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Browsing by Author "Martinez, Doreen, committee member"

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    Abiding nourishment: vegetable production and the pursuit of nutritional sovereignty in Colorado
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2021) McCollum, Sean C., author; Little, Ann, advisor; Childers, Michael, committee member; Martinez, Doreen, committee member
    This thesis explores the various methods of small-scale gardening efforts and the importance of wild and cultivated plant food to the people who have inhabited Colorado. From Arapaho and Cheyenne horticultural practices to the kitchen gardens of the American homesteader, and the vegetable truck of the first generation of Coloradan-Americans, the environment of the Rocky Mountains forced its inhabitants to adapt their methods of planting vegetables and fruit in order to survive. The pursuit of nutritious plant food is the central human-scale endeavor in Colorado's diverse history. This thesis explores the nutritional content of several important vegetables and fruits, their importance to Colorado's inhabitants, and how the environment of Colorado lends itself to the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, while challenging the planter to a nearly extreme degree.
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    Individual and structural predictors of Human Papillomavirus: race as an interaction effect and the construction of racialized sexualities
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2018) Satterfield, Leslie, author; Opsal, Tara, advisor; Lacy, Michael, committee member; Martinez, Doreen, committee member
    Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, and has different prevalence rates among different gender, racial, ethnic, and class groups. Many studies have identified number of sex partners as the most predictive variable for HPV status which implies individual behavior is responsible for differences in HPV rates between social groups. The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate the extent to which individual and structural factors correlate with HPV status, and whether those correlations vary by race. This study uses public-use data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from years 2011-2014. Logistic regression models which included individual risk behaviors, structural resources, and interactions with black and white race showed that number of sex partners has a different effect on HPV risk for black and white women. These findings suggest that citing number of sex partners as the primary predictor of HPV risk may falsely universalize whiteness, and pathologize black sexuality.
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    Reinforcing hegemonic structures: remediating and stymieing memories of Native Americans at Euro-American historic sites in the American West
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2024) Stocker, Esther, author; Dunn, Thomas, advisor; Dickinson, Greg, committee member; Martinez, Doreen, committee member
    This thesis examines the Crazy Horse Memorial and the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument to better understand how both places of public memory articulate Native American identities. Drawing on scholarship in public memory, the materiality of rhetoric, and Native American rhetorics, this analysis shows in part how both sites strive to remediate public memories related to Native Americans in the broader U.S. culture. However, the chapters also show that these efforts at Crazy Horse and Little Bighorn are simultaneously stymied from within and without through intentional and unintentional means. As the chapters reveal, the stymying components of each memorial presents a specific articulation of Native identity with the Crazy Horse Memorial presenting Native identities as ownable and the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument presenting Native identities as existing in the past, respectively. Putting both presentations into conversations suggests that there is a broader cultural articulation of Native identity as controllable in these U.S.-American memory sites. Such a rhetoric perpetuates prioritizing Euro-American values, stories, and identities within the U.S.
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    The twelfth step
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2022) Reagan, Ross, author; Ausubel, Ramona, advisor; Levy, EJ, committee member; Martinez, Doreen, committee member
    This collection of twelve short stories challenges the issues of addiction and recovery in real and fantastical ways. The collection acts as a meta-arc; each story is meant to guide the reader as they progress through the collection either as someone experiencing addiction and working the 12 Steps or as a general audience of short story readership. Within its fictive guise, characters are stationed in worlds familiar and unfamiliar, local and commonplace, and otherworldly and strained. Settings range from the North Maine Woods to the heart of Los Angeles; from an '90s-inspired conversion camp in the Midwest to a fearful, ethically-wrought U.S. in the not-so-distant-future; from a Chick-fil-A to 1969 to the local 12-Step meeting community bulletin board. The past, present, and future of these stories speak loudly and blend thematically. Genre is bent into different modes of contemporary storytelling as an unexpected way to put recovery on the map, while other traditional narrative forms seek to capture a consciousness both uniquely felt and universally understood by readers and addicts alike.
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    Wealth over health: Superior, Arizona and the Magma mine 1910-1982
    (Colorado State University. Libraries, 2023) Doucette, Hailey Rae, author; Childers, Michael, advisor; Orsi, Jared, committee member; Martinez, Doreen, committee member
    The Magma mine in Superior, Arizona quickly became one of Arizona's most productive underground copper mines in the twentieth century. But the wealth of the company came at the cost of the lives of workers, not only through death but also illness, injury, and in its later years, unfair pay. This thesis traces the history of the Magma mine and its environmental history. As the mine rapidly expanded, it cost miners their livelihood. Chapter one looks at the growth of Superior alongside the Magma mine starting in the 1920s. Chapter two analyzes the events that led to the Magma mine's unionization in 1957 and the strikes that followed. Lastly, chapter three examines the events that led to the closure of the Magma mine in 1982.