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Policing the boundaries of whiteness : monsters made in the USA
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation explores institutionalized racism in American culture that signifies through the Reconstruction era Klansman, the folklore of the Night Doctor, and what I...
Science frictions : science, folklore, and "the future"
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Folklore and science, along with the subject of the future which has slowly over time worked its way into the discourses of both, have a long, complicated ...
Of the burning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
vicar in a multicultural black church in the Bronx (2005-07). The original archival research consists primarily of work with Johnson's manuscripts for his books God's Trombones (1927) and The Book of American Negro Spirituals (1925), accessed...
Interrogating transnational media representations of "harmful" bodylore
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
are constituted through this media as an important global development and global health issue worthy of global critical attention. The study found that because this media has been instrumental in creating and spreading awareness about these practices to mainly...
"One foot on the other side" : suicideality in contemporary African diaspora fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
, which while largely a product of Western medicine, neoliberal discourses of self-reliance and Capitalist "self-care" branding, has certainly been circulating globally for a number of years now. Thus, I expected this dissertation to be a discussion...
The education of a gambler's daughter
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Education of a Gambler's Daughter is a creative dissertation that tells the story of a daughter trying to make sense out of the chaos that resulted ...
Sharp things, or the silver lines are not scars
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This novel is the story of Tianne, a twenty-eight-year-old stained glass artist. She works two part-time jobs as a clerk at a stained glass supply ...
On poetry : the emergence and function of meaning
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
these differences, poetry seems to universally function as a tool for developing complex thoughts and for communicating those thoughts to others. Section II examines the rise of modern American poetry as a case study for how poetry as a genre perpetuates itself...
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 ...
The freedoms of B. Kumasi
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
in American institutions. Cook and Dixson outline the aspects and potential for counter-storytelling: 1. Provides psychic preservation by not silencing the experiences of the oppressed and thus exposing neglected evidence. 2. Challenges normative reality...
Bury the key : a book of houses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2025] Bury the Key: A Book of Houses is a book-length work of creative nonfiction that engages with implicit cultural beliefs in houses as stable, somewhat permanent, and a clear boundary between the public and private despite...
Refrain
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Refrain is set in 1950s Larissa, TX, where the disappearance of four local girls catapults the town into crisis, forcing them to confront their complicity and disregard for Native American life. Told from multiple points of view, including...
When trying to return home : stories
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
story collection, with varying degrees of engagement, addresses issues of race, class and gender, the invisibility of marginalized women, and uneven distribution of resources for people of color. The stories feature Black American and Black Latinx...