movement of the minor is to attend to what the discursive order of a development-centered imaginary deems inconsequential and what its grammar can render only as mistakes. Engaging the insights of performance studies, I regard what these narratives depict as childish missteps (Topsy's spins, Frado's climbing the roof) as dances that trouble the narrative's discursive order. At the same time, drawing upon the observations of black studies and literary theory, I take note of the pressure these "minor moves" put on the literal grammar of the text (Stowe's run-on sentences and Hawthorne's shaky subject-verb agreements). I regard these ungrammatical moves as poetic ruptures from which emerges an alternative and prior force of the imaginary at work in these narratives--a force I call "growth." Reading these "minor moves" holds open the possibility of thinking about a generative association between blackness and childishness, one that neither supports racist ideas of biological inferiority nor mandates in the name of political uplift the subsequent repudiation of childishness. I argue that recognizing the fugitive force of growth indicated in the interplay between the conceptual and grammatical disjunctures of these minor moves opens a deeper understanding of agency and dependency that exceeds notions of arrested development and social death. For once we interrupt the desire to picture development (which is to say the desire to picture), dependency is no longer a state (of social death or arrested development) of what does not belong, but rather it is what Édouard Glissant might have called a "departure" (from "be[ing] a single being"). Topsy's hard-to-see pick-pocketing and Pearl's running amok with brown men in the market are not moves out of dependency but indeed social turns (a dance) by way of dependency. Dependent, moving and ungrammatical, the growth evidenced in these childish ruptures enables different stories about slavery, freedom, and childishness--ones that do not necessitate a repudiation of childishness in the name of freedom, but recognize in such minor moves a fugitive way out.
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Subject: African American Studies; American literature
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Antebellum, Blackness, Children, Minor characters, Movement, Nineteenth century
Title: Minor Moves: Growth, Fugitivity, and Children's Physical Movement
Number of pages: 327
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0066
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303876462
Advisor: Wald, Priscilla
Committee member: Ferraro, Thomas, Wallace, Maurice, Thrailkill, Jane
University/institution: Duke University
Department: English
University location: United States -- North Carolina
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3619004
ProQuest document ID: 1530478130
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Document 10 of 19
Guardians of historical knowledge: textbook politics, conservative activism, and school reform in Mississippi, 1928-1982
Author: Johnson, Kevin Boland http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1528559069?accountid=14709
Abstract: This project examines the role cultural transmission of historical myths plays in power relationships and identity formation through a study of the Mississippi textbook regulatory agency and various civic organizations that shaped education policy in addition to textbook content. A study of massive resistance to integration, my project focuses on the anticommunism and conservative ideology of grassroots segregationists. Civic-patriotic societies such as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the American Legion, and Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation formed as the major alliance affecting the state's education system in the post-World War II era. Once the state department of education centralized its services in the late 1930s and early 1940s, civic club reformers guarded against integrationist and multicultural content found in textbooks, deeming both as subversive and communistic. From the early 1950s through the 1970s, Mississippi's ardent segregationists and anticommunists shaped education policy by effective state-level lobbying and grassroots activism. I demonstrate that the civic clubs had more influence in the state legislature than did the upstart Citizens' Council movement. In addition, I show that once social studies standards emphasizing God, country, and Protestant Christianity became codified in state education policy, it became ever more difficult for other reformers, namely James W. Loewen and Charles Sallis, to dislodge and alter those standards. Through numerous legal cases, DAR and Farm Bureau ephemera, and state superintendent of education files, this work argues that the civic clubs played an integral role in defense of white supremacy--a role that has been underemphasized in the existing literature on massive resistance.
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Subject: American history; Education history
Classification: 0337: American history; 0520: Education history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Education, Mississippi, Anticommunism, Centralization, Curriculum, Heritage, Massive resistance, Textbooks
Title: Guardians of historical knowledge: textbook politics, conservative activism, and school reform in Mississippi, 1928-1982
Number of pages: 339
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0132
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303864346
Advisor: Ward, Jason M.
Committee member: Damms, Richard V., Greene, Alison C., Williams, Michael V.
University/institution: Mississippi State University
Department: History
University location: United States -- Mississippi
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3618259
ProQuest document ID: 1528559069
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Document 11 of 19
Desegregation at Kansas City's Central High School: Illuminating the African American student experience through oral history
Author: Poos, Bradley W. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1534151791?accountid=14709
Abstract: Central High School, the oldest high school in Kansas City, serves as an example of how radically education in Kansas City, Missouri, has changed over the course of the last 150 years. Beginning as part of Kansas City, Missouri's, segregated public school system, Central was the city's first all-white high school and remained as such for the better part of ninety years. In 1955, following the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the Kansas City, Missouri, School district began a process of desegregation; Central High School's student population promptly transformed from all white in 1955 to nearly all black in 1962. This project explores the history of Kansas City's Central High School, investigating how the Kansas City, Missouri School District's approach to desegregation affected Central High School and in particular, Central's black students. With an emphasis on oral history, I set out to ascertain the African American student experience at Central High School, especially during the magnet years, 1988 to 1999, a period in which the Kansas City, Missouri School District underwent the most expensive and expansive desegregation remedy to date.
