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A Fat Imposter: The Embodied Intersection Between Race, Body Type And Fatness In Margaret Cho’S Comedy, Julia Cox

Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics

Margaret Cho is a comedic goddess who, in her mockery, serves flaming hot social commentary about race, body image, and fatness. Within this thesis, I used critical discourse analysis to understand how Margaret Cho embodies Asianness, whiteness, and the body types and images prescribed respectively. While working on data analysis, I came across a common media trope of fat women: the use of indexically Southern (United States), Appalachian, and Working class indexicals in speech and lexical items. I connected the ideologies surrounding Southern and Appalachian language to the inequalities that fat women face. This voicing had not previously been written …

"To Claim That Greatness For Themselves”: A History Of The Kentucky Horse Park, Emily Elizabeth Libecap

Theses and Dissertations--History

The Kentucky Horse Park describes itself as the world’s only equine theme park. However, the park is not entirely without historical precedent; instead, world’s fairs, amusement parks, and theme parks all form a century-long pedigree chart through which the park can trace its ancestors. The Kentucky Horse Park’s links to these predecessors deepen our understanding of how the park is a reflection of the world around it and the motivations for how and why it was built. From its inception in the late 1960s, to when it opened in 1978, through the present day, the Kentucky Horse Park was and …

Race Youth In Twentieth-Century American Literature And Culture, Claire E. Lenviel

Theses and Dissertations--English

Race Youth in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture argues for the centrality of black youth, both real and literary, to the trajectories of African American literature and its repudiation of white supremacy. Drawing on research into the rise of the adolescent and teenager as distinct social categories, I argue that age-based subjectivity should inform how we read race-based subjectivity. My first chapter explores how early twentieth-century black periodicals push back against white supremacist theories of human development in an explicit appeal to what I call “race youth,” the children and adolescents who would take up the mantle of racial uplift. …

The Dutch Atlantic And American Life: Beginnings Of America In Colonial New Netherland, Roy J. Geraci

Theses and Dissertations

The Dutch colony of New Netherland was one of the earliest attempts at a non-indigenous life on the east coast of North America. That colony, along with the United Provinces of the Netherlands and Dutch Atlantic as a whole, played crucial roles in the development of what would become the United States. This thesis project examines the significance New Netherland held in American history as well as explores topics which allow for new and inclusive narratives of that history to reach further exploration. Similarly to how individuals from various cultures, ethnicities, and backgrounds all come to exist amongst one another …

Real Rap, Does Authenticity Even Matter In Hip Hop?, Amin Allam

Capstone Showcase

Rap and Hip hop has evolved tremendously since its inception. The collective genre has been catapulted to global influence, where in the United States it represents the largest genre based on market share. After reviewing the history of rap music there is a perceived relationship between hip hop and authenticity. To which the question arose of whether hip hop could maintain authenticity in a commercial sphere. To explore this relationship, after reviewing the literature on authenticity, a model of analysis created by Newman and Smith was used to explore 5years worth of data dealing with the Billboard top 100 list. …

An American Pilgrimage: The 1968 Poor People's Campaign Mule Train As Prophetic Social Performance, Cheston M. Bush

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In late spring of 1968, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) launched a nationwide demonstration known as the Poor People’s Campaign in an effort to overcome poverty. Nine caravans representing people from around the country converged in the Capitol to petition Congress for programs that would broaden opportunities for poor Americans. This work examines the Mississippi contingent of the campaign, the Mule Train caravan, that consisted of roughly 150 people who traveled in 15 covered wagons pulled by about 40 mules. The Mule Train left Marks, Mississippi on May 13 and arrived in Washington, D.C. in time for a June …

The Black Petromodernism Of Zora Neale Hurston: Energy, Race, And Mobility, Stuart Mullet

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis situates Zora Neale Hurston and the folk communities in her oeuvre within the context of modernity’s dependencies on fossil fuels. Such a disciplinary context provides an energy footing for our understandings of African American migrations in the twentieth century—which radically transformed the nation on multiple levels—and it illuminates the communal values that undergird Black approaches to petromodern forms of mobility. Furthermore, by engaging the Black spaces of the South, my argument begins filling a gap in the energy humanities. Few scholars in this field engage deeply those populations and regions that disproportionately experience the underbelly of petromodernity and …

Non-Indian Reservations, Joshua Matthew Rosenau

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This thesis is a skeptical treatment of the logical distinctions presumed to exist between “Indian” and “non-Indian” people. Despite representing 99 percent of the U.S. population, “non-Indians” represent a legal identity which has no explicit definition. The basis for the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions regarding non-Indians and Indians rests not on any objective, empirical or logical criterion or proof, but rather on the “assumption of a ‘guardian-ward’ status. This thesis investigates this assumption, and recommends that we suspend judgment on whether the difference between “Indians” and “non-Indians” can be determined either by logical argument or by legal assumption.

