Browsing by Subject "race"
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Black Sinatras, White Panthers: Race, Genre and Performance in Detroit Black Pop and Rock, 1960-1970
(2010-12-20)This paper explores several narratives of race and racialized music production in postwar American popular musics, to study the ways in which race has played an intrinsic role in structuring not only contemporary expectations ... -
Dissecting Race: An Examination of Anatomical Illustration and the Absence of Non-White Bodies
This thesis is an examination of representations of non-white bodies in the anatomical illustrations used in biomedical pedagogical literature. Particular attention has been paid in recent years to the lack of female ... -
In A Class of Their Own: International Students, Class Identity and Education Migration in Atlantic Canada
This thesis explores the migration pathways and transnational class projects of international students studying in Atlantic Canada. Bourdieu's concepts of class and capital guide my analysis of the complex relationship ... -
"Out of Many Kindreds and Tongues": Racial Identity and Rights Activism in Vancouver, 1919-1939
(2011-05-02)This dissertation examines “race” politics in Vancouver during the interwar period as one origin of human rights activism. Race-based rights activism is a fundamental element of the modern human rights movement and human ... -
Protestantism in the Origins of Seventeenth-Century Barbadian Servitude and Slavery
Seventeenth-century Barbados drew on centuries of Christian tradition to help develop its reliance on plantation slavery and servitude. The majority of its indentured servants were “cordially loathed” Irish Roman Catholics, ... -
Trelawny Maroon, the Colour of Freedom: Re-conceptualizing Subjecthood in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
(2014-08-22)The Trelawny Maroons in Jamaica rebelled in 1795-96, and were temporarily removed to Halifax, Nova Scotia before being settled in Sierra Leone. This thesis starts by challenging current scholarly literature, which emphasizes ...
