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Iowa State University

1. Hwang, Chanmi. Design requirements for female boomer activewear: A sequential exploratory mixed methods study.

Degree: 2017, Iowa State University

URL: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16926

► The emerging phenomena of active aging brought new challenges for professionals to respond to female boomers’ demands on special needs for fit and styling of… (more)

▼ The emerging phenomena of active aging brought new challenges for professionals to respond to female boomers’ demands on special needs for fit and styling of activewear. Since this market is not well understood, a holistic research that integrates both consumer behavior and product development is needed. Thus, this study explored and analyzed design requirements for female boomer activewear for indoor fitness through a sequential exploratory mixed methods research. This method consists of three phases that begins with the collection and analysis of qualitative data and builds from the qualitative results to a quantitative phase. In the first phase, 15 in-depth interviews were conducted to explore female boomers’ functional, expressive, and aesthetic (FEA) needs based on FEA Consumer Needs Model (Lamb & Kallal, 1992). In the second phase, themes and preferences found in the first phase were translated into garment engineering details in terms of design features and textile properties: interaction matrix and design problem-approach analysis were conducted. The fit issues were addressed by comparing two parametric avatars of missy and female boomer figures and the data were further transferred to visual representations by 3D virtual prototyping. In the third phase, online survey was conducted where 321 female boomers across the United States evaluated the developed 3D prototypes. Specifically, FEA attributes of the activewear were evaluated and the relationship between FEA needs and wearing intention were examined. The results of the 3D virtual comparisons showed that there is difference in body shapes between the female boomer and missy figures that influence design requirements. Based on the results, this study proposed a conceptual model that illustrates the interrelationships of factors influencing design requirements for female boomer activewear including aging factors, FEA dimensions, and wearing intention. The findings of the final evaluation phase along with the model testing confirm the importance of all three FEA dimensions and indicate that the proposed virtual prototypes meet the needs of female boomers that have positively effects on wearing intention. This present study has both theoretical and practical implications and contributes to the growing body of research on examining female boomers as a vital consumer sector in the apparel industry. The present study confirms the appropriateness of the extended FEA model and further validates the efficacy of the model in explaining female boomers needs and preferences on activewear. It also brings increased conceptual clarity to the concepts of age appropriateness and further confirms the applicability of using mixed methods research in the discipline of textiles and clothing. Lastly, the findings of this study have practical implications for product developers and retailers on product development and commercialization strategies for female boomer consumers.

Subjects/Keywords: American Material Culture; Fashion Design

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Hwang, C. (2017). Design requirements for female boomer activewear: A sequential exploratory mixed methods study. (Thesis). Iowa State University. Retrieved from https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16926

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Hwang, Chanmi. “Design requirements for female boomer activewear: A sequential exploratory mixed methods study.” 2017. Thesis, Iowa State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16926.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Hwang, Chanmi. “Design requirements for female boomer activewear: A sequential exploratory mixed methods study.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Hwang C. Design requirements for female boomer activewear: A sequential exploratory mixed methods study. [Internet] [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16926.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Hwang C. Design requirements for female boomer activewear: A sequential exploratory mixed methods study. [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2017. Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16926

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Rice University

2. Matthews, Aundrea L. Quilting Faith: African American Quilts as Source Material for Study of African American Religion.

Degree: PhD, Humanities, 2015, Rice University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/88197

► Scholars of African American religion have done well to note the poignant role of cultural productions in the making, doing, and theorizing of religion and… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: material culture; African American religion

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Matthews, A. L. (2015). Quilting Faith: African American Quilts as Source Material for Study of African American Religion. (Doctoral Dissertation). Rice University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1911/88197

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Matthews, Aundrea L. “Quilting Faith: African American Quilts as Source Material for Study of African American Religion.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Rice University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/88197.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Matthews, Aundrea L. “Quilting Faith: African American Quilts as Source Material for Study of African American Religion.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Matthews AL. Quilting Faith: African American Quilts as Source Material for Study of African American Religion. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Rice University; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/88197.

Council of Science Editors:

Matthews AL. Quilting Faith: African American Quilts as Source Material for Study of African American Religion. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Rice University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1911/88197

Georgia State University

3. Collerton, Amy. The Aluminum Age: Postmodern Themes in American Comics Circa 2001-2018.

Degree: MA, History, 2020, Georgia State University

URL: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/126

► This thesis seeks to update the fan-made system of organization for comic book history. Because academia ignored comics for much of their history, fans… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Comic books; American culture; American history; Popular culture; Cultural studies; Material culture

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Collerton, A. (2020). The Aluminum Age: Postmodern Themes in American Comics Circa 2001-2018. (Thesis). Georgia State University. Retrieved from https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/126

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Collerton, Amy. “The Aluminum Age: Postmodern Themes in American Comics Circa 2001-2018.” 2020. Thesis, Georgia State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/126.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Collerton, Amy. “The Aluminum Age: Postmodern Themes in American Comics Circa 2001-2018.” 2020. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Collerton A. The Aluminum Age: Postmodern Themes in American Comics Circa 2001-2018. [Internet] [Thesis]. Georgia State University; 2020. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/126.

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Collerton A. The Aluminum Age: Postmodern Themes in American Comics Circa 2001-2018. [Thesis]. Georgia State University; 2020. Available from: https://scholarworks.gsu.edu/history_theses/126

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University of Rochester

4. Marr, Alexander Brier. Sites of belonging and renewal: architectural themes in Native American art, 1904–1945.

Degree: PhD, 2018, University of Rochester

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/33604

► In this dissertation, I examine some of the ways Native American artists represented the built environment in the first half of the twentieth century. I… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Agency; Dwellings; Material culture; Native American art; Twentieth century; Visual culture

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Marr, A. B. (2018). Sites of belonging and renewal: architectural themes in Native American art, 1904–1945. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Rochester. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1802/33604

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Marr, Alexander Brier. “Sites of belonging and renewal: architectural themes in Native American art, 1904–1945.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Rochester. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1802/33604.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Marr, Alexander Brier. “Sites of belonging and renewal: architectural themes in Native American art, 1904–1945.” 2018. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Marr AB. Sites of belonging and renewal: architectural themes in Native American art, 1904–1945. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Rochester; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/33604.

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Marr AB. Sites of belonging and renewal: architectural themes in Native American art, 1904–1945. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Rochester; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/33604

5. Bender, Kara Leigh. Standard deviations.

Degree: 2013, NC Docks

URL: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/wcu/f/Bender2013.pdf

► The show Standard Deviations is composed of fifty-six relief prints based off of the combination and reorganization of two hundred and fifty linocuts. Within my… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Narrative art, American; Material culture in art; Linoleum block-printing, American

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Bender, K. L. (2013). Standard deviations. (Thesis). NC Docks. Retrieved from http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/wcu/f/Bender2013.pdf

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bender, Kara Leigh. “Standard deviations.” 2013. Thesis, NC Docks. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/wcu/f/Bender2013.pdf.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bender, Kara Leigh. “Standard deviations.” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Bender KL. Standard deviations. [Internet] [Thesis]. NC Docks; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/wcu/f/Bender2013.pdf.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Bender KL. Standard deviations. [Thesis]. NC Docks; 2013. Available from: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/wcu/f/Bender2013.pdf

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Nevada – Las Vegas

6. Martinez, Juan. Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009.

Degree: PhD, English, 2011, University of Nevada – Las Vegas

URL: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/1459

► The dissertation examines allusions to the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov in the work of 147 contemporary cultural producers and – through this filter –… (more)

▼ The dissertation examines allusions to the Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov in the work of 147 contemporary cultural producers and – through this filter – the way in which allusion functions as symbolic capital in the field of cultural production. Critics have traditionally considered allusion a strictly localized phenomenon, but this approach – which draws upon the work of sociologists of literature such as Franco Moretti and Pierre Bourdieu, as well as the poetics of Gérard Genette – considers how a Nabokov allusion operates as an intra-authorial calling card, where Nabokov appears as an idealized, intransigent autonomous authorial figure in the work of Zadie Smith, Martin Amis, John Updike, Nicholson Baker, Salman Rushdie, Shelley Jackson, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, writers associated with the McSweeney’s literary journal, and Anthony Burgess, among many others. Writers reassert the autonomy of the individual author when they reference Nabokov in their own novels, and in doing so these authors form a sort of ad-hoc Nabokovian group or school even when the members and their immediate milieu would not seem to have anything in common otherwise. Nabokov functions as a particularly valuable unit of cultural capital given his symbolic freight: Nabokov stands for autonomous, intransigent authorial figures everywhere, bulwarked by equal parts mainstream bestselling success, critical respectability, and seeming invisibility. Nabokov’s intertextual narrative approaches serve as a means of positioning the reader and controlling readerly and critical reception, which in turn guide how Nabokov himself is referenced in other people's novels, short stories, poems, songs, and television shows. The aim is to provide quantifiable evidence of Nabokov's influence, and to explore the ways in which influence can (and cannot) be roughly quantified; these references allow for a narrower, better understanding of influence by positioning its function within the scope of contemporary intertextual criticism, specifically by examining the intersection of Bourdieu’s field of cultural production and Genette’s notions of hypertextuality and paratextuality. By delineating the nature and the degree of Nabokov's influence in the field of contemporary literature – an influence made explicit in allusions to Nabokov’s work – the research further refines notions of authorial agency in intertextual studies. Nabokov is one of the twentieth century's most densely allusive authors, one whose novels playfully referenced a dizzying array of literary figures, and one whose own influence on the contemporary literary field is often noted but seldom quantified. Nabokov-related publications aimed at both scholars and general readers will make a note of his influence, often by grouping him with Joyce, Borges, Beckett, and Kafka (with Nabokov as the Fifth Beatle in the panoply of influential literary figures), though the claim is made and then abandoned. The dissertation charts the impact of Nabokov’s presence in contemporary… Advisors/Committee Members: Anne Stevens, Chair, Richard Harp, Kelly Mays, Douglas Unger.