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Subject: Black studies; Educational leadership; Education history; Social studies education
Classification: 0325: Black studies; 0449: Educational leadership; 0520: Education history; 0534: Social studies education
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Education, Missouri, African American students, Central High School, Desegregation, Kansas City
Title: Desegregation at Kansas City's Central High School: Illuminating the African American student experience through oral history
Number of pages: 301
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0134
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303887260
Advisor: Davis, Donna M.
Committee member: Caruthers, Loyce, McCarther, S. Marie, Semmes, Clovis, Bowles, Doug
University/institution: University of Missouri - Kansas City
Department: Education
University location: United States -- Missouri
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3619474
ProQuest document ID: 1534151791
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Document 12 of 19
Southern Enlightenment: Reform and Progress in Jefferson's Virginia
Author: Morris, Scott Taylor http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1530298375?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation posits that in the five decades following the American Revolution, there was a movement among the elite of Virginia's rising generation to envision a future different from the path that would ultimately take the state toward the retrenchment of slavery and even secession. This younger generation, claiming the legacy of Thomas Jefferson, demonstrated that the liberal side of the Enlightenment had a life in Virginia that went beyond the Founders' generation, and that the Enlightenment in the South offered possibilities for social and political reform. The primary types of reform animating liberal elite reformers in this generation were those requiring state action organized through the political process, and they included such reforms as the promotion of internal improvements, public education, the gradual abolition of slavery, and the democratization of the state itself. Although these reformers did not succeed in fundamentally changing the trajectory of Virginia's future, they attempted to offer an alternative, while at the same time confronting their own ambivalences and the realities of a society that was becoming more overtly proslavery.
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Subject: American studies; American history
Classification: 0323: American studies; 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Antislavery, Enlightenment, Jefferson, Thomas, Reforms, Virginia
Title: Southern Enlightenment: Reform and Progress in Jefferson's Virginia
Number of pages: 233
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0252
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303869211
Advisor: Konig, David T.
Committee member: Bernstein, Iver, Calvert, Randall, Fields, Wayne, Kastor, Peter
University/institution: Washington University in St. Louis
Department: History
University location: United States -- Missouri
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3618546
ProQuest document ID: 1530298375
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Document 13 of 19
A beacon of light: Tougaloo during the presidency of Dr. Adam Daniel Beittel (1960-1964)
Author: Speed, John Gregory http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1535272333?accountid=14709
Abstract: This study examines leadership efforts that supported the civil rights movements that came from administrators and professors, students and staff at Tougaloo College between 1960 and 1964. A review of literature reveals that little has been written about the college's role in the Civil Rights Movement during this time. Thus, one goal of this study is to fill a gap in the historical record. A second purpose of this study is to examine the challenges of progressive leadership at a historically Black college in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement when a White president was at the helm. When Dr. Adam D. Beittel was appointed the Tougaloo president in 1960, African Americans in Mississippi were facing difficult times. At first, Beittel and the college seemed a perfect fit. Both had extensive histories of outreach and ministries. At Tougaloo, Beittel became recognized as an extraordinary college administrator, mainly in his ability to increase student enrollment, boost external funding, and to improve buildings and the school's physical plant. In spite of Beittel's accomplishments, his presidency was not long lasting. In fact, it came to an unforeseen and abrupt end on September 1, 1964, with Beittel's forced resignation. By that time, the pressures of leading a historically Black college during such adverse times had strained Beittel's relationships, even those from within his group of allies, and his supporters throughout the Jackson community. During Beittel's presidency at Tougaloo, nearby civil rights battles were waged, such as the integrating of Jackson's lunch counters, churches, libraries, and entertainment venues. This study focuses on the roles Beittel and other Tougaloo administrators and professors played in these critical events between 1960 and 1964.
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Subject: African American Studies; Black studies; Higher Education Administration; Education history
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0325: Black studies; 0446: Higher Education Administration; 0520: Education history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Education, Beittel, Adam Daniel, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo Nine, King, Edwin, Civil rights movement, Jackson Movement, Tougaloo Four
Title: A beacon of light: Tougaloo during the presidency of Dr. Adam Daniel Beittel (1960-1964)
Number of pages: 329
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0211
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303882456
Advisor: O'Brien, Thomas V.
