For college students, academic and social issues play a huge role in their higher education experience. This experience is exceptionally complicated for diverse Black populations, who often have to negotiate their complex ...

"I am the Devil's Own" examines the ways the criminal justice system interacted with social services and military regulation to foster and impose class, gender, and ethnic identities on inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies ...

In the early twentieth century, record companies frequently used the designation “good music” as a catch-all category to describe serious art music selections, and the commercial and cultural value afforded to “good music” ...

This dissertation sheds light on the gendered and commemorative history of the Civil War. Many historians have recognized the importance of soldiers' letters as evidence of the cultural and ideological mentalities of ...

The years following World War II have seen a wealth of scholarship dedicated to the topic revealing the undeniably huge impact the war had on people and politics throughout the world. In terms of the United States’ involvement ...

Political polarization among the American electorate continuously grows (Iyengar, Sood, & Lelkes, 2012), perniciously impeding political cohesion. Partisans refute policies simply because they do not align with their party’s ...

This auto/ethnographic, sacred performance text constitutes a radical, interpretive, political act. It argues for and is an exemplar of, what I define as a socially conscious, imagination-intellect. It counters the traditional ...

Play scholars believe that humans play throughout their lifespan (e.g. Gray, 2009; Brown, 2009). There is a relatively large body of literature about play in childhood (e.g. Smith, 2009), but relatively little about play ...

This thesis examines three Black drum and bugle corps from the Civil Rights era of the nineteen-fifties and sixties: the Carter Cadets and the CMCC Warriors Drum and Bugle Corps from New York City, NY and the Washington ...