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Title: "Razing" adults and illegible children : narratives of (im) maturity during America's progressive era
Creator: Astle, Kirk Andrew
Date: 2005
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Readin' sistahs after school : counterstories from an all black girl book club"
Creator: Carey, Carleen
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This study uses ethnographic tools to analyze one after-school Black girl book club. It addressesthe question, “How do the students construct raced and gendered identities as they engage withtexts?” While some studies highlight the need for teachers to employ culturally relevantcurricula, more studies are required to illuminate how students themselves define which texts areculturally sustaining. Drawing on Gee’s model of discourse as type of toolkit, this studyinvestigates the stories...
Show moreThis study uses ethnographic tools to analyze one after-school Black girl book club. It addressesthe question, “How do the students construct raced and gendered identities as they engage withtexts?” While some studies highlight the need for teachers to employ culturally relevantcurricula, more studies are required to illuminate how students themselves define which texts areculturally sustaining. Drawing on Gee’s model of discourse as type of toolkit, this studyinvestigates the stories narrated by six female African American1 seventh-graders over the courseof one school year in a large Midwestern city. Using critical discourse analysis, this studyillustrates how written and oral story-telling can support students’ critical literacy development.This dissertation expands the literature on identity and literacy. It expands our knowledge aboutan oral narrative in conversational response to text, thus uncovering the potential of narrative andconversational response to text as a tool for both young adult identity development and teachereducation, especially among young women of color studying English in urban settings.
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Title: "Responsibly inventing history" : the work of Tim O'Brien
Creator: McNerney, Brian Cole
Date: 1994
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Right way/wrong way" presentations : the use of common errors in instructional videos for procedure learning
Creator: McCarthy, Tom
Date: 1991
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "S.W.A.G. = Style With a Goal" : exploring fashion/style as a critical literacy of Black youth in urban schools
Creator: Hayes, Sherrae M.
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This study is a multi-method, qualitative project using Youth Participatory Action Research through ethnographic design to examine the uses of fashion/style by Black youth as a form of critical literacy. Taking place in the setting of an urban, public, Midwestern middle school, the work outlines the ways these students communicated through their fashion sense and thus made sense of their identities and the identities of others as messages critically coded and decoded daily. This work examines...
Show moreThis study is a multi-method, qualitative project using Youth Participatory Action Research through ethnographic design to examine the uses of fashion/style by Black youth as a form of critical literacy. Taking place in the setting of an urban, public, Midwestern middle school, the work outlines the ways these students communicated through their fashion sense and thus made sense of their identities and the identities of others as messages critically coded and decoded daily. This work examines current texts/theories surrounding characteristics of uniform policy, critical literacy, and identity development through fashion/style. Ultimately, through this study’s action-orientation, this work highlights how students participated in student-led development of a uniform/dress code policy that incorporated their own critical fashion literacies. Critical Fashion Literacy, a particular form of critical literacy this work seeks to contribute to literacy studies at large, is centered upon the notion of how we each possibly read and write messages and meanings through fashion/style daily. Essentially, this study works to center youth voices with a potential impact on possibilities for their future as change agents in education in their own right – moving beyond fashion statements to the statements they are making through fashion.
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Title: "Scandinavian preferred" : Nordic ethnic identity, gender, and work within Chicago, 1879--1933
Creator: Jackson, Erika Kathleen
Date: 2010
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Scientists don't talk about underground rivers" : (e)merging water and development discourse in Quintana Roo, Mexico
Creator: Amato, Jessica Vernieri
Date: 2012
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The provision and maintenance of water for the growing tourist and resident populations of Quintana Roo present a formidable challenge to the Caribbean coastal town of Akumal, Mexico. Despite being given much attention at the 2006 Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City, water contamination throughout southeastern Quintana Roo is now nearing a crisis. In Akumal, mismanaged municipal and state-level attempts to "develop" have increased the amounts of contaminated groundwater, untreated...
