Since the earliest days of broadcast television in the 1950s, network television has maintained a keen fascination with Asian/American women, who implicitly helped secure the boundaries of white women’s “empire of the home.” This dissertation inquires into when and how Asian/American women have been represented on U.S. network television. Bringing together questions and analyses of beauty, race, and gender to better understand how Asian/American femininity has been negotiated within the conventions of network television, I argue that the figure I call the Asian/American femme—suspended between feminine subject and feminized object—appeared on network television to mediate and obscure moments of U.S. national and imperial crisis. In addition to analyses of specific programs and network television texts, this dissertation examines the racialized and gendered mistreatment that Asian/American performers have experienced working within the television industry. By combining textual analysis with analysis of industrial practices and performers’ star-texts, I work to understand how network television has imagined Asian/American women’s gender and sexual debts to the nation, as well as how key Asian/American performers, through their own feminine labor, enact the “resolution” of Asian/American women’s tenuous status in the nation. Far from advancing in a linear progression from stereotypical to more sensitive and complex representations, the Asian/American femme on U.S. network television, I argue, instead demonstrates how television, as a social and racial technology, accommodates shifting racial, gender, and sexual discourses in U.S. dominant culture. / 10000-01-01

U.S. military camptown prostitution in South Korea was a system ridden with entangled structures of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. This thesis aims to elucidate the ways in which racial ideologies, in conjunction with gendered nationalist ideologies, materialized in the spaces of military base communities. I contend that camptowns were hybrid spaces where the meaning and representation of race were constantly in flux, where the very definitions of race and gender were contested, affirmed, and redefined through ongoing negotiations on the part of relevant actors. The reading of camptown prostitutes and American GIs as sexualized and racialized bodies will provide a nuanced understanding of the power dynamics unique to camptown communities. The first part of this study consists of a discussion of Korean ethnic nationalism and its complementary relation to U.S. racial ideologies. Denied of an ethnonational identity, camptown prostitutes denationalized themselves by rejecting Korean patriarchy and resorting to White American masculinity to craft a new self-identity. Another component of this thesis involves American GIs and their racialized self-identities. Recognizing American soldiers as products of a specific political and social context, I argue that military camptowns were largely conceived as spaces of normalized abnormality that provided a ripe opportunity to challenge existing social, economic, racial, and sexual norms.

This thesis follows debates about economic planning during the 1930s through the work of Lewis L. Lorwin; his organization, the National Economic Planning Association; and its journal, Plan Age, to recover a rich intellectual legacy. Economic historians have marginalized the economic planning movement, regarding it as an aberration and failure. Instead, the planners played a central role in many important transitions, including the shift from laissez faire to Keynesian economics, an essential ingredient in the U.S. ascendance to global power. Marxian class analysis is the method used to explore the contradictions of the economic planning movement, explain its successes and failures, and measure the extent and limits of its challenges to liberal economic and political theory, with special attention to the ways in which the movement simultaneously undermined and reinforced capitalism and imperialism. In the process new directions are suggest for contemporary critics and activists.

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A dissertação faz o levantamento e a análise das referências jornalísticas de destaque sobre o Brasil nas primeiras páginas do New York Times, NYT, entre 31 de março de 1964 e 12 de dezembro de 1985, com ênfase nos temas de cultura e política. As matérias de capa do NYT evidenciam o movimento pendular, de aproximações e distanciamentos, entre o Brasil e os Estados Unidos durante os 21 anos de vigência da ditadura militar brasileira / The dissertation is an analysis of journalistic references about Brazil published on the front pages of the New York Times, NYT, between March 31, 1964 and December 12, 1985, with emphasis on issues of culture and politics. The publications of NYT brought evidences of the complex movement in the relationship between Brazil and the United States during the 21 years of the Brazilian military dictatorship

A dissertação faz o levantamento e a análise das referências jornalísticas de destaque sobre o Brasil nas primeiras páginas do New York Times, NYT, entre 31 de março de 1964 e 12 de dezembro de 1985, com ênfase nos temas de cultura e política. As matérias de capa do NYT evidenciam o movimento pendular, de aproximações e distanciamentos, entre o Brasil e os Estados Unidos durante os 21 anos de vigência da ditadura militar brasileira / The dissertation is an analysis of journalistic references about Brazil published on the front pages of the New York Times, NYT, between March 31, 1964 and December 12, 1985, with emphasis on issues of culture and politics. The publications of NYT brought evidences of the complex movement in the relationship between Brazil and the United States during the 21 years of the Brazilian military dictatorship