From Commerce to Art: American Women Photographers 1850--1900 Denny, Margaret H

Home , Chicanismo, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Sophie Tucker

From commerce to art: American women photographers 1850--1900 Denny, Margaret H.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0377 468 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431211.

'Imprints of their being': The photographs of Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel Linssen, Dalia Habib. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0017, Part 0377 402 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430399.

The Narrative Document: Lewis Hine and "Social Photography" Quick, Kathy A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0377 171 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430074.

Japanism and the American aesthetic interior, 1867--1892: Case studies by James McNeill Whistler, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, and Frank Lloyd Wright Roberts, Ellen E.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0017, Part 0377 316 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430422.

The buffoon men: Classic Hollywood comedians and masculinity Balcerzak, Scott Daniel. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2008. Section 0070, Part 0900 253 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Florida: University of Florida; 2008. Publication Number: AAT 3425471.

Exhibiting Cinema: The Moving Image in Art After 1990 Balsom, Erika. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0900 417 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430048.

Afterimages and afterthoughts about the afterlife of film: A memory of resistance Cammaer, Gerda Johanna. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0228, Part 0900 285 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Concordia University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR67380.

Script-to-screen: Film editing and collaborative authorship during the Hollywood Renaissance Carreiro, Alexis Leigh. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0227, Part 0900 258 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Texas: The University of Texas at Austin; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429001.

Female detectives, female criminals: An examination of crime, modernity and the New Woman in early French and American crime films in the US during the 1910s Delahousse, Sarah M.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0254, Part 0900 193 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: Wayne State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427299.

Journalism innovation and the ethic of participation: A case study of the Knight Foundation and its news challenge Lewis, Seth Corwin. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0227, Part 0391 262 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Texas: The University of Texas at Austin; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429005.

Invisible Scarlet O'Neil and the Whitman Authorized Editions for Girls: Homefront representations of the American feminine and the feminine heroic during World War II Neilsen, Anna L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0399 260 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430890.

Disempowering through definition: A dialogic ethics for understanding consumer vulnerability through Nike's 'Mike and Spike' advertising and African American consumer history Coleman, Catherine Adelaide. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0708 326 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430852.

The roots and influences of the Everly Brothers Bishop, Paula Jean. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0017, Part 0413 360 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3430383.

From West Africa, through Vaudeville, to the concert hall: The evolution of two-mallet keyboard percussion solo performance Koshinski, Eugene J.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0474, Part 0413 94 pages; [D.M.A. dissertation].United States - - Connecticut: University of Hartford; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427054.

Lesbian Broadway: American theatre and culture, 1920--1945 Gualtieri, Meghan Brodie. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0058, Part 0465 257 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Cornell University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429824.

(Un)seen and (un)heard: The struggle for Asian American "minority" recognition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968-1997 Lee, Sharon S.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0745 378 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430882.

Before we were Chicanas/os: The Mexican American experience in California higher education, 1848-1945 Tudico, Christopher. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0175, Part 0745 195 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431181.

The Harrison High School walkouts of 1968: Struggle for equal schools and Chinanismo in Chicago Alanis, Jaime. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0520 187 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430845.

From Malcolm X to Malcolm X Liberation University: A liberatory philosophy of education, Black student radicalism and Black independent educational institution building 1960--1973 Benson, Richard D.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0520 387 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430848.

Something of our own: "Muhammad Speaks" in the cause of Black agency in school reform, 1961--1975 Hussain, Khuram. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0659, Part 0520 208 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Syracuse University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429057.

Muslim mothers: Pioneers of Islamic education in America O'Neill, Maureen Roslyn. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0984, Part 0520 265 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Maryland: College of Notre Dame of Maryland; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427067.

The lure of literacy: A critical reception of the abolition debate

Harker, Michael. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0168, Part 0279 197 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: The Ohio State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3425449.

School leaders and the challenge of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1960-1968 Sanders, Beth R.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0127, Part 0461 328 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: University of Michigan; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429501.

Composition under review: A genre analysis of book reviews in composition, 1939--2007 Valensky, Sandra W.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0254, Part 0681 293 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: Wayne State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3426193.

Training a nation: The General Federation of Women's Clubs' rhetorical education and American citizenship, 1890--1930 White, Kristin Kate. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0168, Part 0681 202 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: The Ohio State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429649.

Ethnic entanglements: A comparative study of Arab American and Chicano literatures Gabra, Marian Helmy. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0031, Part 0295 258 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- California: University of California, Los Angeles; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431822.

Foreign Correspondences: Nineteenth-Century News and Literature in Latin America and the United States Kreitz, Kelley. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0295 322 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown

University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430064.

Crisis and modernism: Culture, economy, and form in twentieth-century U.S. and Latin American literature Sauri, Emilio. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0295 162 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431267.

"The double bind" of 1989: Reinterpreting space, place, and identity in postcommunist women's literature Wienhold-Brokish, Jessica Lynn. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0295 245 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430909.

Encountering spectral traces: Ghost narratives in Chinese America and Taiwan

Wu, Chia-Rong. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0295 257 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430912.

"To be black and 'at home'": Movement, freedom, and belonging in African American and African Canadian literatures Green, Kim D.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0298 163 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423072.

A chorus of witnesses: The hybrid genre of testimonial literature Bollinger, Heidi. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0188, Part 0591 317 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: University of Rochester; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430796.

Directed reading, directed writing: Sentimental exchanges in the antebellum United States Brady, Jennifer L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0591 317 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423042.

Selling out: The American literary market place and the modernist novel Dunick, Lisa Marie Schifano. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0591 251 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430856.

Perpetual refugee: Memory of the Vietnam War in Asian American literature Fung, Catherine Minyee. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0029, Part 0591 205 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- California: University of California, Davis; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429564.

Homeland (in)security: Terminal masculinity & the specter of 9/11 Giannini, Nicholas D.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0591 177 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423063.

Buggy jiving: Comic strategies of the black avant-garde Heard, Danielle Christine. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0058, Part 0591 220 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Cornell University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429829.

GemiNation: A theory of twin literary criticism in American literature Langmade, Lynn Taylor. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0029, Part 0591 712 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- California: University of California, Davis; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427389.

From exile to transcendence: Racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer Lynch, Suzanne Marie. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0591 230 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430885.

Aesthetics in Place: Commercial Rhetoric and Local Identity in the British Atlantic, 1720--1820 Melson, John A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0591 228 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430068.

Dynamics of domination and dialogic narrative strategies in Charles Johnson's "Middle Passage", Richard Powers's "The Time of Our Singing", And Leslie Marmon Silko's "Almanac of the Dead" Oltmann, Christina. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0781, Part 0591 282 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: McGill University (Canada); 2010. Publication Number: AAT NR66526.

The Ghost in James, Pangborn, and Wharton: A Shifting Trope in an Era of Shifting Philosophies Ross, Randi A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0072, Part 0591 173 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Fordham University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431919.

Professional sentiments: Professionalism, Affect, and American Literature, 1830--1910 Sweeney, Brian Dennis. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0591 181 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430084.

After the end of the world: Poetics, time and black experimental writing Reed, Anthony. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0058, Part 0593 265 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Cornell University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429848.

Public Liturgy as the Paradigm for Social Transformation: Shifting a Local Congregation from Sanctuary to Street Cribbs, Arthur Lawrence, Jr.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0231, Part 0394 165 pages; [D.Min. dissertation].United States - - California: Claremont School of Theology; 2009. Publication Number: AAT 3431621.

Culture war Christians: Visions of fundamentalism in contemporary Hollywood cinema Dodd, William Patton. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0017, Part 0318 206 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3430393.

The Eschatological Orientation in the Early Theology of Thomas F. Torrance, 1939-1963 MacLean, Stanley Stephen. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0781, Part 0469 228 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: McGill University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR66572.

Africanizing the territory: The history, memory and contemporary imagination of black frontier settlements in the Oklahoma territory Adams, Catherine Lynn. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0118, Part 0296 151 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427488.

House on the ridge: Towards preserving the African American heritage of Greeneville, Tennessee

Payne, Cordelia Manuel. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 1414, Part 0296 480 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: Union Institute and University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430549.

"Anchored in time": The U.S. South as a "place" of gendered racial memory in Ernest J. Gaines's fiction Baker, Chante M.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0323 258 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423034.

Document 1 of 50 From commerce to art: American women photographers 1850--1900 Denny, Margaret H.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0377 468 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431211.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** From Commerce to Art: American Women Photographers 1850-1900 is the first thorough investigation of nineteenth-century American women's engagement with photography as commercial photographers and as amateur art photographers. Through expanded case studies, the research brings together examples of previously unknown women to illustrate that women were actively engaged with photography from the onset of the medium in America. By examining the popular and professional press, advertisements, diaries and letters, and the photographs themselves, this research also brings to light an extensive body of new primary materials.

The study considers how gender informed women's experience as photographers, artists, and entrepreneurs in relationship to their roles as women, and the complex intersection of these categories. It argues that although the traditional ideal for women did not fit the public arena of photography, women went beyond the domestic sphere, expanding gender roles and ultimately changed the field of photography through their dedication as studio owners, camera operators, writers, lecturers, and competitors. Finally, through their engagement with the relatively new artistic and commercially viable medium, women broke barriers, displayed agency, gained confidence, independence, and a

10 sense of freedom.

Part One, Commerce explores commercial women photographers, typically married women in partnership with their husbands or widows who took over businesses begun by their husbands. Later in the century, the second-generation of commercial women photographers appeared on the urban scene, many of them single women entrepreneurs. Their experiences mirrored the changing demographics of America with its influx of immigrant groups and growth of metropolitan areas.

Part Two, Art looks at the growth of amateur art photography in America and women's camera club affiliations as a manifestation of the rise of consumer culture, women's club movement, increased leisure time, and photography as an artistic pursuit. For these women, the impetus to take up photography grew out of the changing status of the medium By now, photography was evolving into an appropriate leisure-time activity and a fine-art form. The final section traces the experience of other women who ventured farther afield, traveling to the American West to document its sublime scenery and local culture.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Hales, Peter B.

School: University of Illinois at Chicago

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Women photographers, Photography, Nineteenth century

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Art history, Womens studies

Publication AAT 3431211

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ISBN: 9781124304526

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======Document 2 of 50 'Imprints of their being': The photographs of Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel Linssen, Dalia Habib. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0017, Part 0377 402 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430399.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation examines the prolific, yet understudied contributions of German-born photographers Hansel Mieth and Otto Hagel. As farm-working immigrants, socially conscious artists, and established photojournalists, the work of this wife and husband pair profoundly broadens our understanding of American photography. I argue that Mieth and Hagel represent a new model for understanding social documentary photography through engaging three themes--the photographers' status as insiders and outsiders, the role of collaborative and independent work, and their active interchange with modern photographic practices.

Arriving in the United States around 1930 as working-class immigrants, the pair embarked on a nearly four-decade career, collaborating on subjects ranging from representations of migrant agricultural camps and labor strikes to recording the experiences of "outsider" communities. Mieth is known primarily as the second woman hired by Life (after Margaret Bourke-White), yet no sustained attention has been paid to her non journalistic work, or to Hagel's work. This dissertation critically situates both Mieth and Hagel's work within the larger discourses of national belonging, modernist culture, and American photography.

Following an introduction, chapter one considers the pair's early years in California when Mieth and Hagel worked simultaneously as laborers and photographers. Their paradoxical status as immigrants and as working insiders forced to inhabit the 1930s debilitating social crises informed their unique posture. The pair's urban work in San Francisco including Hagel's substantial contributions to a landmark labor publication and Mieth's record of Chinatown, as examined in the second chapter, highlights their complicated participant/ observer perspective with regard to labor issues Chapters three and four analyze Mieth and Hagel's contributions to Life magazine, respectively, including Mieth's social science and rural lifestyle stories and Hagel's portraiture and geographically focused articles. These projects demonstrate how the pair negotiated their leftist leanings against the capitalist print media enterprise. The final chapter examines the pair's collaborative Life contributions, including a series documenting Japanese Americans interned during World War II that would never be published in full. Framed within the discourse of internment imagery, this chapter demonstrates how Mieth and Hagel's familiarity with displacement and intolerance validates their apparent responsiveness and imparts a new paradigm for examining issues of visual culture and citizenship.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Sichel, Kim

School: Boston University

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Mieth, Hansel, Hagel, Otto, Documentary photography, Life magazine

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, Art history

Publication AAT 3430399 Number:

ISBN: 9781124297149

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======Document 3 of 50 The Narrative Document: Lewis Hine and "Social Photography" Quick, Kathy A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0377 171 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430074.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Lewis Hine employed a variety of narrative strategies to create a persuasive and moving 'social photography' in the early twentieth century. Despite the longstanding supposition within the history of photography that the categories of documentary and narrative are incompatible, this investigation looks at how Hine cultivated, rather than suppressed narrative in his documentary work. Documentary has often been associated with unmanipulated authenticity and with the unmediated transcription of reality. Unlike the concept of narrative which is virtually inseparable from that of fiction, documentary is tied to a belief in the camera's ability to present empirical evidence or facts. The idea of storytelling itself would seem to undermine the documentary goal of an unmediated presentation of fact, and yet, it was Hine who coined the term "photo story" to describe his work. This study examines how Hine constructed pictorial narratives by adopting a number of cinematic devices. In many of the photographs that he produced for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC),

Hine utilized a melodramatic mode of narration. Melodrama offered not only a means through which he could tell the story of child labor, but it was also a means through which he could attempt to 'move' his viewer emotionally. For Hine, the most effective images were the ones that tugged at the viewer's heartstrings and aroused sympathy for his subject. This study looks at how narrative functions in both the internal composition of the image and the viewer's apprehension of the image. This study also looks at how Hine moved his viewer visually and conceptually through space in his photographic series by using the editing techniques of early filmmakers. Although photographic and cinematic histories have emphasized photography's effect on film, Hine reverses this tendency. This investigation provides a critical and long overdue analysis of the narrative aspects of Hine's work and the impact of film on his documentary photography.

***** References ***** * References (115)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Doane, Mary Ann

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Photography, Hine, Lewis, Documentary, Narrative, Early cinema, Social documentary, Social photography

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, Art history, Film studies

Publication AAT 3430074 Number:

ISBN: 9781124305806

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======Document 4 of 50 Japanism and the American aesthetic interior, 1867--1892: Case studies by James McNeill Whistler, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, and Frank Lloyd Wright Roberts, Ellen E.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0017, Part 0377 316 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430422.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation argues that, between the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exposition and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, American interior designers used Japanism to present themselves and their patrons as tastefully modern and artistic without being ostentatious, an issue considered of paramount importance during the aesthetic movement. Yet in this period American Japanists' relationship with their model evolved from a more superficial appropriation of surface motifs to an emulation of the underlying structure of Japanese prints and architecture, as the four case studies here demonstrate. Chapter 1 addresses James McNeill Whistler's house at No. 2 Lindsey Row in London, where he lived between 1867 and 1878. There, Whistler first used an additive Japanism, in which Japanese objects were installed in a dense, typically mid-Victorian manner, and later a more austere version of the style, influenced by the simplicity and close relation to nature he admired in Japanese prints and architecture. Chapter 2 focuses on Louis Comfort Tiffany's Bella Apartments in New York, his residence between 1878 and 1884. In that space, Tiffany also experimented with different kinds of Japanism, creating some rooms with a brilliantly ornamented aesthetic indebted to Japanese lacquer and textiles, and others that were plainer and inspired by fundamental Japanese design principles. Chapter 3 discusses Stanford White's dining room for David

16 and Ella King's house, Kingscote, in Newport of 1880-1881. There, White advanced the emulation of Japanese architectural elements, unifying the room not only through Japanesque simplicity and geometricization, but also through the appropriation of traditional Japanese forms. Chapter 4 treats Frank Lloyd Wright's interiors for Adler and Sullivan's James and Helen Charnley house in Chicago of 1891-1892. In such early works, Wright brought Japanese elements to the interior architecture of entire houses for the first time, creating the sort of spare, open, modular, close-to-nature spaces that he believed he saw in Japanese buildings. Thus, while the first American visitors to Japan after 1854 judged that the plain, open, wooden, asymmetrical structures they saw there were not architecture, by 1893 those very characteristics were a major influence on American interior design.

***** References ***** * References (370)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Morgan, Keith N.

School: Boston University

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Japanism, Interior design, Nineteenth century, Gilded Age, Architecture, United States, Whistler, James McNeill, Tiffany, Louis Comfort, White, Stanford, Wright, Frank Lloyd

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, Art history, Design

Publication AAT 3430422 Number:

ISBN: 9781124297354

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======Document 5 of 50 The buffoon men: Classic Hollywood comedians and masculinity Balcerzak, Scott Daniel. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2008. Section 0070, Part 0900 253 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Florida: University of Florida; 2008. Publication Number: AAT 3425471.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This study provides an alternative understanding of Classic Hollywood's depictions of masculinity through an analysis of 1930s comedians. These figures initiated what I call the masculine comedic, an entertainment trend for much of the 20th century consisting of a popular fraternity of male comedians that aggressively excludes women. While certain female performers such as Mae West challenge this trend, they tend to be the exception that proves the rule. In contrast to other types of mainstream cinema, films of the masculine comedic provide a valid history of the cultural undercurrents driving American male identity. In each of my chapters, I explore a different current that greatly defines this alternative narrative, from the economic to the ethnic to the technological to the fraternal. The first chapter examines W. C. Fields as an ironic male icon who can be seen as a telling contrast to Mae West's iconic position as feminist icon. The second chapter considers ethnic influences upon the masculine comedic in the form of Eddie Cantor's influential progression from a Jewish stereotype onstage to a 'whitefaced' version of a 'nebbish' onscreen. I then examine technological influence through radio's effect by analyzing Jack Benny's on-air 'queer' voice and its only partly successful adaptation to cinematic stardom. The dissertation concludes with an analysis of fraternal myths as they relate to the queered relationships highlighted in three popular comedy duos: Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, and Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. All these comedians illustrate

18 a complex range of comedic commentaries on masculine ideals and expose the fragilities of gender performance itself. As such, they reveal the often peculiar, yet revelatory, relationship between masculinity identity and comedy as it still permeates throughout much of popular culture.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Turim, Maureen

School: University of Florida

School Location: United States -- Florida

Keyword(s): Hollywood, Comedians, Masculinity, 1930s, Gender, Cinema

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, Gender studies, Film studies

Publication AAT 3425471 Number:

ISBN: 9781124285979

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======Document 6 of 50 Exhibiting Cinema: The Moving Image in Art After 1990

Balsom, Erika. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0900 417 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430048.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Doane, Mary Ann

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Remake, Medium specificity, New media, Cinema, Moving Image, Art

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Art history, Film studies

Publication AAT 3430048 Number:

ISBN: 9781124305417

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======Document 7 of 50 Afterimages and afterthoughts about the afterlife of film: A memory of resistance Cammaer, Gerda Johanna. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0228, Part 0900 285 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Concordia University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR67380.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This thesis project, constructed as a "memory of resistance" (Gilles Deleuze), studies the transition to digital video in cinema (the so-called "death of film"). It explains and resists the simplicity and matter-of-factness with which this transition is usually presented, and explores the consequences and effects for both film studies and independent film production.

Following Walter Benjamin's famous Arcades Project , the work is constructed in a fragmented way as a collage of texts and images; series of experiments with historical and contemporary images are combined with different writing and editing techniques, multiple narratives and varying styles in the tradition of the surrealists and writers such as Roland Barthes (humanities, photography), Robert Ray (film studies) and the Belgian artist-filmmaker-writer Marcel Broodthaers.

Resisting habitual forms of Ph.D. theses in the humanities, this creative memory of resistance attempts to fulfill the utopian aspect of philosophy and art. Hence, it resists simplistic ideas about linear time and history, constantly incorporating nonlinear, fragmented and multi-layered perspectives. It is a glimpse into a possible afterlife of film, retrieving, saving and reviving what otherwise might permanently be swallowed by our society's cultural amnesia. It traces and retraces some endangered analogue film history and analogue film practices and encourages a renewed interest in the medium as part of our collective memory, at a time when the way we communicate and preserve moving images is changing tremendously.

Made with evidence from various texts and discarded 16 mm and 8mm films selected for their potential to help show the complexity of the changes at hand, this research-creation project shows how celluloid film as a medium itself has both a high historical value and a strong resistance against the

21 workings of time, since even damaged film images can still be used to tell us something valuable about our culture. In short: the strongest and most creative resistance against the so-called death of film is to be found in afterimages of medium itself, glimpses of a possible afterlife for film evoking many afterthoughts.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: Concordia University (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): Film, Memory of resistance, Digital video

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Film studies

Publication AAT NR67380 Number:

ISBN: 9780494673805

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***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Hollywood film editing remains on the theoretical margins of contemporary film scholarship, and the cause of this is three-fold. First, despite advances in collaborative authorship studies, the Hollywood film director is still largely regarded as the sole creative lynchpin upon which the film's success or failure ultimately lies. Second, Classical Hollywood film editing--commonly referred to as the continuity aesthetic--is considered successful if it remains unnoticed, if it remains invisible. Therefore, within this continuity aesthetic, the editor's ultimate goal is to hide his or her own labor. Third, determining exactly how and where a film editor contributed to a film text during post- production is an incredibly difficult task. So, what is the solution?

This dissertation explores how film archives can contribute to knowledge about the cinematic post-production process. My central research questions are: what kinds of information do film archives contain regarding the creative collaboration between the director and the editor? And, what does available archive material tell us about the changes and creative revisions in post- production? To answer these questions, I conducted original archival research on the following Hollywood Renaissance films: Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Conversation (1974), Annie Hall (1977), and Raging Bull (1980). These films reflect a highly creative era in the Hollywood industry and are well-known for the collaborative relationship between the directors and the editors.

To determine how and where collaborative authorship occurred in these films, I compared archival documents such as the storyboards and shooting scripts to the final film texts. These documents contain explicit instructions about how the scenes should be lit, decorated, and shot and how the film itself should be edited together. Therefore, I argue that any editing discrepancies between these documents and the final films were the result of a creative collaboration between the director and the editor. Ideally, this model of "script-to-screen" archival research will inspire other academics to investigate how and where a film's creative revision occurs during post-production--and to what effect.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Staiger, Janet

School: The University of Texas at Austin

School Location: United States -- Texas

Keyword(s): Film editing, Script to screen, Collaborative authorship, Film editors, Hollywood renaissance, Film editing and authorship, Authorship, Hollywood, Collaboration

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Mass communications, Film studies

Publication AAT 3429001 Number:

ISBN: 9781124281476

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======Document 9 of 50 Female detectives, female criminals: An examination of crime, modernity and

24 the New Woman in early French and American crime films in the US during the 1910s Delahousse, Sarah M.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0254, Part 0900 193 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: Wayne State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427299.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation explores the representations of the female detective figure and the female criminal in early American and French crime films within the context of social and technological modernity that relates to the increase of women working outside the home, the advent of the advent of communicative technology, early innovations in transportation and the increased accessibility and openness of the modern city. More significantly, this discussion seeks to consider the similar and divergent reactions toward the New Woman as a product of modernity in the cultures of two major powers in the global economy and global film industry, France and the US, and it aims to understand the greater implications that the female detective and female criminal represented in terms of the possibilities and limitations of women's economic and social freedom in the early 20 th century.

The first chapter looks at the motifs and character traits that define the American female detective figure. I also consider her place within the crime film genre and in popular cinematic culture as a figure of fascination rather than female empowerment. The second chapter examines the French female criminal in French crime films as a significant commentary on modern society in contrast to the American female detective. This figure also underscores a narratological and aesthetic difference between films produced in France and Pathé films produced in the US and the French film companies' struggle to maintain a presence in both the American and French markets during the First World War. In the third chapter, I chart the marketing of the American female detective as an adventure heroine whose athletic qualities represented a more child-like and instinctual reaction to the dangers associated with modernity. The final chapter discusses the revision of the French female criminal as either a woman whose actions are influenced by her emotions or who is erased entirely from the promotional materials.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Burgoyne, Robert

Committee members: Shaviro, Steven, Thompson, Kirsten M., Abel, Richard

School: Wayne State University

Department: English

School Location: United States -- Michigan

Keyword(s): France, Crime films, Detective fiction, 1910s, Early American cinema, Early French cinema, New Woman

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Film studies

Publication AAT 3427299 Number:

ISBN: 9781124312231

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======Document 10 of 50 Journalism innovation and the ethic of participation: A case study of the

Knight Foundation and its news challenge Lewis, Seth Corwin. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0227, Part 0391 262 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Texas: The University of Texas at Austin; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429005.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** The digitization of media has undermined much of the social authority and economic viability on which U.S. journalism relied during the 20th century. This disruption has also opened a central tension for the profession: how to reconcile the need for occupational control against growing opportunities for citizen participation. How that tension is navigated will affect the ultimate shape of the profession and its place in society.

This dissertation examines how the leading nonprofit actor in journalism, The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, has sought to help journalism innovate out of its professional crisis. This case study engages a series of mixed methods--including interviews, textual analysis, and secondary data analysis-- to generate a holistic portrayal of how the Knight Foundation has attempted to transform itself and the journalism field in recent years, particularly through its signature Knight News Challenge innovation contest.

From a sociology of professions perspective, I found that the Knight Foundation altered the rhetorical and actual boundaries of journalism jurisdiction. Knight moved away from "journalism" and toward "information" as a way of seeking the wisdom of the crowd to solve journalism's problems. This opening up of journalism's boundaries created crucial space in which innovators, from inside and outside journalism, could step in and bring change to the field. In particular, these changes have allowed the concept of citizen participation, which resides at the periphery of mainstream newswork, to become embraced as an ethical norm and a founding doctrine of journalism innovation. The result of these efforts has been the emergence of a new rendering of journalism--one that straddles the professional-participatory tension by attempting to "ferry the values" of professional ideals even while embracing new practices more suited to a digital environment.

Ultimately, this case study matters for what it suggests about professions in turbulent times. Influential institutions can bring change to their professional fields by acting as boundary-spanning agents--stepping outside the

27 traditional confines of their field, altering the rhetorical and structural borders of professional jurisdiction to invite external contribution and correction, and altogether creating the space and providing the capital for innovation to flourish.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Reese, Stephen D.

School: The University of Texas at Austin

School Location: United States -- Texas

Keyword(s): Professionalism, Innovation, Mixed methods, Journalism ethics, Sociology of professions, Boundary work, Citizen participation

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Journalism, Ethics, Organizational behavior, Mass communications

Publication AAT 3429005 Number:

ISBN: 9781124281513

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======Document 11 of 50 Invisible Scarlet O'Neil and the Whitman Authorized Editions for Girls: Homefront representations of the American feminine and the feminine heroic during World War II Neilsen, Anna L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0399 260 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430890.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation analyzes the popular construction of femininity in the United States during World War II and the ways in which a set of mass market series books for girls participated in and reflected the persuasive campaigns of government, private industry, and mass media to script feminine roles and behaviors in the United States during and shortly after World War II. The dissertation illustrates and explains how the Whitman Authorized Editions for Girls, and especially Invisible Scarlett O'Neil, the first female superhero in the American culture industry, reflected and modeled the lives of women in three stages. Overall, cultural representations of women began as domestic paragons of good behavior and traditional feminine beauty, changed into women working in traditionally male jobs to maintain and defend the homefront, and then gracefully returned to the domestic sphere. Geertz's (1973) idea of common sense as cultural system is extended to consider the cultural symbolism and cultural presuppositions that impacted the stories and were presented in the stories of the Whitman Authorized Editions for Girls.

While studies have been done concerning the intertwining of propaganda imperatives and adult popular fiction, this dissertation helps bridge the literature gap between propaganda studies and children's popular fiction. Further, the cultural definitions and uses of Denning (1987), Cawelti (1976), and Wright (2001) are extended to examine a set of formula fictions based on newspaper strips, comic books, and motion-picture stars. In addition, the work of McGrath (1973) and Albrecht (1956) concerning the interaction of popular fiction and popular culture, the work of Gates (2003) concerning fantasy, and the work of Butler (1990) concerning identity and gender are extended to analyze how The Whitman Authorized Editions For Girls reinforced the social

29 norms of the World War II period and operated as cultural fantasies of American femininity during this period. However, as Nava (1992) points out, the auditioning of identity through the consuming of cultural norms can sometimes be an empowering moment of finding identity and power in that identity. Many a reader may have grown up to fight crime without being invisible and to wear pants beyond 1945. I like to think they did.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Hearne, Elizabeth G.

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Childrens' literature, 1940s, Culture industry, Feminine heroic, World War II, Series books

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Library science, Literature

Publication AAT 3430890 Number:

ISBN: 9781124317670

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======Document 12 of 50 Disempowering through definition: A dialogic ethics for understanding consumer vulnerability through Nike's 'Mike and Spike' advertising and African American consumer history Coleman, Catherine Adelaide. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0708 326 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430852.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Through socio-historical and market analysis and through the lens of ethical theory, this research argues that past thinking about vulnerable audiences is insufficiently grounded in evidence, unsubtle in its understanding of markets, and unselfconscious about its own paternalism. As a result, such thinking can actually disempower the very audiences it sets out to protect. This project is not simply a commentary on branding or on an historical incident; it is an important reflection of race relations in the United States and a theoretically important exploration of the power dynamics of defining vulnerability and of the roles and responsibilities of marketers, advertisers, endorsers, the media and consumers. This research proposes dialogic ethics as the framework through which to understand and define vulnerability in the consumer realm.

Advertising frequently is criticized for creating and perpetuating negative stereotypes of vulnerable populations. Scholars have criticized the media and, in particular, advertising for reflecting and perpetuating racism in portrayals of minorities, with much popular and scholarly criticism of advertising and race into the 1980s based on the fact that there were few to no positive representations of African Americans in mainstream advertising. In 1984, Nike signed rookie Michael Jordan and, in 1986, Nike's advertising agency hired Spike Lee to direct commercials starring the athlete-turned-hero. The Spike/ Mike campaign became emblematic of a breakthrough in race relations. However, the cultural "success" of the Michael Jordan, Spike Lee and Nike relationship and its influence on the brand was played out on the streets across America. The late-1980s and early-1990s mass media was full of reports about youth-- specifically black, urban youth--killing each other for Nike's Air Jordans.

Social discourse on the increasingly mainstream images of African-Americans, initially pleased with the depictions of a positive, successful and empowered black man in advertising, exploded with charges of exploitation and manipulation. The debate was framed by the premise of urban African-Americans as vulnerable to advertising in a unique way. The circumstances of the "sneaker killings", which coincided with a time of change and re-formation in the advertising industry and its relation to the African American community, offer not only a rich context in and of itself but unsettles current perceptions of consumer vulnerability and are a hub from which to explore broader concerns about this concept--including issues of social, corporate and consumer responsibility, meaning exchange and control, power and discourse and empowerment. This long-running campaign and the discourse surrounding it are powerful expressions of American race relations and an opportunity to address how definitions of vulnerability can affect the marketplace and the populations deemed vulnerable.

This research explores the development of the Nike brand through its association with Michael Jordan and addresses to what extent this association came at a time when the black community was looking for and developing new expressions of their social experiences and position within American society, particularly as it was lived on the streets of urban America, and the ways in which that experience was represented to Main Street America. I argue that the Nike example provides a different perspective on the history of race dynamics and advertising than previously has been presented in scholarly inquiry. This case is a rich illustration of the complexities of and consumer engagement with the Nike brand; and because of the various, but similarly partial, interpretations in media and academic journals of the use of the Nike brand by black, urban communities, it provides a strong foundation upon which to question scholarly approaches to vulnerability and responsibility in consumption environments. Thus, the intention of this work is to interrogate the construction of vulnerability and issues of power and responsibility in the consumer realm, and to affect change in discourses of and approaches to consumer vulnerability by re-conceptualizing an approach that both recognizes the structures of power through which consumers must navigate and acknowledges the interpretive domain of human nature.

I propose a dialogic ethics as a framework for understanding vulnerability and responsibility in consumer environments. Paulo Freire, in particular, helps us

32 to understand that our humanity is bound in dialogue. Dialogue requires co- participation. The naming of groups as vulnerable through sweeping generalizations neglects to empower the oppressed by giving them voice in the encounter. When definitions of vulnerability are instituted in cultural and social structures of meaning without appropriate respect for and discourse with those so-named, then we risk instituting a culture of silence from the oppressed or "vulnerable." This dehumanizes the oppressed and diffuses the structures of accountability that come with liberation. Instead, we must engage in true dialogue that accepts multiple voices, presents message that enable critical consciousness and empowers the participants, acknowledges the historical circumstances of our language in discourse, and promotes our humanness, which we find in relation to others.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Chambers, Jason P.

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Consumer vulnerability, African-American, Mike and Spike, Advertising, Dialogic ethics, Nike and Michael Jordan

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Black studies, Marketing, Ethics, Mass communications

Publication AAT 3430852 Number:

ISBN: 9781124316420

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======Document 13 of 50 The roots and influences of the Everly Brothers Bishop, Paula Jean. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0017, Part 0413 360 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3430383.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** The Everly Brothers, Don and Phil, began recording rock 'n' roll hits in 1957. They represented a continuation and transformation of the brother duo acts that had been a significant part of country music since the 1920s. These brother duos typically accompanied themselves on guitars and sang in close parallel harmony, with the harmonizing voice above the melody. The vocal configuration is reminiscent of the shape-note and gospel singing styles of the South. The Everlys combined the same vocal style and instrumentation with the driving rhythms of rock 'n' roll, creating a sound that appealed to the emerging teen market while still conveying a sense of nostalgia and tradition. Their style of singing was less familiar to R&B and pop music audiences of the 1950s, who were accustomed to the alternating dialogue of musical-theater style duets, yet their music attracted a wide audience: seventeen of their twenty-five singles entered Billboard's top forty charts, three reached number one, and two of those topped all three major charts (pop, country, and R&B).

