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Subjects of Struggle: The Intensification of White Supremacy and the Fugitive Dimensions of Black Freedom in Antebellum America
(2021)
In antebellum America, free and enslaved blacks struggled for imagined forms of freedom at a time when white supremacy’s governing authority intensified dramatically; the nation’s culture of danger exposed black bodies, ...
Podcast Rhetorics: Insights into Podcasts as Public Persuasion
(2021-08)
Asserting that professional podcasts serve as an important platform for arguments regarding issues of public importance, Podcast Rhetorics advances rhetoric and writing studies scholarship by moving beyond the dominant ...
MAPPING NATIVE MODERNS: EUROPE AND SPACE IN THE NATIVE AMERICAN NOVEL
(2021-05-14)
This dissertation, “Mapping Native Moderns,” analyzes Native American literature for its settings in England, France, and Italy. Examples include an unpublished manuscript written in the late 1920s by D’Arcy McNickle ...
Indigenous Futurisms: Genre and World-Building
(2021-05-14)
This dissertation examines literary, digital, virtual, and multimodal texts and spaces in regards to genre and world-building in Indigenous futurist works. I argue that by studying different genres like speculative fiction ...
Counter-Storytelling Using Xicana Epistemologies and Rhetorics: Countering White Benevolence and White Ignorance in College Literacy Intervention Spaces
(2021-05-14)
Most of us who ask ourselves “What do students need in order to succeed in college?” genuinely want to help students succeed. However, because helping others is known to be a good thing, we often don’t look critically at ...
Langston University: A History of Transformative Rhetorics at Oklahoma's Only HBCU, 1960-1970
(2021-08-05)
This project presents a history of rhetoric and writing instruction at Langston University, Oklahoma's only HBCU, from 1960-1970. It details the liberatory pedagogies practiced by Langston professors during the civil rights ...