Subjects/Keywords: American Literature; American Material Culture; American Studies; Literature in English, British Isles

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Martinez, J. (2011). Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Nevada – Las Vegas. Retrieved from https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/1459

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Martinez, Juan. “Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Nevada – Las Vegas. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/1459.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Martinez, Juan. “Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009.” 2011. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Martinez J. Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Nevada – Las Vegas; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/1459.

Council of Science Editors:

Martinez J. Nabokovilia: References to Vladimir Nabokov in British and American Literature and Culture, 1960-2009. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Nevada – Las Vegas; 2011. Available from: https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/thesesdissertations/1459

7. Boorn, Alida S. Interpreting the transnational material culture of the 19th-Century North American Plains Indians: creators, collectors, and collections.

Degree: PhD, Department of History, 2016, Kansas State University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34472

► American Indian material culture collections are protected in tribal archives and transnational museums. This dissertation argues that the Plains Indian people and Euroamerican people cross… (more)

▼ American Indian material culture collections are protected in tribal archives and transnational museums. This dissertation argues that the Plains Indian people and Euroamerican people cross pollinated each other’s material culture. Over the last two hundred years’ interpretations of transnational material culture acculturation of the 19th - Century North American Plains Indians has been interpreted in venues that include arts and crafts, photography, museums, world exhibitions, tourism destinations, entertainments and literature. In this work, exhibit catalogs have been utilized as archives. Many historians recognize that American Indians are vital participants and contributors to United States history. This work includes discussions about North American Indigenous people and others who were creators of material culture and art, the people who collected this material culture and their motives, and the various types of collections that blossomed from material culture and oral history proffering. Creators included Plains Indian women who tanned bison hides and their involvement in crafting the most beautiful art works through their skill in quillwork and beadwork. Plains Indian men were also creators. They recorded the family’s and tribe’s histories in pictograph paintings. Plains Indian storytellers created material that was saved and collected through oral tradition. Euroamerican artists created biographical images of the Plains Indian people that they interacted with. Collections of objects, legends, and art resulted from those who collected the creations made by the creators. Thus today there exists fine examples of ethno-heirlooms that pay tribute to the transnational acculturation and survival of the American Indian people of the Great Western Northern American Plains. What is most important is the knowledge, and an appreciation for the idea that a transnational cross-pollination of cultures enriched and became rooted in United States history. Advisors/Committee Members: Bonnie Lynn-Sherow.

Subjects/Keywords: Native American studies; American history; Museum studies; Material culture; North American Plains Indains; Art history

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Boorn, A. S. (2016). Interpreting the transnational material culture of the 19th-Century North American Plains Indians: creators, collectors, and collections. (Doctoral Dissertation). Kansas State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34472

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Boorn, Alida S. “Interpreting the transnational material culture of the 19th-Century North American Plains Indians: creators, collectors, and collections.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Kansas State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34472.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Boorn, Alida S. “Interpreting the transnational material culture of the 19th-Century North American Plains Indians: creators, collectors, and collections.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Boorn AS. Interpreting the transnational material culture of the 19th-Century North American Plains Indians: creators, collectors, and collections. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Kansas State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34472.

Council of Science Editors:

Boorn AS. Interpreting the transnational material culture of the 19th-Century North American Plains Indians: creators, collectors, and collections. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Kansas State University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34472

Boston University

8. Harvey, Melanee C. “Upon this Rock”: architectural, material, and visual histories of two Black Protestant churches, 1881-1969.

Degree: PhD, History of Art & Architecture, 2017, Boston University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27076

► This dissertation comparatively analyzes the architectural and visual histories of two black churches as examples of the material contribution of African Americans to the nation’s… (more)

▼ This dissertation comparatively analyzes the architectural and visual histories of two black churches as examples of the material contribution of African Americans to the nation’s built environment. As cultural repositories, Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) (1881-1886), Washington, D.C., and the Shrine of the Black Madonna1, Pan African Orthodox Christian Church (1925/1957), Detroit, MI, are two sites that represent distinct forms of Black Nationalism. The history of Metropolitan AME uncovers aspects of late nineteenth century Classical Black Nationalism cultural practice. The Shrine of the Black Madonna #1 reflects the revisionist agenda of the Black Cultural Nationalist Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The objective of this study is to expand through a cultural lens the growing body of scholarship that seeks to excavate under-recognized African-American visual and architectural traditions. This study contrasts different modes of claiming space for cultural affirmation: construction and real estate acquisition. Chapter one offers a rationale for the artifactual interrogation of African American churches and outlines the interdisciplinary methodologies employed in the case studies. In chapter two, Metropolitan A.M.E. Church’s architectural history presents an instance of an African American community using popular architectural and artistic styles in an associative manner to articulate racial advancement. Chapter three documents the aesthetic legacy of Metropolitan A.M.E. Church by considering the sanctuary’s stained glass window program, mural commissions executed by two rarely-discussed African American artists, donated art objects and the circulation of images of the religious site. Chapter four explores the Shrine of the Black Madonna #1’s 1957 purchase of a 1925 Colonial Revival ecclesiastical structure. This assessment contextualizes the lived interventions of a radical congregation to understand how shifts in material and visual patterns expressed cultural identity. Chapter five critically explores the aesthetic history of the Shrine of the Black Madonna #1 that begins with the Black Madonna and Child (1967) chancel mural by Glanton V. Dowdell. As the conclusion indicates, African American churches contain visible but hidden histories that expand African American art by introducing new iconographic considerations and revealing new art communities.

Subjects/Keywords: Art history; African American architecture; African American religious material culture; American sacred architecture; Black church visual culture; African American art

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Harvey, M. C. (2017). “Upon this Rock”: architectural, material, and visual histories of two Black Protestant churches, 1881-1969. (Doctoral Dissertation). Boston University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27076

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Harvey, Melanee C. ““Upon this Rock”: architectural, material, and visual histories of two Black Protestant churches, 1881-1969.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27076.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Harvey, Melanee C. ““Upon this Rock”: architectural, material, and visual histories of two Black Protestant churches, 1881-1969.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Harvey MC. “Upon this Rock”: architectural, material, and visual histories of two Black Protestant churches, 1881-1969. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Boston University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27076.

Council of Science Editors:

Harvey MC. “Upon this Rock”: architectural, material, and visual histories of two Black Protestant churches, 1881-1969. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Boston University; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/27076

University of New Mexico

9. Matjaka, Webster, Mr. FROM SAND CREEK TO SOMALIA: BLACK BODIES IN DENVER’S POST-INDUSTRIAL URBAN CULTURAL RE-IMAGINATION.

