Browsing UCO - Graduate Works and Theses by Author "Goulding, Marc"
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Americanizing the beautiful game : the rise of mainstream American soccer, 1960-2005.
Salkeld, Patrick H. (2017)This thesis examines the rise of mainstream soccer in the United States from 1960 to 2005 with a national, a regional (Oklahoma), and then a local (Edmond, OK) focus. It argues between 1960 to 2005 conservative-leaning ... -
"Civil defense is YOUR job!" : American civil defense programs directed towards children.
Gregory, James P. (2019)During World War II and the Cold War, Civil Defense agencies needed to get the American people behind their programs. Civil Defense officials used new methods of informing the public while encouraging active participation. ... -
Gendering the black body : race, masculinity, and violence in the First World War era.
Ritt-Coulter, Edith (2018)This thesis examines the phenomena of lynching through the lens of gender and identity by exploring social constructions of black masculinity in the United States. The US lynching culture that emerged in the late nineteenth ... -
Japanese nationalism : a transnational case study of Pan-Asianism in China and Vietnam, 1931-1945.
Chambers, Travis (2019)After Japan pragmatized bushido and formed a modernized nation-state in the late nineteenth century, it extended that same methodology to its East Asian neighbors, China and Vietnam. Despite state-sponsored bushido's success ... -
The Moment We Realized: Triple Consciousness and the Intersectionality of Race, Gender and Sexuality in 20th and 21st Century African American Women
Pelt-Willis, Tuesdae (2021)The Triple Consciousness Theory (TCT), inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois' Double Consciousness, argues that Black women view themselves through multiple lenses and not solely two (gender and race). Although it is unclear who first ... -
New women, new opportunities: the new women of Chicago's World's Fairs, 1893-1934
Mills, Taylor Jade (2018)World's fairs, also referred to as international expositions, offer historians insight into a nation's society, populace, economy, and industry. Yet, literature in the field has made little effort to fully analyze the ... -
Pei on the prairie : urban renewal in Oklahoma City, 1960-1990
Anderson, Zachary (2021)Downtown Oklahoma City was drastically remade beginning in the 1960s as part of the broader national program of urban renewal. Yet, very little research has explored this transformation, nor has there been a deep exploration ... -
Race, politics and sports history : 1960-1980
Dyer, Philip I. (2023)This thesis project encompasses the overlap of sports, political, and social history. This provides a unique insight into issues of racial inequality and how they relate to larger geopolitical context of the 1960s into the ... -
The Bedouins in Palestine : between tradition and occupation.
Awad, Hanan (2018)Palestinian Bedouins have been unfavourably affected by occupation policies of forced resettlement, urbanisation, and demolition of their homes. This thesis examines the social and cultural change that transformed the ... -
The Phoenix Program: from Vietnam to Black Sites - a legacy of torture
Maxey, Mike (2018)During the Vietnam War, the United States attempted to defeat the North Vietnamese through assorted endeavors. One such effort was developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1967 and referred to as the Phoenix ... -
Third world revolutionaries : the activism of the Third World Women's Alliance and Alliance Against Women's Oppression, 1970s-1980s
Cuadra, Bridget L. (2021)The Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA) emerged from the Black Power politics of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and two black women's caucuses, the Black Women's Liberation Committee and the Black Women's ... -
The ticking time bomb : H-Block, the connection between nationalism and violence
Mousavizadegan, Nichole (2021)This thesis argues that due to the intractable nature of the questions of national (imperial) identity and belonging, actors on both sides of "the Troubles" turned to violence to broadcast their voices. Lacking legitimate ... -
"Who will protect the working girl?" : the effect of the 1909 shirtwaist strike and triangle factory fire on early twentieth century labor organizations.
Beasley, Kate Lynn (2017)Organized labor through unions was prominent as part of the Progressive Era in the early twentieth century. Under the influence of the American Federation of Labor, groups such as the Women's Trade Union League and ...