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Built On Black Backs: Inner Bluegrass Agriculture, 1850-1878, Andrew P. Patrick Oct 2011

Built On Black Backs: Inner Bluegrass Agriculture, 1850-1878, Andrew P. Patrick

Andrew P Patrick

This study supports and builds on historical literature on antebellum agriculture in the Inner Bluegrass by providing a greater emphasis on the central role played by black slaves. It goes further to examine the transition from a slave to a free society and the choices made by emancipated African Americans in the early years of this transition. The overall conclusion, that African Americans were central to Inner Bluegrass agriculture, through their labor and their choices, applies equally to the antebellum and postbellum eras.


Projecting Pornography, Enacting (In)Equality, And Mexican Modernity, Ageeth Sluis Jul 2011

Projecting Pornography, Enacting (In)Equality, And Mexican Modernity, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

If pornography proves a problematic avenue within women’s bid for sexual liberation and equality today, how then has this historically been constructed? In an attempt to determine the role of pornography within articulations of women’s sexual (in)equality, I use a banned pornographic magazine published in 1930s Mexico as the starting point for a broader examination of the relationships between female sexual visibility and modernity, and sexual normativity and the state. Employing the Foucaultian methodology of genealogy, I trace popular representations of female sexuality as well as civic discourse on sexual prohibitions through space (from the USA and Europe to Mexico) …


The Kentucky Association For The Improvement Of Breeds Of Stock: Natural Advantages And Market Motivations, Andrew P. Patrick Apr 2011

The Kentucky Association For The Improvement Of Breeds Of Stock: Natural Advantages And Market Motivations, Andrew P. Patrick

Andrew P Patrick

The Kentucky Association for the Improvement of Breeds of Stock operated to promote horse breeding and racing in the Inner Bluegrass region of Kentucky during the 19th century, taking advantage of the areas suitability for high quality livestock and growing national markets for superior stock.


Memories Of A New Age: Carlos Castaneda’S Anthropological Journeys Into Sacred Space, Ageeth Sluis Mar 2011

Memories Of A New Age: Carlos Castaneda’S Anthropological Journeys Into Sacred Space, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Nixon's Effect On School Desegregation, Demetri L. Morgan Feb 2011

Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Nixon's Effect On School Desegregation, Demetri L. Morgan

Demetri L. Morgan, Ph.D.

A review of Preisdent Richard Nixon’s deeds rather than his rhetoric or policy stances, illuminates a previously under investigated reality that Nixon’s education civil rights record has been the most progressive and beneficial for the education of students of color to date. How can this be? As this presentation will outline, Nixon’s rhetoric and stances on education were symbolic measures to appease both the ‘silent majority’ and conservative southern democrats, which Nixon identified as vital to his election aspirations in the 1968 presidential campaign. This political ploy eventually collided with Nixon’s efforts to acquiesce to his campaign mantra and governing …