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Number 13, 2009, Palara Editors

PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association

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Flowers, Queens, And Goons: Unruly Women In Rural Pakistan, Lubna N. Chaudhry

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article focuses on girls and women perceived as deviant, difficult, or different by their communities in rural Punjab, even as it pluralizes and historicizes performances of rebellious, unruly selves. Specifically, the paper uses fieldwork interactions with girls who enjoyed wanderings in out-of-bound spaces, women who claimed a position of authority as headmistresses in village schools, and women who troubled the social imaginary through their acts of intimidation and involvement in local politics in order to examine defiance of gendered norms within the context of material, structural, and discursive realities framing individual lives. The analysis illustrates how regional differences among …

Issue 13, Fall 2009, Imagining America

Newsletters - Imagining America

Highlights of Issue #13 (Fall 2009) include: an article featuring five of IA’s founding members, Richland College, University of California-Santa Barbara, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Vanderbilt University, and University of Michigan; a director’s column on our tenth anniversary conference; and a Keywords article by Director Emerita Julie Ellison on “hope,” a word that remains central to our organization’s ethos.

Undergraduate Student Catalog Fall 2009, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Steans Center Newsletter, Steans Center

Steans Center Newsletters, Press Releases and News Items

No abstract provided.

September 10, 2009, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Mapping Race: Historicizing The History Of The Color-Line, Ryan Irwin

History Faculty Scholarship

This study examines scholarship about the global color-line. It unfolds in two sections. The first traces how understandings of race and racism were encoded within university environments in the mid-twentieth century. The second shows how this epistemology influenced early academic comparisons of the United States and South Africa in the 1980s and why the literature diversified in the post-apartheid era.

The Current Volume 20 : Issue 1, Nova Southeastern University

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Fall 2009 Nova Southeastern University Undergraduate Student Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Homemaking In Asian American Women's Writing: Chuang Hua, Bharati Mukherjee And Meena Alexander Performing The Diasporic Home, Yan Jiang

Dissertations

This dissertation examines how homemaking, as depicted in contemporary Asian American literature, reflects the bigger issue of Asian diaspora and identity transformation. I analyze how Asian immigrants, especially Asian women, make the home in America in varying ways, seemingly following their ancestral pattern or the mainstream American model but eventually transcend both. Following Judith Butler, I suggest that Asian immigrants' homemaking is performative. In this study, I look to the ideas of cultural identification and identity formation as a foundation for contemporary definitions of the diasporic home and contend that far from being a static mimicking of their former homes, …

Southerner And Irish? Regional And Ethnic Consciousness In Savannah, Georgia, William L. Smith

Journal of Rural Social Sciences

This paper attempts to answer the following question regarding regional and ethnic consciousness: Does southern identity vary by the level of ethnic identity one professes? Less than one-third of those who identified themselves as southerners, indicate that their identity as a southerner is much more important than their other identities including their ethnic identity. Some of these respondents practice a symbolic regionalism. Ethnic identity for most of the respondents is more important than their regional identity, although for them southerner and Irish are not mutually exclusive identities. The strength of ethnic identity is not significantly related to the importance of …

“A Place Of Paramount Peace”: The Unofficial Nationalism Of An Officially Peaceful Movement, Kari Irwin

Honors Projects

In this paper, I argue that despite the Sanstha’s official message of peace, ecumenism and tolerance, the group’s rhetoric and activities reveal an unofficial side of the Sanstha that may foster intolerance, fundamentalism, and, possibly, a Hindu nationalist agenda. This connection is not to be found at an official, or even public, level. In order to accurately assess the movement’s role as a transnational Gujarati Hindu movement, we must reach a middle ground between the currently polarized scholarship, and critically, but empathetically, examine the Sanstha’s objectives as a global movement.

Vol. 4, No. 3, Spring 2009

Cornerstone

No abstract provided.