Committee member: Shelley, Kyna, Roberson, Thelma, Tisdale, Terrell
University/institution: The University of Southern Mississippi
Department: Educational Studies and Research
University location: United States -- Mississippi
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3584538
ProQuest document ID: 1535272333
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Savage Hunger: Cannibalism and the Discourse on Slavery in the United States and Caribbean
Author: Pearson, Erin http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1524266450?accountid=14709
Abstract: My dissertation argues that cannibalism afforded Anglophone writers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a powerful conceptual tool for making sense of slavery in the United States and the Caribbean. From the height of the transatlantic slave trade to the final vitriolic decades of proslavery defense in the antebellum United States, the purported cannibalism of Africans provided slavery advocates with a ready shorthand for barbaric inferiority that became an excuse for enslavement. Meanwhile, the figurative dimensions of anthropophagy provided the framework for compelling critiques of human exploitation. In the late eighteenth century, for example, British abolitionists used the trope of blood- soaked sugar to convince consumers that they were cannibalizing Caribbean slaves. In the nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass characterized slavery as "greedily devouring our hard earnings and feeding himself upon our flesh." By understanding how cannibalism entered and shaped the discourse on slavery, we gain crucial insight into the ways race and power were perceived, constructed, and challenged not only by slaves and slaveholders, but by politicians, abolitionists, and consumers. My approach combines the examination of rare archival materials like political cartoons and blackface minstrel songsters with extended close readings of major literary texts by writers including Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Charles Chesnutt. Moving from Great Britain to the Caribbean to the United States, and from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries, my dissertation exposes connections between anti-sugar campaigns, free soil disputes, blackface minstrel tropes, and lynching accounts. In the process, I establish the ongoing relevance of figurative cannibalism to race formation by uncovering patterns of racialized thought that not only persisted long after emancipation, but remain influential today.
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Subject: African American Studies; American studies; Black studies; Black history; American literature
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0323: American studies; 0325: Black studies; 0328: Black history; 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, Cannibalism, Literature, Lynching, Minstrelsy, Slavery
Title: Savage Hunger: Cannibalism and the Discourse on Slavery in the United States and Caribbean
Number of pages: 297
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0030
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303810299
Advisor: Lazo, Rodrigo
Committee member: Keizer, Arlene R., Godden, Richard, Thomas, Brook
University/institution: University of California, Irvine
Department: English
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3615200
ProQuest document ID: 1524266450
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Document 15 of 19
Views of the future state: Afterlife beliefs in the deep south, 1820-1865
Author: Baker, Donna Cox http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1537087757?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines shifting conceptions of the afterlife among white literate inhabitants of the Deep South between 1820 and 1865, as the challenges of scientific study, universalism, and otherworldly mysticism encouraged questioning. In 1820, ideas of what lay beyond death were relatively static and limited in scope, holding closely to the few images available in the King James Bible. Attempts to squelch superstition in the early nineteenth century had stifled the magical and mystical in the literate southern worldview, further dampening imagination in the contemplation of the world beyond death. Debates over heaven and hell centered on who would get there and how--not on what they would find there. As the published work of scientists around the world-- increasingly available by the late 1820s--began to call into question biblical references to such things as the age of the earth, and raised speculation about life on other planets, doubt surfaced also as to the trustworthiness of scriptural translation. Within this environment of skepticism, universalism gained adherents. A growing number found compelling evidence within the flood of exegetical studies questioning whether the scribes of Holy Writ had ever intended to suggest an eternal punishment when they used the words interpreted as "hell" in modern translations of Scripture. As traditional views began to gray at the edges, and skepticism became fashionable, new waves of mysticism--particularly those of Mesmerism and Spiritualism--found curious audiences and committed practitioners. These ideas were never institutionalized to the degree they were in the North, but the impact of this broader thinking reveals itself in the markedly changed reading habits of the South by the advent of the Civil War. Hell had softened, though the terrifying images of old were resurrected by clergy when soldiers faced battle unconverted. The personal writing during the war reflected a very vibrant view of heaven--one that went beyond Scripture to suggest an environment like home, only better. With it came an expanded freedom to question and to imagine.
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Subject: Religious history; American history; History
Classification: 0320: Religious history; 0337: American history; 0578: History
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Afterlife, Mesmerism, Religion, Spiritualism, Universalism, U.S. south
Title: Views of the future state: Afterlife beliefs in the deep south, 1820-1865
Number of pages: 320
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0004
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303897351
Advisor: Rable, George C.
Committee member: Abruzzo, Margaret, Giggie, John M., Israel, Charles A., Rothman, Joshua D.
