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Railspace: A Geocritical Study Of The Railroad Through American Literature And Culture, Michael A. Smith
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 …
Escrime Americana: The History Of Discrimination In American Fencing From The 1700s-1950, Alyssa J. Hirsch
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 …
A Guiding Force, Jessica Palmer
A Guiding Force, Jessica Palmer
Faculty Curated Undergraduate Works
In this paper, I will be addressing the main factors which influenced Bruce Springsteen’s career and songwriting, specifically regarding interpersonal relationships the singer has had and how that is evident in his work thus far. I will be relating that concept to his latest album release, “Letter to You” by analyzing track by track and attempting to find that common thread of connection that seems to speak so well to him and his audience.
December 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
December 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Mega-Chanukah Party; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Community Notices
Amjambo Africa! (December 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (December 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In This Issue
Boko Haram .................................2/3
Publisher’s Editorial ........................4
Meet Georges Budagu Makoko .....4
Elections/immigration reform .......5
Translations
French ............................................7
Swahili............................................8
Somali ............................................9
Kinyarwanda...............................20
Portuguese ............................20/21
News from Africa.....................10/11
Piece Together Project .................12
I’m Your Neighbor Books.............13
Pious Ali mourns Rawlings of Ghana ....................14
A Man on the move.......................15
Black Mainer project.....................16
Finance/Business............................19
Auto Insurance ..............................21
Poem by Ekhlas Ahmed................22
Guest columns...............................23
Titi de Baccarat .......................26/27
Amjambo Africa! (November 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (November 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In This Issue
batimbo Foundation Family ..........2
The Power of We.............................3
election 2020................................../5
Panel on childcare in maine............5
Publisher’s editorial ........................6
Translations
French ............................................7
Swahili............................................8
Somali ............................................9
Kinyarwanda...............................20
Portuguese..................................21
CovID in maine ..............................0
DiriGo TouchPass ..........................12
Youth photography.......................13
market basket..................................4
A Shooting Star................................5
Community News............................6
organization updates...................17
Telling room poetry.....................18
Finance ...........................................19
Guest columns...............................22
The mix...........................................25
Kennedy Park little library ........27
November 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
November 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Temple Shalom Celebrates; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group;Community Notices
Free People Of Color In West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, Evelyn Lenora Wilson
Free People Of Color In West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, Evelyn Lenora Wilson
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
“Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana” documents the presence, land ownership, business development, and personal relationships of free people of color in a rural Louisiana parish. Beginning with how free people of color came to be in the parish, it shows an absence of segregation by skin color in home ownership, business relationships, and friendships. Free people of color found themselves accepted in a community that valued their talents and skills and disregarded the color of their skin.
Free people of color bought and sold homes in whatever part of the parish suited them. Most lived surrounded …
Amjambo Africa! (October 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (October 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In This Issue
bus Shelter Project ..........................2
Victoria Pelletier’s story..................3
Publisher’s editorial ........................6
Financing higher education..........12
World Market basket ..............14-15
Metamorphosis awards ................17
News from Africa.....................18-19
Chess Game by Ali Ali...................19
letters to the editor......................24
Guest columns ...............................25
New Mainers Alliance ...................25
translations
French............................................7
Swahili ...........................................8
Somali............................................9
Kinyarwanda ..............................20
Portuguese .................................21
October 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
October 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Simchat Torah (and Sukkot), From the Rabbi, President's Message, Book Group, Commmunity Notices
Review Of "Franco-America In The Making: The Creole Nation Within, Susan Pinette
Review Of "Franco-America In The Making: The Creole Nation Within, Susan Pinette
Franco-American Centre Franco-Américain Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
September 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
September 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Erev Rosh Hashanah Sacred Music Concert and Service; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; Community Notices
Amjambo Africa! (September 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (September 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In This Issue...
Indigo Arts Alliance.....................p.2
publisher’s editorial.....................p.4
registering to vote.......................p.4
French............................................p.5
Swahili...........................................p.6
Somali............................................p.7
School resource officers ..............p.8
U.S.-Canada border.....................p.8
News from Africa.........................p.9
Finance/buying a home.............p.10
Guest columns..............11/14/20/21
World market basket...........p.12/13
Héritier Nosso............................p.15
Community org. News........p.16/17
Kinyarwanda..............................p.18
portuguese .................................p.19
outdoor learning.......................p.23
bus Shelters................................p.23
An Empire Among Empires: America's Relationship To "The Other" In The Historiography Of Empire, Lynne C. Goldhammer
An Empire Among Empires: America's Relationship To "The Other" In The Historiography Of Empire, Lynne C. Goldhammer
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This paper outlines two different threads in the historiography of empires regarding their treatment of “the other.” The first thread begins with the early Chinese empires, the Qin and Han, which used diplomacy and tributes as well as repression to incorporate “others” under their imperial umbrellas. This thread was then picked up and modified later by the Mongols and Mughals, both of which showed a fair amount of flexibility and openness towards cultural difference. The second thread begins with the Romans (the Republic and Empire), who were largely flexible and inclusive towards “others” until the late Empire, when Christianity took …
Amjambo Africa! (August 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (August 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In This Issue...
