Amish--Books and reading; Amish--Ohio--Social life and customs; Literacy--Ohio
Following in the tradition of scholars who treat literacy in context such as Deborah Brandt, Shirley Brice Heath, and David Barton and Mary Hamilton, I conducted my dissertation research not in an academic classroom but in the valleys of Hanley, a...
This thesis analyzes the experiences and challenges Black female journalists encounter in the newsroom. Using oral history interviews and writings from Black female journalists about their experiences, the researcher identifies a unique set of...
Naomi Fernow of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a Civil War gown. The photograph has spots of discoloration. Attached to the back of image is original newspaper article: "Spirit Of '96'" At Alumnae Reunion; "Old grads" of the...
Margy May, holding a doll; Aunt Alice Williams, seated, knitting, with a basket and gourd banjo at her feet; Harry Lee; and Esther Naomi, examining a stick, outside the Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Ky. Everyone except...
Margy May, holding a doll; Esther Naomi, examining a stick; Harry Lee, seated; Aunt Alice Williams, seated, knitting, with a basket at her feet; and an unnamed boy, playing gourd banjo, outside the Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near...
Margy May, holding a doll; Aunt Alice Williams, seated, knitting, with a basket and gourd banjo at her feet; Harry Lee; and Esther Naomi, examining a stick, outside the Traipsin' Woman Cabin on the Mayo Trail near Ashland, Ky. Everyone except...
In light of western cultural trends toward individualism, the presence of altruistic marital attitudes and behavior is examined as a predictor of marital happiness. Most quantitative studies exploring correlates of marital happiness use the same...
Women; Boys; Girls; Fences; Costumes--United States
Aunt Alice Williams sits in a yard next to Esther (possibly Esther Naomi Gullett), wearing a calico dress and bonnet, and Little Babe Caldwell, wearing suspenders and a plaid shirt.
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 31. No. 31. but is actually Vol. 31. No. 23.
The Louisville Leader was an African-American newspaper published from 1917 to 1950 by I. Willis Cole in Louisville, Kentucky. This issue says Vol. 32. No. 29. but is actually Vol. 33. No. 36. There is a whole in the top half of pages one and two...
School yearbooks; Schools; Students; University of Louisville--Students; Alumni & alumnae; University of Louisville--Alumni and alumnae; Student organizations; Universities & colleges; Medical students; Law students; Dental students;...
Yearbook published by the senior classes of the University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, 1933.
Feminism in literature; Self-perception in literature; Women in literature; Chen, Ran, 1962-; Tan, Amy
With increasing cross-cultural infiltrations and accelerated interflows among people of all nationalities in this globalized world, the focus of comparative literature has experienced a shift from traditional Eurocentric cannons to a broader space...
Utopias; Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969; Irigaray, Luce; Agamben, Giorgio, 1942-
What is the idea that "utopia" names? How can discourse represent that idea? Setting aside temporarily deeper problems with the idea of representation, and focusing on how a complex philosophical discourse might approach the problem of...
African American women artists; Poetry--Social aspects; Music--Social aspects; Art--Social aspects;Shange, Ntozake. For colored girls who have considered suicide when the Rainbow is enuf.; Walker, Kara Elizabeth. Gone.; India.Arie. Video.;...
The creative expressions of three black women artists--Ntozake Shange, Kara Walker, and India. Arie--are explored using optimal consciousness-an Afrocentric framework by Linda James Myers. This concept advocates that the role of the artist is to...
Phenomenology and art; Art--Philosophy; Philosophy of mind; Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938; Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961
This dissertation presents the philosophical concepts of Edmund Husserl on phenomenology and image-consciousness and explores the phenomenological project of Maurice Merleau-Ponty as I have sought to render them in my creative artwork. By building...
Human-animal relationships in literature; Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Criticism and interpretation; Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Characters--Elizabeth Costello; Animals (Philosophy); Animal rights
For the past four decades, scholarship on the relationship between human and
nonhuman animals has been growing inside the academy and sprouting ontological and
epistemological concerns about the status of the Humanities as an institution....
This thesis is an exploration of Black cultural space and its influence on the
retention, adaptation, and transmission of African folktales during and after the
antebellum era. During slavery, the survival of kinship and family helped to create
an...
This thesis is a historical examination of the relationship between the railroad industry and state government in Kentucky during the nineteenth century. The thesis begins with an examination of the legal culture of the early nineteenth century and...
English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching; English language--Composition and exercises--Study and teaching; Community colleges--Kentucky--Louisville
The introduction to this doctoral dissertation is an argument for locating Writing Across the Curriculum programs on the community-college campus for several reasons, among them the proximity of the disciplines on the community college campus, the...
Pressure groups--Case studies; Pressure groups--Ecuador; International relations--Research; Ecuador--Foreign relations
The transnational advocacy campaign against Ecuador's second oil-transporting pipeline, the Oleoducto de Crudo Pesado, had no impact on that state's endorsement of the project and only a negligible effect on related social and environmental...