Show moreThe provision and maintenance of water for the growing tourist and resident populations of Quintana Roo present a formidable challenge to the Caribbean coastal town of Akumal, Mexico. Despite being given much attention at the 2006 Fourth World Water Forum in Mexico City, water contamination throughout southeastern Quintana Roo is now nearing a crisis. In Akumal, mismanaged municipal and state-level attempts to "develop" have increased the amounts of contaminated groundwater, untreated wastewater discharge, and unregulated nutrient runoff into the Caribbean Sea. These unsustainable efforts are chief contributors to the overall poor water quality, according to environmental scientists who monitor Akumal's coastal zone. Despite lacking the infrastructure to support a booming tourism industry, Akumal is poised to "develop" faster and more profoundly in the near future than it has in the past 20 years.As part of Quintana Roo state, Akumal is positioned for redevelopment as "Nuevo Akumal," part of a regional tourism development plan that will raise the number of hotel rooms and condominiums from 20,000 currently to over 250,000 by the year 2025 (Basave 2001). Within state-development planning processes, there is a strong disconnect between the economic need to refashion Akumal as a major tourism engine of Quintana Roo, and the desire to limit growth and maintain Akumal's global reputation as an "ecotourist" destination. The urgency to mediate these divergent positions has resulted in the creation of local conservation efforts in Akumal. The growing call for sustainable, controlled, and ecologically-aware development comes from local as well as transnational actors. Some of these ancillary programs supplement state efforts and stem from the actions of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Quintana Roo.For NGO stakeholders in Akumal, these actions have not resulted in greater bargaining power over the choices being made, but rather position NGOs as expert informants to the "real" decision-makers of the state. Seats at the development table are granted based on the perceived authority and expertise of scientists. This perception gains currency by packaging and repackaging NGO conservation efforts as alternative economic investments infused with the infallibility of western science.Adopting the grounded theoretical framework of political ecology, this dissertation explores how NGO claims of scientific expertise emerge and define the routes to sustainable development in Akumal. Through an in-depth examination of a local water conservation program in Akumal, NGO discourses are analyzed as structuring practices that create "authentic," and therefore valued, responses to development. As part of this analysis, this dissertation presents the results and interpretation of ethnographic field research to explore, more broadly, the cumulative role of science, expertise and authority as preconditions for creating local alternatives to state-level development. Identifying and discussing how these "givens" travel discursively through varying cultural and political venues addresses the multi-scalar power relationships that compete within Akumal's high-speed tourism development process.
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Title: "Shall ill-gotten gains be sought for Christian purposes?," Washington Gladden's "tainted money" address, Seattle, September 15, 1905
Creator: Conley, James Harvey
Date: 1969
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Signpost up ahead?" : intersections of print and the televisual, narrative and the archive in The twilight zone
Creator: Costello, Michele Ashley
Date: 2007
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Simmering in a family cauldron" : queer modes of kinship in Ivy Compton-Burnett
Creator: Potts, Sarah (Sarah Katherine)
Date: 2019
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "Though her books have all but disappeared from commercial distribution and critical discourse, Ivy Compton-Burnett's prolific writing career garnered her a substantial readership during her lifetime, particularly during the Second World War. In the introduction to her 1984 biography entitled Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett, Hilary Spurling marvels that twentieth century readers attributed "the last word in modernity" to her novels. However, Compton-Burnett's works have remained largely...
Show more"Though her books have all but disappeared from commercial distribution and critical discourse, Ivy Compton-Burnett's prolific writing career garnered her a substantial readership during her lifetime, particularly during the Second World War. In the introduction to her 1984 biography entitled Ivy: The Life of I. Compton-Burnett, Hilary Spurling marvels that twentieth century readers attributed "the last word in modernity" to her novels. However, Compton-Burnett's works have remained largely neglected by criticism within the field of modernist studies. Through the examination of four novels: A House and its Head (1935); Elders and Betters (1944); Mother and Son (1955); and A God and His Gifts (1963), I will chart the way Compton-Burnett's treatment of incestuous relationships and employment of camp humor function as a revelatory queer and feminist critique of the patriarchal family. Her novels illustrate the strange ways individuals operate within the repressive confines of the family system, revealing the ultimate failure of heteronormative and traditional modes of structuring the family unit. Through my work on her novels I hope to elucidate how serious contemplation of forgotten queer and female writers in modernism helps us see alternative ways of resistance and political writing apart from the violent revolt from the past that high modernists propagate."--Page ii.
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Title: "Some day on American soil" : the material record of New Philadelphia and the middle class on the American prairie
Creator: Valvano, Christopher Francis
Date: 2015
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The following dissertation asks: What is the material expression for the emergent middle class on the American prairie during 19th-century? It develops a model of a prairie-middle-class based on the material and documentary datasets at New Philadelphia, Illinois. These two datasets comprise a single historic-archaeological record that was created by people living in this town during the middle decades of the 19th century. New Philadelphia was a founder town, established by “Free” Frank...
