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Title: "'Can you imagine anything more Australian?'" Bruce Beresford's "Breaker Morant"
Creator: Gardner Susan (Susan Jane)
Date: 1981-03
Collection: Critical Arts

Title: "A bit on the side"? Gender struggles in the politics of transformation in South Africa
Creator: Hassim, Shireen
Date: 1987
Collection: Transformation : Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa

Title: "A bit on the side"? Gender struggles in the politics of transformation in South Africa
Creator: Singh, Ratnamala
Date: 1988
Collection: Transformation : Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa

Title: "A black coup" : Inkatha and the sale of Ilanga
Creator: Gillwald, Alison
Date: 1988
Collection: Transformation : Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Description: The black press in South Africa influences hundreds of thousands of readers in English and indigenous languages. The author considers the Durban-based and Inkatha-owned newspaper Ilanga and how it appears to succeed despite the political odds.

Title: "A call to honor" : Rebecca Latimer Felton and white supremacy
Creator: Hess, Mary A.
Date: 1999
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "A good defense will leave you beautiful, a bad defense will make you ugly" : gender in Muay Thai kickboxing
Creator: Glogower, Naomi Bracha
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "A histoy of telecommunication: the telegraph" : an instructional unit for television
Creator: Bopry, Jeanette
Date: 1978
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "A liberal of another colour"
Creator: Lodge, Tom, 1951-
Date: 1991
Collection: Transformation : Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Description: Robert Sobukwe is one of the Africanist heroes of South Africa. The author is convinced by the new biography of Sobukwe written by Benjamin Pogrund that he was importantly a liberal.

Title: "A more excellent way : " developing coalitions and consensus through informal networking
Creator: Gilchrist, Alison (Independent community development consultant)
Date: 1998
Collection: Journal of Social Development in Africa

Title: "A study in urbanization" : progress report on Obuasi project
Creator: Ampene, E. K. (Emmanuel K.)
Date: 1966
Collection: Research Review

