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ParaíSo Perdido: Narrativas De Exilio Venezolano, Pendaar Pooyan May 2024

ParaíSo Perdido: Narrativas De Exilio Venezolano, Pendaar Pooyan

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Resumen: Este proyecto explora las diversas dimensiones del exilio venezolano en el contexto del gobierno chavista, una de las más grandes crisis humanitarias en la historia moderna de las Américas, aunque poco discutida en países como los Estados Unidos. Busca comprender las múltiples facetas del sufrimiento humano en el siglo XXI a través del análisis de las experiencias de los exiliados venezolanos en crónicas sobre sus procesos migratorios publicadas en Florecer lejos de casa. Testimonios de la diáspora venezolana (2018). El marco teórico del proyecto se basa en la perspectiva filosófica del exilio y las experiencias de tiempo, conciencia y …


Infrastructures Of Race? Colonial Indigenous Segregation And Contemporaneous Urban Sorting, Luis Baldomero-Quintana, Guillermo Woo-Mora, Enrique De La Rosa-Ramos Apr 2023

Infrastructures Of Race? Colonial Indigenous Segregation And Contemporaneous Urban Sorting, Luis Baldomero-Quintana, Guillermo Woo-Mora, Enrique De La Rosa-Ramos

Arts & Sciences Articles

We study the impacts of a colonial segregation policy on modern-day spatial population patterns and residential sorting by human capital in Mexican cities. After the Conquest, the Spanish aimed to segregate Indigenous individuals into settlements called pueblos de indios. While the segregation policy lasted until the end of the colonial era, we use present-day census data at the block level on population, schooling and access to medical services to understand the persistent effects of pueblos on within-city structure. First, we document a spatial non-monotonic correlation between the location of the pueblos and population deagglomerations. Second, we study the causal impact …


The Effect Of Subsidies On Small Exporting Sectors In Chile, Leah Damelin May 2022

The Effect Of Subsidies On Small Exporting Sectors In Chile, Leah Damelin

Undergraduate Honors Theses

This paper measures the impact of a widespread trade subsidy program on the exporting sectors in which Chile faces comparative disadvantages (i.e., small exporting sectors). More specifically, I analyze the effect of export subsidies on the changes in exports experienced by these sectors in Chile between 2002 and 2013. My regression analysis utilizes data on Chilean exports from Chile’s National Customs Service. It also uses information on the eligibility requirements for receiving the aforementioned subsidies — which are worth three percent of the value of an export — from the Chilean government. This information is provided by annual legal documents …


White Animals: Racializing Sheep And Beavers In The Argentinian Tierra Del Fuego, Mara Dicenta Dec 2021

White Animals: Racializing Sheep And Beavers In The Argentinian Tierra Del Fuego, Mara Dicenta

Arts & Sciences Articles

In the summer of 1946, a landowning bourgeoisie organized the II Livestock Exhibition of Tierra del Fuego, and the Argentinian Navy filmed the introduction of twenty Canadian beavers in the region. Both events echoed power disputes between a military government seeking to nationalize lands and capitals and the European landowners whose privileges were threatened. The events show that landowners and state officers negotiated their interests by articulating Argentina’s white exceptionalism with animals and against racialized others. Interrogating the interspecies articulation of whiteness in Tierra del Fuego during the 1940s, I examine how sheep and beavers helped secure white privilege through …


“‘É De Acordo Com A Música’: Descentralizando O Ritmo Através Da Análise Melódica Do Samba No Recôncavo Baiano”, Michael Iyanaga Jan 2020

“‘É De Acordo Com A Música’: Descentralizando O Ritmo Através Da Análise Melódica Do Samba No Recôncavo Baiano”, Michael Iyanaga

Arts & Sciences Book Chapters

No abstract provided.


On Poet-Scholars: Un Taller De Poesia, Silvia Tandeciarz Jan 2019

On Poet-Scholars: Un Taller De Poesia, Silvia Tandeciarz

Arts & Sciences Book Chapters

In 2010 I piloted a Spanish-language poetry workshop for intermediate and advanced students at the College of William and Mary. I used the lines from Martin Espada's poem for Chile as an epigraph for the syllabus: "In the republic of poetry,/A train full of poets/Rolls south in the rain." Translating this for my students into Spanish, I sought to signal the kind of collaborative journey the course imagined: a semester spent together, a train full of poets, engaging poetic voices from the south through our own creative work. In so doing we would combine our skills in cultural criticism and …


Leitura De Partitura E Prática De Conjunto: A Formação De Uma Orquestra Brasileira No Cecult Ufrb, Michael Iyanaga, Fabrício Dalla Vecchia Jan 2018

Leitura De Partitura E Prática De Conjunto: A Formação De Uma Orquestra Brasileira No Cecult Ufrb, Michael Iyanaga, Fabrício Dalla Vecchia

Arts & Sciences Book Chapters

No abstract provided.


