The intent of this thesis is to provide new information about American Gypsy history, specifically migration, immigration and settlement in the United States.

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O presente texto tematiza a atuação da Comissão Brasileiro-Americana de Educação Industrial (CBAI) desde sua instalação no Rio de Janeiro, em 1947, e extinção em Curitiba, em 1963. O objetivo geral consiste em identificar se existem relações entre elementos do Americanismo e fordismo de Gramsci e a atuação da instituição em tela, por meio de uma análise de discurso dos Boletins da CBAI e demais fontes documentais relativas à atuação do órgão. Os objetivos específicos visam contextualizar a situação política e econômica em que o Brasil se encontrava no período anterior e concomitante à atuação da CBAI, enfatizando alguns aspectos do cenário da Guerra Fria que contribuíram para estreitar as relações entre Estados Unidos e demais países da América Latina, em especial o Brasil. Em seguida, visa apresentar os principais aspectos do pensamento gramsciano, o Americanismo e fordismo e a Revolução Passiva enquanto categorias centrais para uma melhor compreensão da presença de um projeto americanizador na educação profissional brasileira. Para tal, o objeto deste estudo são os Boletins da CBAI. Finalmente, a análise de discursos dos Boletins foi a metodologia utilizada para demonstrar a CBAI como difusora do Americanismo. A pesquisa documental e as fontes que serviram como base, em especial os Boletins, foram encontradas no Departamento de Documentação Histórica da Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (DEDHIS-UTFPR) e na Biblioteca de Educação da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de São Paulo (FEUSP). A fundamentação teórica tem como base para a criação de categorias as obras de Gramsci sobre a racionalização do trabalho (e os próprios Boletins), e a análise de discurso dos Boletins da CBAI a partir das teorias de Bakhtin, Voloshinov e o Círculo de Estudos sobre a filosofia da linguagem. Por fim este trabalho conclui que a tentativa de disseminar um projeto americanizador no Brasil obteve resultados significativos para a industrialização brasileira de acordo com os padrões racionalizadores fordistas, entretanto, considera-se que tal processo corrobora a compreensão sobre a consolidação de uma Revolução Passiva no país. / This text thematizes the performance of the Brazilian-American Commission of Industrial Education (CBAI) since its installation at Rio de Janeiro, on 1947, and extinction in Curitiba, on 1963. The general goal consists in identifying if are there any relation between Gramsci’s Americanism and Fordism elements and the CBAI’s performance, by means of a speech analysis from de Newsletter of CBAI and other documental sources related to the organizations performance. The specifics objectives intend to contextualize the political and economic situation that Brazil was going through before and concomitant to CBAI’s performance, emphasizing some aspects of the Cold War feature that contributed to narrow the relations between United States and other countries of Latin America, especially Brazil. On the following, it intends to present the main aspects of Gramsci’s thought and the Americanism and fordism and Passive Revolution as key categories for a better understanding of the presence of an Americanization project on Brazilian’s professional education. As so, the object of this study are the Newsletters of CBAI. Finally, the speech’s analisys of the Newsletter was the methodology used to demonstrate CBAI as an Americanism diffuser. The documental research and sources served as groundwork, especially the Newsletters, were found at Departamento de Documentação Histórica of Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (DEDHIS) and at Biblioteca de Educação of Universidade de São Paulo (FEUSP). The theoretical foundation has as a workline for the conception of the categories the studies of Gramsci about the of work (and the Newsletters itself), and the speech’s analysis of main concepts from Bakhtin, Voloshinov’s and the Circle of studies about language philosophy. At last, this paperwork concludes that the attempt to disseminate an amerizanization project in Brazil obtneined significant results on the industrialization of the country according to the fordism’s racionalization standarts, nevertheless, this research considers that such a project corroborates the comprehension about the consolidation of a Passive Revolution’s project.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Springing up in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Indiana women's study clubs provided generations of women with the opportunity to improve their educations in a friendly environment. They also brought culture to their communities by hosting art exhibits, musical entertainments, and lectures, building libraries and museums, and participating in community improvement endeavors. The activities of urban clubs in big cities have been documented in histories of the women's club movement, but small towns have recieved little attention even through they were vital parts of their communities. This study considers the characteristics, organization, study practices, and civic improvement work of three small-town Indiana women's clubs in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The Zerelda Reading Club (Warsaw) studied a wide variety of subjects, while the Ladies' Piano Club (Salem) and Florentine Club (Lebanon) limited their studies to art and music, respectively. All three clubs participated in community improvement efforts that helped their towns achieve urban amenities. The Zerelda Reading Club helped to establish a ladies' rest room, the Ladies' Piano Club worked with other community organizations to build a Carnegie public library, and the Florentine Club raised money to beautify Oak Hill Cemetery. Forming in decades of tremendous growth in popularity of club activity, the organization of all three clubs shows influences of those associations already in existence. This study argues that the individual circumstances of members and their communities resulted in the organization of three women's clubs that prospered under the guidance of extant clubs, but served their members and their communities by adapting activities to suit local needs.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This thesis will look at the various images of the American Far West presented by the Saturday Evening Post during the 1920s under the editorship of George Horace Lorimer, and will examine his editorial strategy that promoted the Far West as a last land of opportunity while also recognizing and weighing in on the challenges of that region.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This dissertation analyzes the critique of charity and philanthropy implicit in Melville’s short fiction written for periodicals between 1853 and 1856. Melville utilized narrative and tone to conceal his opposition to prevailing ideologies and manipulated narrative structures to make the reader complicit in the problematic assumptions of a market economy. Integrating close readings with critical theory, I establish that Melville was challenging the new rhetoric of philanthropy that created a moral identity for wealthy men in industrial capitalist society. Through his short fiction, Melville exposed self-serving conduct and rationalizations when they masqueraded as civic-minded responses to the needs of the community. Melville was joining a public conversation about philanthropy and civic leadership in an American society that, in its pursuit of private wealth, he believed was losing touch with the democratic and civic ideals on which the nation had been founded. Melville’s objection was not with charitable giving; rather, he objected to its use as a diversion from honest reflection on one’s responsibilities to others.