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Rites of leaving
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The school of Stoic philosophy traces its roots back to 300 B.C.E and thrived until the 4th century C.E, when it fell into decline and was ultimately assimilated into other systems of philosophy. It experienced a limited revival during...
Gendered racism : the lived experiences of black undergraduate women at an HPWI : microaggressions, space and culture
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This current study examined how Black undergraduate women experience gendered racism at a historically, predominately white university in the South. ...
Home aestheticus : species being and the struggle for existence
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this paper, I argue for the homo aestheticus thesis - the claim that our species nature is that of artistic producer and consumer; that this nature ...
Bridging the gap in French romantic representations of blackness 1750-1880 : the male mulatto in French literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
This dissertation traces the evolution of the male mulatto in literature from his appearance in the early nineteenth century to his sudden disappearance in the late 1880's. In this dissertation I argue that the literary ...
A child sentenced to serve life without a mother : the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars program and incarcerated women's mothering strategies
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The purpose of this research is to understand the emotional and physical impacts a mother's incarceration has on her children and to closely examine ...
St. Louis's German brewing industry : its rise and fall
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The rapid rise of St. Louis from eighteenth-century frontier outpost to turn of the century metropolis was due in no small part to its German community. During the middle of the nineteenth century tens of thousands of ...
Narrative power: social control in ISLs and group homes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Narrative power is used in residential settings providing care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities as a tool of social control. Framing narratives, stories and accounts influencing the accepted ...
Politics and ideology in the Kingdom of Callaway
(University of Missouri--Columbia., 1963)
"This is a study of politics in the town of Fulton, the county of Callaway, in the state of Missouri. It is a study which, from one standpoint, is limited in its scope and focus. No attempt is made to describe and to ...
For the love of God and country : nation-building and the (re)gendering of emotions in Francoist Spain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
certain attitudes or conducts in its people. Since emotions function largely as learned responses, political, social and cultural institutions are able to harness its influence by proposing normative emotions about professed values, standards or ideals...
On equity and authenticity: decolonizing imagery of nigeria
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The negative narratives surrounding African affairs in Western media have been documented in numerous studies, but the work processes between African journalists and Western media have been less examined. This study focuses ...
The spectacle haunting Europe: colonialism, commercialism, and everyday images of Africa in imperial Germany
(2014-07-30)
This study examined the simultaneous creation of a visual, consumer, and
colonial culture in a rapidly industrializing and newly formed German nation-state
from 1884-1914. By juxtaposing state policies and German colonial ...
The factors behind the fake news label : why some people distrust news media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
News organizations across the country have struggled with the fake news labelling effect, meaning news one labels “fake” because one dislikes or disagrees with it, rather than the spread of misinformation itself, for a ...
The last line of defense: Journalism photo editors and mental health during times of trauma
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Countless studies have been completed on the mental health of journalistic reporters and photographers after they cover traumatic events. However, no research has been done on the mental health of photo editors who must ...
Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature: African and African Diaspora Studies scholarly dissertation, & House on a jade sea : creative writing, fiction, dissertation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Representations of the violently displaced black female self in contemporary African literature is a study of my broad interests in the peculiar ...
Nineteenth-century literary women and the temperance tradition : temperance rhetoric in the fiction of Lydia Sigourney, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
Although historically scholars have viewed nineteenth-century temperance as a lesser movement in a century characterized by other weighty reforms, this dissertation builds on recent scholarship that redirects attention to ...
Kaylene can't drive : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
Kaylene Can't Drive: stories is a collection of short fiction about the lives of women, especially women in their twenties, many of whom live in New York City. Running through the stories are recurring themes. In several ...
The (in)visibility of race, class, and gender : workers' standpoints on the transformation of Missouri's child welfare policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
This dissertation is an institutional ethnography of changes in Missouri's child welfare system after House Bill 1453. I demonstrate how child welfare policy is gendered, raced, and classed by examining practices, texts, ...
Border threads : ethnographic tales of escape, agency, and violence in a shelter in Pakistan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI--COLUMBIA AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study highlights the theoretical usefulness of viewing domestic violence shelters through the conceptual framework of border-crossing ...
Ordination
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Ordination consists of a collection of eight short stories and an introductory essay that situates the author and his work in contexts biographical, ...
El proyecto de recontrucción moral espiritista de Luisa Capetillo: de la edificación del individuo a la comunidad global
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Esta investigación examina el espiritismo como filosofía moral en la narrativa de Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922). Mi propósito es demostrar que la autora construye su discurso ético utilizando como base el trabajo del francés ...