Wetland To Wasteland, Plantation To Plant: The Visual Legacy Of Plantations In The South Louisiana Landscape Of Environmental Justice, Ella Mcintire

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Southeast Louisiana landscape sits at the intersection of a number of environmental and humanitarian crises. Violence against man and land endemic to the Plantation Era development of the Lower Mississippi laid the foundation for modern issues of coastal land loss, habitat destruction, pollution, environmental racism, and displacement. Land-use patterns of the Plantation economy made the region optimal for petrochemical processing, turning wetland to wasteland, and plantation to plant. The exhibit Climates of Inequality: Standing Up On River Road uses photography, cinematography, 360-video, and soundscapes to explore the dialogic relationship between fragile natural spaces in southern Louisiana and the historically …

African American Literary Traditions In Justina Ireland’S Young Adult Novels Dread Nation And Deathless Divide, Gabrielle Sleeper

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Justina Ireland’s young adult novels Dread Nation (2017) and Deathless Divide (2020) tell the story of a Black girl by the name of Jane living in the aftermath of the Civil War, around 1880.

The Place Where Your Nature Meets Mine: Diane Di Prima In The West, Timothy Gray

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Intertextual And Inter-Ethnic Relations In William Carlos Williams's "To Elsie": A Poetics Of Contact, José María Rodríguez García

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"Living Curiosities" And "The Wonder Of America": The Primitive, The Freakish, And The Construction Of National Identities In Civil-War America, Linda Frost

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Index To Volumes Vii - Xiv, Florida Historical Society Quarterly, F. W. Hoskins

Florida Historical Quarterly

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“Western Marxism” In Mao’S China, Jun Zeng, Yichen Wang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

China’s reception of “Western Marxism” is a critical part of the global history of Marxism. This paper examines three aspects of the reception of Western Marxism in literary and art criticism during the early years of Mao’s China (1949-65): the Western Marxist critique of surrealism, debates over Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844, and Sartrean existentialism and Western Marxism. The impacts of Western Marxist literary thought upon Chinese literary studies during the early years of the PRC are discussed, along with the extensive influx of Western Marxism that began in the reform era of post-Mao China (1978- ) …

An Indian Burial Site At Crystal River, Florida, F. G. Rainey

Florida Historical Quarterly

Crystal river rises in a group of large springs a few miles south of the Withlacoochee river on the west coast of Florida and flows westward for eight miles to the Gulf of Mexico. Fish are abundant in the river and the small town of Crystal River situated at the source owes its existence to an extensive fishing industry carried on in the region. Large oyster beds lie just off the mouth of the river and supply oysters to many cities in Florida.

Anthropology In Florida, Rhea M. Smith

Florida Historical Quarterly

Any attempt to investigate the origin and customs of the aborigines of Florida through reliance on written materials is almost immediately frustrated by the paucity of such material and the scantiness of data available. Even an attempt to summarize the work done by field investigators leads to the baffling task of trying to reconcile conflicting theories, a condition that arises from the fact that the conclusions reached as to the origin, antiquity, and life of the early peoples of Florida are so indefinite. Yet there are few regions in the United States more abundantly supplied with mounds that call for …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 11, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Special Issue Introduction by the FHQ Editors by Connie L. Lester and Daniel Murphree
The Historiography of Nineteenth-Century Florida by James G. Cusick
Interpreting Florida, Its Nineteenth-Century Literary Heritage by Maurice O'Sullivan
Abiaka, or Sam Jones, in Context: The Mikasuki Ethnogenesis through the Third Seminole War by Patsy West
"The Indians Are Scattering, I Fear": Mobility and Power in the Second Seminole War by Christine A. Rizzi
Runaway Slave Advertisements in Antebellum Florida: A Retrospective by Matthew J. Clavin
A Flower at Elmira: The Prisoner of War Diary of Wilbur Wightman Gramling by Robert Saunders, Jr.
Another Invisible Man: Alexander …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 94, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Sucking, Blood, and Fire: Timucuan Healing Practices in Spanish Florida by Tamara Shircliff Spike
Reconstructing Power in an American Borderland: Political Change in Colonial East Florida by Nancy O. Gallman
"Republica de Bandidos": The Prospect Bluff Fort's Challenge to the Spanish Slave System by John Paul Nuno
Currency, Credit, Crises, and Cuba: The Fed's Early History in Florida by Lesley Mace
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 93, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Between Swamp and Sea: Bahamian Visitors in Southeast Florida before Miami by Devin Leigh
By the Shores of the Phosphorescent Seas: Lafcadio Hearn's Journey to Florida's Mysterious Fountain by Maxwell J. Stillwell
Camp Blanding Station Hospital in the War Years by George E. Cressman Jr.
Swaim Family Papers: Civil War Reports and Letters of Recommendation for a Carpetbagger by John T. Foster Jr., and Nicole Brown
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida History in Publications, 2014
Comprehensive Index: 2014-2015 (volume 93)

