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Where's The Dim Sum? Art, Oral History, And The Chinese American Diaspora In Portland, Or, Rayli Dornan

University Honors Theses

This thesis examines the history, transformation, and contemporary significance of Portland's Chinatown through an oral history framework, emphasizing the voices of Chinese American artists. Beginning with a comprehensive historical overview from the mid-nineteenth-century Gold Rush migrations and railroad labor to twentieth-century exclusion, dispossession under urban renewal, and the late-twentieth-century dispersal into suburbs, the thesis traces how structural racism and policy shaped both the physical landscape and communal life of Oregon's Chinese diaspora. Through in-depth interviews with local artists, this research aims to illuminate how individual experiences of identity, belonging, and creative expression navigate the tensions between heritage and adaptation.

Drawing …

Exploiting Vulnerability: Human Trafficking As A Tool Of Genocide, Madison Bryant

Undergraduate Theses, Capstones, and Recitals

This thesis examines the relationship between human trafficking and genocide, arguing that when trafficking is used with the intent to destroy a targeted group, it should be understood and prosecuted as an act of genocide. While international law traditionally treats genocide and human trafficking as distinct crimes, historical and contemporary evidence reveals significant overlap in their mechanisms, motivations, and outcomes. Through a thematic analysis of three case studies, this research demonstrates how trafficking has been systematically employed to further genocidal objectives, including displacement, exploitation, cultural erasure, and the destruction of communities. The case studies are the genocide of Indigenous peoples …

Cunning Commies, Dumb Democrats, And Exiled Germans: A Holistic Postmortem Of The 1948 Czechoslovak Coup D'État, Douglas Joys

Undergraduate Theses, Capstones, and Recitals

The role played by the post-WWII expulsion of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia in catalyzing the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état has been underexplored in favor of the traditional narrative of an East-West clash between Czechoslovak democratic and communist parties backed by the United States and Soviet Union, respectively. Scholarship on the expulsion and the coup has on occasion brought up connections between the two events, albeit briefly and only as a small part of larger examinations of one of the two. The Eastern and Western forces at play in Czechoslovakia were undoubtedly key factors in the coup’s outcome: the end of …

Willie "Bill" Ellis

African American Funeral Programs

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Bernice Thompson Eliga

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

News Clippiing, Summer Graduating Class Of Edward Waters College

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Newsclipping: Image of the summer high school graduating class of Edward Waters College. Mrs. R. A. McGill listed in graduating class. Undated.

Programme. Howard Academy Closing Exercises And Newsclippings

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Program: Howard Academy closing exercises, held in Bethel A. M. E. Church, May 25th, no year given. Program reference to: "...Class 1908." Handwritten note on reverse of program: By virtue of the authority, vested in me by the board of public instruction, of Jeff. Co. State of Fla. Includes scrapbook page of news clippings: one references Dummer Academy. One has date of May 23, 1903, written on top, and Fla. Recorder written on bottom of article. Undated.

History Of The Clara White Mission

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Typed history of the Clara White Mission, "A Red Feather Agency". Handwritten note on reverse. Undated.

History Of The Clara White Mission

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Booklet: Typed history of the Clara White Mission. Undated. R-203A

Clara White Mission Free Meal Ticket

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Free meal ticket at the Clara White Mission, 233 W. 1st Street, Jacksonville, Florida. Handwritten note on reverse: Nov 17/30. Undated.

News Clipping, May Pole Party Next Friday. - Movement For Boys' Home

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Newsclipping: Clipping regarding May pole party, State Board of Health building. Article mentions Eartha White, and Boys Home meeting. Undated.

Free Soup And Bread Meal Card

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Card: Free soup and bread, Daily 12 to 1 P.M., 233 West First St., for the hungry unemployed, white and colored. Undated.

Memorial Day Services Program

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Program for a Memorial Day service. Undated.

Tentative Memorial Day Service Program

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Tentative activities for Memorial Day services. Undated.

In Loving Memory Of Mrs. Clara White, Mother, Memorial

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Memorial: Memorial for Mother (Clara White), image of Eartha M. M. White standing next to her mother, Clara White. With poem appended. Undated.

Clara White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Image of Clara White with biographical information. Undated.

Break Thou The Bread Of Life, Poem, Eartha M.M. White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Poem written by Eartha White in memory of her mother. Handwritten notes on reverse. Undated.

Thank You Note From Loretha Myers To Clara White

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Note: Thank you note Mrs. Clara White from the Women Church Choir and Loretha Myers. Undated.

Postcard With Note About The Boys Improvement Club

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Postcard: View From thousand Island House postcard with note regarding the Boys Improvement Club organized in 1904 by Eartha White. Transcription included. Undated.

