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Honoring The Ancestors: Historical Reclamation And Self-Determined Identities In Richmond And Rio De Janeiro, Autumn Rain Duke Barrett
Honoring The Ancestors: Historical Reclamation And Self-Determined Identities In Richmond And Rio De Janeiro, Autumn Rain Duke Barrett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation focuses on how history is made meaningful in the present. I argue that within the United States and Brazil, historic narratives and sites are employed in legitimizing and contesting past and contemporary social inequity. National, regional, and local narratives tell the stories of how communities and their members came to be who and where they are in the present. Social hierarchies and inequity are naturalized and/or questioned through historic narratives. Formative education includes telling these stories to children. Commemorative events and monuments tell and re-tell stories to community members of all ages. Enculturation of historical identities, the positioning …
Flying Under The Radar With The Royal Chicano Air Force: The Ongoing Politics Of Space And Ethnic Identity, Ella Maria Diaz
Flying Under The Radar With The Royal Chicano Air Force: The Ongoing Politics Of Space And Ethnic Identity, Ella Maria Diaz
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This dissertation explores the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), a Chicano/a arts collective that produced numerous murals in Sacramento, CA, for over forty years. Grounded in Mexican and US aesthetic traditions, their murals reflect cultural hybridity and re-imagine US history through a Chicano/a perspective. Many of their works were and are located in Sacramento's Chicano/a barrios, while others occupy interethnic, public space in the vicinity of the State Capitol. By encoding hidden Chicano/a iconographies within each mural, the RCAF offers what scholar Alicia Gaspar de Alba calls "alter-Native" narratives of American history because they posit "Other" views of local history, …
Rituals Of The Re-Founded Bolivian State, Raquel Elizabeth Nava Cerball
Rituals Of The Re-Founded Bolivian State, Raquel Elizabeth Nava Cerball
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Mission San Juan Bautista: Zooarchaeological Investigations At A California Mission, Michelle C. St. Clair
Mission San Juan Bautista: Zooarchaeological Investigations At A California Mission, Michelle C. St. Clair
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Interminority Relations In The Early 1990s In California: Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, And Asian-Americans, Akiko Yamazato
Interminority Relations In The Early 1990s In California: Conflicts Among African-Americans, Latinos, And Asian-Americans, Akiko Yamazato
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How Culture Shapes Rationality: A Study Of Mayan And Miskito Communities In Guatemala And Nicaragua, Tracy Devine Guzman
How Culture Shapes Rationality: A Study Of Mayan And Miskito Communities In Guatemala And Nicaragua, Tracy Devine Guzman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Cuba And The Soviet Union: 1959-1990, Lawrence R. Goldman
An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Cuba And The Soviet Union: 1959-1990, Lawrence R. Goldman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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The Potential For Colonial Period Archaeology In La Libertad, Peru, Ross W. Jamieson
The Potential For Colonial Period Archaeology In La Libertad, Peru, Ross W. Jamieson
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Voting Patterns Of Hispanics In Texas, 1960-1986, Rebecca Allen Rogers
Voting Patterns Of Hispanics In Texas, 1960-1986, Rebecca Allen Rogers
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Underdevelopment And Violence In Latin America, William Platon Mandros
Underdevelopment And Violence In Latin America, William Platon Mandros
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Social Mobilization And Political Decay In Argentina, Craig Huntington Melton
Social Mobilization And Political Decay In Argentina, Craig Huntington Melton
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.