The Ukrainian diaspora in the U.S. is a growing group whose American partisanship has scarcely been examined outside of diaspora-related media. This study makes use of interviews with Ukrainians in the Seattle metropolitan area to uncover how Ukrainians in the U.S. make and expl…
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Ethnic Studies epistemologies have been central to the historicization and theorization of the US-Mexico border as an ordering regime that carries out structures of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and white supremacy. While scholars of Jewish history have explored the co…
Between Mexican independence in 1821 and the outbreak of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1846, a small but significant number of mostly white U.S. citizens migrated to Mexico’s interior. While the simultaneous U.S.-American migration into Mexico’s northern borderlands ultimately resulte…
Data shows that there is an overall dearth of Asian Americans in the role of the principalship in K-12 public schools. According to the Department of Education (2019), Asian Americans made up 5% of the national student population, but less than two percent of all K-12 public sch…
Asian American student population is one of the fastest-growing people in the U.S., but Asian American visibility is still lacking in U.S. secondary public-school curricula. When there is mention of Asian American history in the curricula, narratives are limited to token histori…
Embodying Race, Performing Citizenship investigates racial and ethnic impersonations in American popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, between the 1870s and the 1920s. I focus my analyses on first-generation Irish, Chinese, and Jewish Eastern European artists and their A…
This work examines the evolution of eugenic ideology in South Carolina during the Progressive Era by following relevant discussions published in The State newspaper. Between 1891 and 1939, The State newspaper provided a platform for discussions about eugenic ideology to be disse…
Daltônico: The Myth of Brazil’s “Racial Democracy,” explores the construction of Brazilian national identity throughout the Twentieth century, aided by the analysis of three central cultures and ethnicities that are integral to an understanding of Brazilian race and identity. By…
The arguing principle of the Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men [sic] are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness…”, sp…
Africa’s history can never be told without mentioning the impact of colonialism on its people and economies. Despite attaining political independence from their colonial masters, starting from the late 1950s into the early 1990s, most African countries have remained economically…
Philippine history is in part a history of refugees. This thesis demonstrates that from the 1930s to the mid-1990s, refugees were associated with the process of Philippine state-formation. In its various political forms, the state granted asylum to a succession of refugee popula…
In 1972, when relationships between the Mexican and USA Presbyterian denominations fractured, within a few years they found agreement in a newly crafted covenant, “A New Relation in Joint Mission.” At the denominational level, the leadership envisioned a new paradigm for interna…
Sixty million Hispanics are currently living in the United States of America. Latinos from most Spanish-speaking countries arrive daily in the U.S. Decades ago, Manuel Ortiz wrote a significant book titled, The Hispanic Challenge, Opportunities Confronting the Church, to refer s…
My dissertation examines care in post-war Vietnamese American cultural production. I argue that care is a significant method of historical retrieval that resists dominant understandings of time, gender, and political action. Vietnamese refugees have often been portrayed as a pro…
The countercultural back-to-the-land movement of the 1960s and 1970s was the third wave of an antimodern tradition that stretched back to the late nineteenth century. This study places the hippie back-to-the-land movement within this larger context and follows the intergeneratio…
The American Eugenics Movement occurred within several decades of the twentieth century, and the perception of it as a solely race-based movement has been generally accepted. However, while eugenics utilized racism later against Black and Brown minorities, other methods of repre…
The purpose of this study was to determine the common methods among former gang members which allowed them to successfully exit their gangs. Potential positive effects such gang intervention programs, outreach programs, familial support, peer support or religious involvement wer…
The impact of 9/11 was significant to global politics because of the United States’ response to the attack and subsequent wars in the Middle East. As a state with a “special relationship” with the United States, Israel was positioned to be uniquely affected by the change in the …
This dissertation attends to overlapping, entangled histories of US militarism, speculation, and extraction in Asia and the Pacific to rethink the relationship between race, labor, and war in our current moment of predatory capitalism. It seeks to theorize disposability and raci…