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Benjamin Smith Barton, "Md": The American Performance Of Scientific Authority In A Trans-Atlantic World, Ryan Bartholomew Tanner-Read Jan 2012

Benjamin Smith Barton, "Md": The American Performance Of Scientific Authority In A Trans-Atlantic World, Ryan Bartholomew Tanner-Read

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Black Female Landowners In Richmond, Virginia 1850-1877, Hannah Catherine Craddock Jan 2012

Black Female Landowners In Richmond, Virginia 1850-1877, Hannah Catherine Craddock

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"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 Jan 2012

"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

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Founding Fathers On Screen: The Changing Relationship Between History And Film, Jennifer Lynn Garrott Jan 2012

Founding Fathers On Screen: The Changing Relationship Between History And Film, Jennifer Lynn Garrott

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Gone To The Dogs: Inter-Species Bonds And The Building Of Bio-Cultural Capital In America, 1835--Present, Merit Elfi Anglin Jan 2012

Gone To The Dogs: Inter-Species Bonds And The Building Of Bio-Cultural Capital In America, 1835--Present, Merit Elfi Anglin

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

In following the rise of canis lupus familiaris from America's pet dog to dogmestic partner and ontological metaphor for capital unseen and humanly unseeable this dissertation hopes to reveal the 'spirit of calculation' that undergirds the nation's seemingly disinterested love for their four-legged others and demonstrate how cultural politics affect and are in turn affected by bio-politics and bio-power.;It argues that in response to the deflation of prevalent signifiers of social standing and sexual or matrimonial desirability during the financial and ontological crises of the 1830s, Jacksonians turned to the dog as an incorruptible sign of invisible individual substance. In …


I'M Really Just An American: The Archaeological Importance Of The Black Towns In The American West And Late-Nineteenth Century Constructions Of Blackness, Shea Aisha Winsett Jan 2012

I'M Really Just An American: The Archaeological Importance Of The Black Towns In The American West And Late-Nineteenth Century Constructions Of Blackness, Shea Aisha Winsett

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Ideal Marriage: Reactions To Marie Stopes' "Married Love", 1918-1935, Shannon E. Goings Jan 2012

The Ideal Marriage: Reactions To Marie Stopes' "Married Love", 1918-1935, Shannon E. Goings

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Dealing With Dual Differences: Social Coping Strategies Of Gifted And Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, And Queer Adolescents, Virginia Helen Hutcheson Jan 2012

Dealing With Dual Differences: Social Coping Strategies Of Gifted And Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, And Queer Adolescents, Virginia Helen Hutcheson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Race News: How Black Reporters And Readers Shaped The Fight For Racial Justice, 1877--1978, Frederick James Carroll Jan 2012

Race News: How Black Reporters And Readers Shaped The Fight For Racial Justice, 1877--1978, Frederick James Carroll

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Between 1877 and 1978, black reporters, publishers, and readers engaged in a never-ending and ever-shifting protest against American racism. Journalists' militancy oscillated as successive generations of civil rights activists defined anew their relationship with racism and debated the relevance of black radicalism in the fight for racial justice. Journalists achieved their greatest influence when their political perspectives aligned with the views of their employers and readers. Frequent disputes, though, erupted over the scope and meaning of racial justice within the process of reporting the news, compelling some writers to start alternative publications that challenged the assimilationist politics promoted by profit-minded …


The Rise And Fall Of The Wb: "Dawson's Creek", Intertextuality, And Legitimation, Ambert R. J. P. Hodge Jan 2012

The Rise And Fall Of The Wb: "Dawson's Creek", Intertextuality, And Legitimation, Ambert R. J. P. Hodge

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Changing Girl: Sex Education And Prescriptions Of White Girlhood, Laura M. Ansley Jan 2012

The Changing Girl: Sex Education And Prescriptions Of White Girlhood, Laura M. Ansley

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Maximizing Archaeology's Relevance To Its Publics Through A Pragmatist Framework, Kelley Marie Walter Jan 2012

Maximizing Archaeology's Relevance To Its Publics Through A Pragmatist Framework, Kelley Marie Walter

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Booze At The Brothel: Alcohol-Related Artifacts And Their Use In Performance At The 27/29 Endicott Street Brothel, Amanda B. Johnson Jan 2012

Booze At The Brothel: Alcohol-Related Artifacts And Their Use In Performance At The 27/29 Endicott Street Brothel, Amanda B. Johnson

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Clockmaking Clerics And Ropemaking Lawyers: Mixing Occupational Roles In Early Modern Spain, Aaron Joshua Gregory Jan 2012

Clockmaking Clerics And Ropemaking Lawyers: Mixing Occupational Roles In Early Modern Spain, Aaron Joshua Gregory

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Down The Great Wagon Road: The Ironworking Pennybackers Of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Sarah E. Thomas Jan 2012

Down The Great Wagon Road: The Ironworking Pennybackers Of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Sarah E. Thomas

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

In the early Virginia backcountry, a diverse group of individuals lived, worked, and interacted every day at furnaces and forges. Redwell Furnace, north of Luray, and Pine Forge, north east of New Market, in Shenandoah County were the earliest and largest operations oftheir kind in the county. At these ironworking communities, people of Irish, African, and Germanic descent interacted on a daily, if not hourly, basis, making iron stove plates,andirons, plates, utensils, and other utilitarian objects. This diverse furnace population gradually developed in the shadow of the Massanutten Mountain during the late eighteenth century as more settlers migrated down the …


Learning How To Listen': Analyzing Style And Meaning In The Music Of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone And Cassandra Wilson, Lashonda Katrice Barnett Jan 2012

Learning How To Listen': Analyzing Style And Meaning In The Music Of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone And Cassandra Wilson, Lashonda Katrice Barnett

