Browsing FAS Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Race"
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Enemies of The New: Transhumanism, Blackness, and Fleshless Imaginaries
In a careful exegesis of transhumanism’s leading philosophical and sociopolitical figures (e.g., Max More, Peter Thiel), Daniels shows how deeply (if confusedly) transhumanist discourse imagines itself as pursuing Nietzsche’s ... -
Melancholy Landscapes: Writing Warfare in the American Revolution
(2013-03-06)Though the American Revolutionary Army is often portrayed as a crucible of national feeling, this study of 169 diaries reveals that Revolutionary soldiers barely understood, or accepted as part of their community, large ... -
Minting Slavery in the Colonial Andes: Labor and Race in Potosí and Lima
(2022-05-10)Historians of racial ideologies in Latin America have long debated about their origins, antecedents, development, and connections to slavery. My dissertation project contends that labor history is an essential lens for ... -
Policy and Inequality in the Criminal Legal System
(2022-03-17)This dissertation contains three chapters exploring the application of law and bureaucratic practices in law enforcement agencies and their impacts on community welfare across race and class. Chapter 1 is an analysis of ... -
Race, Party, and the Impact of Electoral Influence on Political Participation
(2013-10-08)The following study is comprised of three essays, each examining a different manner by which race and party impact political participation. Through the analysis of both intra-party primary and inter-party general elections, ... -
Realizing the Rainbow Nation: Negotiating Race, Intimacy, and Belonging in South Africa
(2022-06-06)This dissertation examines how racial categories, boundaries, and identities were constructed and reproduced through the fierce regulation of sexuality and intimacy over the longue durée of the colonial encounter in South ... -
Reorienting America: Race, Geopolitics, and the Repeal of Asian Exclusion, 1940-1952
(2013-09-18)This dissertation examines the movement to repeal the Asian exclusion laws in the United States during World War II and the early Cold War years. It situates campaigns for repeal in the context of two interrelated developments: ... -
Sanctioned Radicals: A comparative study of gender and race employee resource groups in tech
(2021-07-12)A key challenge that people of color and women face is their ability to contest racial and gender inequality within organizations. One prevalent approach that they have taken in the workplace has been to collectively ... -
Subject to Adaptation: Race and French Atlantic Narratives (Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries)
(2021-05-19)“Subject to Adaptation: Race and French Atlantic Narratives (Eighteenth & Nineteenth Centuries)” considers literature’s role in shaping understandings of “race.” I trace how representations of Blackness in particular shift ... -
The Food of One's Own Blood: Educating Christian Bodies in Renaissance Spain
(2023-11-21)Dissertation Advisor: Prof. Amy M. Hollywood Joshua Abramson Cohen The Food of One’s Own Blood: Educating Christian Bodies in Renaissance Spain Abstract This dissertation traces the repetition of a certain ...