This thesis explores the ways in which modern history-writing practices reiterate
race-based categories of citizenship. To investigate these practices across time, I
have examined discourses produced by the United Farm Women of Alberta
(UFWA) in 1925, and discourses produced by the contemporary magazine
American Renaissance (AR). The UFWA were concerned with the promotion and
definition of citizenship, and in so doing laid race as a foundation of Canadian
identity. AR is a magazine that concerns itself with white nationalism in the
contemporary United States. Drawing upon Avery Gordon and Wendy Brown’s
theories of history and haunting, I have situated these discourses in imaginative
relation to one another, illuminating the “past” in the present. I have also critically
examined how I am complicit in reproducing the historical practices under study;
as an architecture of history, haunting helps to imagine alternatives for the study
of history and social life, particularly our own. / vii, 160 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:ALU.w.uleth.ca/dspace#10133/3249 |
| Date | January 2012 |
| Creators | Shields, Rachel |
| Contributors | Laurendeau, Jason |
| Publisher | Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Sociology, c2012, Arts and Science, Department of Sociology |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Relation | Thesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science) |
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