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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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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...