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WHITE LIBERALISM IN BLACK COMICS: METAPHORICAL MARGINALIZATION AND THE DISPLACEMENT OF AMERICA
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)In the wake of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, Marvel and DC Comics introduced black superheroes into their comic book series. While the comic book editors wanted to reach black audiences, they scrupulously avoided ... -
‘Yes, But What Have You Done for Me Lately?’: Intersections of Intellectual Property, Work-for-Hire, and The Struggle of the Creative Precariat in the American Comic Book Industry
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)The comic book industry has significant challenges with intellectual property rights. Comic books have rarely been treated as a serious art form or cultural phenomenon. It used to be that creating a comic book would be ... -
“An Organ of the Irish Race on the Continent”: The Pilot, Irish Immigration, and Irish-American Identity, 1851-66
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)This dissertation analyzes the history of the Pilot, an ethnic newspaper for the Irish Catholic, and its fictional and non-fictional printed material from the period between 1851 and 1866. The Great Famine (1845-1851) and ... -
Community of Counter-Conduct: Politics and Practices of LGBTQ Christian Activism in Evangelicalism
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Scholars working at the intersections of American religious studies and gender and sexuality studies have broadened our understanding of the overlapping histories of faith communities and LGBTQ social movements in the US. ... -
AUMI-Futurism: the Elsewhere and "Elsewhen" of (Un)Rolling the Boulder and Turning the Page
(University of Exeter, 2018-01-10)This article discusses two performances that used the movement-to-music technology known as the "Adaptive Use Musical Instrument" or AUMI to allow differently-abled participants to collaborate with one another: (Un)Rolling ... -
“Suppose for a moment, that Keanu had reasoned thus”: Contagious Debts and Prisoner–Patient Consent in Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i
(eScholarship Publishing, 2017)This article considers the 1884 criminal case and medical archive of Keanu, a Native Hawaiian prisoner sentenced to death in the Hawaiian courts for murder. Keanu’s sentence was commuted to “life in prison” after he consented ... -
Pacifist Battlegrounds: Violence, Community, and the Struggle for LGBTQ Justice in the Mennonite Church USA
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)This dissertation focuses on the movement for LGBTQ inclusion within the Mennonite Church USA, a Christian denomination of just under 100,000 members. Mennonites are part of a nearly five century Christian tradition known ... -
Building Bridges Across Cultures: A Case Study of the People-to-People Campaign, 1956-1975
(University of Kansas, 2014-08-31)This study traces origins, operation, successes and failures of the People-to-People program featured during the second term of the Eisenhower presidency. The program was a product of and a reaction to the Cold War ... -
Intimate Collisions: Identity, Community, and Place in the Kansas Dirt-Track Auto Racing Sphere
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Dirt-track auto racing, spread across the U.S. and concentrated in the nation’s Heartland, is largely unexplored territory within the cultural studies field. In turn, this project addresses contemporary Kansas-centered ... -
East L.A., Seoul, and Military Mysteries in Martin Limón’s Slicky Boys and The Wandering Ghost
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Review of Children of the Dark House, Noel Polk
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) -
Review of Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith & Image, Erika Doss
(University of Kansas, 2001) -
From Columbine to Red Lake: Tragic Provocations for Advocacy. 2005 MAASA Presidential Address
(University of Kansas, 2006-04) -
"Soft, Glossy Tresses": Shampoo Advertisements, White Women's Hair, and the Late- and Post- World War II Domestic Ideal
(University of Kansas, 2015-08-31)This dissertation explores how shampoo advertisements inserted white women’s hair in a late- and post-World War II conceptualization of ideal American domesticity. Rather than merely advertising mid-century hygiene products, ... -
TRANSFORMATION AND RESILIENCE AT SHURI-JO: DEFINING A GENOME OF PLACE
(University of Kansas, 2015-05-31)The 1970s is widely regarded as the decade of environmental awakening in America. But many of the critical variables that later informed this ongoing conversation were mobilized in the faraway island of Okinawa, Japan's ... -
U.S. Music Studies in a Moment of Danger
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To Market, to Market: "The Portable Faulkner"
(Wayne State University Press, 1987-06-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
From Place to Place in The Sound and the Fury: The Syntax of Interrogation
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987-06-01)No abstract is available for this item. -
Where Communism Was Black: Race, Culture and Radicalism in Depression Alabama.
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992-03)
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