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Title: "Busie head" liberalism
Creator: Smallpage, Steven Michael
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "Contemporary liberal theory has left us unable to generally understand and respond to the rise of political forces like populism, right-wing authoritarianism, and charismatic demagogues. I argue that the dangerousness of these movements is amplified by the inability of our liberal thinking to adequately grapple with messy "political" reality. My goal is to recast liberalism so as to tell us a more coherent story of our political life." -- Abstract.

Title: "But I'm not good at art" : preservice teachers' understanding of artistic response to children's and adolescent literature
Creator: Knezek, Suzanne M.
Date: 2007
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Can you help me?" : exploring the influence of a mentoring program on high school males' of color academic engagement and self-perception in school
Creator: Lewis, Curtis Levern
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "The dissertation was guided by this major question: How do high school males of color describe and make sense of their academic engagement in school and self-perception while participating in an ecologically structured school-based mentoring program? For the ten high school males of color in this study I do an in-depth analysis using program observations, interviews, and data from journal writings to examine the meaning of their experiences in the program"--From abstract.

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: "Cross-field" visual masking by tachistoscopic presentation of target and noise patterns to opposite cerebral hemispheres
Creator: Goff, David Paul, 1938-
Date: 1973
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

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

Title: "Deeper than average" leaf mulch test plot being mowed by a rotary mower at the Toro Research Center, in Minnesota, in 1954
Creator: Watson, James, 1920-2013
Date: 1954-11-10
Collection: Dr. James R. Watson, Jr. Image Archive
Description: Raised view of a "deeper than average" leaf cover research plot being mowed by an operator pushing a rotary mower, angled up, the Toro Research Center in Minnesota, in 1954, as part of a leaf mulch study. Plot has containment sideboards due to the heavy leaf cover. Other plots, without boards or visible leaf cover, beyond as well as a fence around the plot area. Gas can in foreground.

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

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, 1969-2021
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: "Do it Yourself" is the Goal for Patients in Munson Unit
Date: 1979-11
Collection: Making of Modern Michigan
Description: Newspaper article with photograph of Lloyd Stanley who suffered a spinal cord injury said "I'll just do two steps for my first try," but with encouragement of physical therapists, Kathy Bechtold, left, and Leone White, Llyod managed to go up three steps and down three steps. Patients receive physical therapy.

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: "Every man must resettle where he wants" : the politics of settlement in the context of community wildlife management programme in Binga, Zimbabwe
Creator: Dzingirai, V.
Date: 1996
Collection: Zambezia
Description: Over the years there has been, in Southern Africa, a steady flow of populations from the overcrowded communal areas into those marginal zones which previously were sparsely populated. Usually it is post-independent leadership which encourages and facilitates settlement into these marginal areas currently occupied by minority ethnic groups which have failed to secure political representation since independence. The influx of people into these marginal areas affects the development of existing...
Show moreOver the years there has been, in Southern Africa, a steady flow of populations from the overcrowded communal areas into those marginal zones which previously were sparsely populated. Usually it is post-independent leadership which encourages and facilitates settlement into these marginal areas currently occupied by minority ethnic groups which have failed to secure political representation since independence. The influx of people into these marginal areas affects the development of existing programmes aimed at sustainable utilisation of natural resources. This article shows how politicians in Zimbabwe facilitate the resettlement of people into the previously sparsely populated Zambezi Valley. In addition, it shows that the huge influx of people into the valley has tended to affect the development of a community-based natural resource management project which was starting to benefit the Tonga people.
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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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