Michigan's emergency manager law raises many questions about the nature of American democracy. The law specifically targets financially troubled municipal governments for state take over. The demographics of the cities where an emergency manager has been installed have been over…
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In the summer of 38 C.E. the Jewish community of Alexandria in Egypt was brutally persecuted. An edict issued by Flaccus, the Roman prefect, by declaring the Jews foreigners, cancelled their civic privileges, especially residence privileges, and the Alexandrian citizens, after h…
The 19th century is seen by many as a crucial turning point in the history of protest in Britain and across the global north. In Charles Tilly's famous history of the period, the first few decades of the 19th century mark the transition from the violent, direct action of the pre…
This thesis explores how Palestinian prisoners in Israel and across the Middle East organized and mobilized during periods of nationalist revolt since the 1970s. It examines the way prisoners formed internal governing structures and committees that provided order, discipline, an…
Korean American Creations and Discontents looks at Korean American subjectivity in Los Angeles after the 1992 Riots/Uprisings. This project begins with the LAPD beating of Rodney King and ends with the fatal Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd. This dissertation is necess…
January 6th, 2021 was a significant moment in the history of the United States of America. Protestors stormed the Capitol building over the results of the 2020 presidential election in which Joseph R. Biden defeated incumbent president Donald J. Trump. The Capitol riots were par…
This study analyzed the Christian Church in Kandhamal following the 2008 riot against Christians with recommendations for the restoration of the church. Though riots and persecution against Christians are frequent in India, the 2008 riot was one of the worst riots that India has…
My dissertation analyzes American literature spanning the 20 th century through the lens of classical Critical Race Theory, which is unprecedented in literary analysis work. One nexus between CRT and the literature I examine is the motif of ocularity. Sight, blindness, illusion,…
When interest groups decide to litigate, they intentionally work through a process that has as much to do with the rule of law as with ideological preferences, in which the outcomes are much less certain. Some scholars oppose what has come to be known as ``public law cases'' bec…
Nothing to See Here: Stages for Latent Revolutions. In Genesis 2:7 (19822), God instructs Adam and Eve: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (Genesis 1982:2). The Bible later st…
Nineteenth-century Irish Americans were bound together by a shared ethnic identity that was shaped by a strong attachment to Ireland, a closeness enhanced by their devotion to the Catholic faith, and an American population that held a deep prejudice against the ethnic group. Thi…
Nigeria has been experiencing many conflicts especially several religious inspired conflicts over the years due to obvious and perceptible disunity. The various processes of sustaining and maintaining peace through dialogue, counselling and reconciliation are either not put in p…