University/institution: The University of Alabama
Department: History
University location: United States -- Alabama
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3620054
ProQuest document ID: 1537087757
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Document 16 of 19
Deconstructing whiteness, redefining southern literature: Bringing back African American voices into Southern literature
Author: Sa, Mi Ok http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1525981996?accountid=14709
Abstract: In this study I argued the necessity of including African American writers into Southern literature to enhance our understanding of white identity in 20th-century literature. Though my project is the expansion of the prevalent trend in Southern literary studies, it shows important, new reasons for the necessity. By examining whiteness in twentieth-century Southern literature, using critical whiteness theories, and insisting on the inclusion of white-life fiction, I demonstrate the imperative of including African American literature to gain a clearer understanding of whiteness. In addition, my project sheds light on four thematic areas that are important in exploring white identity: Southern womanhood, space, biracial identity, and class. By comparing black writers' works with those of white writers' in terms of four thematic aspects, I demonstrate that African American writers offer keen insights into whiteness that white writers fail to show. To this end, I compare the portrayal of biracial identity in William Faulkner's Light in August with that in Charles Chesnutt's The House behind the Cedars in Chapter 2; I also compare the portrayal of white womanhood's interrelation with race and class in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire with that in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee in Chapter 3. For the framework of my study, I employ a few critical whiteness theories such as Toni Morrison; Owen J. Dwyer and John Paul Jones; David Roediger; and Tim Cresswell.
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Subject: African American Studies; Literature; American literature
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0401: Literature; 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, African American literature, Southern literature, Whiteness
Title: Deconstructing whiteness, redefining southern literature: Bringing back African American voices into Southern literature
Number of pages: 161
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0318
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303853982
Advisor: Watson, Veronica
Committee member: Sell, Mike, Thompson, Todd
University/institution: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Department: English
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3617710
ProQuest document ID: 1525981996
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Religion-based Homonegative Messages, Depression, and HIV Risk in Black Men Who Have Sex With Men
Author: Lassiter, Jonathan Mathias http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1538050430?accountid=14709
Abstract: The present investigation was an online quantitative study that examined the associations between religion-based homonegative messages, internalized homonegativity, depressive symptoms, and sexual HIV risk behavior among a nationally recruited sample of 428 Black men who have sex with men (BMSM). The men in the sample had a mean age of 34, primarily resided the Southeastern region of the United States and identified as African American and gay. A series of hierarchal multiple regression and binary logistic regression analyses were conducted to test a path model that linked religion-based homonegative messages with sexual HIV risk behavior. Religion-based homonegative messages were found to be significantly associated with internalized homonegativity; internalized homonegativity was found to be significantly associated with depressive symptoms; and depressive symptoms were found to be significantly associated with sexual HIV risk behavior. The implications of these findings for mental health professionals, researchers, HIV prevention workers, and clergy are discussed.
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Subject: African American Studies; GLBT Studies; Clinical psychology
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0492: GLBT Studies; 0622: Clinical psychology
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Psychology, Black men, Depression, Gay men, Hiv prevention, Mental health, Religion
Title: Religion-based Homonegative Messages, Depression, and HIV Risk in Black Men Who Have Sex With Men
Number of pages: 67
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 1634
Source: DAI-B 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303900402
Advisor: Green, Robert-Jay
Committee member: Henderson, Sheila, Carrico, Adam
University/institution: Alliant International University
Department: San Francisco, CSPP
University location: United States -- California
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3620275
ProQuest document ID: 1538050430
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Document 18 of 19
Straddling the Color Line: Social and Political Power of African American Elites in Charleston, New Orleans, and Cleveland, 1880-1920
Author: Carey, Kim M. http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1531328076?accountid=14709
Abstract: From 1880-1920 the United States struggled to incorporate former slaves into the citizenship of the nation. Constitutional amendments legislated freedom for African Americans, but custom dictated otherwise. White people equated power and wealth with whiteness. Conversely, blackness suggested poverty and lack of opportunity. Straddling the Color Line is a multi-city examination of influential and prominent African Americans who lived with one foot in each world, black and white, but who in reality belonged to neither. These influential men lived lives that mirrored Victorian white gentlemen. In many cases they enjoyed all the same privileges as their white counterparts. At other times they were forced into uncomfortable alliances with less affluent African Americans who looked to them for support, protection and guidance, but with whom they had no commonalities except perhaps the color of their skin. This dissertation argues two main points. One is that members of the black elite had far more social and political power than previously understood. Some members of the black elite did not depend on white patronage or paternalism to achieve success. Some influential white men developed symbiotic relationships across the color line with these elite African American men and they treated each other with mutual affection and respect. The second point is that the nadir in race relations occurred at different times in different cities. In the three cities studied, the nadir appeared first in Charleston, then New Orleans and finally in Cleveland. Although there were setbacks in progress toward equality, many blacks initially saw the setbacks as temporary regressions. Most members of the elite were unwilling to concede that racism was endemic before the onset of the Twentieth Century. In Cleveland, the appearance of significant racial oppression was not evident until after the World War I and resulted from the Great Migration. Immigrants from the Deep South migrated to the North seeking opportunity and freedom. They discovered that in recreating the communities of their homeland, they also created conditions that allowed racism to flourish.
