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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
"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 …
“The Melodramatics of Queer Race” is an investigation of media and performance forms dismissed as “minor”—melodramatic, trashy, or kitschy—and their re-valuations by queerly racialized subjects. …
The Nature of Citizenship: Race, Citizenship, and Nature in Representations of Californian Agricultural Labor contends that cultural understandings of nature shaped notions of national belonging …