Portland State University PDXScholar Dissertations and Theses Dissertations and Theses Spring 6-17-2013 Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled deologI ies at the 1905 World's Fair in Portland, Oregon Kat Cleland Portland State University Let us know how access to this document benefits ouy . Follow this and additional works at: http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds Part of the African American Studies Commons, Asian American Studies Commons, and the Indigenous Studies Commons Recommended Citation Cleland, Kat, "Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled Ideologies at the 1905 World's Fair in Portland, Oregon" (2013). Dissertations and Theses. Paper 1019. 10.15760/etd.1019 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled Ideologies at the 1905 World’s Fair in Portland, Oregon by Kat Cleland A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History Thesis Committee: Patricia A. Schechter, Chair Richard H. Beyler Chia Yin Hsu Carl Abbott Portland State University 2013 © 2013 Kat Cleland Abstract This thesis examines the experiences of fairgoers at the Lewis and Clark Centennial, American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair held in Portland, Oregon from June to October of 1905. Historians have framed world’s fairs and international expositions as sites of legitimating narratives and restagings of empire and nationhood. This thesis focuses on women, Asian Americans, and Native Americans who interrupted and disrupted the performance and exhibition of U.S.