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Subject: African American Studies; Black studies; Black history; American history
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0325: Black studies; 0328: Black history; 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, African american history, Black history, Cleveland ohio, Charleston, New orleans, African american elites, South carolina, Louisiana
Title: Straddling the Color Line: Social and Political Power of African American Elites in Charleston, New Orleans, and Cleveland, 1880-1920
Number of pages: 333
Publication year: 2013
Degree date: 2013
School code: 0101
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303875021
Advisor: Smith-Pryor, Elizabeth
Committee member: Hudson, Leonne, Harrell, Willie, Jr., Sotiropolous, Karen, Goar, Carla
University/institution: Kent State University
Department: History
University location: United States -- Ohio
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3618945
ProQuest document ID: 1531328076
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Plantation modernism: Irish, Caribbean, and U.S. fiction, 1890-1950
Author: Clukey, Amy http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1536357925?accountid=14709
Abstract: Although the plantation is most often associated with the antebellum U.S. south, the modern plantation complex was first introduced as a system of economic and cultural domination in sixteenth-century Ireland. This model of settler colonialism was soon exported to the New World and spawned a range of social institutions and cultural artifacts, including a genre of literature. While plantation fiction seemed to reach the height of its popularity in the United States after emancipation, the genre was revived in the twentieth century by Irish, Caribbean, and American writers. Indeed, the genre was revised with surprising frequency by modernists from a wide variety of national and cultural backgrounds, including Elizabeth Bowen, Liam O'Flaherty, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay, Eric Walrond, Arna Bontemps, and of course, William Faulkner. Serving as an important device of cultural linkage, plantation fiction offers a way of understanding the reverberations of empire in transatlantic modernity. While writers of nineteenth-century plantation romance sought its origins in feudalism, the plantation in fact emerged out of the capitalist-imperial ventures of what C.L.R. James calls the "maritime bourgeoisie" of early modern Europe. Plantation ideology derived not from steadfast traditions, but rather from the demands of the market and the defense of property, often human. My project concentrates on Anglophone plantation culture from roughly 1890 through 1950. I track the vast changes in the plantation complex that took place during the modern period, including the transformations that occurred after emancipation, the shift from traditional colonial-settler (family owned) plantations to corporate ventures and state owned plantations, and the simultaneous rise of British decolonization and American imperial expansion. The modernist era marks a shift in global production patterns, as the plantation complex adumbrates transnational agribusiness, and the literature of this period attempts to grapple with the clash between these residual and emergent capitalist agricultural forms. Although the plantation complex is an institution of empire, it would be wrong to expect that all plantation fiction simply serves the ideological imperatives of empire (as it might when the archive is limited to nineteenth-century American writers). Broadening the definition of "plantation fiction" beyond the narrow confines of plantation romance reveals more ideologically diverse and critical representations of the plantation's role in producing and sustaining empire. Modernist fiction underscores the plantation's global socio-economic reach by tracing the flow of capital and people to the metropole from plantation cultures. I argue that plantation modernism uses modernist techniques to focus narrative through perspectives from postlapsarian plantation cultures: octoroon mistresses, exploited field hands, disaffected and dishonored planters' daughters, and other characters burdened by the legacies of the plantation past. Works like Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September , Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark , Claude McKay's Banana Bottom , and William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom ! experiment with the generic conventions established by plantation romance in order to reveal the local manifestations of global capitalism and also to mediate between imperial centers and peripheralized regions. Plantation modernism's cosmopolitan style embraces epistemological and political uncertainty, and foregrounds the forms of cosmopolitanism that emerge among plantation modernity's voluntary and involuntary diasporas.
