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“We’re Black, We’re Proud, We’re Commandos”: Respectability Politics, Armed Self-defense, and Gender Dynamics in the Milwaukee NAACP Youth Council, 1958-1968
(2020-05)By the 1940s, Milwaukee was one of the most segregated cities in the country. Most black Milwaukeeans were forced to live in a ghetto known as the Inner Core. Black Milwaukeeans faced racial discrimination and segregation ... -
"What You Need Not What You Want": Public Assistance Programs in Chippewa County during the New Deal Era
(2013-07-01)This thesis examines the impact of public assistance programs in Chippewa County. It examines the role the Social Security Act played in reshaping how public assistance programs were run in Chippewa County. Also it examines ... -
When Students Accept Their Corporate Overlords: Privilege and Position in Our Information Society
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White Maternity and a Culture of Consumption in Little Fires Everywhere
(2020-05)This article seeks to illuminate the role white suburban mothers play in upholding homeland maternity and neoliberal multiculturalism in the United States. The maintenance of these two organizing power structures hinge on ... -
Wisconsin Indian Head Country-A Guide to the Past: Real and Mythical
(2013-05-10)In the 1930s, businessmen in the Eau Claire area and resort owners in Northwestern Wisconsin, an area decimated by logging, collaborated as a group with the hope of promoting tourism to the area and boost the local economy. ... -
Wisconsin's Lynching History: 1861-1875
(2018)In the span of fourteen years, between 1861 and 1875, a total of eight lynchings took place in Wisconsin. Of the eight individuals who were lynched, all were men; one African American, one Native American and the remaining ... -
Witnessing Peace: The Milwaukee Fourteen, 1968-1971
(2020-05)Much has been written and researched about the antiwar movement during the Vietnam Era. The relatively small segment of Catholic antiwar radicals of this time period have been less examined. This thesis focuses upon the ... -
Wolf Who Ate Her Heart: The Canine-Woman Alliance in the Fiction of Louise Erdrich
(2017-10-24)The fiction of Louise Erdrich contains a notable alliance between canines and female characters. It is an alliance that helps the women maintain a sense of matrilineal power as they resist colonial patriarchy. The canine ... -
Writing Library Database Descriptions in Plain Language
(College & Undergraduate Libraries, 2022-12-09)Plain Language is writing intended to be easily comprehensible by its intended audience. Used in government, legal, medical, and now educational writing, the primary goals of Plain Language are greater usability and equitable ... -
The Yinyang Academies in Yuan China (1260-1368): Formation and Development
(2017-05)This thesis studies a broad historical context of the yinyang academy system established during the Yuan dynasty (1260-1368). The Mongol rulers created the system in order to regulate and educate yinyang practitioners, a ... -
" You have to invest ": Speech-language pathologists' perspectives on teaching literacy skills to students who use AAC
(2017-05)Literacy as it relates to students who use augmentative and alternative communication (SWUAAC) currently has limited research in the field of speech language pathology. Research regarding this population states SWUAAC ...