Women and Gender Studieshttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/1411162024-03-29T06:03:03Z2024-03-29T06:03:03ZLandscapes of belonging : white possession and settler subjectivity in Mashpee, MassachusettsD’Andrea, Erika Christinehttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2138672020-01-22T23:35:44Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZLandscapes of belonging : white possession and settler subjectivity in Mashpee, Massachusetts
D’Andrea, Erika Christine
Mashpee, Massachusetts is unique amongst coastal areas in New England. This is
due to the fact that the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe retained partial sovereignty and
land-use rights in Mashpee from the pre-colonial era to the mid-20th century.
Beginning in the 1950s, however, developers took interest in Mashpee and
transformed the landscape into recreational-residential resorts, attracting an influx
of new white residents. In 1976, the Mashpee Tribe filed suit for the return of their
land, to the widely publicized outrage of the town’s white newcomers. How did the
1976 land suit reinforce the settler colonial logic that links whiteness and property?
How are geographies o f belonging, comfort, and leisure formed on this land? In this
thesis, I use this case study to explore how white subjectivities materialize through
ideologies of US exceptionalism, Indigenous assimilation, and property ownership.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZA transnational feminist inquiry on family and divorce law in contemporary IranBoroujerdi, Sarah Jamshidyhttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2137242020-01-22T23:35:34Z2019-01-01T00:00:00ZA transnational feminist inquiry on family and divorce law in contemporary Iran
Boroujerdi, Sarah Jamshidy
The methods within my thesis use a transnational, political, and feminist analysis to study
divorce practices and family law within Iran since the rise of the Islamic Revolution in
1979. This thesis examines Iranian Civil Codes that are structural within Iranian family
courts, while providing a history of political invasions that have led to changes in
traditions within Iran after the seventh century Arab Muslim Incursion. My materials
include primary sources of Iranian Civil Codes, and secondary sources by Western and
transnational feminist scholars who have studied Iranian women’s communication with
the Islamic Republic through a societal, political, and economic framework.
2019-01-01T00:00:00ZThe politics of disposability : the generational effects of the Bracero ProgramVasquez, Stephaniehttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2040862020-01-22T23:54:08Z2018-01-01T00:00:00ZThe politics of disposability : the generational effects of the Bracero Program
Vasquez, Stephanie
In this historical and ethnographic analysis of the Bracero Program, I argue that despite
the program’s official termination, the framework of the program remained in place. As
such when the state allowed capital to extend its invitation of residency to the bracero
family, the structural frameworks of racial segregation, national exclusion and labor
exploitation were able to funnel migrant children into the agricultural industry, producing
a new generation of unofficial braceros. Drawing on the historical accounts of the
Bracero Program as well as the oral histories of former braceros, this project addresses
the conditions under which Mexican migrants labored and lived, as well as the social and
structural frameworks that were imposed upon them as racial and national outsiders.
Drawing on the personal experiences of the adult-children of former braceros who grew
up in agricultural labor, I argue that when the state allowed growers to offer permanent
residency to the bracero family, the structural frameworks of racial segregation, national
exclusion and labor exploitation produced an unofficial continuation of the program, an
in turn, aided in the production of a permanent racial underclass.
2018-01-01T00:00:00ZY'all come back now : negotiating geography, identity, and subjectivity in the queer American SouthTeter, Lindsiehttp://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/2040302020-01-22T23:54:10Z2018-01-01T00:00:00ZY'all come back now : negotiating geography, identity, and subjectivity in the queer American South
Teter, Lindsie
This project is concerned with the relationship between the American South and queer
identity and subjectivities. This project is particularly interested in the situatedness of the
South within the nation, how narratives about the South pervade and operate in the
American imaginary, as well as the ways in which the region often functions as an
internal other. Due to these constructions, this project is interested in the ways in which
the Southern United States is frequently painted as unhinhabitable for queer folks and
queer and trans folks of color. As such, this project engages with representations of
queerness in the American South through the analysis of Viceland’s show Gaycation, as
well as provides intervention into these narratives by centering interviews with queer
Southerners and Southern-based queer organizations. Finally, this project considers the
role of affect in relation to the South, orientation, and (dis)identificaitons.
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