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Subject: Caribbean literature; American literature; British and Irish literature
Classification: 0360: Caribbean literature; 0591: American literature; 0593: British and Irish literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Modernism, American, Plantation, Caribbean, Fiction, Irish
Title: Plantation modernism: Irish, Caribbean, and U.S. fiction, 1890-1950
Number of pages: 225
Publication year: 2009
Degree date: 2009
School code: 0176
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303953545
Advisor: Lyon, Janet
University/institution: The Pennsylvania State University
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3584661
ProQuest document ID: 1536357925
Table of contents
1. Objects of confidence and choice: Professional communities in Alabama, 1804-1861
2. An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation at the End of the Seventeenth Century
3. "Whether it be lawful": The debate over slavery in the Atlantic world, 1550-1750
4. Mexican Immigration and Unemployment in Georgia in the 1990s
5. Deconstructing whiteness, redefining southern literature: Bringing back African American voices into Southern literature
6. Views of the future state: Afterlife beliefs in the deep south, 1820-1865
7. Currents of liberty: Revolutionary emigres to Jamaica and their contributions to Afro-Caribbean civil society, 1775 -- 1838
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Objects of confidence and choice: Professional communities in Alabama, 1804-1861
Author: Reidy, Thomas Edward http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1537087664?accountid=14709
Abstract: Objects of Confidence and Choice considered the centrality of professional communities in Alabama, from1804 to 1861. The dissertation highlighted what it meant to be a professional, as well as what professionals meant to their communities, by examining themes of education, family, wealth patterns, slaveholding, and professional identities This project defined professionals as men with professional degrees or licenses to practice: doctors, lawyers, clergymen, teachers, and others. Several men who appeared in this study have been widely studied: William Lowndes Yancey, Josiah Nott, Dr. J. Marion Sims, James Birney, Leroy Pope Walker, Clement Comer Clay, and his son, Clement Claiborne Clay. Others are less familiar today, but were, in many cases, leaders of their towns and cities. Names were culled from various censuses and tax records and put into a database that included items such as age, marital status, children, real property, personal property, and slaveholding. In total, the database included 453 names. The study also mined a rich vein of primary source material from the very articulate professional community. Objects of Confidence and Choice indicated that professionals were not a social class but a community of institution builders. In order to refine this conclusion, a more targeted investigation of professionals in a single antebellum Alabama town will be needed.
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Subject: American history
Classification: 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Alabama slaveholding, Clement c. clay, Harry toulmin, Harry watson, J. marion sims, Thomas fearn
Title: Objects of confidence and choice: Professional communities in Alabama, 1804-1861
Number of pages: 222
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0004
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303898778
Advisor: Rothman, Joshua D.
Committee member: Rable, George C., Giggie, John M., Green, Jennifer R., Kohl, Lawrence F.
University/institution: The University of Alabama
Department: History
University location: United States -- Alabama
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3620160
ProQuest document ID: 1537087664
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An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation at the End of the Seventeenth Century
Author: Brown, David Arthur http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1532208642?accountid=14709
Abstract: Lewis Burwell II designed Fairfield plantation in Gloucester County to be the most sophisticated and successful architectural and agricultural effort in late seventeenth-century Virginia. He envisioned a physical framework with the intent to control the world around him so that he might profit from growing tobacco, while raising his family's status to the highest in the colony through the display of wealth and knowledge and the enslavement of both Africans and the natural surroundings. The landscape he envisioned contrasted with those of the enslaved Africans he purchased and put to work in the fields and buildings surrounding his '1694 brick manor house. These overlapping and often competing landscapes are visible in the surviving material culture, archaeological remains, and historic documents. Individuals created these landscapes from their personal experiences, a product of their constantly changing perspectives extending outward from themselves, their "way of seeing" tempered by a culture rooted in Senegambia, England, or Virginia. At a crucial period in Virginia history, perhaps the most significant period of plantation development prior to the Civil War, Lewis Burwell II's Fairfield plantation reflected the struggle between the co-dependent strains of agricultural expansion and racialized slavery. This dissertation attempts to explain how and why individuals created and manipulated these landscapes, how landscapes provided opportunities and constrained possibilities, defined interpersonal relationships, individual and group identities, and the relative success and failures of a society constantly confronted with a physical environment it could not wholly control. By studying past landscapes and how others used them to define and redefine their identities, it is possible to gain insight into our present condition, deepening an understanding of how our interactions with landscape define our own identity.
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Subject: Archaeology; American history; Landscape architecture
Classification: 0324: Archaeology; 0337: American history; 0390: Landscape architecture
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Communication and the arts, Colonial History, Landscape, Chesapeake, Historical Archaeology, Virginia, Plantations
Title: An Enslaved Landscape: The Virginia Plantation at the End of the Seventeenth Century
Number of pages: 394
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0261
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303953507
Advisor: Whittenburg, James
University/institution: The College of William and Mary
University location: United States -- Virginia
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580402
ProQuest document ID: 1532208642
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"Whether it be lawful": The debate over slavery in the Atlantic world, 1550-1750
Author: Heise, Steven Karl Flogstad http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1526409933?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation explores the early modern discourse over slavery in the Atlantic world from 1550- 1750. Traditionally the early modern discourse has been glossed over by historians who see it as either a series of intellectual dead ends or as insignificant in relation to the later discourse. This dissertation departs from traditional historical interpretation of the debate over slavery to suggest that the discourse of this period is more varied than has been previously portrayed and attempts to show the development of a discrete proslavery ideology built to deflect criticism of the institution. It also suggests that the proslavery position was a purposeful creation of intellectuals who had a stake in the well-being of colonial slavery. Antislavery by contrast is shown to be an intellectually diverse position that tapped into more than just theological arguments to attack slavery. This project focuses its attention on the intellectual production of pro and antislavery authors to show the myriad ways in which the discourse seeped into theological, political, and cultural discussions.
