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Structural Changes within the 16th-century Portuguese Military Orders

Description:
How and why the Portuguese Military Orders changed in the 16th century is the central topic of this paper. Three great 16th-century structural changes are …
Year:
2004
Contributor:
Olival, Fernanda (author)
Genre:
articles
Subject:
Portugal > History, Military > 16th century
Military religious orders
Nobility
Jews
Crusades
Racism
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Journals@BDR
e-Journal of Portuguese History
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Substance Use and Performance of Toxicology Screens in the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Stroke Study

Description:
Background: Though stroke risk factors such as substance use may vary with age, less is known about trends in substance use over time or about …
Year:
2024
Contributor:
Cummings, Olivia Whitney (creator)
Madsen, Tracy (Advisor)
Mello, Michael (Advisor)
Brown University. Biology and Medicine: Population Medicine (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Racism
Toxicology
Stroke
Substance use
Collection:
Biology and Medicine
Theses and Dissertations
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Terrifying Potential: Toward a Cartography of White Being

Description:
This thesis argues for a critical return to and update of Critical Whiteness Studies' operative frameworks. I begin from the observation that the last sustained …
Year:
2021
Contributor:
Cooper, Aaron (creator)
Willis, Andre (thesis advisor)
Nahme, Paul (reader)
Brown University. Religious Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Racism
Humanism
Nationalism
Liberalism
Whites--Race identity
African Americans--Study and teaching
Communism
White supremacy movements
Memory
Secularism
Whites--Race identity--Study and teaching
Critical race theory
Blacks--Study and teaching
Black Muslims
Young Patriots Organization
Black Panther Party
Hate crimes
labor theory
Elijah Muhammad, 1897-1975
Southern States
White nationalism
Black separatism
Black nationalism
territorialism
state violence
Identity politics
Civil religion
Language:
English
Collection:
Religious Studies
Theses and Dissertations
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THE 8TH HOUSE

Description:
n/a
Year:
2020
Contributor:
Chukwu, Jennifer Kelechi (creator)
Hunt, Laird (Advisor)
Brown University. Department of Literary Arts (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
HIV/AIDS
Racism
Experimental fiction
Elite University
Collection:
Literary Arts
Theses and Dissertations
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The enigma of Roy Campbell (contrast)

Description:
A critical essay on the poet Roy Campbell, discussing his work and thought. Published in Contrast 57, (July 1984)
Year:
1984
Contributor:
Jennings, H. D. (Hubert Dudley), 1896- (creator)
Subject:
Campbell, Roy > 1901-1957
Poetry
Fascism
Racism
Collection:
Brown University Library
Hubert Jennings papers
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The Racialized Application of Mental Health Care: Historical Experiences of Mexican Childhood in California from the 1920s-1970s

Description:
This thesis documents how the relationship between race and mental health shaped Mexican youths’ experiences of childhood and young adulthood in California. I argue that …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Rodríguez, Básil (creator)
Ocegueda, Mark (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Immigrants--Mental health services
Mental health
Racism
California--Los Angeles
Eugenics
Scientific racism
Mexican Americans
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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The Shadow of Barbosa: Reexamining Historical Memory of Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico

Description:
The long political struggle to define Puerto Rico’s relationship to the US has not been an equal one and remains so to this day. Autonomism …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Rodriguez, Miguel J. (creator)
Lambe, Jennifer (thesis advisor)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Racism
Nation-building
Nationalism
Liberalism
Puerto Rico
Barbosa, José Celso, 1857-1921
Statehood (American politics)
Collective memory
Postcolonialism
World politics
Citizenship
Working class
Cooperative societies
Americanization
Republicanism
Historiography
Progressivism (United States politics)
University of Michigan
Latin America
Creoles
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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The Wages of Empire: Labor and American Colonialism, 1895-1905

