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"History Written With Lightning": Religion, White Supremacy, And The Rise And Fall Of Thomas Dixon, Jr, David Michael Kidd
"History Written With Lightning": Religion, White Supremacy, And The Rise And Fall Of Thomas Dixon, Jr, David Michael Kidd
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Baptist minister and author of novels, plays, sermons, and essays, Thomas Dixon, Jr. today remains most known as the storyteller behind the 1915 D. W. Griffith Film The Birth of a Nation. I argue that Thomas Dixon crafted a white supremacist rhetoric and narrative of modern whiteness indebted to the structures of Fundamentalist Christianity. With varying degrees of success, later writers struggled with the legacy the Dixonian cultural narrative bequeathed them.;Fundamentalist theology offered a whole host of tropes, metaphors, and arguments to its users. In short, Fundamentalism presented a rhetorical stance that was, in the hands of an ambitious and …
"A Dress Of The Right Length To Die In": Mortuary And Memorial Practices Amongst Depression-Era Tenant Farmers Of The Piedmont South, Zoey Alderman-Tuttle
"A Dress Of The Right Length To Die In": Mortuary And Memorial Practices Amongst Depression-Era Tenant Farmers Of The Piedmont South, Zoey Alderman-Tuttle
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The Art Of The Public Grovel: Sexual Scandal And The Rise Of Public Confession, Susan Wise Bauer
The Art Of The Public Grovel: Sexual Scandal And The Rise Of Public Confession, Susan Wise Bauer
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Between 1969 and 2002, three American politicians (Edward Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton) and three ordained clergymen (Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, and Cardinal Bernard Law) made public confessions of wrongdoing to national audiences. These public confessions reveal that Protestant religious culture, particularly the neoevangelical culture of the twentieth century, had changed the expectations of many who did not consider themselves within neoevangelicalism's sphere of influence. By tracing the historical development of public confession from its medieval roots to its use in twentieth-century entertainment programming, this dissertation shows that Protestant confessional practice affected both secular American political discourse and American …
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
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Performing Race: Instances Of Color Representation In American Culture, Katrin L. Adkins
Performing Race: Instances Of Color Representation In American Culture, Katrin L. Adkins
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No abstract provided.
Desegregating Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe And The Manufacturing Of A New Social Reality In Richmond, Virginia, Melinda Cameron Hapeman Rose
Desegregating Monument Avenue: Arthur Ashe And The Manufacturing Of A New Social Reality In Richmond, Virginia, Melinda Cameron Hapeman Rose
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The Shenandoah River Gundalow And The Politics Of Material Reuse, Seth C. Bruggeman
The Shenandoah River Gundalow And The Politics Of Material Reuse, Seth C. Bruggeman
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The Search For Completion In Toni Morrison's "Sula", Elizabeth Bowler Ncneer
The Search For Completion In Toni Morrison's "Sula", Elizabeth Bowler Ncneer
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Civilizing The Savages: Cherokee Advances, White Settlement, And The Rhetoric Of Removal, Tracey Ann Gibson
Civilizing The Savages: Cherokee Advances, White Settlement, And The Rhetoric Of Removal, Tracey Ann Gibson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Tobacco And Cloth: A Century Of Virginia Clothing Acquisition 1607-1707, Barbara Anne Curran
Tobacco And Cloth: A Century Of Virginia Clothing Acquisition 1607-1707, Barbara Anne Curran
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Oz In The Valley Of Ashes: Visions Of Tomorrow At The New York World's Fairs Of 1939 And 1964, Emily Mieras
Oz In The Valley Of Ashes: Visions Of Tomorrow At The New York World's Fairs Of 1939 And 1964, Emily Mieras
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
An Edition Of Ellen Glasgow's "Between Two Shores", Lucia Wallis Smith
An Edition Of Ellen Glasgow's "Between Two Shores", Lucia Wallis Smith
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Rock 'N' Roll Stew: The Rolling Stones And Blues Music Through The Looking Glass Of American Culture In The 1960'S, Henry Canning Woodward
Rock 'N' Roll Stew: The Rolling Stones And Blues Music Through The Looking Glass Of American Culture In The 1960'S, Henry Canning Woodward
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Beneath The Umbrellas Of Benevolent Men: Validation Of The Middle-Class Woman In "Little Women" And "Five Little Peppers And How They Grew", Sandra Burr
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
From Song To Silence: The Coding Of Music In Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Melanie Dawson
From Song To Silence: The Coding Of Music In Kate Chopin's "The Awakening", Melanie Dawson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Albert Mckisco's Role In Dick Diver's "Intricate Destiny", Laura Hampton Terry
Albert Mckisco's Role In Dick Diver's "Intricate Destiny", Laura Hampton Terry
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The "Private History," Grant, And West Point: Mark Twain's Exculpatory Triad, Franklin J. Hillson
The "Private History," Grant, And West Point: Mark Twain's Exculpatory Triad, Franklin J. Hillson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"All The Lost Youth In The World": Youth Worship In F Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is The Night", Maria R. Freeman
"All The Lost Youth In The World": Youth Worship In F Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is The Night", Maria R. Freeman
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Culture And Radicalism In "The Princess Casamassima", Carl Frank Filbrich
Culture And Radicalism In "The Princess Casamassima", Carl Frank Filbrich
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.