This dissertation examines the life and work of the Everly Brothers during the early years of rock 'n' roll from 1957 to 1960. The primary objective is to understand their music and how it conformed to and challenged expectations about vocal duets and musical genres in American popular and vernacular music in the late 1950s. Their musical background and influences were both similar to and different from other rock 'n' roll artists of that era, providing us with a

34 broader understanding of the many forces that were involved in the creation of rock.

The first part of this study provides a historical background of duets and duos in American popular and vernacular music in order to provide a musical and social context for the Everlys and their success in the new style of rock 'n' roll. In the second part, the Everly Brothers' early life and career are discussed. The musical analysis describes production, instrumentation, and textural characteristics as well as the musical elements. Careful attention is paid to the role of the voice throughout the analysis.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Coelho, Victor

School: Boston University

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Popular music, Vocal duos and duets, Rock 'n' roll, Country music, Shape note singing, Musical theater

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Music

Publication AAT 3430383 Number:

ISBN: 9781124296982

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======Document 14 of 50 From West Africa, through Vaudeville, to the concert hall: The evolution of two-mallet keyboard percussion solo performance Koshinski, Eugene J.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0474, Part 0413 94 pages; [D.M.A. dissertation].United States -- Connecticut: University of Hartford; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427054.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** The following essay, "From West Africa, through Vaudeville, to the Concert Hall: The Evolution of Two-Mallet Keyboard Percussion Solo Performance," traces the history of two-mallet keyboard percussion performance from its meager beginnings in the nineteenth century to contemporary soloists in the concert hall. This study is divided into five major aspects of two-mallet performance: Modern approach to two-mallet technique and performance practice, historical and world traditions, performance in the Vaudeville era, influential soloists (from classical, jazz, and popular music styles), and the evolution of the repertoire. The essay answers various questions as to how two-mallet performance has evolved as well as traces the evolution of the repertoire including world traditions outside of Europe. The author of this document is Eugene J. Koshinski and the project adviser was Professor Michael Schiano of The Hartt School, University of Hartford.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Schiano, Michael

Committee members: Toth, Ben, Macbride, David

School: University of Hartford

Department: Music

School Location: United States -- Connecticut

Keyword(s): History, Keyboard, Percussion, Solo, Two-mallet keyboard percussion

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Music

Publication AAT 3427054 Number:

ISBN: 9781124300795

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======Document 15 of 50 Lesbian Broadway: American theatre and culture, 1920--1945 Gualtieri, Meghan Brodie. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0058, Part 0465 257 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Cornell University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429824.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Lesbian Broadway: American Theatre and Culture, 1920-1945 is a project of reclamation that begins to document a history of lesbianism on Broadway. Using

37 drama about lesbianism as its vehicle, this study investigates white, middle- class, female homosexuality in the United States from 1920 to 1945 and explores the convergence of Broadway drama, lesbianism, feminism, sexology, eugenics, and American popular culture. While the methodologies employed here vary by chapter, the project as a whole reflects a cultural excavation and analysis of lesbian dramas in their appropriate socio-historical contexts and suggests new critical approaches for studying this neglected collection of plays. Chapter One re-visits the feminist possibilities of realism, specifically lesbian realist drama of the 1920s and 30s, in order to reconsider how genre, feminist criticism, and historical context can inform socio-sexual readings of lesbian drama. Building on this foundation, Chapter Two explores a series of lesbian characters on Broadway that undermines and frequently reverses dominant sexological assumptions about the nature of and threats posed by lesbianism. These plays, when read comparatively, reveal a hierarchy of threatening lesbian types built on theoretical and historical constructions of masculinity. Chapter Three highlights how sexological and eugenic readings of lesbian antagonists dovetail to reveal a shared cultural perception of lesbians as abnormal, base, and immoral females and, consequently, as a threat to social order. A dramaturgical reading suggests how one might complicate understandings of these threats to the social order to view them as progressive depictions of lesbian power and departures from traditional love-triangle tropes. Chapter Four offers a literary and historical reading of Christa Winsloe's Girls in Uniform (1932) that reveals how Winsloe draws parallels between authoritarianism and heteronormativty in a multivalent critique of repressive social structures that were, in 1931, on the rise in Germany. The conclusion explores the contested terrain of feminism and realism and the potential ramifications of grouping these plays together to write a lesbian theatre history.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Gainor, J. Ellen

School: Cornell University

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): Lesbian, Broadway, Sexology, Feminist, Sexuality

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, Womens studies, Theater, GLBT Studies, Theater History

Publication AAT 3429824 Number:

ISBN: 9781124299532

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======Document 16 of 50 (Un)seen and (un)heard: The struggle for Asian American "minority" recognition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1968-1997 Lee, Sharon S.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0745 378 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430882.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Are Asian American college students "minorities"? Using a measure of statistical parity of a student body compared to a state's demographics, Asian Americans have often been excluded from minority student status because they are "overrepresented." As a result, universities overlook their need for culturally and racially relevant curricula and support services. Unable to argue that they are underrepresented and depicted as the "model minority," Asian American students have struggled to have their educational needs seen and heard.

This dissertation examines the historical development of academic and support services for Asian American students at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (UIUC) from 1968 to 1997. UIUC is home to the largest Asian American Studies program and Asian American cultural center in the Midwest, products of years of activism by Asian American students who challenged university discourses that they were not minorities. By investigating archival and oral evidence, the complex and nuanced experiences of Asian American students are revealed, beyond misperceptions of their seamless integration in predominantly white universities and beyond model minority stereotypes. This study of Asian American students offers a broader concept of "minority status" that is currently limited by a statistical focus and a black/white racial lens.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Pak, Yoon K.

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Asian-American college students, Higher education policy, Minority students

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Education history, Ethnic studies, Higher education

Publication AAT 3430882 Number:

ISBN: 9781124317595

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======Document 17 of 50 Before we were Chicanas/os: The Mexican American experience in California higher education, 1848-1945 Tudico, Christopher. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0175, Part 0745 195 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431181.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Mexican American students have a long and proud history of enrolling in colleges and universities across the state of California for nearly 160 years, since shortly after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. Yet, inexplicably, historians of higher education have virtually ignored the Mexican American experience in California higher education. Based on the examination of primary sources such as the diary of Californio Jesús María Estudillo, the records of the University of California, and the college student-led Mexican American Movement's newspaper, The Mexican Voice, this study reconstructs the history of the Mexican American experience in California higher education from not long after statehood through World War II. The children of Californios (wealthy landholders who stressed their "Spanish" heritage) attended Santa Clara College and the College of Notre Dame from the early 1850s to mid 1870s, and Mexicans and Californios also took part in the preparatory program known as the Fifth Class at the University of California in the early 1870s. These members of the Mexican community participated in higher education in order to acquire the skills (such as mastering the English language) that best equipped them to maintain their station near the top of California society. By the 1930s, the sons and daughters of Mexican immigrants attended colleges and universities across California in numbers large enough to form student organizations such as the Mexican American Movement (MAM). This new generation of Mexicans viewed a college education as a means to have a better life for themselves, their family, and their community.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Gasman, Marybeth

School: University of Pennsylvania

School Location: United States -- Pennsylvania

Keyword(s): Mexican-Americans, Chicano history, College students

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Education history, Hispanic American studies, Higher education

Publication AAT 3431181 Number:

ISBN: 9781124318288

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======Document 18 of 50 The Harrison High School walkouts of 1968: Struggle for equal schools and Chinanismo in Chicago Alanis, Jaime. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0520 187 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430845.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** For the most part, high school activism in the Midwest has not been the subject of scholarly research. Moreover, the Chicano Movement in Chicago is a history that at present remains largely unrecorded. This study examines archival evidence such as newspaper articles, intelligence reports, as well as oral interviews with key former students, and administrators of Harrison High School to chronicle Mexican-origin student activism and grassroots organizing for urban school reform that took place between 1968 and 1974 in the Little Village and Pilsen communities of Chicago.

In 1968, Mexicano students, responded to their invisibility by organizing school walkouts and making demands for urban school reform. The student demands included among other things, the teaching of Latin American history along with the institutionalization of bilingual-bicultural programs which stipulated the hiring of qualified teachers, counselors, and principals.

The politics of protest and confrontation that manifested at Harrison High School during the late 1960's is a testament of how Mexicano students became makers of their own history at this particular high school which failed to respond to their unique needs in spite of the growing Mexican-origin student population.

Although the notion of 'Chicano' never quite popularized the public imagination of most Mexicans in Chicago, Mexicano students, parents, and community activists forged a spirit of Chicanismo to fit their unique circumstances and local context for urban school reform during the height of the civil rights era.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Trent, William

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Harrison High School, Chcanos, Chicago, High school activism, Froebel High protests, Illinois

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Educational sociology, Education history, Hispanic American studies

Publication AAT 3430845 Number:

ISBN: 9781124316345

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======Document 19 of 50 From Malcolm X to Malcolm X Liberation University: A liberatory philosophy of education, Black student radicalism and Black independent educational institution building 1960--1973 Benson, Richard D.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0520 387 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430848.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation extends research on Malcolm X's socio-political philosophies of Black Nationalism as juxtaposed to that of educational progression for African Americans during the 'Black Power' era. The influence of Malcolm X provoked a call for 'African-centered schooling,' or institutions in the

44 traditions of self-sufficiency, self-determination, and nationalistic pride. Malcolm X's expansive social and political thought catalyzed later practitioners of social change who stirred up the American landscape from 1965 to 1973. Black students were especially inspired by Malcolm X's evolving idealism, and their protest efforts would lead to the deconstruction of psychologically oppressive curricula in post-secondary institutions, including those predominately White. Student organizations such as the Student Non- violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Black Panther Party (BPP), the US Organization, the Council of Independent Black Institutions, the Student Organization of Black Unity (SOBU), and the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC) effectuated change nationally in the interests of a global vision of Pan-Africanism. In addition, educational institutions such as Malcolm X Liberation University first in Raleigh-Durham, then Greensboro, North Carolina, illustrate the successful ideological connection between Malcolm X and Black Nationalism. MXLU, for all its deficiencies, was a place where the librated hopes of many Black folks came to fruition.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Park, Yoon

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Malcolm X Liberation University, Black Power, Pan- Africanism, African-American education, Student activism, Protests

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Black history, Education history

Publication AAT 3430848 Number:

ISBN: 9781124316376

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======Document 20 of 50 Something of our own: "Muhammad Speaks" in the cause of Black agency in school reform, 1961--1975 Hussain, Khuram. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0659, Part 0520 208 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Syracuse University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429057.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This historical analysis of the Black newspaper Muhammad Speaks draws from oral histories, public documents, private collections, Black press archives, and fifteen years of the weekly newspaper itself to examine the wider role of Muhammad Speaks in framing public discussion in Black communities on school reform in the 1960s and 1970s. The paper is examined for its discussion of dominant social ideas from the perspective of underrepresented voices, revealing a distinct and sophisticated counterpublic exchange of ideas. The study explores how editors and journalists employed news coverage and editorials to stage arguments regarding who schools are most answerable to, what knowledge is most worth learning, who can be entrusted to educate oppressed communities, and to what extent dominant group cultural norms should define the character of public education. Joining the conversation were Muhammad Speaks ' panoply of Black contributors, including: separatists, integrationists, grassroots and civic leaders, and parents and children who demonstrated dynamic patterns of Black American thought regarding what educational reforms are best suited for liberatory ends.

The study argues that Muhammad Speaks ' educational discourse complicates

46 presumed dichotomies between the educational thought of Black Americans who promoted a strategy of separatism and those who promoted a strategy of racial integration, by revealing historically important overlap between the two positions. Moreover, contributors denounced legal segregation as inherently evil and unjust yet did not consider legal desegregation to be the only means of achieving Black school improvement; nor was integration seen as the decisive end goal. Instead Muhammad Speaks' contributors aimed to redefine the priorities of school reform by calling for an education that was responsive to Black necessities, substantiated by lived Black experiences and dedicated to Black liberation. The paper's contributors further advocated for Black agency in determining the function of schooling through direct participation as teachers and school leaders and through local school governance.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Briggs, John

School: Syracuse University

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): Black agency, Reform, School desegregation, Civil rights movement, Nation of Islam, Black press, Muhammad Speaks

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Black history, Education history

Publication AAT 3429057 Number:

ISBN: 9781124288314

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======Document 21 of 50 Muslim mothers: Pioneers of Islamic education in America O'Neill, Maureen Roslyn. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0984, Part 0520 265 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Maryland: College of Notre Dame of Maryland; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427067.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Since colonial times, religious groups in the United States have strengthened their religious identity and expression through education. As America has grown, so have the educational needs and options of its increasingly diverse religious groups. The growth of Islamic schools in the United States over the past three decades marks the most recent addition to the history of religion and education in America. This historical study adds to the history of religious groups' parochial education efforts by chronicling and analyzing the efforts of women pioneers in two of the oldest full-time Islamic schools in the late twentieth century: The Islamic School of Seattle and the Baltimore Islamic Community School.

The research is examined within the context of Muslim women's gender roles and the development of Muslim identity in America. Oral history methodology and archival research were used to gather research findings, with emergent themes analyzed using a hermeneutical approach to transformative analysis within an Islamic paradigm.

The research findings reveal implications about Muslim women's gender roles and the ongoing negotiation of difference within the racially and ethnically diverse Muslim American ummah. The initiative, leadership and agency of the women who founded both schools emerge as testaments to their faith and to their identities both as women and as American Muslims. Ultimately, the research

48 raises implications about the location of Islamic schools in the history of American education, as both the Seattle and Baltimore schools emerge as unique hybrids of both the American and Islamic histories and traditions.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Spratt, Evelyn Kassouf

Committee members: Commins, David, Sarther, Catherine

School: College of Notre Dame of Maryland

Department: Department of Education

School Location: United States -- Maryland

Keyword(s): Education, History, Islam, Mothers, Muslim, Women, Gender roles

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Womens studies, Islamic Studies, Education history

Publication AAT 3427067 Number:

ISBN: 9781124302973

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======Document 22 of 50 The lure of literacy: A critical reception of the abolition debate Harker, Michael. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0168, Part 0279 197 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: The Ohio State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3425449.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** "The Lure of Literacy: A Critical Reception of the Abolition Debate" uses the century-long tradition of proposals for the abolition of compulsory composition to uncover pervasive assumptions about literacy. Chapters of this project revisit touchstones in the debate to show how arguments on all sides of the issue depend on ambiguous and contradictory attitudes about literacy as well as exaggerated expectations of the consequences of possessing it. This project re- contextualizes calls to abolish compulsory composition and proposes questions that may be used to inform a new model for first-year writing, one aspiring to complicate students' attitudes about literacy more generally. In arguing for a different model for compulsory composition programs, this dissertation offers a way out of an unproductive debate that has gripped composition for over a century.

Following a prologue that surveys relevant literature in the abolition debate, Chapter 1 demonstrates how exaggerated expectations of the powers of literacy underline calls to abolish compulsory composition. Using principal contributors of the New Literacy Studies, I reread the first printed calls to abolish compulsory composition. I show how the period of academic specialization (1865- 1920) and exaggerated understandings of the ostensible powers of literacy inform these proposals, complicating attempts to bring about lasting reform in the teaching of composition. Chapter 2 supplements existing histories of the abolition debate by incorporating overlooked voices of both abolitionism and reform. I question the validity of a distinction posited by contemporary receptions of the abolition debate; namely, between "abolitionists" and "new abolitionists." My view is that this division is only possible if we ignore persistent continuities in the debate, especially with respect to the attitudes and definitions of literacy that inform these studies.

In Chapter 3, I challenge dominant narratives of abolitionism in composition by examining proposals that seek not to abolish the requirement but to reform the course on various levels. Taken together, these essays demonstrate that like abolitionists, arguments employing the rhetoric of "cooperation," "continuity," and "reform," rely on problematic attitudes about literacy. Chapter 4, focusing primarily on Sharon Crowley's call to abolish compulsory English (1998), is situated more specifically in the context of materialist critiques of the conditions of teaching writing. By examining the rhetoric of academic discourse surrounding Sharon Crowley's call to abolish compulsory freshman composition, I explain how her proposal has gained notoriety in English studies. This chapter argues that her role in the abolition debate deserves greater critical attention.

My conclusion makes two moves: First, I discuss Stanley Fish's "What Should Colleges Teach?" (2009). Fish's article demonstrates that complaints about composition continue today. I contend that his study rehearses the same arguments and criticisms that have been levied against composition since its inception in 1874. I turn, in the second part, to a series of questions that may be used to inform a new model for first-year writing, one based on interrogating the very idea of literacy itself.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Halasek, Kay, Graff, Harvey J.

School: The Ohio State University

Department: English

School Location: United States -- Ohio

Keyword(s): Literacy, Compulsory composition, First-year writing

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Language arts

Publication AAT 3425449 Number:

ISBN: 9781124257860

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======Document 23 of 50 School leaders and the challenge of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, 1960-1968 Sanders, Beth R.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0127, Part 0461 328 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: University of Michigan; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429501.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** The 1965 passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) changed the landscape of American public education. For the first time in history the federal government made a massive foray into education, and did so in a way that emphasized the needs of disadvantaged children. Extant literature has discussed the enactment process, implementation and evaluation of ESEA but does not talk about school administrators, who played a vital role in the planning, implementation and evaluation of ESEA school initiatives. Despite their importance, studies of ESEA have paid very little attention to administrators' role in ESEA. This dissertation focuses on the impact that ESEA had on school administrators. The main research questions are: When ESEA was initially enacted, and in subsequent reauthorizations, what were legislators' intentions for administrator practice in the execution of ESEA? How did ESEA impact school administrators? What changes in the work of school administrators came about as

52 a result of the passage of this massive federal aid-to-education legislation?

Using articles and advertisements from two major education journals aimed at school administrators, Educational Leadership and School Management Magazine, this study examines the kinds of information editors of those journals provided to administrators about ESEA, and how that information changed over time.

Findings were three-fold. First, in a very short time period, federal aid-to- education legislation went from being hotly contested to something that was accepted and expected by legislators and school administrators. Second, although in 1965 legislators specifically refrained from specifying how federally provided funding should be spent, by 1967 legislators began to provide specifics, including priority lists that school administrators had to follow. Finally, ESEA's passage brought about a major change in the way education was viewed in the United States. This was particularly true in terms of justifying the federal government's role of working with school leaders in trying to rectify the discrepancies caused by poverty and the resultant disadvantages suffered by poor children. After the passage of ESEA, administrators and other educators paid increasing attention to the needs of these children.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Mirel, Jeffrey E.

School: University of Michigan

School Location: United States -- Michigan

Keyword(s): ESEA, School administrators, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Federal education law, Johnson education program

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Education Policy, School Administration, Education history, Political science

Publication AAT 3429501 Number:

ISBN: 9781124285498

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======Document 24 of 50 Composition under review: A genre analysis of book reviews in composition, 1939--2007 Valensky, Sandra W.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0254, Part 0681 293 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: Wayne State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3426193.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Although reviews have been a part of two flagship composition journals, College English and College Composition and Communication throughout their publication histories, little attention has been shown to them in any full length research studies. This dissertation study provides a historical genre analysis of reviews to illustrate the role of reviews in reflecting and contributing to composition's struggle for full disciplinary status.

Methodologically, this mixed methods study uses historical analysis, genre analysis, and an interview study to investigate reviews and their functions in the field of composition. A corpus of 90 reviews, 45 from each journal, was analyzed from 1939 to 2007, to study how reviews reflect the disciplinary

54 trajectory of composition studies, the genre trends of reviews as they reflect the development of changing research and scholarship in composition, and the editorial perspectives and contextualization of the review genre and the development of reviews in the field.

The research finds that historically, reviews prove to reflect the development of the field over time; that textually, the review genre displays four moves, describing, evaluating, situating, and theorizing; and that professionally, the editors contextualize the reviews as an important contributor to the scholarship of the discipline. The main findings include a genre shift from short reviews and book reviews to the review essay. The shift is a move from a focus on description and evaluation to a focus on situating the review and the books within composition studies and using the review as a launching point for further disciplinary theorization. The findings also indicate that while reviews are not a primary genre in the field, they do reflect and contribute to the historical publication record of composition in its development as an academic discipline.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Barton, Ellen

Committee members: Marback, Richard, Ray, Ruth, Swales, John M.

School: Wayne State University

Department: English

School Location: United States -- Michigan

Keyword(s): Book reviews, Composition, Disciplinarity, Reviews, Genre

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Rhetoric

Publication AAT 3426193 Number:

ISBN: 9781124265032

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======Document 25 of 50 Training a nation: The General Federation of Women's Clubs' rhetorical education and American citizenship, 1890--1930 White, Kristin Kate. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0168, Part 0681 202 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: The Ohio State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429649.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Historical scholarship in the field of rhetoric and composition has flourished in the last thirty years and developed a rich and diverse picture of the history of American women's rhetorical practices. Much of the recent research surrounding women's clubs has focused on written documents and an analysis of rhetorical strategies to demonstrate how nineteenth-century women advocated for political and social change. Scholars like Karen Blair (1980), Theodora Martin (1987), Anne Meis Knuper (1996), Anne Ruggles Gere (1997), and Jacqueline Jones Royster (2000) have focused on the civic accomplishments and reading and writing practices of African American, Jewish, Mormon, working-class, and white middle-class clubwomen. My dissertation, "Training a Nation: The General Federation of Women's Clubs' Rhetorical Education and American Citizenship, 1890-1930," extends existing scholarship to include a focus on how white-middle class clubwomen developed and sustained their own programs of rhetorical

56 education during a historical era in which women were still excluded from educational institutions, barred from most professions, and lacked any formal training in rhetoric in the United States.

Existing scholarship has not focused on the connection between the seemingly less significant activities that occurred in individual women's clubs and the public efforts of the General Federation of Women's Clubs to educate and train better American citizens. These internal and external programs of rhetorical education established the General Federation as an influential cultural institution. My study focuses on the concrete and self-conscious pedagogical tools that women used to educate one another and develop a model of social change rooted in education, which had mixed results. My archival research demonstrates how the white women's clubs of the General Federation advocated structured pedagogical techniques, such as prescribed reading lists for children and adults, uniform club programs and discussion questions, and patriotic plays and pageants, to contribute to the dialogue surrounding citizenship and thus the formation of American identity in the progressive era. The General Federation's rhetorical campaign for promoting American citizenship both reinforced racist notions of an idealized white citizenship and, at the same time, attempted to invite immigrants, newly naturalized citizens, and young adults into the conversation.

The General Federation of Women's Clubs promotional materials and pedagogical techniques reveal how its members were a product of the ideological heritage in the Progressive movement of the early twentieth century with its focus on the cultivation of a particular kind of good American citizen that was rooted in ideas of obedience and mass education. The club movement also represents a site of rhetorical education which can show us how clubwomen in the General Federation were learning and teaching each other the politics of rhetoric in very public but non-academic sites. Ultimately, I argue that it is important to study sites where women created and supported rhetorical education to develop civic consciousness because these sites reflect evidence of clubwomen's contributions to rhetorical theory and history.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Johnson, Nan

School: The Ohio State University

School Location: United States -- Ohio

Keyword(s): General Federation of Women's Clubs, Rhetorical education, Citizenship, Women's clubs

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Language arts, Womens studies, Education history, Rhetoric

Publication AAT 3429649 Number:

ISBN: 9781124292274

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======Document 26 of 50 Ethnic entanglements: A comparative study of Arab American and Chicano literatures Gabra, Marian Helmy. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0031, Part 0295 258 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- California: University of California, Los Angeles; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431822.

***** Abstract (Summary) *****

Throughout the past few decades, the U.S. media has portrayed the U.S.-Mexico border as a hub of illegality. The recent "War on Terror" has only magnified the angst surrounding the porosity of the U.S. border. Since 9/11, the media has become saturated with images of Mexican immigrants, crossing to the U.S. in "hordes," and Arabs as terrorists within the nation. These groups have been similarly rendered as an invading presence, and in the most extreme, as a threat to national security. This dissertation is therefore invested in tracing the genealogy of national hostility toward these targeted ethnic groups. The historical and racial convergence of Arabs and Mexicans first germinated in 15 th century Spanish Andalusia and flourished during the conquest of the New World. The conquistadors transferred the racial schema designed to marginalize the Moors in Spain to the colonies of New Spain, where it was implemented to render the indigenous population as "infidel," or "the new Moor." This racial schema laid the foundation for an institutionalized racism that reflects the current U.S. racial terrain.

In light of contemporary political debates encompassing immigration, particularly with the recent legislation aimed to eradicate "illegal" immigrants and eliminate Ethnic Studies curriculum in Arizona, this dissertation contextualizes its analysis of Arab American and Chicano literary production within a historical study of the marginalization of both Arab and Mexican Americans. This study investigates how Arab American and Chicano authors and performance artists, including Sandra Cisneros, Laila Halaby. Marian Haddad, Mohja Kahf, Gloria Anzaldúa, Culture Clash, and Ajyal , dismantle such crude historical depictions, and reimagine ethnic American subjectivities and histories. A goal of the dissertation is to situate Arab American and Chicano literary histories and criticisms in dialogue in order to examine how each field of study is formed and informed by the other, and to reveal the productive possibilities of cross-cultural communication. Therefore, this dissertation calls for a comparative Ethnic Studies, by examining the ways in which Arab American literature has initiated an interethnic dialogue with Chicano cultural production. While Chicano Studies in an established academic field that continues to evolve, Arab American Studies is an emerging discipline. This dissertation will contribute to the development of this field at its early formative stage. Given the declining interest in the Humanities due to economic adversity, this study seeks to reinvigorate the field of Ethnic Studies by opening it up to an interdisciplinary perspective, so that it may in turn foster new pedagogical approaches to literary studies.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Perez-Torres, Rafael, Gana, Nouri

School: University of California, Los Angeles

School Location: United States -- California

Keyword(s): Ethnic, Arab-American, Chicano, Marginalization

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Comparative literature, American literature, Ethnic studies, Hispanic American studies

Publication AAT 3431822 Number:

ISBN: 9781124321578

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======Document 27 of 50 Foreign Correspondences: Nineteenth-Century News and Literature in Latin America and the United States

Kreitz, Kelley. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0295 322 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430064.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Merrim, Stephanie

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): News, Latin America, Nineteenth century, Modernismo, U.S. realism, Modernity

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Comparative literature, Latin American literature, Journalism, American literature

Publication AAT 3430064 Number:

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======Document 28 of 50 Crisis and modernism: Culture, economy, and form in twentieth-century U.S. and Latin American literature Sauri, Emilio. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0295 162 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431267.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation concerns the relationship between U.S. modernism between the world wars and Latin American literature since the 1950s, and the relationship of each to transformations within the political configuration of the world economy. It argues that each of these literatures is the site of differing and competing conceptions of social relations, and demonstrates how the effort to reconcile an identity on the model of the family with a given position in the global economic order becomes the mainspring of formal tendencies in individual texts. The development of this dynamic from U.S. modernism to the Latin American "boom" novel, I claim, culminates in the "end of literature," an exhaustion of aesthetic and political possibility concomitant with what has been described as the neoliberal turn of the 1970s. And it is precisely in this turn, I contend, that contemporary U.S. Latino/a literature finds its origins.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Michael, Walter Benn

School: University of Illinois at Chicago

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): United States, Twentieth century, Modernism, Literary form, Inter-American studies, Latin America

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Comparative literature, Latin American literature, American literature

Publication AAT 3431267 Number:

ISBN: 9781124305301

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======Document 29 of 50 "The double bind" of 1989: Reinterpreting space, place, and identity in postcommunist women's literature Wienhold-Brokish, Jessica Lynn. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0295 245 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430909.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation is a comparative, cross-cultural exploration of identity construction after 1989 as it pertains to narrative setting and the creation of literary place in postcommunist women's literature. Through spatial analysis the negotiation between the unresolvable bind of a stable national and personal identity and of a flexible transnational identity are discussed. Russian, German, and Croatian writers, specifically Olga Mukhina, Nina Sadur, Monika Maron, Barbara Honigmann, Angela Krauß, Vedrana Rudan, Dubravka Ugresic, and

Slavenka Drakulic, provide the material for an examination of the proliferation of female writers and the potential for recuperative literary techniques after 1989. The project is organized thematically with chapters dedicated to apartments, cities, and foreign lands, focusing on strategies of identity reconstruction after the fall of socialism.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Kaganovsky, Lilya

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Postcommunist, Women writers, Women's literature, Place and space, Russia, Germany, Croatia

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Comparative literature, Germanic literature, Slavic literature

Publication AAT 3430909 Number:

ISBN: 9781124317342

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======Document 30 of 50 Encountering spectral traces: Ghost narratives in Chinese America and Taiwan Wu, Chia-Rong. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0295 257 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430912.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation aims to explore different tropes of ghost haunting in the cultural productions from Chinese America and Taiwan. Ghost haunting can be regarded as the supernatural and social embodiments. The spectral representation goes beyond the public perception and reception of the phantom other, thereby delivering the senses of the fearful and the uncanny. Besides, haunting is related to the attachment to and detachment from the earthly world, and the ghostly return conveys complicated contacts and conflicts between the living and the dead. It is also important to note that ghost narratives are associated with the representation of spectral identities in relation to multiple dimensions of history, ethnoscapes, and gender politics. I would bring into focus a close engagement with the current scholarship of ghost storytelling, and provide theoretical reflections on haunting from thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, and Avery F. Gordon. Focusing on the two traditions of Chinese ethnic writing from Chinese America and Taiwan, I would like to bridge the gap between the two via the circulating ghost narratives in a global context. Without any question, the two traditions, one written in English and one in Chinese, are different from each other, but still, we can find the similarities between the two if we trace their ghost images back to the classical Chinese ghost storytelling. Herein the original haunting of Chinese narrative serves to stitch together a possible coalition. Additionally, both Chinese American literature and Taiwanese literature can be placed in the category of 'minor literature' in the Deleuzian sense. While written in the major languages, both 'minor' narratives carry the political concerns and represent the collective mentality of the minority groups in contrast to their cultural Other(s). The first two chapters recount the development of ghost narratives in Chinese American literature. While Maxine Hong Kingston leads the autobiographical narrative and creates a fictional world of ghosts, the following writers like Amy Tan and Shawna Yang Ryan seek alternative ways of

65 narrating the haunting past. From Chapter Three to Chapter Five, the ghost narrative in Taiwan is examined from historical, feminist, and sexual perspectives, thus gesturing profound complexities of haunting in the diasporic, postcolonial, and postmodern contexts. To conclude, ghost narratives in Chinese America and Taiwan can be affiliated with the critical discourses of history, ethnicity, and gender politics. Haunting is thus a cross-cultural phenomenon in mediating the rhetoric of ghost storytelling.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Blake, Nancy

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Ghost narrative, Haunting, Chinese-American, Psychoanalysis, Taiwan, Gender politics, China

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Comparative literature, Asian literature, American literature

Publication AAT 3430912 Number:

ISBN: 9781124317373

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======Document 31 of 50 "To be black and 'at home'": Movement, freedom, and belonging in African American and African Canadian literatures Green, Kim D.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0298 163 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423072.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** "To Be Black and 'At Home'" augments a relatively understudied area of African diasporic scholarship, comparative examination of African American and African Canadian literatures. I argue that African American and African Canadian novelists including Ann Petry and Austin Clarke provide nuanced representations of the experiences of people who persistently encounter discrimination because of their belongings to marginalized racial, gender, and class groups and show how movements such as national and transnational migration, educational attainment, and economic advancement can represent acts of resistance to inequitable treatment. The selected literary works also demonstrate how these physical, intellectual, and economic movements are affirmations of blacks' right to access national ideals of freedom, equality, and justice in the United States and Canada. For example, the black female protagonists in Petry's The Street (1946) and Clarke's The Meeting Point (1967) exercise intellectual mobility to achieve their visions of economic prosperity, which are commensurate with ideals of freedom and equality that govern the nations in which they reside. As marginalized members of their national communities, they learn that they do not equally benefit from these ideals, but this lesson does not prevent them from gaining education and using other types of mobility to demand access to opportunities for economic success. Their employments of movement therefore become acts of resistance to discriminatory treatment and affirmations of their right to achieve ideals of freedom and equality in the nations they call home. Although I focus primarily on African American and African Canadian literatures, I assert that themes of belonging, movement, and freedom have the potential to unify diverse literatures and cultures throughout the African diaspora. Racism, for example, has specific manifestations in particular nations and cultures. However, people throughout the African diaspora grapple with the inhibiting consequences of belonging to marginalized

67 racial groups. Therefore, I argue that literary works, historical analyses, and other diasporic texts provide important knowledge about ways in which particular belongings affect opportunities for freedom and various types of mobility in multiple national locations.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Foster, Frances Smith

Committee members: Wallace-Sanders, Kimberly, Jackson, Lawrence P.