Show moreThe following dissertation asks: What is the material expression for the emergent middle class on the American prairie during 19th-century? It develops a model of a prairie-middle-class based on the material and documentary datasets at New Philadelphia, Illinois. These two datasets comprise a single historic-archaeological record that was created by people living in this town during the middle decades of the 19th century. New Philadelphia was a founder town, established by “Free” Frank McWorter, an African American, who was born into slavery but who purchased his freedom, along with 13 family members. Chapter 1 presents the research question: What is the material expression of the emergent middle on the 19th-century American prairie? Chapter 2 outlines the historical developments necessary for the emergence of the middle class on the American prairie during the 19th century. Chapter 3 presents the theoretical context for examining the historical archaeological record at New Philadelphia. Chapter 4 presents the methodology of historical materialism to explain social change through processes of change. A model for the expansion of the capitalist mode of production is stated. This model forms the basis for four hypotheses about the broad cultural experience with capitalist expansion. Each hypotheses leads to specific sub-hypotheses about the personal experiences at New Philadelphia. These sub-hypotheses are bridging arguments to connect the local manifestation to the wider process of capitalist expansion. Chapter 5 presents conclusions and suggestions for future work.
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Title: "Something like a blowing wind" : African conspiracy and the coordination of resistance to colonial rule in South Africa, 1876-1882
Creator: Cohen, Brett
Date: 2000
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Squatter settlements as a transitional adjustment phase in rural-urban migration : the case of Tabriz, Iran"
Creator: Aloochi, Housain Banifatemeh
Date: 1982
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Staying together" : kinship and community in Fiji
Creator: Turner, James West
Date: 1983
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Step up little homie, got something to say" : a study of hip-hop pedagogy in an out of school program
Creator: Newby, Ashley Luetisha
Date: 2016
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Much of the existing Hip-Hop Pedagogy research focuses on the inclusion of Hip-Hop in formal classroom spaces, and the role that Hip-Hop culture plays in the lives of Black and Brown youth specifically. By investigating a Hip-Hop Academy that teaches Hip-Hop culture rather than merely using it as a bridge between academic goals and student realities, this project seeks to add to the existing literature on Hip-Hop Pedagogy in education. Through the use of observations and interviews over the...
Show moreMuch of the existing Hip-Hop Pedagogy research focuses on the inclusion of Hip-Hop in formal classroom spaces, and the role that Hip-Hop culture plays in the lives of Black and Brown youth specifically. By investigating a Hip-Hop Academy that teaches Hip-Hop culture rather than merely using it as a bridge between academic goals and student realities, this project seeks to add to the existing literature on Hip-Hop Pedagogy in education. Through the use of observations and interviews over the course of a school year, the voices of the participants at the Hip-Hop Academy are placed central and the ways that they conceptualize and navigate their Hip-Hop and Academic identities are explored. This study investigates how students who are being explicitly taught Hip-Hop see the connections between the culture and their academic lives in their own words. The research questions for this study are (1) What is the nature of a space grounded in Hip-Hop culture and constructed through critical theory? (2) What is the nature of student reflection on the world? And (3) What does student participation in spaces like the Hip-Hop Academy reveal about how students want to learn? Through the use of observations, ethnographic field notes, and individual interviews, the voices of the students at the Academy are centered in this study, and the voices of the instructors are incorporated in ways that both answer the research questions, and reveal the ways that the students view their academic and Hip-Hop identities operating in conjunction with one another. The findings reveal that not only does Hip-Hop Pedagogy resonate with student populations that are marginalized, but that it also resonates with some of the most privileged identities in ways that allows all students to recognize and use their voices to express who their multiple identities in ways that are empowering. Furthermore, the students in this study see the skills that they learn through the Hip-Hop Academy as applicable to the other areas of their lives in ways that reveal a student-identified difference between “knowledge” and “education.” The findings of this study reveal that students are not seeing their Hip-Hop goals as in opposition to their academic and career goals, rather they are using the skills that developed through Hip-Hop culture to pursue both Hip-Hop and academic goals simultaneously in ways that compliment each other. This offers implications not only for the power behind honoring student voices through Hip-Hop, but also for how our classrooms and learning spaces can be structured in ways that both make students want to be there and feel comfortable asserting their own voices.
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Title: "Stop killing my vibe" : a critical language pedagogy for speakers of African American Language
Creator: Baker-Bell, April
Date: 2014
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Black and Brown students face an abysmal threat not only in classrooms but in the world because of how they have been trained to understand themselves in and through their language. Within communities and schools, students who communicate in African American Language (AAL) encounter negative messages that suggest that their language is deficient, inferior, wrong, and unintelligent. This study reveals the consequences AAL-speaking students faced when using their language in academic and non...
