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Self-identity and self-esteem of recent female Mexican migrants in an even start program

Creator:

Polit, Gabriela

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The purpose of the study is to explore the life experiences, identities, and self-esteem of a group of Mexican women who attend Even Start, a family literacy program. The study also focuses on the effect that the program has on the women's self-identities. I chose qualitative research considering I was...

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Masters Thesis

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Mexican women who attend Even Start, a family literacy program. The study also focuses on the effect that
Cartographies of Haunting : Black Feminist Refusal in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred

Creator:

Spencer, Megan

Abstract:

This thesis explores the gendered histories of slavery through the concept of haunting in two neo-slave narrative novels: Toni Morrison’s A Mercy and Octavia Butler’s Kindred. I offer readings of these texts through slavery’s geographic and temporal implications, in order to argue that the logics of antiblackness remain a fundamental...

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Masters Thesis

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ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Megan Spencer for the degree of Master of Arts in Women, Gender, & Sexuality