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The End Of Busing?, Davison M. Douglas Jan 1997

The End Of Busing?, Davison M. Douglas

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Armenian American Women Inhabiting Our Bodies: Gendered And Embodied Ethnicity In Carol Edgarian's Rise The Euphrates, Janice Okoomian Jan 1995

Armenian American Women Inhabiting Our Bodies: Gendered And Embodied Ethnicity In Carol Edgarian's Rise The Euphrates, Janice Okoomian

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The subject of my paper is Carol Edgarian's recent novel, Rise the Euphrates, which I believe can tell us much about the current condition of Armenian-American women... In keeping with literary and cultural theory of the past twenty years, I favor a more complex model, in which the text and the culture in which it is written are part of a larger system of knowledge called a "discourse." I am using a Michel Foucault's widely known definition of discourse here: a set of rules, conventions, and practices which both enable and set limits upon knowledge and which permeate a …


Armenian Women In A Changing World: Papers Presented At The First International Conference Of The Armenian International Women's Association, Janice Okoomian Jan 1994

Armenian Women In A Changing World: Papers Presented At The First International Conference Of The Armenian International Women's Association, Janice Okoomian

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We live in the age of what is called "multiculturalism" in the United States. To be white and ethnic, sometimes even to be a person of color, is fashionable. This is true not only in the culture at large, but also in the academic fields of American literary and cultural studies, where the intersection between race/ethnicity and the female body is a popular subject for research. Most scholars who write about this topic, however, have focussed on what it means to be a woman of color in the United States. It is only recently that research is beginning to pay …


The Quest For Freedom In The Post-Brown South: Desegregation And White Self-Interest, Davison M. Douglas Jan 1994

The Quest For Freedom In The Post-Brown South: Desegregation And White Self-Interest, Davison M. Douglas

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Book Review Of Race, Law, And American History, 1700-1990, Davison M. Douglas Jan 1993

Book Review Of Race, Law, And American History, 1700-1990, Davison M. Douglas

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