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- This dissertation explores performance as a mechanism of racialization and politicization of Native Americans in the United States. I analyze performances of Indians on theatrical stages to define how an embodied repertoire of visual, aural, and kinetic markers, what I call the Stage Indian, became codified and circulated within popular...
- Keyword:
- Law, Indian, Native American, Representation, and Performance
- Subject:
- Theatre and Drama
- Creator:
- Bethany Hughes
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/19/2019
- Date Modified:
- 04/15/2020
- Date Created:
- 2018-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
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- Guided by under-studied archival documents, including public-health and pharmaceutical advertisements, as well as contemporaneous visual art and performance pieces by queer artists of color, this dissertation analyses the critical and evolving role that aesthetics have played in combatting HIV/AIDS since the early days of the pandemic. Drawing on methods and...
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- Queer of Color Critique, Visual Cultures, HIV Prevention, HIV/AIDS, Performance, and Appropriation of Aesthetics
- Subject:
- Sexuality, American studies, and Aesthetics
- Creator:
- Bujan, Ivan Ivan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/28/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15591 and etdadmin_upload_819909
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- In Due Time: Performance and the Psychic Life of Black Debt analyzes how routine modes of debt and indebtedness restrict black women’s behavior across the everyday sphere and their subsequent engagement with both aesthetic and everyday performance to dismantle such routines. Modes of indebtedness are characteristic of racial capitalism and...
- Keyword:
- Gesture, Black Women, Duration & Time, Debt, Performance, and Queer
- Subject:
- Women's studies, LGBTQ studies, and Black studies
- Creator:
- De Berry, Misty
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/21/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_743674 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15117
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- Uttering Sonic Dominicanidad: Women and Queer Performers of Música Urbana Verónica Dávila Ellis What meanings are ascribed to the voices and sonic compositions of Caribbean and Latinx women and queer performers? What do their sounds tell us about Caribbean identity, gender, sexuality, and race? This dissertation centers the work of...
- Keyword:
- Women and Gender, Latinx, Dominican Music, Queer, Caribbean, and Performance
- Subject:
- Caribbean studies, Ethnic studies, and Latin American studies
- Creator:
- Dávila Ellis, Verónica Enid
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/01/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15299 and etdadmin_upload_765285
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- The term blowback originated from the American intelligence community to indicate the unexpected consequences of American foreign policy. In my dissertation, I give an account of how blowback results from these security policies. Blowback shows the cases that security policies create more harm than good to the enacting country due...
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- Script, Unintended Consequences, Ambiguity, Policy Implementation, Security, and Performance
- Subject:
- International relations
- Creator:
- Kang, Hye Yun
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662398 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14637
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- Although Jewish studies, sociology, and performance studies texts abound with productive scholarship on Jewish men and their contributions to comedy in the mid-century United States, there is remarkably scant attention devoted to the equally significant contributions of their female counterparts. Nowhere is that bias clearer than the peculiar case of...
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- Assimilation, Jewishness, Gender, Comedy, Stand-up, and Performance
- Subject:
- Judaic studies, Theater history, and American studies
- Creator:
- Overbeke, Grace Kessler
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/12/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- etdadmin_upload_662614 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14648
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- This dissertation explores the entanglements of performed refusals and witnessing practices in the face of gendered violences. I analyze how contemporary artists use staged performance to generate new modes for witnessing histories of gendered violence across temporal and national boundaries. In particular, I investigate four performances addressing local histories of...
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- Redress, Transnational Feminisms, Refusal, Embodiment, Performance, and Gendered Violence
- Subject:
- African American studies, Gender studies, and Dance
- Creator:
- Ross, Danielle
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Language:
- en
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/23/2023
- Date Created:
- 2023-01-01
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Alternate Identifier:
- http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16764 and etdadmin_upload_1013748