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Buck-Horned Snakes And Possum Women: Non-White Folkore, Antebellum *Southern Literature, And Interracial Cultural Exchange, John Douglas Miller
Buck-Horned Snakes And Possum Women: Non-White Folkore, Antebellum *Southern Literature, And Interracial Cultural Exchange, John Douglas Miller
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The antebellum American South was a site of continual human mobility and social fluidity. This cultivated a pattern of cultural exchange between black, indigenous, and white Southerners, especially in the Old Southwest, making the region a cultural borderland as well as a geographical one. This environment resulted in the creolization of many aspects of life in the region. to date, the literature of the Old South has yet to be studied in this context. This project traces the diffusion of African-American and Native American culture in white-authored Southern texts.;For instance, textual evidence in Old Southwestern Humor reveals a pattern of …
Dunmore's New World: Political Culture In The British Empire, 1745--1796, James Corbett David
Dunmore's New World: Political Culture In The British Empire, 1745--1796, James Corbett David
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
Despite his participation in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, John Murray, fourth earl of Dunmore, eventually became royal governor of New York (1770-1771), Virginia (17711783), and the Bahama Islands (1787-1796). His life in the British Empire exposed him to an extraordinary range of political experience, including border disputes, land speculation, frontier warfare and diplomacy, sexual scandal, slave emancipation, naval combat, loyalist advocacy, Amerindian slavery, and trans-imperial filibusters, to say nothing of his proximity to the Haitian Revolution or his role in the defense of the British West Indies during the French Revolutionary Wars. Quick to break with convention on behalf …
Flying Under The Radar With The Royal Chicano Air Force: The Ongoing Politics Of Space And Ethnic Identity, Ella Maria Diaz
Flying Under The Radar With The Royal Chicano Air Force: The Ongoing Politics Of Space And Ethnic Identity, Ella Maria Diaz
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation explores the Royal Chicano Air Force (RCAF), a Chicano/a arts collective that produced numerous murals in Sacramento, CA, for over forty years. Grounded in Mexican and US aesthetic traditions, their murals reflect cultural hybridity and re-imagine US history through a Chicano/a perspective. Many of their works were and are located in Sacramento's Chicano/a barrios, while others occupy interethnic, public space in the vicinity of the State Capitol. By encoding hidden Chicano/a iconographies within each mural, the RCAF offers what scholar Alicia Gaspar de Alba calls "alter-Native" narratives of American history because they posit "Other" views of local history, …
Beyond Words: Nonverbal Communication, Performance, And Acculturation In The Early French-Indian Atlantic (1500--1701), Celine Carayon
Beyond Words: Nonverbal Communication, Performance, And Acculturation In The Early French-Indian Atlantic (1500--1701), Celine Carayon
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
This dissertation is a study of nonspeech communication and its significance for mutual acculturation and colonial power dynamics in the context of French-Indian contacts across the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Most scholars have considered sign-language, pantomime, and other nonverbal means of communication (visual, sonorous, tactile, etc), as temporary, imperfect, and insignificant solutions to the lack of mutual linguistic understanding during early colonial encounters. It is also often assumed that these means of communication, combined with seemingly insurmountable cultural differences, inevitably promoted misunderstandings, incomprehension, and violent conflicts between early colonists and native populations. Seeking to challenge these assumptions, …
The Professional Learning Community And Its Effect On African American Students' Achievement, Anthony Eugene Copeland
The Professional Learning Community And Its Effect On African American Students' Achievement, Anthony Eugene Copeland
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this correlational study was to quantify the degree to which teachers believe their school adheres to professional learning community (PLC) practices and determine to what extent PLC practices are related to student achievement. The study also attempted to determine to what extent PLCs were related to African American students' achievement and closing the achievement gap.;Schools were the unit of analysis and participants were elementary school teachers from 25 schools in a large diverse school district located in the mid-Atlantic region. They were administered Hord's School Professional Staff as Learning Community survey to compute their school's "PLCness" (e.g. …