Degree: American Studies, 2017, University of New Mexico

URL: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/amst_etds/53

► In this research project I situate black experience in the mid-sized post-industrial city of Denver, Colorado within the city’s colonial history in order to… (more)

▼ In this research project I situate black experience in the mid-sized post-industrial city of Denver, Colorado within the city’s colonial history in order to highlight some broader historical, global as well as local and national developments that, although seemingly unconnected, have a significant impact on urban social life today, in the case at hand, black urban experience. As people who have been displaced by the main axis of modern European global capitalist expansion: colonialism and slave trade, Native Americans, African Americans and recent African immigrants in Denver occupy a globalized socio-historical space of Euro-American socio-political domination that, in complex ways, stretches from Sand Creek, the scene of the 1864 Massacre of hundreds of peaceful Native American inhabitants of Greater Denver region by U.S. Federal troops, to Africa where African Natives were also violently colonized and displaced by modern European global capitalist expansion and, through the transatlantic slave trade, forcibly transported to the Americas. Drawing on the concept of the “colonial present” I show how U.S. settler colonialism and the related chattel slavery cannot be regarded merely as events of the past, but as marking the enactment of Euro-American structures of domination that continue to shape sociality in present. It is within the frame of Denver’s colonial present that I argue that the colonial disdain and hostility that led to the violent displacement of Natives of Greater Denver region centuries earlier as represented by the Sand Massacre of 1864, cannot be separated from the current brutal treatment of black youth by the city’s law enforcement as well as, the equally devastating displacement of economically vulnerable black Americans and African immigrants by Denver’s urban renewal projects, as illustrated by the city’s downtown plan that is curved out of historically neglected black downtown neighborhoods. It is within this colonial history of violence against Native American and a long history of racial discrimination against blacks that Denver has the problem in representing itself as a culturally diverse and welcoming city (cultural hub of the Rocky Mountain West) which is an economic necessity for post-industrial cities world-wide. Focusing on three sites that can be significantly linked to the cultural construction of Denver’s modern image or identity: the historic Five Points; the Denver Downtown Plan & the Denver Art Museum (DAM), this research focuses on how dominant Euro-American intellectual discourses, in the case at hand, the global market-oriented urbanist discourses are mobilized to politically contain the past and present presence of blacks and indigenous people through the cultural construction of the modern image of Denver as a culturally diverse, socially stable and, therefore, culturally unique landscape. Such dominant discourses and, therefore, the modern image of Denver, is inevitably contested by uncomfortable and potentially destabilizing colonial histories of the place… Advisors/Committee Members: Alex Lubin, Alyosha Goldstein, Kirsten Buick, Michael Trujillo.

Subjects/Keywords: colonial present; post-industrial; globalized social space; American Material Culture; American Popular Culture; American Studies; Arts and Humanities; Other American Studies

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Matjaka, Webster, M. (2017). FROM SAND CREEK TO SOMALIA: BLACK BODIES IN DENVER’S POST-INDUSTRIAL URBAN CULTURAL RE-IMAGINATION. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/amst_etds/53

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Matjaka, Webster, Mr. “FROM SAND CREEK TO SOMALIA: BLACK BODIES IN DENVER’S POST-INDUSTRIAL URBAN CULTURAL RE-IMAGINATION.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/amst_etds/53.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Matjaka, Webster, Mr. “FROM SAND CREEK TO SOMALIA: BLACK BODIES IN DENVER’S POST-INDUSTRIAL URBAN CULTURAL RE-IMAGINATION.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Matjaka, Webster M. FROM SAND CREEK TO SOMALIA: BLACK BODIES IN DENVER’S POST-INDUSTRIAL URBAN CULTURAL RE-IMAGINATION. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/amst_etds/53.

Council of Science Editors:

Matjaka, Webster M. FROM SAND CREEK TO SOMALIA: BLACK BODIES IN DENVER’S POST-INDUSTRIAL URBAN CULTURAL RE-IMAGINATION. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2017. Available from: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/amst_etds/53

University of Rochester

10. Leary, Erin. Decorating for discrimination : nativism and eugenics in American decorative arts and design, 1893-1924.

Degree: PhD, 2016, University of Rochester

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/30618

► At the turn of the twentieth century, women antisuffragists argued not only against the right to vote, but against the very need. Reconfiguring the concept… (more)

▼ At the turn of the twentieth century, women antisuffragists argued not only against the right to vote, but against the very need. Reconfiguring the concept of republican motherhood popular in the early nineteenth century, these women claimed they could influence men's votes through childrearing, home decorating, and philanthropic activities. "Decorating for Discrimination" asks, if immigration restriction was a primary political issue at the time, how did women decorate to restrict immigration and advocate for discrimination in the broadest and most public sense? A study in American material and visual culture, this dissertation examines the ways northern, wealthy, nativist American women imbued decorative objects and domestic spaces with a distinctly "American" character and engaged art objects rhetorically to promote immigration restriction. The project begins with a study of the changing character of republican motherhood throughout the nineteenth century through prints of George Washington and Betsy Ross as mother and father of the country, and translates the period's ideal womanhood and its procreative role to combat race suicide at the Second International Exhibition of Eugenics (1921), an exhibition credited with influencing the Immigration Restriction Act of 1924. With that conceptual groundwork, subsequent chapters develop the iconography of American women's nativism through the National Flower Movement and so-called "grandmother's gardens" like Celia Thaxter's and Maria Oakey Dewing's, and its promotion through newspaper articles and gardening manuals authored by women for women, and American Impressionist paintings that recorded these seasonal spaces. Leaders in the Arts and Crafts and Colonial Revival then translated these symbols to objects for consumption, as did Tiffany and Company, Rookwood Pottery, the Pocumtuck Basket Makers, and the Society of Blue and White Needlework. The seemingly antimodern craft forms were not, however, against modernism as a whole, but against the changes in national ethnic and racial composition associated with industrial labor. Positioned within the home alongside American antiques, they prompted conversation and helped women make arguments against unfettered immigration. The dissertation concludes with the canonization of these art forms and historical American craft in museums and the subsequent loss of their nativist origins as American art.

Subjects/Keywords: American Wing; Immigration restriction; Impressionism; Material culture; Museum studies; Wild garden.

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Leary, E. (2016). Decorating for discrimination : nativism and eugenics in American decorative arts and design, 1893-1924. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Rochester. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1802/30618

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Leary, Erin. “Decorating for discrimination : nativism and eugenics in American decorative arts and design, 1893-1924.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Rochester. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1802/30618.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Leary, Erin. “Decorating for discrimination : nativism and eugenics in American decorative arts and design, 1893-1924.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Leary E. Decorating for discrimination : nativism and eugenics in American decorative arts and design, 1893-1924. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Rochester; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/30618.

Council of Science Editors:

Leary E. Decorating for discrimination : nativism and eugenics in American decorative arts and design, 1893-1924. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Rochester; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1802/30618

University of Edinburgh

11. Lederer, Robert Clarke. Rise of the curator : archiving the self in contemporary American fiction.

Degree: PhD, 2015, University of Edinburgh

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10667

► Concurrent with a bloom of interest in the archive within academic discourse, an intense cultural fascination with museums, archives, and memorials to the past has… (more)

▼ Concurrent with a bloom of interest in the archive within academic discourse, an intense cultural fascination with museums, archives, and memorials to the past has flourished within the United States. The ascendency of digital technologies has contributed to and magnified this “turn” by popularising and habituating the archive as a personal memory tool, a key mechanism through which the self is negotiated and fashioned. This dissertation identifies a sustained exploration of the personal archive and its place in contemporary life by American novelists in the twenty-first century. Drawing on theories of the archive and the collection, this dissertation analyses the parameters of the curated self through close-readings of recent novels by five US authors. The first two chapters read Paul Auster’s Sunset Park through trauma theory and Siri Hustvedt’s What I Loved through psychoanalysis, noting that in each the system of archiving generates moments of catharsis. The two chapters argue that, for the subject shattered by trauma, archiving activates and fulfils psychoanalytic processes that facilitate the self’s reintegration and prompts a discursive revelation about the painful past. The texts, thus, discover in the archive strategies for achieving, however provisionally, a kind of stability amongst unexpected change. The next two chapters reveal the complicity of archival formations with threats posed in the digital age and articulate alternative forms of self-curation that counteract these pernicious forces. To ward off information overload, E.L. Doctorow’s Homer and Langley advocates the ethical flexibility of “blind” narration that, wending through time, accommodates a broad range of perspectives by refusing to fantasise about its own ultimate and total claim to accuracy. Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad, meanwhile, diagnoses the cultural anxiety over increasingly invasive surveillance measures. While the novel situates the digital archive, or database, at the heart of this new dataveillance, it recommends investing the self in material collections, where personal meaning is rendered in the inscrutable patois of objects that disintegrate over time. For Egan, the material archive thereby skirts the assumed readability and fixity of data on which this surveillance thrives. The conclusion analyses Dana Spiotta’s Stone Arabia, observing within it and the other novels a consistent concern with archival destruction, erosion, and stagnation. Together, the texts suggest that the personal archive is persistently stalked by disintegration and failure. Yet, within this contemporary moment in which curation has become a widespread means of self-fashioning, they also show how these hazards can be creatively circumvented or actively courted, can threaten the subject or be harnessed by it.

