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Collective memories of gay rights in the late 1970s offer a conflicted portrait of Anita Bryant, an infamous anti-gay personality who inspired, organized, or funded four anti-gay referendums between 1976 and 1978. I employ J. Jack Halberstam's concept of "metronormativity" in an analysis of campaigns that failed to preserve local gay rights laws in Miami and Eugene, the first and last of Bryant's four "target cities." I use L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz as a metaphor to compare the beginning of Bryant's role as a leader in Miami to her subsequent role as a specter of national controversy in Eugene. Gay rights leaders in Miami failed in terms of what this paper identifies as "queer localization," the ability to localize their ideas, claims, and needs to the voting majority. This failure, I argue, led to an inversion of metronormativity in which the outcome of the Eugene referendum affected gay politics in the larger city of Portland. I conclude with a comparison of Anita Bryant and San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk that suggests both figures created a metronormative myth that can be understood critically in terms of leaving the Yellow Brick Road.

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Cette thèse étudie le traitement argumentatif de l'affaire Elián González dans la presse américaine. Elle porte sur les éditoriaux et les chroniques parus entre novembre 1999 et juin 2000 dans trois journaux : le Miami Herald, le Washington Post et le New York Times. Deux questions ont guidé la recherche : - quels sont les arguments qui ont soutenu le débat sur l'affaire dans la presse américaine ? - autour de quels enjeux sociopolitiques ces arguments-là se sont-ils déployés ? Le cheminement pour répondre à ces deux questions fait appel à une approche qualitative, plus précisément à l'analyse qualitative de théorisation ancrée. L'analyse des arguments se fait à partir de la méthode de Toulmin : les arguments sont considérés comme des justifications en contexte et l'analyse cherche à en montrer l'organisation. Les textes des journaux sont conçus comme des archives sociales qui illustrent l'exercice de la jurisprudence médiatique. Les résultats mettent en évidence des traits de la culture politique américaine et des spécificités du rôle social des médias. Ils permettent à la fois de définir la trajectoire argumentative de l'affaire González et de développer le concept de représentation médiatique. Ils dressent aussi les paradoxes des relations entre les États-Unis et Cuba, et les enjeux liés à l'immigration dans la société américaine.

Urbanization is a fundamental reality in the developed and developing countries around the world creating large concentrations of the population centering on cities and urban centers. Cities can offer many opportunities for those residing there, including infrastructure, health services, rescue services and more. The living space density of cities allows for the opportunity of more effective and environmentally friendly housing, transportation and resources. Cities play a vital role in generating economic production as entities by themselves and as a part of larger urban complex. The benefits can provide for extraordinary amount of people, but only if proper planning and consideration is undertaken. Global urbanization is a progressive evolution, unique in spatial location while consistent to an overall growth pattern and trend. Remotely sensing these patterns from the last forty years of space borne satellites to understand how urbanization has developed is important to understanding past growth as well as planning for the future. Imagery from the Landsat sensor program provides the temporal component, it was the first satellite launched in 1972, providing appropriate spatial resolution needed to cover a large metropolitan statistical area to monitor urban growth and change on a large scale. This research maps the urban spatial and population growth over the Miami – Fort Lauderdale – West Palm Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) covering Miami- Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties in Southeast Florida from 1974 to 2010 using Landsat imagery. Supervised Maximum Likelihood classification was performed with a combination of spectral and textural training fields employed in ERDAS Image 2014 to classify the images into urban and non-urban areas. Dasymetric mapping of the classification results were combined with census tract data then created a coherent depiction of the Miami – Fort Lauderdale – West Palm Beach MSA. Static maps and animated files were created from the final datasets for enhanced visualizations and understanding of the MSA evolution from 60-meter resolution remotely sensed Landsat images. The simplified methodology will create a database for urban planning and population growth as well as future work in this area. / Includes bibliography. / Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection