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Honoring The Ancestors: Historical Reclamation And Self-Determined Identities In Richmond And Rio De Janeiro, Autumn Rain Duke Barrett
Honoring The Ancestors: Historical Reclamation And Self-Determined Identities In Richmond And Rio De Janeiro, Autumn Rain Duke Barrett
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation focuses on how history is made meaningful in the present. I argue that within the United States and Brazil, historic narratives and sites are employed in legitimizing and contesting past and contemporary social inequity. National, regional, and local narratives tell the stories of how communities and their members came to be who and where they are in the present. Social hierarchies and inequity are naturalized and/or questioned through historic narratives. Formative education includes telling these stories to children. Commemorative events and monuments tell and re-tell stories to community members of all ages. Enculturation of historical identities, the positioning …
Rituals Of The Re-Founded Bolivian State, Raquel Elizabeth Nava Cerball
Rituals Of The Re-Founded Bolivian State, Raquel Elizabeth Nava Cerball
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
National Identity In Turkey, Seth Robertson Wood
National Identity In Turkey, Seth Robertson Wood
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.