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 93, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Special Issue Introduction by the FHQ Editors by Connie L. Lester and Daniel Murphree
The Historiography of Eighteenth-CenturyFiorida by Sherry Johnson
James Grant, British East Florida, and the Impending Imperial Crisis, 1764-1771 by Susan Schwartz
"Cast Away off the Bar": The Archaeological Investigation of British Period Shipwrecks in St. Augustine by Chuck Meide
The Failure of Great Britain's "Southern Expedition" of 1776: Revisiting Southern Campaign in the Early Years of the American Revolution, 1775-1779 by Roger Smith
Slanders and Sodomy: Studying the Past through Colonial Crime Investigation By James Cusick
Mayhem and Murder in the East Florida Frontier, 1783 to …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 92, Number 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Role of Cattle Ranching in the 1656 Timucuan Rebellion: A Struggle for Land, Labor, and Chiefly Power by Justin B. Blanton
An "underground railway" to Pensacola and the Impending Crisis over Slavery by Matthew J. Clavin
Race, Education, and Regionalism: The Long and Troubling History of School Desegregation in the Sunshine State by Irvin D.S. Winsboro and Abel A. Bartley
Nature on a Leash: Tourism, Development, and the Environment on Amelia Island, Florida by Patrick H. Cosby
Book Reviews
End Notes
Florida in Publications, 2013
Cumulative Index, Volume 92

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 92, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Special Issue Introduction by the FHQ editors by Connie L. Lester and Daniel Murphree
The Historiography of Seventeenth-Century La Florida by Jane Landers
The Geopolitics of Seventeenth-Century Florida by Jane Landers
The Historical Archaeology of Seventeenth-Century La Florida by Bonnie G. McEwan
"These people are not conquered like those of New Spain": Florida's Reciprocal Colonial Compact by Amy Turner Bushnell
St. Augustine in the Seventeenth Century: Capital of La Florida by Susan Richbourg Parker
Pirate, Priest, and Slave: Spanish Florida in the 1668 Searles Raid by Diana Reigelsperger
Colonialism on the Spanish Florida Frontier: Mission San Luis, 1656-1704 by Bonnie …

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 91, Number 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

500 Years of Florida History- The Sixteenth Century: Introduction by Connie L. Lester and Daniel S. Murphree
The Historiography of Sixteenth-Century La Florida by Paul E. Hoffman
The Historical Archaeology of SixteenthCentury La Florida by Kathleen A. Deagan
Entangled Borderlands: Europeans and Timucuans in Sixteenth-Century Florida by Jonathan DeCoster
Sixteenth-Century Florida in the European Imagination by John McGrath
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 91, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Alachua Settlers and the Second Seminole War by C.S. Monaco
A Liberated Journalist and Yankee Women on the Florida Frontier by John T. Foster, Jr., Sarah Whitmer Foster, and Roscoe A. Turnquest
The Politics of Performance: Rollins College and the Annie Russell Theatre by Joan M. Jensen
Controlling Venereal Disease in Orlando during World War II by Claire Strom
Book Reviews
End Note

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 90, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Introduction: Setting a Precedent for Regional Revolution: The West Florida Revolt Considered Samuel C. Hyde,Jr.
Some Thoughts on Spanish East and West Florida as Borderlands James G. Cusick
The Origins of the Monroe Doctrine Revisited: The Madison Administration, the West Florida Revolt, and the No Transfer Policy William S. Belko
The Rise and Fall of the Original Lone Star State: Infant American Imperialism Ascendant in West Florida Cody Scallions
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 90, Number 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

2010 Friends of the Florida Historical Society Keynote Lecture: The First Coming of Judaeo-Christian Religion to Florida Michael Gannon
Crime and Punishment in Antebellum Pensacola James M. Denham
Blue Water, Brown Water, and Confederate Disloyalty: The Peculiar and Personal Naval Conflict in South Florida during the Civil War Irvin D. S. Winsboro and William B. Mack
The Catholic Diocese of Miami and African American Desegregation, 1958-1977 Mark Newman
Book Reviews
End Notes

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 81, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Constructing Indians in the Colonial Floridas: Origins of European-Floridian Identity, 1513-1573 Daniel S. Murphree
Daytona Beach: A Closed Society Robert E. Snyder
Florida's Forgotten Ethnic Culture: Patterns of Canadian Immigration, Tourism, and Investment since 1920 Eric Jarvis
Book Review
Book Notes
History News

Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 74, Number 2, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

DISFRANCHISEMENT, WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AND THE FAILURE OF FLORIDA’S GRANDFATHER CLAUSE Tracey E. Danese
A BOTANICAL MYSTERY THE ELUSIVE TRAIL OF THE DATIL PEPPER TO ST. AUGUSTINE Jean Andrews
DANIEL NEWNAN: A NEGLECTED FIGURE IN FLORIDA HISTORY John K. Mahon
DEFENDING AMERICA BY AIDING THE ALLIES: THE BRITISH STUDENT PILOTS AT ARCADIA AND CLEWISTON, 1941-1945 Thomas D. Greenhaw
HURSTON GOES TO WAR: THE ARMY SIGNAL CORPS IN SAINT AUGUSTINE Gordon Patterson
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• DEMISE OF THE POJOY AND BOMTO John H. Hann

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