Show moreBlack and Brown students face an abysmal threat not only in classrooms but in the world because of how they have been trained to understand themselves in and through their language. Within communities and schools, students who communicate in African American Language (AAL) encounter negative messages that suggest that their language is deficient, inferior, wrong, and unintelligent. This study reveals the consequences AAL-speaking students faced when using their language in academic and non-academic contexts. It also reveals how these students responded to a critical language pedagogical innovation. In particular, I explored how AAL-speaking students in two ninth grade English Language Arts classrooms understood themselves linguistically across multiple contexts and to determine if their engagement with a Critical Language Pedagogy (CLP) could transform their unfavorable attitudes toward AAL. Based on findings from this study, I drew the following conclusions: (1) the students understood AAL to be a linguistic resource with associated consequences in their everyday lives, (2) the students resisted and held negative attitudes toward AAL before the CLP innovation, and (3) the students' responses following their engagement with the CLP suggested that the innovation impacted their attitudes in important and dramatic ways.
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Title: "Taming the Intractable" : Chinese Migrants, Inter-Asian Interactions, and the Transformation of French Rule in Colonial Vietnam, 1862-1940
Creator: Le, Anh Sy Huy
Date: 2021
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: This dissertation explores the migration, settlement, and evolution of the Chinese communities—a largely forgotten diaspora—and their importance in the transformation of French colonial Vietnam. Drawing on three years of transnational archival research spanning Vietnam, China and Singapore in a variety of Vietnamese, Chinese, French, and English sources, I construct the first comprehensive social and political history of Chinese commercial networks, social organizations, and cultural...
Show moreThis dissertation explores the migration, settlement, and evolution of the Chinese communities—a largely forgotten diaspora—and their importance in the transformation of French colonial Vietnam. Drawing on three years of transnational archival research spanning Vietnam, China and Singapore in a variety of Vietnamese, Chinese, French, and English sources, I construct the first comprehensive social and political history of Chinese commercial networks, social organizations, and cultural institutions; their multi-level interactions with the French colonial regime and Vietnamese; and their relations to mobile communities in maritime Southeast Asia and a China in the middle of drastic political transformations. Focusing on four crucial sites of ethnic Chinese-colonial state interactions, notably the colonial rice trade, health and cultural institutions, immigration surveillance, and crime and informal economies, my dissertation resituates the Chinese in Vietnam at the center of a prominent Nanyang diasporic network connecting East and Southeast Asia by examining Chinese transnationalism and identities as evolving and flexible articulations that responded dialogically to French colonial control, to the gravity of the Chinese Revolution and nationalist movements, and to varying modes of interactions with the wider Chinese capital and migratory connections in Hong Kong and Singapore.The dissertation is organized into four main chapters, thematically and chronologically organized to highlight the evolution of Chinese identities, mobile practices, and relationships to colonialism against dominant narratives of modern Vietnamese history that tend to privilege revolutionary times and downplay inter-ethnic elements. Chapter 1 explores Chinese rice monopoly and the political struggles between transnational rice merchants, a hyper-regulatory colonial state, and a new generation of Francophile Vietnamese politicians who advocated anti-Chinese nationalism as the answer to Chinese “domination.” Chapter 2 focuses on Chinese participation in the global opium trade, gambling cercles, and inter-Asian relationships that fostered an informal economy while challenging the foundation of colonial legal structures, leading to Vietnamese contentious attitudes towards Chinese roles in the French civilizing mission. Chapter 3 investigates the establishment, bureaucratization, and innovation of the French service of immigration control seeking to police increasingly mobile Chinese economic, social, and “illicit” networks and Chinese deployment of flexible identities to resist colonial hegemonic regulations. And chapter 4 turns to examine the local and transnational tensions of ethnic co-existence between mobile Chinese communities and the colonial state as reflected in issues of Franco-Chinese education, repatriations of Chinese remains to Hong Kong and their hometowns, and Chinese-led hospitals and their interactions with colonial medical institutions. My dissertation advances four interrelated areas of studies: Chinese migrants in Vietnam in the history of Nanyang Chinese migration wherein Vietnam’s crucial Chinese communities have remained largely marginal; the studies of the Sinosphere and Chinese identities; Sino-European relations and postcolonialism; and the history of colonial and modern Vietnam at large. By destabilizing Chinese-ness through an examination of diasporic identities under French rule and their multiple manifestations, my dissertation gives southern Vietnam and its Chinese communities their rightful places in the broader history of global empires, Chinese migration, and Greater China.
