Dissertations from 2012
In search of the fraternal: Salvific manhood and male intimacy in the novels of James Baldwin, Ernest L. Gibson
Pen stroking the soul of a people: spiritual foundations of black diasporan literature, McKinley Eric Melton
Ethel Payne: The First Lady of the Black Press: Black Journalism and Its Advocacy Role from 1954--1991, Jamal E Watson
Dissertations from 2011
Intellect, liberty, life: Women's activism and the politics of black education in antebellum America, Kabria Baumgartner
"Journey toward a Black aesthetic": Hoyt Fuller, the Black Arts Movement & the Black intellectual community, Jonathan Bryan Fenderson
Dissertations from 2010
Africanizing the Territory: The History, Memory and Contemporary Imagination of Black Frontier Settlements in the Oklahoma Territory, Catherine Lynn Adams
Where I want to be: African American women's novels and the journey toward selfhood during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, Jacqueline M Jones
"It is a new kind of militancy": March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946, David Lucander
'Oh! The one who covers her face / surely is not worth much': Identity and social criticism in transatlantic Hispanic culture (1520--1860), Isabelle Therriault
The fight for freedom must be fought on all fronts: "Liberator" magazine and Black radicalism, 1960--1971, Christopher Matthew Tinson
Dissertations from 2009
A woman of action: Elma Lewis, the arts, and the politics of culture in Boston, 1950--1986, Daniel N McClure
The Artistry and Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois: A Twentieth Century African American Torchbearer, Alesia Elaine McFadden
Liberation at the End of a Pen: Writing Pan-African Politics of Cultural Struggle, Anthony James Ratcliff
Dissertations from 2008
"The social responsibility of the administrator": Mordecai Wyatt Johnson and the dilemma of Black leadership, 1890--1976, Thomas John Edge
City of amalgamation: Race, marriage, class and color in Boston, 1890--1930, Zebulon V Miletsky
Dissertations from 2007
American man: The ambitious searches of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway, Michael Kwame Forbes
The Politics of Creation: The short story in South Africa and the US, Lloren Addison Foster
Against wind and tide: African Americans' response to the colonization movement and emigration, 1770--1865, Ousmane Kirumu Greene
Wealthy free women of color in Charleston, South Carolina during slavery, Rita Reynolds
Intersections in theatrics and politics: The case of Paul Robeson and "Othello", Lindsey R Swindall
Vindicating karma: Jazz and the Black Arts movement, W. S Tkweme
The politics and poetics of African American women's identity performances: (Re) reading black hair in fictional/nonfictional writings and cultural productions, Eunice Angelica Whitmal
Dissertations from 2006
Mapping intersections: Black women's identities and the politics of home in transnational black American women's fiction, Sandra Caona Duvivier
Courage under fire: African American firefighters and the struggle for racial equality, David A Goldberg
Dissertations from 2005
"To lawless rapine bred": A study of early Northeastern execution literature featuring people of African descent, Tanya M Mears
Disrupting dissemblance: Transgressive black women as politics of counter-representation in African American women's fiction, Trimiko C Melancon
Dissertations from 2004
"We know our rights and have the courage to defend them": The spirit of agitation in the age of accommodation, 1883--1909, Shawn Leigh Alexander
Refusing to be silent: Tracing the role of the black woman protector on the American stage, Brandon L. A Hutchinson
Remembering Jim Crow: The literary memoir as historical source material, Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Dissertations from 2003
Living legacies: Black women, educational philosophies, and community service, 1865--1965, Stephanie Yvette Evans
Dissertations from 2002
Black representation in American animated short films, 1928--1954, Christopher Paul Lehman
Race for sanctions: The movement against apartheid, 1946--1994, Francis Njubi Nesbitt
What's love got to do with it? The dynamics of desire, race and murder in the slave South, Carolyn Jean Powell