Subjects/Keywords: 813.009; contemporary American literature; archive; curation; subjectivity; digital and material culture

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Lederer, R. C. (2015). Rise of the curator : archiving the self in contemporary American fiction. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Edinburgh. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10667

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lederer, Robert Clarke. “Rise of the curator : archiving the self in contemporary American fiction.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Edinburgh. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10667.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lederer, Robert Clarke. “Rise of the curator : archiving the self in contemporary American fiction.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lederer RC. Rise of the curator : archiving the self in contemporary American fiction. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10667.

Council of Science Editors:

Lederer RC. Rise of the curator : archiving the self in contemporary American fiction. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Edinburgh; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10667

Iowa State University

12. Johnson, Courtney Danielle. Swagger like us: Black millennials’ perceptions of 1990s urban brands.

Degree: 2018, Iowa State University

URL: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16600

► Hip-hop is a significant cultural and artistic phenomenon that was created in the Black community and has since spread around the world (Aldridge & Stewart,… (more)

▼ Hip-hop is a significant cultural and artistic phenomenon that was created in the Black community and has since spread around the world (Aldridge & Stewart, 2005). Hip-hop culture has a unique and authentic clothing style, music style, and language (McLeod, 1999). The relationship between hip-hop culture, rap music, and fashion has global appeal (Power & Hauge, 2008). This research is centered around the evolution of this cultural fashion movement in Black history as it relates to Black millennials today and their experiences fashioning their bodies. There is not a significant amount of literature on urbanwear brands that came out of hip-hop culture or the owners of these fashion brands. The purpose of this study is to examine Black millennials attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) about their perceptions and knowledge of prominent, Black-owned, urban fashion brands that emerged in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s during the hip-hop fashion revolution. Black millennials currently attending or who are alumni of HBCU’s were specifically chosen as the focus of this study because of the heightened immersion in Black culture that a HBCU environment provides. Throughout history, Black individuals have contributed significantly to American society, and hip-hop culture is one of those contributions as it was a major cultural revolution. While Black appearance and clothing has been under scrutiny in America since slavery, urbanwear fashion was a way for Black individuals to express themselves and represent their community. Ethnic dress, such as urban styles of dress, are clothing worn by individuals to express their belonging to a community with a common heritage (Kaiser, 2012; Eicher & Sumberg, 1995). The participants in this study explained their experiences with urban fashion brands, support of Black-owned brands, stereotypes associated with urban fashion, and how hip-hop and urbanwear still inspires their style today. The narratives and perceptions from Black individuals has changed over time and viewing urban fashion through the lens of various social science theories such as Critical Race Theory, Afrocentric theory, and symbolic interaction will further explain the relationship between Black millennials and 1990s urban fashion.

Subjects/Keywords: 1990s; Millennials; Urban; Urbanwear; American Material Culture; Fashion Design

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Johnson, C. D. (2018). Swagger like us: Black millennials’ perceptions of 1990s urban brands. (Thesis). Iowa State University. Retrieved from https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16600

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Johnson, Courtney Danielle. “Swagger like us: Black millennials’ perceptions of 1990s urban brands.” 2018. Thesis, Iowa State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16600.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Johnson, Courtney Danielle. “Swagger like us: Black millennials’ perceptions of 1990s urban brands.” 2018. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Johnson CD. Swagger like us: Black millennials’ perceptions of 1990s urban brands. [Internet] [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16600.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Johnson CD. Swagger like us: Black millennials’ perceptions of 1990s urban brands. [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2018. Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/16600

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

13. Swader, Paul. An Analysis of Modified Material Culture from Amache: Investigating the Landscape of Japanese American Internment.

Degree: MA, Anthropology, 2015, U of Denver

URL: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/634

► Modified material culture is a class of objects that indicates a transformation of material function. Archaeological research at the Japanese American internment camp in… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Amache; Internment; Japanese American; Material culture; Modification; Relocation; Anthropology; Archaeological Anthropology

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Swader, P. (2015). An Analysis of Modified Material Culture from Amache: Investigating the Landscape of Japanese American Internment. (Thesis). U of Denver. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/634

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Swader, Paul. “An Analysis of Modified Material Culture from Amache: Investigating the Landscape of Japanese American Internment.” 2015. Thesis, U of Denver. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/634.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Swader, Paul. “An Analysis of Modified Material Culture from Amache: Investigating the Landscape of Japanese American Internment.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Swader P. An Analysis of Modified Material Culture from Amache: Investigating the Landscape of Japanese American Internment. [Internet] [Thesis]. U of Denver; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/634.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Swader P. An Analysis of Modified Material Culture from Amache: Investigating the Landscape of Japanese American Internment. [Thesis]. U of Denver; 2015. Available from: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/634

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Princeton University

14. Maldonado-Estrada, Alyssa. Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn .

Degree: PhD, 2018, Princeton University

URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp017p88ck25r

► This dissertation is an ethnographic study of a contemporary Italian-American Catholic parish in a rapidly developing, post-gentrification neighborhood in Brooklyn. I examine how Catholic lay… (more)

▼ This dissertation is an ethnographic study of a contemporary Italian-American Catholic parish in a rapidly developing, post-gentrification neighborhood in Brooklyn. I examine how Catholic lay men participate in devotional rituals and enact their faith in gendered, material, and embodied ways. Throughout four years of fieldwork at the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (OLMC), I explored how men are central to the production of the parish’s annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino (Saint Paulinus, the patron saint of Nola, Italy). OLMC is an ethnoreligious community that offers a case study for examining the persistence of the white ethnic Catholic parish facing internal changes, gentrification, and shifting racial and ethnic landscapes. I argue that public performances of devotion are sites of intra-Catholic boundary work, where people judge, produce, and enact what I term Catholic propriety and construct racialized discourses of difference. As an exercise in embodied ethnography, this study works to expand conceptions of what constitutes religious practice and devotion to include labor, money-making activities, and male camaraderie. Men enact their love for the saints and the parish together in homosocial spaces, often in the backstages and peripheries of devotional ritual. I argue that embodied religious practices and material culture create and maintain gendered bodies. Through adornment and tattoos, men commemorate homosocial bonds and their bodies becomes sites where social networks and devotional commitments are simultaneously inscribed. Processions, rituals, and the constellation of backstage practices that sustain devotional communities are gender performances: sites to broadcast and inculcate values of manhood and masculinity. Fundraising, manual labor, displays of strength, and public glorification of heterosexuality and family are practices that construct and sustain masculinities at the feast. The feast unites men of all ages, and this study complicates monolithic conceptions of masculinity and demonstrates the importance of studying masculinities across life stage. To study the routine and relational ways men interact with their religious communities is to understand the everyday ways men construct authority and enact and maintain their power in religious institutions Advisors/Committee Members: Weisenfeld, Judith (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: Catholic; Devotion; Ethnography; Italian-American; Masculinity; Material Culture

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Maldonado-Estrada, A. (2018). Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn . (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp017p88ck25r

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Maldonado-Estrada, Alyssa. “Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn .” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp017p88ck25r.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Maldonado-Estrada, Alyssa. “Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn .” 2018. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Maldonado-Estrada A. Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp017p88ck25r.

Council of Science Editors:

Maldonado-Estrada A. Lifeblood of the Parish: Men and Catholic Practice in Williamsburg, Brooklyn . [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2018. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp017p88ck25r

Princeton University

15. Lindsey, Rachel McBride. A Communion of Shadows: Vernacular Photography and the Material Archives of Nineteenth-Century American Religion .

Degree: PhD, 2012, Princeton University

URL: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015m60qr942

► This dissertation is a material culture analysis of vernacular photographic artifacts that were incorporated into the devotional culture of nineteenth-century religious Americans. Rather than focusing… (more)

▼ This dissertation is a material culture analysis of vernacular photographic artifacts that were incorporated into the devotional culture of nineteenth-century religious Americans. Rather than focusing exclusively on the visual content of early photographs to determine whether or not they constituted a religious archive, I am attentive to the practices of preservation and display that contributed to circumstances of encounter. In several instances it is a study of religion in photography, but my interests are ultimately much broader than the compositional frame of any given photograph. Theological, devotional, liturgical, and skeptical discourses thus emerge less as compositional directives than as interpretive contexts. Likewise, as a category of analysis rather than a category of collectible, in this dissertation the terminology of the vernacular refers to the photographic artifacts that Americans most commonly encountered through the course of their daily affairs, specifically studio portraiture, memorial photographs, halftone reproductions, stereographs, and, at the end of the century, consumer generated snapshots arranged into albums and scuttled through the mail. This art historical interest in the vernacular is considered alongside recent historiographic interest in the quotidian among historians of American religion, a field which, not incidentally, has also become increasingly committed to material culture analysis. By identifying a historiographic association between lived religion, everyday practices, and material artifacts, this dissertation works to interrogate notions of indexicality freighted in historical analysis. American religionists' converging interest in the quotidian and in material culture, not surprisingly, echoed similar movements in other disciplines, including sociology, history, art history, literature, and area studies. In many respects located at the crossroads of these disciplinary concerns, my dissertation contributes to this broad scholarly interest by providing an attentive consideration of the relationships that historians, especially, posit between material culture, on the one hand, and, on the other, the accessibility of human experiences via the artifacts that inhabited their subjects' tactile worlds. During the nineteenth century, arguably no other cultural medium in the United States was more charged than photography, and no other arena of human life more contested – or more fervently defended – than religion. By placing these two areas of inquiry in deliberate conversation through cultural historical analysis, my dissertation works to provide one place wherein scholars of any number of specializations can begin to think critically about the relationships between material artifacts, photographic representation, and religious experiences. Advisors/Committee Members: Weisenfeld, Judith (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: American religious history; material culture; quotidian practice; religious experience; vernacular photography