Diasporas And Development: An Assessment Of The Irish Experience For The Caribbean, Indianna D. Minto

International Migration Research Centre

Dialogue on diasporas and their role in the development of the home country has grown in the last twenty years and Caribbean states have begun to identify ways they can engage their nationals residing abroad in this process. Those in the region looking to harness the power of the diaspora have turned their attention to the example of Ireland, a country with a large diaspora that has contributed significantly to its national advancement. By highlighting the lessons of the Irish experience, this paper argues that while the Caribbean’s diaspora has the desire to contribute and does help through remittances, there …

China’S African Economic Policies Evaluation, Chuan He

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

During the semester of spring 2009, from February 08, 2009 to April 18, 2009, I interned at the Institute for Global Initiatives (IGI). Global Initiatives is a recognized global learning leader at Kennesaw State University. It provides services, programs, research and scholarship to Kennesaw State University’s faculty, students, and communities to promote global learning and studies. My supervisor, Dr. Akanmu Adebayo, is the executive director of the department. He is also a historian and focuses on African and African Diaspora studies.

What I do during the internship are: 1) collecting the information about trade, communication, cooperation between China and Africa; …

Project Management And Program Evaluation For Study Abroad Program Evaluation, Hongchun Lin

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

The purpose of this paper is to report on my internship experience at the Office of International Services and Programs (OISP) of the Kennesaw State University (KSU) based on the Public Administration theories. The author did his internship from January to April, 2009. This paper is divided into two sections: the first part provides an in-depth description of the OISP, and the second part details my internship assignments and experience.

The internship report first provides a general introduction to the Office of International Services and Programs (OISP) in terms of its history, purpose, principal functions and its productivity. From the …

Application Of Project Management In Study Abroad Project, Hui Chen

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

The Office of International Services and Programs is a major component of the Institute for Global Initiatives, and is also an important department of Kennesaw State University. With the awareness of internationalization and global integration, it shares different cultures and customs, serves and helps international students, and greatly develops the study abroad programs.

During the internship in the office, I realized the importance of international communication and mutual learning. Thus, I paid much attention to the ISEP (International Student Exchange Programs). Majoring in Public Administration, I tried to combine the theory of project management to the practice of ISEP. Thus …

Job Description Of Office Of International Services And Programs, Li Li

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

This paper includes two major parts. The first part is introduction of Office of International Services and Program (OISP). The second part is job description analysis.

In the first part, I introduce the purpose of the OISP, the importance of OISP to KSU, the principle functions of OISP. These contexts indicate the OISP’s specific services for the campus communities and external organizations. I also talk about the structure and personnel of OISP in this part. Explain the responsibilities of each position. I knew the stockholders, and the leadership style of OISP. Additional, I analyzed the prospect of OISP based on …

Initiatives In The Confucius Institute At Kennesaw State University, Qian Li

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

During the spring of 2009 my internship experience with the Confucius Institute at Kennesaw State University (CIKSU) has given me great insight into how the recently established nonprofit organization collaborated by Kennesaw State University and Yangzhou University together operates. Under the leadership of my supervisor, Mr. Ken Jin, the director of CIKSU, I have worked with the coordinator, Ms. Cathy Liao to deal with the routine affairs and participate in the programs that were planned in the first half of 2009. Besides the daily tasks including archiving the documents and editing the content of CIKSU website, I was assigned especially …

Application Of Project Management In Isep Promotion, Yanhong Li

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

I chose my Internship at the Institute for global initiatives (IGI) department of Kennesaw State University. During the January 5 to April 3, I have interning in the Office of international Services and programs (OISP).OISP is the core of IGI. My supervisor was Michele B. Miller. She is the Program Specialist & Exchange Coordinator. This year Ms. Miller has began a promotional campaign to promote the exchange student Program, especially the ISEP (International Student Exchange Programs). My job was to help her strengthen ISEP management. I accomplished this through class presentation and promotional tables at the student center of KSU. …

In Case You Missed It: Big White Lie, Peter Zarrow

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

I want to share some impressions of a book that the sinologically inclined (like me) might otherwise ignore. Big White Lie, by John Fitzgerald, is most importantly a polemic about Australian history—subtitled “Chinese Australians in White Australia”—but it also has a lot to say about modern Chinese culture, politics, and business. What follows is not a systematic review but a few xinde: somewhat random and incomplete notes on what I got out of the book.

The study of overseas Chinese has always seemed to me like an orphan field—an interesting and important area of research that has long produced major …

Graduate Catalogue 2009-2010, Seton Hall University

Graduate Catalogues

No abstract provided.