News from Africa ........................p.2
Art Shows....................................p. 3
Publisher’s Editorial ....................p. 4
French .......................................... p.5
Swahil............................................p.6
Somali ...........................................p.7
Canada-U.S. Border.....................p.7
COVID-19 Tips ...........................p. 8
Mills Administration ...................p. 9
Finance/Building Credit ...........p. 10
World Market Basket ..........p. 12/13
Leyla Hashi ................................p. 14
Election season .........................p. 15
Blaine House Visit ....................p. 16
Angolan Community of Maine p. 16
Legislative Update.....................p 17
Awards to community groups p. 17
Kinyarwanda .............................p.18
Portuguese .................................p.19
In Her Presence ....................... p. 20
Columns ....................................p. 21
August 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
August 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: From the Rabbi; President's Message; Announcements; Book Group; Stan Tetenman,Community Notices
Talk This Way: A Look At The Historical Conversation Between Hip-Hop And Christianity, Joshua Swanson
Talk This Way: A Look At The Historical Conversation Between Hip-Hop And Christianity, Joshua Swanson
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Christianity and Hip-Hop culture are often said to be at odds with one another. One is said to promote a lifestyle of righteousness and love, while the other is said to promote drugs, violence, and pride. As a result, the public has portrayed these two institutions as conflicting with no willingness to resolve their perceived differences. This paper will argue that there has always been a healthy conversation between Hip-Hop and Christianity since Hip-Hop’s inception. Using sources like Hip-Hop lyrics, theologians, historians, autobiographies, sermons, and articles that range from Ma$e to Tipper Gore, this paper will look at the conversation …
African American Sacred Music And The Romantic Aesthetic, Brooksie Harrington
African American Sacred Music And The Romantic Aesthetic, Brooksie Harrington
English Faculty Working Papers
Gospel music affects every aspect of African American culture, and the similarities between the African American sacred music aesthetic and the Romantic aesthetic share a theme of religiosity that is contained in the correlative of the mythopoetic “seam.” This seam meshes together analysis that explores the natural sublime, as suggested in the writings of such scholars as William Wordsworth, Pierre Proudhon, Samuel Coleridge, James Weldon Johnson, Henry L. Gates, and Anthony Heilbut.
Amjambo Africa! (July 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (July 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In This Issue...
Publisher’s Editorial ....................p. 4
Translations French ...................................... p.5
Swahili...................................... p.6
Somali ....................................... p.7
Kinyarwanda ..........................p.18
Portuguese .............................p.19
News from Africa ........................p. 8
Business, Economics & Financial Literacy...................p. 10
World Market Basket ..........p. 12/13
Legislative Update ......p 17/20/21/9
Community News......................p. 16
Columns..............................................
About hair .................................p. 20
Hope House ..............................p. 19
Safe Healthcare .........................p. 21
June, July 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
June, July 2020, Temple Shalom Synagogue Center
Newsletter Archive
Contents: Temple Shalom Strong; From the Rabbi; President's Message; Book Group; A Boy and His Blintzes; Community Notices
[2020 Honorable Mention] Six Days To Leave Home: The Diasporic Experience Of Japanese Americans To American Incarceration Camps, Evangeline Pabilona
[2020 Honorable Mention] Six Days To Leave Home: The Diasporic Experience Of Japanese Americans To American Incarceration Camps, Evangeline Pabilona
Ethnic Studies Research Paper Award
Using diaspora as a rhetorical framework, this paper analyses the cultural connection between American incarceration camps and the imprisonment of Japanese American citizens during World War II. The forced removal of Japanese American families from their homes to concentration camps emphasizes the negative ramifications of diaspora regarding [forced] cultural assimilation, as well as a loss of culture, language, family, and bodily autonomy.
Amjambo Africa! (June 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (June 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In This Issue...
