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- Title
- RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ, ROSALINA TUYUC, AND LAURA REYES: CONTEMPORARY MAYA WOMEN IN GUATEMALAN POLITICS
- Author
- Moore, Mary
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Women's studies, Area studies, History
- Description
- This Master’s thesis analyzes the role of notable human rights activists, Rigoberta Menchú Tum, Rosalina Tuyuc Velásquez, and Laura Reyes Quino, examining their directed efforts toward relieving the plight of the Mayan people in Guatemala facing g...
- Title
- Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Neoliberal and Post-neoliberal Bolivia: A Study of Two Films
- Author
- Flores, Bertha
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, Religion
- Description
- ABSTRACTThe objective of this thesis is to use two films: Marcos Loayza’s Cuestión de fe (1995) and Kief Davidson and Richard Ladkani’s The Devil’s Miner (2005) to analyze their representations of Indigenous religious practices. I focus on two dif...
- Title
- Pedro II and Getulio Vargas: National Leaders, Words, and Sociopolitical Change in Brazil during the Paraguayan War and World War II
- Author
- Ortiz, Nicholas
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- The speeches given by Pedro Segundo and Getulio Vargas during wartime not only reveals their orientation of leadership but in turn provides something else. These discourses gives one a unique window into not only how these leaders chose to perceiv...
- Title
- Healthcare at the Intersections of Race and Gender: Critiquing Eugenics in Rosario Castellanos's Ciudad Real and Renee Tajima-Peña's No más bebés/No More Babies
- Author
- Pinales Frutos, Perla
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the use of medicine as a technology of power used to uplift white hegemonic actors: whites in the United States and mixed-race Ladinos in Mexico. Through this lens I discuss and analyze two mid-twentieth ce...
- Title
- Afro-Brazilian Culture As a Means of Transformation: Spaces, Businesses and Political Participation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
- Author
- Timoteo de Oliveira, Carolina Helena
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Ethnology, Area studies
- Description
- CAROLINA HELENA TIMÓTEO DE OLIVEIRA. Afro-Brazilian culture as a means of transformation: spaces, businesses and political participation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. (Under the direction of DR. OSCAR DE LA TORRE) This research investigates the conne...
- Title
- BASEBALL FROM BELOW: HOW AMERICA’S PASTIME BECAME A HEMISPHERIC CULTURAL PHENOMENON
- Author
- Gallemore, Michael
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History
- Description
- The game of baseball has rarely changed since its beginnings, and its resultant ascent to the United States national pastime has done little to change the fundamentals of the sport. However, there have been significant shifts in the demographics o...
- Title
- The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Author
- Almengor, Candie
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History
- Description
- The Representation of Guatemala at the World’s Fairs in the Late Nineteenth Century is a case study among many Latin American countries’ desire to display modernity in an attempt to rid of any uncivilized notoriety. This thesis juxtaposes Guatemal...
- Title
- TWO QUECHUA PROTESTANT VILLAGES AND TERROR IN HUANTA, PERU 1980-1991
- Author
- Paredes, Brenda
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- This research examines the role of Protestant churches in the lives of Quechua peasants of two small and isolated villages in the province of Huanta during the armed struggle between the Communist Party of Peru (Sendero Luminoso) and the Peruvian ...
- Title
- THE 1986 WORLD CUP AND POLITICAL LEGITIMACY DURING MEXICO’S “LOST DECADE”
- Author
- Pliego Campos, Noe
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- Using newspapers from Mexico City, Ciudad Nezahualcotyl, Queretaro, and other cities throughout Mexico and outside of Mexico alongside official documents and publications, I argue that the Mexican government led by President Miguel de la Madrid su...
- Title
- Selling Souls: The Economic Supporters of the "Dirty War"
- Author
- Nelson, Haley
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Economics
- Description
- From 1976 to 1983 Argentina faced one of the darkest times in the countries history when a military regime took power and waged an infamous campaign against suspected left-wing political opponents during the so-called "Dirty War". This is a time w...
- Title
- “Redeeming" the Canal, Centralizing the Nation: Omar Torrijos and the Quest for Panamanian Sovereignty
- Author
- Winch, Debora
- Date Created
- 2021
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- From October 1968 to September 1977, the Panamanian government under the leadership of Omar Torrijos Herrera conducted negotiations with the United States regarding the Panama Canal, controlled and established by the United States. This thesis see...
- Title
- An Examination of Judicial and Legislative Documents on Indigenous Tribute and Indigenous Strategies used in Negotiations in the Province of Cordoba, Argentina, 1782-1820
- Author
- Harnach, Emily
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- This study shows the importance of indigenous communities by analyzing judicial and legislative documents involving indigenous tribute and indigenous strategies used in negotiations in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, during the late colonial p...
- Title
- Music and Interracial Romance in Golden Age Mexican Cinema: A Case of Two Films
- Author
- Fitzgerald, Alexandra
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- ABSTRACTALEXANDRA JEAN FITZGERALD. Music and Interracial Romance in Golden Age Mexican Cinema: A Case of Two Films (Under the direction of DR. DAVID DALTON) The purpose of this thesis is to address how film composers and film directors in the Gold...
- Title
- We Are Paraguayan: Construction of Paraguayan National Identity Through Guaraní Language Use, 1814-1870
- Author
- Hanna, Nicole
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- History, Area studies
- Description
- This research project examines the creation of the Paraguayan national identity from 1814 to 1870 as a mestizo, Guaraní-speaking people. It explores the language ideology of the Paraguayan government, which placed importance on Guaraní versus Span...
- Title
- UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS OF UNDOCUMENTED MINORS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA COMING TO THE U.S.A: A Case Study in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
- Author
- Yao-Kouame, Koffi Possone
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- Children migrating from Latin America to the U.S. have always been part of migration fluxes. But, roughly since the early 2010s, the number of unaccompanied minors began to dramatically and historically surge. It is reaching such levels that the U...
- Title
- The Brazilian Secret Service During the Military Dictatorship: The Herzog Case
- Author
- Milligan, Bruna
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- The objective of this thesis is to use the case of journalist Vladimir Herzog to analyze the Brazilian secret service’s role within the government during the military dictatorship. I use the term secret service when referring to the Brazilian inte...
- Title
- Doctors in Dictatorship: An Oral History Approach to the Chilean Medical Body’s Role in Regime Change.
- Author
- Urrutia, Ana
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History, Labor economics
- Description
- From 1970 until the end of the military dictatorship, doctors in Chile became deeply entangled with the state in their efforts to secure and expand their professional authority and power. Working both collectively through their professional associ...