School: Emory University

Department: English

School Location: United States -- Georgia

Keyword(s): African American literature, African Canadian literature, Freedom, Belonging, African-American, African-Canadian, Petry, Ann, Clarke, Austin

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Modern literature, Black studies, Canadian literature, American literature

Publication AAT 3423072 Number:

ISBN: 9781124234953

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======Document 32 of 50 A chorus of witnesses: The hybrid genre of testimonial literature Bollinger, Heidi. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0188, Part 0591 317 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: University of Rochester; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430796.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation argues that testimonial literature resists and critiques policing institutions through its transgression of formal boundaries and synthesis of seemingly incommensurate genres. Contemporary theorists of genre exhibit anxiety about its institutional quality and policing function, echoing Jacques Derrida's "The Law of Genre." Bruce Robbins has noted aptly: "when genre is discussed, the metaphor of the police is everywhere." The characterization of genre as a restrictive social institution is significant and vexed in relation to the trauma narratives of marginalized groups and individuals who are themselves policed and contained by dominant social institutions. Through its symbiotic combination of genres, testimonial literature creates a "chorus" of witnesses: a multi-perspectival mode of bearing witness to traumatic historical events. Testimonial literature seeks to expand the historical record to acknowledge marginalized individuals and groups, while undermining the stability of historical representation.

Each chapter of this study examines a work of testimonial literature whose symbiotic combination of genres enables it to witness and critique policing institutions. Chapter 1 demonstrates how James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912) transgresses generic and racial boundaries to manipulate readerly expectations of African American literature's testimonial function. Chapter 2 examines John A. Williams's novel Clifford's Blues (1999) as a generic fusion of the diary, Holocaust testimonial, slave narrative, and blues narrative. Through its combined form, the novel gives voice to a chorus of witnesses and transcends the logic of competing victimhood that haunts Holocaust literature. In Chapter 3, I argue that Jonathan Safran Foer's Everything Is Illuminated (2002) tests the ability of fiction to

69 function as an imaginative form of testimony, through a dialogic combination of epistle, magical realism, Jewish Memorial Book, and travelogue. The novel's dialogic structure enables Foer to overturn the discourse of historical inevitability that pervades Holocaust literature. Chapter 4 treats Anna Deavere Smith's work of documentary theater Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (1994) as a discordant chorus of witnesses. Smith's performance of conflicting testimonies counters the silencing of witnesses by the legal system and media during the Los Angeles riots. Each work in this study responds to a traumatic silence in the historical record with a combination of genres and plurality of witness voices.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Tucker, Jeffrey Allen

School: University of Rochester

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): Testimonial literature, Genre, Autobiography, Trauma, Postmodernism, Johnson, James Weldon, Williams, John A., Foer, Jonathan Safran, Smith, Anna Deveare

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Black studies, Holocaust Studies, American literature

Publication AAT 3430796 Number:

ISBN: 9781124303420

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======Document 33 of 50 Directed reading, directed writing: Sentimental exchanges in the antebellum United States Brady, Jennifer L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0591 317 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423042.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** "Directed Reading, Directed Writing" contends that sentimental narrative consistently returns to the problem of its reception, to the power and danger of the emotive reading it seeks to produce. We see this concern both in sentimental novels and in the world in which they circulated: characters form deep, emotional attachments to their beloved books; letter-writing fans profess their devotion to an author while scolding her for failing to produce sequels; and anxious commentators worry about the power that novels exert over their audience. I attend to these moments in order to unravel the networks that unite author and reader through and around the sentimental text. I argue that these networks--dynamic, emotional relays among writers, texts, and readers--allow authors and audiences alike to imagine how reading sentimental narrative affects both readers and the world in which they live.

To pursue this claim, "Directed Reading, Directed Writing" turns to a wide variety of sources, including sentimental novels, nineteenth-century fan letters, antebellum debates about reading novels, and twentieth- and twenty- first-century theories of affect. In the antebellum United States, sentimental fiction operated as a crucial site in which the nation confronted the basic, but radical premise that reading can entangle us--that it can produce pleasure, passion, and change. By demonstrating how sentimental fiction insisted that writers and readers reconsider the very function of reading, my project seeks to push the critical discussion of sentimentality past its political triumphs and disappointments. Instead, I contend that the experience of reading

71 sentimental fiction precedes and even licenses its political ramifications, and also points to a broader conception of the cultural work that sentimentality accomplished in antebellum America. Today, we continue to argue about why and how reading should matter, and that argument has become increasingly fraught as literary reading has declined. "Directed Reading, Directed Writing" suggests that we can look to the nineteenth century for an illustration of how the passions of literary reading might radiate out into the public sphere--and a way to finally name the risks and rewards of such a thrilling pursuit.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Elliott, Michael A.

Committee members: Foster, Frances Smith, Moon, Michael Smith, Reiss, Benjamin Smith

School: Emory University

Department: English

School Location: United States -- Georgia

Keyword(s): Nineteenth-century American literature, Books and reading, Emotions in literature, Sentimentality, Fan mail, Antebellum

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American literature

Publication AAT 3423042 Number:

ISBN: 9781124234168

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======Document 34 of 50 Selling out: The American literary market place and the modernist novel Dunick, Lisa Marie Schifano. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0591 251 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430856.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** "Selling Out: The American Literary Marketplace and the Modernist Novel" re•examines the "modernist author" we think we know by rereading how four American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner deliberately tried to create a literary reputation through both their success in commercial publishing and their resistance to it. I do not so much refute the difference between elite and mass culture, but instead show how even in their fictionality, those very categories inform the very structure of how we understand the categories of the author, the book, and of modernism itself.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Foote, Stephanie

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Modernism, Hemingway, Ernest, Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Boyle, Kay, Black Sun Press, Literary marketplace, Novel

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American literature

Publication AAT 3430856 Number:

ISBN: 9781124316499

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======Document 35 of 50 Perpetual refugee: Memory of the Vietnam War in Asian American literature Fung, Catherine Minyee. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0029, Part 0591 205 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- California: University of California, Davis; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429564.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation investigates the ways in which the refugee provides a counternarrative to models of citizenship that privilege immigration and assimilation. I treat the refugee as a figure that is suspended between citizen and alien, and that is at once constructed by state apparatuses and deployed in order to reify or contest what the nation supposedly stands for. Refugee status is granted with adherence to specific laws and regulations set by the US and the international community. At the same time, the "success" or "failure" of refugees' resettlement is often used to both rewrite the US's involvement in past wars and justify its involvement in current ones. For example, the narrative of the "good refugee," which valorizes capitalism and equates "freedom" with upward mobility, is now often used to fold the Vietnam War into the United States' list of "good wars." Rather than view the refugee as a mere

74 byproduct of war, I argue for a method of treating the refugee as a rubric upon which the United States constructs its collective history. Thus Perpetual Refugee offers a critical examination of how the Vietnam War serves as a condition that allows for refugees to be represented, as well as of the terms of citizenship that the war negotiates.

Chapter One examines Vietnamese American cultural production, focusing on the ways in which memoirs written by second-generation Vietnamese Americans channel memory of the war, and the loss that it produced, through tropes of wounding, which become the condition that grants visibility for refugees in the United States. Chapter Two expands upon this issue of nationalism and visibility through an examination of a refugee group that is "nation-less" and largely invisible: the Hmong who fought as allies to the U.S. during the "Secret War" in Laos and Cambodia. Chapter Three unpacks the category of the refugee as it is mediated through literary, psychological and legal discourses. Chapter Four challenges the genre of "Vietnam War literature" by reading Monique Truong's The Book of Salt as a novel that relies on memory of the war in producing its meaning.

***** References ***** * References (148)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Jerng, Mark C., Freeman, Elizabeth

School: University of California, Davis

School Location: United States -- California

Keyword(s): Vietnam War literature, Asian American literature and criticism, Refugees, Law and literature, Memory, Hmong American literature, Vietnam War, Asian-American, Hmong, Truong, Monique T. D.

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, History, American history, American literature, Ethnic studies

Publication AAT 3429564 Number:

ISBN: 9781124288772

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======Document 36 of 50 Homeland (in)security: Terminal masculinity & the specter of 9/11 Giannini, Nicholas D.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0591 177 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423063.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Homeland (In)security is a study of the 9/11 novel and post-9/11 U.S. cinema. It focuses on a series of literary texts from the early 2000s and on horror films of the past few years. In particular, this project considers each text as a narrative of rape speaking to and of white men. Unlike Lee Clark Mitchell's seminal claim of bodily violation as intrinsic to masculinity, Homeland (In)security proposes an effective termination of male identity by way of the crisis of traumatized survivorship. For contemporary U.S. authors such as Art Spiegelman, John Updike, and Michael Cunningham, the September 11 attacks represented an important opportunity to explore various recurring thematic interests--persecution, community, desire, patriarchy--within narratives colored by disaster. The inclusion of cinema here fulfills the following wishes: to map the so-termed "crisis" of masculinity onto one of society's most reflective (and informative) surfaces (i.e. Hollywood) as well as contribute to

76 a field of genre criticism yet to be linked with masculinity. In short, it is my hope that the following essays help fill a gap in academic discourse by entwining gender, cinema, and literary scholarship with an event, as clinical psychologist Dori Laub has suggested, yet to unearth its public "voice."

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Kalaidjian, Walter

Committee members: Elliott, Christopher Michael, Rusche, Harry Michael

School: Emory University

Department: English

School Location: United States -- Georgia

Keyword(s): Masculinity, September 11, 2001, Terrorism, Film studies, Queer theory, Spiegelman, Art, Updike, John, Cunningham, Michael, Horror films

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American literature, Gender studies, Film studies

Publication AAT 3423063 Number:

ISBN: 9781124234854

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======Document 37 of 50 Buggy jiving: Comic strategies of the black avant-garde Heard, Danielle Christine. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0058, Part 0591 220 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Cornell University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429829.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Buggy Jiving: Comic Strategies of the Black Avant-Garde, examines the radical strategic impulse of African American comedy in literary and cultural texts of the second half of the twentieth century in light of their potential for cultural transformation. "Buggy jiving," a term that Ralph Ellison coins in Invisible Man, refers to a particular form of joking discourse that aims to enact social change by bringing into view the incongruity between appearance and reality, especially with regard to the idea of race in America. In other words, buggy jiving as a form of activism involves making an epistemic intervention into dominant culture that uniquely stems from the double- consciousness born of the experiences of African Americans. The trope of buggy jiving, which inflects much of Ellison's literary and cultural-critical work, provides the theoretical lens through which to interpret black expressive culture from the post-World War II era into the present.

In the introduction, Ellison is put retrospectively in conversation with W. E. B. Du Bois to consider how the "betweenness" of double-consciousness resembles the formal structure of a joke, and how to be black is, in both degrading and subversive senses, to be "funny." Chapter One turns to the second half of the twentieth century to address the centrality of the comic to Ellison's concept- metaphor of "invisibility" and also to his radical vision of ideal democracy. As an alternative to physical violence, Ellison privileges comic activism as a "more effective strategy" of social action and cultural transformation. For Ellison, the comic is culturally conjoined to black music, specifically jazz, through the corresponding techniques of rhythm, improvisation, antiphony, and repetition. The influence of music on Ellison's understanding of the comic and its "poetics of invisibility" is further explored in Chapter Two, which examines the performances of the pianist, singer, and songwriter Nina Simone.

These performances, which comprise a "theatre of invisibility," are considered in light of her engagement in various political and cultural movements of the 1960s and '70s. Through an "economy of laughter," Simone comically repackages the rightful fury and dismay of an "angry black woman" into a political critique, social vision, and call to action that speak across barriers of difference. Such an aesthetic and political countercurrent to dominant civil rights era black movements prefigures the nature of artistic political engagement during what has been called the "post-soul" era. Chapter Three thus concludes with a consideration of the possibilities and limitations of "buggy jiving" in two examples of black post-modernism, Percival Everett's novel Erasure and Spike Lee's film Bamboozled, in light of their Ellisonian themes and differing responses to the intersection of satire, representations of blackness, and the mass media.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Spillers, Hortense Jeanette

School: Cornell University

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): African-American, Comedy, Avant garde, Everett, Percival L., Ellison, Ralph, Simone, Nina, Lee, Spike

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Modern literature, Black studies, American literature, Film studies

Publication AAT 3429829 Number:

ISBN: 9781124301631

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======Document 38 of 50 GemiNation: A theory of twin literary criticism in American literature Langmade, Lynn Taylor. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0029, Part 0591 712 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- California: University of California, Davis; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427389.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This study develops a literary theory and application for reading major works of American literature from 1750 to 1900 that thematize twinship in relation to American state-building, exploring how certain forms of U.S. nationalism are predicated upon ambiguous representations of Twins. Accordingly, this study is organized into two sections. The first section leverages Giorgio Agamben's theory of bare life in order to track the ambiguous legal status of Twins throughout history, demonstrating that Twins' corporative difference placed them into a biopolitical sphere of sovereignty that exposed them to an unconditional capacity to be killed. This study demonstrates that oral, classical, and medieval societies represented Twins as afflictions to their communities and that this discourse influenced constitutional propaganda by Jefferson, Adams, and Madison, who modeled the American Constitution after the Roman Republic, which began with Romulus's murder of Remus. Challenging two thousand years of political theory positing gemi cidal violence as indispensable to absolute sovereignty, this study theorizes that twinship not only survived as a central problem in state-building deep into the nineteenth- century, but was also essential to American definitions of sovereignty and nationhood.

Section two applies this theory to a series of American literary texts in the long nineteenth century. By examining literature advocating U.S. cartographic expansion, in which Twins are pitted against indigenous nations, captive

80 peoples, and foreigners, this study argues that the nineteenth-century American preoccupation with Twins hypostasized its own eugenic anxiety regarding identity, individualism, and personhood, concepts critical for establishing the corporative integrity necessary for peoples, such as Indians and slaves, to receive the rights and entitlements of American citizenship. Referencing texts that track America's westward expansion, such as Hugh Henry Brackenridge's novel Modern Chivalry and Charles Fenno Hoffman's short story, "The Twin- Doomed;" works that thematize the tyranny of wage slavery, such as Poe's story, "William Wilson;" and, finally, novels critiquing the expansion of slavery into new states/territories, such as Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, this study concludes that twinship was critical for establishing American national identity as a discourse of racial difference.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Freeman, Elizabeth

Committee members: Van Leer, David, Watkins, Evan, Krimmer, Elisabeth

School: University of California, Davis

Department: English

School Location: United States -- California

Keyword(s): America, Nationalism, Rome, Slavery, Sovereignty, Twins

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American literature

Publication AAT 3427389 Number:

ISBN: 9781124315904

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======Document 39 of 50 From exile to transcendence: Racial mixture and the journey of revision in the works of Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer Lynch, Suzanne Marie. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0591 230 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430885.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** My study, entitled From Exiles to Transcendences, focuses on five authors: Lydia Maria Child, Hannah Crafts, Kate Chopin, James Weldon Johnson, and Jean Toomer. It examines each author's effort to represent the mixed-race character as a constant "process of becoming" (Hall, Questions of Identity 4). This study aims to convey the distinctiveness of the American mixed-race character in American literature and to provide a thorough reading of how this distinctiveness is portrayed and sustained throughout the scope of the selected texts. My dissertation identifies the mixed-race voice as experientially distinct from other American raced voices while acknowledging the mixed-race character as one who demonstrates a connectedness to a plurality of racial cultures. The following chapters span a period of approximately 100 years and illustrate a common concern among them, albeit from differing perspectives and influences, regarding how home and family function as fluid spaces of racial subjectivity. My study maintains a position that the above authors questioned the presumed irreversibility of an entrenched understanding of family ties; that they challenged and rescripted the historically defined self with a self

82 that privileges experience and discovery over pre-given identities; and that they depicted their characters as evolving subjects who created themselves with name and identity as they moved toward their "process of becoming."

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Foote, Stephanie, Deck, Alice

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Mulatta character, Race in 20th century American fiction, Race and Lydia Maria Child, Race and James Weldon Johnson, Race and Kate Chopin, Crafts, Hannah, Child, Lydia Maria, Johnson, James Weldon, Chopin, Kate, Toomer, Jean

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Modern literature, American literature

Publication AAT 3430885 Number:

ISBN: 9781124317625

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======Document 40 of 50 Aesthetics in Place: Commercial Rhetoric and Local Identity in the British Atlantic, 1720--1820 Melson, John A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0591 228 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430068.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

***** References ***** * References (176)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Egan, James

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Aesthetics, British Atlantic, Commercial rhetoric, Locality, Coloniality, Provinciality, Commerce, Transatlantic culture

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American literature, British and Irish literature

Publication AAT 3430068 Number:

ISBN: 9781124305745

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======Document 41 of 50 Dynamics of domination and dialogic narrative strategies in Charles Johnson's "Middle Passage", Richard Powers's "The Time of Our Singing", And Leslie Marmon Silko's "Almanac of the Dead" Oltmann, Christina. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0781, Part 0591 282 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: McGill University (Canada); 2010. Publication Number: AAT NR66526.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** The dissertation investigates narrative strategies employed by the contemporary American novel to criticize and counteract the dynamics of domination. The study focuses primarily on Charles Johnson's Middle Passage (1990), Richard Powers's The Time of Our Singing (2003), and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead (1991). These three novels address problems of sociopolitical repression and racial discrimination arising from the preconditions and heritage of colonial rule and the enslavement of Native Americans and African- Americans. While Johnson, Powers, and Silko refer to concrete historical moments, the critique implicit in their novels does not primarily arise from narrated historical facts or fictional experience, but from the narrative configurations they construct, and in which they embed these facts and experiences. They juxtapose naturalized assumptions about fixed meanings of space, temporality, and ensuing notions of self prevailing in the narrated historical past to ever changing combinations of ethnic, cultural, and social belonging within shifting spatial and temporal parameters, until these assumptions become untenable. Their method of exposition is therefore basically dialogic, and the insights that these novels yield constitute a form of knowledge that becomes available precisely through the combination of dialogics and literary narrative. To the degree that previous assumptions still prevail, all three novels provide a critique of the foundations on which members of Western culture across racial and ethnic lines construct their sense of

85 authority within dynamics of power today. Johnson, Powers, and Silko are associated with African American, mainstream American, and Native American literature, or, in the case of Silko, with the field of American women's writing, and yet, while belonging in these subfields of American studies, go beyond and indeed defy such institutional categories in the conceptual reach of their work. Their novels participate in ongoing inquiries about the epistemological assumptions of our present moment beyond the confines of literary composition and join efforts with those theorists whose conceptions imply a similar commitment to the open-endedness of dialogics. Among these theorists are Mikhail Bakhtin, who most prominently links literary methods of inquiry to general questions of epistemology and ideology, Michel Foucault and his genealogical examination of the concept of race and subsequent project on governmentality, as well as Adorno and the non-identity thinking inherent in his negative dialectics. Reading Silko's, Johnson's, and Powers's novels as interventions in these critical debates recognizes the potential of literary texts to challenge prevailing assumptions by embedding the demand for theoretical alternatives in the narration of lived experience. The dissertation proceeds from the conviction that the discipline of literary studies can discern and contribute to possible beginnings of such a shift within its field of application.

***** References ***** * References (225)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: McGill University (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): Johnson, Charles, Middle Passage, Powers, Richard, Time of Our Singing, Silko, Leslie Marmon, Almanac of the Dead, Dialogic narrative

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Black studies, American literature, Native American studies

Publication AAT NR66526 Number:

ISBN: 9780494665268

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======Document 42 of 50 The Ghost in James, Pangborn, and Wharton: A Shifting Trope in an Era of Shifting Philosophies Ross, Randi A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0072, Part 0591 173 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Fordham University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431919.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation examines how the changing social mores of the 19th Century, the birth of psychology as a science, and the raucous and prolonged public debate during that era regarding an afterlife and specters impacted upon the ghost stories of Georgia Wood Pangbom, Edith Wharton, and Henry James. Pangbom employed the trope primarily to further the ideals of the enormously popular Spiritualist Movement, which had its roots in Swedenborgian mysticism. The ghost stories of Edith Wharton often insist upon sexual freedom. Henry James used the trope in a variety of ways in numerous stories. This dissertation focuses upon his use of the case histories of The Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in "The Friends of the Friends" and The Turn of the Screw. It suggests that James wrote "Friends" about a particular type of ghost studied by the SPR, the crisis apparition, and that he wrote Turn using SPR research in such a way as to provoke the critical firestorm that surrounded it for much of the 20th Century: Are the ghosts of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel real or a

87 product of the imagination of an insane governess?

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Caldwell, Mark

School: Fordham University

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): Ghost story, Pangborn, Georgia Wood, James, Henry, Wharton, Edith, Turn of the Screw, Friends of t he Friends

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American literature, British and Irish literature

Publication AAT 3431919 Number:

ISBN: 9781124327501

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======Document 43 of 50 Professional sentiments: Professionalism, Affect, and American Literature,

1830--1910 Sweeney, Brian Dennis. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0591 181 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430084.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Gould, Philip

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Professionalism, Affect, Sentimentalism, Nineteenth-century U.S. literature, Class, Chesnutt, Charles Waddell, Jewett, Sarah Orne, Green, Anna Katharine, Wilson, Harriet E.

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, American literature

Publication AAT 3430084 Number:

ISBN: 9781124305905

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did=2184143061&Fmt=2&clientId=17454&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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======Document 44 of 50 After the end of the world: Poetics, time and black experimental writing Reed, Anthony. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0058, Part 0593 265 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Cornell University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429848.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** "After the End of the World" is a study of the poetics of experimental writing, focusing on the work of W. E. B. Du Bois, Nathaniel Mackey, Suzan-Lori Parks and Kamau Brathwaite. By thinking form as a locus of political and conceptual contestation and transformation, I seek methods for conceiving politics in literature apart from its references or the identities of authors and characters. Writing in different genres, and with different political investments, each of these authors offers resources for re-imagining community as a project, for thinking the constitution of the self and political subject, and for conceiving politics and literary studies globally.

Using a broad conception of literary experimentation as writing that departs from conventional forms and conventional thinking, I emphasize time of reading, among other times. Arguing that conceptions of time tend to be at the heart of political concerns throughout the sites of the African diaspora, this project challenges those notions of black writing that rest on the binary or oppression/resistance.

I begin with an analysis of Du Bois' writing, especially his notions of double- consciousness and the veil, which I argue are related to writing and self- narration and thus to the problem of political and aesthetic representation. Parks' work similarly makes representation--especially historical representation--into a thematic question through which she problematizes the notion of a unitary "black experience."

Specifically concerned with poetry, Kamau Brathwaite and Nathaniel Mackey specifically confront and contravene the legacy of the lyric voice in both the presentation and topics of their work. Brathwaite invents a shifting system of fonts, margins and a capacious first-person singular/plural to articulate a

90 time and a "we" of the Caribbean and the diaspora. Mackey's work uses music, repetition and pronoun shifts to de-emphasize the traditional lyric "I" in favor of a poetics concerned with the limits of the here and now. Considering the ways these authors elaborate considerations that do not immediately map onto their presumed preoccupations, this project generates a means for conceiving the relationship between form and politics. It starts from the materiality of language and literature and then proceeds to politics and theory.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Farred, Grant Aubrey

School: Cornell University

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): African American literature, Caribbean literature, Contemporary literature, Poetics, Literature and politics, Experimental writing, Du Bois, W. E. B., Mackey, Nathaniel, Parks, Suzan-Lori, Brathwaite, Kamau

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Modern literature, Black studies, Caribbean literature, British and Irish literature

Publication AAT 3429848 Number:

ISBN: 9781124301815

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did=2183310661&Fmt=2&clientId=17454&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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======Document 45 of 50 Public Liturgy as the Paradigm for Social Transformation: Shifting a Local Congregation from Sanctuary to Street Cribbs, Arthur Lawrence, Jr.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0231, Part 0394 165 pages; [D.Min. dissertation].United States - - California: Claremont School of Theology; 2009. Publication Number: AAT 3431621.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This professional project examines methods used in two United Church of Christ congregations in Southern California to engage in public liturgy based on local and international models of social justice ministries. The ontology of social transformation in the 20 th Century forged by religious institutions, civil rights organizations, and progressive social movements is analyzed through the lens of prominent and contemporary individuals whose contributions determined the actual impact on societies. This project's purpose is to recognize the importance of elevating local issues that resonant across traditional barriers of race, class, gender, and geography to inspire corporate imagination that can motivate and connect disaffected persons to the plight of the "other" in societies.

Specifically, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and the American Civil Rights movement, the Rev. Dr. Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Germany's Confessing Church during World War II, Cardinal Jaime Sin and the People Power Movement in the Philippines during the waning reign of Ferdinand Marcos, and Mahatma Gandhi's demonstration of his satyagraha philosophy in India provide a portrait of local actions that created historical, global events.

That is the backdrop used to design modest opportunities for the two congregations in this project to deliberately organize and utilize easily accessible resources to address issues within their targeted service areas. This project intends to operate within the framework of those congregations

92 situated in urban and suburban communities where worship focuses on a narrow understanding of traditional religious practices.

The project concludes with a critique of the roles individuals play within congregations to embody their religious beliefs through promoting events within the sanctuary of the churches and outside those walls on the streets where they invite and involve public safety personnel, professionals, politicians, and a variety of other religious groups to participate.

Finally, newspaper articles and media coverage of events sponsored by the two congregations are included as examples of the churches' effective presence in the Public Square toward shifting from placid sanctuaries to turbulent relevance in the streets.

***** References ***** * References (32)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Slessarev-Jamir, Helene

School: Claremont School of Theology

School Location: United States -- California

Keyword(s): Liturgy, United Church of Christ, Social justice ministries

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Ethics, Theology

Publication AAT 3431621 Number:

ISBN: 9781124328447

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did=2196025301&Fmt=6&clientId=17454&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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======Document 46 of 50 Culture war Christians: Visions of fundamentalism in contemporary Hollywood cinema Dodd, William Patton. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0017, Part 0318 206 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3430393.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation is an examination of the convergence of fundamentalist Christianity and violence in Hollywood cinema since 1990. In popular American films of this era, villainous and violent characters are repeatedly associated with the far right of Christianity, especially extremist Protestant evangelicalism, or fundamentalism. These characters can be recognized as analogues of the fundamentalist Christians who have recently declared a "culture war"--initiating an ongoing and aggressive conflict over public morals and the definition of the nation. In many of these films, culture war Christianity is the only religious perspective represented, and this dissertation argues that the plots of such films are consistently resolved by the elimination of that perspective.

This project surveys several 1990s Hollywood films, but focuses on three key works: Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991), David Fincher's Seven (1995), and Robert Duvall's The Apostle (1997). The first two are read as both culture war commentaries and updates of classic Hollywood representations of Christianity and violence. The Night of the Hunter (1955) is understood here as particularly representative of this classic tradition. The Apostle is seen as situated within Southern Pentecostalism, a fundamentalism generated not by a reaction against external forces but by theological passions sustained in community settings. Yet, in spite of its sympathetic view of fundamentalist Christianity,

94 the film also explores how those passions can erupt into violence.

Throughout this study, cinematic religious appropriations are examined through a method of close reading based on strict attention to the audio-visual texture of film, including sound design, shot composition, shot length, focal length, camera angle, and editing style. Cinema's thematic programs are determined by the discrete and simultaneous utilization of these devices. This project explores how these tools make meaning in particular representations of religion where fundamentalist Christianity is indicted as a tradition prone to violence.

***** References ***** * References (204)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Mizruchi, Susan

School: Boston University

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Religion, Film, Fundamentalism, Hollywood, Culture war, Christianity

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Religion, American studies, Film studies

Publication AAT 3430393 Number:

ISBN: 9781124297088

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did=2188887491&Fmt=6&clientId=17454&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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======Document 47 of 50 The Eschatological Orientation in the Early Theology of Thomas F. Torrance, 1939-1963 MacLean, Stanley Stephen. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0781, Part 0469 228 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: McGill University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR66572.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Thomas F. Torrance (1913- 2007) is recognised as one of the foremost theologians of the twentieth century. Eschatology occupies a very significant place in his theology, although scholars interested in his work have paid little attention to this fact, focusing instead on his methodology. This thesis not only brings Torrance's eschatology to light through an exploration of his sermons, correspondence, lectures and short writings, it shows that it is a central component of his early theology, uncovering an eschatological orientation in his treatment of various Christian doctrines. It also takes cognizance of the fact that this eschatology is shaped by such events as WWII, the spread of communism, the modem eschatological debate and the world- wide ecumenical movement.

Torrance's eschatology seeks to recapture, on the basis of a high Christology, the New Testament tension between the present realization of the Kingdom of God and the future consummation of it. In contrast to many contemporary eschatologies, Torrance's eschatology is apocalyptic, ecclesial and ecumenical. It is unique too in its attempt to do justice to the humanity of Christ and to the interrelation of the doctrines of creation and redemption.

The thesis is divided into five chapters. Chapter 1 deals with Torrance's Auburn lectures (1938-39) on Christology. Here one finds the material basis for his eschatology, namely the doctrines of incarnation, atonement, resurrection, ascension and second advent. Chapters 2 and 3 cover Torrance's time as a minister for the Church of Scotland, and trace the development of his

96 apocalyptic eschatology through his sermons. Chapters 4 and 5 examine his eschatology as it takes shape through his work (1948 -1963) for the Commission of Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches. Here one finds an eschatology that is vital to the Church. Torrance tries to understand the Church in terms of both eschatological fulfilment in Christ and growth towards its telos , that is, fulness in Christ.

The thesis concludes with a critical analysis of the coherence of this eschatology and a brief look at the ways in which it anticipates Torrance's later 'scientific' theology, in which methodology comes to the forefront and eschatology nonetheless remains vital.

***** References ***** * References (281)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: McGill University (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): Theology, Torrance, Thomas F. (Thomas Forsyth), Eschatology

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Religious history, Theology

Publication AAT NR66572 Number:

ISBN: 9780494665725

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did=2180459251&Fmt=6&clientId=17454&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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======Document 48 of 50 Africanizing the territory: The history, memory and contemporary imagination of black frontier settlements in the Oklahoma territory Adams, Catherine Lynn. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0118, Part 0296 151 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427488.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation articulates the ways in which black (e)migration to the territorial frontier challenges the master frontier narratives as well as African American migration narratives, and to capture how black frontier settlers and settlements are represented in three contemporary novels. I explore through the lens of cultural geography the racialized landscapes of the real and symbolic American South and the real, symbolic and imaginary black territorial frontier. Borrowing perspectives from cultural and critical race studies, I aim to show the theoretical and practical significance of contemporary literary representations of an almost forgotten historical past.

Chapter I traces the sites of history, memory and imagination in migration and frontier narratives of enslaved and newly freed black people in the Oklahoma Territory. Chapter II addresses an oppositional narrative of masculinity in frontier narratives depicted in Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson. Chapter III examines how the black frontier landscape can be created and recreated across three generations who endure racial threats, violence and the razing of Greenwood during the Tulsa Riot of 1921 in Magic City by Jewell Parker Rhodes. Chapter IV scrutinizes the construction of black frontier subjects and exclusive black communities in Paradise by Toni Morrison.

My dissertation seeks to add to and expand the literary studies of migration and frontier narratives, taking into account two popular novels alongside a more academically recognized novel. The selected novels mobilize very different resources, but collectively offer insights into black frontier identities and

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***** References ***** * References (187)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Thelwell, Ekwueme Michael

Committee members: Smethurst, James, Tracy, Steven C., Higginson, John

School: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department: Afro-American Studies

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Collective consciousness, Cultural landscapes, Frontier, Migration

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Black history, American literature

Publication AAT 3427488 Number:

ISBN: 9781124319476

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did=2200060501&Fmt=6&clientId=17454&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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======Document 49 of 50 House on the ridge: Towards preserving the African American heritage of Greeneville, Tennessee Payne, Cordelia Manuel. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 1414, Part 0296 480 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: Union Institute and University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430549.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation examines a 110-year-old folk style house and the long generational history of the African American family of John Franklin Manuel, which connects the black community of Greeneville, Tennessee to its local and regional Appalachian history. The great age of the house and the meaning of the life ways of an African American family are historically significant because few examples exist of how a black residence evolved over time. The house, continually occupied by a family member since 1900, includes oral histories of their homestead where twelve children once lived and where child number ten still resides. Narratives from both black and white residents engage the local community causing the collective importance of Greeneville's African American history to be valued and built upon. This emerging trend called "story-based preservation" encourages the participation of local residents to share stories important to specific cultures. It allows community involvement in identifying underrepresented properties, districts, and landscapes that move toward historic recognition. The research uses interdisciplinarity and multiple methodologies to combine historic preservation, oral history, vernacular architecture, and the black experience with the history of Greeneville's Jim Crow era. Material culture, photography, ephemera, and oral narratives of Greeneville's senior citizens ages seventy to ninety-five years old tell the story of their community in their own voices. The study advances the scholarship, culture, and experience of African Americans in Southern Appalachia while collectively revealing life in a time, place, and a culture during the Jim Crow south.

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Advisor: Owens, Nancy J.

School: Union Institute and University

School Location: United States -- Ohio

Keyword(s): African-American, Cultural heritage, Greeneville, Tennessee, Historic preservation, Vernacular architecture, Material culture, Oral history, Appalachia

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Black history, Cultural Resources Management, Individual & family studies

Publication AAT 3430549 Number:

ISBN: 9781124299921

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did=2189310631&Fmt=6&clientId=17454&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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======Document 50 of 50 "Anchored in time": The U.S. South as a "place" of gendered racial memory in Ernest J. Gaines's fiction Baker, Chante M.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0323 258 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423034.

