The rural-urban divide is discussed between scholars (Pew Research Center, 2018), politicians (Siegler, 2020), and everyday Americans (Badger, 2019). Those in urban blue states (majority voting Democrat) blame those in rural red states (majority voting Republican) for being raci…
"744" Result
Sort By:
One can argue that European colonial consciousness and its actions have caused more harm in the world than any other collective psychology. Grounded in the psychology of C. G. Jung, this research investigates the cultural complexes of white colonial consciousness and the possibi…
Accounts detailing the atrocities committed by the Nazi party too often overlook their persecution of the Black German community. Even less often is the course of anti-Black racism in Germany detailed from its origins in the German Empire’s colonial endeavors through the Third R…
This dissertation investigates the muscle-powered transport technologies that pervaded the Japanese empire. It examines the production, adoption, evolution, and decline of draft animals, rickshaws, human-powered railways, and push-car railways in Japan and colonial Taiwan, 1850–…
In this thesis, I examine the alliance formed between the American Indian Movement and Irish nationalists from 1968 to present day. Through a series of public displays of support and visits by AIM delegations to Northern Ireland and the Republican of Ireland, it is clear that th…
In this thesis, I bring Afropessimist/Black studies theories of Blackness and social death into conversation with Black feminist, decolonial, and trans studies scholars to think about the experiences of racialized gender violence (anti-Black violence) for Black trans women. To d…
This paper proposes the “uncolonial” as an alternative Philippine ontology to the traditionally dualistic terrain of coloniality often associated with the archipelago. While much traditional research has provided insight into the ways in which colonial governance, bolstered by C…
Scholarly discussion of tourism's role in modern Egypt is commonly reflected as a byproduct of orientalism and Egyptomania. While this is true, tourism's relationship with colonialism in the early twentieth century is underrepresented in scholarship. Modern tourism's origins in …
Is it possible for the victim of epistemic injustice to be appreciative of it? What we get from the literature is that victims of epistemic injustice are either unaware of, indifferent to, or resistant against, the injustices that they experience – never appreciative. But how sh…
Land reform is important to correct historical injustices in all districts of South Africa, including the Waterberg District Municipality. There is consensus, globally, that there are trade-offs among diverse land reform objectives, namely: social, economic, political and enviro…
Purpose. This study engaged Diné women in describing wellness and how they maintain wellness utilizing a qualitative descriptive methodology and application of the culturally valued process of relational accountability. A Diné Cultural Advisory Committee provided guidance for an…
Suicide is commonly described as an urgent health concern and tragedy afflicting Indigenous communities in Canada. This work aimed to develop more contextual understandings of complex death, specifically Indigenous youth deaths by suicide that considered social, economic, histor…
The Filipino American population has now grown to more than 4.1 million, a significant increase from the 2010 estimate of 3.4 million. As a large segment of the fast-growing Asian American population, Filipino Americans are more likely than any other Asian American group to iden…
This dissertation explores the socio-structural, historical and discursive transformations that made possible nationalist imaginings of colonial India or more specifically, Bharat, the dominant Hindu-Hindi term for the nation and the constitutional name for post-colonial India, …
This dissertation examines the administration of Islamic family law in the British Straits Settlements and the Netherlands Indies through the lens of Arab merchants in colonial courts from 1860 till 1942. During this period, Arab communities tended to seek justice and accountabi…
Following the Sepoy Rebellion (1857), India's architecture came to play a key role in Britons' quest for knowledge and comprehension of India and Indians. For this reason, British perceptions of the subcontinent's architecture are intimately and foundationally linked to Britons'…
The central assumption of this study is that the awareness of a historically constructed, culturally sanctioned condition of subalternity is at the heart of the fictional production of Francophone African women writers. Subalternity here is viewed as a narrative and spatial cont…
In recent years, historians have argued that the Soviet Union was a “maker of nations.” The Soviet state fostered incipient nation-statehood among its non-Russian minorities through the establishment of national territories, the promotion of native elites and languages, and the …
This dissertation argues that Filipino nationalists in California from 1919 to 1946 invoked discourses about the nation in a larger strategy to constitute community. It analyzes how elites tried to define the boundaries of identity and community, instill their standards, and com…
By the end of the nineteenth century an apparatus of disciplining modernity had cleansed and regulated the performance of music in Western India. In a new cultural public sphere, an emerging bourgeoisie was presented Sanskritized entertainment in the form of Marathi music drama.…