Browsing by Author "Faison, Elyssa"
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The Business of Atomic War: The Military-Industrial Complex and the American West
Foxley, Curtis (2020)This dissertation examines nuclear weapons manufacturing in the American West from 1942 through the early 1990s. Specifically, it examines Hanford Engineer Works in Washington, Pantex in the Texas Panhandle, Rocky Flats ... -
Foreshocks of Revolution: The 1960 Valdivia Earthquake, An Environmental Road Toward Socialism
Del Rio Cabral, Jimmy (2022)The 1960 Valdivia earthquakes set the stage for drastic change in the city of Valdivia, southern Chile, and eventual larger ramifications on the Nation. In 1969, the people of Chile accomplished the impossible, they elected ... -
Indigenous Rights in Japan: The Effects of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on the Ainu
Kerwood, Ahrens (2017-05)This thesis examines how Japan internalizes international Indigenous rights norms. The application of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) in Japan relating to Ainu Indigenous rights provides a narrow ... -
"These Indians Have Everything to Gain and Nothing to Lose:" Osage Tribal Sovereignty, Wealth Development, and Early Oklahoma Statehood
Gough, Alexandria (2021-05-14)The events of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century fundamentally altered Osage life and politics. Tribal members navigated the shift from semi-annual buffalo hunts to a leasing economy that encompassed cattlemen, ... -
(Un)decidable Stereotypes: Anti-Racist Satire in Popular American Literature from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth Century
Seto, Takahiro (2022-05-13)This dissertation examines the satirical strategy that employs racial stereotypes to critique racism. I read the work of Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Charles W. Chesnutt, Dorothy Parker, and Langston Hughes and explore how this ... -
Women’s Rights as Proletarian Rights: Yamakawa Kikue, Suffrage, and the “Dawn of Liberation”
Faison, Elyssa (2018)Yamakawa Kikue is famous for having worked relentlessly to critique Japan’s prewar socialist movement for its lack of attention to women’s issues. In addition to her continual presence as an oppositional figure operating ...