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***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Drawing upon discourses emerging from literary studies, gender studies, and American historiography, this dissertation examines the ways in which Ernest J. Gaines situates black men's particular memories of and experiences in the U.S. South as important to their formation of a gendered racial consciousness. Focusing on his 1964 novel, Catherine Carmier, chapter one analyzes how Gaines uses the gendered racial memories of the Carmier family patriarch, Raoul, to dramatize how black Creoles' claims to exclusivity were challenged by demands for group solidarity in 1960s America. Gaines also uses the memories and experiences of other Carmier family members to problematize the idea that issues of blood and southern history are exclusively limiting to one's racial consciousness. Chapter two explores In My Father's House (1978) as a critique of the ideological tensions that existed during the civil rights and black power eras, especially the effectiveness of interracial coalition building and non-violence, and the utility of black militancy as a defense strategy. Interactions between several male characters in the novel illustrate the impact of these debates on constructions of southern black manhood and on African American men's interpersonal relationships. Recognizing Gaines's continued exploration of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements in A Gathering of Old Men (1983), chapter three contends that black men's particular memories of their southern experiences inspire them to redefine the ideological tenets of both eras in redemptive, self-affirming ways. Chapter four consolidates the insights gleaned from the previous chapters, culminating in a discussion of specific sites of African American men's memory, instruction, and transformation within the "place" of the U.S. South in A Lesson Before Dying (1993). Exploring gendered racial memory in Gaines's work not only builds upon existing scholarship on his writings but also provides a useful framework for further discussions of the complexities of black identity presented in African American literature, in general, and in black men's fiction specifically.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Byrd, Rudolph P.

Committee members: Davis Jr., Leroy, Ladd, Barbara

School: Emory University

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Department: Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts

School Location: United States -- Georgia

Keyword(s): American studies, African American studies, African American literature, Black manhood, Louisiana, Southern states, Place in fiction, Civil rights movement in fiction, Gendered racial memory, Gaines, Ernest J., United States

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, American studies, Black studies, American literature

Publication AAT 3423034 Number:

ISBN: 9781124234021

Claiming History, Claiming Rights: Queer Discourses of History and Politics Mazaris, Evangelia. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0323 186 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430067.

The road to Williamsburg: Crafting the career of Arthur A. Shurcliff Cushing, Elizabeth Hope. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0017, Part 0323 813 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430411.

Out of the barn and into a home: Country music's cultural journey from rustic to suburban, 1943--1974

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Hill, Jeremy Colin. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0075, Part 0323 240 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- District of Columbia: The George Washington University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3426203.

Gunslinging justice: Justifiable gun violence in American law and Westerns Joyce, Justin A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0323 190 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431202.

Screening the closet: The discourse of visibility, sexuality, and queer representation in American film and television, 1969--present Kohnen, Melanie E. S.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0323 209 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430137.

"Most brought a little of both": The "Bible" as intertext in Toni Morrison's vision of ancestry and community Mackie, Diane DeRosier. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0118, Part 0323 129 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427553.

Flying the "unfriendly skies": Flight attendant activism, 1964-1982 Maley, Carney. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0017, Part 0323 245 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Massachusetts: Boston University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3430402.

A deeper science: Richard Wright, Dr. Fredric Wertham, and the fight for mental healthcare in Harlem, NY, 1940--1960 Mendes, Gabriel N.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0323 234 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430143.

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Slated for Destruction: Race, Black Radicalism, and the Meaning of Captivity in the Postwar Exceptional State Mirpuri, Anoop. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0323 276 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431724.

Turkish Cosmo girls, soap fans and guitar heroes: Resistive pleasures of Turkish women consuming and producing transnational American popular culture

Onaran, Aslihan Tokgoz. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0323 329 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430072.

Joseph Everett Chandler, Colonial Revival architecture, and the origins of historic preservation in New England Orwig, Timothy T.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0017, Part 0323 726 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430410.

Three essays on emigration and remittances in Nicaragua Osorio Rivas, Rene Tomas. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0017, Part 0501 127 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3430427.

Authentic Arabs, authentic Christians: Antiochian Orthodox and the mobilization of cultural identity Stiffler, Matthew W.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0127, Part 0323 267 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: University of Michigan; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429491.

The dualities of endurance: A collaborative historical archaeology of

105 ethnogenesis at Brothertown, 1780--1910 Cipolla, Craig N.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0175, Part 0324 585 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431108.

Segmented and ascendant chiefdom polity as viewed from the Divers site Freimuth, Glen Alois. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0324 351 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430861.

The Point of the Needle: An Anthropological Study of Childhood Vaccination in the United States Brunson, Emily K.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0326 144 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431516.

The fragility of sobriety: Alcoholism and masculinity in Japan Christensen, Paul A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0085, Part 0326 212 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Hawaii: University of Hawai'i at Manoa; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429725.

La racialisation comme constitution de la difference: Une ethnographie documentaire de la sante publique aux Etats-Unis Cloos, Patrick. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0992, Part 0326 253 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Universite de Montreal (Canada); 2010. Publication Number: AAT NR65786.

The Culture War Over Marriage Equality in Seattle, Washington Johnson, Jessica. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0326 209 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431680.

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The Red International and the Black Caribbean: Transnational Radical Organizations in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919--1939 Stevens, Margaret. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0326 430 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430083.

An ethnography of 'courage' among U.S. Marines Tortorello, Frank J.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0326 319 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430904.

Genetic discrimination: Genealogy of an American problem Childerhose, Janet Elizabeth. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0781, Part 0339 464 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: McGill University (Canada); 2010. Publication Number: AAT NR66431.

The New Negro Flow and the Black Atlantic: The Musical Discourse of the Literary Griots of the Americas Gras, Delphine. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0325 257 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431529.

Mesauring the effect of technological change in health care cost and expenditure Sharma, Krishna P.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0254, Part 0501 166 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: Wayne State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3426096.

Holy mount: Identity, place, religion, and narrative at New Lebanon Shaker Village 1759--1861

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Letourneau, Marcus Reginald. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0283, Part 0366 421 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Queen's University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR65425.

Les biens publics Culture politique de la Louisiane francaise 1730--1770 Dube, Alexandre. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0781, Part 0582 706 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: McGill University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR66438.

Hashavat Avedah: A History of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. Herman, Dana. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0781, Part 0582 393 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: McGill University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR66315.

The cotton crisis: Globalization and empire in the Atlantic world, 1902-- 1920 Robins, Jonathan. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0188, Part 0582 433 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: University of Rochester; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430811.

Black print with a white carnation: Mildred Brown and the "Omaha Star" newspaper, 1938--1989 Forss, Amy Helene. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0138, Part 0328 289 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Nebraska: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427285.

Forward movement? Human rights: U.S. & South Africa persistence of institutional racism Rowser, Candice. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0192, Part 0328 132 pages; [D.A. dissertation].United States -- New York: St. John's University (New York); 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430326.

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For land and liberty: Black territorial separatism in the South, 1776--1904 Sanderfer, Selena Ronshaye. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0242, Part 0328 276 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Tennessee: Vanderbilt University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430745.

Watching the war and keeping the peace: The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in the Middle East, 1949--1956 Theobald, Andrew Gregory. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0283, Part 0333 299 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Queen's University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR65435.

Feral Bodies, Feral Nature: Wild Men in America Anderson, Erik David. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 304 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430046.

Italians, the labor problem, and the project of agricultural colonization in the New South, 1884--1934 Braun, Lauren Hillary. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0337 247 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431217.

Cows in the Commons, Dogs on the Lawn: A History of Animals in Seattle Brown, Frederick L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0337 277 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431517.

Document 1 of 35 Claiming History, Claiming Rights: Queer Discourses of History and Politics Mazaris, Evangelia. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0323 186 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430067.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Rodriguez, Ralph E.

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): LGBT studies, Public history, Rights, Queer, Politics

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, GLBT Studies, Gender studies

Publication AAT 3430067 Number:

ISBN: 9781124305738

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- Massachusetts: Boston University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430411.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Bostonian Arthur Asahel Shurcliff (1870-1957; né Shurtleff) created the supreme example of the American colonial revival landscape, town planning work, and domestic gardens at Colonial Williamsburg beginning in late 1920. Among the first generation of professionally-trained landscape architects in America, Shurcliff became one of the dominant figures of his generation. Based in part upon archives previously unexplored, this dissertation argues for Shurcliff's significance as an educator, a craftsman, and an author, as well as an early town planner and landscape preservationist. The first two chapters of the dissertation depict the early influences in his life, followed by descriptions of his education and training. The third chapter describes the progression of the relationship with his future wife, and the manner in which his own unique personality unfolded. Chapter IV traces the 40-year evolution of the hand- crafted summer house in Ipswich, Massachusetts where the Arts and Crafts ideals at the center of the Shurcliffs' creativity were made manifest. Chapter V focuses on the establishment of his independent practice, and his work in town planning, as well as the design of highways. Shurcliff's public works in the Boston area dominate Chapter VI. Chapter VII follows his work as Chief Landscape Architect at Colonial Williamsburg through the major first phase of its development, 1928-1934. The contention of this dissertation is that all of Shurcliff's early influences, his training, and his experience coalesced in this, his largest and most significant contribution to American landscape history.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Morgan, Keith N.

School: Boston University

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Williamsburg, Shurcliff, Arthur A., Landscape history, Colonial Williamsburg, Planning, Massachusetts, Virginia

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Biographies, American studies, Landscape architecture, Cultural Resources Management

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ISBN: 9781124297248

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======Document 3 of 35 Out of the barn and into a home: Country music's cultural journey from rustic to suburban, 1943--1974 Hill, Jeremy Colin. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0075, Part 0323 240 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- District of Columbia: The George Washington University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3426203.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation examines the country music industry's presence within the Nashville metropolitan area, in tandem with the music's production of ideas about the country, the city, and the suburb, between roughly 1943 and 1974. Country music achieved an unprecedented level of commercial success during this time period, in part I argue, by distancing the music from the rural Southern associations of the genre's past and positioning itself as a modern phenomenon. The story of country music's emergence as a dominant genre of popular music is, at its heart, a story of space and place, a complicated story in which the

112 country music industry increasingly highlighted and justified its distance from the rural country by foregrounding the urban and suburban migrations undertaken by the music's millions of fans. In the process, the country music industry shaped the city of Nashville, helping to create an economy driven by the tourism of cosmopolitan country music fans from around the nation and the globe. In light of these demographic changes, country music figures re-worked spatial tropes to fashion a new country "character" by the mid-1970s, drastically different from the backwoods hillbilly figure associated with the genre three decades before. Fans and performers alike suggested they could stay in touch with the rural past through loving memory while still fully participating in the modern world. As the sonic boundaries of the genre loosened and expanded to include more country-pop hybrids, "country" simultaneously came to mean something more intangible, rooted in traditional values rather than in traditional instrumentation, singing style, or a specifically rural way of life. The success of this transformation ultimately depended on a new understanding of country music's populist language. The industry still aligned with the traditional notion of country as "the music of the people" but subtly shifted the definition of "the people." When the Grand Ole Opry left the downtown Ryman auditorium for suburban Opryland in 1974, citing the dangers of downtown Nashville's "slums" for the Opry's family- oriented fans, country music proved that it understood the stakes of the spatial transformations in postwar American life and produced a mainstream middle-class identity.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Heap, Chad

Committee members: Dent, Alexander, Wald, Gayle, Osman, Suleiman, Pena, Elaine

School: The George Washington University

Department: American Studies

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Keyword(s): Country music, Cultural journey, Rural music, Class, History, Music, Rural, Suburban, Urban

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, American history, Music

Publication AAT 3426203 Number:

ISBN: 9781124265926

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======Document 4 of 35 Gunslinging justice: Justifiable gun violence in American law and Westerns Joyce, Justin A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0323 190 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431202.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Gunslinging Justice examines representations of gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United States. The genre's climactic gun violence has been read as a symbolic opposition between the ideals of "the law" embodied in the 'civilized' American legal system and a putatively more 'savage' justice which resorts to gun violence to resolve disputes. I argue, in fact, that this opposition between

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"the law" and extralegal gun violence is progressively undone in the genre's formulaic shootouts.

While these shootouts may look like a masculine opposition to the codified and mediated American legal system, this gun violence is actually enshrined in the development of American laws regulating self-defense and gun possession. American jurisprudence transformed the English common law obligation to retreat "to the wall" into a far-reaching doctrine of legally justifiable homicide that advocates standing one's ground in self-defense. Viewed in this light, the climactic gun violence of a seminal Western text like Wister's 1902 novel, The Virginian, or the classic 1952 film High Noon, seeks not to oppose "the law," but rather to expand its scope.

My approach to the Western is unique because my research traces the genre in both its literary and cinematic forms and relates the genre's changing representational and iconographic tropes to paradigmatic shifts in the American legal system. My interdisciplinary approach, which seeks to historicize and contextualize the iconographic tropes of the genre across varied cultural and social forms, breaks from psychoanalytic perspectives which have long dominated studies of film and legal discourse and occluded historical contingencies integral to the work cultural forms do in the world. From nineteenth century texts like Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1826) and Reconstruction era dime novels, through early twentieth century works like The Virginian, to classic Westerns and more recent films like Unforgiven (1992), my work looks to the intersections between American law and various media that have enabled a cultural, social, and political acceptance of defensive gun violence that is still with us today.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Wexman, Virginia Wright

School: University of Illinois at Chicago

School Location: United States -- Illinois

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Keyword(s): Westerns, Technology of citizenship, Second Amendment, Sovereignty, Masculinity, Self-defense, Gun violence

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, Law, Film studies

Publication AAT 3431202 Number:

ISBN: 9781124304434

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======Document 5 of 35 Screening the closet: The discourse of visibility, sexuality, and queer representation in American film and television, 1969--present Kohnen, Melanie E. S.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0323 209 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430137.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Joyrich, Lynne

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Visibility, Sexuality, Queer, Film, Television, Media studies, Lee, Ang, Peirce, Kimberly

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, GLBT Studies, Mass communications, Film studies

Publication AAT 3430137 Number:

ISBN: 9781124302416

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======Document 6 of 35 "Most brought a little of both": The "Bible" as intertext in Toni Morrison's vision of ancestry and community Mackie, Diane DeRosier. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0118, Part 0323 129 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427553.

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***** Abstract (Summary) ***** The aim of this dissertation is to explore how and why Toni Morrison employs biblical allusion, biblical names and entire books of the Bible both directly and ironically in order to emphasize the importance of ancestry and community in the lives of African-Americans. Morrison begins in Sula emphasizing the idea that communities that are not cohesive cannot survive. She challenges her readers to question how The Bottom community could have thrived if the people thought of it as more than just a place, but as a group of neighbors who help each other to live and grow. She continues in Song of Solomon with the emphasis not only on community but also on ancestry as identity. When Jake agrees to give up his name, he prevents his descendants from knowing or understanding from where they came. In not knowing their past, they are empty. She culminates her argument in Beloved where she fully emphasizes both community and ancestry with the incarnation of Beloved as the community of all slaves that have gone before. All three novels are heavily laden with biblical allusion that culminate in Morrison's challenge for all not to forget and to let their history lead to a reclamation of ancestry and community.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Carlin, Deborah

Committee members: Skerrett, Joseph T., Berkman, Joyce A.

School: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department: English

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Bible, Ancestry, Biblical intertextuality, Morrison, Toni

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, American literature

Publication AAT 3427553 Number:

ISBN: 9781124320120

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======Document 7 of 35 Flying the "unfriendly skies": Flight attendant activism, 1964-1982 Maley, Carney. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0017, Part 0323 245 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Massachusetts: Boston University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3430402.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation investigates the history of American women flight attendants- -their evolving roles, their fights for labor rights and gender equality, and their key role in the cultural conflict over the depiction of women--from the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 through the early 1980s. This account sheds light on the changing nature of women's work in the late 20 th century and offers a window into the evolution of second wave feminism. In Chapter One, an analysis of the popular culture of the period reveals that representations of flight attendants were pervasive at the height of the feminist movement, obscuring the skilled work that the women performed as well as their own activism in the movement. Chapter Two focuses on flight attendants in the 1960s who initiated a battle against discriminatory practices in the airline industry, including mandatory retirement at age 35, rules forbidding marriage or children, and stringent weight requirements. Employing the strategies of

119 liberal and cultural feminists, flight attendants challenged both the stereotype of the sexy, young, thin "stewardess" and the policies that created and sustained this image.

Chapter Three explores flight attendants' ongoing battles in the 1970s. Although many did not identify themselves as feminists per se , their activism consisted of filing complaints and lawsuits against the airline industry, building coalitions with other women's groups and eventually establishing their own feminist organization, Stewardesses for Women's Rights Chapter Four provides a closer examination of SFWR and the role that it played in the broader feminist movement. Flight attendants occupied a significant position in the history of working women in the United States: while most women were trying to gain entrance to the professional workforce, flight attendants were advocating for the right to have families. The airline industry expected women to follow a traditional trajectory that explicitly limited their "choices." Drawing on advertisements, films, memoirs, women's organizations' materials, court cases, and newspaper articles, this dissertation challenges the negative stereotypes of flight attendants and demonstrates that they played a crucial role in the history of the second wave of the feminist movement.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Schulman, Bruce

School: Boston University

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Flight attendants, Law suits, Women's work, Legal cases, Stewardesses for Women's Rights, Popular culture

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Source type: Dissertation

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Subjects: American studies, Womens studies, Packaging

Publication AAT 3430402 Number:

ISBN: 9781124297170

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======Document 8 of 35 A deeper science: Richard Wright, Dr. Fredric Wertham, and the fight for mental healthcare in Harlem, NY, 1940--1960 Mendes, Gabriel N.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0323 234 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430143.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Campbell, James T.

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Harlem, Wertham, Fredric, Wright, Richard, New York City, Mental health care, Brown v. Board of Education, Race and psychiatry

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Biographies, American studies, Black history, Mental health

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ISBN: 9781124302478

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======Document 9 of 35 Slated for Destruction: Race, Black Radicalism, and the Meaning of Captivity in the Postwar Exceptional State Mirpuri, Anoop. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0323 276 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431724.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation explores the urgent concerns over crime, captivity, and surplus labor in postwar U.S. political discourse and black radical thought, particularly in the wake of civil rights legislation. By the mid-1960s, after years of experiencing the criminalization of black resistance, crime and captivity began to take on new valences within the black freedom movement, contributing to an emerging crisis of state legitimacy and its capacity to punish. The combination of intensified police repression, growing black unemployment, and a broader philosophical concern with the role of prisons in capitalist societies facilitated the emergence of a political and intellectual

122 movement among prisoners, whose primary aim was to challenge the constitutive function of captivity in the formation of U.S. racial capitalism.

Chapter 1, "Black Liberation and the Specter of Confinement," examines how confinement became a critical concept-metaphor for postwar black intellectuals theorizing the modalities of exclusion and state formation across U.S. history. Chapter 2, "Theorizing Black Captivity," explores how the figure of the prisoner in the early 1970s became a symbolic force grounding the critique of the racial-capitalist state. Chapter 3, "'Pouring Water on a Drowning Man,"' shows how the manifestos composed by prisoners in revolt in 1970-71 exposed the dependence of modern punishment on the liberal humanist distinction between "rehabilitation" and violence. Chapter 4, "'Attica is Every Prison,"' turns to the Attica prison revolt in 1971, examining its historical significance in reconstituting the racializing capacities of a post-civil rights U.S. state

I argue that critical attention to the radical prison movement and its critique of racial capitalism revises the tendency to view U.S. prison growth as either a wholly novel phenomenon or as a replication of historical modes of racial exclusion. Rather, the discursive practices of prisoners in revolt help recast U.S. prison growth as an instrument and outcome of post-Keynesian class struggle. At the same time, their critique of the liberal human rights distinction between "rehabilitation" and violence locates today's increasing reliance on extreme forms of bodily disintegration, such as solitary confinement, as a recalibration of a modern history of racial captivity inaugurated by plantation slavery and colonial conquest.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Weinbaum, Alys Eve

School: University of Washington

School Location: United States -- Washington

Keyword(s): Prison, Attica, Neoliberalism, Crime, Incarceration, Rights, Black radicalism, New York

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, American studies, Black studies, Law

Publication AAT 3431724 Number:

ISBN: 9781124325804

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======Document 10 of 35 Turkish Cosmo girls, soap fans and guitar heroes: Resistive pleasures of Turkish women consuming and producing transnational American popular culture Onaran, Aslihan Tokgoz. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0323 329 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430072.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Smulyan, Susan

School: Brown University

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Keyword(s): Resistive pleasures, Women, Popular culture, Media ethnography, Transnational feminism, Turkey, Globalization, Localization

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, Womens studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Mass communications, Gender studies

Publication AAT 3430072 Number:

ISBN: 9781124305783

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======Document 11 of 35 Joseph Everett Chandler, Colonial Revival architecture, and the origins of historic preservation in New England Orwig, Timothy T.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0017, Part 0323 726 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430410.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Previously noted only for restoring such Massachusetts icons as Boston's Paul Revere House and Salem's House of the Seven Gables, Joseph Everett Chandler (1863-1945) appears to have been a central figure in the Colonial Revival, the

125 rediscovery of early American architecture, and the formation of the historic preservation movement. Chandler's books The Colonial Architecture of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia (1892) and The Colonial House (1916) helped establish the canon of early American architecture. Chandler's office files were destroyed, but his personal diaries became public in 2005, revealing a prolific five-decade career of over five hundred consultations and commissions. Besides establishing direct links from the Aesthetic and Arts and Crafts movements to the Colonial Revival, Chandler was a pioneering designer of queer space.

Chapter one examines the ways Chandler's Mayflower family origins, middle-class childhood, and Plymouth itself shaped his character, and how New Englanders asserted regional identity symbolically through Plymouth Rock and then Colonial and Colonial Revival architecture. Chapter two traces Chandler's training at M.I.T.; his apprenticeships with McKim, Mead and White, C. Howard Walker, William Pretyman, Burnham and Root, and Rotch and Tilden; and the origins of his first book within this culture of draftsmen. Chapter three documents his early original architecture from his productive partnership with New London architect George Warren Cole, through his Colonial Revival designs in Plymouth and Greater Boston, to historicist country houses which are early exemplars of queer space. Chapter four documents Chandler's progression from aggressive remodeling to archaeological restorations of historic houses, including townhouses on Boston's Beacon Hill, and the trade in architectural salvage-- even entire houses--for members of the Walpole Society. Chapter five places Chandler's thirty restorations for museums within the larger contexts of historic preservation, the period room, and the outdoor museum; examines the collegial relationships and rivalries among the antiquarians, architects, and preservationists who directed the work; and documents Chandler's encounters with Walter Gropius and Modernism. Under Chandler's direction, the Colonial House became not a closed system, but a Foucauldian heterotopia that allowed queer men, women, and others to explore new identities.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Morgan, Keith N.

School: Boston University

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Keyword(s): Colonial Revival, Architecture, Historic preservation, New England, Chandler, Joseph Everett, Architectural history, American, Arts and crafts, American

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Biographies, American studies, Art history, Cultural Resources Management, Architecture

Publication AAT 3430410 Number:

ISBN: 9781124297231

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======Document 12 of 35 Three essays on emigration and remittances in Nicaragua Osorio Rivas, Rene Tomas. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0017, Part 0501 127 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3430427.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** In this dissertation I assess three aspects of migration, remittances and economic development in Nicaragua.

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Chapter 1 provides a characterization of the Nicaraguans' propensity to migrate in terms of wealth and wage differentials. The evidence indicates that migration costs and credit constraints play a role in impeding poor Nicaraguans from migrating to foreign countries, despite higher wages there. If poorer Nicaraguans emigrate it is largely to Costa Rica where wages and the costs of migration are lower than emigrating to the US, which is largely reserved for wealthier Nicaraguans.

Chapter 2 examines the impact of the possibility of migration and remittances on the schooling of children in Nicaragua. Due to the unskilled jobs that immigrants engage in abroad, it is conceivable that the children left at home might be discouraged from acquiring more education, given the potential for future migration. On the other hand, remittances might alleviate poverty, providing the families with the financial means to afford schooling for their children. On balance, the evidence presented shows children of Nicaraguan families with remitting migrants achieve higher educational attainment than do other children. Moreover, children of families with non-remitting migrants achieve no higher levels of education than children in families without migrants.

Finally, Chapter 3 evaluates the role of wealth, donations, and remittances as possible mechanisms of consumption smoothing in the aftermath of the devastation caused by hurricane Mitch in 1998. These mechanisms are analyzed using two periods of time 1998-1999 (immediately after the hurricane) and 1998- 2001. The evidence suggests that donations responded more quickly to the crisis than did remittances, although those who did receive remittances were better able to maintain their consumption level. There is some evidence that donations were targeted at those most affected by the hurricane, but neither donations nor remittances were able to smooth consumption completely and severe, temporary cuts in living standards are documented.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Lucas, Robert E. B.

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School: Boston University

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Emigration, Remittances, Nicaragua, Hurricane Mitch, Educational attainment, Wealth

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Economics, Latin American Studies

Publication AAT 3430427 Number:

ISBN: 9781124297408

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======Document 13 of 35 Authentic Arabs, authentic Christians: Antiochian Orthodox and the mobilization of cultural identity Stiffler, Matthew W.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0127, Part 0323 267 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: University of Michigan; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429491.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** My dissertation agues that Arab American Christians construct and market a specific Arab cultural identity within the space of the church. I focus on the Antiochian Orthodox Church in the U.S., which is an ancient Christian faith of

129 primarily Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian, and Jordanian adherents. Since establishing churches in the late 1890s, Antiochian Orthodox Christians have become one of the largest Arab Christian communities in the U.S. I trace Antiochian Orthodox Christians' selective participation in U.S. multiculturalism from the historical moment of the celebration of the U.S. Bicentennial in the 1970s through the eight year period following the attacks of September 11th, 2001. I investigate the everyday expressions of religious identity for Arab American Christians, highlighting the significance of religion as a structuring force in the lives of adherents and the cultural identity that they construct. Cultural identity within the space of the church is constructed in relation to events in the homeland (mostly war and humanitarian crisis) and U.S. political and popular culture representations of Arabs that are informed by Orientalist modes of knowledge production. Given this positionality, my work complicates attempts to define Arab American Christians as either "loyal Americans" or "loyal Arabs," as they celebrate a U.S.-based religious and cultural identity, mostly through ethnic food festivals, and engage in transnational politicized action that runs against the grain of popular U.S. political discourses about Arabs and the Middle East.

The chapters are broken up into analyses of cultural identity and its mobilization for politicized action and humanitarian aid (chapter 2), claims to cultural authenticity through the celebration of ethnic food festivals (chapters 3, 4, and 5), and claims to an authentic Holy Land Christianity (chapter 6). My dissertation is based on archival research and an ethnographic project in Greater Detroit, Michigan, home to one of the largest, most diverse populations of Arabs outside of the Middle East.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Naber, Nadine C.

School: University of Michigan

School Location: United States -- Michigan

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Keyword(s): Arab-American, Arab Christians, Cultural identity, Multiculturalism, Ethnic festivals, Antiochian Orthodox, Christian

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Religion, American studies, Cultural anthropology, Ethnic studies

Publication AAT 3429491 Number:

ISBN: 9781124285399

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======Document 14 of 35 The dualities of endurance: A collaborative historical archaeology of ethnogenesis at Brothertown, 1780--1910 Cipolla, Craig N.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0175, Part 0324 585 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431108.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** The Brothertown Indian community formed in the late 18 th century when segments of several tribal groups from coastal northeastern North America broke away from their home settlements to move west together. What united the community was a shared belief in Christianity, a dedication to practices of agriculture, and hopes of escaping the land politics and corrupting influences of colonial

131 culture on the East Coast. This dissertation investigates the ethnogenesis, evolution, and endurance of the Brothertown Indian community from the perspective of collaborative historical archaeology. In doing so, it aims to reassess theories of culture, identity, and discourse in the modern postcolonial world, and to incorporate archaeological data into the study of Brothertown history. In order to accomplish these goals, this dissertation analyzes historical documents, cemeteries, and settlement patterns using theories of practice and pragmatics. The results of these analyses reveal the ways in which several tribal groups joined together to form a new type of Native community and negotiate colonial politics, specifically the roles that linguistic, material culture, and spatial discourses played in these processes. Certain discourses challenged dominant schemes of social classification, obfuscating categories such as "Indian" and "White," but also had pragmatic impacts within the Brothertown community that shaped memory processes, conceptions of personhood and identity, and overall communal structures. This study concludes that instances of ethnogenesis hinge upon insiders and outsiders continually negotiating social boundaries via words, things, and spaces. It rejects dichotomous frameworks of cultural change that classify materials and practices solely in terms of their origins for more complex considerations of the longterm, pragmatic results of such entanglements.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Preucel, Robert

School: University of Pennsylvania

School Location: United States -- Pennsylvania

Keyword(s): Brothertown Indians, Native American, Social archaeology, Archaeological theory, Historical archaeology, Ethnogenesis

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

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Subjects: Archaeology, American history, Native American studies

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======Document 15 of 35 Segmented and ascendant chiefdom polity as viewed from the Divers site Freimuth, Glen Alois. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0324 351 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430861.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This study contributes to our understanding of the nature of political control exerted by the Mississippian Cahokia polity over small rural villages in the southern American Bottom. Currently two models, which I call the Segmented and Ascendant Chiefdoms, respectively, provide contrasting explanations of the nature and amount of Cahokia control over rural villages. I examine the fit of these models against archaeological data from the Divers and other regional sites. The analyses range over several main topics, including populations, labor requirements, nonlocal artifacts, provisioning, and rituals.

I find that the archaeological patterns expressed at the Divers site best fit a Segmented Chiefdom model wherein political control is decentralized and rural villages retain a high degree of political autonomy. Cahokia, as the American Bottom's main Mississippian town, has the largest population, physical size,

133 elite status items, and monumental construction which I describe as material domination and political dominance. Political dominance requires manipulation of local leaders and their followers for political and social control and this manipulation was expressed through ritual materials and rituals performed at Cahokia and other mound towns. The Cahokia elite created new rituals and associated material expressions through collective action and attempted to gain control of existing commoner ritual performances and symbols but these and political autonomy largely remained with the commoners who occupied small villages like Divers.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Lewis, R. Barry

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Cahokia, Divers site, Mississippian, American Bottom, Illinois, Chiefdom

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Archaeology

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======Document 16 of 35 The Point of the Needle: An Anthropological Study of Childhood Vaccination in the United States Brunson, Emily K.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0326 144 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431516.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Childhood vaccination is an important public health issue; it is also an important social issue. The practice of childhood vaccination has a rich history in the United States. Because the widespread acceptance of vaccination is considered essential to disease prevention, childhood vaccination is currently enforced by law in every state. However, in spite of this, and in spite of evidence supporting its efficacy, childhood vaccination remains a controversial practice. It is a topic that is debated by spouses, friends, neighbors, health care providers and government officials. It is discussed on TV news programs, in books and on the internet. It is an issue that literally affects every person living in the U.S. today. This dissertation seeks to examine childhood vaccination in light of this social context. Using a combination of in-depth qualitative interviews, an online social network survey, ethnographic methods and evaluations of the existing literature, this research addresses four primary questions: How do parents make decisions about their children's vaccinations? What role do social networks play in parents' decision-making processes? How do larger social, political and economic factors influence the type of decisions parents make as well as the vaccination outcomes their children receive? And ultimately, why do children in the U.S. end up with the vaccination outcomes that they do? The results of this research suggest that childhood vaccination is a complex issue. Parents' vaccination decisions are influenced by parents' own backgrounds, including their perceptions of vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases; the people they speak to about vaccination; the non-human sources of information they consult; existing vaccination laws and exemptions to these laws; as well as parents' own

135 positions within U.S. social structure. While children's vaccination outcomes are intimately related to their parents' vaccination decisions, this research also suggests that larger social, political and economic factors play a role in determining whether children are vaccinated or not.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Shell-Duncan, Bettina

School: University of Washington

School Location: United States -- Washington

Keyword(s): Childhood vaccination, Vaccines, Grounded theory, Structural violence, Parental decision-making, Social network analysis

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Cultural anthropology, Public health

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ISBN: 9781124314228

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======Document 17 of 35 The fragility of sobriety: Alcoholism and masculinity in Japan Christensen, Paul A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0085, Part 0326 212 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Hawaii: University of Hawai'i at Manoa; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429725.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation argues that alcoholism in Japan challenges established masculine gender norms of drinking and homosociality, placing Japanese men who identify as alcoholics in a struggle between medicalized conceptions of sobriety/recovery and societal expectations. The prevailing definitions of alcoholism advocated by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Danshukai (Sobriety Association), the largest sobriety organizations in Japan, constrict the possible recovery outcomes while limiting membership through adherence to an ideology rooted in confession, surrender, and admissions of powerlessness to a "Higher Power." The result is a community of primarily men that exist in marginalia, frequently unable to openly identify as alcoholics and in a limiting social position as a result of their sobriety. While some alcoholics have transcended these constraints and strongly advocate for AA or Danshukai as organizations that saved their lives, others express frustration, anxiety, and even misery at the unrealized "spiritual awakenings" that are said to accompany sobriety.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Yano, Christine

School: University of Hawai'i at Manoa

School Location: United States -- Hawaii

Keyword(s): Japan, Alcoholism, Recovery, Masculinity, Sobriety

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Subjects: Cultural anthropology

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======Document 18 of 35 La racialisation comme constitution de la difference: Une ethnographie documentaire de la sante publique aux Etats-Unis Cloos, Patrick. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0992, Part 0326 253 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Universite de Montreal (Canada); 2010. Publication Number: AAT NR65786.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** At present one can note an intensification of the usage of race in public health in the United States, an idea that is sometimes rejected because of its association with controversial practices. Races are viewed, in this context, as the product of racism, a technology of power of the modern State that consisted of fragmenting humanity to permit colonisations. Thus, race has been established within the discourse to mark difference , discourse that consists of a heterogeneous ensemble of apparatuses, institutions, scientific statements, norms and rules. Racism developed concomitantly with the affirmation of power over life aimed at ruling out bodies and populations through public health practices among others. This thesis is based on an ethnographic study of a corpus of public health documents in the United States

138 from federal Government offices and a major public health journal published between 2001 and 2009. This study analyzed the ways in which race is represented, produced as object of knowledge, and regulated by discursive practices in these documents.

