There is often emphasis on upward socioeconomic mobility as a tool to escape the conditions of poverty without looking into the challenges experienced by the …
This thesis discusses the many different musics of Boston, focusing on the participants and regulators of its soundscape and the cultural power exerted by the …
"The Wages of Empire" asserts that white union workers found the material, cultural and psychological “compensation” of racist privilege through their support of U.S. imperialism …
The Mexican Revolution of 1910 permanently shifted the nation’s political scene, but its success is debated. My dissertation project addresses the question of how Mexico’s …