Clara White Mission, Art Display Notes

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Document: Notes on Art Display at the Clara White Mission. Undated. S-250

Minstrel Show News Release And Newsclipping: Launch Efforts To Save 1,000 Boys From Court

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News release: Minstrel show, "It Pays to Go Straight," written by Eartha White. Presented by the Clara White Mission at the Knights of Pythias Auditorium for the benefit of the Boys Improvement Club. News clipping: Launch Efforts to Save 1,000 Boys From Court, included. Undated.

News Clipping, Clara White Mission Ready For Annual Outing July 16

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Newsclipping: Article regarding the annual summer outing of the Clara White Mission [to Moncrief Springs, Jacksonville, Florida] held on July 16. Undated.

Dedication Of Maternity Home Notes

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Note: Dedication of Maternity Home, 1449 Milnor Street, Jacksonville, Florida. September 22. Undated.

Junior Girls Auxiliary Of The Riverside Baptist Church Easter Party Held At The Clara White Mission

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

News Release: Easter party for the Junior Girls Auxiliary of the Riverside Baptist Church held in the auditorium of the Clara White Mission. Undated.

Clara White Mission Benefit 5 Cent Ticket

Eartha M. M. White Textual Material

Ticket: Benefit - Clara White Mission - 5c. Handwritten on reverse: Francis Jackson. Undated.

Intersectional Resistance: German Working-Class Adaptation To Nazi Control, Nyhan O’Sullivan

Lawrence University Honors Projects

Prior to the Nazi seizure of power, the working class in Germany held political power at the local and national level. Once the Nazi state obtained control, they took decisive action and dismantle workers institutions and control the working class. The working class was forced to adapt to these rapidly changing circumstances and push back against the Nazi state in ways dictated largely by the conditions in which workers found themselves. Workers with vastly different experiences, from forced laborers to enthusiastic fascist volunteers experiences the Nazi states contempt for workers and resisted. By examining this resistance and the effects it …

Burned In Berlin – Banned In Boston: Censorship Of Booksellers During The Interwar Period In The U. S. As Compared To Germany, 1919-1939, Aleksandra Jimerson-Mckinnies

Lawrence University Honors Projects

During the twenty-year interwar period from 1919-1939, two vastly different nations faced their own personal wars with the censorship of booksellers. Germany—at first the Weimar Republic, then later the Nazi Regime—underwent such a transformation that Berlin went from one of the literary capitals of the world to the site of the most infamous of censorship crimes: the book burnings. Meanwhile, the United States was a long-standing democratic nation in which freedom of speech was one of its cornerstone tenants. Despite the differences of governments and the scope and scale of the censorship, there were major similarities between the tactics and …

Harlem’S Avenues For Agency: An Exploration Of Black Female Agency In Angelina Weld Grimké And Zora Neale Hurston’S Short Stories, Jessica Ellen Hartenbower

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores themes of Black female agency in selected short stories by Angelina Weld Grimké and Zora Neale Hurston. Pushing back against the belief that the Harlem Renaissaince was a movement solely for male artists, Grimké and Hurston write short stories that center Black women and their experiences. Through the avenues of bodily autonomy, the using or silencing of voice, the opportunity and ability to make choices, issues of justice, retribution, and vengeance, the holding of authority, and being empowered or disempowered, I examine the female characters’ exercising of their agency to varying degrees. I also discuss how religious …

Pilgrimage, Trade And Empire: A Gis Investigation Of Pre-Hispanic Roads In The Ocoña And Chorunga Valleys Of Peru, Geri Evilla

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research examines Inca imperial expansion into the Ocoña and Chorunga Valleys, through an investigation of precolonial roads and trails. It focuses on the Middle to Late Horizons (700 BCE-1534 CE), with specific attention to the last 100 years, when the region was occupied by the Inca state and experienced a rapid increase in population and architectural development. Data collected in excavations, and pedestrian, and drone surveys were used in geographic information systems, to map pre-Hispanic road systems. A combination of Least Cost Path and viewshed analyses were used to investigate land use patterns and tie this region into the …

The Narratological Maus, Isla Lader

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Complete Maus, a memoir graphic novel surrounding the events of character Art Spiegelman as he collects, records, and illustrates his father’s life pre-the Holocaust in Europe, his time in Auschwitz, and then life in the United States has been one of the focal Holocaust survivor testimonies and has redefined the genre it exists in as both a graphic novel, but also as a form of testimony. Like many popularized works dealing with the Holocaust, though, cultural preconceptions of Jewish people, genocide, and audiences’ desire to find morals within the work have made it so often audiences come to …