The results confirm that the discourse on race varies throughout time. Hence, results indicate the relative permanence of a racialized regime of representation that consists of identifying, situating and opposing subjects and groups based on standardized labels. This regime constitutes an ensemble of representational practices which, together with disciplinary techniques and the use of culture as an idea, lead to the characterization and formation of racialized objects and stereotypes. Also, these operations that fabricate racialization, tend, together with medicalization and culturalization, to naturalize difference , reproduce the symbolic order, and constitute racial identities. On the other hand, racialization appears to be torn between a power over life and a power over death. Finally, this study suggests a post-racial alternative that envisages human group constitution as fluid and deterritorialized.

Keywords : racialization, race, medicalization, ethnography, public health, discourse, power, representation, postcolonialism, United States.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: Universite de Montreal (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): Racialization, Public health, Medicalization, Postcolonialism

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Source type: Dissertation

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======Document 19 of 35 The Culture War Over Marriage Equality in Seattle, Washington Johnson, Jessica. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0326 209 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431680.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Since 2004, the legalization of gay marriage has been passionately debated in town halls, courtrooms, and the Legislature of Washington State. My dissertation complicates polarizing headlines pitting evangelicals versus gays. I investigate the cultural practices that infuse identity politics on both sides of the same-sex marriage debate to ask how the affect generated by this "culture war" conflict at the grassroots level supersedes "family values" platforms and demands for state recognition. While providing a fuller portrait of the theological and political convictions of conservative evangelicals and gay rights activists battling over "marriage equality," I analyze how innovations in visual and new media are shifting their mobilization tactics "on the ground." Throughout my dissertation, I query how and why marriage is privileged as the institutional site through which U.S. citizens can achieve equality, legitimacy, freedom, and protection today. Unlike most polemical, legal, and historical accounts of the U.S. "culture war" over "marriage equality," my study suggests that both sides of this conflict participate as

140 co-constitutive "instruments and effects" of governance technologies shaping and shaped by neoliberal socio-economic transformations. My interdisciplinary project integrates ethnographic and cultural studies research to propose that shifts in mobilization strategies among church congregations and activist organizations reinforce and transgress "domestic" boundaries of the national and familial in ways irreducible to "for" or "against" polarizations.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Anagnost, Ann

School: University of Washington

School Location: United States -- Washington

Keyword(s): Culture war, Gay rights, Marriage equality, Identity politics, Emerging church, Governmentality, Washington

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Religion, Cultural anthropology

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======Document 20 of 35 The Red International and the Black Caribbean: Transnational Radical Organizations in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919--1939 Stevens, Margaret. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0326 430 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430083.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Bogues, Barrymore

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Red International, Black Caribbean, New York City, Mexico, West Indies, Radical organizations

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Cultural anthropology, Black history, Latin American history, Caribbean Studies

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======Document 21 of 35 An ethnography of 'courage' among U.S. Marines Tortorello, Frank J.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0326 319 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430904.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This is a theoretical and ethnographic study of conceptions of "courage" among combat infantry, specifically U.S. Marines. U.S. infantry combat soldiers conceive of the cultural value courage in its many manifestations and formulations. I maintain that courage manifests itself in both vocal signs, as directly or indirectly referenced spoken discourses, and in action signs, as a way of moving in a semantically-laden enactment space. In its many formulations within Western thought, courage has been understood primarily as the product of psychobiological or instinctive forces. In contrast, I shall argue it is best understood as an expressed cultural and personal value.

The study aims to contribute new knowledge to an American subculture almost entirely neglected by anthropologists: modern American combat infantry. A unique focus of this project is to argue for a conception of courage as a moved value performed by dynamically embodied persons rather than a reified entity. For example, while many Americans can readily appreciate that Japanese Geisha move in very distinctive ways, and acknowledge that those ways of moving are cultural, that is, value-driven, the distinctive movements of American infantry soldiers, both in terms of their cultural origins and as expressions of cultural values, are masked by the wide and deeply-held American value of utility and its long historical deployment in warfare. In other words such

143 movements are viewed as merely practical in function and efficient in their execution, without links to moral, ethical, gendered, racial, or other cultural values. This invisibility coupled with a Western academic preference for explanatory resources that reify and render mysterious the source of personal action, makes courage as a moved value almost inconceivable.

To see courage according to this new formulation requires special theoretical resources, most notably an agent-centered theory of human movement, provided in the work of linguistic and socio-cultural anthropologists Drid Williams and Brenda Farnell (referred to as semasiology ). It also requires a robust conception of agent causality applicable to the social sciences emerging from a critical realist philosophy of science as found in the work of the philosopher of science Rom Harré and the philosopher of social science Charles Varela.

The position taken in this dissertation is that courage among American combat infantry is best understood as an idiom of body movement and the expression of cultural values made manifest in the highly detailed and nuanced social situations generated in training and on a battlefield. A battlefield per se, and as a value-laden context, is the joint creation of persons engaged in a certain kind of embodied talk. I argue that training for battle can be captured in the phrase "domesticated combat." By this phrase I mean that certain key performative and contextual variables are controlled, but never entirely so, in the training context. To the extent that training replicates key factors faced by infantry on the battlefield is the extent to which courageous action can be trained. The term "courage," at least as it is used in the United States, will be shown to be an abstract placeholder whose meaning is inseparable from specific semiotic practices of combat infantry in particular contexts. For combat infantry, specifically U.S. Marines, courage will be shown to consist in the selfless pursuit of prized cultural values in situations of moral and physical risk. This study is based on over sixty individual and group, formal and informal interviews with combat and non-combat veterans from World War II through Operation Iraqi Freedom II and beyond. These interviews are complemented by participant-observation in two seven-week training courses with active duty Marines during the summers of 2007 and 2008.

This study makes two contributions to anthropological understanding. It provides new ethnographic knowledge of an academically neglected and misunderstood American community, and applies, and develops further special

144 theoretical resources within socio-cultural and linguistic anthropology that preserve and foreground embodied human agency and action. In other words, while this project is important for the empirical reason that few studies focus on modern Western combat soldiers, and none at all utilize an 'anthropology of human movement' approach, it is also important for the theoretical reason that it offers a conception of the relationship of biology and culture that is grounded scientifically, and so gives a plausible account of that relationship in the service of a proper representation of dynamically embodied persons living culturally. Failing to ground ethnographic interpretation in a plausible account of the relationship between biology and culture promotes the replacement of the meaning of actors with those of the researcher. As a result opinion often masquerades as insight and advocacy often becomes partisanship.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Farnell, Brenda

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Warfare, Combat, U.S. Marines, United States, Marines, Ethnography, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, Violence, Courage

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Religion, Philosophy, Cultural anthropology, Military studies

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======Document 22 of 35 Genetic discrimination: Genealogy of an American problem Childerhose, Janet Elizabeth. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0781, Part 0339 464 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: McGill University (Canada); 2010. Publication Number: AAT NR66431.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Genetic discrimination has been transformed from an isolated concern of a handful of professionals into a pressing civil rights and public policy problem in the United States over the last twenty years. My dissertation is a genealogical account of how genetic discrimination has been shaped into a problem of this stature. It answers two questions: Where did the problem come from? How has the problem changed over time?

In Part One, I trace the history of concerns about discrimination from the 1970s to the present. Drawing from oral histories with key actors and organizations that shaped early public understanding of the problem, I show that concerns about genetic discrimination originated in diverse practices. These practices include workplace genetic screening, insurer discrimination against individuals with AIDS, the rapid commercialization of genetic tests in the 1980s, and health care reform.

In Part Two, I present findings from a three-year ethnographic study of public policy hearings on genomic medicine in the United States that illustrate how new actors have been defining the problem of genetic discrimination since 1995. The hearings of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society were a site where participants legitimized genetic discrimination as a civil rights problem and developed lobbying tools to persuade Congress to pass

146 federal nondiscrimination legislation. Participants framed fear of discrimination as a barrier to the nation's scientific progress and a significant threat to the lives of Americans.

I use the construct of genomic citizenship to draw out claims about the rights and duties of Americans in contemporary discourse on genetic discrimination. Passing federal nondiscrimination legislation is one way in which the civil rights of Americans appear to be expanding, while their responsibilities to act genetically are increasing. Advocates of nondiscrimination legislation, who use the language of genetic defect to argue that everyone is vulnerable to discrimination, geneticize all Americans by enrolling them into the biosociality of the flawed, transparent genome, with attendant duties. What these advocates do not also champion is the right of Americans to refuse to think or act genetically.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: McGill University (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): Genetic discrimination, Civil rights, Genomics, Biopolics

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, Medical anthropology, Science history

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======Document 23 of 35 The New Negro Flow and the Black Atlantic: The Musical Discourse of the Literary Griots of the Americas Gras, Delphine. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0325 257 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431529.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation investigates the role of music in twentieth-century literature of the Americas. More precisely, it expands the concept of the New Negro Renaissance in terms of time, place, and language. Previous studies have diminished the geographical and temporal extent of this defining moment, locating it in Harlem, starting in 1919 with the end of WWI and the Great Migration, and ending with the 1930 Great Depression. This project departs from this traditional account, demonstrating that what is usually perceived as a North American phenomenon was, in fact, international from its inception. Paying particular attention to the United States and the Caribbean, it examines what I call "The New Negro Flow," which I see as representing the discussion occurring during the first half of the twentieth century between places in the Americas where there had been a large transplanted Black population. Since it is not fled to one geographical location or nation, the concept of flow does not restrict the movement in terms of time and place. In contrast to established terms such as "Harlem Renaissance" or "New Negro Renaissance," the New Negro Flow points to the possibility for a dialogue, rather than a set discourse, where many views diverged on the role of art and on race, while also converging in the importance attributed to music. Indeed, throughout the African Diaspora, writers like the North American W. E. B. Du Bois, the Cuban Nicolas Guillén, and the Martinican Aimé Césaire have used music to retain Africanisms, sustain a sense of belonging, adjust to urban life, provide subversive historical accounts, and encourage uprisings. Upholding the role of

148 the African griot --a musical historian, praise-singer, and warrior--and adapting it to a set of new circumstances, they are what I call "literary griots." Merging literature and music-- the American spirituals, the French Creole biguine, or the Cuban son --the New Negro Flow was the first large-scale movement to theorize the social power of music for the African Diaspora, marking the first half of the twentieth century as a watershed period for the definition of Black modernity in the Americas.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Butler, Johnnella, Steele, Cynthia

School: University of Washington

School Location: United States -- Washington

Keyword(s): Harlem Renaissance, African diaspora, Negritude, Francophone, Latin America, Negrista, Black Atlantic

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Comparative literature, Black studies, Caribbean literature, American literature

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======Document 24 of 35 Mesauring the effect of technological change in health care cost and expenditure Sharma, Krishna P.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0254, Part 0501 166 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: Wayne State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3426096.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Technological change has a major role in driving up health care cost and expenditure. Yet we are not fully able to know the extent to which technological change affects cost and expenditure and the way new technologies enter the cost or expenditure functions. This paper uses historical data of US elderly males to see how health care spending associated with prostate cancer treatment behaves over time. Understanding the extent and mechanism by which a new technology actually translates into higher cost are main objectives of this study.

Study design, data and organization of the report: This study uses a retrospective research design with observational historical data. The subjects are Medicare enrolled individuals aged 65 or above who were diagnosed with prostate cancer from 1991 to 2002. SEER Medicare-linked database is used in the study. In Chapter 2, I present a long run view of health care spending growth. Spending associated with prostate cancer care was calculated by diagnosis, diagnosis and treatment and method of treatment status. Chapter 3 uses outcome as a single measure of technological change. Prostate cancer caused death rate is used as the key outcome in this regard. The last key chapter is Chapter 4, which is focused on the two innovations in external beam radiation therapy. Of main interest is whether the incremental spending caused by new treatments grows over time. Two innovations in radiation therapy, 3D-CRT and IMRT, are examined.

Major findings and conclusions: The average first year incremental spending following an individual's diagnosis of prostate cancer increased from $31,000 in 1993 to $66,000 in 2002, which is 113%. The increase in expenditure associated with the diagnosis and treatment was from $48,018 to $85,267 (80%)

150 during the same period. The findings suggest a substantial increase in health care expenditure that is explained by the changes in prostate cancer care during the study period. If all changes are loosely defined as technological changes, then technological change in the first year of prostate cancer care alone contributed about 100 percent increase in expenditure in 10 years' period. There were more substantial changes in treatment options than in overall care. Among treatment options, surgery saw the highest and the fastest growth of spending.

The estimates using the death rate as a proxy measure of technological change show that the cost per patient would add to $19,055 for the entire decline in death rate caused by prostate cancer. It also meant avoiding one prostate cancer related death in the 65 and older age group would cost $185,000 in the first year of care only. The findings imply that avoiding a death from PCa gave about 7 additional life years in the period. The first year cost of additional life year from this perspective is about $26,000.

Finally, estimates show that one year average costs were $8,627 and $11,836 higher than SRT for 3D-CRT and 3D-CRT and IMRT combined respectively. Similarly, two year cost differentials were $12,242 and $14,724 higher for 3D- CRT and 3D-CRT and IMRT combined respectively. The findings show that incremental spending of 3D-CRT rose consistently for a certain period before it started subsiding. Estimates that included both 3D-CRT and IMRT show that incremental spending did not subside but kept increasing after IMRT was introduced. It is found that the incremental cost of new technology rises as the acceptance of that technology gains momentum. This suggests that technology also enters cost and expenditure functions through the strategic plans of health care providers, primarily hospitals. Therefore the role of new technologies to drive up cost and spending at least partly depends on the technology adoption behavior of the health care providers, such as who adopts the new technology first.

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School: Wayne State University

Department: Economics

School Location: United States -- Michigan

Keyword(s): Cost, Expenditure, Healthcare, Innovation, Medical, Technology

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Economics

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======Document 25 of 35 Holy mount: Identity, place, religion, and narrative at New Lebanon Shaker Village 1759--1861 Letourneau, Marcus Reginald. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0283, Part 0366 421 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Queen's University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR65425.

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***** Abstract (Summary) ***** While the Shakers are associated in North American with simplicity and communalism, an examination of Shaker history reveals a dynamic and complex society. Shaker life was structured by a powerful metanarrative: the Shakers were the 'Chosen People of God,' who lived in 'His Promised Land.' This narrative, which is profoundly geographical due to its intertwining of people with place, was not static in its interpretation. Nevertheless, it served as the basis for the discourses concerning the most appropriate means to live in the World, but not be of it. Few geographers have examined religiosity and spirituality systematically. This research highlights the interaction between religiosity, identity, place, and narrative as an essential element of the human condition. Religiosity is expressed through narratives and rituals and buttresses a sense of identity and belonging in place. Particular expressions of the Shaker covenantal narrative were shaped by the places in which the Shakers existed. This work examines the Shaker experience at New Lebanon Shaker Village (New York) focusing on the antebellum period. It examines the context in which the Shakers existed, the shifts in the interpretations of the Shaker covenantal narratives, and the means by which the Shaker leadership disseminated their ideas.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: Queen's University (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): Identity, Place, Religion, New Lebanon Shaker Village, New York

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Religion, Geography

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======Document 26 of 35 Les biens publics Culture politique de la Louisiane francaise 1730--1770 Dube, Alexandre. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0781, Part 0582 706 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: McGill University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR66438.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation aims at exploring how political objects could be created during the Ancien Régime - whether qualified as French or Atlantic. By following the lines drawn by a specific colonial scandal, the Affaire de la Louisiane, it appears possible to discover the figure of the State, delineated by the often seamless transitions from narratives to physical oppositions, from the trivially material to the ethereally ideal.

Beginning with an interrogation on the nature of the sources which made such constructs possible, then as now, this dissertation then moves towards a study of the ways in which administrators of a French colony could define simultaneously the conditions of their obedience to the King's will, as well as their beliefs in a Common Good. These conditions could not, however, be divorced from the specific context of the Mississippi Valley. There, the old practices of the Company of the Indies left the King (or the State) in a position where it was felt required to intervene, albeit reluctantly, in the commercial realm. Through these aggregated actions which made the King a

154 regulator, a trader, or a retailer, the State became an important issue of Louisiana's political life. Therefore, this dissertations nuances recent interpretations which purported to make a certain rejection of the State, an inherent characteristic of French Louisiana.

Louisiana's political life, as described, was one that could pretend to include few actors. Yet it required at the very least spectators, and nurtured in turn reflections upon the nature and exercise of authority. In so doing, the Affaire de la Louisiane necessarily asks the question of distance and similarities. By exploring the notion of interest as the driving force behind action, colonial administrators - and some ordinary colonial "thinkers" - could devise ways in which frontiers and limits could be drawn to a kind of authority which seemed, in the end, uncomfortably close to the pretensions of the French absolute monarchy.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: McGill University (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): France, Louisiana, Colonial, Political objects

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: European history, American history, Modern history

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======Document 27 of 35 Hashavat Avedah: A History of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. Herman, Dana. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0781, Part 0582 393 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: McGill University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR66315.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This thesis is an institutional history of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc. (JCR), an organization mandated by the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) to assume trusteeship over heirless Jewish cultural property that had been plundered by the Nazis and later centralized in depots in the American Zone of Germany in the wake of the Second World War. Formally established in 1947, until 1951 JCR functioned as the cultural arm of the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization (JRSO) and distributed hundreds of thousands of books, thousands of ceremonial objects, and Torah scrolls to Jewish communities around the world including the United States, Israel, West Germany, Britain, and Canada. Looking beyond its mandated mission, JCR was also involved in searching for caches of Jewish property in the Allied zones, microfilming manuscripts and archives in German public institutions, and negotiating the enactment of West German legislation to safeguard future discoveries of Jewish property.

Salo Baron, professor of Jewish history at Columbia University, was JCR's founder and president; many of the foremost Jewish intellectuals of the day, including Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, and Leo Baeck were associated with it. This study of JCR sheds light on numerous topics, not the least of which is the political activities of Jewish academics in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Further, the internecine struggles among Jewish organizations over which group best represented world Jewry as trustee of this property is highlighted along with the development of JCR from a research commission to a U.S.-recognized

156 supervisory body. JCR's interactions with the State and War departments as well as with the American military government in Germany add to the discussion of Jewish influence during this period. The examination of JCR's activities in the American zone between 1948 and 1951 serves to underscore the diligent work that was carried out, but also the less than ideal conditions in which this work was done. The distribution process undertaken by JCR and its member organizations emphasizes the debate surrounding what it meant to culturally reconstruct the Jewish world after the Holocaust. Finally, a discussion of JCR's very limited activities, from 1952 to 1977 when it was finally dissolved, underscores the difficulties inherent in maintaining a relevant rationale and function in an ever-changing political landscape.

***** References ***** * References (616)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: McGill University (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): Jewish Cultural Reconstruction, Inc, Office of Military Government, United States, Jewish cultural property, Jewish Restitution Successor Organization

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Modern history, Judaic studies

Publication AAT NR66315 Number:

ISBN: 9780494663158

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======Document 28 of 35 The cotton crisis: Globalization and empire in the Atlantic world, 1902--1920 Robins, Jonathan. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0188, Part 0582 433 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: University of Rochester; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430811.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation examines the end of the wave of globalization that connected the Atlantic world and then the rest of the globe over the course of the nineteenth century. It focuses on the cotton industry, one of the main engines of the unprecedented growth witnessed in that period. While conventional accounts of the cotton industry convey the image of an "Indian summer" for the cotton trade and the global system in the decade before 1914, this dissertation shows that the period was in fact marked by crisis.

Cotton brokers cornered the American supply of cotton between 1902 and 1904, paralyzing the world's textile manufacturers. In Lancashire, the biggest cotton textile center in the world, capitalists and workers turned to the British Empire for a new source of cotton. The British Cotton Growing Association promised to bring economic development to Britain's African colonies and stability to Lancashire's cotton industry, but its free-market model collapsed in the face of apathy in Lancashire, resistance to cotton growing in Africa, and fluctuating world prices for cotton. The British colonial state discarded the BCGA's for-profit development model after the First World War, but colonial officials kept many of the association's coercive tools and techniques, paving the way for a century of failed colonial and postcolonial development policies.

On the other side of the Atlantic, American farmers used the cotton crisis to organize, reviving the populist campaigns of the last century. Hoping to permanently tilt the terms of trade in favor of cotton growers, these cotton populists proposed a range of amibitous reforms and initiatives. Their programs

158 also failed, and like the BCGA, government moved in to play the central role in agrarian development.

Caught between the farmers and the colonial cotton campaign was the International Cotton Federation, a trade group formed in response to the initial cotton supply crisis. The ICF tried to bring international governance to the cotton industry, and while its leaders successfully reformed several key institutions of the cotton trade, they failed to establish a binding, international framework to regulate the flow of cotton growing and cotton textile manufacturing.

The First World War emphatically demonstrated the need for change in the cotton industry while showing the shortcomings of all three of these private-sector iniatives. By the 1920s, all three efforts to change the structure of the global cotton industry had failed, and leaders in the cotton industry embraced state solutions to solve the same lingering international problems.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Engerman, Stanley L.

School: University of Rochester

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): Cotton, Lancashire, Atlantic world, Africa, British Empire, International organizations

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: European history, American history, World History, Economic history, Modern history

Publication AAT 3430811 Number:

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ISBN: 9781124303574

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======Document 29 of 35 Black print with a white carnation: Mildred Brown and the "Omaha Star" newspaper, 1938--1989 Forss, Amy Helene. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0138, Part 0328 289 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Nebraska: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427285.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This study examines and analyzes the life and times of Mildred Dee Brown, the co-founder of the Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by a black woman in the United States. Her story dates from the nineteenth-century era of Reconstruction and Jim Crow, to the twentieth century's Great Migration, World Wars I and II, the Red Scare, the civil rights and black power movements, desegregation and urban renewal. Brown's strong family background, her deliberate involvement with the black community in Omaha, Nebraska, usage of the politics of respectability, knowledge through practical application and formal education, community collective activism, racial solidarity, and ability to change strategies, ensured her status and her weekly's longevity in the city's black enclave. During Brown's fifty-one year tenure as the owner, editor, and publisher of the Omaha Star, she successfully challenged racial discrimination, unfair employment practices, restrictive housing covenants, the public segregated school system and a freeway dividing the minority neighborhood. The Near North Side's matriarch, with her trademark white carnation corsage, became an iconic leader while her legacy, the Omaha Star newspaper, continues as a source of racial uplift for black Omaha residents.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Jacobs, Margaret D.

Committee members: Borstelmann, Thomas, Norton, Will, Mahoney, Timothy R.

School: The University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Department: History

School Location: United States -- Nebraska

Keyword(s): Omaha Star, Nebraska, Brown, Mildred, Black press, Black, Journalist, Newspaper, Omaha, Publisher, Woman

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Biographies, Black history, American history, Journalism

Publication AAT 3427285 Number:

ISBN: 9781124312071

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======Document 30 of 35 Forward movement? Human rights: U.S. & South Africa persistence of

161 institutional racism Rowser, Candice. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0192, Part 0328 132 pages; [D.A. dissertation].United States -- New York: St. John's University (New York); 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430326.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** In this essay I argue that looking at the issues of black Americans and black South Africans through the human rights paradigm is more appropriate than civil rights. Civil rights fall under the human rights category, but it is more powerful to say that a violation of rights on the basis of humanity is stronger. Even with the progress made in the United States since the Civil Rights Movement and Apartheid struggle in South Africa, blacks in both countries continue to experience violations of their rights. South Africa's usage of the United States as a model for human rights culture must be reconsidered because the U.S.'s human rights record is tarnished. I demonstrate examples of abuses of rights that fall under the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights category for both black populations.

***** References ***** * References (197)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Germain, Felix

School: St. John's University (New York)

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): Human rights, South Africa, Institutional racism, African American history, Race, United States

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Black history, African history, American history, Modern history

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ISBN: 9781124296425

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======Document 31 of 35 For land and liberty: Black territorial separatism in the South, 1776--1904 Sanderfer, Selena Ronshaye. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0242, Part 0328 276 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Tennessee: Vanderbilt University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430745.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

***** References ***** * References (180)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Blackett, Richard

School: Vanderbilt University

School Location: United States -- Tennessee

Keyword(s): Colonization, Emigration, Black nationalism, Social movements

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Black history, American history, Social structure

Publication AAT 3430745 Number:

ISBN: 9781124311760

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======Document 32 of 35 Watching the war and keeping the peace: The United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) in the Middle East, 1949--1956 Theobald, Andrew Gregory. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0283, Part 0333 299 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Queen's University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR65435.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** By virtue of their presence, observers alter what they are observing. Yet, the international soldiers of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) did much more than observe events. From August 1949 until the establishment of the United Nations Emergency Force in November 1956, the Western military officers assigned to UNTSO were compelled to take seriously the task of supervising the Arab-Israeli armistice, despite the unwillingness of all parties to accept an actual peace settlement. To the extent that a particular peacekeeping mission was successful--i.e., that peace was "kept"-- what actually happened on the ground is usually considered far less important

164 than broader politics. However, as efforts to forge a peace settlement failed one after another, UNTSO operations themselves became the most important mechanism for regional stability, particularly by providing a means by which otherwise implacable enemies could communicate with each other, thus helping to moderate the conflict.

This communication played out against the backdrop of the dangerous early days of the Cold War, the crumbling of Western empires, and the emergence of the nonaligned movement. Analyses of the activities of the Mixed Armistice Commissions (MACs), the committees created to oversee the separate General Armistice Agreements signed between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, particularly those during the 1954 to 1956 tenure as UNTSO chief of staff of Canadian Major-General E. L. M. Burns, best evaluate both UNTSO effectiveness and Arab-Israeli interaction.

***** References ***** * References (135)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: Queen's University (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): United Nations Truce Supervision Organization, Middle East, Truce, Peacekeeping, Arab-Israeli armistice

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Middle Eastern history, Peace Studies, International Relations

Publication AAT NR65435 Number:

ISBN: 9780494654354

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======Document 33 of 35 Feral Bodies, Feral Nature: Wild Men in America Anderson, Erik David. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 304 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430046.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

***** References ***** * References (340)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Jacoby, Karl

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Environmentalism, Insanity, Folklore, Wild man, Feral, Body

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, American history, Folklore

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ISBN: 9781124305394

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======Document 34 of 35 Italians, the labor problem, and the project of agricultural colonization in the New South, 1884--1934 Braun, Lauren Hillary. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0337 247 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431217.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation examines a unique transnational experiment to change labor patterns in the cotton producing South. Building upon region-wide efforts launched in the 1880s, beginning in 1894, a group of wealthy Southern landowners appealed to the Italian government to send farmers as part of an effort to reapportion the distribution of land in the South. These landowners offered portions of their plantations to be claimed by incoming Italian colonists. Plantation owners actively designed a program to give away their land to new immigrants because they expected that permanently settled Italians would alleviate the 19 th century post-emancipation "labor problem" -- a perception amongst whites that newly mobile blacks were no longer a "reliable" labor source. Ironically, the experiment's reliance on the Italian government made solving the labor problem more complicated as the government's representatives gave power to these new settlers not available to native-born workers.

White southern landowners led by LeRoy Percy, Hugh MacRae, Charles Scott and

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Austin Corbin, Italian peasants, and their government fashioned a project for colonization in the South between 1884 and 1934. Over time, the labor contract and its terms became the arena for conflict between the contradictory forces embodied in what began as an elite-controlled land reform program but had, in the process, given voice and a defined sense of rights to these small farmers living in the Arkansas Delta.

This dissertation draws out the tension between ethnic Italians and white Southerners' understandings of farm labor and the planter-tenant relationship, conflict that determined the structure of the Italian labor project at its most critical site, Sunnyside Plantation, Arkansas. When charges of peonage charges came to light, powerful allies in the Italian government championed the emigrants' cause. These allies had their own vested interest in the establishment of a permanent, thriving settlement outside of Italy and in the cultivation of italianità, or italianness. This dissertation tells the story of how a small group of white southerners tried to solve the post-emancipation labor problem by reaching across the Atlantic Ocean to Italy, and how this experiment both defied and reinforced traditional labor patterns in the American South.

***** References ***** * References (151)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Perman, Michael

School: University of Illinois at Chicago

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Italian, Peonage, New South, Sunnyside Plantation, Percy, LeRoy, Agricultural labor, Arkansas

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

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Subjects: American history, Regional Studies, Labor relations

Publication AAT 3431217 Number:

ISBN: 9781124304588

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======Document 35 of 35 Cows in the Commons, Dogs on the Lawn: A History of Animals in Seattle Brown, Frederick L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0337 277 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431517.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation explores the ways humans used animals to shape Seattle in its material and cultural forms, the struggles among humans about how best to incorporate animals into urban life, and animals' own active role in the city. The power of animals in this history stems, in part, from their ability to provide three things that humans desire: materials goods, love, and prestige. Humans have considered animals to be property, companions, and symbols - - creatures of economic, social, and cultural importance. Human quests for these goods have consistently resulted in struggles over three distinctions: those between human and animal, between domestic and wild, and between pet and livestock. This dissertation explores the interplay of two alternative strategies that humans adopt toward these three distinctions: treating them as strict dualisms versus considering them to be borderlands, as distinctions that are fluid and permeable. Yet it also asserts that animals have their own active role in history. It is not in isolation but in relationship with animals and the rest of nonhuman nature that humans formed plans for Seattle. Animal

169 actions sometimes furthered and sometimes countered human projects. In this sense, it was humans and animals together who shaped the city.

The dissertation begins with the encounter of Native people and newcomers in the context of the fur trade on Puget Sound in the 1830s, describing the differing conceptions of the human-animal distinction both groups held and the role domestic animals played in newcomers' land claims. It then considers the role of the spread of livestock and the destruction of wild animals in the early history of Seattle, founded in 1851. It then takes up the role that removing first cows and then horses took in making neighborhoods urban and middle-class and the city modern in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Finally, it describes the growing pet-livestock dichotomy, by considering both the consolidation of the livestock industry away from cities in the twentieth century and the growing importance of pets to city-dwellers in that same century.

***** References ***** * References (350)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Nash, Linda

School: University of Washington

School Location: United States -- Washington

Keyword(s): Seattle, Animals, Washington, Pets, Livestock, Cities

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history

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ISBN: 9781124314235

Across the great water: Religion and diaspora in the black Atlantic Catron, John William. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2008. Section 0070, Part 0328 366 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Florida: University of Florida; 2008. Publication Number: AAT 3425476.

Canada, the United States and the command and control of air forces for continental air defence from Ogdensburg to NORAD, 1940-1957 Goette, Richard Evan. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0283, Part 0722 396 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Queen's University (Canada); 2010. Publication Number: AAT NR65069.

Managing in the new economy: A revolutionary status quo Ching, Paul Kwock Wo. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2005. Section 0127, Part 0323 188 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: University of Michigan; 2005. Publication Number: AAT 3429477.

The Angle of Ascent: Race, Class, Sport and Representations of African American Masculinity McDaniels, Pellom, III. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2007. Section 0665, Part 0323 349 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2007. Publication Number: AAT 3431622.

Rooted in Movement: Spatial Practices and Community Persistence in Native Southwestern New England Reiser, Christine N.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0324 426 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430075.

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Three essays on gay and lesbian rights legislation Christafore, David R.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0256, Part 0510 97 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- West Virginia: West Virginia University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3428769.

Holy mount: Identity, place, religion, and narrative at New Lebanon Shaker Village 1759--1861 Letourneau, Marcus Reginald. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0283, Part 0366 421 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Queen's University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR65425.

Organizing the Brown Tide: La Gran Epoca Primavera 2006 en Los Angeles, an insider's story Diaz, Jesse. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0032, Part 0737 353 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- California: University

172 of California, Riverside; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3426127.

Learning to be modern: American missionary colleges in Beirut and Kyoto 1860--1920 Majstorac-Kobiljski, Aleksandra. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0046, Part 0582 229 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: City University of New York; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3426783.

Contingent constitutions: Empire and law in the Americas Burnett, Christina Duffy. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0181, Part 0337 463 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New Jersey: Princeton University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3428513.

Co-starring God: Religion, film, and World War II Burns-Watson, Roger. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0045, Part 0337 218 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: University of Cincinnati; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3426077.

Cross-dressers and race-crossers: Intersections of gender and race in American Vaudeville, 1900--1930 Casey, Kathleen Bridget. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0188, Part 0337 320 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: University of Rochester; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430797.

Art fronts: Visual culture and race politics in the mid-twentieth-century United States Cohn, Erin Park. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0175, Part 0337 353 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431109.

Public appetite: Dining out in nineteenth-century Boston

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Erby, Kelly. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0337 267 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423058.

"Meeting the needs of today's girl": Youth organizations and the making of a modern girlhood, 1945--1980 Foley, Jessica L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 300 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430133.

