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One little, two little, three little stereotypes: A history of native culture and imagery in American cinematic cartoons
(2017-12)
The first depiction of Native Americans in American cinematic animation appeared in 1924. Over the course of the near one hundred years since that first depiction, federal Indian policy and the portrayal of Indians in ...
Hallowed path: An historical analysis of the mutable perspectives on interpretations of Mississippian Period iconography
(2017-05)
Interpreting Mississippian Period iconography has been an ongoing process for the last five hundred years. As early European explorers moved into the Southeastern United States, only the remnants of the once great Mississippian ...
Green means green, not asphalt gray: State parks and development of the Raleigh metropolitan area, 1936-2016
(2017-05)
State parks are a ubiquitous presence on the American landscape with thousands of units in all fifty states that attract far more visitors than the U.S. National Park System. While the sheer diversity and number of state ...
Cracked Up Sentencing: The Establishment and Maintenance of Discrepancies in Federal Cocaine Sentencing Structures in the 1980s and 1990s
(2017-12)
During his tenure in office, Ronald Reagan mounted a punitive war against drug use in the United States. This crusade included the vast sentencing discrepancy between powder and crack cocaine, which is the focus of this ...
Angel of the home or the devil in disguise: The representation of women in the Irish press, 1908-1916
(2017-07)
This dissertation addresses the representation of women in the Irish press from 1908 to 1916. The study uses discourse analysis to examine the portrayal of women within three Irish newspapers, the Irish Times, the Irish ...
American copyright: Its English origins and evolution from public good to private property in the nineteenth century
(2017-07)
The original purpose of the American copyright law was to promote the progress of science and useful arts by granting exclusive rights to an author in their works for a limited time. While these ideas originated in English ...
Reel Indians: Native American representation in film, 1950-1970
(2017-05)
The perception of Native Americans has constantly been in flux since Europeans began to colonize North America. Whether it was the Spanish, British, or later the Americans, each had a vision for what Indians were and could ...