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Chinese Women As Cultural Participants And Symbols In Nineteenth Century America, Tina Michele Landroche
Chinese Women As Cultural Participants And Symbols In Nineteenth Century America, Tina Michele Landroche
Dissertations and Theses
Chinese female immigrants were active cultural contributors and participants in nineteenth century America, yet Americans often simplified their roles into crude stereotypes and media symbols. The early western accounts concerning females in China created the fundamental images that were the basis of the later stereotypes of women immigrants. The fact that a majority of the period's Chinese female immigrants became prostitutes fueled anti-Chinese feelings.
This thesis investigates the general existence of Chinese prostitutes in nineteenth century America and how they were portrayed in the media. American attitudes toward white women and their images of Chinese women created the stereotype of …
Free African-American Archeology: Interpreting An Antebellum Farmstead, Robin Leigh Ryder
Free African-American Archeology: Interpreting An Antebellum Farmstead, Robin Leigh Ryder
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Stretching The Chains: Runaway Slaves In South Carolina And Jamaica, Jan Mark Williams
Stretching The Chains: Runaway Slaves In South Carolina And Jamaica, Jan Mark Williams
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Womanpower In The Civil Rights Movement, Yvette Hutchinson
Womanpower In The Civil Rights Movement, Yvette Hutchinson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A New People In An Age Of War: The Kahnawake Iroquois, 1667--1760, Gretchen Lynn Green
A New People In An Age Of War: The Kahnawake Iroquois, 1667--1760, Gretchen Lynn Green
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This study focusses on the Kahnawake Iroquois Indians, a collection of individuals who emigrated from the Iroquois homeland to a Jesuit mission community, or reserve, outside of Montreal, starting in 1667.;Their history and development as a people is traced from the beginnings in 1667 up to the end of the French power in Canada, at the end of the Seven Years' War in 1760. Through the topics of diplomacy, warfare, and trade, these Kahnawake Indians are examined and it is determined that they were important players in the power politics and military balance between the English, the French, and the …
"An Instrument For Awakening": The Moravian Church And The White River Indian Mission, Scott Edward Atwood
"An Instrument For Awakening": The Moravian Church And The White River Indian Mission, Scott Edward Atwood
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Hispanic Migrant Labor In Oregon, 1940-1990, Colleen Marie Loprinzi
Hispanic Migrant Labor In Oregon, 1940-1990, Colleen Marie Loprinzi
Dissertations and Theses
Hispanic Migrant Labor in Oregon, 1940-1990, describes the history and conditions of Hispanic farmworkers migrating from the southwestern United States, Mexico, and Latin America after the 1940s. This paper uncovers the history and contribution of a people easily forgotten, but essential to the well-being of the economy and the cultural diversity o f Oregon. Though much has been lost in the comings and the goings o f these people, bits and pieces have been recovered from old newspaper clippings, occasional documents recording the concerns and responses of the federal and state governments, rare articles tucked away in little known periodicals, …