Repatriating Yorktown: The politics of revolutionary memory and reunion Goldberger, Sarah M.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0337 279 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431214.

An American spectacle: College mascots and the performance of tradition Guiliano, Jennifer Elizabeth. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0337 273 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431092.

Thinking Women: The Intellectual Foundations of Postwar Feminism Activism Lee, Jessica Anne. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0337 309 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431677.

Hospital patients and institutional inmates in Chicago, 1880--1930 Maeda, Hiroshi. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0337 394 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431194.

Slavery exacts an impossible price: John Quincy Adams and the Dorcas Allen

174 case, Washington, D.C Mann, Alison T.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0141, Part 0337 268 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430785.

Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United States, 1945-- 1960 Meltzer, Paige L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 313 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430069.

"Be not conformed to this world": Oberlin and the fight to end slavery, 1833-1863 Morris, Joseph Brent. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0058, Part 0337 547 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Cornell University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429841.

Indian carried Christianity: Wampanoag Christianity on Martha's Vineyard, 1643--1690 Mulholland, Kenneth R.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0240, Part 0337 262 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Utah: The University of Utah; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427178.

"On A Great Battlefield": The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933-2009 Murray, Jennifer Marie. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0012, Part 0337 533 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Alabama: Auburn University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430617.

Political fever: The democratic societies and the crisis of republican governance in 1790s America Orihel, Michelle. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section

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0659, Part 0337 433 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Syracuse University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429068.

Railroad nations: International competition and environmental change in the western US-Canada borderlands, 1881--1920 Orr, Timothy Adam. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0029, Part 0337 373 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- California: University of California, Davis; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427401.

Creek diplomacy in an imperial Atlantic world Parmelee, Deena L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0141, Part 0337 257 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430781.

'Not by might, nor by power, but by spirit': The global reform efforts of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, 1895-1939 Phoenix, Karen E.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0337 313 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430892.

Education for the people: The Third World student movement at San Francisco State College and City College of New York Ryan, Angela Rose. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0168, Part 0337 309 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: The Ohio State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3425295.

"Red War on the Family": Sex, Gender, and Americanism, 1919--1929 Ryan, Erica Jean. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 291 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430076.

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The unquiet Americans: GI dissent during the Vietnam War Seidman, Derek W.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 287 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430153.

Campaigning for authenticity Seifert, Erica J.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0141, Part 0337 395 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430776.

By Forests or By Fields: Organizing Immigrant Labor in the Pacific Northwest, 1940--1990 Sifuentez, Mario Jimenez, II. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 265 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430080.

Defending "family values": Women's grassroots politics and the Republican Right, 1970--1980 Taranto, Stacie. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 327 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430155.

Beyond Retrenchment: The Political and Ideological Foundations of the New American Welfare State, 1970--2000 Johnson, Jeremy B.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0615 511 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430061.

The effect of partisanship in election law judicial decision-making Kopko, Kyle Casimir. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0168, Part 0615 207 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: The

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What keeps them going: Factors that sustain U.S. women's life-long peace and social justice activism McKevitt, Susan. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 1216, Part 0615 306 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: Antioch University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430542.

He Hawai'i Kakou: Conflicts and continuities of history, culture and identity in Hawai'i Moore, Peter Kalawaia. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0085, Part 0615 364 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Hawaii: University of Hawai'i at Manoa; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429744.

Reckoning with a violent and lawless past: A study of race, violence and reconciliation in Tennessee Russell, Carrie A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0242, Part 0615 288 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Tennessee: Vanderbilt University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430744.

Conditional extremism---When do exclusionary national identities spur hostility to immigrants & radical right support? Schram, Laura N.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0127, Part 0615 194 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: University of Michigan; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429488.

Platforms and party development: Regional diversity, party platforms, and the institutionalization of the two-party system in nineteenth century America Silver, Adam M.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0017, Part 0615 179 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: Boston University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3430424.

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Southern maladies: Politics and public health in the pre-civil rights South, 1902--1950 Sledge, Daniel Davis. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0058, Part 0615 296 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Cornell University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429854.

The world is plural: Democratic contributions of Hannah Arendt Zuckerwise, Lena Kay. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0118, Part 0615 260 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427615.

Politics at the water's edge: The presidency, Congress, and the North Korea policy of the United States Ahn, Taehyung. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 1023, Part 0601 215 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Florida: Florida International University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431294.

Inter-subjective and transnational racial effects: The role of the United States in the formation and evolution of the collective perception and racial relations in Cuba, 1898--1902 Bryant, Tiffany Yolanda Jimmece. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 1023, Part 0601 293 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Florida: Florida International University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431295.

Dissecting the links between the local public sector institutional design and government spending Jimenez, Benedict S.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0617 301 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431209.

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An exploratory study of management reform diffusion in the U.S. federal government Marc-Aurele, Frederick Joseph, Jr.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0659, Part 0617 990 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Syracuse University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429064.

Document 1 of 50 Across the great water: Religion and diaspora in the black Atlantic Catron, John William. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2008. Section 0070, Part 0328 366 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Florida: University of Florida; 2008. Publication Number: AAT 3425476.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, people of African descent throughout the Atlantic world increasingly turned to evangelical Protestant Christianity to sustain them through the travails of the slave trade and forced labor. Afro- Protestantism became a faith that spread across the Atlantic in multiple directions. Through a network of free and enslaved black ministers, missionaries, and lay leaders, black Christians in Africa, the West Indies, North America, and Europe maintained contact with, and gained strength from, their fellow religionists around the globe. These networks stimulated the creation of a black Atlantic religious culture that enabled many people to transcend their status as enslaved laborers and identify themselves as Atlantic Christians. Empowered by their Christian identities, many began to push more forcefully for emancipation and for an end to the slave trade. Focusing on evangelical Protestantism, this dissertation explores the rise and expansion of black Atlantic religious culture in the eighteenth century. Afro-Caribbean Protestantism had a particularly profound effect on the growth of African American Christianity in North America beginning in the mid-eighteenth century. Both white and black evangelical missionaries circulated around the Greater Caribbean. They acted as agents of cultural exchange, bringing cautious white versions of Christianity to the Caribbean, while black Caribbeans brought Afro- West Indian spirituality and less cautious attitudes about rebellion and cultural autonomy to the mainland. People of African descent ultimately embraced evangelical Protestantism as a way to help them maintain their ethnic identities, to keep from being dominated by rival ethnic groups, and to re-

180 establish authority within the slave quarters separate from the plantation complex. By converting to Christianity, they helped to create a black Atlantic littoral spiritual community that integrated the cultures of the West Indies, North America, Europe, and Atlantic Africa. Held together by black evangelicals' vision and tenacity, Afro-Atlantic religion helped to inspire the growth of the black church throughout the Atlantic world as the nineteenth century unfolded.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Sensbach, Jon F.

School: University of Florida

School Location: United States -- Florida

Keyword(s): Religion, Diaspora, Black Atlantic, African diaspora, Protestantism, Southern history, Caribbean history

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Black history, Religious history, Latin American history, American history, Caribbean Studies

Publication AAT 3425476 Number:

ISBN: 9781124286020

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======Document 2 of 50 Canada, the United States and the command and control of air forces for continental air defence from Ogdensburg to NORAD, 1940-1957 Goette, Richard Evan. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0283, Part 0722 396 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Queen's University (Canada); 2010. Publication Number: AAT NR65069.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation examines the evolution of the bilateral Canadian-American continental air defence operational-level command and control relationship from the 1940 Ogdensburg Agreement to the establishment of the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD) in 1957. It takes a functional approach, focusing on the efforts of Canadian air force officers in conjunction with their American counterparts to develop efficient command and control arrangements to ensure effective air defence of North America while at the same time safeguarding Canadian sovereignty. It explores the evolution of certain command and control principles such as cooperation, unity of command, operational command, and operational control, and argues that because Canada was able to avoid having its air defence forces come under American command, Canadian sovereignty was assured. It also demonstrates that the Canada-U.S. bilateral continental air defence command and control relationship had its origins in Canadian, American, and British joint command and control culture and practice. Canadian steadfastness, along with compromise and accommodation between the two North American nations, operational and doctrinal factors, and also cordial professional working relationships and personalities, all played important roles in the evolution of this command and control relationship from the "cooperation-unity of command" paradigm of the Second World War towards "operational control" in an air defence context throughout the early Cold War. This paradigm shift culminated in 1957 with the integration and centralization of combined air defences under an overall NORAD commander exercising operational control. The thesis also demonstrates that by taking an active role in Canada-U.S. command and control arrangements, Canada was able to avoid a negative "defence against help" situation with the United States and ensure

182 that it secured a proverbial "piece of the action" in the bilateral North American continental air defence mission. Moreover, through this active functional approach, Canadian officers were able to safeguard Canadian sovereignty and at the same time perform an effective and important operational role in the combined efforts with the United States to defend the continent from aerial attack. This dissertation therefore makes an important contribution to the study of command and control and the history of North American continental defence.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: Queen's University (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): Canada, United States, Air forces

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, Canadian history, American history, Economic history, Military history

Publication AAT NR65069 Number:

ISBN: 9780494650691

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======Document 3 of 50 Managing in the new economy: A revolutionary status quo Ching, Paul Kwock Wo. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2005. Section 0127, Part 0323 188 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: University of Michigan; 2005. Publication Number: AAT 3429477.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** "Managing in the New Economy" analyzes oral interviews and media discourse to explore the optimism and ultimate disillusionment with what came to be known as the New Economy, that period in the late 1990s when the internet and dot-com seemed to promise a new age of business and management. Focusing on one particular company, personalitytests.com, I show how the idealistic presumptions that the New Economy would revolutionize work and substantially restructure wealth ultimately failed to live up to their promise. Organized around a study of employee experience at this particular company, my dissertation critically examines the economic, social and cultural contexts that constitute the experiences of personalitytests.com's employees.

I begin my dissertation by examining the business periodical Business Week to discuss the emergence of the New Economy. I then discuss the background and context for those expectations about the New Economy, and how this played out in personalitytests.com. Because the co-founders of personalitytests.com attended business school, I look at how business schools responded to the New Economy to gain further insight into how the New Economy was understood and what it meant. I conclude by returning to personalitytests.com and consider the role that its dot-corn culture led to its decline.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Anderson, Paul A., Smith, Richard Candida

School: University of Michigan

School Location: United States -- Michigan

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Keyword(s): Business history, Economic history, Internet, Dot-com

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, Management, Economic history, Web Studies

Publication AAT 3429477 Number:

ISBN: 9781124285252

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======Document 4 of 50 The Angle of Ascent: Race, Class, Sport and Representations of African American Masculinity McDaniels, Pellom, III. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2007. Section 0665, Part 0323 349 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2007. Publication Number: AAT 3431622.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, "The Angle of Ascent: Race, Class, Sport and Representations of African American Masculinity" examines the lives of the jockey Isaac Murphy, the boxer Joe Louis, the Olympic sprinter Jesse Owens, and the baseball player Jackie Robinson. Each figure represents a case study in my exploration of the evolution of African American masculinity from 1861 (the Emancipation Proclamation) to 1947 (the integration of organized white baseball), tracking the various factors, which have historically

185 influenced African American men's decisions to pursue sports as a career. Throughout the dissertation, I argue that African American men--in their pursuit of economic, social and political opportunities--gravitated towards amateur and professional sports as a mechanism to claim their humanity, manhood and citizenship.

In Chapter One, I account for the life and death of the nineteenth century jockey Isaac Murphy, who was born during slavery and was able to achieve wealth and fame during Reconstruction. Murphy's ability to transcend his occupation as a jockey would be predicated on his ability to successfully achieve a masculine identity, based on his command of contemporary Victorian definitions of manhood. In Chapter Two, I examine the impact of sharecropping, World War I, and the second wave of the great migration on the development of Joe Louis Barrow into a contender for the heavyweight title. I argue that Louis' contest against the Italian Primo Camera was the beginning of his emergence as an important figure to African Americans that looked to Louis as a symbol of impending change for blacks globally.

Similarly in Chapter Three, I analyze the impact of the South, the second wave of the great migration, and the impending conflict of World War II on the development of Jesse Owens into a race conscious individual. Here I explore Owens' symbolic representation of African Americans striving to better themselves in an America that recognized blackness as a marker of second-class citizenship. Owens' success at the 1936 Berlin Olympics served to unravel Hitler's myth of the Aryan superman, yet he would be relegated to racing horses and participate in sporting events as a sideshow attraction to make a living. And finally in Chapter Four, I examine the making of an American hero beginning with an analysis of the major influences over Jackie Robinson's life, and ending with his decision to integrate baseball and all the responsibilities that endeavor entailed. Moreover, I explore the social, cultural and economic influences on Robinson's development as a "Race Man," and his decision to sacrifice himself both literally and metaphorically for the benefit of society as a whole.

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School: Emory University

School Location: United States -- Georgia

Keyword(s): Masculinity, African-American, Blacks, Sports, Murphy, Isaac, Louis, Joe, Owens, Jesse, Robinson, Jackie

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: African American Studies, Biographies, American studies, Black history, Recreation

Publication AAT 3431622 Number:

ISBN: 9781124321653

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======Document 5 of 50 Rooted in Movement: Spatial Practices and Community Persistence in Native Southwestern New England Reiser, Christine N.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0324 426 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430075.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Rubertone, Patricia E.

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Native American, Mobility, Connecticut, New England, Ethnicity and race, Community, Ethnohistory

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Archaeology, Cultural anthropology, Native American studies

Publication AAT 3430075 Number:

ISBN: 9781124305813

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Brunson, Emily K.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0326 144 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431516.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Shell-Duncan, Bettina

School: University of Washington

School Location: United States -- Washington

Keyword(s): Childhood vaccination, Vaccines, Grounded theory, Structural violence, Parental decision-making, Social network analysis

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Cultural anthropology, Public health

Publication AAT 3431516 Number:

ISBN: 9781124314228

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======Document 7 of 50 La racialisation comme constitution de la difference: Une ethnographie documentaire de la sante publique aux Etats-Unis Cloos, Patrick. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0992, Part 0326 253 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Universite de Montreal (Canada); 2010. Publication Number: AAT NR65786.

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At present one can note an intensification of the usage of race in public health in the United States, an idea that is sometimes rejected because of its association with controversial practices. Races are viewed, in this context, as the product of racism, a technology of power of the modern State that consisted of fragmenting humanity to permit colonisations. Thus, race has been established within the discourse to mark difference , discourse that consists of a heterogeneous ensemble of apparatuses, institutions, scientific statements, norms and rules. Racism developed concomitantly with the affirmation of power over life aimed at ruling out bodies and populations through public health practices among others. This thesis is based on an ethnographic study of a corpus of public health documents in the United States from federal Government offices and a major public health journal published between 2001 and 2009. This study analyzed the ways in which race is represented, produced as object of knowledge, and regulated by discursive practices in these documents.

Keywords : racialization, race, medicalization, ethnography, public health, discourse, power, representation, postcolonialism, United States.

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School: Universite de Montreal (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): Racialization, Public health, Medicalization, Postcolonialism

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, Cultural anthropology, Public health

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ISBN: 9780494657867

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======Document 8 of 50 The New Negro Flow and the Black Atlantic: The Musical Discourse of the Literary Griots of the Americas Gras, Delphine. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0325 257 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431529.

192 diminished the geographical and temporal extent of this defining moment, locating it in Harlem, starting in 1919 with the end of WWI and the Great Migration, and ending with the 1930 Great Depression. This project departs from this traditional account, demonstrating that what is usually perceived as a North American phenomenon was, in fact, international from its inception. Paying particular attention to the United States and the Caribbean, it examines what I call "The New Negro Flow," which I see as representing the discussion occurring during the first half of the twentieth century between places in the Americas where there had been a large transplanted Black population. Since it is not fled to one geographical location or nation, the concept of flow does not restrict the movement in terms of time and place. In contrast to established terms such as "Harlem Renaissance" or "New Negro Renaissance," the New Negro Flow points to the possibility for a dialogue, rather than a set discourse, where many views diverged on the role of art and on race, while also converging in the importance attributed to music. Indeed, throughout the African Diaspora, writers like the North American W. E. B. Du Bois, the Cuban Nicolas Guillén, and the Martinican Aimé Césaire have used music to retain Africanisms, sustain a sense of belonging, adjust to urban life, provide subversive historical accounts, and encourage uprisings. Upholding the role of the African griot --a musical historian, praise-singer, and warrior--and adapting it to a set of new circumstances, they are what I call "literary griots." Merging literature and music-- the American spirituals, the French Creole biguine, or the Cuban son --the New Negro Flow was the first large-scale movement to theorize the social power of music for the African Diaspora, marking the first half of the twentieth century as a watershed period for the definition of Black modernity in the Americas.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Butler, Johnnella, Steele, Cynthia

School: University of Washington

School Location: United States -- Washington

Keyword(s): Harlem Renaissance, African diaspora, Negritude, Francophone, Latin America, Negrista, Black Atlantic

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Comparative literature, Black studies, Caribbean literature, American literature

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======Document 9 of 50 Three essays on gay and lesbian rights legislation Christafore, David R.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0256, Part 0510 97 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- West Virginia: West Virginia University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3428769.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation consists of three essays that provide empirical evidence that informs the ongoing debate over the passage of gay and lesbian rights legislation. In Chapter 2 the difference-in-difference-in-difference methodology is used to examine the effect that the passage of a private employment anti-discrimination law has on the relative earnings and employment of gays and lesbians. The results of this analysis indicate that the passage of this law does not have an impact on either relative earnings or employment for lesbians, but it does have an impact on these labor market outcomes for gays. In particular, the passage of this anti-discrimination law increases the

194 relative earnings for gays by 7.5% and reduces their relative probability of being employed by 2.4%. In Chapter 3 a gravity model of state-to-state gay and lesbian migration flows over the period 1995-2000 is estimated in order to analyze the revealed preferences of gays and lesbians for private and public employment anti-discrimination, hate crime, and domestic partnership laws. The results of this examination indicate that private employment anti- discrimination laws reduce in-migration, while public employment anti- discrimination and hate crime laws increase in-migration. Therefore, it appears that gays and lesbians prefer to live in places with public employment anti- discrimination and hate crime laws, and not in places with private employment anti-discrimination laws. In Chapter 4 a spatial hedonic autoregressive model is estimated for the Columbus, OH MSA to examine the impact that the percentage of gay and lesbian households in conservative and liberal neighborhoods has on the house prices in those neighborhoods. The results of the analysis indicate that a .1% point increase in the percentage of gay and lesbian households increases house prices in liberal neighborhoods by .81% and reduces house prices by .24% in conservative neighborhoods. Thus, evidence is provided that is consistent with gay and lesbian households being an amenity to liberal neighborhoods, but a disamenity, likely due to prejudice, to conservative neighborhoods.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Pinto, Santiago

School: West Virginia University

School Location: United States -- West Virginia

Keyword(s): Labor, Migration, Hedonics, Gay, Lesbian, Rights legislation

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Subjects: Law, GLBT Studies, Economics, Political science

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======Document 10 of 50 Holy mount: Identity, place, religion, and narrative at New Lebanon Shaker Village 1759--1861 Letourneau, Marcus Reginald. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0283, Part 0366 421 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Queen's University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR65425.

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Village (New York) focusing on the antebellum period. It examines the context in which the Shakers existed, the shifts in the interpretations of the Shaker covenantal narratives, and the means by which the Shaker leadership disseminated their ideas.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: Queen's University (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): Identity, Place, Religion, New Lebanon Shaker Village, New York

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Religion, Geography

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ISBN: 9780494654255

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***** Abstract (Summary) ***** The three largest mass mobilizations ever witnessed in this country occurred in 2006 on March 25 th , April 10 th , and May 1 st , when undocumented immigrants and supporters marched against repressive enforcement-only antiimmigrant legislation and then for immigration reform. Academics have since scrambled to understand these mobilizations. Some misguidedly labeled the Latino community as a "Sleeping Giant." Contrarily, interviewed in this research were dozens of veteran Immigrant Rights Movement (IRM) activists who illustrated that there is a longstanding immigrant rights struggle in the cradle of the IRM, Los Ángeles, the majority of which have been mobilizing against repressive antiimmigrant legislation as far back as the 1960's. Drawing from the social movement literature, this dissertation utilizes two dominant concepts to examine the IRM--the political opportunities and resource mobilizations models. From the dual perspective of a participant and researcher, the present researcher examines the IRM's organizational history in order to understand the decision- makers, while paying closer attention to the efforts leading up to and during the spring 2006 mobilizations, thus providing a unique contribution to this literature based on an insider perspective of the Movimiento. In this analysis, two factions in the IRM emerge, the leftist faction that includes both the radical and traditional factions of the Movement, and the moderate faction that represents the elite level of the IRM. The traditional faction by itself has gained much respect amongst the immigrant rights community in LA and has a history of working with either the radical or moderate factions. This research found the necessity for a future examination of the immigrant community's response to join in the IRM's mobilizations to investigate more systematically the effectiveness of leaders and organizations in their mobilizing efforts by which to guide the immigrant rights community's future endeavors. It also challenges other students of social movements and Latino Studies to involve themselves in the Movimiento to garner first an insider perspective that would draw a more in-depth look into the inner-workings of the IRM, thus reliably adding to the extant social movement literature, the burgeoning literature on the IRM, and Latino Studies.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Mirande, Alfredo

Committee members: Reese, Ellen, Brooks, Scott

School: University of California, Riverside

Department: Sociology

School Location: United States -- California

Keyword(s): Gran Epoca Primavera 2006, Los Angeles, California, Chicano, Immigrant rights, Immigration, Latino, Mobilizations, Social movements

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Ethnic studies, Social structure, Hispanic American studies

Publication AAT 3426127 Number:

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Document 12 of 50 Learning to be modern: American missionary colleges in Beirut and Kyoto 1860-- 1920 Majstorac-Kobiljski, Aleksandra. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0046, Part 0582 229 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: City University of New York; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3426783.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** In 1874, ABCFM, the richest and one of the most conservative evangelical organizations in North America decided to open in Japan an English-language institution of higher learning with a largely liberal arts curriculum. This was a shift away from its policies against educational work that was not based solely on the Scriptures and done in the local language. This shift and therefore the genesis of Doshisha English School (today Doshisha University) in Kyoto, was in large part the result of the successful establishment a decade earlier of the Syrian Protestant College in Beirut. In the early 1860s, a group of renegade ABCFM missionaries, under the pressure from nascent Arab and expanding Jesuit schools, challenged a long-standing policy of their missionary board on secular education and asked for support in establishing a college, as opposed to a seminary. Their rebellion was successful, the Boston elders relaxed their policies, and in 1866 a college opened its doors in Beirut. Its successful establishment made a Christian college an acceptable use of missionary resources and a model that soon found fertile ground in Japan.

This thesis charts the connected history of the Syrian Protestant College (today the American University of Beirut) and Doshisha English School in Kyoto (today, Doshisha University) as sites that catalyzed the debates on religion and science and shaped the discourse on education, progress, and development both in their locales and in the United States. Besides being supported by the same missionary organization, the Beirut and Kyoto colleges were connected by a common benefactor - William E. Dodge, one of the richest merchants in New England who played a key role on both continents. The two colleges also share a particular institutional framework based on the model of nineteenth-century American colleges - a non-sectarian Christian institution with a liberal arts curriculum - such as Amherst, from which both the founders of the Beirut and Kyoto colleges graduated. Finally, their common role in the modern history of the Middle East and Japan connected the two campuses as they quickly became, and remain to this day, important intellectual spaces in their respective

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Baron, Beth

Committee members: Brooks, Barbar, Gluck, Carol, Scott, Donald, Bender, Thomas

School: City University of New York

Department: History

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): ABCFM, American University of Beirut, Christianity, Doshisha, Science, Syrian Protestant College

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: History, Middle Eastern history, Modern history

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======Document 13 of 50 Contingent constitutions: Empire and law in the Americas Burnett, Christina Duffy. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0181, Part 0337 463 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New Jersey: Princeton University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3428513.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation, a constitutional and international legal history of American empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, aims to recover the multiple, overlapping, and mutually constitutive traditions that shaped the legal landscape of empire in the Americas in a period of emergent U.S. hegemony. To that end, I examine the contributions of colonial elites to constitutional debates over the law governing relationships between imperial center and colonial periphery. Resisting the temptation to dismiss their efforts as mere collaboration, I instead seek to understand how these colonial subjects sought empowerment (for the colonies and in the process, yes, for themselves) through the language and practice of law. To the extent that they succeeded, they helped give shape to imperial constitutions; their failures reveal paths not taken, and shed light on imagined worlds now lost.

The dissertation consists of five chapters. Chapter one looks at nineteenth century Puerto Rican constitutionalism, describing the struggle for autonomy under Spain and reflecting on how the autonomist movement responded to the transfer of sovereignty to the United States. Chapter two examines the debates over the Platt Amendment at the Cuban constitutional convention of 1900-1901 (while the island was under U.S. occupation), and describes how a "separatist" Cuban constitutionalism clashed with an "internationalist" U.S. constitutionalism in a contest over what shape Cuban-U.S. relations would take following the war with Spain. Chapter three concerns the denial of U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans and Filipinos, who instead became "noncitizen U.S. nationals," and traces the origins of this form of partial membership to the development of nationality under international law. Chapters four and five turn to the debate over "American international law" and its institutional embodiment in the American Institute of International Law, focusing on the efforts of AIIL co-founders James Brown Scott and Alejandro Alvarez to rehabilitate the Monroe Doctrine and to use it as the basis for re-envisioning relations between the United States and Latin America--and between the Americas

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Together, these chapters reach toward a broader understanding of the way law worked at the intersection of imperial power, international norms, and constitutional aspiration.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Hartog, Hendrik

School: Princeton University

School Location: United States -- New Jersey

Keyword(s): Constitutional history, Puerto Rico, Legal history, History of international law, Cuba, Constitution, International law, Empire

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Latin American history, American history, Law, Caribbean Studies, Legal Studies

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======Document 14 of 50 Co-starring God: Religion, film, and World War II Burns-Watson, Roger. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0045, Part 0337 218 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: University of Cincinnati; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3426077.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Motion pictures played a significant role in American society during the Second World War. Hollywood studios, as well as United States Army, used movies to educate audiences about the reasons for the war; to define America's allies and enemies; address the changing roles of women and African-Americans in society; and to build up morale. Filmmakers deliberately used religious characters, imagery, and dialogue to help them accomplish their propaganda goals. This dissertation explores how Hollywood studios and the United States Army employed religion in World War II-era films. It examines the role that film censors, the Production Code Administration, and the Office of War Information played in shaping and limiting the ways that religion could be used by filmmakers. This dissertation also highlights how the actions and attitudes of American clergy before and during World War II impacted how screenwriters and producers used religious character, images, and dialogue in their motion pictures. Finally, this dissertation looks at the legacy that these films had with regards to the relationship between religion and World War II.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Stradling, David

Committee members: Durrill, Wayne, Phillips, Christopher, Sakmyster, Thomas

School: University of Cincinnati

Department: History

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Keyword(s): Twentieth century, 20th century, American history, Film, Religion, World War II

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Film studies

Publication AAT 3426077 Number:

ISBN: 9781124262215

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======Document 15 of 50 Cross-dressers and race-crossers: Intersections of gender and race in American Vaudeville, 1900--1930 Casey, Kathleen Bridget. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0188, Part 0337 320 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: University of Rochester; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430797.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation examines four early twentieth-century American vaudeville performers, whose performances reflected the unstable and contradictory ways in which turn-of-the-century Americans envisioned themselves. Vaudeville attracted thousands of patrons from vastly divergent economic, social and ethnic backgrounds to a shared urban space. There, performers used humor to invite

205 audiences to turn a self-conscious eye upon themselves, the "other," and their fracturing culture. Across the contested continuum that linked yet separated black from white, male and female, and working from middle class, audiences came in droves to watch these sardonic performances. They laughed and marveled at Eva Tanguay, "the wild girl" who shouted songs while wearing skimpy costumes, Sophie Tucker, "the Jewish girl with a colored voice," Julian Eltinge, a manly "fellow" who impersonated ivory-faced Victorian "ladies," and Lillyn Brown, a renowned black male impersonator and blues singer. In Harlem, Chicago, San Francisco, Paris and London, these performers played both to integrated and segregated audiences that paid as little as ten cents to hear them talk, sing, joke and dance about the changes around them.

This study analyzes the advertisements, lyrics, music, costumes and critical reviews of these performers, arguing that the development of gender and racial binaries in the twentieth century was neither as inevitable nor as neatly distinct as scholars have previously supposed. On the contrary, audiences and critics were titillated by the notion of blurring and contradicting those binaries. In short, these performers tell elusive stories about the multiplicity of modem urban American identities.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Wolcott, Victoria

School: University of Rochester

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): Gender, Race, Vaudeville, Impersonator, Cross-dress

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Performing Arts, Gender studies

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======Document 16 of 50 Art fronts: Visual culture and race politics in the mid-twentieth-century United States Cohn, Erin Park. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0175, Part 0337 353 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431109.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Art Fronts argues that visual culture played a central and understudied role in the African American freedom struggle in the middle part of the twentieth century. In particular, it traces the political lives and cultural productions of a generation of visual artists, both black and white, who seized on the Depression-era ethos of art as a weapon to forge a particular form of visual activism that agitated for social, political, and economic equality for African Americans. Participating in the proliferation of visual culture that characterized early twentieth-century America, the activist artists of this generation took advantage of opportunities to reproduce images widely and thus convey political messages in powerful and immediate ways. Art Fronts traces the careers of these artists from the early days of the Depression, when artists affiliated with the Communist Party first created images in service of African American civil rights, through the Cold War, which limited but did not destroy the links they forged between art and activism. By highlighting changes and continuities in African American cultural politics over the course of four decades, it offers fresh perspectives on the contours of the long civil rights movement. Art Fronts thus participates in recent efforts to challenge the

207 classic narrative of the history of the civil rights movement, yet draws that scholarship in a new direction, pointing to the importance of culture, and particularly visual culture, in all phases of the movement. Indeed, visual artists were highly active in the long civil rights movement, while the images they created and circulated in service of the cause served as a necessary visual forum for a range of competing ideas about the politics of race and civil rights.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Peiss, Kathy

School: University of Pennsylvania

School Location: United States -- Pennsylvania

Keyword(s): African-American art, Visual culture, Art and race politics, Civil rights movement

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, American history, Art history

Publication AAT 3431109 Number:

ISBN: 9781124317908

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======Document 17 of 50 Public appetite: Dining out in nineteenth-century Boston Erby, Kelly. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0337 267 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423058.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation explains why and how Bostonians began to eat away from home in commercial dining venues in the 1800s, and provides new insight into the formation of complicated gender, race, ethnic, and class identities in urban America during this period. The nineteenth century witnessed a change in dining habits that was swift and dramatic. Throughout the colonial period and into the early nineteenth century, Americans rarely dined commercially. Then in the late 1820s and 1830s, the processes of industrialization and urbanization, the steady encroachment of the market economy, and, by the 1840s and 1850s, the growing number of immigrants all combined to transform the texture of everyday existence in American cities of the northeast like Boston. As living and working conditions changed, eating meals outside the home became an essential activity for many urbanites. From the eating-houses lining Washington Street that dished up hash at midday to hungry Irish laborers to the restaurants specializing in French cuisine and patronized by the elite, Bostonians had a new set of options about where to dine.

The general trend toward increased commercial dining was not distinctive to Boston. On the contrary, the range of dining venues that opened there in the 1800s is illustrative of an American dining landscape that endures even until today. This exploration of dining out in Boston thus lays bare a significant but relatively under-investigated form of space in nineteenth-century America: zones that functioned both as workplaces and retail arenas; and zones that were at once semipublic in the sense of being less than private and yet were also clearly bounded. Above all, this investigation uses commercial eating to illuminate the way American society participated in growing overall consumption and commercialization and yet, simultaneously, demonstrated greater segmentation. This dissertation tells the story of how many different kinds of

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Americans turned toward restaurants and how dining out reflected and expressed- -indeed, defined and affirmed--the differences among them. When Bostonians began to dine out, they also dined apart.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Prude, Jonathan

Committee members: Roark, James, Harris, Leslie

School: Emory University

Department: History

School Location: United States -- Georgia

Keyword(s): Boston, Social class, Race, Public space, Restaurant, Food consumption, Dining out, Massachusetts, Nineteenth century

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, American history

Publication AAT 3423058 Number:

ISBN: 9781124234595

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======Document 18 of 50 "Meeting the needs of today's girl": Youth organizations and the making of a modern girlhood, 1945--1980 Foley, Jessica L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 300 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430133.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Youth organizations, Girlhood, Women, Postwar, Activism

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, American history, Gender studies

Publication AAT 3430133 Number:

ISBN: 9781124302379

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======Document 19 of 50 Repatriating Yorktown: The politics of revolutionary memory and reunion Goldberger, Sarah M.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0337 279 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431214.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Two kinds of commemorations dominated public culture in the late nineteenth- century American South--the Lost Cause, which centered on the mourning of the Confederacy, and Blue-Gray reunions, in which Confederate and Union soldiers clasped hands over the "bloody chasm." While the Lost Cause and reunion would seem to be opposing traditions, recent scholarship has shown that Southern Democrats used both types of commemoration to maintain their hegemony and undermine African Americans' claims to citizenship. Fewer studies, however, have explored the politics behind other historical memories or commemorations in the South, such as the centennial anniversaries of the Revolutionary War. As this dissertation on the 1881 Yorktown Centennial will demonstrate, Virginians living in the eastern section of the state found that memory of another war-- the Revolutionary War--could be used to a similar effect.

