Abstract of “Claiming Anjelamaría Dávila: Black Women’s Imaginings of Decolonization in Puerto Rico” by Katsí Yarí Rodríguez Velázquez, Ph.D., Brown University, February 2023 This dissertation …
Dark Trees: Regional Archives of Familial Intimacy, Lynching Violence, and Racial Reproduction is an archival, visual, and affective analysis of the extension of lynching aesthetics …
This dissertation is a twentieth century cultural history of American cultural productions that romanticized the Old South and circulated inside and outside the U.S. within …
Genealogies of Capture and Evasion: A Black Feminist Meditation for Neoliberal Times is a genealogy, reassessment and critique of the inheritances and investments of present …
This dissertation recovers a body of early Cold War American cultural productions. These films, screenplays, novels, and other print media invoked interraciality in response to …
In “Improper Objects: Embodied Aesthetics and the Politics of the Pelvis,” I explore how artists and activists offer new frameworks for understanding race, gender, and …
“Reproducing Resistance: Gendered Violence and Indigenous Nationhood” tells the story of the extraordinary violence indigenous women confront across the U.S.-Canada border. This violence takes many …
Solidarities and Solitude: Tracing the Racial Boundaries of the Iranian Diaspora offers a history of the Iranian diaspora in the United States from the Cold …
“The Age of Encampment: Race, Migration, Surveillance, and the Power of Spatial Scripts, 1933-1950” is an attempt at writing the history of the rise of …