Ramadan 2020.............................p. 2
Introducing Africa News editor.p. 5
Pious Ali .......................................p. 6
Banyamulenge .............................p. 8
L/A Food needs ...........................p. 9
Promoting The Consumer Citizen: Seals, Spectacles, And The Gendered Consumer In Depression-Era America, Danielle B. Wetmore
Promoting The Consumer Citizen: Seals, Spectacles, And The Gendered Consumer In Depression-Era America, Danielle B. Wetmore
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This thesis will argue that New Deal legislation accounted for increased importance placed on consumers and the articulation of consumer citizenship as female during the Great Depression. Once New Deal programs and legislation determined and legitimized the consumer citizen, the consumer citizen exercised influence though purchasing power. Analyzing the ways the federal government defined women as consumer citizens through programs like the National Recovery Administration’s Blue Eagle Campaign offers important insight into who was considered to have a voice. Notions of citizenship define groups by who has the necessary attributes and qualifications—in this case the means to purchase goods—to be …
“The Amazing Iroquois”: Haudenosaunee History In Myth And Memory, 1776–1955, John C. Winters
“The Amazing Iroquois”: Haudenosaunee History In Myth And Memory, 1776–1955, John C. Winters
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This project is a history and memory study of Iroquois exceptionalism. This is an idea that shaped our understanding of the Iroquois as the “most studied” Indian nation and that they, as the debunked Iroquois Influence Thesis claimed, influenced the structure and scope of the U.S. Constitution. My study examines the lives of four related (by blood and by claim) Seneca leaders: Red Jacket, Ely S. Parker, Harriet Maxwell Converse, and Arthur C. Parker. These four stand out because each was one of the most famous Native Americans of their generation who worked within and against American colonial society and …
Creating New Suns: Early Examples Of Afrofuturist Literature, Makeba Lavan
Creating New Suns: Early Examples Of Afrofuturist Literature, Makeba Lavan
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Over the last twenty years, specifically with the summer 2002 issue of Social Text edited by Dr. Alondra Nelson, Afrofuturism has become a serious focus for academic inquiry. For people familiar with the term, Afrofuturism is presented as a movement borne of our contemporary moment. However, this dissertation explores the ways in which Afrofuturism is actually a cornerstone for both African American literature and the struggle for civil/human rights. I do this by exploring the following questions: How does the enslavement of African/ African Americans and its aftermath play out in early African American literature? How do African Americans writers …
Who Has A Voice: Issues Of Free Speech At The University Of Mississippi From 1955-1970, Neale Grisham
Who Has A Voice: Issues Of Free Speech At The University Of Mississippi From 1955-1970, Neale Grisham
Honors Theses
Amidst the upheaval of American society in the 1960s, the University of Mississippi’s administration found itself in a precarious position. A long-standing institution that prided itself on its ties to the Old South, the university was being challenged by integrationists and liberal notions of equality and social justice. The university was forced to decide between abetting the alumni that padded university pockets and the tides of change that were rippling through the university campus. Their main way of combatting this was through the surveilling of students and the vetting of potential guest speakers who may spread “controversial ideas.” While students …
Pecking The Hands That Feed Them: How Society And Government Have Allowed The Poultry Industry To Exploit Labor And The Environment In The American South, Sophie M. Kline
Pecking The Hands That Feed Them: How Society And Government Have Allowed The Poultry Industry To Exploit Labor And The Environment In The American South, Sophie M. Kline
Honors Theses
Americans eat an average of ninety pounds of chicken in one year, but where does that chicken come from? Immigrants and African Americans are the majority of the labor population in poultry processing plants located in the American South. In an effort to highlight the racism, sexism, insecurity, and environmental degradation in the poultry industry, I analyze a variety of ethnographies, articles, and science journals as well as U.S Supreme Court decisions and policies enacted by the U.S federal government in this thesis. Upon examination, I answer why society is pecking the hands that feed them. The analysis concludes that …
Reconciling With Slavery In The United States: An Evolving Narrative, Jamie Phlegar
Reconciling With Slavery In The United States: An Evolving Narrative, Jamie Phlegar
Masters Theses, 2020-current
This project addresses two strands of inquiry that spring from this issue of evolving race relations in the U.S. First, I examine how Americans talk about the history of slavery in the U.S. What rhetorical strategies are employed when slavery is discussed and/or debated in public history contexts and beyond? Second, I examine talk about the future of race relations in the context of the legacy of slavery. Specifically, I am interested in exploring what rhetorical strategies are employed when discussing the potential for reparations in mainstream arenas.
Exploring A Qualitative Approach To Arts Advocacy And Evaluation, Lycette C. Belisle
Exploring A Qualitative Approach To Arts Advocacy And Evaluation, Lycette C. Belisle
Undergraduate Theses
The quantitative impact of the arts has become an increasingly important factor in determining the overall value of a project, and is often used to determine acceptance of submissions, public recognition and funding disbursement. This project evaluates current understandings of how the arts function within society, popular methods for determining the value of the arts and explores how qualitative reasoning can be utilized to communicate the value of supporting artistic endeavors. While placing a numerical value on the arts based on data collection can be important, this project will aim to evaluate the implications of relying so heavily on facts …
Amjambo Africa! (May 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa! (May 2020), Kathreen Harrison
Amjambo Africa!
In This Issue...
Legacy of artist & scholar David Driskell...........................p. 2
Navigating COVID-19.................p. 3
US/Canada Border Crossing.......p. 5
Evictions & Rental Assistance.....p. 6
Virtual commemoration .............p. 8
COVID-19 and youth..................p. 9
Unemployment Insurance..........p. 9
Legislation: Stimulus.................p. 11
Preventing a second spike .......p. 19
Food resource listing...........p. 20/21