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California: An American State On The Global Stage, Jaishankar Raman Apr 2023

California: An American State On The Global Stage, Jaishankar Raman

csuglobaljournal

No abstract provided.


At Any And All Hazards: Manifest Destiny, The Monroe Doctrine, And The Balance Of Power In North America, Keith Thomas Ressa Feb 2023

At Any And All Hazards: Manifest Destiny, The Monroe Doctrine, And The Balance Of Power In North America, Keith Thomas Ressa

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Contrary to the beliefs of New Left historians seeking to revive the once discredited theory that American territorial expansion was driven by a motivation to expand the institution of slavery, a position that I have dubbed the Neo-Abolitionist view, rather that Manifest Destiny developed as an early national security strategy and primitive strategic doctrine, what might be termed in today’s vernacular as a kind of preemptive threat displacement theory. That is, early on in the history of the Republic, many American statesmen believed that the most effective means of preventing a “balance of power” geopolitical system from being established in …


"They Would Do As They Pleased, As They Had The Power": Gender Violence And The American Settler-Colonial Project, 1830-1890, Noelle Iati May 2021

"They Would Do As They Pleased, As They Had The Power": Gender Violence And The American Settler-Colonial Project, 1830-1890, Noelle Iati

Women's History Theses

This thesis investigates the role of gender violence and sexual terror in westward settler expansion of the United States in the nineteenth century. I posit that gender violence was not simply a symptom of war and colonization, but an integral piece of the American colonization strategy. Using studies of three locations during three different periods, I have found that the local, territorial, state, and federal governments all actively deployed sexual assault and other forms of gendered terror as methods of removing Indigenous peoples to reservations and rancherías, opening their lands to settlement and resource exploitation for the purpose of acquiring …


Addressing Maternal Mortality Rates Of Black Women In The Us: California's Example, Selah Laigo May 2021

Addressing Maternal Mortality Rates Of Black Women In The Us: California's Example, Selah Laigo

Humanities and Cultural Studies | Senior Theses

This essay examines California’s legislation, activism, and the role of women’s clinics in serving Black communities in the fight against maternal mortality. Maternal mortality is a death related to pregnancy or childbirth. In the United States, maternal mortality rates have been increasing since the beginning of the 21st century and there is a significant racial disparity with Black women being at greater risk. Despite national rates increasing, California has managed to decrease maternal mortality rates (MMR) since the early 2000s by adopting legislation and policies that work to decrease preventable deaths, multidisciplinary maternity care for the protection of Black women, …


Asian American Voting During The 2020 Elections: A Rising, Divided Voting Group, Vi Nguyen Jan 2021

Asian American Voting During The 2020 Elections: A Rising, Divided Voting Group, Vi Nguyen

CMC Senior Theses

Asian Americans continue to be an untapped force within American politics. Despite their status as the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the United States they have had surprisingly low political participation rates.[1] But 2020 represented a watershed moment. Campaign outreach and voter participation increased, and Asian Americans assumed new prominence on the national stage. Nonetheless, the 2020 elections also demonstrate historical divides within the community and a lack of cohesion as a voting group.

This thesis investigates Asian American voter behavior during the 2020 election and links trends within this year's elections to assess Asian American panethnicity. It …


The Chinese In California: Archaeology And Railroads At The Turn Of The Century, Evelyn Hildebrand Dec 2020

The Chinese In California: Archaeology And Railroads At The Turn Of The Century, Evelyn Hildebrand

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

Research on Chinese sites in California have focused on ethnicity, ethnic relations, and the material expression of ethnicity all of which are key issues in overseas Chinese archaeology. Chinatown sites produced data that helped define Chinese culture and experience in historical California. One railroad construction work camp site identified in 2016 located in the Cajon Pass in the late 1800’s offers the potential for insight into the lives of the workers. Chinese occupation in San Bernardino is not well understood, and the site may offer information on the culture, traditions, and integrations of the workers. Thousands of Chinese men left …


Like A Lake, Carol Mavor Oct 2020

Like A Lake, Carol Mavor

Sociology

Carol Mavor is Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester. Her most recent books are Aurelia: Art and Literature Through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale, Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour, and Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans Soleil and Hiroshima mon amour.