The Search For A New England Character: Change, The Town, And The Wilderness In Timothy Dwight's "Travels In New England And New York", Nicolette Gable
The Search For A New England Character: Change, The Town, And The Wilderness In Timothy Dwight's "Travels In New England And New York", Nicolette Gable
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Alan Lomax Photographs And The Music Of Williamsburg (1959-1960), Peggy Finley Aarlien
The Alan Lomax Photographs And The Music Of Williamsburg (1959-1960), Peggy Finley Aarlien
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The American Grotesque: Free-Thought Idealism In Edward Bliss Foote's "Science In Story", Lita M. Tirak
The American Grotesque: Free-Thought Idealism In Edward Bliss Foote's "Science In Story", Lita M. Tirak
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"You Have No Boss Here To Work For": Women And Labor In Chesapeake Bay Fishing Communities, Elizabeth Marie O'Grady
"You Have No Boss Here To Work For": Women And Labor In Chesapeake Bay Fishing Communities, Elizabeth Marie O'Grady
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Desire For Fired Clay From Far Away: Analysis Of Ceramics From A Seventeenth-Century Domestic Site In Bridgetown, Barbados, Anne M. Gibson
A Desire For Fired Clay From Far Away: Analysis Of Ceramics From A Seventeenth-Century Domestic Site In Bridgetown, Barbados, Anne M. Gibson
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Gaming Among Enslaved Africans In The Americas, And Its Uses In Navigating Social Interactions, Katrina Ann Christiano
Gaming Among Enslaved Africans In The Americas, And Its Uses In Navigating Social Interactions, Katrina Ann Christiano
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Federal Recognition Politics And Collaborative Archaeologists: The Need For A Cultural Consensus, Alexandra Grace Martin
Federal Recognition Politics And Collaborative Archaeologists: The Need For A Cultural Consensus, Alexandra Grace Martin
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Anime In America, Disney In Japan: The Global Exchange Of Popular Media Visualized Through Disney's "Stitch", Nicolette Lucinda Pisha
Anime In America, Disney In Japan: The Global Exchange Of Popular Media Visualized Through Disney's "Stitch", Nicolette Lucinda Pisha
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Preservation And Deconstruction Of Hawaii Plantation Style Architecture: A Iea, Waipahu, And Ewa, Jessica Margaret Way
The Preservation And Deconstruction Of Hawaii Plantation Style Architecture: A Iea, Waipahu, And Ewa, Jessica Margaret Way
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Neither United States Citizens Nor British Nationalists: A Postwar Loyalist Trade Diaspora, Justin Clement
Neither United States Citizens Nor British Nationalists: A Postwar Loyalist Trade Diaspora, Justin Clement
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Heresy And Simony: John Wyclif And Jan Hus Compared, April Marie Brinker
Heresy And Simony: John Wyclif And Jan Hus Compared, April Marie Brinker
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
From Sight To Site To Website: Travel-Writing, Tourism And The American Experience In Haiti, 1900-2008, Landon Cole Yarrington
From Sight To Site To Website: Travel-Writing, Tourism And The American Experience In Haiti, 1900-2008, Landon Cole Yarrington
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Heavy Metal Archaeology: A N Examination Of Lead's Significance For The Interpretation Of Archaeological Bone, Peter Andrew Regan
Heavy Metal Archaeology: A N Examination Of Lead's Significance For The Interpretation Of Archaeological Bone, Peter Andrew Regan
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Just Where Do You Think You're Going?: Maternalism And Social Work Of The Travelers' Aid Society Of Virginia, Kathryn Louise Hill
Just Where Do You Think You're Going?: Maternalism And Social Work Of The Travelers' Aid Society Of Virginia, Kathryn Louise Hill
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
A Legacy Of Inaction, Robert Gordon Menna
A Legacy Of Inaction, Robert Gordon Menna
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
The Right Of Petition: Cases Of Indentured Servants And Society In Colonial Virginia, 1698-1746, Brandon Paul Righi
The Right Of Petition: Cases Of Indentured Servants And Society In Colonial Virginia, 1698-1746, Brandon Paul Righi
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
"Hearty Damnations" And "Ordered Resistance": Protest, Profit, And Power In Colonial Charleston, 1769, Molly Fitzgerald Perry
"Hearty Damnations" And "Ordered Resistance": Protest, Profit, And Power In Colonial Charleston, 1769, Molly Fitzgerald Perry
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.
Art, Mystery, And Occupation: Building Culture In Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, Virginia, Elizabeth Cook
Art, Mystery, And Occupation: Building Culture In Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, Virginia, Elizabeth Cook
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
No abstract provided.