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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

"A dissonant element" : the difficulty of Anais Nin

Creator:: Burghauser, Sarah B.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

“A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” : An Analysis of Selected Music in Disney Princess Films

Creator:: Downey, Gillian M.
Abstract:: The Disney Princesses are some of the most beloved and well-recognized characters in animation across the globe. Most of these characters sing throughout their movie. This essay analyzes what I refer to as the “I Want” song of several Disney Princesses. It is divided into three sections, one for each...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

“A Fool For His Client:” Religion, Law, and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century America

Creator:: Reck, Logan A.
Abstract:: When Charles Guiteau killed U.S. President James Garfield, he claimed that God had ordered him to do so. During his trial, Guiteau’s lawyers plead not guilty by reason of insanity, and the question of Guiteau’s innocence or guilt quickly became a question about the very nature of insanity itself. In...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

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

Creator:: Watson, Annaliese
Abstract:: 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),...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"A Monument to Jim Crow": Post-War Racial Liberalism and the Battle Over the Booker T. Washington Black Veterans Hospital

Creator:: Du Plessis, Lihani
Abstract:: “A Monument to Jim Crow’: Post-War Racial Liberalism and the Battle Over the Booker T. Washington Black Veterans Hospital” examines the proposed Congressional bill to build a segregated black veterans hospital as a memorial to Booker T. Washington in Franklin County, Virginia. This paper examines the developing ideology of racial...
Resource Type:: Research Paper

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

Creator:: Lathos, Athena M.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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

Creator:: Schindell, Jennifer R.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

"AmaRosa," a Red Skinned, Red Fleshed Fingerling with High Phytonutrient Value

Creator:: Brown, Charles R., Vales, Isabel, Yilma, Solomon, James, Steven, Charlton, Brian, Culp, Darrin, Hane, Dan, Shock, Clinton, Feibert, Eric, Pavek, Mark, Knowles, Richard, Novy, Richard, Whitworth, Jonathan, Stark, Jeff, Miller, J. Creighton, Jr., Holm, David, Quick, Richard, and Navarre, Roy
Abstract:: The diversity of traits in varieties of potato outside of its South American birthplace is a small subset of that available in the Andean center of origin. Among the traits that evoke most interest are skin and flesh pigments. Recent studies have pointed to the high antioxidant activity and potential...
Resource Type:: Article

"American storax" from the red gum tree

Creator:: Forest Products Laboratory (U.S.)
Resource Type:: Technical Report

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"

"A dissonant element" : the difficulty of Anais Nin

“A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes” : An Analysis of Selected Music in Disney Princess Films

“A Fool For His Client:” Religion, Law, and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century America

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

"A Monument to Jim Crow": Post-War Racial Liberalism and the Battle Over the Booker T. Washington Black Veterans Hospital

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

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

"AmaRosa," a Red Skinned, Red Fleshed Fingerling with High Phytonutrient Value

"American storax" from the red gum tree

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