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Black Teamwork: Football, Diaspora, Politics

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This dissertation analyses the ways in which football, known as soccer in the United States, has historically served as a diasporic space for the articulation of black politics in the second half of the twentieth century. While modern sport is characterized as an apolitical cultural practice, I am interested in...

Keyword:

diaspora, football, coloniality, race, and soccer

Subject:

Black studies

Creator:

Scott, Jermaine

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/12/2020

Date Created:

2019-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

Alternate Identifier:

http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14635 and etdadmin_upload_662291
Unearthing Subaltern Agency: The Representation of Marginalized Populations in Contemporary Indian Literature

Description:

This dissertation studies fictionalized diasporic subalternity, how it is represented by the authors (of the same social status or a cosmopolitan writer), and how different types of agency layered onto the characters influence each other. The choice of texts includes Amitav Ghosh’s River of Smoke (2011), Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of...

Keyword:

diaspora, Gujarati, subaltern, Dalit, and pidgin

Subject:

English

Creator:

Tanushree Vachharajani

Owner:

Scholarly Digital Publishing

Date Uploaded:

04/30/2018

Date Modified:

04/30/2018

Date Created:

2017-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation