Search
Now showing items 1-3 of 3
Making Hair Matter: Untangling Black Hair/Style Politics
(2010-06-23)
Hair is a remarkably complex material-semiotic entity. Caught on the cusp between self/society, meticulously contrived and purposely styled, hair is crucial in the articulation of identity and difference. However, although ...
Racializing Subalternity: Space, Caste, and Gender in Muslim Mohallas of Lucknow (1947-1993)
The dissertation seeks to examine systems of racialization that produce the “Indian Muslim” subaltern biologically, discursively, and historically while bearing in mind the material consequences for the group circumscribed ...
Queer (and) Chinese: On Be(long)ing in Diaspora and Coming Out of Queer Liberalism
Being bicultural, Chinese Canadian LGBTQ people face a double jeopardy in navigating a white heteropatriarchal society while striving for acceptance within their own Chinese Canadian communities. My project records the ...