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  1. Adaptation to dominant society : a self study of a woman of mixed race, black/Indian

    This research effort is based on the life and development process which the author has experienced and is currently experiencing. This effort for all intents and purposes, is an individual self-study. "Critical...

  2. Teaching Australian Literature in a Class about Literatures of Social Reform

    This article presents an intriguing thesis about proximity and identification, distance and empathy based on the experience of teaching Sally Morgan’s My Place to American university students alongside Upton...

  3. Marcus Garvey: A Legacy Obscured by Infamy

    Marcus Garvey was a 20th century Jamaican civil rights leader. Garvey is noted for founding the Universal Negro Improvement Association in an effort to promote black pride as well as establish black economic...

  4. More Than a Misunderstood Religion: Rediscovering Vodou as a Tool of Survival and a Vehicle for Independence in Colonial...

    The majority of Americans today closely associate the term “Voodoo” with satanism, witchcraft and barbaric sacrifice. Yet, far from these ill­-formed depictions and misconceptions— which first took root...

  5. Disruptions in the Dream City: Unsettled Ideologies at the 1905 World's Fair in Portland, Oregon

    This thesis examines the experiences of fairgoers at the Lewis and Clark Centennial, American Pacific Exposition and Oriental Fair held in Portland, Oregon from June to October of 1905. Historians have framed...

  6. The Teaching of 'Book History' in English and Cultural Studies Units

    Book history is a field of study concerned with 'the influence of manuscript or printed materials on the development and transmission of culture', typically concentrating on six related topics: 'authorship,...

  7. "Dangerous Subjects": James D. Saules and the Enforcement of the Color Line in Oregon

    In June of 1844, James D. Saules, a black sailor turned farmer living in Oregon's Willamette Valley, was arrested and convicted for allegedly inciting Indians to violence against a settler named Charles E....

  8. Minority without a champion: the Kanaka contribution to the western United States, 1750-1900

    Kanakas, Owhyees, Blue Men, were all names given to laborers from Hawaii, or the Sandwich Islands, who contributed significantly to the economic, cultural, and political history of the United States territory...

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