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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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Michele Birnbaum In their respective novels, The House Behind the Cedars (1900) and Passing (1929

Monsters in the mirror : literary reflections of mentally and physically deformed humanity in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Creator:: Bromley, Michele Joy
Abstract:: Monstrous beings, or distortions of nature, were a tangible object of fear in the medieval and early modern eras. Aristotle, as a precursor to the scientists and magical practitioners of the twelfth century or the barber-surgeons of the sixteenth century, understood monsters to be human or animal beings deformed by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THESIS OF Michele Joy Bromley for the degree of Master of Arts in English presented on April 30

Voices within a gray world : an evaluation of Oregon State University's sexual and dating violence prevention curriculum

Creator:: McClure, Stephanie L.
Abstract:: With the reauthorization of the 2013 Violence Against Women Act all Title IV higher education institutions will now be required to provide "primary prevention and awareness programs for all incoming students." Yet, more research is needed to find prevention programs that are effective (White House Task Force to Protect Students...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: THESIS OF Stephanie L. McClure for the degree of Master of Arts in Women, Gender, and Sexuality

“The Struggle Continues”: An Analysis of the Concerned Student 1950 Demands at the University of Missouri

Creator:: Larkins, Emma L.
Abstract:: In the fall 2015, students at the University of Missouri embarked upon an extended series of protests aimed at calling out the University’s failure to address recent racist incidents against Black students and a larger oppressive campus culture. The protests prompted the creation of a student group led largely by...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Emma L. Larkins for

Advocacy travel, creating social and ideological change : a comparison of travelers to Cuba and Chiapas

Creator:: Donckers, Jana L.
Abstract:: As a result of academic research into the effects of mass travel, an industry of alternative tourism has emerged. Application of this research has resulted in myriad forms of tourism, two of these being ecotourism and educational travel. Ecotourism represents a response to what is the destructive nature of the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Jana L. Donckers for the degree of

The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

Creator:: Koroloff, Rachel
Abstract:: Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) was a successful early Russian naturalist whose professional and social destinies were linked to eighteenth-century Russia's nascent but growing naturalist tradition. During his own time Krasheninnikov bridged the gap that existed in Russia between a distinctly European scientific practice and a tradition of Russian...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 – 1755) Abstract approved: Paul L. Farber Stepan Petrovich

Nature and culture in two Pacific Northwest timber-dependent communities

Creator:: Six, Amanda
Abstract:: Timber-dependent, rural communities in the Pacific Northwest face dramatic economic, political, and cultural change. New philosophies of forest management, primarily formulated in urban communities, require new approaches to the use and extraction of resources. What are the roles of rural communities that wish to adapt and sustain themselves? Two rural...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Courtland L. Smith Timber-dependent, rural communities in the Pacific Northwest face dramatic economic

Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

Creator:: Burke, Erik P.
Abstract:: Reinhabitation is an approach to building local cultures and economies within industrial society. The food system is a vital starting point. What are the principles of reinhabitory food systems? What are the possibilities for a locally adapted food system in the Marys River region of western Oregon? I describe past...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Abstract approved: Courtland L. Smith Reinhabitation is an

Habitat distribution of birds of southeastern Washington

Creator:: Dumas, Philip Conrad
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Approved: Dr. Kenneth L. Gordon The problem Involves a determination of which habitets are frecuented by

An anthropological response to the call for cultural midwives based on three case studies of communities

Creator:: Pickering, Kristin Leigh Morgan
Abstract:: The ecological crisis, recognized by scientists as well as an increasing number of lay people urges a response from a variety of disciplines. The consideration of sustainability requires the help of a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, which can contribute an ability to identify cultural patterns that impede cultural change...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Approved ( Courtland L. Smith The ecological crisis, recognized by scientists as well as an increasing

ScholarsArchive@OSU

"'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"

Monsters in the mirror : literary reflections of mentally and physically deformed humanity in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

Voices within a gray world : an evaluation of Oregon State University's sexual and dating violence prevention curriculum

“The Struggle Continues”: An Analysis of the Concerned Student 1950 Demands at the University of Missouri

Advocacy travel, creating social and ideological change : a comparison of travelers to Cuba and Chiapas

The beginnings of a Russian natural history : the life and work of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711 - 1755)

Nature and culture in two Pacific Northwest timber-dependent communities

Food systems in the Marys River region and reinhabitation

Habitat distribution of birds of southeastern Washington

An anthropological response to the call for cultural midwives based on three case studies of communities

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