Browsing 2022 MU Dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Advisor "Brekhus, Wayne"
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Gold star motherhood: spectacle, emotion, and identity construction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)This dissertation analyzes experiences of gold star mothers, spectacles of grief, grief politics, organizational embeddedness, and the use of discourses in sense making and social identity mapping of valor revolving around ... -
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 ... -
When they see us: racial criminalization, racial stigma, and identity in a Midwest college town
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)Racial stigma and racial criminalization have been centralizing pillars of the construction of Blackness in the United States. Taking such systemic injustice and racism as a given, then question then becomes how these ... -
White spaces in brown(ing) places: race, space, and community in the Nuevo South and Midwest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)This dissertation examines how the everyday and organizational uses of space shape Latine/x racialization in maturing migrant destinations. It observes how community and business organizations structure the racialized ...