This dissertation explores how a transnational movement for women’s reproductive freedom became, by the Cold War era, a state-sponsored effort of population control targeting racially …
“Entrepreneurs in the Age of Chinese Exclusion” tells the story of Chinese restaurants transforming from an ethnic enclave business into one of the largest mass-consumer …
The U.S.-Philippines War of 1898-1910s is strangely placed and displaced in the history of twentieth-century colonial wars, and in U.S./Philippine historiographies and area studies. Foundational …
This dissertation explores the multifarious experiences of the migration and resettlement of Koreans from Latin America now residing in the New York metropolitan area. By …
This dissertation examines the role of monstrosity in the construction of Japanese identity within the American cultural imagination. It asserts that a discursive formation founded …
This study traces U.S. ritual murder—redefining lynching as a practice that aims to torture, murder, terrorize, and manifest a visual symbolic language. This visual language …
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 …
"The Anticolonial Imagination" is an examination of race, migration, politics, and the history of ideas in the interwar period (1919-1939). Based on archival material collected …
Abstract of World Donut: Cambodians, Donut Shops, Los Angeles, 1975-Present, by Erin Michelle Curtis, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2016 At the turn of the twenty-first …