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Lindsey, R. M. (2012). A Communion of Shadows: Vernacular Photography and the Material Archives of Nineteenth-Century American Religion . (Doctoral Dissertation). Princeton University. Retrieved from http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015m60qr942

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lindsey, Rachel McBride. “A Communion of Shadows: Vernacular Photography and the Material Archives of Nineteenth-Century American Religion .” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Princeton University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015m60qr942.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lindsey, Rachel McBride. “A Communion of Shadows: Vernacular Photography and the Material Archives of Nineteenth-Century American Religion .” 2012. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lindsey RM. A Communion of Shadows: Vernacular Photography and the Material Archives of Nineteenth-Century American Religion . [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Princeton University; 2012. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015m60qr942.

Council of Science Editors:

Lindsey RM. A Communion of Shadows: Vernacular Photography and the Material Archives of Nineteenth-Century American Religion . [Doctoral Dissertation]. Princeton University; 2012. Available from: http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp015m60qr942

University of Cincinnati

16. Wright, Kelly F. Coloring Their World: Americans and Decorative Color in the Nineteenth Century.

Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences: History, 2014, University of Cincinnati

URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1407404477

► Certain events in recent history have called into question some long-held assumptions about the colors of our material history. The controversy over the cleaning of… (more)

▼ Certain events in recent history have called into question some long-held assumptions about the colors of our material history. The controversy over the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel posited questions about color to an international audience, and in the United States the restoration of original decorative colors at the homes of many historically significant figures and religious groups has elicited a visceral reaction suggesting the new colors challenge Americans’ entrenched notions of what constituted respectable taste, if not comportment, in their forebears. Recent studies have even demonstrated that something as seemingly objective as photography has greatly misled us about the appearance of our past. We tend to see the nineteenth century as a faded, sepia-toned monochrome. But nothing could be further from the truth.Coloring Their World: Americans and Decorative Color in the Nineteenth Century, argues that in that century we can witness one of the only true democratizations in American history—the diffusion of color throughout every level of society. In the eighteenth century American aristocrats brandished color like a weapon, carefully crafting the material world around them as a critical part of their political and social identities, cognizant of the power afforded them by color’s correct use, and the consequences of failure. In their “classless” and not fully literate society glossy colorful carriages spoke with grandiloquence about their owners’ place in the world. In an aristocracy of the untitled, verdigris parlors bore the same power to intimidate as a gilded family crest. But their time was the last time that color could be so easily wielded. From the first flushes of pink and green in the early nineteenth-century homes of American elites, to the industrialized, commodified, synthesized hot pinks and electric blues available to literally everyone by century’s end, color collapsed class lines. No longer even remotely a trapping of aristocracy by the beginning of the twentieth century, color’s caché was replaced by a confidence in its easy access and ubiquity. But this access came with new rules, and self-appointed arbiters of taste dictated its use more and more. This process took place in several stages which form the parts of this dissertation. Part One explains how color first made its way into the interior of the country from 1800 to 1840, a process facilitated by the Market Revolution. Part Two describes how the harnessing of steam power and industrialization gave every class of Americans unprecedented access to all forms of decorative color. Within each phase Americans manipulated and consumed decorative color in distinctive ways, and the evidence of that is built into their material culture.As shocking as it may be to some, our past was a colorful place. Scarlet, not sepia, was its color. This dissertation is an attempt to explain why. Advisors/Committee Members: Durrill, Wayne (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: American History; color; Market Revolution; industrialization; material culture; photography; textiles

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Wright, K. F. (2014). Coloring Their World: Americans and Decorative Color in the Nineteenth Century. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cincinnati. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1407404477

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Wright, Kelly F. “Coloring Their World: Americans and Decorative Color in the Nineteenth Century.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cincinnati. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1407404477.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Wright, Kelly F. “Coloring Their World: Americans and Decorative Color in the Nineteenth Century.” 2014. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Wright KF. Coloring Their World: Americans and Decorative Color in the Nineteenth Century. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati; 2014. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1407404477.

Council of Science Editors:

Wright KF. Coloring Their World: Americans and Decorative Color in the Nineteenth Century. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cincinnati; 2014. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1407404477

University of Cincinnati

17. Coleman, Feay Shellman. "The Palmy Days of Trade": Anglo-American Culture in Savannah, 1735-1835.

Degree: PhD, Arts and Sciences: History, 2013, University of Cincinnati

URL: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367936128

► This dissertation is a transnational study that traces the religious, economic, and cultural factors that kept the bonds between Savannah, Georgia and Great Britain strong… (more)

▼ This dissertation is a transnational study that traces the religious, economic, and cultural factors that kept the bonds between Savannah, Georgia and Great Britain strong and vital long after the United States achieved political independence. Through an analysis of Savannah’s pre-eminent merchant family, the Boltons, and their associates, this study demonstrates that enduring connections to Great Britain influenced both the built environment and cultural spaces that Savannahians occupied for about a century – from Georgia’s founding in 1735 until 1835. Evidence drawn from material culture as well as a fresh reading of traditional sources support this thesis. In addition to documents, primary sources that anchor the analysis include buildings and neighborhoods where Savannahians worshiped, lived, and worked in England and America. Because material culture embodies the social meanings of the economic, religious, and domestic purposes it serves, analysis of specific buildings and neighborhoods in Savannah as counterparts to English prototypes proves the case for common culture. Throughout the dissertation, both material culture and a traditional array of documentary sources reinforce the arguments. Since this study embraces material culture and urban spatial relationships as potent sources, resulting insights break boundaries that have limited scholarship in the past. Scholars have long scrutinized Southern rural elites. And, more recently, historians have concentrated on people at the bottom of the social scale. This research is a long overdue examination of Savannah’s prosperous, urban middle class. Historians of the New Republic often think in terms of what set the United States apart from Great Britain in the period of nation building before 1835. This dissertation adds the dimension of continuity to the scholarly conversation. By presenting new insight into the blending of cultures, this study shows how economic, religious, and cultural interdependence sustained transnational relationships and diluted the meaning of politically drawn borders. At the same time it sheds new light on the themes of religion, gender, class, race, enterprise, and urban life in Savannah. Advisors/Committee Members: Stradling, David (Committee Chair).

Subjects/Keywords: American History; class; race; slavery; material culture; religion; transnational

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Coleman, F. S. (2013). "The Palmy Days of Trade": Anglo-American Culture in Savannah, 1735-1835. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Cincinnati. Retrieved from http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367936128

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Coleman, Feay Shellman. “"The Palmy Days of Trade": Anglo-American Culture in Savannah, 1735-1835.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Cincinnati. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367936128.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Coleman, Feay Shellman. “"The Palmy Days of Trade": Anglo-American Culture in Savannah, 1735-1835.” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Coleman FS. "The Palmy Days of Trade": Anglo-American Culture in Savannah, 1735-1835. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Cincinnati; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367936128.

Council of Science Editors:

Coleman FS. "The Palmy Days of Trade": Anglo-American Culture in Savannah, 1735-1835. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Cincinnati; 2013. Available from: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1367936128

Utah State University

18. Mathews-Pett, Amelia. "Full On Toy Story": Exploring the Belief in Object Sentience in Western Culture.

Degree: MS, English, 2018, Utah State University

URL: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7085

► This thesis considers, from a folklorist’s perspective, the people in Western society who believe that everyday objects have feelings. It establishes these people as… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Object sentience; folk belief; material culture; children's folklore; American Studies

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Mathews-Pett, A. (2018). "Full On Toy Story": Exploring the Belief in Object Sentience in Western Culture. (Masters Thesis). Utah State University. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7085

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Mathews-Pett, Amelia. “"Full On Toy Story": Exploring the Belief in Object Sentience in Western Culture.” 2018. Masters Thesis, Utah State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7085.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Mathews-Pett, Amelia. “"Full On Toy Story": Exploring the Belief in Object Sentience in Western Culture.” 2018. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Mathews-Pett A. "Full On Toy Story": Exploring the Belief in Object Sentience in Western Culture. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Utah State University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7085.