Title: "All the forms today are merely parades and arrangements" : the relationship between the music and film of "Le Ballet Mécanique" and their influence on time
Creator: Baumgart, Emily Michelle
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: ABSTRACT"ALL THE FORMS TODAY ARE MERELY PARADES AND ARRANGEMENTS"THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MUSIC AND FILM OF LE BALLET MÉCANIQUE AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON TIMEByEmily Michelle BaumgartThis paper offers a structural and cognitive exploration of Léger, Murphy and Antheil's Le Ballet Mécanique of 1924. Though much recent literature has addressed the iconic and groundbreaking film by concentrating on the audio or visual elements separately, this paper addresses both as a unit; specifically, it...
Show moreABSTRACT"ALL THE FORMS TODAY ARE MERELY PARADES AND ARRANGEMENTS"THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MUSIC AND FILM OF LE BALLET MÉCANIQUE AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON TIMEByEmily Michelle BaumgartThis paper offers a structural and cognitive exploration of Léger, Murphy and Antheil's Le Ballet Mécanique of 1924. Though much recent literature has addressed the iconic and groundbreaking film by concentrating on the audio or visual elements separately, this paper addresses both as a unit; specifically, it explores the form and structure, or lack thereof, inherent in the abstract nature of the film. While some analyses have claimed there is a clear sense of organization within either film or music (Lawder, 1975; Oja, 2000), this paper takes the opposite approach by theorizing that there is no coherent form to be found in either. Instead, there is a focus on the use of irregular repetition found in both the visual and aural media: looping in the visual element and ostinato in the aural. Furthermore, this study places an emphasis on the effect these unusual techniques will have on an audience. Drawing on the cognitive literature regarding perception and attention, this paper investigates the role that non-narrative video plays in time perception and disorientation. It uses principles of Gestalt psychology and previous timing experiments to accomplish these aims, postulating that the lack of structure, repetitive nature, and disunity between visual and aural elements will lead to a distorted sense of time.
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Title: "Am I my brother's keeper?" A historiography of twentieth century Black-Jewish relations
Creator: White, Amaris J.
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Between 1920 and 2007, approximately one hundred articles and essays, twenty monographs, and six anthologies have been published on the intriguing relationship between Black and Jewish Americans. This body of scholarship is dense, wide-reaching, analytically sound, and is often times a reflection of changes in American history and society. This essay critically surveys the significant scholarship published on the relationships between African Americans and Jewish Americans during the...
Show moreBetween 1920 and 2007, approximately one hundred articles and essays, twenty monographs, and six anthologies have been published on the intriguing relationship between Black and Jewish Americans. This body of scholarship is dense, wide-reaching, analytically sound, and is often times a reflection of changes in American history and society. This essay critically surveys the significant scholarship published on the relationships between African Americans and Jewish Americans during the twentieth century. This comprehensive historiography serves as a tool for exploring how various historical interactions between Blacks and Jews were influenced by the rules, conventions, and protocols of a broader American culture. By critically studying the intersection between race, class, economics, politics, education, and identity formation, I am better able to assess historical interactions between African Americans and Jewish Americans. Looking at the associations between these two historically marginalized groups we can better understand the implications of categories such as ethnicity on intercultural coalition building and how we can overcome barriers that have strained and divided Black-Jewish relations.
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Title: "As long as I get to be me" : the formative experiences of early career female jazz instrumentalists
Creator: Penno, Anna
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: With the goal of helping to create a more inclusive environment in which jazz education can flourish, the purpose of this research is to explore the experiences of female early career jazz instrumentalists. Four female jazz instrumentalists whose college experiences were based at the same large university in a Midwestern state served as the participants for this qualitative instrumental case study. Data sources included individual interviews, a focus group interview, and field notes based on...
Show moreWith the goal of helping to create a more inclusive environment in which jazz education can flourish, the purpose of this research is to explore the experiences of female early career jazz instrumentalists. Four female jazz instrumentalists whose college experiences were based at the same large university in a Midwestern state served as the participants for this qualitative instrumental case study. Data sources included individual interviews, a focus group interview, and field notes based on observations of two participants' rehearsals and performances. Six major themes with sub-themes emerged from this study: (1) Perceptions of the influence of gender, (2) Influence of perceptions of place, (3) Influence of supportive relationships, (4) Resilience through personal characteristics, (5) Beneficial dispositions for improvisation, and (6) Salient improvisation teaching and learning approaches. Based on the findings, I recommended that music educators be cognizant of the overt and nuanced ways that gender can impact their students' experiences. This awareness could help educators recognize and minimize gendered preconceptions that could be perpetuated within their classrooms and facilitate an informed approach toward addressing gender-related challenges. Particular attention to the social dynamics among students may help to cultivate mutually respectful peer relationships. Students could benefit from both theoretical and aural approaches to improvisation learning as well as extensive opportunities to apply and enhance their abilities through performance.
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Title: "Better than they were before" : athletics and American military preparedness during the Great War
Creator: Clubine, Douglas Lincoln
Date: 1994
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Boil-off calorimetry" for determining food enthalpy
Creator: Groesbeck, Charles Wellington
Date: 1972
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Corruption within the labor movement" : an attempt at definition through analysis of applicable literature
Creator: Cherry, James Edward
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "De Voortrekkers" (1916) : some stereotypes and narrative conventions
Creator: Van Zyl, Hannes
Date: 1980-03
Collection: Critical Arts

Title: "Dhlakama é maningue nice!" : an atypical former guerrilla in the Mozambican electoral campaign
Creator: Cahen, Michel
Date: 1998
Collection: Transformation : Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
Description: You may or may not agree with many Mozambicans that RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama is "maningue" nice but Michel Cahen's analysis suggests some of the complexities of politics in South Africa's most populous neighbour. This analysis finally moves the question of foreign intervention away from centre stage in discussions about Mozambique to focus on internal factors and the dilemmas of nation-building in Africa.

Title: "Ditiro tsa ditlhabololo" : Botswana as a developmental state
Creator: Taylor, Ian, 1969-
Date: 2003
Collection: Pula : Botswana Journal of African Studies
Description: Of those countries outside of Asia that have recorded phenomenal levels of economic growth, it has been the so-called "developmental states" of Botswana and Mauritius that have performed well. Indeed, Botswana has had the most impressive growth figures in the world. The example of Botswana contradicts orthodox accounts of how development is best pursued, suggesting that retaining a competent and efficient state structure, rather than dismantle it as Structural Adjustment Programmes demand, is...
Show moreOf those countries outside of Asia that have recorded phenomenal levels of economic growth, it has been the so-called "developmental states" of Botswana and Mauritius that have performed well. Indeed, Botswana has had the most impressive growth figures in the world. The example of Botswana contradicts orthodox accounts of how development is best pursued, suggesting that retaining a competent and efficient state structure, rather than dismantle it as Structural Adjustment Programmes demand, is the key to future development. However, this is not to say that Botswana's development trajectory has not been unproblematic--the country has immense levels of inequality and poverty. But nor is it to deny that there have been elements within Botswana's post-independence history that other African states may take on board.
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Title: "Downfall" : the American plans for the invasion of Japan in World War II
Creator: Vander Linde, Dean M. (Dean Marvin)
Date: 1987
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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