Race and Equality: Research, Studies, Reports
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/92737
2024-03-29T11:41:45ZLaying in the Dark: The Literary Night in Nineteenth-Century American Prose
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/92721
Laying in the Dark: The Literary Night in Nineteenth-Century American Prose
CULLEN, SARAH
This thesis examines nineteenth-century American prose via the lens of night studies, to demonstrate how the literary night was used to construct and challenge issues of gender and race in the United States. It focuses primarily on social justice texts (seduction novels, slavery narratives, and women's gothic stories) to highlight how the literary nightscape has been used as a site of protest throughout the century. These texts are compared to prose written by white authors which reinscribed notions of white male supremacy, such as proslavery novels, Indian hating literature, and self-making narratives. Using innovative approaches to literary analysis in the form of night studies and the nocturnal gothic, this thesis demonstrates how nineteenth-century U.S. prose reflected and built upon the newly-emerging nation?s preoccupation with nocturnal policing. In particular, the literary night becomes a tool to explore white supremacist beliefs regarding race mixing, the apex of fears regarding race and gender.
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2020-01-01T00:00:00ZMigration, mothering and schooling: a case study of Baltic mothers in Ireland
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/92696
Migration, mothering and schooling: a case study of Baltic mothers in Ireland
SABANOVA, INGA
This thesis explores the parental involvement of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian mothers within and outside of formal schooling in Ireland. The number of Baltic families has significantly increased in Ireland in the last decade as a result of the post-2004 migration from new EU member states. Considering that many Baltic parents might be confronted with totally different parental practices in Irish schools, this thesis aims to explore the meanings Baltic mothers attribute to their experiences. To guide the research, the study uses Bourdieu's notion of habitus by emphasising the importance of dispositions that represent beliefs, ideas and practices in the understanding of capacity and limits of individual decisions. The case study methodology was chosen as the most appropriate way to explore the experiences of Baltic women as mothers and migrants in Ireland. The three main findings of this thesis are: first, culturally and historically specific dispositions play an important role in the ways Baltic migrant women perceive their maternal ideals and negotiate their everyday reality. Second, Baltic mothers utilise the resources available to them by simultaneously adopting strategies of 'fitting in' and 'standing out'. Finally, despite some differences based on their social class background, Baltic migrant mothers of both middle-class and working-class backgrounds expressed very similar approaches to their children's education and the way they envision their children's future trajectories in Ireland. Overall, this thesis adds new knowledge across several subfields of sociology, such as the sociology of education, migration studies and the sociology of family, both within the context of Ireland and the Baltic States. By combining different subfields of sociology, this research provides a more complete understanding of the meanings that Baltic mothers assign to their own practices in Ireland – matters that have never been explored before.
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2020-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Alberta Liquor Control Board and the Question of Administrative Independence, 1924-1939
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/92664
The Alberta Liquor Control Board and the Question of Administrative Independence, 1924-1939
HAMILL, SARAH
This article discusses administrative independence by using Alberta’s first attempt at creating a Liquor Control Board as a case study. The article examines the relationships between the Board, the government, and the public in order to contribute to a more rigorous understanding of administrative independence that goes beyond the usual comparisons to judicial independence.
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2016-01-01T00:00:00ZSex, Race, and Motel Guests: Another Look at King v Barclay
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/92659
Sex, Race, and Motel Guests: Another Look at King v Barclay
HAMILL, SARAH
The 1961 case of King v Barclay is something of a footnote in the history of discrimination against Black Canadians. If it is cited at all, it is usually cited alongside the more famous racism cases, such as Christie v York, as proof of the widespread nature of racism in Canada. In this paper, I re-read the trial decision and examine the original case file to show that the facts of King and the racism in the case are more complex than usually realized. King emerged out of a series of errors from both King and Barclay’s Motel which resulted in the latter assuming, or seeming to assume, that King wished to visit two prostitutes working out of the motel. For obvious reasons, however, Barclay’s Motel could not state such an allegation explicitly as that would have been tantamount to admitting that they knew the women in question were prostitutes. In order to recapture the full legal and social contexts of King this paper examines both the history of racial discrimination in public accommodations and the longstanding struggle to prevent prostitutes from using such accommodations to ply their trade. The paper also argues that King’s legal action, even though he lost in court, was ultimately successful in that it prompted a legislative amendment, which removed the technicality upon which King turned.
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2017-01-01T00:00:00Z