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Title: "Taming the Sexual Tempest" : sexual education programs in Protestant youth groups, 1960-1980
Creator: McLean, Jaime Lynn
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: ABSTRACT "TAMING THE SEXUAL TEMPEST": SEXUAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN PROTESTANT YOUTH GROUPS, 1960-1980 By Jaime Lynn McLeanMy dissertation makes a contribution to four fields of historical scholarship: the history of youth ministry, baby boom generation, the social and cultural history of the 1960s and 1970s, and the history of the sexual revolution. Set in the context of the 1960s and 1970s, I examine the formal and informal sexual education literature and programming designed...
Show moreABSTRACT "TAMING THE SEXUAL TEMPEST": SEXUAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS IN PROTESTANT YOUTH GROUPS, 1960-1980 By Jaime Lynn McLeanMy dissertation makes a contribution to four fields of historical scholarship: the history of youth ministry, baby boom generation, the social and cultural history of the 1960s and 1970s, and the history of the sexual revolution. Set in the context of the 1960s and 1970s, I examine the formal and informal sexual education literature and programming designed and used by two Protestant youth groups during this period: Liberal Religious Youth, a youth run denominational group supported by the Unitarian Universalist Association and Youth For Christ an evangelical para-church organization for high school students. Protestant religious groups, evangelicals in particular, were at the center of debates over comprehensive sexual education in American high schools in the 1960s. However what often gets lost in the discussion of liberal support for and evangelical objections to sex education in schools are the alternative and/or supplemental programs designed and utilized by those working within the youth ministry. The content and the tone of these programs changed significantly between 1960 and 1980, coinciding with changes in youth culture happening among three cohorts of baby boomers. However, the strategies the groups used to reach teenagers were remarkably similar. The history of sexual education in YFC and LRY during the 1960s and 1970s indicates both conservative and liberal religious adults moved away from impersonal and overt efforts to control and monitor teen sexuality to a strategy which allowed them to manage teen sexuality by teaching teens to monitor themselves. I argue that the changing sexual culture in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s prompted Youth for Christ and Liberal Religious Youth to employ similar strategies to deliver very different messages about gender, love, relationships, and sexuality. Both groups employed three separate strategies over the course of these two decades each targeted at a specific wave of the baby boomer generation. I divide these strategies/cohorts into three rough periods. The first period encompasses 1960-1966. The second period runs from 1967-1972. The third period is from 1973 to 1980. I have divided the baby boomers into these cohorts because of the nature of the high school experience. Typically, scholarship focusing on youth culture privileges college students. In my study, I focus on high school students who have a much shorter and more contained youth experience.
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Title: "Teachers' art" : a television program about art
Creator: Somers, Eric
Date: 1965
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: "Tell me about Auschwitz." : changing forms and perceptions of Holocaust testimony
Creator: Gohlke-Wickey, Jennifer
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: "Holocaust survivor testimonies are complex not only in their nature but also in their function and public perception. This notion is complicated even more as survivor testimonies and their function have significantly changed over time. In the immediate postwar years, Holocaust survivor testimonies served a strictly documentary purpose in order to document the Nazis' crimes. Over the course of different legal proceedings, such as the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, in the early to mid-1960s,...
Show more"Holocaust survivor testimonies are complex not only in their nature but also in their function and public perception. This notion is complicated even more as survivor testimonies and their function have significantly changed over time. In the immediate postwar years, Holocaust survivor testimonies served a strictly documentary purpose in order to document the Nazis' crimes. Over the course of different legal proceedings, such as the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, in the early to mid-1960s, testimonies were utilized to legally convict several Nazis of murder. Today, survivor testimonies can be found in more literary forms, giving voice to individual and personal experiences. Furthermore, scholars and the public perception have a crucial function in the formation of testimonies as well. The broader context that frames this thesis is the idea that the past is not only defined by events that already took place but that it is also shaped by the present. To elucidate this context, this thesis will be diachronic and comparative in nature, analyzing the function, motivation, perception, and reception of survivor testimonies. It explores the idea that it is the nature of the questions we direct at survivors concerning their testimonies that possibly make the difference between talking about and talking with survivors. In particular, this thesis will show that a more nuanced understanding of Holocaust testimony is only possible if we are aware that it is not only the survivor who gives shape to his testimony but that we as listeners, including our expectations, questions, and reactions, to a certain degree, shape the form and content of testimony as well."--Abstract.
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