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Subject: Black history; American history
Classification: 0328: Black history; 0337: American history
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences
Title: "Whether it be lawful": The debate over slavery in the Atlantic world, 1550-1750
Number of pages: 369
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0048
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303914003
Advisor: Klooster, Willem
University/institution: Clark University
University location: United States -- Massachusetts
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580259
ProQuest document ID: 1526409933
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Document 4 of 7
Mexican Immigration and Unemployment in Georgia in the 1990s
Author: Espinosa, Cristina http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1534364975?accountid=14709
Abstract: Mexican immigration grew substantially in the state of Georgia during the 1990s. This phenomenon generated an environment that led to social and political measures that marginalized and restricted the rights of immigrants. The purpose of this study was to examine the nature of the relationship between Mexican immigration rates into Georgia and the unemployment rate 1 year later from 1990 to 2000. A regression analysis and t test was performed to investigate the relationship between 1-year lagged immigration rates and unemployment rates. The data for monthly Mexican immigration rates for 1990 through 2000 were obtained from the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey. The monthly unemployment rates were obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the context of labor economics, this study was based on a dynamic linear regression model, and used as a theoretical framework the theories of economic growth and the economics of Mexican immigration. Mexican immigration into Georgia and its specific nature and history were investigated to provide the necessary context to this complex problem. The results showed a statistically significant relationship between 1-year lagged immigration rates and unemployment rates for the state of Georgia in the period 1990 to 2000. These findings indicated that as Mexican immigration rates increased, unemployment rates decreased in Georgia for the period under study. The results of this study can contribute to better the public's understanding of the role of Mexican immigrants in the labor force in Georgia, and may assist policy makers in the design of strategies to manage Mexican immigration, maximizing its benefits for those impacted by this phenomenon.
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Subject: American history; Economics; Political science
Classification: 0337: American history; 0510: Economics; 0615: Political science
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences, Immigration, Immigration georgia, Mexican immigration, Political economy immigration, Western hemisphere immigration
Title: Mexican Immigration and Unemployment in Georgia in the 1990s
Number of pages: 131
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0543
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303876592
Advisor: Stallo, Mark
Committee member: Lum, Jason
University/institution: Walden University
Department: Public Policy and Administration
University location: United States -- Minnesota
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3619010
ProQuest document ID: 1534364975
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Document 5 of 7
Deconstructing whiteness, redefining southern literature: Bringing back African American voices into Southern literature
Author: Sa, Mi Ok http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1525981996?accountid=14709
Abstract: In this study I argued the necessity of including African American writers into Southern literature to enhance our understanding of white identity in 20th-century literature. Though my project is the expansion of the prevalent trend in Southern literary studies, it shows important, new reasons for the necessity. By examining whiteness in twentieth-century Southern literature, using critical whiteness theories, and insisting on the inclusion of white-life fiction, I demonstrate the imperative of including African American literature to gain a clearer understanding of whiteness. In addition, my project sheds light on four thematic areas that are important in exploring white identity: Southern womanhood, space, biracial identity, and class. By comparing black writers' works with those of white writers' in terms of four thematic aspects, I demonstrate that African American writers offer keen insights into whiteness that white writers fail to show. To this end, I compare the portrayal of biracial identity in William Faulkner's Light in August with that in Charles Chesnutt's The House behind the Cedars in Chapter 2; I also compare the portrayal of white womanhood's interrelation with race and class in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire with that in Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee in Chapter 3. For the framework of my study, I employ a few critical whiteness theories such as Toni Morrison; Owen J. Dwyer and John Paul Jones; David Roediger; and Tim Cresswell.
