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Full-Text Articles in Cultural History
No Happy Endings: Anna May Wong’S American Film Roles From 1931-1942, Kayla G. O'Leary
No Happy Endings: Anna May Wong’S American Film Roles From 1931-1942, Kayla G. O'Leary
CSB and SJU Distinguished Thesis
In the 1930s and ‘40s, shifting relations with China, Japan, and the United States drastically impacted American public sentiment towards these Asian countries. US films produced during these decades starring Anna May Wong illuminate how harmful stereotypes about Chinese culture and people were portrayed on screen. I analyze five of Wong’s films from this period to examine how the gendered and racial stereotypes within them provide a cultural lens of changing US-Chinese relations. The stereotypical archetypes of her characters, which include the formidable Dragon Lady, helpless American citizen, and Chinese war hero, demonstrate how American perceptions of China and Chinese …
Indigenism, Miscegenation, And Acculturation In Ecuador, Christina M. Hennessy
Indigenism, Miscegenation, And Acculturation In Ecuador, Christina M. Hennessy
Headwaters
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Climbing Learners' Hill: Benedictines At White Earth, 1878-1945, Carol J. Berg Osb
Climbing Learners' Hill: Benedictines At White Earth, 1878-1945, Carol J. Berg Osb
Saint Benedict’s Monastery Publications
Benedictine sisters and monks administered and staffed a boarding school on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota from 1882-1945, responding to a request from the local bishop and to the Peace Policy of President Grant. Church denominations were asked to cooperate with the government in Christianizing and “civilizing” the Indians—on and off-reservations. With significant aid from federal funds, various denominations, primarily Catholic and Protestant, built churches and schools to educate and “convert” Indians. This was done in the cause of assimilation, with most of the missionaries, lay or religious, deliberately undermining the traditional cultures. Benedictines came late to the Indian …