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- Title
- "¡Dios no Muere!": The Cristo Rey Monument and Church-State Relations in Revolutionary Guanajuato, 1914- 1950.
- Author
- Catton, John
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History, History--Religious aspects
- Description
- This thesis examines the role of the Catholic ideology of Cristo Rey during the Cristero Conflict, which lasted from 1926 to 1929. This conflict was an armed rebellion led by militant Catholics who opposed the Mexican government's enforcement of a...
- Title
- A STUDY OF MATERIALIZATION, IDENTITY, AND AGENCY USING PXRF ANALYSIS OF CERAMICS FROM INCA PERIOD ECUADOR
- Author
- Sweitzer, Mackenzie
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Social structure, Archaeology, Area studies
- Description
- When the Inca Empire expanded across large portions of South America, they implemented various strategies to subdue and control their massively ethnically diverse subjects. One way that the Inca ideology and social order was imposed on the masses ...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Beyond Religion: Liberation Theology and Theology of the Hammer in El Salvador, A Comparative Analysis
- Author
- Lopez de Arcia, Gabriela
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Religion, Area studies
- Description
- This Master’s thesis presents a comparative analysis of the philosophical principles and actions of Liberation theology, started within the Catholic Church in Latin America in the 1960s, and the Theology of the Hammer, the core of Habitat for Huma...
- Title
- Building La Casa de España: The Spanish Intellectual Experience in Mexico City, 1938-1941.
- Author
- David, Breanna
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- History
- Description
- Opened in Mexico in August 1938, La Casa de España (The House of Spain) provided Spanish intellectuals displaced by the Spanish Civil War with a location to continue their studies. Although intended to be temporary, the following years saw La Casa...
- 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...
- Title
- EBONY IN EXILE: AN EXAMINATION OF REVOLUTIONARY BLACK AMERICA AND THE CUBAN INFLUENCE 1960s-1980s
- Author
- Willard, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2017
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
- Description
- ABSTRACTJOSEPH WILLARD. Ebony in Exile: An Examination of RevolutionaryBlack America and the Cuban Influence 1960s-1980s.(Under the Direction of DR. JURGEN BUCHENAU)In the 1960s Black America began to embrace an ideology of revolution shifting the...
- 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
- Indigenous Rights at the Crossroads of Development and Environmental Protection in the TIPNIS, Bolivia
- Author
- Walton, Leah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History
- Description
- On September 25, 2011, Bolivia garnered international attention when federal police violently attacked the camp of indigenous protestors marching against the construction of a highway through the Territorio Indígena y Parque Nacional Isiboro Sécur...
- Title
- MEMORIAL CINEMA IN LATIN AMERICA: FILMIC DEPICTIONS OF THE DIRTY WARS IN BRAZIL AND MEXICO
- Author
- PAIVA DE ARAUJO, SOFIA
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Motion pictures, Area studies, History
- Description
- Notably, the authoritarian regimes of Latin America during the Cold War have been discussed not only in the academy but also by the arts. The conflicts and violence of the period have been depicted in several plays, performances, testimonios, memo...
- Title
- Meal Patterns, Binge Eating, and BMI Among Latinas
- Author
- Thomas, Colleen
- Date Created
- 2014
- Subjects--Topical
- Clinical psychology, Area studies
- Description
- The underrepresentation of ethnically diverse women in the binge eating literature contributes to the false assumption that eating disorders are less prevalent among these women. This thesis represents the first known study examining a sample of e...
- Title
- Mi Rey, El Narco: Masculinity in Mexico’s Narco Culture
- Author
- Ruiz-Gonzalez, Nashaly
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies
- Description
- This thesis analyzes two works of narco culture: Yuri Herrera’s Trabajos del reino and Luis Estrada’s El infierno. In these works, the themes of masculinity and its relationship to honor and power were found to be prevalent. This thesis will disse...
- 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
- 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
- SOMBRAS EN VIDEOJUEGOS: VIRTUAL TOURISM AND COLD WAR REPRESENTATION IN TACTICAL SHOOTERS
- Author
- Hawkins, Sarah
- Date Created
- 2019
- Subjects--Topical
- Area studies, History
- Description
- In 2018, Newzoo reported video games as a 135 billion USD industry selling millions of units each year around the globe which also create a response in the real world as Venezuela’s prohibition on violent video games in 2009 reveals. I argue that ...
- 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
- THE SURVIVOR’S HUNT FOR NAZI FUGITIVES IN BRAZIL: THE CASES OF FRANZ STANGL AND GUSTAV WAGNER IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
- Author
- McLain, Kyle
- Date Created
- 2016
- Subjects--Topical
- Military history, History
- Description
- On April 23, 1978, Brazilian authorities arrested Gustav Wagner, a former Nazi internationally wanted for his crimes committed during the Holocaust. Despite a confirming witness and petitions from West Germany, Israel, Poland and Austria, the Braz...