"Repatriating Yorktown" examines the relationship between conservative politics and reunion in post-reconstruction Virginia. More specifically, it explores how the third party threat determined the timing of sectional reunion in Virginia. The Yorktown Centennial, which celebrated the hundredth anniversary of George Washington's victory at Yorktown, occurred against a backdrop of bitter political strife in the Old Dominion as a third party, the Readjusters, divided the white electorate and formed a coalition with black Republicans. It was an extraordinary insurgency, which threatened the unity of white Democrats, better known as Conservatives in Virginia. In an effort to undermine the Readjusters, the Conservatives recommended that the nation gather to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Yorktown. Memory of the country's revolutionary sires

212 was intended to sway white voters to rejoin the Conservative Party as well as prevent white Republicans from supporting the Readjusters.

This study, however, not only explores Virginia politics, but it highlights the economic and national motivations for reunion. It will show that there were a number of Northerners who were just as willing to foster reunion at Yorktown in order to promote commerce and form a stronger nation-state. In particular, they would try to use the centennial to improve diplomatic relations with France and other European nations. The Yorktown Centennial, consequently, offers insight into reunion and how Americans imagined the post-reconstruction United States

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Perman, Michael

School: University of Illinois at Chicago

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Reconcilitation, Yorktown, Centennial, Readjusters, Commemoration, Memory, Virginia

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history

Publication AAT 3431214 Number:

ISBN: 9781124304557

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======Document 20 of 50 An American spectacle: College mascots and the performance of tradition Guiliano, Jennifer Elizabeth. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0337 273 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431092.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** "An American Spectacle: College Mascots and the Performance of Tradition" seeks to understand how college football and its attendant events (termed here "An American Spectacle") became a vehicle for cultural production by individuals and institutions in specifically raced, gendered, and classed ways. It asks what was the role of this "American Spectacle" in the articulation of individual and group identities at sites across the United States and outlines the individual aspects of the spectacle: bands and musical performances, newspaper writers and narratives of athletics, artistic production and commercial athletic identity, student publications and University identity, and the rituals of performance. In each instance the fundamental exploration is guided by consideration of how individuals and institutions constituted, transformed, and transmitted ideas of Indian mascotry within the spectacle of college football. This dissertation then asks these central questions: How and why were Native Americans represented as sports mascots? What cultural work did these images perform? How did these written narratives, visual images, and live performances create a tradition of performance that branded college football as "an American spectacle?" In answering these questions, "An American Spectacle" vividly illustrates a uniquely American story of race, class, identity, and community that argues for the framing of a complex set of institutions that are uniquely shaped by industrialism, commercialism, capital acquisition and expression, mass democracy, and the nation-state. An innately political practice that, while recognizing multiple identities, privileged young, male, white, middle-class, and athletic as powerful and transmitted those ideas via various networks, this dissertation ultimately reveals a uniquely American spectacle.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Burgos, Adrian

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Mascots, Native American, Football, Sports, College athletics, American Indian

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Native American studies, Higher education, Recreation

Publication AAT 3431092 Number:

ISBN: 9781124311838

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======Document 21 of 50 Thinking Women: The Intellectual Foundations of Postwar Feminism Activism

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Lee, Jessica Anne. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0250, Part 0337 309 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Washington: University of Washington; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431677.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation explores how feminist-minded scholars contributed to the growth of feminist theorizing and activism in the decades following the end of World War II. From the early efforts of scholars such as sociologist Mirra Komarovsky and historian Eleanor Flexner in the 1940s and 1950s to the theoretical innovations, communications networks, and educational initiatives of feminist academics in the 1960s and 1970s, women in the academy played a crucial role in cultivating new modes of feminist thought and action. On college campuses, feminist undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members formed friendships, exchanged ideas, and educated themselves about women's status in society. They sought out male mentors willing to help them navigate the world of academia and adapted their mentors' methodological approaches and theoretical frameworks to the study of women. Speaking from the margins, feminist-minded scholars explored how gender bias distorted scholarship and limited female academics' professional opportunities. They applied feminist perspectives to their scholarly investigations and founded an independent feminist media to share their work with others. This study reveals how feminists in academia used their scholarly training, personal experiences, and relationships with women both in and outside the ivory tower to build a vibrant and theoretically sophisticated movement for women's liberation. By examining the content of feminist theory and scholarship, feminist activists' connections to academia, and the ways that feminist ideology spread from woman to woman and group to group, this dissertation not only sheds new light on the late modern feminist movement but also illuminates the key contributions that postwar feminist scholars made to the history of American thought.

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School: University of Washington

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Keyword(s): Feminist scholarship, Feminist scholars, Feminism, Mentorship, Women's liberation, New University Conference

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Womens studies

Publication AAT 3431677 Number:

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======Document 22 of 50 Hospital patients and institutional inmates in Chicago, 1880--1930 Maeda, Hiroshi. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0337 394 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431194.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This thesis explores an unduly neglected yet vitally important subject in the history of hospitals: patients. Although much about them remains unclear, the knowledge on who they were is essential to the interpretation of what hospitals were because well into the 20th century hospital admission had as much to do with the person suffering from illness as to do with the illness itself.

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Hospital patients were to such an extent a socially designated group. This thesis seeks to understand who they were.

This thesis focuses on the patients in Presbyterian, Cook County, and Dunning Hospitals in Chicago from the late 19th to early 20th century. Dunning Hospital was a state mental institution; Cook County Hospital was a public hospital for the sick poor; and Presbyterian Hospital was a private hospital for the sick who could afford better accommodations. What makes those hospitals worthy of scrutiny is their close integration. Jury trials over the commitment of the allegedly insane took place in Cook County Hospital, which transported the defendants ruled insane to Dunning Hospital. Cook County and Presbyterian Hospitals faced each other from the opposite corners of an intersection. There the separation of the sick into paying, charity, and institutional patients was easily discernible due to the three hospitals' actual and virtual proximity.

This thesis examines such a sorting system of the sick to uncover what turned them into the patients in the three hospitals. Patterns gleaned from that system leave little doubt that demographic traits of the sick determined which hospital they were to be admitted to as much as the illnesses they were suffering from or their ability to pay for treatment. Demographic disparities in institutionalization similar to those observed in Chicago also appeared in many other places across the North. Demographic traits of the patients, however, hardly affected the outcome of hospitalization, further underscoring stark demographic disparities in hospital admission. This thesis thus brings to light the sorting system in Chicago that steered the sick to certain hospitals according, in no small part, to who they were.

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School: University of Illinois at Chicago

School Location: United States -- Illinois

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Mental health, Medicine, Demography

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======Document 23 of 50 Slavery exacts an impossible price: John Quincy Adams and the Dorcas Allen case, Washington, D.C Mann, Alison T.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0141, Part 0337 268 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430785.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** On August 22, 1837, a Georgetown resident sold Dorcas Allen and her four children to James H. Birch, a District of Columbia slave trader He transported them across the Potomac to Alexandria, Virginia to hold them in the largest slave pen in the District. They faced, most likely, passage on a slave coffle to Natchez or New Orleans. That same evening, Allen, who had married and been living unofficially in the District as a "free Negro" for a number of years, killed the two youngest children and was restrained from harming the others, after their terrified shrieks alerted someone nearby. On October 8, 1837, she appeared before the District Circuit Court in Alexandria and pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. At her trial the following day, her attorneys called

219 several witnesses who testified on her behalf, and the jury found her not guilty. James Birch reclaimed his now near valueless property and promptly advertised Allen and her two surviving children for sale at an auction house in downtown Washington.

Seventy-year-old John Quincy Adams, then serving his fourth term as a Massachusetts congressman, noticed the advertisement and attended the auction. For the first time in his life, Adams witnessed the utter misery of a slave auction, and, after learning that Allen's husband, Nathan, wished to purchase his wife and children, he pledged fifty dollars in aid. During the next few days, Adams became disturbed as he discovered the details of Allen's trial and the questionable circumstances behind her sale to Birch. Already in the public limelight as the congressman who insisted on presenting abolitionist petitions to Congress despite the "gag rule" forbidding it, Adams agonized that his entanglements with the fate of a slave might cause his political ruin.

Slavery Exacts An Impossible Price argues that the Allen case illustrates the tensions in the District of Columbia between the moral law and the codified law within the context of the antislavery and abolitionist petitions presented to Congress. It argues that her predicament connects directly to the ideological, legal, and moral questions which arose from the abolitionist petition campaign and the presence of the slave trade in the District. Every twist and complicated turn of Allen's case, and its participants, shows how abstract political arguments about the legalities of slavery eventually became inseparable from moral and religious objections.

As evidence, this dissertation relies principally on the unpublished diaries and letters of John Quincy Adams, cases involving African Americans in the District Circuit Court, early Republic insanity cases, census, church, and demographic records from Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. As this case occurred a few years before the more commonly known Amistad controversy, it provides provocative insights into John Quincy Adams's struggles with the morality and legalities of slavery. It also demonstrates the human cost involved in the long process behind the eventual Congressional ban of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, in comparison with studies that concentrate on abstract political partisan wrangling over the issue.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Harris, J. William

School: University of New Hampshire

School Location: United States -- New Hampshire

Keyword(s): Slavery, Washington, D.C., Adams, John Quincy, Methodism, Abolitionism, Slave trade, Allen, Dorcas

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, American history, Law

Publication AAT 3430785 Number:

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======Document 24 of 50 Maternal Citizens: Gender and Women's Activism in the United States, 1945-- 1960 Meltzer, Paige L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 313 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island:

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Gender, Activism, Women activists, Cold War, Maternalism, Citizenship, Women's political culture

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Womens studies

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======Document 25 of 50 "Be not conformed to this world": Oberlin and the fight to end slavery, 1833- 1863 Morris, Joseph Brent. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0058, Part 0337 547 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Cornell University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429841.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation examines the role of Oberlin (the northern Ohio town and its organically connected college of the same name) in the antislavery struggle. It traces the antislavery origins and development of this Western "hot-bed of abolitionism," and establishes Oberlin--the community, faculty, students, and alumni--as comprising the core of the antislavery movement in the West and one of the most influential and successful groups of abolitionists in antebellum America. Within two years of its founding, Oberlin's founders had created a teachers' college and adopted nearly the entire student body of Lane Seminary, who had been dismissed for their advocacy of immediate abolition. Oberlin became the first institute of higher learning to admit men and women of all races. America's most famous revivalist (Charles Grandison Finney) was among its new faculty as were a host of outspoken proponents of immediate emancipation and social reform. From its beginning, Oberlin Institute and the community supported a cadre of activist missionaries who helped spur the abolitionist movement to its greatest period of growth and assisted in the breaking down of racial barriers in an exceedingly intolerant region.

The college and town comprised one of the most ideologically influential and tactically successful groups of abolitionists within the antislavery movement. With Oberlin in the vanguard, the West becomes the movement's nerve center by the late 1840s. Oberlin representatives were at the cutting edge of political antislavery organization embodied in the Liberty, Free Soil, and Republican Parties, the African American convention movement, and constant facilitators in one of the nation's busiest Underground Railroad "depots." Oberlin was instrumental in developing diversity in antislavery thought, an aspect of the movement that most historians have not explored. Rather than falling into the distinct categories which many scholars place abolitionists (political, radical pacifist, radical militant, clerical, etc.), Oberlin abolitionists took the field as men and women devoted to ending slavery by any means necessary, even

223 if that meant not adhering to ideological consistency or working through unconventional methods. Their philosophy was a composite of various schools of anti-slavery thought aimed at supporting the best hope of success.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Baptist, Edward Eugene

School: Cornell University

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): Abolition, Antislavery, Oberlin, Ohio, Finney, Charles Grandison, Langston, John Mercer

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history

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1643--1690 Mulholland, Kenneth R.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0240, Part 0337 262 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Utah: The University of Utah; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427178.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** In this dissertation, I examine the Puritan mission on Martha's Vineyard from its beginning in 1643 through the Christianization of the entire Wampanoag people in 1690. The Congregationalist minister Thomas Mayhew, Jr. and the island's first convert, Hiacoomes, led the mission. Historians have largely ignored the mission on Martha's Vineyard, focusing instead on the mission led by John Eliot in the Massachusetts Bay Colony; yet, the Vineyard mission preceded Eliot's mission by three years, had more converts, and produced a sustained Native church that still survives.

My dissertation tells the story of the mission's beginning and focuses on the unique character of the highly indigenized Vineyard Christianity that was Puritan in content but Wampanoag in sensibilities. Vineyard Christianity was also marked by the centrality of native leadership that was never controlled by the English missionaries. Many of these Native Christian leaders were converted sachems and shamans, and their continued prominence did much to maintain the social fabric of the island's Native society. The spread of Christianity across Martha's Vineyard and on to Nantucket, Cape Cod and Plymouth Colony was initiated, accomplished, and sustained by Native evangelists.

I argue that the vitality of Vineyard Christianity came from its perception as a restoration of lost Wampanoag "wisdom." This association began with the Wampanoag concept of manit (spiritual power) and their belief that the Christian God was more powerful than the Indian spirits in protecting them from epidemic diseases. From this beginning, the process of "translating" important Wampanoag religious ideas into analogous Christian concepts and doctrines progressed. Because of this continuity of familiar ideas (although with Christian meanings) the teaching of Native preachers resonated with the people.

By contrasting the Martha's Vineyard mission with John Eliot's "civilizing" mission, which banned many important aspects of Native culture and also marginalized its leaders, the radicalism of the contextualized and Native-led mission of Martha's Vineyard is highlighted.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Hinderaker, Eric

Committee members: Reeve, W. Paul, Keary, Anne, Olsen, Glenn, Knowlton, David

School: The University of Utah

Department: History

School Location: United States -- Utah

Keyword(s): Christianity, Indian, Martha's Vineyard, Missions, New England, Wampanoag, Massachusetts

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Religious history, American history

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======Document 27 of 50 "On A Great Battlefield": The Making, Management, and Memory of Gettysburg National Military Park, 1933-2009 Murray, Jennifer Marie. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0012, Part 0337 533 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Alabama: Auburn University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430617.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Since July 1863 historians have written a great deal on the three-day Battle of Gettysburg, but have devoted little attention to the history of the battlefield itself. In the decades since the sound of artillery and muskets silenced and the soldiers retreated from the field, the Gettysburg battlefield has become a place of commemoration, veneration, celebration, and controversy. It is a site unlike any other on American soil. This dissertation provides an innovative perspective on the Civil War and Gettysburg historiography by examining how the National Park Service (NPS) has administered the battlefield from its acquisition of the site in August 1933 through 2009. Underlying the National Park Service's expansive history are variables of management philosophies, land acquisition, planning initiatives, competing notions of privatization and commercialism, and evolving interpretive efforts. Between August 1933 and October 2009 ten superintendents have administered the Gettysburg National Military Park. This inevitable change in management has resulted in an ever- evolving battlefield. Superintendent's backgrounds, whether as landscape architects, government bureaucrats, or historians, consistently shape their vision for the battlefield. Additionally, several landmark eras became evident, all dramatically changing the management, interpretation, and memory of the battlefield. Those four eras are the Great Depression period, 1933-1940; World War II, 1941-1945; the MISSION 66 and Civil War Centennial years, 1955 to 1955; and the fifteen years of John Latschar's administration, 1994 to 2009. Notwithstanding the degree of change at the battlefield, however, many variables remained constant. Management decisions made by the National Park Service receive America's close securitization because of Gettysburg's prominent place within American History and the sensationalism of the site. Controversy and heated debates underscore each administration. Additionally, throughout the twentieth century the battlefield has been used as a landscape of patriotic expression, which was seen most evidently during World War II.

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This dissertation examines the successes and failures of the National Park Service at Gettysburg. In its simplest form the Gettysburg battlefield is a memorial landscape to war. Yet to many Americans Gettysburg is more than a battlefield; it is a place of patriotic expression, of public display, and a place of veneration.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Noe, Kenneth

School: Auburn University

School Location: United States -- Alabama

Keyword(s): Gettysburg battlefield, Public history, Civil War, Memory, National Park Service, Gettysburg National Military Park

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Modern history

Publication AAT 3430617 Number:

ISBN: 9781124306384

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Document 28 of 50 Political fever: The democratic societies and the crisis of republican governance in 1790s America Orihel, Michelle. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0659, Part 0337 433 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Syracuse University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429068.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Drawing on recent works that have challenged the national orientation of politics and print culture in early America, this dissertation examines how the local, state, and regional interests of the democratic societies shaped their participation in national and international politics (and vice versa) during the 1790s. It explores how these political clubs appropriated the rhetoric of transatlantic radicalism, with its emphasis on the rights of man, and seized on the expanding print culture of the new nation to oppose the Washington administration's foreign and domestic policies. The clubs feared that the administration's efforts to construct a fiscal-military state modeled on that of Great Britain endangered America's republican experiment, undermining the sovereignty of the people with a powerful and elite-led federal government.

To illustrate how this crisis of republican governance played out differently in various parts of the country, this dissertation examines the experiences of the democratic societies and their reception in Pennsylvania and Kentucky, two geographically-diverse states in which associations formed early in the movement and achieved a degree of strength. This emphasis on diversity challenges the traditional presentation of the democratic associations as forming a cohesive and national opposition, one that was centered in Philadelphia, the national capital during the 1790s. Ultimately, the local and regional interests of the clubs constrained the formation of a national opposition. As an examination of the challenges and setbacks that the democratic societies faced in organizing an opposition, this dissertation stresses the experimental nature of 1790s politics. During that decade, Americans were adapting to their new roles as republican citizens as opposed to monarchical subjects. The activities of the democratic societies and the debates that they inspired raised fundamental questions about the nature of political representation in the new republic and the extent of popular authority over republican government. Therefore, this dissertation contributes to an understanding of the transnational nature of citizenship, associational

229 activity, and democratization in early American history, but also reveals the continuing importance of localism and regionalism in shaping political allegiances and experiences in the new nation.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Sharp, James Roger

School: Syracuse University

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): Democratic societies, Republican governance, Newspapers, Early Republic politics

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history

Publication AAT 3429068 Number:

ISBN: 9781124288420

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230 western US-Canada borderlands, 1881--1920 Orr, Timothy Adam. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0029, Part 0337 373 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- California: University of California, Davis; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427401.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** In both the United States and Canada, railroad corporations acted as key agents of the state in the projects of western expansion and economic development. Across a border remarkably open to flows of capital and population, the two nations' railroads engaged in heated contests to reach areas rich in natural resources and open routes promising for commerce. The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) and the US Great Northern Railway completed nearly parallel transcontinental lines just eight years apart. However, US railroad incursions into Canadian territory were much more common than the reverse. This study argues both that the border offered US corporations certain geographical and economic advantages, and that international railroad competition created a more heavily commodified and industrialized landscape in the borderlands.

Railroad building was a crucial means toward securing national unity in latenineteenth century North America. The Dominion government generously subsidized the CPR because it served as a vehicle for uniting the young nation's disparate provinces. But the railway failed to meet local needs in southern British Columbia and Alberta because its line passed north of new mining districts that prospectors were opening. Canadians in these regions perceived their national railway as monopolistic and unresponsive. The Great Northern capitalized on these divided loyalties and on many Canadian entrepreneurs' desire for closer ties with the vast US market. And the geography of southern BC, characterized by north-south running mountain ranges, favored trade between Canada and US centers over east-west trade within Canada. American railway development in Canada inspired debates about the merits of free trade versus protectionism.

Ultimately, this transnational railroad rivalry represented wasteful corporate development. Companies built lines in a purely speculative manner, and sought and disposed of federal land grants in corrupt and undemocratic ways. The Great Northern's dominance in the borderlands proved short-lived. Natural disasters, rugged topography that increased operating costs, and disappointing output from mines doomed many rail lines to failure. But Canada learned that neither its

231 national identity nor its economic security depended upon protecting an east- west flow of commerce, and the two nations remained closely integrated economically in the post-World War I period.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Warren, Louis S.

Committee members: Taylor, Alan S., Kelman, Ari, Leonard, Frank

School: University of California, Davis

Department: History

School Location: United States -- California

Keyword(s): Railroad, International competition, Environmental change, Borderlands, United States, Borderlands studies / history, British Columbia, Canada / Canadian history, Environmental history / environmental studies, Mining history, Railroad history and development

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Canadian history, American history, Geography, Environmental Studies, Transportation planning

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======Document 30 of 50 Creek diplomacy in an imperial Atlantic world Parmelee, Deena L.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0141, Part 0337 257 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430781.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** "Creek Diplomacy in an Imperial Atlantic World," argues that Creek leaders saw opportunities for Creek peoples to play an important political and economic role in the Atlantic world even while the Confederacy itself was still forming. This study explores Creek participation in the Atlantic world in two ways. First, it traces Creek diplomatic travel to European centers. Second, it examines Creek reception of European traders and diplomats in Creek towns. In this way, it traces Creek diplomacy in its external and internal forms, as Creeks moved outward to establish diplomatic relations with others, and dealt with outsiders who came to them for the same purpose.

Creek diplomats traveled extensively to promote their aims for almost three centuries. They visited important seats of European power in the American southeast, and they sent delegations to England, Mexico, and Canada. The Creeks were often successful in these missions, and their hosts recognized the Creeks' economic and political goals. The way Creeks dealt with outsiders within Creek territories is equally revealing of Creek understanding of their Atlantic world. Reception of European and Native American diplomats provided a crucial source of information for Creek people. Creeks preserved knowledge they gleaned from these visitors and passed that knowledge down over the generations.

"Creek Diplomacy" argues that the peoples who comprised the Creek Confederacy began learning about Europeans well before they coalesced into the Confederacy. Linguistics, cultural elements, and archaeological evidence demonstrate that

233 the Creek Confederacy was formed partly from the refugees of previous cultures from across the southeastern region. These peoples brought to the Creek Confederacy not only their languages and cultures, but social memories of experiences with Europeans. By the time of the Creek Confederacy, these experiences included more than a hundred years of contact with Europeans. This study reveals the ways in which these experiences informed the development of Creek diplomatic policies.

***** References ***** * References (176)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Van Zandt, Cynthia

School: University of New Hampshire

School Location: United States -- New Hampshire

Keyword(s): Creek, Diplomacy, Atlantic world, Coweta, Alabamas, South Carolina, St. Augustine, Florida

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Native American studies

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======Document 31 of 50 'Not by might, nor by power, but by spirit': The global reform efforts of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States, 1895-1939 Phoenix, Karen E.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0337 313 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430892.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** My dissertation uses the activities of the United States Young Women's Christian Association (USYWCA) as a case study to explore U.S. cultural imperialism in India, Argentina, the Philippines, and Nigeria. USYWCA Secretaries aspired to create an apolitical and non-governmental space, which I have labeled "Y-space." According to its proponents, Y-space would not only be located in physical places and programs, but would also extend to create a global fellowship of women. Liberal, emancipatory, and ecumenical, this space would be tied in Christian fellowship to other organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association and the World Student Christian Federation. However, it would also ideally reach beyond a purely religious fellowship. USYWCA Secretaries intended that Y-space would be a feminist space, which would advance women's interests and equality with men. They envisioned Y-space as modern, egalitarian, and based in voluntary association that valued individualism and was ultimately generated from the grass-roots. USYWCA Secretaries also envisioned Y-space as transformative, as it enabled women to absorb a common sensibility, regardless of their geographic location. Women within Y-space would therefore be cosmopolitan and color blind, valuing women from diverse classes, races, and nations. Because USYWCA Secretaries generally eschewed rhetorics of nation and empire, they tended to view their efforts as politically neutral and even at times anti-imperial.

However, I find their efforts to be more mixed and nuanced. Each of the chapters therefore addresses not only the intentions of the USYWCA Secretaries, but also the ways that their attempts to achieve Y-space often served to bolster or perpetuate existing race, class, and national hierarchies. In

235 chapter one, I assess the efforts of USYWCA Secretaries to establish Y-space in the United States. While the Secretaries generally believed that they were meeting the needs of women and that their programs were egalitarian and democratic, I find that their efforts had racial and class limits, and often excluded poor and non-white women. Chapter two examines the USYWCA Secretaries' attempts to create a type of egalitarian and multicultural Social Gospel in India. However, I find that they were unable to transcend their colonial context, and despite their anti-imperial protestations, they served the interests of the British Empire. Chapter three considers the YWCA's building in Buenos Aires, which USYWCA Secretaries intended would help women enter the public sphere by providing a physically safe place for migrating women and a socially respectable space for working women. However, rather than serving the needs of poor women or women from Buenos Aires, the YWCA focused its efforts on the needs of white-collar and Euro-American women, and it served the interests of U.S. and British capital in Argentina. In the Philippines, the subject of chapter four, YWCA recreation programs appeared to value Filipinas and to overturn many colonial assumptions. However, these programs were also geared to facilitate women's internalization of colonial constructions of the body, establish U.S. women as experts, and perpetuate national difference and colonial culture. In the final chapter, I examine the activities of Celestine Smith, the only African-American USYWCA Secretary to go abroad with the YWCA prior to World War II. In Nigeria, Smith attempted to create the same types of programs that the USYWCA developed elsewhere. However, the USYWCA refused to support her work--not only because the overtly race-based British colonialism in Nigeria disrupted USYWCA Secretaries' sense of Y-space as race-blind, but also because white USYWCA leaders were unable to fully confront their own racism.

Taken together, these case studies show that although the USYWCA Secretaries viewed their projects as both liberatory and exceptional, their work tended to advance U.S. interests. First, while USYWCA Secretaries believed that they were creating an apolitical and value-free space, Y-space was rooted in their conception that women should aspire to U.S. standards, regardless of who the women were or where they were located. This meant that the end goal of Y-space was Americanization, and it served imperial political functions that the Secretaries failed to recognize. For example, while USYWCA Secretaries perceived themselves as being exceptionally inclusive--particularly when compared against the exclusivity of other Euro-American entities--there were

236 ways in which they maintained exclusivity. Whereas they saw themselves as anti- imperial, not only did they depend upon existing colonial structures, but they also often contributed to them. While they saw themselves as cosmopolitan, they advanced U.S. national interests as well as those of individual women. Second, once in the various locations--spanning different geographic, economic, and political contexts--USYWCA Secretaries had to contend with the politics of these places, which were often already deeply intertwined with both formal and informal colonial infrastructures. Because of this, Y-space could not escape local politics, either in the United States, where politics had a great deal to do with racial segregation and immigration, or outside of the United States, where the U.S. was a formal imperial power, an economic power, and a participant in the early 20th century global imperial system that was dominated by Great Britain. This meant that the USYWCA's work was intraimperial, rather than apolitical.

The importance of this research goes beyond the insights it provides into the USYWCA and its international programs. The case of the USYWCA's work abroad reveals how the denial of empire contributed to multiple forms of it: cultural transformation, economic dominance, direct colonial rule, and intraimperial collaborations.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Hoganson, Kristin

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Young Women's Christian Association, YWCA, U.S. imperialism, Cultural imperialism, Global reform

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Source type: Dissertation

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======Document 32 of 50 Education for the people: The Third World student movement at San Francisco State College and City College of New York Ryan, Angela Rose. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0168, Part 0337 309 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: The Ohio State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3425295.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** When did the 1960s end? Scholarly opinion holds that the spirit, energy and optimism that characterize the decade succumbed to infighting and fragmentation as the decade came to a close in 1968. My dissertation challenges this assertion by examining two influential and understudied student movements at San Francisco State College and City College of New York in 1968 and 1969. Often overlooked in favor of student protests that occurred on elite Ivy League campuses, these protests were characterized by multiracial coalitions that challenged the Eurocentric curriculum and lack of diversity at their colleges. These protests were watershed moments in higher education, and they brought about the creation of ethnic studies and the increased acceptance of students of color. In addition, the philosophy, tactics, and rhetoric espoused by these students contributed to the creation of a Third World Left, which included these students and their allies, as well as other activists of color. The

238 activism of the Third World Left continued into the 1970s and became an important site in the continuation of radical politics, thus belying the notion that "the sixties" ended in declension in 1968.

This dissertation will show that when diverse sites of activism are explored, rather than solely the white New Left, many movements outlasted the end of the 1960s, including many groups that were spawned as a result of the Third World student movement. This dissertation foregrounds the processes of coalition building among activists of color, as well as the rhetoric and philosophy developed by these students. By examining the many archival sources such as artifacts and documents from the strike, as well as interviews and oral histories with the activists, in addition to the sparse secondary sources that exist about the protests, I will argue for the seminal role of the Third World student movement in this period.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Wu, Judy Tzu-Chun

School: The Ohio State University

Department: History

School Location: United States -- Ohio

Keyword(s): Third World student movement, San Francisco State College, City College of New York, New York City, California, Student activism

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Education history, Political science

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======Document 33 of 50 "Red War on the Family": Sex, Gender, and Americanism, 1919--1929 Ryan, Erica Jean. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 291 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430076.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Gender, Americanism, Red Scare, Bolshevism, 1920s

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Source type: Dissertation

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Subjects: American history, Gender studies

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======Document 34 of 50 The unquiet Americans: GI dissent during the Vietnam War Seidman, Derek W.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 287 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430153.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Self, Robert O.

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Dissent, Vietnam War, Armed Forces, Soldiers, Protest, Antiwar movement

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Military history

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======Document 35 of 50 Campaigning for authenticity Seifert, Erica J.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0141, Part 0337 395 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New Hampshire: University of New Hampshire; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430776.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** In the fall of 1976 Jimmy Carter wanted to be "an American President... who is not isolated from our people, but a President who feels your pain and who shares your dreams." With humble, hopeful, homey images of Plains, Georgia, campaign advertisements sold Carter as a fresh-off-the-farm, peanut-picking Cincinnatus--an authentic American to whom voters could relate.

Authenticity became increasingly important to candidate selection in the late twentieth century for multiple reasons. As a priority of the Babyboom Generation, the value of authenticity informed Americans' relationships to own another and evaluations of their cultural products. Political and cultural upheaval resulting from Vietnam and Watergate challenged Americans' trust in politicians and campaign politics; resulting structural reforms transformed

242 presidential nomination and election processes. The growth of soft news, human interest, and television talk shows required candidates to become personally available in order to connect with voters intimately.

This dissertation examines the role of candidate image in recent American presidential elections, focusing on the dominant cultural vocabulary of authenticity. While partisan affiliation, ideology, and economic trends were all essential determinants of election outcomes between 1976 and 2000, no one theme permeated campaign discourse more than authenticity.

The bulk of this dissertation is devoted to analyzing the ways in which symbols of authenticity operated during specific election cycles. Although cultural vocabulary evolved between 1976 and 2000, several core themes dominated campaign rhetoric: colloquial language and dress, personal narrative and self- disclosure, and anti-elitism. In defining these authenticities, the project also explores negative constructions of inauthenticity associated with the "flip-flop," the Beltway elite, the Ivy League, and the Northeast. Each chapter examines a single general election season to uncover the ways in which Americans assimilated candidate images during that cycle. By examining televised and printed news, commentary, and comedy, along with political polls, campaign documents, manuscript collections, and political advertisements, this dissertation argues that Americans privileged campaign narratives that were authentically representative of themselves and their country.

***** References ***** * References (475)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Dorsey, Kurk

School: University of New Hampshire

School Location: United States -- New Hampshire

Keyword(s): Campaigns, Elections, Authenticity, Personality, Presidential elections, Politics

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Political science

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======Document 36 of 50 By Forests or By Fields: Organizing Immigrant Labor in the Pacific Northwest, 1940--1990 Sifuentez, Mario Jimenez, II. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 265 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430080.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

***** References ***** * References (156)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Garcia, Matthew

School: Brown University

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School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Immigrant, Pacific Northwest, Labor organizing, PCUN, UFW, United Farm Workers, Braceros, Mexican

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American studies, American history, Labor relations, Hispanic American studies

Publication AAT 3430080 Number:

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======Document 37 of 50 Defending "family values": Women's grassroots politics and the Republican Right, 1970--1980 Taranto, Stacie. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0337 327 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430155.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Buhle, Mari Jo

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Grassroots politics, Republican Right, Women's politics, Conservative women, New York, Family values

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Womens studies, Political science

Publication AAT 3430155 Number:

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======Document 38 of 50 Beyond Retrenchment: The Political and Ideological Foundations of the New American Welfare State, 1970--2000 Johnson, Jeremy B.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0615 511 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island:

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***** References ***** * References (571)

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Morone, James A.

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

Keyword(s): Welfare state, Republican Party, Housing, Pensions

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Political science, Public policy

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Document 39 of 50 The effect of partisanship in election law judicial decision-making Kopko, Kyle Casimir. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0168, Part 0615 207 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: The Ohio State University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3425292.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation seeks to determine if, and to what extent, federal judges behave in a partisan manner when deciding politically salient election law cases. Specifically, do judges favor the interests of their political party, after controlling for judicial policy preferences? The main hypothesis that I seek to test is the relationship between case votes and the interests of a judge's political party in a given election law case. I posit that when the judge's political party benefits from a ruling for the plaintiff/defendant, a judge will be more likely to rule for the plaintiff/defendant. I also test four additional hypotheses, all of which should moderate the relationship between partisan interests and case votes. I test the effects of political career experience, age, court of appeals membership, and partisan panel composition on the likelihood of a judge ruling in favor of her political party.