Council of Science Editors:

Mathews-Pett A. "Full On Toy Story": Exploring the Belief in Object Sentience in Western Culture. [Masters Thesis]. Utah State University; 2018. Available from: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7085

Boston University

19. Lampros, Dean George. Like a real home: the residential funeral home and America's changing vernacular landscape, 1910 - 1960.

Degree: PhD, American & New England Studies, 2013, Boston University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/13159

► American undertakers first began relocating from downtown parlors to mansions in residential neighborhoods around the First World War, and by midcentury virtually every city and… (more)

▼ American undertakers first began relocating from downtown parlors to mansions in residential neighborhoods around the First World War, and by midcentury virtually every city and town possessed at least one funeral home in a remodeled dwelling. Using industry publications, newspapers, photographs, legal documents, and field work, this dissertation mines the funeral industry's shift from business district to residential district for insights into America's evolving residential landscape, the impact of consumer culture on the built environment, and the communicative power of objects. Chapters one and two describe the changing landscape of professional deathcare. Chapter three explores the funeral home's residential setting as the battleground where undertakers clashed with residents and civil authorities for the soul of America's declining nineteenth-century neighborhoods and debated the efficacy and legality of zoning. The funeral home itself became a site for debate within the industry over whether or not professionals could also be successful merchants. Chapters four and five demonstrate how an awareness of both the symbolic value of material culture and the larger consumer marketplace led enterprising undertakers to mansions as a tool to legitimate their claims to professional status and as a setting to stimulate demand for luxury goods, two objectives often at odds with one another. Chapter five also explores the funeral home as a barometer of rising pressures within retail culture, from its emphasis on merchandising and democratized luxury to the industry's early exodus from the downtown as a harbinger of the postwar decentralization of shopping to the suburbs. Amidst perennial concerns over rising burial costs and calls for greater simplicity, funeral directors created spaces that married simplicity to luxury, a paradox that became a hallmark of modern consumer culture. Notwithstanding their success as retail spaces, funeral homes struggled for acceptance as ritual spaces. Chapter six follows the industry's aggressive campaign to dislodge the home funeral using advertisements that showcased the funeral home's privacy and homelike comforts. In the end, a heightened emphasis within consumer culture on convenience and the funeral home's ability to balance sales and ceremony solidified its enduring and iconic place within the vernacular landscape.

Subjects/Keywords: American studies; Consumer culture; Cultural landscape; Deathcare industry; Funeral Homes; Material culture; Vernacular architecture

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Lampros, D. G. (2013). Like a real home: the residential funeral home and America's changing vernacular landscape, 1910 - 1960. (Doctoral Dissertation). Boston University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2144/13159

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Lampros, Dean George. “Like a real home: the residential funeral home and America's changing vernacular landscape, 1910 - 1960.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Boston University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2144/13159.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Lampros, Dean George. “Like a real home: the residential funeral home and America's changing vernacular landscape, 1910 - 1960.” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Lampros DG. Like a real home: the residential funeral home and America's changing vernacular landscape, 1910 - 1960. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Boston University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/13159.

Council of Science Editors:

Lampros DG. Like a real home: the residential funeral home and America's changing vernacular landscape, 1910 - 1960. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Boston University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/13159

George Mason University

20. Reeder, Jennifer. "'To do something extraordinary:' Mormon Women and the Creation of a Usable Past" .

Degree: 2013, George Mason University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1920/8236

► On 17 March 1842, twenty-two women of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints gathered in Nauvoo, Illinois, under the direction of their prophet,… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: American history; Religious history; Women's studies; American Victorian; hair art; material culture; memory; Mormon; quilt

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Reeder, J. (2013). "'To do something extraordinary:' Mormon Women and the Creation of a Usable Past" . (Thesis). George Mason University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1920/8236

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Reeder, Jennifer. “"'To do something extraordinary:' Mormon Women and the Creation of a Usable Past" .” 2013. Thesis, George Mason University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1920/8236.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Reeder, Jennifer. “"'To do something extraordinary:' Mormon Women and the Creation of a Usable Past" .” 2013. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Reeder J. "'To do something extraordinary:' Mormon Women and the Creation of a Usable Past" . [Internet] [Thesis]. George Mason University; 2013. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1920/8236.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Reeder J. "'To do something extraordinary:' Mormon Women and the Creation of a Usable Past" . [Thesis]. George Mason University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1920/8236

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Western Ontario

21. Barnes, Thomas J. Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction.

Degree: 2011, University of Western Ontario

URL: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/156

► Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction argues that garbage of the post-World War II period can be… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Garbage Studies; American Studies; Cold War Studies; Ecocriticism; Nuclear Criticism; Archive Theory; American Material Culture

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Barnes, T. J. (2011). Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction. (Thesis). University of Western Ontario. Retrieved from https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/156

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Barnes, Thomas J. “Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction.” 2011. Thesis, University of Western Ontario. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/156.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Barnes, Thomas J. “Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction.” 2011. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Barnes TJ. Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Western Ontario; 2011. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/156.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Barnes TJ. Residues of the Cold War: Emergent Waste Consciousness in Postwar American Culture and Fiction. [Thesis]. University of Western Ontario; 2011. Available from: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/156

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Arizona State University

22. Bilinsky, Stephanie Stephens. The Voodoo Spiritual Temple: A Case Study of New Orleans' Spiritual Churches.

Degree: Religious Studies, 2016, Arizona State University

URL: http://repository.asu.edu/items/38636

► This dissertation takes the material culture of New Orleans’ Spiritual Churches as its point of the construction and application of academic categories in studies of… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Religion; African American studies; African American religion; African diaspora; material culture; transnationalism

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Bilinsky, S. S. (2016). The Voodoo Spiritual Temple: A Case Study of New Orleans' Spiritual Churches. (Doctoral Dissertation). Arizona State University. Retrieved from http://repository.asu.edu/items/38636

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Bilinsky, Stephanie Stephens. “The Voodoo Spiritual Temple: A Case Study of New Orleans' Spiritual Churches.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Arizona State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://repository.asu.edu/items/38636.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Bilinsky, Stephanie Stephens. “The Voodoo Spiritual Temple: A Case Study of New Orleans' Spiritual Churches.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Bilinsky SS. The Voodoo Spiritual Temple: A Case Study of New Orleans' Spiritual Churches. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Arizona State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://repository.asu.edu/items/38636.

Council of Science Editors:

Bilinsky SS. The Voodoo Spiritual Temple: A Case Study of New Orleans' Spiritual Churches. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Arizona State University; 2016. Available from: http://repository.asu.edu/items/38636

University of Maryland

23. Deeley, Kathryn Hubsch. Double "Double Consciousness": An Archaeology of African American Class and Identity in Annapolis, Maryland, 1850 to 1930.

Degree: Anthropology, 2015, University of Maryland

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16657

► This dissertation explores the intersections of race and class within African American communities of the 19th and early 20th centuries in order to expand our… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: Archaeology; African American studies; History; African American; Anthropology; Archaeology; Class; Material Culture

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Deeley, K. H. (2015). Double "Double Consciousness": An Archaeology of African American Class and Identity in Annapolis, Maryland, 1850 to 1930. (Thesis). University of Maryland. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16657

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Deeley, Kathryn Hubsch. “Double "Double Consciousness": An Archaeology of African American Class and Identity in Annapolis, Maryland, 1850 to 1930.” 2015. Thesis, University of Maryland. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16657.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Deeley, Kathryn Hubsch. “Double "Double Consciousness": An Archaeology of African American Class and Identity in Annapolis, Maryland, 1850 to 1930.” 2015. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Deeley KH. Double "Double Consciousness": An Archaeology of African American Class and Identity in Annapolis, Maryland, 1850 to 1930. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2015. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16657.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Deeley KH. Double "Double Consciousness": An Archaeology of African American Class and Identity in Annapolis, Maryland, 1850 to 1930. [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/16657

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Maryland

24. Walker, Jessica. Nervous Kitchens: Critical Readings of Black Women's Food Practices in The Soul Food Imaginary.

Degree: American Studies, 2016, University of Maryland

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18772

► Nervous Kitchens intervenes in the story of soul food by treating the kitchen as a central site of instability. These kitchens reveal and critique their… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: American studies; Women's studies; African American Material Culture; Black Womanhood; Popular Representation; Soul Food

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Walker, J. (2016). Nervous Kitchens: Critical Readings of Black Women's Food Practices in The Soul Food Imaginary. (Thesis). University of Maryland. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18772

