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Sounds that Fall Through the Cracks, and Other Silences and Acts of Love tells the story of a dozen cosmopolitan socially aware singer-songwriters, poets and musicians of different racial, ethnic and national backgrounds who developed their political consciousness by thinking wi…

My dissertation entitled “Waves of Revolution: Interrogations of Sikh Political and Spiritual Subjectivities in Punjab and the American West, 1900-1928” examines the development of anti-colonial thought and activity among Sikh laborers after their arrival to the American West fr…

In the summer of 1925 Syria erupted in revolt against French mandatory rule. By mid-1925, Syria had been under direct French rule for exactly five years. Contrary to all the expectations of the mandatory power, the uprising began in an apparently remote and supposedly backward r…

This dissertation examines the African initiatives of the organized labor movement in the United States from 1955 to 1975. It challenges existing and competing orthodoxies which cast those initiatives as either neo-colonialist, pro-capitalist manipulations of nascent trade union…

21st-century Neo-anticolonial Literature and the Struggle for a New Global Order explores the twenty-first-century fiction of five writers and investigates the ways in which their works engage the legacy and evolution of empire, including the expansion of global capitalism. Taki…

This study examines African American anti-colonial rhetoric during the Great Depression in order better to understand international dimensions of domestic political expression and the complexity of U.S. black American rhetorical culture. I argue that colonial interpretations of …