This thesis examines the role of popular dancers in Egyptian cinema of the late 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, while deliberating the capacity of certain dancers to achieve a level of esteem over the course of their careers and in their film roles. Films that feature the prominen…
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Local government plays a key role in the construction of civic identity. Through an analysis of mayoral addresses in 2019, a rhetoric of civic fealty emerges. This thesis situates the implications of such rhetoric in crafting notions of Black conformity or resistance to institut…
In this dissertation, I argue that mobility, both social and geographical, is a useful way of thinking about social distinction in a context that has been continually produced as unstable. The variability that has been described in terms of instability and unpredictability poses…