On Flogging The Dead Horse, Again: Historicity, Genealogy, And Objectivity In Richard Waterman's Approach To Music, Michael Iyanaga Apr 2015

On Flogging The Dead Horse, Again: Historicity, Genealogy, And Objectivity In Richard Waterman's Approach To Music, Michael Iyanaga

Arts & Sciences Articles

In a critical appraisal and expansion of the historical methodology championed by ethnomusicologist and anthropologist Richard Waterman, this essay reconsiders the historicity of musical performance and demonstrates ways in which treating ethnography genealogically may serve as a means of doing what Thomas Solomon calls “postcolonial music history.” This essay is broadly divided into three parts: a review of Waterman’s work, a theoretical revamping and an abbreviated case study taken from my own research on Catholic patron saint rituals in Bahia, Brazil.


Could You Point Me To Your Nearest Clay Source, Please?: A Xrf Study Of Barbadian Historic Era Ceramics, Benjamin Crossley Kirby Jan 2015

Could You Point Me To Your Nearest Clay Source, Please?: A Xrf Study Of Barbadian Historic Era Ceramics, Benjamin Crossley Kirby

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Networks In Favor Of Liberty: St Eustatius As An EntrepôT Of Goods And Information During The American Revolution, Sarah Marie Vlasity Jan 2015

Networks In Favor Of Liberty: St Eustatius As An EntrepôT Of Goods And Information During The American Revolution, Sarah Marie Vlasity

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Apresentação Do Dossiê Música E Festa, Carlos Sandroni, Michael Iyanaga Jan 2015

Apresentação Do Dossiê Música E Festa, Carlos Sandroni, Michael Iyanaga

Arts & Sciences Articles

No abstract provided.


Surreptitious Spaces: Cabarets And The French Contest For Empire In Martinique, 1680-1720, Lynch D. Bennett Jan 2014

Surreptitious Spaces: Cabarets And The French Contest For Empire In Martinique, 1680-1720, Lynch D. Bennett

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Virtue In Corruption: Privateers, Smugglers, And The Shape Of Empire In The Eighteenth-Century Caribbean, Casey Sylvia Schmitt Jan 2013

Virtue In Corruption: Privateers, Smugglers, And The Shape Of Empire In The Eighteenth-Century Caribbean, Casey Sylvia Schmitt

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


"A Medley Of Contradictions": The Jewish Diaspora In St Eustatius And Barbados, Derek Robert Miller Jan 2013

"A Medley Of Contradictions": The Jewish Diaspora In St Eustatius And Barbados, Derek Robert Miller

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

During the 17th and 18th century a number of Jews settled on the English island of Barbados and the Dutch island of St. Eustatius. The Jews on both islands erected synagogues and a number of key structures essential for a practicing religious community. Although they had strong connections that spanned across geo-political boundaries, the synagogue compounds on each island became key places for the creation and maintenance of a Jewish community. I argue that these synagogue compounds represented diasporic places that must be understood through a tri-partite model that explores the relationships between the Jewish community and its hostland, other …


An Allegory For Life: An 18th Century African-Influenced Cemetery Landscape, Nassau, Bahamas, Grace S. Turner Jan 2013

An Allegory For Life: An 18th Century African-Influenced Cemetery Landscape, Nassau, Bahamas, Grace S. Turner

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

I use W.E.B. Du Bois' reference to the worlds 'within and without the veil' as the narrative setting for presenting the case of an African-Bahamian urban cemetery in use from the early eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. I argue that people of African descent lived what Du Bois termed a 'double consciousness.' Thus, the ways in which they shaped and changed this cemetery landscape reflect the complexities of their lives. Since the material expressions of this cemetery landscape represent the cultural perspectives of the affiliated communities so changes in its maintenance constitute archaeologically visible evidence of this process. …


The Use Of History In Migrating: Cases From The Haitian Diaspora, Elizabeth K. Yohn Jan 2013

The Use Of History In Migrating: Cases From The Haitian Diaspora, Elizabeth K. Yohn

