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Victims Of Victims: The Concept Of Victimhood In Two War Memoirs Of The Sierra Leonean Civil War, Lauren R. Letizia Apr 2022

Victims Of Victims: The Concept Of Victimhood In Two War Memoirs Of The Sierra Leonean Civil War, Lauren R. Letizia

Student Publications

This research analyzes the portrayal and view of war victimhood in the genre of war stories and remembrance using two firsthand accounts of the Sierra Leonean Civil War.


Courting American Capital: Public Relations And The Business Of Selling Ivorian Capitalism In The U.S., 1960-1980, Abou B. Bamba Jan 2022

Courting American Capital: Public Relations And The Business Of Selling Ivorian Capitalism In The U.S., 1960-1980, Abou B. Bamba

History Faculty Publications

This chapter is an invitation to reimagine the roles assigned to players in the history of capitalism on the global stage. It challenges aspects of the historiography of capitalism in the twentieth century, which tend to center on historical actors and institutions of the Global North. Even when actors in the Global South are discussed, it is usually to portray them as passive victims of an intractable system. By focusing on the Ivory Coast and its economic diplomacy toward the United States, I seek to destabilize this general picture.