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Title: "Der Kommende Mensch" Georg Kaisers dramenform und intention
Creator: Bubser, Reinhold K.
Date: 1974
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Do what you can" : creating an institution, the Ladies' Library Associations in Michigan, 1852-1900
Creator: Jackson, Mildred Louise, 1960-
Date: 1998
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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

Title: "Echos of papiers collés in Picasso's 'El Guernica'"
Creator: Múnera-Ferreira, Angela
Date: 1991
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Errorless" discrimination learning and transfer in the mentally retarded
Creator: Krips, Lawrence Joseph
Date: 1971
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Evangelical Christian college" : constituent understandings and perceptions
Creator: Piper, Everett Gale
Date: 2002
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Ever learning to dwell" : habitability in nineteenth and twentieth century American literature
Creator: Wilson, Christine Renee
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Exile is hell" : Black internationalism and Robert F. Williams's activist network in the Cold War, 1950-1969
Creator: Mares, Richard M.
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The precarious positions of African American political exiles provide an instructive window into the fluctuations of international support for the black freedom struggle. Exile Is Hell examines the strategies used by Robert F. Williams's activist network to survive and maintain their involvement in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement from outside the United States. Expatriates such as Williams, Richard Gibson, Julian Mayfield, and others most plainly bore the vicissitudes of political...
Show moreThe precarious positions of African American political exiles provide an instructive window into the fluctuations of international support for the black freedom struggle. Exile Is Hell examines the strategies used by Robert F. Williams's activist network to survive and maintain their involvement in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement from outside the United States. Expatriates such as Williams, Richard Gibson, Julian Mayfield, and others most plainly bore the vicissitudes of political shifts occurring in the 1960s against the backdrop of the Cold War. Exile Is Hell tracks this ebb and flow by foregrounding the day-to-day experiences of Williams, Gibson, Mayfield, and others to reveal their methods of navigating an erratic political climate and capricious activist community. International rhetoric formed an integral component of the Black Power era, yet many activists struggled to forge lasting, transnational coalitions due to the variable politics of the Cold War. Using Williams as the central hub of this activist network, this project contributes a detailed narrative of exile through a collective biography that explores the daily work of expanding the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement to incorporate global ambitions. This research further establishes the impact of changes in international support upon an activist network in order to extrapolate the effects on the African American freedom struggle.
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Title: "Fan the flames" : the theories and activism of Chicana/o communists between 1968-1990
Creator: Bonilla, Eddie
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation examines the debates around Chicana/o nationalism, nationhood, and self-determination by using archival documents and oral histories to study the ideologies and actions of the August 29th Movement (ATM) and the League of Revolutionary Struggle that interpreted the Marxist canon based on their unique experiences as Chicana/os in the U.S to organize against oppression. I explore how these groups used a hybrid of nationalist ideologies with those around class to contribute to...
Show moreThis dissertation examines the debates around Chicana/o nationalism, nationhood, and self-determination by using archival documents and oral histories to study the ideologies and actions of the August 29th Movement (ATM) and the League of Revolutionary Struggle that interpreted the Marxist canon based on their unique experiences as Chicana/os in the U.S to organize against oppression. I explore how these groups used a hybrid of nationalist ideologies with those around class to contribute to both the intellectual tradition of Latina/o activism while diversifying our understanding of activists who utilized the Marxist canon. The activists in these organizations complicate the dominant narratives of identity politics of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s to further enrich the legacy of the Chicana/o movement as one that was ideologically diverse, international, cross-racial, and cross-ethnic. The multi-and cross-racial framework in this research highlights the intersection of race, class, and gender by activists seeking equal citizenship and an end to U.S. capitalism and imperialism. This project is an intellectual, social, and institutional history of Chicana/o communists between the 1960s and 1990.The every-day lives of communist activists fighting for better citizenship and democratic rights during the global Cold War are at the center of this study. These groups and activists identified as some combination of Marxists, Leninists, Maoists, or Stalinists at a time when political surveillance was rampant and being affiliated with communism was seen as being anti-American. I explore how the organizations responded to this surveillance and how they continued to operate across various spheres of activism including in the labor sector, on college campuses, and in electoral politics by using a United Front approach.I show how the groups mobilized among lower stratum workers in the auto industry, cannery factories, and among hotel and restaurant workers because the point of production is where they believed they could be most effective. They also organized students on college campuses by participating in the fights for establishing and protecting Chicana/o and Ethnic studies, as well as affirmative action. These groups such as the League which was the result of the merger between Chicana/o, African American, and Asian American communists were critical because they created linkages between these various spheres of activism that at times were not speaking to one another in order to fight a restricting U.S. capitalist society during the 1970s and 1980s that was switching to neoliberal policies. I argue that this strategy allowed for the organizations to be effective in building support for the struggles they took up in the name of fighting for better democratic, social, and human rights.
