By examining the history of the sound newsreel in the 1930s and 1940s, this dissertation illustrates how moving picture news changed the way Americans experienced …
Abstract of “‘Remembering is Just Another Way of Knowing’: Place, Culture, Hauntings in the Afterlives of Japanese American Redress,” by Erin Kathleen Dwyer Aoyama, Ph.D., …
This thesis traces histories of caste, brahmanical patriarchy, and South Asian migration to the United States to tell a story about South Asian diasporic identity …
This thesis traces the development of carceral feminist logics in the Rhode Island mainstream feminist movement, beginning in the 1970s with feminism’s second wave and …
Andy’s honors thesis in Ethnic Studies critically examines visual representations of AIDS and perceived associated communities. Through a deployment of cleanliness as an analytic, “(Re)configuring …
This thesis asks, what histories are forgotten in order for the campus to uncritically celebrate its origins in 1764? And, how does this present-day process …
In June 1941, a Central Press wire story declared, “The latest and strangest recruit in Uncle Sam’s defense line-up is—the museum!” The release quoted the …
A Deeper Science explores how novelist Richard Wright and psychiatrist Fredric Wertham, along with an interracial group of intellectuals, doctors, clergy, and artists, attempted to …
Supplement for dissertation: The No-No Boy Project: A Multimedia Investigation of Asian American Histories Through Sound, Songwriting, and Filmmaking. Produced by Julian Saporiti. Co-produced by …
Advertising Love: Personal Ads, Product Advertisements, and the Consumption of Romance considers how love has been used in attempts to sell consumer goods; how cultural …
This dissertation, a social and cultural history of media and education in postwar Philadelphia, examines the concurrent struggles against racial discrimination on American Bandstand and …
As the Cold War ended and a "New World Order" emerged, elites in the U.S. and Mexico created a continental economic arrangement, integrating national economies …
This dissertation examines the relationship between record keeping and U.S. imperialism from 1898 to 1957. My project traces the history of U.S. territorial records removal …
The growing interest in genealogy for African Americans is one expression of a longstanding desire to find answers to questions about ancestors, family, and heritage …
“Beyond Belonging: Asian American Internationalism and Cold War Empire” traces how Asian Americans’ overlapping concerns for ethnic and international politics shaped community politics during the …
This dissertation looks at different forms of historical practice to argue that the 1970s saw a significant transformation in the ways that individuals, groups, and …
My dissertation entitled, "Braceros on the Boundaries: Activism, Race, Masculinity, and the Legacies of the Bracero Program," focuses on the historically largest guest worker program …
Based upon archival research at the Bancroft Library, Stanford, Harvard and UCLA and oral histories conducted with several prominent booksellers on the West Coast, my …