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Walker, Jessica. “Nervous Kitchens: Critical Readings of Black Women's Food Practices in The Soul Food Imaginary.” 2016. Thesis, University of Maryland. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18772.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Walker, Jessica. “Nervous Kitchens: Critical Readings of Black Women's Food Practices in The Soul Food Imaginary.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Walker J. Nervous Kitchens: Critical Readings of Black Women's Food Practices in The Soul Food Imaginary. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18772.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Walker J. Nervous Kitchens: Critical Readings of Black Women's Food Practices in The Soul Food Imaginary. [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18772

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Duke University

25. Brummitt, Jamie L. Protestant Relics: Religion, Objects, and the Art of Mourning in the American Republic .

Degree: 2018, Duke University

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/16930

► This dissertation turns attention to the neglected history of relic practices among Protestants from late colonial America to the 1860s. It explores why Protestants… (more)

▼ This dissertation turns attention to the neglected history of relic practices among Protestants from late colonial America to the 1860s. It explores why Protestants deemed the material remains of their dead saints, friends, and relatives to be special kinds of objects in their mourning practices. American Protestants of all stripes put relics—the corporeal and non-corporeal remains of their dead—to work as lively material objects. Chapters examine George Whitefield’s relics, George Washington’s relics, mourning pieces made by schoolgirls, mourning lithographs, locks of hair, paintings, daguerreotypes, and bibles. By charting the production, display, and collection of Protestant relics, this dissertation argues that a new attitude towards mourning objects proliferated among Protestants. Late eighteenth-century Protestants combined Enlightenment notions about the role of memory objects in everyday sensory experiences with notions about the role of sentiment to feel the character, virtue, and piety of their dead. Protestant relics carried the presence of the dead as powerful memory objects that enlivened belief. They were powerful in their ability to induce conversion experiences and increase piety in the living. Sometimes, they condensed space and time in order for the living to feel the dead in heaven. Protestant men first acknowledged relics as emotional memory objects with a lively presence that acted on living bodies and minds. After the American Revolution, a relic culture developed among Protestant men that valued the remains of evangelists and politicians. Young women also participated in this relic culture as they mourned for Washington and produced mourning pieces for the General and their families in women’s academies. This relic culture authorized a distinctly republican Protestantism that united evangelicals, Anglicans, and some “old light” Calvinists as American Protestants around the relics of George Whitefield, George Washington, and individual Americans. By the 1830s, mourning was deemed women’s work as nearly every young Anglo-American woman who attended school produced a relic as a mourning piece for a family member. Mourning pieces as relics were later consigned to the attics of grandmothers as signs of women’s handiwork in mourning practices. The marketplace reinvigorated relic practices through the 1860s as Protestant women and men transformed commodities into relics to be distributed on their deathbeds as gifts to loved ones. Protestant men who learned to die distributing relics on their deathbeds took their practices with them to war. Civil War soldiers continued to engage in relic practices as they sent letters with locks of hair to family members, as well as bibles, rings, and clothes. Some families even searched battlefields for the relics of their dead. Protestant relic practices started to decline after the war as some families were not able to access the relics of dead loved ones and others defined relics as the remains of the dead Confederate States. By the 1930s,… Advisors/Committee Members: Morgan, David (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: Religious history; American history; American religion; gender; material culture; memory; mourning; Protestant relics

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Brummitt, J. L. (2018). Protestant Relics: Religion, Objects, and the Art of Mourning in the American Republic . (Thesis). Duke University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10161/16930

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Brummitt, Jamie L. “Protestant Relics: Religion, Objects, and the Art of Mourning in the American Republic .” 2018. Thesis, Duke University. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/16930.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Brummitt, Jamie L. “Protestant Relics: Religion, Objects, and the Art of Mourning in the American Republic .” 2018. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Brummitt JL. Protestant Relics: Religion, Objects, and the Art of Mourning in the American Republic . [Internet] [Thesis]. Duke University; 2018. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/16930.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Brummitt JL. Protestant Relics: Religion, Objects, and the Art of Mourning in the American Republic . [Thesis]. Duke University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10161/16930

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Michigan

26. Ronan, Kristine K. Buffalo Dancer: The Biography of an Image.

Degree: PhD, History of Art, 2016, University of Michigan

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133439

► This dissertation is the first book-length study to bridge American and Native American art histories and Native studies. To do so, it develops methods of… (more)

▼ This dissertation is the first book-length study to bridge American and Native American art histories and Native studies. To do so, it develops methods of image biography, or following a particular image through space and time. The image in question begins as Karl Bodmer’s watercolor portrait of a Numak'aki [Mandan] Benók Óhate [buffalo bull society] leader, later titled Mandan Buffalo Dancer (1834). Starting from its creation point in Indian Territory, the narrative subsequently tracks Mandan Buffalo Dancer in and out of various historical and cultural contexts, forms, and genres across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in both Native American and non-Native settings. Tracing how this story’s various agents utilized print (broadly construed as processes of technological image reproduction), I argue that nineteenth-century systems of racial oppression, based on visual criteria of difference, emerged in part through the very mechanics by which print operates. These mechanics underwrote not only a system of racial notation – the very language of “stereotype,” “cliché,” and “racial typing” belie their sourcing in print technologies – but also a larger, wide-ranging system of knowledge reproduction and distribution that facilitated the containment of Native peoples under the logics of Manifest Destiny. Simultaneously, Native American communities employed print (or auratic cultural practices that reproduce social memory) to promote the continuation of Native societies. These two long histories of print fed the rise of Native political activism in the 1960s and 1970s, as Native communities and artists worked to transform the historical effects of Manifest Destiny’s print enterprise. Writing these histories in parallel, this project produces an infrastructural study of print image production and valuation. It develops a critical, historical, and cross-cultural language for North American print studies. Finally, in assembling its archive of paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, diaries and letters, advertisements, archaeological artifacts, architecture, journalism, ethnological reports, political cartoons, museum displays, literature, and Native language, this study boldly re-imagines its methodological contact zone, whereby Native histories challenge long-standing paradigms of American art history, visual and material culture takes a significant place in Native studies, and Native art history interprets its objects through local languages, histories, and cosmologies. Advisors/Committee Members: Doris, David T (committee member), Deloria, Philip J (committee member), Zurier, Rebecca (committee member), Robertson, Jennifer E (committee member), Siegfried, Susan L (committee member).

Subjects/Keywords: Nineteenth Century; Twentieth Century; Native American Visual and Material Culture; North American Print Culture; Biography; Cultural Studies; Art History; Arts

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Ronan, K. K. (2016). Buffalo Dancer: The Biography of an Image. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Michigan. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133439

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Ronan, Kristine K. “Buffalo Dancer: The Biography of an Image.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133439.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Ronan, Kristine K. “Buffalo Dancer: The Biography of an Image.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Ronan KK. Buffalo Dancer: The Biography of an Image. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133439.

Council of Science Editors:

Ronan KK. Buffalo Dancer: The Biography of an Image. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Michigan; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133439

Eastern Illinois University

27. Richardson, Anna. A Long Strange Trip through the Evolution of Fan Production, Fan-Branding, and Historical Representation in the Grateful Dead Online Archive.

Degree: MA, 2017, Eastern Illinois University

URL: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2694

► This study explores how a digital music archive tells the story and contributes to the public memory of cult bands. Utilizing the Grateful Dead… (more)

▼ This study explores how a digital music archive tells the story and contributes to the public memory of cult bands. Utilizing the Grateful Dead Archive Online (GDAO) as the primary data source, the researcher obtained a population of 26,835 items and categorized them by the production method of fan or band, item type, era, and logo. Content analysis illustrated themes within the archive in relation to the fannish production and activity within the fandom of the Grateful Dead. The span of this specific fandom spreads across five decades and sheds light onto the ways in which the fandom surrounding cult bands has evolved due to emergent technologies in the digital era. Specifically, the findings of this study demonstrate that the era totals within the archive do not correspond with the band's popularity due to a significant increase of items representing the 1980s with a total of 10,653 items and the 1990s with a total of 12,775 items. These high numbers result from the band's mainstream impact and a eulogizing function for Jerry Garcia in 1995. The impact co-branding had on this iconic brand through the diversity in fan-branding and logo utilization further blurs the lines between producers and consumers in the Grateful Dead fan community. Findings also demonstrated the implications of what history chooses to remember through the archiving process that can be attributed to what Williams (1961) refers to as "retro culture" in the digital era. This study further illustrates the gaps within the archival history of the Grateful Dead due to the selection process involved in digital archiving. Finally, this study demonstrates the ways in which fandom is constantly in flux between the public and private spheres and how the implementation of an official online archive further blurs these distinctions. The archiving contained within the Grateful Dead Archive Online preserves history for future generations and provides a definitive account of the band and its surrounding fandom. The archive will be all that is left once the original band members and Deadheads are no longer with us. The legacy of this cultural phenomenon is formed and preserved by the archive and will be taken as the official history, despite any gaps that are left in the collection. This study contributes to the field of communication by dissecting the radical public relations and branding strategies that were employed by the Grateful Dead and how the fan community personalized this brand and made it their own. Additionally, this study maps the evolution of fandom in eras of emergent technological advances and it interrogates the ways in which history is preserved and communicated to future scholars and fans. Advisors/Committee Members: Scott M. Walus.

