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2012-2013 Nova Southeastern University Undergraduate Student Catalog, Nova Southeastern University Jan 2012

2012-2013 Nova Southeastern University Undergraduate Student Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

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Online Representation Of Azerbaijani Online Community, Lala Hajibayova Jan 2012

Online Representation Of Azerbaijani Online Community, Lala Hajibayova

Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

This paper discusses online representation of Azerbaijani Diaspora of post Soviet era. Diaspora websites, discussion groups and forums are analyzed to explore how critical historical moments of newly independent country manifested in its online representation. Analysis of online representation of Azerbaijani diaspora in the United States reveals diaspora’s strong connection with homeland that expressed through lobbying of its interests, immediate and constant reaction to the on-going processes in the home country. Study displays a critical role of Internet technologies in representation and formation of Azerbaijani Diaspora as a community.


Kenyon College Catalog 2012-2013 Jan 2012

Kenyon College Catalog 2012-2013

Kenyon College Course Catalogs

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She Wears The Masks: Bluefacing In Nilaja Sun's Black And Blue And La Nubia Latina, Patricia Herrera Jan 2012

She Wears The Masks: Bluefacing In Nilaja Sun's Black And Blue And La Nubia Latina, Patricia Herrera

Theatre and Dance Faculty Publications

This article examines how Nilaja Sun explicitly employs the minstrelsy traditions of blackface to push the conceptual limits of racial identity, and expand the nodes of intersection within diasporic identities. The act of bluing up, as opposed to blacking up, is Sun's way of provoking her audience to think more expansively about the performance of racialized identity outside of black and Latino paradigms, and toward a more complicated and not-clearly discernible Afro-Latino hybrid subjectivity. Sun uses what I call bluefacing, a performance tactic that magnifies the constrictive and monolithic perceptions of blackness and Latinidad as a means of generating …


Porfirismo During The Mexican Revolution: Exile And The Politics Of Representation, 1910-1920, Nancy Alexandra Aguirre Jan 2012

Porfirismo During The Mexican Revolution: Exile And The Politics Of Representation, 1910-1920, Nancy Alexandra Aguirre

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This work broadens the narrative of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) by incorporating the perspective of the supporters of dictators Porfirio Dí­az and Victoriano Huerta. I focus specifically on urban professional "Porfiristas," examining the changes and continuities in their identity over the course of the revolution. Identity formation is the central theme of this study, and I rely on memoirs, newspapers, government documents, and oral history interviews in order to analyze the motivations of Porfiristas as they fought to sustain their worldview during a decade of global conflict.

My study draws upon the frameworks of post-colonialism, feminist theory, cultural studies, migration/diaspora …