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AuthorWiesner, Caitlin

Date Created2021

Degree Date2021-05

DescriptionThis dissertation examines African American women’s anti-rape activism and advocacy from 1974 to 1994, as the feminist movement against sexual violence grew increasingly intertwined with the U.S....

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Title"Everyone must think we really need freedom"

AuthorWalker, Pamela

Date Created2021

Degree Date2021-05

DescriptionThis dissertation illuminates the participation of ordinary Black and white women in the Civil Rights Movement by examining an antipoverty program called The Mississippi Box Project. Founded in 1962...

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TitleThe immanent American fantastic: immanence and liminality in contemporary U.S. fantastic literature

AuthorCiccolo, Drew J.

Date Created2022

Degree Date2022-10

DescriptionThis dissertation is a study of “the American fantastic,” i.e. the literary fantastic in an American context. I suggest that conceiving of the fantastic in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and...

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TitleCaptive in promised land: Black lives, confinement, and incarceration in nineteenth-century urban America

AuthorFields, Whitney Nicole

Date Created2025

Degree Date2025-05

DescriptionThis dissertation is a history of the incarceration and labor of African Americans in the early nineteenth-century urban North. This study foregrounds African Americans as subjects within the...

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TitleFrom Reconstruction to the new Black politician: Barack Obama and a legacy of public representation

AuthorGlassco, Debra Elizabeth

Date Created2025

Degree Date2025-05

DescriptionThis dissertation examines shifts in the public meaning of the Black American politician, from the very first men who ventured into their roles as “colored men of distinction” to the time of...

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TitleFolk feminism: the women of the American folk revival

AuthorMahmassani, Addie

Date Created2022

Degree Date2022-10

DescriptionThis dissertation approaches the American folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s from a feminist perspective, offering the concept of folk feminism as an analytical framework for...

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TitleTo count and be counted: quantification in the age of American slavery

AuthorWierda, Meagan

Date Created2022

Degree Date2022-10

DescriptionThis dissertation, which spans the period between the 1820s and the Civil War, uses debates about slavery and citizenship to explore how and to what end African Americans incorporated quantification...

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TitleAn Interview with Clement A. Price

Date Created1991-09-19