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 …
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 …
This dissertation is a work of cultural sociology, focused on the relationship between social transformations and the racial self. Specifically, I examine the conditions under …
“Black and Balkan: A Comparison of Caribbean, African, African-American and Balkan History, Theory and Art” is a project on black and Balkan identities and an …
This dissertation is an ethnographic study of contemporary Kaapse klopse (“Clubs of the Cape”) practice in Cape Town, South Africa. Situating sound and embodied practice …
“Look, a Negro!” The famous deictic cited by Frantz Fanon indicates both the spectacular and banal appearance of racial blackness in our field of vision. …
“Dissident Desires: Race, Sex and Abolition in 19th Century Brazilian Literature” is a study of the interplay of sex, race and deviancy in the construction …
In this dissertation, I examine topics on racial inequality and education in Malaysia and the U.S. Chapter 1 analyzes the consequences of affirmative action policies …
This dissertation is a study of structures, images and performance of fetishism as cultural and literary strategies in the theater of Nelson Rodrigues. It explores …
This dissertation investigates the Virgin of Le Puy, a famous Black Madonna sculpture destroyed in 1794. It uses inventories, pilgrim badges, liturgical texts, written description …
“In Search of the ‘Racist White Psyche’: Racism and the Psychology of Prejudice in American Social Thought, 1930-1960” traces the efforts of the pioneering generation …
Despite being thousands of miles from the Mediterranean Sea, the early United States was littered with the remains of classical antiquity. In creating their new …
Reconceived: Women’s Reproduction after Roe v. Wade examines shifts in state support for pregnant women and mothers between the 1970s and 2000s. By bringing together …
Durban, South Africa contains the most pervasively planned areas of racial and economic exclusion in the world. Apartheid's effectiveness was not just in segregating race …
This dissertation examines the politics of race and urban space in Boston’s Chinatown from 1943 to 1994. A diverse downtown neighborhood that survived multiple cycles …
“Reverb” recovers the resonance between American literature and sonic media from the invention of the telephone and phonograph (the 1870s) to the end of the …
This dissertation examines the claim that a so-called "explosion of gay visibility" occurred during the 1990s. I question the assertion that the increasing inclusion of …