To test these hypotheses, I model the case votes of federal district court and court of appeals judges in campaign finance, political party right to association, and redistricting cases from 1962 through 2007. To control for a judge's policy preferences, I impute first and second dimension common space scores for all federal judges in my dataset. Of the three categories of election law cases examined in this dissertation, only the campaign finance models consistently produce a statistically significant partisanship effect. There is also evidence of a conditional partisanship effect in redistricting cases, which is contingent on the partisan composition of a three-judge district court. Additionally, judicial policy preferences are statistically significant predictors of judicial behavior in political party right to association and redistricting cases, and campaign finance cases that do not involve the interests of the Democratic and Republican Parties. While most political science models of judicial behavior emphasize policy preferences or a combination of law and policy preferences to explain and predict judicial behavior, the results of this dissertation provide evidence that social groups could be another important, systematic influence on judicial behavior. Specifically, these results suggests that judges hold separate sets of

248 preferences: preferences for preferred in-groups (such as a political party) and policy preferences. Therefore, judicial scholars should consider, when appropriate, the influence of personally salient social in-groups when modeling judicial behavior.

While the influence of partisan preferences in any form is troubling, the results demonstrate that the effect of partisanship is not pervasive in all areas of election law. As such, policy makers should decide if any semblance of partisanship is unacceptable in the federal courts before considering any potential reforms or changes to the judiciary.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Baum, Lawrence

School: The Ohio State University

Department: Political Science

School Location: United States -- Ohio

Keyword(s): Partisanship, Election law, Judicial decision-making

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Law, Political science

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======Document 40 of 50 What keeps them going: Factors that sustain U.S. women's life-long peace and social justice activism McKevitt, Susan. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 1216, Part 0615 306 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Ohio: Antioch University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430542.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation is a mixed methods sequential study on the factors that sustain U.S. women's life-long peace and social justice activism. The specific cohort of women sought for this study was those who entered their social justice activism during the late 1950s through the early 1970s and were active in the U.S. civil rights struggles, the anti-Vietnam war movement, or participated in the second phase of the women's liberation movement. Through utilizing a snowballing process, fifty-seven participants were obtained for the quantitative survey phase of the study from which the ten participants (five White, five women of Color) were selected for the qualitative or interview stage. Based on the survey and interview data, four factors emerged as sustaining life-long peace and social justice activism: historical perspective, relationships, gender and race, and having a personal spiritual belief. The study also offers definitions for activist, social justice, long-term (or life- long), explains how peace is looked at herein, and briefly addresses adult development, feminist standpoint, and essentialist theories. This study begins to fill the gap in research on social justice and peace activist by including women, focusing on sustainability factors, and by extending the concept of life-long or long-term activism. Further research opportunities are suggested as this study is an entry into the subject matter, along with some suggestions to current and future peace and social justice activists on how to sustain their activism for the long haul. The study concludes with some personal reflections. The electronic version of this dissertation is at OhioLink ETD

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Alexandre, Laurien

Committee members: Alexandre, Laurien

School: Antioch University

Department: Leadership and Change

School Location: United States -- Ohio

Keyword(s): United States, Peace activism, Social justice, Women activists, Social movements, Mixed method

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Womens studies, Peace Studies, Political science

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======Document 41 of 50 He Hawai'i Kakou: Conflicts and continuities of history, culture and identity in Hawai'i Moore, Peter Kalawaia. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0085, Part 0615 364 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Hawaii: University of Hawai'i at Manoa; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429744.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This work begins by examining the production of a Hawaiian in narrative and identity across three distinctive discursive formations in Hawai'i, a Hegemonic American discourse, an Indigenous Native Hawaiian nationalist discourse, and a Hawaiian State-based nationalist discourse including an analysis of how power/ knowledge is deployed through discourse in a struggle over control of the Hawaiian subject, and a critique of Hawaiian nationalisms engaged in this process. It ends with an examination of the struggle between these discursive formations as expressed in literary, imaginative discourse, where Hawaiians reflect the discursive struggles taking place, offer solutions beyond those expressed in discourses of law and government, and express other forces at work in the production of discourse, narrative and identity like the operation of`aumakua, the suprasensible.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Shapiro, Michael

School: University of Hawai'i at Manoa

School Location: United States -- Hawaii

Keyword(s): Culture, Identity, Hawaii, Hawaiian politics, Hawaiian literature, Subjectivity, Discourse analysis

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Subjects: Political science

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======Document 42 of 50 Reckoning with a violent and lawless past: A study of race, violence and reconciliation in Tennessee Russell, Carrie A.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0242, Part 0615 288 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Tennessee: Vanderbilt University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430744.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Abstract not available.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Swain, Carol M.

School: Vanderbilt University

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Keyword(s): Tennessee, Lynching, Pogroms, Political apologies, Race

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Political science

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======Document 43 of 50 Conditional extremism---When do exclusionary national identities spur hostility to immigrants & radical right support? Schram, Laura N.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0127, Part 0615 194 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Michigan: University of Michigan; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429488.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Exclusionary national identity is a defining feature of radical right party ideology. Radical right politicians campaign by fomenting hostility toward immigrants and promoting a restrictive view of national identity. Yet, in my cross-national analysis of public opinion data, I find that restrictive views of national identity are not associated with support for radical right parties. Nor does hostility toward immigrants always go hand in hand with a restrictive

254 view of national identity according to past scholarship. Why do radical right parties appear to be successful in some cases by campaigning on these issues? My dissertation explains why by showing by showing that the manifestation of latent exclusionary national identity into popular radical right support depends on the "perfect storm" of cultural and economic threats--such as increased levels of migration and unemployment--as well as the permissiveness of electoral laws--such as those in high district magnitude proportional representation systems Analyses use data from the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) 1995 and 2003 modules on National Identity.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Brader, Ted

School: University of Michigan

School Location: United States -- Michigan

Keyword(s): National identity, Radical right parties, Xenophobia, Radical right, Immigration

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Social psychology, Political science

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======Document 44 of 50 Platforms and party development: Regional diversity, party platforms, and the institutionalization of the two-party system in nineteenth century America Silver, Adam M.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2011. Section 0017, Part 0615 179 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Massachusetts: Boston University; 2011. Publication Number: AAT 3430424.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Many theorists have argued that a healthy two-party system demands that each party offer a clear alternate program to the voting public. A key question pertaining to 19th century American political development is whether such a two-party system existed. Throughout the 19th century, the parties attempted to mediate local, state, and national conflicts in order to forge a winning electoral coalition. The question here is how parties articulated their electoral appeals to their various constituencies. Did party leaders offer clear divergent policy positions to their voters? Did the parties become more or less polarized over time? When were the parties less divergent? On what issues were the parties more polarized or internally divided?

This dissertation attempts to answer these questions by examining the growth of the two-party system in the 19th century United States. The study primarily focuses on the interaction of the elites of the Democrats and Whig/Republicans in forging their message to the electorate. The methodology includes a content analysis of national and state party platforms during presidential election years 1840 through 1896 to show when and where parties emphasized certain issue proposals in their platforms.

This analysis suggests that over time, the two major parties increasingly tended to emphasize the same issues and offer divergent positions in their platforms. Concurrently, the parties are generally internally cohesive in that the national and state organizations of each party emphasize the same issues to similar degrees. In addition, party leaders set the political agenda by

256 consistently referencing economic concerns in greater salience and specificity rather than cultural concerns in party platforms. Slavery and cultural concerns only seem to gamer recognition when party leaders cannot possibly ignore them.

Overall, this is a story of party consensus and divergence--cross-party consensus on what matters and divergence on where the parties stand; as well as intra-party convergence on issue salience and position. Ultimately, the dissertation provides further insights into elite strategy and the development of American party system throughout the 19th century; and offers possible avenues of discussion for party polarization and cohesion in contemporary American politics.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Gerring, John

School: Boston University

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Regional diversity, Party platforms, Two-party system, Nineteenth century, U.S. political parties, Political history, United States

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Political science

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======Document 45 of 50 Southern maladies: Politics and public health in the pre-civil rights South, 1902--1950 Sledge, Daniel Davis. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0058, Part 0615 296 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Cornell University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429854.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation explores the development of systems of public health in the American South. It argues that debilitating diseases, including hookworm, pellagra, and malaria, played an important role in southern economic underdevelopment at the beginning of the twentieth century. Between 1930 and 1930, however, a workable system of public health, based on cooperation between the federal government, private philanthropy, emerged in the southern United States. Initially spurred by war, federal intervention was continued as a result of bureaucratic entrepreneurship. In 1935, the system of federal-state- county cooperation developed in the South was nationalized as Title VI of the Social Security Act, providing the framework for our contemporary system of public health. By the end of World Way II, hookworm, pellagra, and malaria had largely been eliminated in the southern United States. This dissertation argues that public health workers, largely unconstrained by accountability to national-level governing institutions, created networks of public and private cooperation, which were formalized into institutional arrangements for confronting the region's pressing public health concerns. Public health workers convinced local elites to support public health programs by relying on arguments grounded in local understandings of race, disease, and economic development. Emerging networks of local support and political legitimacy were further underpinned by the genuine threats posed by disease and the demonstrated competence and capacity of the Rockefeller Foundation and the

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United States Public Health Service. Local support and political legitimacy, generated by entrepreneurial public health workers at the ground level, was translated into national-level legitimacy in the aftermath of two focusing events, the 1927 flood of the Mississippi River and the 1930-1931 southern drought. Although the contemporary "Sunbelt" is unimaginable without the elimination of sharecropping and racial segregation and the advent of air- conditioning, it is equally unimaginable without the elimination of hookworm, pellagra, and malaria. Just as outside intervention played a crucial role in the elimination of the South's debilitating diseases, this dissertation argues, the region's paradoxical needs for both outside assistance and local autonomy to preserve white supremacy and segregation played a central role in defining the contours of public health throughout the nation.

***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Bensel, Richard F.

School: Cornell University

School Location: United States -- New York

Keyword(s): Public health, South, Race, Economic underdevelopment, Bureaucracy, American political development, Underdevelopment

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Public health, Political science

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======Document 46 of 50 The world is plural: Democratic contributions of Hannah Arendt Zuckerwise, Lena Kay. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0118, Part 0615 260 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427615.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Drawing on seminal texts and lesser known works, this dissertation brings the political theory of Hannah Arendt into the company of several key debates in democratic theory. Though she is most renowned for her theory of political action, it is my contention that Arendt's concept of World can productively change the very terms by which democratic politics is most often understood and questioned. World, in this case, refers to physical and symbolic matters of commonality that are constructed by and for humans. This project begins with a genealogy of that traces its development of World through Arendt's own biography including her experience as a female philosopher decades before the feminist movement, German Jewish refugee, and immigrant living in the United States. The following chapter explores the shortcomings of Arendt's concept of political action, arguing in particular that it limits and forecloses democratic political possibilities. The third chapter brings World to bear on the question of whether unity or difference is necessary for the consolidation of the demos, a well-mined debate in democratic theory that the conceptual terms of World can alter and amend. The final section uses the concept of World to contest the popular depiction of globalization that Thomas Friedman champions in his well known works. This is in service of an argument that World can offer a productive critique of the destructive aspects of globalization, particularly the narrative of capitalist inevitability that often undergirds them.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Cruikshank, Barbara R.

Committee members: Xenos, Nicholas, Lovett, Laura L.

School: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department: Political Science

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Germany, Action, Arendt, Hannah, Democracy, Globalization, Politics, World

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Philosophy, Political science

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Document 47 of 50 Politics at the water's edge: The presidency, Congress, and the North Korea policy of the United States Ahn, Taehyung. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 1023, Part 0601 215 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Florida: Florida International University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431294.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** For all their efforts to avoid a nuclear North Korea, the Clinton and Bush administrations failed to achieve this goal, the most important policy objective of the United States in its relations with North Korea for decades, mainly because of inconsistencies in U.S. policy. This dissertation seeks to explain why both administrations ultimately failed to prevent North Korea from going nuclear. It finds the origins of this failure in the implementation of different U.S. policy options toward North Korea during the Clinton and Bush administrations.

To explain the lack of policy consistency, the dissertation investigates how the relations between the executive and the legislative branches and, more specifically, different government types--unified government and divided government--have affected U.S. policy toward North Korea. It particularly emphasizes the role of Congress and partisan politics in the making of U.S. policy toward North Korea.

This study finds that divided government played a pivotal role. Partisan politics are also central to the explanation: politics did not stop at the water's edge. A divided U.S. government produced more status quo policies toward North Korea than a unified U.S. government, while a unified government produced more active policies than a divided government. Moreover, a unified government with a Republican President produced more aggressive policies toward North Korea, whereas a unified government with a Democratic President produced more conciliatory policies. This study concludes that the different government types and intensified partisan politics were the main causes of the inconsistencies in the United States' North Korea policy that led to a nuclear North Korea.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Kowert, Paul A.

School: Florida International University

School Location: United States -- Florida

Keyword(s): Foreign policy, Congress, Korea, North Korea, Divided government, Presidency, Partisan politics, American foreign policy

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: International Relations, Political science

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======Document 48 of 50 Inter-subjective and transnational racial effects: The role of the United States in the formation and evolution of the collective perception and racial relations in Cuba, 1898--1902 Bryant, Tiffany Yolanda Jimmece. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 1023, Part 0601 293 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Florida: Florida International University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT

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***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Since the arrival of the first African slaves to Cuba in 1524, the issue of race has had a long-lived presence in the Cuban national discourse. However, despite Cuba's colonial history, it has often been maintained by some historians that race relations in Cuba were congenial with racism and racial discrimination never existing as deep or widespread in Cuba as in the United States (Cannon, 1983, p. 113). In fact, it has been argued that institutionalized racism was introduced into Cuban society with the first U.S. occupation, during 1898-1902 (Cannon, 1983, p. 113).

This study of Cuba investigates the influence of the United States on the development of race relations and racial perceptions in post-independent Cuba, specifically from 1898-1902. These years comprise the time period immediately following the final fight for Cuban Independence, culminating with the Cuban- Spanish-American War and the first U.S. occupation of Cuba. By this time, the Cuban population comprised Africans as well as descendants of Africans, White Spanish people, indigenous Cubans, and offspring of the intermixing of the groups. This research studies whether the United States' own race relations and racial perceptions influenced the initial conflicting race relations and racial perceptions in early and post-U.S. occupation Cuba.

This study uses a collective interpretative framework that incorporates a national level of analysis with a race relations and racial perceptions focus. This framework reaches beyond the traditionally utilized perspectives when interpreting the impact of the United States during and following its intervention in Cuba. Attention is given to the role of the existing social, political climate within the United States as a driving influence of the United States' involvement with Cuba.

This study reveals that emphasis on the role of the United States as critical to the development of Cuba's race relations and racial perceptions is credible given the extensive involvement of the U.S. in the building of the early Cuban Republic and U.S. structures serving as models for reconstruction. U.S. government formation in Cuba aligned with a governing system reflecting the existing governing codes of the U.S. during that time period.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Martin, Felix E.

School: Florida International University

School Location: United States -- Florida

Keyword(s): United States, Cuba, Race relations, U.S. occupation in Cuba, U.S. racism in Cuba, Spanish-American War

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Latin American history, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, International Relations

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Jimenez, Benedict S.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0617 301 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431209.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This research examines how the local public sector structural design influences local government spending. Using a pooled cross-sectional, time series research design with data from 1992 to 2002, the study focuses on total spending, as well as spending for specific types of services, of all types of local governments in the 362 Metropolitan Statistical Areas and New England City and Town Areas in the United States. The main data sources are the Census of Governments and the Decennial Census from the U.S. Census Bureau.

In contrast to previous studies, this dissertation argues that the local public sector structure has both vertical and horizontal dimensions. The vertical dimension refers to the different tiers of government in a federated system while the horizontal structure refers to the government units in each tier. Each dimension can be characterized in terms of the degree of fragmentation (or the number of government levels or units) and dispersion (or distribution of fiscal responsibilities across government levels or units).

The research uses the Institutional Analysis and Development framework to identify the different ways the local public sector structural arrangement can influence the level of government spending. Specifically, the research argues that that the design of the local governing system shapes spending through its effects on government competition, spatial economic segregation patterns, urban development patterns, and inter-local cooperation.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Hendrick, Rebecca

School: University of Illinois at Chicago

School Location: United States -- Illinois

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Keyword(s): Government fragmentation, Urban sprawl, Tiebout model, Interlocal cooperation, Economic segregation, Government spending

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Public administration

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======Document 50 of 50 An exploratory study of management reform diffusion in the U.S. federal government Marc-Aurele, Frederick Joseph, Jr.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0659, Part 0617 990 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- New York: Syracuse University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3429064.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** The historical roots of management innovation in American government extend all the way back to its founding. Periodically, robust eras of reform accelerate institutional evolution, including reforms expected to improve government management processes and systems. Fortunately, the mid- to late-1990s study period presented a unique research opportunity due to the accumulating forces

267 of reaction (i.e. "managerialism") to the rational-legal bureaucratic reforms instituted and elaborated upon throughout the Progressive, New Deal, and Great Society reform eras of the Twentieth Century. This reinventing government impulse strongly resonated with a global public management reform movement and other forces in the institutional environment of the U.S. federal government to stimulate the diffusion of wave-after-wave of new management ideas (i.e. innovations) across the bureaucracy. The multi-level and multi-dimensional triangulation research design methodology employed in this study takes advantage of the abovementioned window-of-opportunity to investigate the following research questions. Can the diffusion-of-innovations theoretical paradigm be extended to explain the management reform diffusion process in government organizations in general and federal agencies in particular? If so, what type of process is it? How does the process unfold? What important causal forces and relationships are observed? What effect do these forces have on the diffusion and relative impact of reform? The cumulative empirical evidence amassed herein demonstrates that the diffusion-of-innovations theoretical paradigm can be successfully adapted and applied to accurately model the process of management reform diffusion in federal agencies. Also, incorporating organizational change impact into diffusion-of-innovations modeling to produce a type of system impact analysis constitutes an important next step in exploring "soft" innovations like management reform in government organizations. In addition, empirical scrutiny of organization level behavioral tendencies during the reform diffusion process yields important insights and process management opportunities of interest to practitioners of public administration. In summary, the triangulation design approach applied herein results in the discovery of patterns of agency behavior not readily observed in previous public administration research concerning bureaucratic reform in general and management reform in particular.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Bretschneider, Stuart I.

School: Syracuse University

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Keyword(s): Management reform diffusion, Federal government, Innovation diffusion, Organizational change, Reinventing government, Adoption and implementation, United States

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Public administration, Organization Theory, Organizational behavior

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The good, the bad, and the beautiful: Motherhood, occupational prestige and the roles of women in Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s Hoover, Tracey Kim. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0032, Part 0626 167 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- California: University of California, Riverside; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3426132.

The transformation of the U.S. feminist movement, 1910--2005 Faupel, Alison. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0700 401 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423059.

Till death do us part or the lease runs out: A reassessment of cohabitation and marriage in the United States Kuperberg, Arielle T.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0175, Part 0700 221 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431138.

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Building main street: Village improvement and the American small town ideal Makker, Kirin J.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0118, Part 0999 215 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States - - Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427554.

Taking care of business? Connecting workforce and economic development in Chicago Schrock, Gregory Ryan. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0999 287 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431266.

Contemporary American sport, muscular Christianity, Lance Armstrong, and religious experience Meyer, Andrew Richard. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0575 190 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431016.

Document 1 of 6 The good, the bad, and the beautiful: Motherhood, occupational prestige and the roles of women in Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s Hoover, Tracey Kim. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0032, Part 0626 167 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- California: University of California, Riverside; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3426132.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Cultural stereotypes and controlling images have been embedded in U.S. cinema, especially since the end of the Second World War. Women have been disempowered and marginalized by these images. It is important to explore the existence and prevalence of these images in order to understand the impact this medium has on women's occupational choices. It is particularly important to study the cultural expectations of motherhood for women, and the influence post-World War

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II films has had on occupational gender role expectations A feminist content analysis of the themes present in 104 U.S. films from the years 1939 to 1959, along with 11 remade versions (1978 to 2008) of films in the sample was conducted as a means to find evidence in support of intersectional feminist theory's position in regard to female representation in film, and the extent to which this representation has changed over time. The review of the 1,150 lead characters in the 115 films was done through the use of a content review sheet which was developed by the researcher through the use of prior research and previously used review sheets in studies using similar research designs. The analysis revealed themes and patterns, including but not limited to, the idea that careers should be secondary to romantic and marital relationships in women's lives; women appear in significantly fewer numbers than men in primary roles; women of color were portrayed characters who served white women; women are portrayed more often as mothers during the 1950s than the 1940s. In addition, non-white women are not adequately represented in the films. The films project the message that white women are secondary to men, and that women of color are secondary to white women.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Miller, Toby, Aguirre, Adalberto

Committee members: Coltrane, Scott, Reese, Ellen

School: University of California, Riverside

Department: Sociology

School Location: United States -- California

Keyword(s): Motherhood, Occupational prestige, Women characters, Nineteen 40s, Nineteen 50s, Films, Hollywood, Occupation, Race, Women

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

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Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Womens studies, Sociology, Film studies

Publication AAT 3426132 Number:

ISBN: 9781124263212

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did=2177433711&Fmt=6&clientId=17454&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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======Document 2 of 6 The transformation of the U.S. feminist movement, 1910--2005 Faupel, Alison. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0665, Part 0700 401 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Georgia: Emory University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3423059.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** The transformation of the U.S. women's movement after its peaks in the 1920s and 1970s remains largely understudied by both historians and sociologists, who often postulate that the movement dissipated after these initial gains. This oversight is unfortunate, considering these periods are a rich source of information in understanding how and why movements evolve. I draw on the women's movement as a case study to explore the conditions under which movements shift from collectivist to individualist ideology, discontinue the identification of opponents, and replace political goals with cultural goals. Two theories offer competing explanations for these phenomena. The New Social Movement paradigm argues that movement individualization, depoliticization, and lack of opponents are unique to movements of the late twentieth century, which have responded to a historically unique environment that has seen the rise of

272 postmodernism and poststructuralism, neoliberalism, globalization, and increasing bureaucratization and rationalization. Political process theory, by contrast, argues that such trends are the result of periodic changes within the political and cultural opportunity structures; that is, these characteristics are likely to surface in movements that confront a hostile political and cultural climate.

I conduct a combined qualitative and quantitative content analysis of 4,900 articles published in six feminist periodicals spanning the years 1910 to 2005. I supplement these data with public records, archival material, and secondary datasets to get at key theoretical concepts embedded in both traditions. Analyses indicate that the women's movement did generally individualize and depoliticize during periods of decline, as the political and cultural environments turned increasingly hostile to organized feminism in the 1920s and again in the 1980s. Although the findings point to certain nuances in political process theory, overall they support the framework, suggesting that such trends are not recent, but rather emerge during periods when movements witness diminishing political and cultural opportunities, challenging their ability to muster widespread collective mobilization, vie with the state, and confront opponents.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Werum, Regina

Committee members: Boli, John E., Dowd, Timothy J., Franzosi, Roberto E., Brinson, Susan E.

School: Emory University

Department: Sociology

School Location: United States -- Georgia

Keyword(s): Feminism, Women's movement, Suffrage, New social movement

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theory, Political process theory, United States

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Womens studies, Social structure

Publication AAT 3423059 Number:

ISBN: 9781124234687

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did=2177374071&Fmt=6&clientId=17454&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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======Document 3 of 6 Till death do us part or the lease runs out: A reassessment of cohabitation and marriage in the United States Kuperberg, Arielle T.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0175, Part 0700 221 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431138.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Cohabitation and marriage in the United States are converging relationships for those cohabiters who eventually marry. Using the "National Survey of Families and Households" and the "National Survey of Family Growth" as data sources, this dissertation examines trends over time in cohabitation and the types of people who cohabit before marriage, differences in behavior across relationship stages, and the impact of age at entrance into cohabitation on later divorce probability. Between 1965 and 2002 premarital cohabitation has become a more common and longer lasting relationship stage, and those who do not cohabit with

274 their partner before marriage are an increasingly select group. Prior research has compared all cohabiters to all married couples and theorized that entrance into marriage is accompanied by a significant shift in behavior. Distinguishing between cohabiters with uncertain and definite marriage plans, recently married couples and those in longer term marriages, and excluding those who did not cohabit before marriage from comparisons is a more accurate way of determining if entrance into marriage affects the behavior of premarital cohabiters. Utilizing these comparison groups yields findings that entrance into marriage among premarital cohabiters is not accompanied by as significant of a change in behavior as has been found by prior research, and marital longevity in some cases affects behavior more so than entrance into marriage. The specific areas examined include work, wealth, debt, health and healthy behavior, and the gendered division of labor, including an examination of both paid and unpaid work. Finally 'counting' the start of the marriage at cohabitation for premarital cohabiters and taking into account the young age at which premarital cohabiters select and form unions with their partners explains a large portion of the effect of premarital cohabitation on divorce. Premarital cohabitation is then best described as a 'probationary marriage' and premarital cohabitation and marriage should not be conceptualized as distinct types of relationships, but as distinct stages of the same relationship.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Jacobs, Jerry

School: University of Pennsylvania

School Location: United States -- Pennsylvania

Keyword(s): Cohabitation, United States, Marriage, Divorce

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

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Subjects: Individual & family studies, Social structure, Demography

Publication AAT 3431138 Number:

ISBN: 9781124318073

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did=2190686641&Fmt=6&clientId=17454&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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======Document 4 of 6 Building main street: Village improvement and the American small town ideal Makker, Kirin J.. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0118, Part 0999 215 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Amherst; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3427554.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** Before the American small town was enshrined as an ideal, it was a space of dynamic and pioneering progressive reform, a narrative that has been largely untold in histories of professional planning and landscape history. Archival research shows that village improvement was not simply a prequel to the City Beautiful in the years following the 1893 Chicago Expo, but a rich and complex history that places the residential village at the center of debates about the middle landscape as a civic realm comprised of complimentary and oppositional pastoral and urban worldviews. The second half of the nineteenth century saw an extensive movement in village improvement that affected the physical, economic, and social infrastructure of rural settlements of all sizes in every region of the country.

As a concept referenced by planners working on comprehensively-designed suburban communities, the small town ideal has never been historicized with respect to the history and theory of the nineteenth century village landscape

276 improvements. This study broadens the study of village improvement to include the history of ideas and debates surrounding rural development on the national and local level between the 1820s and 1880s and, in doing so, argues that the discussion-born theory of village improvement within a national rural reform movement led by some of the nineteenth century's most respected and influential reformers including B.G. Northrop (education), Col. George Waring (sanitation), N.H. Egleston (conservation), Isabella Beecher Hooker (women's rights), and F.L. Olmsted, Sr. (landscape architecture) was modeled on the Laurel Hill Association in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and that the local practice of this one society over the same period together comprised the most active sustained discussion about the civic society and physical infrastructure of rural settlements in American history.

This narrative tracks reform movements in rural settlements over several decades, beginning with landscape gardening through sanitation and up to the professionalization of city planning and the country life movement. Planning veered from broadly conceived urban pastoralism and multi-disciplinary rural improvement toward preservation planning. This trend was in line with an associated shift from planning as a series of fine-grained locally led practices to expert-driven professionalized planning as grandiose comprehensive vision.

Keywords: village improvement, civic improvement, beautification, social capital, rural residence, small town, main street, comprehensive planning, sprawl, neotraditional design (NTD), new urbanism, transit oriented development (TOD), suburbia, city planning, nostalgia, pastoral, pastoral cities, urban pastoral, landscape, urban history, Beecher, Egleston, Eggleston, Northrop, Olmsted, Waring, Rockwell.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Page, Max, McGirr, Patricia

Committee members: Carr, Ethan

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School: University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department: Regional Planning

School Location: United States -- Massachusetts

Keyword(s): Civic beautification, Landscape history, Olmsted, Small town, Suburbia, Village improvement

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: American history, Landscape architecture, Urban planning

Publication AAT 3427554 Number:

ISBN: 9781124320137

Document URL: http://proquest.umi.com/ pqdweb?did=2200837161&Fmt=6&clientId=17454&RQT=309&VName=PQD

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======Document 5 of 6 Taking care of business? Connecting workforce and economic development in Chicago Schrock, Gregory Ryan. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0799, Part 0999 287 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Chicago; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431266.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** In recent years, the workforce development field has undergone a shift from an

278 orientation to poverty reduction goals toward greater orientation to employers and economic development goals. Why has this shift occurred? Why were cities like Chicago at the forefront of this change? What are the implications of this shift for the ability of policy makers and practitioners to pursue progressive changes in low-wage labor market practices?

This dissertation examines these questions through a longitudinal case study of workforce development policy and practice in Chicago since the 1980s. It analyzes the development of "first source hiring" programs under Mayor Harold Washington in the 1980s and the emergence of a community-based network of workforce and economic development organizations in the 1990s. Through analysis of archival materials and interviews of key stakeholders, I conclude that Chicago's economic and political restructuring at the time created a climate for approaches that reconciled imperatives for economic growth and social equity. But of equal importance was the ability of actors within this network to organize themselves and learn collectively from their efforts, garner resources from public and philanthropic sources, and ultimately reframe the goals of workforce development policy in ways that garnered attention and ultimately support of public policy makers both locally and nationally.

This innovation continued into the 2000s, when the City of Chicago established sector-based, employer-oriented workforce centers in Manufacturing and Hospitality/Retail. Through a comparative case study of these centers, I find that employer-oriented workforce development approaches can be conducive to pursuing progressive, "high road" labor market outcomes, but only where actors are both credible to employers, but also critical of their practices in ways that inform and legitimate progressive interventions with employers. The findings of the dissertation address recent theoretical debates about the dynamics and localized nature of institutional change within policy fields, and suggest both the possibilities and limitations of progressive approaches to linking workforce and economic development practice.

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School: University of Illinois at Chicago

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Economic development, Workforce development, Job training, Chicago, Illinois

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Economics, Urban planning

Publication AAT 3431266 Number:

ISBN: 9781124305295

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======Document 6 of 6 Contemporary American sport, muscular Christianity, Lance Armstrong, and religious experience Meyer, Andrew Richard. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0090, Part 0575 190 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Illinois: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3431016.

***** Abstract (Summary) ***** This dissertation is an examination of muscular Christian themes in

280 contemporary American sport culture and religious sensibilities. In this project I demonstrate that sport can be viewed in contemporary American culture operating as a culturally influential activity where athletes reproduce muscular Christian ideology in unique ways. To illustrate this thesis, I use American cyclist Lance Armstrong as a case study. This work displays how the media depicts particular muscular Christian themes through Lance Armstrong, which render his image in postmodern religious understandings. I have three main objectives in this dissertation: (1) to show that contemporary American sport continues to reflect particular muscular Christian ideals; (2) to demonstrate through cultural examples how Lance Armstrong reflects such values in his media characterizations; (3) examine Lance Armstrong's commercial image through the scholarship of radical orthodoxy which I suggest offers insight on how contemporary American sport can function as a religious experience. With increasing evidence that there is a decline in traditional religious participation, radical orthodoxy scholarship is useful in understanding why individuals search for God in new cultural activities, filling the void of traditional religious experiences. The ultimate goal of this project is to illustrate a condition of contemporary American culture and gain insight into the epistemological operations of sport and its figures in this context.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Sydnor, Synthia

School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

School Location: United States -- Illinois

Keyword(s): Muscular Christianity, Sport culture, Lance Armstrong

Source: DAI-B 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Religious history, American studies, Kinesiology

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ISBN: 9781124314488

Local Food Production and Community Illness Narratives: Responses to Environmental Contamination and Health Studies in the Mohawk Community of Akwesasne Hoover, Elizabeth. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0326 442 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430059.

Document 1 of 1 Local Food Production and Community Illness Narratives: Responses to Environmental Contamination and Health Studies in the Mohawk Community of Akwesasne Hoover, Elizabeth. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2010. Section 0024, Part 0326 442 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].United States -- Rhode Island: Brown University; 2010. Publication Number: AAT 3430059.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** Advisor: Krech, Shepard, III

School: Brown University

School Location: United States -- Rhode Island

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Keyword(s): Mohawk, Akwesasne, Superfund, Community-based participatory research, PCBs, environmental health, Subsistence revival, Diabetes, New York, Ontario, Quebec

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Cultural anthropology, Environmental Health, Native American studies

Publication AAT 3430059 Number:

ISBN: 9781124305523

Document 1 of 1 Holy mount: Identity, place, religion, and narrative at New Lebanon Shaker Village 1759--1861 Letourneau, Marcus Reginald. Proquest Dissertations And Theses 2009. Section 0283, Part 0366 421 pages; [Ph.D. dissertation].Canada: Queen's University (Canada); 2009. Publication Number: AAT NR65425.

283 with place, was not static in its interpretation. Nevertheless, it served as the basis for the discourses concerning the most appropriate means to live in the World, but not be of it. Few geographers have examined religiosity and spirituality systematically. This research highlights the interaction between religiosity, identity, place, and narrative as an essential element of the human condition. Religiosity is expressed through narratives and rituals and buttresses a sense of identity and belonging in place. Particular expressions of the Shaker covenantal narrative were shaped by the places in which the Shakers existed. This work examines the Shaker experience at New Lebanon Shaker Village (New York) focusing on the antebellum period. It examines the context in which the Shakers existed, the shifts in the interpretations of the Shaker covenantal narratives, and the means by which the Shaker leadership disseminated their ideas.

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***** Indexing (document details) ***** School: Queen's University (Canada)

School Location: Canada

Keyword(s): Identity, Place, Religion, New Lebanon Shaker Village, New York

Source: DAI-A 71/12, Jun 2011

Source type: Dissertation

Subjects: Religion, Geography

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