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

Learning How to Listen': Analyzing Style and Meaning in the Music of Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone and Cassandra Wilson examines the similarities of singing styles and core narrative traits in the original songs of three African American women vocalist-composers celebrated within the jazz idiom. Drawing on years of ethnographic research, including over 150 hours of personal interviews with musicians, attendance of jazz concerts and festivals both domestic and abroad, and a three-year listening journal (based on live performances and recordings), 'Learning How to Listen' is an Africana cultural studies product informed by vibrant multidisciplinary scholarship that bridges Jazz studies, Linguistics …


Ironclad Revolution: The History, Discovery And Recovery Of The Uss Monitor, Anna Gibson Holloway Jan 2012

Ironclad Revolution: The History, Discovery And Recovery Of The Uss Monitor, Anna Gibson Holloway

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

On the afternoon of March 8, 1862, the Confederate ironclad ram Virginia, built upon the burned-out hulk of the steam screw frigate Merrimack, crawled slowly into Hampton Roads to challenge the Union blockade of the Confederate coastline. Before nightfall, the Virginia had wreaked havoc upon the Union blockading fleet: the USS Cumberland lay at the bottom of the Roads, her flags still defiantly flying while the surrendered USS Congress blazed ominously in the harbor until exploding spectacularly in the early morning hours of March 9.;The USS Monitor---a vessel of a radical new design and completely untried in battle---arrived too late …


Real Talk: Blackness And Whiteness In The Works Of Jefferson Pinder, Dave Chappelle, And Aaron Mcgruder, Jeffreen M. Hayes Jan 2012

Real Talk: Blackness And Whiteness In The Works Of Jefferson Pinder, Dave Chappelle, And Aaron Mcgruder, Jeffreen M. Hayes

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

"Real Talk: Blackness and Whiteness in the Works of Jefferson Pinder, Dave Chappelle, and Aaron McGruder" will examine twenty-first century constructions of race by African Americans. I am interested in how visual artist Jefferson Pinder, comedian Dave Chappelle, and comic artist Aaron McGruder interrogate and incorporate race, particularly whiteness, into their respective works. Each artist challenges hegemonic constructions of race, utilizing technology and taking full advantage of our visualized culture to present their examinations of race. I selected the artists because of their intimate knowledge of their respective crafts, their use of popular culture, and their diverse perspectives on race …


"Excellent Clay For Pots": An Archaeological And Microscopic Investigation Of Barbadian Redware During The Early Colonial Era, Erik Andre Siedow Jan 2012

"Excellent Clay For Pots": An Archaeological And Microscopic Investigation Of Barbadian Redware During The Early Colonial Era, Erik Andre Siedow

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Attention To And Categorization Of Monoracial And Racially Ambiguous Faces, Julie Ann. Kittel Jan 2012

Attention To And Categorization Of Monoracial And Racially Ambiguous Faces, Julie Ann. Kittel

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


A Bold Promise: Black Readjusters And The Founding Of Virginia State University, Leigh Alexandra Soares Jan 2012

A Bold Promise: Black Readjusters And The Founding Of Virginia State University, Leigh Alexandra Soares

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"I Will Commence With My News": Elite Youth Culture And Communities Of Knowledge In Early Nineteenth Century Williamsburg, Holly Nicole Stevens Jan 2012

"I Will Commence With My News": Elite Youth Culture And Communities Of Knowledge In Early Nineteenth Century Williamsburg, Holly Nicole Stevens

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Sexual Indiscretions In Virginia's Colonial Capital, Sarah Rebecca Schmidt Jan 2012

Sexual Indiscretions In Virginia's Colonial Capital, Sarah Rebecca Schmidt

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


'Taken To Detroit': Shawnee Resistance And The Ohio Valley Captive Trade, 1750-1796, Anna Margaret Cloninger Jan 2012

'Taken To Detroit': Shawnee Resistance And The Ohio Valley Captive Trade, 1750-1796, Anna Margaret Cloninger

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"What Is The Best And Most Typical": Nostalgia, Transgression, And Capitalism At The Virginia State Fair, 1946-1976, Sarah Stanford-Mcintyre Jan 2012

"What Is The Best And Most Typical": Nostalgia, Transgression, And Capitalism At The Virginia State Fair, 1946-1976, Sarah Stanford-Mcintyre

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Strange Fruit: Images Of African Americans In Advertising Cards And Postcards, 1860-1930, Meghan Brooke Holder Jan 2012

Strange Fruit: Images Of African Americans In Advertising Cards And Postcards, 1860-1930, Meghan Brooke Holder

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The "Voice Of Virginia": Wrva And Conversations Of A Modern South., Caroline C. Morris Jan 2012

The "Voice Of Virginia": Wrva And Conversations Of A Modern South., Caroline C. Morris

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"A Dollar Book For A Dime!": The Vernacular Of Cheapness And The Beadle Dime Handbooks, Sarah Elisabeth Adams Jan 2012

"A Dollar Book For A Dime!": The Vernacular Of Cheapness And The Beadle Dime Handbooks, Sarah Elisabeth Adams

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


To And From Places Beyond: Examining Low-Fired Coarse Earthenwares And Informal Trade Networks Among Enslaved Bermudians In The 18th And 19th Centuries, Sarah Helen Zimmet Jan 2012

To And From Places Beyond: Examining Low-Fired Coarse Earthenwares And Informal Trade Networks Among Enslaved Bermudians In The 18th And 19th Centuries, Sarah Helen Zimmet

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


The Death Of John Pierce And The Political Culture Of The Early Republic, Jennifer Leigh Petrafesa Jan 2012

The Death Of John Pierce And The Political Culture Of The Early Republic, Jennifer Leigh Petrafesa

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.