Review Of Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations Of Native North American Literatures. Edited By Elvira Pulitano, Laura Castor

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Transatlantic Voices represents some of the most recent critical studies of contemporary Native North American literature by fourteen European scholars. Drawing on Paul Gilroy's notion of the Atlantic as a site for cross-cultural exchange in our globalized era, editor Elvira Pulitano suggests that until now the Atlantic has not been sufficiently recognized as important for Native American studies. Transatlantic Voices seeks to fill this gap. Acutely aware of their strategic location as neither Natives nor Americans, the authors explore various kinds of "crossings": theoretical, geographical, thematic, and epistemological. Their essays present original contributions to current debates in Native North American …

Looking East: Muslim Identity In The Archaeological Record Of American Enslavement, Kacie Allen

Theses & ETDs

A significant number of those Africans enslaved in the Americas were Muslim. Archaeological investigation has yet to be made concerning their story. This thesis explores the archaeology of Islam to provide a foundation for understanding the materiality of Muslim identity as it appears in the context of American enslavement, and the historical circumstances which resulted in significant numbers of African Muslims becoming enslaved in the Americas. Drawing on the documentary record, it relates a selection of the life stories of enslaved African American Muslims. In pursuit of a critical, explanatory, and emancipatory archaeology, an examination of artifacts recovered from contexts …

Chinese Transnationalism And The Creation Of A Liberal Public Sphere, Lanelle Elizabeth Christman

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This thesis is a global comparative study tracing the functions and historical development of Chinese huiguan ["official organization"] and its leadership in China, Indochina, and San Francisco. Early Chinese immigration to America and Indochina involved the formation of huiguan, organizations based on dialect and native place, paralleling the functions and demography of merchant associations originating in China. The merchant elite representing its leadership were preeminent arbitrators of Chinese tradition and authority. French Indochina and America recognized their status as community leaders, further exalting the social standing of merchants and increasing their positions of authority. These organizations greatly influenced the lives …

The Missional Status Of African Christians In Diaspora: A Case Of The African Christian Fellowship And African-Led Churches In The United States Of America, Stanley Nwoji

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Chinese New Year In West Kalimantan: Ritual Theatre And Political Circus, Margaret Chan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Since 2002, when Chinese New Year became a national holiday in Indonesia, spirit medium parades on the fifteen day of the New Year (called Cap Go Meh) have been growing in size in certain West Kalimantan towns, especially Singkawang. This parade in particular has become a major tourist draw-card. Referring to local history, Chinese popular religion and Hakka culture, this article applies a performance analysis methodology to dissect this contemporary phenomenon from religious, historical and inter-ethnic perspectives. It shows how the parades have become enmeshed in current inter-ethnic politics in West Kalimantan, as well as revealing the way that adaptations …

More Than A Cultural Celebration: The Politics Of Chinese New Year In Post-Suharto Indonesia, Chang Yau Hoon

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In the aftermath of the May 1998 riots that forced President Suharto to step down, ethnic Chinese received unprecedented freedom to assert their long suppressed cultural and religious identity. Following the transition from assimilation to multiculturalism, for the first time in over three decades Chinese culture became more visible and ethnic Chinese could finally enjoy the freedom to celebrate Chinese New Year (Imlek) publicly. This article focuses on the politics of the re-emergent Chinese New Year celebration in the Indonesian public sphere. It demonstrates the significance of Imlek as an ethnic symbol to Chinese-Indonesians. Borrowing Hobsbawm’s concept of “invented tradition”, …

(Im)Possible Encounters, Possible (Mis)Understandings Between The West And Its Other: The Case Of The Maghreb, Tanja Stampfl

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

My work deals with what I call (im)possible encounters, possible (mis)understandings between the West and the Rim of the World (in my case The Maghreb). I focus on writers (such as Paul Bowles, Patricia Highsmith, Edith Wharton, Tayeb Salih, Ahlam Mosteghanemi, Ahdaf Soueif) who stepped across the cultural dividing line to claim a voice of their own; a voice that enabled them to represent and at times misrepresent the host culture they chose to live in, and which acts as a “lieu” and at times “milieu de mémoire.” It is what the late Edward Said aptly called “intertwined histories, overlapping …