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Title: BASEBALL FROM BELOW: HOW AMERICA’S PASTIME BECAME A HEMISPHERIC CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Author: Gallemore, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Description: The game of baseball has rarely changed since its beginnings, and its resultant ascent to the United States national pastime has done little to change the fundamentals of the sport. However, there have been significant shifts in the demographics o...

Title: BASEBALL FROM BELOW: HOW AMERICA’S PASTIME BECAME A HEMISPHERIC CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Author: Gallemore, Michael
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Area studies, History
Description: The game of baseball has rarely changed since its beginnings, and its resultant ascent to the United States national pastime has done little to change the fundamentals of the sport. However, there have been significant shifts in the demographics o...

Title: Healthcare at the Intersections of Race and Gender: Critiquing Eugenics in Rosario Castellanos's Ciudad Real and Renee Tajima-Peña's No más bebés/No More Babies
Author: Pinales Frutos, Perla
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Area studies
Description: The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the use of medicine as a technology of power used to uplift white hegemonic actors: whites in the United States and mixed-race Ladinos in Mexico. Through this lens I discuss and analyze two mid-twentieth ce...

Title: Music and Interracial Romance in Golden Age Mexican Cinema: A Case of Two Films
Author: Fitzgerald, Alexandra
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Area studies
Description: ABSTRACTALEXANDRA JEAN FITZGERALD. Music and Interracial Romance in Golden Age Mexican Cinema: A Case of Two Films (Under the direction of DR. DAVID DALTON) The purpose of this thesis is to address how film composers and film directors in the Gold...

Title: THE SURVIVOR’S HUNT FOR NAZI FUGITIVES IN BRAZIL: THE CASES OF FRANZ STANGL AND GUSTAV WAGNER IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
Author: McLain, Kyle
Date Created: 2016
Description: On April 23, 1978, Brazilian authorities arrested Gustav Wagner, a former Nazi internationally wanted for his crimes committed during the Holocaust. Despite a confirming witness and petitions from West Germany, Israel, Poland and Austria, the Braz...

Title: THE SURVIVOR’S HUNT FOR NAZI FUGITIVES IN BRAZIL: THE CASES OF FRANZ STANGL AND GUSTAV WAGNER IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
Author: McLain, Kyle
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Military history, History
Description: On April 23, 1978, Brazilian authorities arrested Gustav Wagner, a former Nazi internationally wanted for his crimes committed during the Holocaust. Despite a confirming witness and petitions from West Germany, Israel, Poland and Austria, the Braz...

Title: UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS OF UNDOCUMENTED MINORS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA COMING TO THE U.S.A: A Case Study in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Yao-Kouame, Koffi Possone
Date Created: 2016
Description: Children migrating from Latin America to the U.S. have always been part of migration fluxes. But, roughly since the early 2010s, the number of unaccompanied minors began to dramatically and historically surge. It is reaching such levels that the U...

Title: UNDERSTANDING THE CRISIS OF UNDOCUMENTED MINORS FROM CENTRAL AMERICA COMING TO THE U.S.A: A Case Study in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
Author: Yao-Kouame, Koffi Possone
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Area studies
Description: Children migrating from Latin America to the U.S. have always been part of migration fluxes. But, roughly since the early 2010s, the number of unaccompanied minors began to dramatically and historically surge. It is reaching such levels that the U...