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Community Consumed: Sunbelt Capitalism, A Praxis For Community Control, And The (Dis) Integration Of Civic Life In Maryvale, Arizona, Anthony Charles Pratcher Ii Jan 2017

Community Consumed: Sunbelt Capitalism, A Praxis For Community Control, And The (Dis) Integration Of Civic Life In Maryvale, Arizona, Anthony Charles Pratcher Ii

Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations

Civic activists have worked to embed community institutions in the Phoenix area from the time of initial Anglo settlement in the Salt River valley. Civic elites sought to monopolize control over regional development via municipal governance in the period after the Second World War. This dissertation places qualitative sources on community life in conversation with quantitative sources on political economy to explain how civic elites, as manifest in the civic organization of Charter government, worked with suburban activists to maintain spatial racialization in Phoenix. This process reveals that the socio-political value of civic life has waned in metropolitan Phoenix after …


Fewer And Better Children: Race, Class, Religion, And Birth Control Reform In America, Melissa J. Wilde, Sabrina Danielsen May 2014

Fewer And Better Children: Race, Class, Religion, And Birth Control Reform In America, Melissa J. Wilde, Sabrina Danielsen

Departmental Papers (Sociology)

In the early 20th century, contraceptives were illegal and, for many, especially religious groups, taboo. But, in the span of just two years, between 1929 and 1931, many of the United States’ most prominent religious groups pronounced contraceptives to be moral and began advocating for the laws restricting them to be repealed. Met with everything from support, to silence, to outright condemnation by other religious groups, these pronouncements and the debates they caused divided the American religious field by an issue of sex and gender for the first time. This article explains why America’s religious groups took the positions they …


"A Tempestuous Voyage At Sea And A Fatiguing One By Land": Ulsterwomen In Philadelphia, 1783-1812, Sarah V. Riblet Mar 2014

"A Tempestuous Voyage At Sea And A Fatiguing One By Land": Ulsterwomen In Philadelphia, 1783-1812, Sarah V. Riblet

CUREJ - College Undergraduate Research Electronic Journal

This thesis examines the lives of women who came from the north of Ireland, the area traditionally known as Ulster, and settled in the city of Philadelphia between the end of the American Revolution and the beginning of the War of 1812, when economic strife and political rebellion within Ireland impelled many to emigrate. In so doing, this work aims to augment the historical record on a group of people and a period of time that have received relatively little attention, as most scholars have heretofore focused on the experiences of male Irish immigrants during either the period of North …


The Records Of The Asylum For Orphan Girls, Arthur Mitchell Fraas May 2012

The Records Of The Asylum For Orphan Girls, Arthur Mitchell Fraas

Unique at Penn

Extended essay on UPenn Ms. Codex 1623 in four parts. The essay discusses a 2012 manuscript acquisition of the University of Pennsylvania Libraries which details the early history of the Orphan's Asylum at Lambeth. See attached spreadsheet for a list of Girls who entered the Asylum 1758-1760.


The Roots Of Educational Inequality: Germantown High School, 1907-2011, Erika M. Kitzmiller Jan 2012

The Roots Of Educational Inequality: Germantown High School, 1907-2011, Erika M. Kitzmiller

Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations

The Roots of Educational Inequality: Germantown High School, 1907 - 2011

Erika M. Kitzmiller

Dr. Michael B. Katz (History)

Dr. Stanton E.F. Wortham (Education)

This study, The Roots of Educational Inequality, examines the political, economic, and social factors that led to the transformation of Germantown High School and its urban community throughout the twentieth century. This longitudinal study, accomplished through a careful analysis of daily events rather than sampling key turning points, maximizes the benefits of a case study approach by connecting local conditions to the larger transformation of urban schools, urban communities, and the social welfare state. Using a …


Renaissance City Views From Above And Afar, Daniel Traister, Jack Sosiak Mar 2011

Renaissance City Views From Above And Afar, Daniel Traister, Jack Sosiak

Scholarship at Penn Libraries

A text document to accompany the exhibition of Renaissance city views mounted in conjunction with the conference on “Cities in Global Perpsective” organized by Penn Professors Renata Holod (History of Art), Lynn Hollen Lees (History), and Nancy L. Steinhardt (East Asian Languages and Civilizations). The document includes images and descriptions of items that were on display for the exhibit, both from the Library's collections and on loan from the Sosiaks.


Autobiographies By Americans Of Color 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography, Rebecca A. Stuhr, Deborah Jean Iwabuchi Jan 2003

Autobiographies By Americans Of Color 1995-2000: An Annotated Bibliography, Rebecca A. Stuhr, Deborah Jean Iwabuchi

Scholarship at Penn Libraries

This second of two volumes bringing together as comprehensively as possible, all autobiographical works by Americans of Color covers the years 1995-2000. In this five year period there are nearly 200 more publications than in the previous volume (1980-1994), which spanned fifteen years. 435 of the 674 entries in this volume are by African Americans. The stories of leaving the south and participation in the Civil Rights Movement, which were present in the first volume, are joined by those of musicians, entertainers, entrepreneurs, and athletes, teachers, sharecroppers, politicians, and veterans. There is a greater representation of Japanese American authors in …


Volume 29, Issue 2 Jan 2002

Volume 29, Issue 2

History of Anthropology Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Volume 27, Issue 2 Jan 2000

Volume 27, Issue 2

History of Anthropology Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Herskovits' Jewishness, Kevin A. Yelvington, Melville Jean Herskovits Jan 2000

Herskovits' Jewishness, Kevin A. Yelvington, Melville Jean Herskovits

History of Anthropology Newsletter

No abstract provided.


The Black Church As A Source Of Anti-Semitism In America, Raymond Thomas May 1986

The Black Church As A Source Of Anti-Semitism In America, Raymond Thomas

Dropsie College Theses

This dissertation is a study of the Black Church as a source of anti-Semitism in America. Anti-Semitism and prejudice are defined, and the roots of anti-Semitism are traced through biblical, medieval, and modern times.

Furthermore, this study attempts to bring together what I have investigated about anti-Semitism in the Black Church. First, the extent to which anti-Semitism exists within the Black Church is assessed. The specifically religious factors that give rise to anti-Semitism, or that tend to reduce it, are then considered. A few reflections are offered on what the Black Church can do to overcome anti-Semitism in its ranks.


United States Economic Assistance To Israel: 1949-1960, Eldin Ricks Apr 1970

United States Economic Assistance To Israel: 1949-1960, Eldin Ricks

Dropsie College Theses

Amidst the cross currents of events that influenced the power centers of the world in the first half of the twentieth century, the State of Israel was born in the year 1948. The new nation was denied the privilege of trading with its Middle East neighbors but succeeded in gaining succor from distant friends, one of which was the United States of America. This treatise is concerned with the motives prompting the U.S. government economic aid to the fledging Mediterranean power, with the nature and magnitude of aid extended, and with Israel's utilization of that aid. The period under review …