What do people talk about when they talk about climate change? This dissertation sets out to answer this question by focusing on local understandings of climate change and the policy priorities that result from them in Miami. Through a historical study that spans from the 1920s …
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This thesis addresses parallels between the rhetoric of contemporary secessionists and the arguments surrounding the rise and fall of Jim Crow laws which maintained segregation for decades. Cities like Gardendale, Alabama and Baton Rouge, Louisiana make uncanny arguments in thei…
The city of Birmingham, Alabama, was once home to a thriving music community that helped shape the sound and culture of jazz nationwide; at the heart of this tradition was a public schoolteacher named John T. “Fess” Whatley. Often consigned by historians to the footnotes or over…
The founding leadership of the Mississippi Private School Association (MPSA) used individual experience and extensive networking via the Citizens’ Council along with the community’s belief and desire to maintain white-only schools to create a coalition of quickly formed but well…
The 1966 Seattle school boycott and freedom schools represent a case of successful activism that did not translate into successful long-term policy. Instead, the value of the boycott lies in the role it played as a catalyst in Seattle’s decades-long series of desegregation attem…
This dissertation engages with the legal crisis leading up to and following the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) through an analysis of law, prohibition, and taboo in the works of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sutton E. Griggs, and Pauline E. Hopkins. In order to unders…
“‘America’s Newest City': 1950s Bakersfield and the Making of the Modern Suburban Segregated Landscape” examines post-war Bakersfield, California, which witnessed many changes through the development of new neighborhoods, homes, and city centers, which were accompanied by change…
AbstractThe thesis explores the formation, implementation and execution of'Bantu administration' policies in the African 'reserves' of South Africa.The study begins with an examination of the institutions of segregation,the strains during the 1940s, and the responses of the gove…
Within the United States, the southern strategy of Massive Resistance to federally mandatedr acial desegregationh ad its origins in 1948, a year which saw the confirmation of Cold War hostilities in Europe. As a result, the dialogue surrounding matters of race was infused with C…
Twin roll casting (TRC) offers a promising route for the economic production of Mg sheet, but unfortunately, it produces strip with coarse and non-uniform microstructures and severe centre line segregation. Recently, a novel magnesium strip casting process termed melt conditione…
"Race, Space, and the Law belongs to a growing field of exploration that spans critical geography, sociology, law, education, and critical race and feminist studies. Writers who share this terrain reject the idea that spaces, and the arrangement of bodies in them, emerge natural…
This work explores the processes of creation, expression and articulation of social identities of Muslims in Delhi, their spatial components of identification like residential segregation and 'community cohesion', the interaction of urban Muslims with urban public spaces and ins…
This work explores the processes of creation, expression and articulation of social identities of Muslims in Delhi, their spatial components of identification like residential segregation and 'community cohesion', the interaction of urban Muslims with urban public spaces and ins…