Browsing University of Central Oklahoma by Author "Lacher, Katrina"
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A dark cloud rests upon your nation : Lipan Apache sovereignty and relations with Mexico, the United States, and the Republic of Texas.
Hampton, Neal McDonald (2015)The indigenous nation of the Lipan Apaches initiated diplomatic interaction with European powers beginning with colonial Spain in the early eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, Lipan Apaches engaged the sovereign ... -
Adaptation and resilience : the Kiowa people in the nineteenth century
Kerrick, Walter (2023)The history of American Indians has historically been viewed through an Anglo-European lens and not from the perspective of the subject population. The aim of this thesis is to give a brief account of the Kiowa people from ... -
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 ... -
An analysis of the enemies of United States society through the superhero narrative from 1940-2015.
Nelson, Dexter Anton, II (2016)Comic books have been an aspect of culture in the United States since the late 1930s, since their inception, they have constantly reflected the attitudes, troubles and trends of the time. Because comic books follow historical ... -
Beyond binary : Navajo alternative genders throughout history.
Naruszewicz, Christina J. (2016)Hosteen Klah was both a Navajo medicine man and weaver. However, the Navajo largely considered weaving to be a woman’s task. Women taught this skill from mother to daughter, and it represented both a creative and spiritual ... -
"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. ... -
Drag in Oklahoma : the power of performance.
Allen, Stephanie Victoria (2017)This thesis examines the drag impersonators of Oklahoma. The purpose of this research project is to discover how drag is a form of social protest in Oklahoma and how Oklahoma drag differs or coincides with drag in America. ... -
Finding a home among the red hills : women and homesteading in Western Oklahoma, 1900-1920.
Chesebrough-Caffee, Cheryl (2016)Most Oklahoma land runs took place in the 1890s, but at the turn of the century, many available homesteads still existed in the red, rolling hills of the unpredictable, harsh environment of western Oklahoma. Many of the ... -
From Judy Chicago to the Guerrilla Girls: an analysis of the evolution of feminist art movement
Qualls, Linda S. (2021)This thesis examines and analyzes the evolution in feminist art that contributed to and expanded the idea of change through protests and demonstrations in a patriarchal society. The Women's Rights Movement and Feminist Art ... -
Hyphenated citizen : a biography of Clemente Idar, the American Federation of Labor's first Mexican-American organizer, 1918-1934..
Diaz, Stephanie Louise (2013)Based on extensive primary research conducted at the University of Texas, as well as a plethora of secondary source material, this thesis explores Clemente Idar's career with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and his ... -
Lurking in the Shadows: Human Trafficking and Sex Work
Phillips, Jennifer M. (2021)This thesis explores the issues surrounding human trafficking (HT) and exposes a great lack of knowledge about human trafficking by local, federal, and international law enforcement agencies. Human trafficking discourse ... -
Meat makes the man : the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating in Shakespearean drama.
Brush, Nicholas A. (2018)This thesis explores how Shakespeare's dramatic works highlight the complex relationships between the hierarchies of masculinity and meat eating. The theoretical backing consists of both gender-based and ecocritical writings. ... -
Medical officers of health and public health reform in Victorian England
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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 ... -
Of plantations and monuments : the United Daughters of the Confederacy and their influence of Southern history and memorialization.
Chrestensen, Amanda L. (2018)This thesis evaluates the United Daughters of the Confederacy's (UDC) interpretation of Southern history through the mediums of textbooks, youth groups, and Confederate monuments in public spaces and how this interpretation ... -
Oklahoman by blood: indigenous land tenure from Indian Territory to McGirt
Flake, Logan R. (2022)After the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision in 2020, Oklahoma’s statehood became the subject of intense legal scrutiny regarding the supposed “disestablishment” of American Indian reservations. The State’s position follows a ... -
Paradigm shift : how the evolution of two generations of home consoles, arcades, and computers influenced American culture, 1985-1995.
Wiley, Jason T. (2016)As of 2016, unlike many popular media forms found here in the United States, video games possess a unique influence, one that gained its own a large widespread appeal, but also its own distinct cultural identity created ... -
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 ... -
A psychological scar: collective trauma and memory in republican Rome, 390-55 BCE
Hoback, Ryan (2021)The sack of Rome by the Gallic chieftain Brennus in 390 BCE was the cause of a collective trauma that influenced all sectors of Roman society. The collective trauma and memory were, in part, responsible for policy changes, ... -
Queering black power : longing for a hero.
Caruthers, Biko (2017)Both Amiri Baraka and James Baldwin had links to the Black Liberation Movements of 1960s and 1970s. Both of these men wrote fiction and social essays on the state of race relations in the United States. Amiri Baraka wrote ...