Subjects/Keywords: American Material Culture; American Popular Culture; Archival Science; Cultural History; Other Music; Public History; Public Relations and Advertising

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Richardson, A. (2017). A Long Strange Trip through the Evolution of Fan Production, Fan-Branding, and Historical Representation in the Grateful Dead Online Archive. (Masters Thesis). Eastern Illinois University. Retrieved from https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2694

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Richardson, Anna. “A Long Strange Trip through the Evolution of Fan Production, Fan-Branding, and Historical Representation in the Grateful Dead Online Archive.” 2017. Masters Thesis, Eastern Illinois University. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2694.

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Richardson, Anna. “A Long Strange Trip through the Evolution of Fan Production, Fan-Branding, and Historical Representation in the Grateful Dead Online Archive.” 2017. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Richardson A. A Long Strange Trip through the Evolution of Fan Production, Fan-Branding, and Historical Representation in the Grateful Dead Online Archive. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Eastern Illinois University; 2017. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2694.

Council of Science Editors:

Richardson A. A Long Strange Trip through the Evolution of Fan Production, Fan-Branding, and Historical Representation in the Grateful Dead Online Archive. [Masters Thesis]. Eastern Illinois University; 2017. Available from: https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2694

University of Maryland

28. Peoples, Gabriel. Viral Bodies: Uncontrollable Blackness in Popular Culture and Everyday Life.

Degree: American Studies, 2016, University of Maryland

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18249

► Viral Bodies: Uncontrollable Blackness in Popular Culture and Everyday Life maps rapidly circulated performances of Blackness across visual media that collapse Black bodies into ubiquitous… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: American studies; Gender studies; African American studies; Critical Race/Ethnic; Digital Humanities; Material Culture; Netnography; Performance; Visual Culture

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Peoples, G. (2016). Viral Bodies: Uncontrollable Blackness in Popular Culture and Everyday Life. (Thesis). University of Maryland. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18249

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Peoples, Gabriel. “Viral Bodies: Uncontrollable Blackness in Popular Culture and Everyday Life.” 2016. Thesis, University of Maryland. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18249.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Peoples, Gabriel. “Viral Bodies: Uncontrollable Blackness in Popular Culture and Everyday Life.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Peoples G. Viral Bodies: Uncontrollable Blackness in Popular Culture and Everyday Life. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18249.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Peoples G. Viral Bodies: Uncontrollable Blackness in Popular Culture and Everyday Life. [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18249

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Iowa State University

29. Gatterson, Beverly Ann Kemp. Church dress: Oral narratives of African American women.

Degree: 2016, Iowa State University

URL: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15916

► ABSTRACT Abstract: This study explored church dress of African American women. The purpose of this study was to explore the reasons why African American women… (more)

Subjects/Keywords: African American; Christian beliefs; church dress; modesty; self-concept; African American Studies; American Material Culture; Fashion Design

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APA (6^th Edition):

Gatterson, B. A. K. (2016). Church dress: Oral narratives of African American women. (Thesis). Iowa State University. Retrieved from https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15916

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Gatterson, Beverly Ann Kemp. “Church dress: Oral narratives of African American women.” 2016. Thesis, Iowa State University. Accessed January 16, 2021. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15916.

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MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Gatterson, Beverly Ann Kemp. “Church dress: Oral narratives of African American women.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Gatterson BAK. Church dress: Oral narratives of African American women. [Internet] [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15916.

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Council of Science Editors:

Gatterson BAK. Church dress: Oral narratives of African American women. [Thesis]. Iowa State University; 2016. Available from: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/15916

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University of Maryland

30. Chaplin, Jennie. “WELCUM, OONA. TIME FA WE LAAN BOUT GULLAH” (WELCOME, EVERYONE. TIME FOR US TO LEARN ABOUT GULLAH): PENN CENTER’S ROLE IN THE PRESERVATION OF GULLAH GEECHEE’S CULTURAL HERITAGE.

Degree: American Studies, 2016, University of Maryland

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18955

► “Welcum, Oona. Time Fa We Laan Bout Gullah” (Welcome, Everyone. Time for us to learn about Gullah): Penn Center’s Role in the Preservation of Gullah… (more)

▼ “Welcum, Oona. Time Fa We Laan Bout Gullah” (Welcome, Everyone. Time for us to learn about Gullah): Penn Center’s Role in the Preservation of Gullah Geechee’s Cultural Heritage focuses on the historic Penn Center, formerly the Penn School, on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, as a selected site of analytical inquiry and as a premier cultural institution that preserves Gullah history and heritage. This project makes use of interdisciplinary methods from several fields—material culture, museum studies, self-ethnography, visual analysis, and historic preservation, among others—to illuminate the history and culture of the Gullah people. I use these methods to argue that the Penn Center presents a competing “voice” to prevailing discourses because it rewrites and revalues Gullah history. This dissertation delineates how the Gullahs have responded to the dominant discourses through counter-narratives, cultural practices, and individual and community activism. It argues that the Penn Center disrupts discourses seeking to stereotype the Gullah culture by functioning as a site of resistance to mainstream definitions, as a site of the reclamation of voice and agency in the process of self-definition, and as a site for the preservation and celebration of Gullah Geechee culture and cultural identity. In demonstrating the contribution of the Penn Center, this dissertation renders attention to issues related to race, class, and gender as these issues have surfaced in the history and culture under discussion. This project also offers analysis of material culture housed at the Penn Center’s York W. Bailey Museum. Drawing upon the theories of Stuart Hall on cultural identity and E. McClung Fleming on material culture analysis, this study offers analysis of cultural objects and photographic images found in this museum space. This dissertation concludes with oral history narratives that further illuminate the competing “voices” found that shed light on Gullah cultural identity and the manner in which Gullah people must navigate and negotiate the larger American sociopolitical landscape. Advisors/Committee Members: Williams-Forson, Psyche (advisor).

Subjects/Keywords: African American studies; American studies; History; African American; Gullah; Material Culture; Oral History; Penn Center; York W. Bailey

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APA (6^th Edition):

Chaplin, J. (2016). “WELCUM, OONA. TIME FA WE LAAN BOUT GULLAH” (WELCOME, EVERYONE. TIME FOR US TO LEARN ABOUT GULLAH): PENN CENTER’S ROLE IN THE PRESERVATION OF GULLAH GEECHEE’S CULTURAL HERITAGE. (Thesis). University of Maryland. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18955

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Chicago Manual of Style (16^th Edition):

Chaplin, Jennie. ““WELCUM, OONA. TIME FA WE LAAN BOUT GULLAH” (WELCOME, EVERYONE. TIME FOR US TO LEARN ABOUT GULLAH): PENN CENTER’S ROLE IN THE PRESERVATION OF GULLAH GEECHEE’S CULTURAL HERITAGE.” 2016. Thesis, University of Maryland. Accessed January 16, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18955.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

MLA Handbook (7^th Edition):

Chaplin, Jennie. ““WELCUM, OONA. TIME FA WE LAAN BOUT GULLAH” (WELCOME, EVERYONE. TIME FOR US TO LEARN ABOUT GULLAH): PENN CENTER’S ROLE IN THE PRESERVATION OF GULLAH GEECHEE’S CULTURAL HERITAGE.” 2016. Web. 16 Jan 2021.

Vancouver:

Chaplin J. “WELCUM, OONA. TIME FA WE LAAN BOUT GULLAH” (WELCOME, EVERYONE. TIME FOR US TO LEARN ABOUT GULLAH): PENN CENTER’S ROLE IN THE PRESERVATION OF GULLAH GEECHEE’S CULTURAL HERITAGE. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2016. [cited 2021 Jan 16]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18955.

Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Council of Science Editors:

Chaplin J. “WELCUM, OONA. TIME FA WE LAAN BOUT GULLAH” (WELCOME, EVERYONE. TIME FOR US TO LEARN ABOUT GULLAH): PENN CENTER’S ROLE IN THE PRESERVATION OF GULLAH GEECHEE’S CULTURAL HERITAGE. [Thesis]. University of Maryland; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18955

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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

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