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Title: "Fifty-cent sybils" : occult workers and the symbolic marketplace in the urban U.S., 1850-1930
Creator: Stone-Gordon, Tammy
Date: 1998
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Fight the power" : an exploration of the Black Student Activist Scholar
Creator: Quinney, Dominick Nelson
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation explored the lived experiences of eight Black Student Activist Scholars on the campus of a Predominantly White Institution (PWI). Through the use of Critical Race Theory, and Sociopolitical Development, it was discovered that Black students understand their activist and civic engagement to be that of a 'duty of knowledge' wherein students expressed the importance of raising social awareness amongst their peers, colleagues, and the larger campus community. Furthermore, their...
Show moreThis dissertation explored the lived experiences of eight Black Student Activist Scholars on the campus of a Predominantly White Institution (PWI). Through the use of Critical Race Theory, and Sociopolitical Development, it was discovered that Black students understand their activist and civic engagement to be that of a 'duty of knowledge' wherein students expressed the importance of raising social awareness amongst their peers, colleagues, and the larger campus community. Furthermore, their lived experiences as scholar activists expanded their worldview of committing to social justice from a humanistic approach. Additionally, this dissertation is descriptive as well as prescriptive, as it highlights implications for Black Studies. -- Abstract.
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Title: "First you steal a chicken ..."
Creator: Heard, Linda Nagy
Date: 2002
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Flipping" educational technology professional development for K-12 educators
Creator: Spencer, Daniel
Date: 2012
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: As the demand for more effective professional development increases in K-12 schools, trainers must adjust their training methods to meet the needs of their teacher learners. Just as lecture-heavy, teacher-centered instruction only meet the learning needs of a small minority of students, "sit and get" professional development rarely results in the teachers gaining the skills and confidence necessary to use technology effectively in their instruction. To resolve the frustrations of teachers...
Show moreAs the demand for more effective professional development increases in K-12 schools, trainers must adjust their training methods to meet the needs of their teacher learners. Just as lecture-heavy, teacher-centered instruction only meet the learning needs of a small minority of students, "sit and get" professional development rarely results in the teachers gaining the skills and confidence necessary to use technology effectively in their instruction. To resolve the frustrations of teachers related to ineffective professional development, a "Flipped PD" training model was developed based on the learning needs of adult learners, the integration of technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK), learning activities, and the Flipped Classroom concept. Under this model, training shifts from a passive, trainer-centered format, to an active, learner-centered format where teachers learn to use technology in their classrooms by first focusing on pedagogical issues, then choosing the options that work best for addressing those issues in their unique situation, and completing "learn-by-doing" projects. Those who participate in "Flipped PD" style trainings tend to have more confidence upon completion that they can use the tools they were trained on in their teaching, as well as believe that the PD was engaging and a good use of their time.