Law Library Blog (September 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law Sep 2020

Law Library Blog (September 2020): Legal Beagle's Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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Importance Of Grief And Loss Support, Omar I. Cortez May 2020

Importance Of Grief And Loss Support, Omar I. Cortez

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

The capstone was implemented at the Safety Nest, a wellness center that provides socio-emotional and mental health services to all students within Everett Alvarez High School through the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports multi-tiered system. The school serves 2,664 students; 90.2% of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, and it is part of the Salinas Union High School District. The social problem addressed by the project is that “There are too many high school students in California experiencing emotional distress, which can result in academic failure, substance use, or suicide”. The project consisted of collaborating with the NEST’s Behavioral Intervention Specialist to implement an …


Bedrock And Boulder Mortars, Basins, Slicks, And Cupules In The Southern Southwest, Allen Dart, Chris Reed Jan 2020

Bedrock And Boulder Mortars, Basins, Slicks, And Cupules In The Southern Southwest, Allen Dart, Chris Reed

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

This article describes mortars, basins, slicks, and cupules created in bedrock and boulders in the Southern Southwest, and discusses the distribution and possible functions of these features. It defines the Southern Southwest as the region of the U.S. south of 34 degrees north latitude that includes the Califor­nia portion of the Lower Colorado River valley and southern portions of Arizona and New Mexico, and the portion of western Texas that includes El Paso, Hudspeth, Culber­son, Loving, Winkler, Ward, Reeves, and Jeff Davis counties (roughly the part of Texas from El Paso eastward just past the south­eastern corner of New Mexico, …


Putting California On The Map: Von Schmidt’S Lines, David Carle Jan 2020

Putting California On The Map: Von Schmidt’S Lines, David Carle

Eastern Sierra History Journal

When Allexey Waldemar von Schmidt lived in California, from 1849 through 1906, the young state developed a reputation as a society of innovators and energetic problem-solvers. Von Schmidt was a surveyor and civil engineer, an involved citizen of San Francisco, a father and husband, and a pioneer whose triumphs and tragedies enlarged the California Dream. Historian David Carle argues here that this pioneering surveyor literally took California’s measure and documented every step of the way.


Home Of The Menominee Nation Oct 2019

Home Of The Menominee Nation

St. Norbert Times

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Navigating The Shadows: Intersecting The Undocumented And Undocuqueer Identities, Iriana Balbian Sep 2019

Navigating The Shadows: Intersecting The Undocumented And Undocuqueer Identities, Iriana Balbian

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

This project analyzes the navigation of social experiences of Undocumented and Queer individuals amidst broad anti-queer and anti-immigration sentiment prevalent throughout American society. To achieve this goal, this project seeks to resolve three questions. First, what are the social services that Undocuqueer and Undocumented adults need? Second, are their needs fundamentally distinct? Finally, to what extent have they been able to access those services? Crenshaw’s (1994) theory of intersectionality will serve as the overarching theoretical framework of this project, in order to better understand the multifaceted marginalization that Undocumented and Undocuqueer individuals face with everyday institutions.

In this research, I …


Gender In Apocalyptic California: The Ecological Frontier, Marykate Eileen Messimer Aug 2019

Gender In Apocalyptic California: The Ecological Frontier, Marykate Eileen Messimer

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Climate change is the consequence of ideologies that promote human reproduction and resource consumption by sacrificing human justice, nonhuman species, and the land. Both biology and queer ecologies resist this notion of human separation and supremacy by showing that no body is a singular, impermeable entity, that all beings are biologically and inexorably connected. My dissertation demonstrates that fiction writers use this knowledge to locate a utopian vision that can counteract the dystopian impotence of living within climate change. This argument is founded on novels written by women and set in California, a state that uniquely inhabits a utopian and …


Wilgus, Donald Knight, 1918-1989 (Sc 3401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2019

Wilgus, Donald Knight, 1918-1989 (Sc 3401), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3401. Letter, 25 July 1960, to friends from Donald Knight Wilgus and family, Los Angeles, California, describing their activities and travel since moving to California, including Wilgus’s work at the University of California, Los Angeles. Includes a review of Wilgus’s book, Anglo-American Folksong Scholarship Since 1898, and the premier issue (1963) of Hootenanny: The National Folk Singing Magazine, with an article about Wilgus and UCLA’s folk music studies program.


Meanings Of Rancho Names, 1938 Feb 2019

Meanings Of Rancho Names, 1938

National Archives Documents

A list prepared by a Work Progress Administration employee listing the land grants by General Land Office number and the corresponding rancho along with a translation of the rancho name.


Alphabetical Index Of Private Land Grants, 1928 Feb 2019

Alphabetical Index Of Private Land Grants, 1928

National Archives Documents

An alphabetical listing of California private land grants that was obtained from the 1928 General Land Office Map of California.


Meanings Of Rancho Names, 1938 Feb 2019

Meanings Of Rancho Names, 1938

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

A list prepared by a Work Progress Administration employee listing the land grants by General Land Office number and the corresponding rancho along with a translation of the rancho name.


