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Model Minorities: Asian Americans And The White-Black Racial Paradigm, Jason Tom

Theses and Dissertations

This paper examines the racial wedge driven by Whites between Blacks and Asian Americans during the Cold War on to the present. Model minorities is a term coined by whites in the 1960s to suppress Civil Rights protests and Black demands. By elevating a minority group through success stories, whites constructed a means to suppress Black people’s organizing for change against systemic racism and oppression.

Railspace: A Geocritical Study Of The Railroad Through American Literature And Culture, Michael A. Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation uses geocriticism to argue that the American railroad is best understood as a set of discursively constructed railspaces formed through a variety of viewpoints, a polysensorial awareness of space, and stratified social relationships and power struggles. This study takes up four railspaces, the constituent texts of which demonstrate how intertextual discourse shapes and is shaped by the railroad. The observation car, charted through California Zephyr advertisements and Muriel Rukeyser’s “Campaign,” is an apparatus that produces perpetual spectacle. Three novels—Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, and Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith—and …

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 …

Dreams And Illusions Of An Antiracist Elsewhere: Blacks In Search Of A Home In France And America, Arno Pedram

Capstones

This 3-part audio documentary explores how an idea of an antiracist France was created by African Americans in France, how it actually is like for Black French people in France, and what Black French people find in exile in the US.

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.

Up In Smoke: Trouble And Tobacco In Yoknapatawpha County, Sharon Desmond Paradiso

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Reading for Pleasure (Essay Review)

The Last Iron Gate: Negotiating The Incarceral Spaces Of John Edgar Wideman's Brothers And Keepers, Michael P. Moreno

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Bordering The Subjunctive In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, Adam Lifshey

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Escrime Americana: The History Of Discrimination In American Fencing From The 1700s-1950, Alyssa J. Hirsch

Honors College Theses

This research paper will focus on the history of discrimination in American fencing from 1700-1950. The time frame covers the colonial origins of the sport in America, through segregation practices up to 1950. This project will analyze the origins of classism, sexism, and racism in American fencing, and how it connects to how racism, sexism, and classism have operated in the United States. There has been no previous research conducted into the history of discrimination in fencing exclusively, so this is new territory.

The research for this paper includes primary sources provided by the head historian of U.S. fencing, Andy …

This Time. Maybe This Time: Asynchronous Faulknerian Narrative, Confederate Elegies, And The American Iconoclastic Tradition, Timothy Sedore

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The "Wash'd-Up Drift"Of Poetic Ideals: Disunion As Poetic Failure In Walt Whitman's "As I Ebb'd With The Ocean Of Life", Paul R. Cappucci

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

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Tender Is The Night: Thirteen Propositions On The Nature Of Boredom, Allan Hepburn

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Reading for Pleasure (Essay Review)

Minority Discourses, Foodways, And Aspects Of Gender: Contemporary Writings By Asian-American Women, Wilfried Raussert

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Tapping The Noir Shadow: Fred Astaire's Solos Of Angst, Anger, And Identity Fragmentation, Elizabeth Drake-Boyt

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Modernist Ghosts, Transatlantic Apparitions: The Waste Land, Simon Hay

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Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven, The "Alternative" Western, And The American Romance Tradition, Steven Frye

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Toward A Postmodern Pastoral: Another Look At The Cultural Politics Of My Own Private Idaho, Sharon O'Dair

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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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Bright Lights Fade Fast: The Beat Influences Of Thomas Pynchon's V., Daniel Grassian

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Choosing The Past: Agency And Ethnicity In Sidney Luska / Henry Harland's As It Was Written, Loren Glass

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The Pleasures Of Passing And The Real Of Race, Christopher Hanlon

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Alice Is Not Hysterical Anymore: Revision And History In Joan Schenkar's Signs Of Life, C. E. Atkins

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"Betwixt And Between": Dismantling Race In My Great, Wide, Beautiful World, Cathryn Halverson

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Narrative Desire In Ann Petry's The Street, Kari J. Winter

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The One That Got Away: Elizabeth Bishop's "Damned 'Fish'", Anne Colwell

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Notes From Underground, Kevin Kopelson

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From Southern Gothic To Postmodern Anonymity: R.E.M. And The Globalization Of American Popular Music, Richard Hardack

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Billy Budd On A Phallos Ship: Melville's Challenge To The Dominant Order, Darrell G. H. Schramm

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From The Dream To The Womb: Visionary Impulse And Political Ambivalence In The Great Gatsby, Chris Fitter

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