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Title: "Flooding oil" : investigating poor health in vulnerable communities in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria
Creator: Barry, Fatoumata Binta
Date: 2018
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been exploited for decades due to extensive oil and gas deposits that have led to devastating livelihood and health consequences. In addition to oil and gas industry impacts, floods are intensifying in Niger Delta communities that have annual flooding during the rainy season (April to October). In 2012, Nigeria experienced a severe flooding event that damaged infrastructure and livelihoods with virtually no studies completed about the health consequences....
Show moreThe Niger Delta region in Nigeria has been exploited for decades due to extensive oil and gas deposits that have led to devastating livelihood and health consequences. In addition to oil and gas industry impacts, floods are intensifying in Niger Delta communities that have annual flooding during the rainy season (April to October). In 2012, Nigeria experienced a severe flooding event that damaged infrastructure and livelihoods with virtually no studies completed about the health consequences. This dissertation research study aims to fill this scholarly gap by disentangling the emerging health concerns in Niger Delta oil communities with particular attention to women and children as they are sensitive indicators of population health. It utilizes a mixed-methods approach with the inclusion of Eco-Syndemics and African womanism theoretical perspectives. It was found that the Niger Delta has multiple pre-existing vulnerabilities that put the population at more risk during flooding events. Also, through an evaluation of airborne concentrations of chemicals released by gas flares and a retrospective, cross-sectional comparison, women and children in Uzere (oil community) have greater exposure levels to toxic chemicals released and more health concerns than similar women and children in Aviara (non-oil community), even though both communities are located in flood-prone areas in the Niger Delta. Overall, this dissertation research advances our understanding of the complexity of health hazards in communities close to oil and gas activities in the midst of more severe flooding. It also enriches scholarly and policy debates by providing an initial assessment of the link between climate variability and health in vulnerable communities. -- Abstract.
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Title: "For God's sake do something" : white-slavery narratives and moral panic in turn-of-the-century American cities
Creator: Lagler, Amy Rae
Date: 2000
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "For a girl, you can really throw down" : women DJs in Chicago house music
Creator: Rowley, Margaret Lynn
Date: 2009
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Forest beatniks" and "urban Thoreaus" : Beat literature and nature
Creator: Phillips, Rodney L.
Date: 1996
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Four years of arduous service" : the history of the Branch-Lane brigade in the Civil War
Creator: McDaid, William Kelsey
Date: 1987
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Framboidal" chalcocite from White Pine, Michigan
Creator: Alyanak, Nancy
Date: 1973
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Freedom" of the press in Turkey : journalist imprisonments during the last decade, 2002-2012
Creator: Kanver, Duygu
Date: 2013
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The noticeable increase in the number of imprisoned journalists in the past three years drew national and international attention to the problems of press freedom in Turkey. Arrests of distinguished reporters of Turkey's mainstream media, along with the ongoing limitations on the freedom of Kurdish and socialist press, caused the country to be referred as "the world's biggest prison for journalists" by the non-governmental press freedom organizations such as Reporters Without Borders and the...
Show moreThe noticeable increase in the number of imprisoned journalists in the past three years drew national and international attention to the problems of press freedom in Turkey. Arrests of distinguished reporters of Turkey's mainstream media, along with the ongoing limitations on the freedom of Kurdish and socialist press, caused the country to be referred as "the world's biggest prison for journalists" by the non-governmental press freedom organizations such as Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists. Statements of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government authorities claiming that the imprisoned journalists are "not journalists but terrorists," and their reluctance to amend the laws that cause hundreds of journalists to be jailed led to questioning the influence of politics on journalist imprisonments.This study explores the problems of press freedom with a focus on imprisoned journalists. Based upon in-depth interviews with journalists who were behind bars in the last decade, this study aims to answer the questions of what has changed in terms of freedom of expression in the last decade under AKP rule, for what obvious and underlying reasons the journalists are imprisoned, whether censorship has been a part of the problems of press freedom in the last decade, and how limitations on the freedom of expression affect the public.
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