Description:
"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 …
Year:
2012
Contributor:
Hoskins, Kevin A (creator)
Gorn, Elliott (Director)
Shibusawa, Naoko (Director)
Vorenberg, Michael (Reader)
Brown University. History (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
American labor movement
empire
Panama Canal
whiteness
working-class
labor
pure and simple unionism
promotional state
expansion
producerism
labor republicanism
Samuel Gompers
rank and file workers
working-class racism
turn-of-the-century America
Gilded Age America
Cuban sympathy
social reconciliation
rallying to the flag
metaphor of Cuba
wages of empire
Labor
Imperialism
Whites--Race identity
Racism
Working class
American Federation of Labor
Wages
Gompers, Samuel > 1850-1924
Cuba
Philippines
Panama--Panama Canal
Language:
English
Collection:
History
Theses and Dissertations
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Uncertain Futures: Experiences of African Asylum Seekers in Israel and the Global Failure to Protect

Description:
As of 2019, approximately 40,000 people from African countries are seeking asylum in Israel. These individuals arrived after having fled genocide in Darfur, forced and …
Year:
2019
Contributor:
Murphy, Jessica (creator)
Zamindar, Vazira (thesis advisor)
Brown University. Development Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Refugees
Racism
Collective memory
Israel
Non-governmental organizations
detention
Language:
English
Collection:
Development Studies
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Wealth Begins at Home: A Historical Analysis of the Role of the 1944 GI Bill in Linking, Race, Place, Wealth, and Health in America

Description:
This dissertation illuminates the causes of the contemporary racial wealth gap, and its consequences for health. A vast wealth chasm of more than $160,000 exists …
Year:
2022
Contributor:
Agbai, Chinyere O (creator)
Jackson, Margot (Advisor)
Logan, John (Reader)
Rauscher, Emily (Reader)
Brown University. Department of Sociology (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
residential segregation
Wealth
Racism
Housing
COVID-19
racial inequality
Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (United States)
Collection:
Sociology
Theses and Dissertations
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Weaponizing Gender: Inquisition Records and Portuguese Slavery in West Africa

Description:
Konadu, Kwasi. Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal’s African Empire. London: Hurst and Company, 2022.
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Everill, Bronwen (author)
Genre:
reviews (documents)
Subject:
Konadu, Kwasi
Women, Black
Portuguese-speaking countries
Equality
Slavery
Roundtable
Ejph
E-jph
Racism
Collection:
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Journals@BDR
e-Journal of Portuguese History
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Xochitl Gonzalez, class of 1999

Description:
In this interview, Xochitl Gonzalez, Brown University class of 1999, shares her memories of her time on campus on the eve of her 25th reunion. …
Contributor:
Gonzalez, Xochitl (interviewee)
Knox, Amanda (interviewer)
Murphy, Mary (interviewer)
Genre:
oral histories (document genres)
Subject:
Academics
Administration
Affirmative Action
Economics – Social Aspects
Employment
Feminism
Fraternities
Latine Students
Providence
Racism
Sarah Doyle Center
Social Life
Third World Transition Program
Travel
1990s
Local ID:
bdr:1110066
bdr1110066
Collection:
Brown University Library
Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women
Pembroke Center Oral History Collection
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Yvonne Muleka Oral History Interview

Description:
In this interview, Yvonne Muleka discusses her childhood experiences as a mixed race person in the Congo, including colonial violence, family tensions, and a desire …
Year:
2023
Contributor:
Brown University. Ruth J Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (Creator)
Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale (Creator)
National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) (Creator)
Muleka, Yvonne (interviewee)
Shemisi, Paul (videographer)
Genre:
oral histories (literary genre)
Subject:
Lokunda Lokunda da Silva, Ferdinand
Association of Mixed Race People in Congo (ASMECO)
Congolese Office of Posts and Telecommunications (OCPT)
Activism
Afterlives of slavery and colonialism
Belgian Congo
Citizenship
Colonial violence
Colonialism
Colonization
Congo (Democratic Republic)--1960-1970.
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Race relations.
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social conditions--20th century.
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social conditions--21st century.
Congolese independence
Discrimination
Family history
Freedom and freedom-making
Identity
Mixed-race
Racial discrimination
Racism
Recognition
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Kinshasa (Congo)
Local ID:
DRC_Muleka_Yvonne_French_2023_June_22_P1000198
Language:
French
Collection:
Brown University Library
Geographic Emphases
The University and Beyond
Global Curatorial Project
GCP Democratic Republic of the Congo
Full Record

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