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Subject: African American Studies; Literature; American literature
Classification: 0296: African American Studies; 0401: Literature; 0591: American literature
Identifier / keyword: Language, literature and linguistics, Social sciences, African American literature, Southern literature, Whiteness
Title: Deconstructing whiteness, redefining southern literature: Bringing back African American voices into Southern literature
Number of pages: 161
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0318
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303853982
Advisor: Watson, Veronica
Committee member: Sell, Mike, Thompson, Todd
University/institution: Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Department: English
University location: United States -- Pennsylvania
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3617710
ProQuest document ID: 1525981996
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Views of the future state: Afterlife beliefs in the deep south, 1820-1865
Author: Baker, Donna Cox http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1537087757?accountid=14709
Abstract: This dissertation examines shifting conceptions of the afterlife among white literate inhabitants of the Deep South between 1820 and 1865, as the challenges of scientific study, universalism, and otherworldly mysticism encouraged questioning. In 1820, ideas of what lay beyond death were relatively static and limited in scope, holding closely to the few images available in the King James Bible. Attempts to squelch superstition in the early nineteenth century had stifled the magical and mystical in the literate southern worldview, further dampening imagination in the contemplation of the world beyond death. Debates over heaven and hell centered on who would get there and how--not on what they would find there. As the published work of scientists around the world-- increasingly available by the late 1820s--began to call into question biblical references to such things as the age of the earth, and raised speculation about life on other planets, doubt surfaced also as to the trustworthiness of scriptural translation. Within this environment of skepticism, universalism gained adherents. A growing number found compelling evidence within the flood of exegetical studies questioning whether the scribes of Holy Writ had ever intended to suggest an eternal punishment when they used the words interpreted as "hell" in modern translations of Scripture. As traditional views began to gray at the edges, and skepticism became fashionable, new waves of mysticism--particularly those of Mesmerism and Spiritualism--found curious audiences and committed practitioners. These ideas were never institutionalized to the degree they were in the North, but the impact of this broader thinking reveals itself in the markedly changed reading habits of the South by the advent of the Civil War. Hell had softened, though the terrifying images of old were resurrected by clergy when soldiers faced battle unconverted. The personal writing during the war reflected a very vibrant view of heaven--one that went beyond Scripture to suggest an environment like home, only better. With it came an expanded freedom to question and to imagine.
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Subject: Religious history; American history; History
Classification: 0320: Religious history; 0337: American history; 0578: History
Identifier / keyword: Philosophy, religion and theology, Social sciences, Afterlife, Mesmerism, Religion, Spiritualism, Universalism, U.S. south
Title: Views of the future state: Afterlife beliefs in the deep south, 1820-1865
Number of pages: 320
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0004
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303897351
Advisor: Rable, George C.
Committee member: Abruzzo, Margaret, Giggie, John M., Israel, Charles A., Rothman, Joshua D.
University/institution: The University of Alabama
Department: History
University location: United States -- Alabama
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3620054
ProQuest document ID: 1537087757
Document URL: http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1537087757?accountid=14709
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Currents of liberty: Revolutionary emigres to Jamaica and their contributions to Afro-Caribbean civil society, 1775 -- 1838
Author: Murphy, Kameika http://pitt.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.c om/docview/1526442477?accountid=14709
Abstract: Most black loyalists who left North America for the British West Indies at the closing of the American Revolution went to a slave society and many of them were newly freed ex-slaves. These were free people of color who, by virtue of their first-hand experienced the American wars, were steep in revolutionary doctrines. Yet, there has been very little attention paid to them. There is a rich body of work available for the loyalists who went to Nova Scotia, London, the Bahamas and Sierra Leone, but the literature on the West Indies-bound black loyalists is significantly limited. We need to know more about these revolutionary self-freed ex-slaves, especially as it relates to their identity, experience of exodus and their transition into a slave society. This thesis centers on black loyalists who migrated to Jamaica and tells the story of those who particularly lived in Kingston, a major Atlantic city. It posits the view that Jamaica- based black loyalists brought lessons and ideas from the American Revolution to the colony, which ultimately produced a religio-martial approach to Afro-Caribbean leadership and change at the grassroots. As immigrants to the West Indies, these revolutionary émigrés used their `free papers' to bolster civil society, challenge slavery and resist marginalization of free people in significant ways. More particularly, the thesis highlights their contributions to the demographic, political, faith- based and spatial dynamics of Afro-Caribbean civil society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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Subject: Black history; Latin American history; History
Classification: 0328: Black history; 0336: Latin American history; 0578: History
Identifier / keyword: Social sciences
Title: Currents of liberty: Revolutionary emigres to Jamaica and their contributions to Afro-Caribbean civil society, 1775 -- 1838
Number of pages: 361
Publication year: 2014
Degree date: 2014
School code: 0048
Source: DAI-A 75/08(E), Feb 2015
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Country of publication: United States
ISBN: 9781303914010
Advisor: Klooster, Wim
University/institution: Clark University
University location: United States -- Massachusetts
Degree: Ph.D.
Source type: Dissertations & Theses
Language: English
Document type: Dissertation/Thesis
Dissertation/thesis number: 3580260
ProQuest document ID: 1526442477