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Ontological Blackness: A N Investigation Of 18th Century Burial Practices Among Captive Africans On The Island Of Barbados, Brittany Leigh Brown Jan 2013

Ontological Blackness: A N Investigation Of 18th Century Burial Practices Among Captive Africans On The Island Of Barbados, Brittany Leigh Brown

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Secrets, Trauma, And The Memory Market (Or The Return Of The Repressed In Recent Argentine Post-Dictatorship Cultural Production)., Silvia Tandeciarz May 2012

Secrets, Trauma, And The Memory Market (Or The Return Of The Repressed In Recent Argentine Post-Dictatorship Cultural Production)., Silvia Tandeciarz

Arts & Sciences Articles

Since the end of the last Argentine Dictatorship (1976-1983), a number of feature-length films have engaged in the public debate over the legacies of state terrorism. El secreto de sus ojos (2009), Argentina's most recent Oscar winner, is the latest to do so, exploring the effects of more than a decade of impunity on those who lost their loved ones. Suggesting that restoration of a justice system that works can lead to the restoration of full civic engagement in a healthy body politic, the film raises important questions about citizenship and belonging in a post-national era. This essay explores the …


"Excellent Clay For Pots": An Archaeological And Microscopic Investigation Of Barbadian Redware During The Early Colonial Era, Erik Andre Siedow Jan 2012

"Excellent Clay For Pots": An Archaeological And Microscopic Investigation Of Barbadian Redware During The Early Colonial Era, Erik Andre Siedow

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Black Masculinities As Marronage: Claude Mckay's Representation Of Black Male Subjectivities In Metropolitan Spaces, Jarrett Hugh Brown Jan 2011

Black Masculinities As Marronage: Claude Mckay's Representation Of Black Male Subjectivities In Metropolitan Spaces, Jarrett Hugh Brown

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

This dissertation explores the representation of black masculinities in Claude McKay's novels, Home to Harlem (1928), Banjo (1929) and Banana Bottom (1933). I use the trope of marronage to theorize McKay's representations of black male subjectivities across a range of African diasporan spaces in the Caribbean, the USA and Europe, arguing that McKay's male characters negotiate these diasporan spaces with the complex consciousness and proclivities of maroons. I then examine the ways in which careful attention to the migration and settlement in various diasporan spaces of McKay's black male characters exposes some critical manifestations that profoundly alter how we think …


The Political Imaginings Of Slave Conspirators: Atlantic Contexts Of The 1710 Slave Conspiracy In Martinique, Jeffrey Scott Thomas Jan 2011

The Political Imaginings Of Slave Conspirators: Atlantic Contexts Of The 1710 Slave Conspiracy In Martinique, Jeffrey Scott Thomas

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 Jan 2010

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.


From Sight To Site To Website: Travel-Writing, Tourism And The American Experience In Haiti, 1900-2008, Landon Cole Yarrington Jan 2010

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.


Breaking The Mold: Sugar Ceramics And The Political Economy Of 18th Century St Eustatius, Derek Robert Miller Jan 2008

Breaking The Mold: Sugar Ceramics And The Political Economy Of 18th Century St Eustatius, Derek Robert Miller

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Education, Literacy And Ink Pots: Contested Identities In Post-Emancipation Barbados, Sean Edward Devlin Jan 2008

Education, Literacy And Ink Pots: Contested Identities In Post-Emancipation Barbados, Sean Edward Devlin

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Hospitality, Civility, And Sociability: Taking Tea In Colonial Barbados, Meredith Ashley Holaday Mahoney Jan 2007

Hospitality, Civility, And Sociability: Taking Tea In Colonial Barbados, Meredith Ashley Holaday Mahoney

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


St Eustatius And The Caribbean Trade System: A Study Of Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Coins From The Caribbean, Maria Fernanda Salamanca-Heyman Jan 2004

St Eustatius And The Caribbean Trade System: A Study Of Eighteenth And Nineteenth Century Coins From The Caribbean, Maria Fernanda Salamanca-Heyman

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


An Archaeological Survey Of Bettie's Hope Estate, Catherine M. Christensen Jan 2003

An Archaeological Survey Of Bettie's Hope Estate, Catherine M. Christensen

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


Jamaica Kincaid And The Rewriting Of Other As Self, Michelle Collette Beal Jan 1998

Jamaica Kincaid And The Rewriting Of Other As Self, Michelle Collette Beal

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.


An Archaeological Assessment Of St Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, John Arnold Eastman Jan 1996

An Archaeological Assessment Of St Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, John Arnold Eastman

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

No abstract provided.