Browsing Rice University Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "Race"
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A Struggle Unfinished: Riots, Race in America, and the Failures of the 1968 Kerner Commission
(2017-04-18)This dissertation explores the life of the Kerner Commission—a task force founded by President Lyndon Johnson on the heels of riots across America—from its inception in the summer of 1967 to its aftermath in the spring of ... -
American Art Histories: Framing Race in Exhibitions, 1842-1876
(2018-04-06)In the mid to late nineteenth century, exhibitions in the United States presented histories of art by laying out sequences of objects. Paintings, sculptures, and prints were aligned or juxtaposed with so-called artifacts ... -
Configuring Violence: Governing Family, Marriage and Migration in Australian Social Welfare
(2020-02-17)Using qualitative ethnographic methods over the course of 14 months in Melbourne, Australia, this study focuses on the institutional politics, ethical dilemmas, and knowledge practices through which forced marriage was ... -
Enfleshing the Subject: Race and Religion in the Development of Subjectivity
(2017-04-21)The spate of police-involved shootings of African Americans since 2014 has spawned protests and speak-outs, direct actions and vigils. As names like Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Rekia Boyd, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, ... -
Finding Palestine in America: The Impact of the Arab-Israeli Conflict on Arab-American Identity and Activism
(2018-11-30)This dissertation investigates the ways in which the issue of Palestine nurtured a spectrum of Arab-American identities across three waves of Arab immigration to the U.S. Departing from much of the existing scholarship on ... -
Gospel of Liberty: Antislavery and American Salvation
(2014-04-14)Americans understood and sought to solve the problem of slavery in terms strongly colored by understandings of religious conversion. In the early-eighteenth century, Great Awakening revivals fueled a new belief in the ... -
Interracial Friendships in the US: A Better Understanding of Presence and Variation
(2015-01-23)Objective. Previous studies have examined interracial friendships, typically within educational settings, in relation to racial prejudice without taking in to account the formation of interracial friendship. I address the ... -
Investigating the United States’ Racial Structure through the Evaluation of Residential Distribution
(2013-04-22)Diversification of the United States population over the past 45 years has sparked a debate about the contemporary racial structure. Some theorize Latino and Asian immigrants will eventually integrate into the White ... -
Jefferson’s Sons: Notes on the State of Virginia and Virginian Antislavery, 1760–1832
(2018-04-18)Abstract Jefferson’s Sons: Notes on the State of Virginia and Virginian Antislavery, 1760–1832 by Cara J. Rogers This dissertation examines the fascinating early life of Thomas Jefferson’s book, Notes on the State ... -
Lowering Mortality: A Spatial History of Segregation, Environments, and Mortality Transitions in New Orleans, 1880–1915
(2018-08-31)Between 1880 and 1915, three forces changed New Orleans. City engineers drained the interior of the city, opening new land for settlement. Public health officials gained powerful tools and knowledge to fight and prevent ... -
Race and Abolition in the Anglophone Atlantic, c. 1730 – 1840
(2020-04-22)The assumption that African-descended people were more able than European-descended people to labor in the “hot” climates of southern North America and the Caribbean was an important justification for slavery in the British ... -
Race and Freedom in the African Americas: Free People of Color and Social Mobility in Cartagena and Charleston
(2016-11-08)This dissertation explores the social and cultural worlds of free people of color in the African Americas. It investigates how free people of color navigated social life and negotiated the boundaries of racial difference ... -
Savage Arcadia: The American Romance in The Anthropocene
(2019-04-16)“Savage Arcadia: The American Romance in the Anthropocene” posits American writers of the romance have been writing about what we now call the Anthropocene, the geological epoch in which human activity becomes geographically ... -
School Racial Composition and Discipline
(2017-04-21)Prior research finds school discipline to be a highly racialized process that contributes to greater inequality. While individual student level characteristics have been found to contribute to the likelihood of receiving ... -
The Apparatus of Christian Identity: Religious (Auto)Immunity, Political Theology, and the Making of the Racial World
(2017-07-27)This dissertation examines what I call “the apparatus of Christian Identity” as a vast and complex network of power relations historically assembled and reassembled around recurring processes of self-closure and self-opening. ... -
The Ethics of Whiteness: Race, Religion, and Social Transformation in South Africa
(2017-04-21)The Ethics of Whiteness is an ethnographic study of progressive white Christians living in Johannesburg who sought to engage with histories of racism, contemporary racial inequality, and calls for racial redress. After ... -
The Religious Community and Latinos in Alabama: Two Steps Forward
(2013-12-06)This dissertation explores the nuances of how the religious community of Alabama responded to the development of a Latino population in the state, beginning in the mid-1980s, as well as how Latinos found a place among the ... -
Twilight of the God-Idols: Race, Religion, and the Life and Death of Whiteness in Contemporary America
(2014-11-17)White people die. Such a brash statement not only refers to an obvious physical death faced by humans across race, but is metaphoric commentary on literal shifting racial demographics in an increasingly diverse 21st Century ... -
Wealth Strain’s Role in Generating Educational Inequality: Theory, Mechanisms, and Effects
(2018-04-17)Wealth predicts important social phenomena, from health outcomes, to educational attainment, to property ownership. Sociologists have addressed wealth in empirical work, but the use of wealth measures is limited by current ... -
White Women's Heritage Organizations in Texas, 1870-1970
(2014-01-29)This study offers an analysis of three white women’s heritage organizations—the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DAR)—from ...