Chronological List Of Land Grants Made By Juan B. Alvarado, 1938 Feb 2019

Chronological List Of Land Grants Made By Juan B. Alvarado, 1938

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

A chronological list of the private land grants made by Juan B. Alvarado between 1839 and 1842 prepared in connection with the Work Progress Administration program administered during the 1930s.


Patented Land Grants Listed By Date Of Original Grants, Undated Feb 2019

Patented Land Grants Listed By Date Of Original Grants, Undated

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

A list of land grants organized by the date of the original Spanish land concession or Mexican land grant prepared under the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.


Alphabetical Grantee List Of California Private Land Grants, Undated Feb 2019

Alphabetical Grantee List Of California Private Land Grants, Undated

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

An alphabetical listing of grantees of Spanish land concessions or Mexican land grants prepared in the 1930s under the Work Progress Administration program.


Patented Land Grants Listed By Date Of Original Grants, Undated Feb 2019

Patented Land Grants Listed By Date Of Original Grants, Undated

National Archives Documents

A list of land grants organized by the date of the original Spanish land concession or Mexican land grant prepared under the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.


List Of Surveyed Private Grants Of California By Glo Number, Undated Feb 2019

List Of Surveyed Private Grants Of California By Glo Number, Undated

National Archives Documents

A list in chronological in order by the General Land Office number for each private land grant made in California that had been surveyed by the time this document was created. It was prepared as part of the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.


Chronological List Of Land Grants Made By Juan B. Alvarado, 1938 Feb 2019

Chronological List Of Land Grants Made By Juan B. Alvarado, 1938

National Archives Documents

A chronological list of the private land grants made by Juan B. Alvarado between 1839 and 1842 prepared in connection with the Work Progress Administration program administered during the 1930s.


Alphabetical Grantee List Of California Private Land Grants, Undated Feb 2019

Alphabetical Grantee List Of California Private Land Grants, Undated

National Archives Documents

An alphabetical listing of grantees of Spanish land concessions or Mexican land grants prepared under the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.


Alphabetical Index Of Private Land Grants, 1938 Feb 2019

Alphabetical Index Of Private Land Grants, 1938

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

An alphabetical listing of California private land grants that was obtained from the 1928 General Land Office Map of California prepared under the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.


List Of Surveyed Private Grants Of California By Glo Number, Undated Feb 2019

List Of Surveyed Private Grants Of California By Glo Number, Undated

Summaries of Data Relating to the Basins

A list in chronological in order by the General Land Office number for each private land grant made in California that had been surveyed by the time this document. It was prepared as part of the Work Progress Administration program in the 1930s.


1849 - The Emigrant's Guide To New Mexico, California, And Oregon, John Disturnell Feb 2019

1849 - The Emigrant's Guide To New Mexico, California, And Oregon, John Disturnell

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

The author, noting the desire for correct information in relation to the various routes, provided a detailed description and lists of the provisions and equipment needed for each option, distances involved and different routes (over land or via sea) that an emigrant in 1849 could travel to reach the U.S. Territories in the West: New Mexico, California and Oregon.


1849 - Address To The Inhabitants Of New Mexico And California On The Omission By Congress To Provide Them With Territorial Goverments And On The Social And Political Evils Of Slavery Feb 2019

1849 - Address To The Inhabitants Of New Mexico And California On The Omission By Congress To Provide Them With Territorial Goverments And On The Social And Political Evils Of Slavery

Miscellaneous Federal Documents & Reports

This August 1849 letter, signed by twenty-one abolitionists, in which they wrote concerning the Southern States refusal to provide New Mexico and California with the advantages and protection of civil government. The authors detailed the sequence of events leading up to the annexation of New Mexico and California and the efforts to ensure that the new territories would permit the ownership of slaves. The letter discusses the morality of slavery.


1789 - Storia Della California, Francesco Saverio Clavigero Feb 2019

1789 - Storia Della California, Francesco Saverio Clavigero

Miscellaneous Publications – Spanish

The history of Mexico collected from Spanish and Mexican historians, from manuscripts and old paintings of Indians, along with discussion of the animals and inhabitants of Mexico. Includes illustrated charts and copperplates. Clavigero was born at Vera Cruz, Mexico, September 9, 1731;, and he died in Bologna, Italy, on April 2, 1787. At the age of seventeen he entered the Society of Jesus. Subsequently, his attention was drawn Mto the valuable collection of documents on Mexican history and antiquities deposited there by Siguenza y Gongora, from which he derived much of his information.