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Ricardo Diaz - Latino/A Mass Incarceration In Relation To The “War On Drugs”, Ricardo Diaz

Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program 2013

Michelle Alexander, in The New Jim Crow, argues that the American legal system is a racial caste system maintained by unequal drug laws, what she terms, “The New Jim Crow” laws. This essay explores the limits of her thesis in relation to Latino/a population in the United States. Specific attention is paid to the Latino/a population in Wisconsin where racial disparities in the penal system are the greatest in America. Analysis of government data suggests that Alexander’s research reproduces the tendency of the American legal system to define race in binary terms: black and white. In effect this leaves …

Review Of Hard Times In The Hometown: A History Of Community Survival In Modern Japan, Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Review [Of Dying On Foreign Shores: Travel And Mobility In The Late-Antique West By Mark Handley], Sarah E. Bond

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Mortuary Workers, The Church, And The Funeral Trade In Late Antiquity, Sarah E. Bond

History Faculty Research and Publications

Within the city of Constantinople, Constantine organized numerous funeral workers into associations overseen by a bishop, as part of a scheme meant to provide burials for all who needed them within the city. The funeral workers were given special exemptions and clerical status in return for their services. Constantine's model was imitated in other cities within the eastern Mediterranean and, as a result, established new urban patronage networks. The newly elevated funeral professionals were liminal men, between the commercial and clerical worlds and dependent on bishops for their employment and status. Some bishops exploited this dependency by using funeral workers …

Locating Boston’S Place In Environmental History, Andrew W. Kahrl

History Faculty Research and Publications

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The "Negro Park" Question: Land, Labor, And Leisure In Pitt County, North Carolina, 1920-1930, Andrew W. Kahrl

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Hwang Jini: An Examination Of Life As A Joseon Kisaeng, Kayley Edgin

Maria Dittman Library Research Competition: Student Award Winners

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Brides, Department Stores, Westerns, And Scrapbooks--The Everyday Lives Of Teenage Girls In The 1940s, Carly Anger

Dissertations (1934 -)

This study establishes a more nuanced look at fictional teenage girls of the 1940s. With the beginning of World War II many teenage girls took on jobs that were left vacant by men. With these new jobs came the opportunity to gain financial independence. However, teenage girls, along with their mothers, were expected to leave their jobs once soldiers returned from war. Thus, there was a gap between the actual experiences of teenage girls and what they were expected to be--Rosie the Riveters who were willing to become housewives at the end of the war.

This gap between actual experiences …

Rise Of The Modern Army 1868-1894 [Encyclopedia Entry], Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Tokugawa Bakufu Political System [Encyclopedia Entry], Michael Wert

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Mass Consumption In Milwaukee: 1920-1970, Christopher Chan

Dissertations (1934 -)

This study focuses on mass consumption's role in the development of the city of Milwaukee. This study's main focus is on the mid-twentieth century, though this case study will look at mass consumption's role in Milwaukee from its founding to the present. Mass consumption focuses on the actions of buying and selling and how consumer options reflected the city's general development. After studying the composition of Milwaukee's population and income levels, the story of mass consumption in Milwaukee will be told through studying how automobiles and food were bought and sold, as well as how other assorted shopping venues affected …

Urban Rifts And Religious Reciprocity: Chicago And The Catholic Church, 1965-1996, Dominic E. Faraone

Dissertations (1934 -)

From the late 1960s onward, a sequence of unusually transformative, combustible, and sometimes alarming urban phenomena beset the city of Chicago and bred considerable turmoil and uncertainty: post-industrial transition; street gang activity and unprecedented levels of interpersonal violence; the political ascendancy in 1983 of African American reform candidate Harold Washington to the mayor's seat; gay liberation; and AIDS. Each accentuated a host of social and/or spatial rifts--between the deteriorating city and comparatively thriving suburbs; the economically impoverished, culturally alienated, and frequently isolated inner city and the rest of Chicago; machine and reform politicians; Black lawmakers and White "ethnics"; sexual majorities …

Organic Farming In Nazi Germany: The Politics Of Biodynamic Agriculture, 1933-1945, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

The controversy over the nature and extent of official support for organic agriculture in Nazi Germany has generally focused on the minister of agriculture, R. W. Darré, and his putative endorsement of biodynamic farming. By shifting focus from the figure of Darré to other sectors of the Nazi hierarchy, this article reexamines a contested chapter in the environmental history of the Third Reich. Using previously neglected sources, I trace several important bases of institutional support for biodynamic agriculture spanning much of the Nazi period. Both the biodynamic movement and the Nazi Party were internally heterogeneous, with different factions pursuing different …

Bakumatsu Fencing Schools And Nationalism, Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Navy, Modernized 1868-1894 [Encyclopedia Entry], Michael Wert

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Tokugawa Bakumatsu Military Reforms [Encyclopedia Entry], Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Tokugawa Loyalism During Bakumatsu-Boshin War [Encyclopedia Entry], Michael Wert

