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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
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014-06) -
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) -
Race and the Working Class Past in the United States: Multiple Identities and the Future of Labor History.
(Cambridge University Press, 1993-12) -
The Pursuit of Whiteness: Property, Terror and Expansion, 1790-1860.
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999-12) -
Freedom Breaks
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Digital Loa and Faith You Can Taste: Hoodoo in the American Imagination
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Utilizing popular culture mediums and artifacts, this dissertation examines the ways in which the American imaginary plasticizes the faith of Hoodoo and continually strips it of its religious, historic, and cultural impacts. ... -
The New York Yankees as an American Cultural Icon, 1940-1970
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)The New York Yankees baseball club, arguably the United States' most successful and well-known sports franchise, have acquired many cultural connotations over the years, meanings transcending the immediate world of on-field ... -
Firing the Canon: Multiple Insularities in Jazz Criticism
(University of Kansas, 2014-05-31)Whereas many jazz scholars focus on jazz criticism's construction and implications of a single, or insular, jazz canon, this dissertation argues that what many jazz critics do is precisely the opposite. These critics disrupt ... -
Swing: From Time to Torque (Dance Floor Democracy at the Hollywood Canteen)
(The MIT Press, 2013-10-08)The Hollywood Canteen (1942–1945) was the most famous of the USO and USO-like patriotic nightclubs where civilian hostesses jitterbugged with enlisted men of the Allied Nations during World War II. It is also the subject ... -
CRAFTING A NEW SELF IN DIASPORA: A STUDY OF THE 1.5 GENERATION OF VIETNAMESE AMERICANS
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This dissertation is a study on the identity construction process of members of the 1.5 generation of Vietnamese Americans by examining their personal narratives. With a focus on strategies used by informants when crafting ...
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