Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties Melissa Deckman Gonzalez-Lopez contends that family and

Gonzalez-Lopez contends that family and cultural structures in Mexican life enable incest and the culture of silence that surrounds it

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Recognizing that these larger-scale interventions require time to bear fruit

Helga Druxes shows how the female Faustian quest for worldly knowledge and subjecthood develops a new concept of identity that takes its social constructedness into account

Crooked Deals and Broken Treaties Melissa Deckman Gonzalez-Lopez contends that family andLong before the smokestacks and factories of industrial Akron rose from Ohio's Cuyahoga Valley, the region was a place of tense confrontation. Beginning in the early 19th century, white settlers began pushing in from the east, lured by the promise of cheap (or free) land. They inevitably came into conflict with the current inhabitants, American Indians who had thrived in the valley for generations or had already been displaced by settlement along the