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"'I wouldn't have believed it -- even of a white man'" : critiquing whiteness in Charles Chesnutt's "The house behind the cedars" and Nella Larsen's "Passing"

Creator:

Franks, Tricia May

Abstract:

In their respective novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and Passing (1929), both Charles Chesnutt and Nella Larsen utilize racial passing, the process of a mixed-race individual living as "white," to explore the relations between black and white people during early-twentieth century America. This thesis specifically argues that Chesnutt...

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"A dissonant element" : the difficulty of Anais Nin

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Burghauser, Sarah B.

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This thesis is arranged in three main chapters, each of which focuses on a particular type of Anaїs Nin text, and each of which is intended to enlarge Nin's complexities through distinct but overlapping perspectives. The idea connecting these three chapters is that Nin, who has been radically misrepresented by...

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"A fragile job" : Haitian traditional midwives (matwons) and the navigation of clinical, spiritual and social risk

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Watson, Annaliese

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Haiti's political and economy history has led to a maternity care system that lies out of reach, geographically and financially, of most Haitians, resulting in excessively high maternal and infant mortality. The most common birth practitioners are homebirth midwives (matwòns), who attend roughly three-fourths of all births in Haiti (UNICEF),...

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"A Sea of Grief is Not a Proscenium": Claudia Rankine's Citizen and the Spectacle of Racist Violence in Cyberculture

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Lathos, Athena M.

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In her 2016 article “Beyond Rights as Recognition, Black Twitter and Posthuman Coalitional Possibilities,” Pritha Prasad argues that the hashtag, one of the decade’s most omnipresent features of digital communication, functions as “a performative composing medium that not only demands relationality” and “call[s] for the recognition of both the Black...

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"All the things you ask of me" : Law Enforcement Experiences of Infant Death Investigation

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Schindell, Jennifer R.

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The sudden and unexpected death of a seemingly healthy infant sets in motion a number of linked processes with potentially complex and far-reaching ramifications. While individuals, families and communities grapple with the shock and heartbreak associated with the loss of a young life, a chain of multidisciplinary investigative responsibilities is...

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"As a family we are going to be here" : Mexican immigrant mothers' experiences with parenting in distinct community contexts

Creator:

Feeney, Sarah L.

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Recent demographic studies have revealed a greater diversity in settlement patterns among Mexican immigrant families resulting in rapidly climbing populations of immigrants in new areas of the country, particularly in rural areas, while growth in established destinations has slowed. Host communities play an important role in families' acculturation processes and...

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“Avoidable Suffering” : Analyzing Healthcare Providers’ Perceptions of Climate Change Impacts

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Goodman, Rebecca M.

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Recent scientific studies show that framing climate change as a health issue rather than an environmental issue were more persuasive with American audience members (Maibach et. al., 2010; Maibach et. al. 2014). Also in 2014, a survey on respiratory healthcare providers and found that a large percentage believed that climate...

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"Because we didn't have nowhere to go" : residential instability among rural low-income families

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Ozretich, Robin Nathaniel

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The purpose of this study was to identify and examine risk and protective factors associated with residential instability within a sample of rural low-income mothers. Residential instability was defined as two or more residential moves within the course of a year. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to compare residentially...

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"Big bud" disease of filbert : a descriptive cytological study of the affected plant tissues

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Larew, Hiram, 1953-

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A light and electron microscope study of Corylus avellana L. vegetative buds infested with the eriophyoid mites, Cecidiophyopsis vermiformis Nal. and Phycoptella avellanae Nal., is reported. Descriptions are given of changes in infested stipule tissue. The nipple-like proliferations (enations) which arise on the infested stipule surface are covered by a...

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"Born of ourselves" : gendered doubling and the femme fatale in Vernon Lee's ghost stories

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Delf, Liz

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This thesis examines the characterization of the femme fatale and the implications of this trope for late-Victorian gender and sexuality in the ghost stories of female aesthete Vernon Lee. In her treatment of the femme fatale figure, Lee both reinforces and complicates the image of the sexualized, often bestialized woman...

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Fisheries and Wildlife767
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science657
Chemistry643
Food Science and Technology471
Electrical and Computer Engineering434
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Cox, George B.122
Dimick, R. E.76
Clinton, R. J.73
Stone, Louis N.51
Christensen, Bert E.49
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Minc, Leah54
Liu, Huaping51
Tadepalli, Prasad46
Marcum, Wade43
Bailey, Mike39
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ACVIM Forum 20181
ACVIM Forum 20221
ASN Nutrition 20181
American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition1
American Society of Enology and Viticulture National Conference 1
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20181
Accurate Mass/High Resolution Mass Spectrometry for Environmental Monitoring & Remediation1
Cardiology1
Coastal Acidification1
Fruit/Nuts1
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Arents, Chester Abbo2
Bakke, Paul D.2
Beckendorf, Howard Paul2
Callaway, Edward Cleveland2
Cao, Weidong2
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Fischer, Erica C.5
Ates, Serkan4
Barbosa, Andre R.4
Bladon, Kevin D.4
Danelishvili, Lia4
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2000-20092,456
1990-19992,359
1980-19892,143
1970-19791,930
1960-19691,915
1950-19591,206
1940-1949714
1930-1939516
1920-192999
1910-191956
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Electrical and Computer Engineering816
Civil Engineering710
Mechanical Engineering697
Chemistry614
Geology459
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Degree Level

Master's[remove]17,398

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Master of Science (M.S.)15,648
Master of Arts (M.A.)838
Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.)549
Master of Education (Ed.M.)152
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)68
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application/pdf627
pdf32
image/jpeg15
application/zip3
application/msword1
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American Vineyard Foundation (AVF) Project Number 2021-24791
National Science Foundation Grant CMMI-20379141
U.S. Forest Service1

Language

English [eng][remove]17,398
German [ger]2
Spanish; Castilian [spa]2
Arabic [ara]1
French [fre]1
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All rights reserved5,797
Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)40
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)12
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0)7
Public Domain Mark 1.05
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Location

Oregon, Oregon, United States, (Administrative Boundary)6
Corvallis, Oregon, United States, (Populated Place)4
H J Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon, United States, (Vegetation)3
Willamette Valley, Oregon, United States, (Hypsographic)3
Malheur, Oregon, United States, (Administrative Boundary)2
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Non-Academic Affiliation

Oregon State University. Graduate School15,732
Oregon State University. Sea Grant College Program16
Hatfield Marine Science Center10
Pacific Marine Energy Center9
Oregon State University. Agricultural Experiment Station6
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Peer Reviewed

No16,427

Resource Type

Masters Thesis[remove]17,398
Video1

Rights Statement

Copyright Not Evaluated10,419
In Copyright6,821
No Copyright - United States134
In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted12
In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted12

Subject

Douglas fir119
Heat -- Transmission60
Industrial arts -- Study and teaching59
Herbicides58
Home economics -- Study and teaching43
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