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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:: mulatta permits white women a way to criticize their own oppression as females. Accordingly, Barbara

"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

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

Creator:: Baker, Carlee A.
Abstract:: In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

“I couldn’t bring myself to say it” : challenging heteronormativity in teacher education programs

Creator:: Ollivier, Amélie G.
Abstract:: School is a hostile environment for many LGBTQ youth. Teachers participate, consciously or unconsciously, in perpetuating oppressive heteronormative expectations in the classroom both through the overt and covert curriculum. Yet, pre-service teachers are under-trained about questions related to gender and sexuality during their teacher preparation. This qualitative study explores the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . 2014 Jun; 104(6): 1129–1136 20 Haas, Ann P., Philip L. Rodgers, and Jody L. Herman. "Suicide attempts

"I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

Creator:: Koch, Elizabeth C.
Abstract:: Over two million people experience homelessness in the United States, but homeless people are often marginalized by invisibility and stigmas surrounding poverty within their local communities. This research seeks to amplify the voices of Corvallis area homeless women as a means to understand their everyday lived experiences. Six women residing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: compounded 23. Bassuk, Ellen L. "Homeless

"Instant orchard" : technique for the production of ready-to-bear temperate zone fruit trees

Creator:: Kent, Jeffrey A.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : . , ^ ^ Robert L. Stebbins Techniques for producing "ready-to-bear" fruit trees for planting new orchards and

"It's not about place it's about space" : place-of-birth decision-making in Cork, Ireland

Creator:: Houtman, Leah S.
Abstract:: Despite apparently supportive national policies, including nation-wide legalization of home birth and coverage by the national health care system of the costs associated with that option, these births account for less than 1% of all births in the Republic of Ireland. Using data collected during participant observation, both in person...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: work builds on the earlier work of Barbara Katz Rothman (1982) and

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

Creator:: Graham, Devon E.
Abstract:: This thesis focuses on performances of masculinity by British Royal Flying Corps (RFC) airmen in the charged landscape of the First World War prisoner of war (POW) camp. I examine how captive airmen coped with imprisonment by reasserting the familiar homosocial communities of pre-capture squadron life, particularly through practices associated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: existence is too boring for anything” (November 1915/Letter, [hereafter designated as “L”]).6 Even the

"Otherwise I hear riffs and drones": Sound and Decoloniality in Contemporary Latinx Poetics

Creator:: Diaz-Hui, Alexander
Abstract:: This thesis examines Latinx poetry in relation to the September 11th attacks and the reconfigurations of racial structures and the American empire that followed, most notably through the Department of Homeland Security and their agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ICE politically characterizes immigrants as anti-American to perpetuate stereotypes against...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: contingent.” I write Latinx with a capital “L” to denote the ways in which the Latin language, written with

"The Island" Research Natural Area : a vegetation study with time and location comparisons

Creator:: Fox, M. Anne, 1939-
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to document vegetation on "The Island", a Research Natural Area at the confluence of the Crooked River and the Deschutes River in central Oregon's Juniperus occidentalis Zone and to compare the results with an earlier study reported in 1964 from 1960-'61 data. Present-day comparisons...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: consistently includes Poa sandbergii Vasey and small amounts of Bromus tectorum L. A second association

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"

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

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

“I couldn’t bring myself to say it” : challenging heteronormativity in teacher education programs

"I've lived on these streets, and these streets aren't pretty" : The Life Stories of Corvallis Homeless Women

"Instant orchard" : technique for the production of ready-to-bear temperate zone fruit trees

"It's not about place it's about space" : place-of-birth decision-making in Cork, Ireland

“Missed the Best Months of the War”: Masculinity, Homosociality, and Empire among British Royal Flying Corps Interned in First World War German Prisoner of War Camps

"Otherwise I hear riffs and drones": Sound and Decoloniality in Contemporary Latinx Poetics

"The Island" Research Natural Area : a vegetation study with time and location comparisons

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