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Review Of Face Value: The Entwined Histories Of Money And Race In America By Michael O'Malley, Andrew W. Kahrl

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New Negroes At The Beach: At Work And Play Outside The Black Metropolis, Andrew W. Kahrl

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Reaching Beyond The Manga: A Samurai To The Ends Of The World And The Formation Of National Identity, Michael Wert

History Faculty Research and Publications

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Educationalizing The Welfare State And Privatizing Education: The Evolution Of Social Policy Since The New Deal, Harvey Kantor, Robert Lowe

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

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Girls "In Trouble": A History Of Female Adolescent Sexuality In The Midwest, 1946-1964, Charissa Keup

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation attempts to show how Americans reacted to adolescent female sexuality, looking specifically at unwed school-age pregnancy in the post-World War Two decades. It documents the origins of the transition of the conversation about unwed teens from caring for them in maternity homes and boarding houses to discussing their problems on television shows and in popular magazines. Teenage sexual delinquency and pregnancy have always raised innumerable questions about American culture and values. Because they challenged the traditional concept of motherhood, they offer a lens through which to study American sexuality and reveal that an alternate 1950s existed beyond the …

Union And Confederate Veterans, James Marten

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Children In The Civil War, James Marten

History Faculty Research and Publications

The Civil War affected every aspect of the lives of American children, lending excitement to the lives of Northern children, imposing hardships and limitations on Southern white children, and changing the lives of African-American children forever.

Reclaiming Beaches For The People On The Fourth Of July, Andrew W. Kahrl

History Faculty Research and Publications

During these dog days of summer, millions of Americans will flock to the nation’s shores for comfort and relief. Who will go, where they will go, and who they can expect to find there speaks volumes about class in America. Now more so than ever, the distribution of people on America’s beaches each summer mirrors those bar graphs that illustrate the distribution of wealth in the nation as a whole. Long stretches of shore are the exclusive dominion of America’s super rich. A substantial segment is fenced off for the enjoyment of a shrinking upper middle class who can still …

Review Of Jay M. Stottman, Ed. Archaeologists As Activists: Can Archaeologists Change The World?, Sarah E. Bond

History Faculty Research and Publications

Christensen urges archaeologists to enter "the fray of current sociopolitical debates" (p. 20) but to choose associations and involvements with care. [...]she implores us to view activist sites, such as Gage's, as a means to reassess the past and dismantle stereotypes. [...]it is evident that the strengths of this volume lie in delivering something that has not, to my knowledge, been provided yet: a self-help book for archaeologists who aspire to reconceptualize, reformulate, and initiate their roles within the larger sociopolitical arena.

Review Of The Won Cause: Black And White Comradeship In The Grand Army Of The Republic, James Marten

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Hannah Arendt's Analysis Of Antisemitism In The Origins Of Totalitarianism: A Critical Appraisal, Peter Staudenmaier

History Faculty Research and Publications

Hannah Arendt's seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with an extended study of the history of antisemitism. Many of Arendt's arguments in this groundbreaking text have been challenged by other scholars. Examining the chief contours of Arendt's account of the rise of modern antisemitism, Staudenmaier offers detailed reasons for approaching her conclusions sceptically while appreciating the book's other virtues. Arendt's repeated reliance on antisemitic sources, her inconsistent analysis of assimilation, her overstated distinction between social and political dimensions of anti-Jewish sentiment, and her emphasis on partial Jewish responsibility for antisemitism indicate fundamental problems with her interpretation of the historical …

A Place Under Heaven: Amerindian Torture And Cultural Violence In Colonial New France, 1609-1729, Adam Stueck

Dissertations (1934 -)

This doctoral dissertation is entitled, A Place Under Heaven: Amerindian Torture and Cultural Violence in Colonial New France, 1609-1730. It is an analysis of Amerindian customs of torture by fire, cannibalism, and other forms of cultural violence in New France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contemporary French writers and many modern historians have described Amerindian customs of torturing, burning, and eating of captives as either a means of military execution, part of an endless cycle of revenge and retribution, or simple blood lust. I argue that Amerindian torture had far more to do with the complex sequence of Amerindian …

Ontological Subordination In Novatian Of Rome's Theology Of The Son, Daniel Lloyd

Dissertations (1934 -)

This dissertation evaluates Novatian of Rome's theology of the Son in his De Trinitate. It argues that Novatian presents the Son as ontologically subordinate to the Father, which is not a conclusion shared by a majority of recent scholars. This conclusion is reached by comparing Novatian's presentation of the Father's divinity with that of the Son. The first half of this work, therefore, demonstrates the manner by which Novatian affirms that the Father is transcendent, supreme, and unique in His attributes. Novatian employs a range of concepts and terms found in Christian and non-Christian sources. Specifically, I present and analyze …