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Dissertations from 2012

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In search of the fraternal: Salvific manhood and male intimacy in the novels of James Baldwin, Ernest L. Gibson

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Pen stroking the soul of a people: spiritual foundations of black diasporan literature, McKinley Eric Melton

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Ethel Payne: The First Lady of the Black Press: Black Journalism and Its Advocacy Role from 1954--1991, Jamal E Watson

Dissertations from 2011

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Intellect, liberty, life: Women's activism and the politics of black education in antebellum America, Kabria Baumgartner

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"Journey toward a Black aesthetic": Hoyt Fuller, the Black Arts Movement & the Black intellectual community, Jonathan Bryan Fenderson

Dissertations from 2010

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Africanizing the Territory: The History, Memory and Contemporary Imagination of Black Frontier Settlements in the Oklahoma Territory, Catherine Lynn Adams

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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

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"It is a new kind of militancy": March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946, David Lucander

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'Oh! The one who covers her face / surely is not worth much': Identity and social criticism in transatlantic Hispanic culture (1520--1860), Isabelle Therriault

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The fight for freedom must be fought on all fronts: "Liberator" magazine and Black radicalism, 1960--1971, Christopher Matthew Tinson

Dissertations from 2009

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A woman of action: Elma Lewis, the arts, and the politics of culture in Boston, 1950--1986, Daniel N McClure

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The Artistry and Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois: A Twentieth Century African American Torchbearer, Alesia Elaine McFadden

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Liberation at the End of a Pen: Writing Pan-African Politics of Cultural Struggle, Anthony James Ratcliff

Dissertations from 2008

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"The social responsibility of the administrator": Mordecai Wyatt Johnson and the dilemma of Black leadership, 1890--1976, Thomas John Edge

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City of amalgamation: Race, marriage, class and color in Boston, 1890--1930, Zebulon V Miletsky

Dissertations from 2007

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American man: The ambitious searches of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway, Michael Kwame Forbes

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The Politics of Creation: The short story in South Africa and the US, Lloren Addison Foster

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Against wind and tide: African Americans' response to the colonization movement and emigration, 1770--1865, Ousmane Kirumu Greene

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Wealthy free women of color in Charleston, South Carolina during slavery, Rita Reynolds

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Intersections in theatrics and politics: The case of Paul Robeson and "Othello", Lindsey R Swindall

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Vindicating karma: Jazz and the Black Arts movement, W. S Tkweme

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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

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Mapping intersections: Black women's identities and the politics of home in transnational black American women's fiction, Sandra Caona Duvivier

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Courage under fire: African American firefighters and the struggle for racial equality, David A Goldberg

Dissertations from 2005

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"To lawless rapine bred": A study of early Northeastern execution literature featuring people of African descent, Tanya M Mears

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Disrupting dissemblance: Transgressive black women as politics of counter-representation in African American women's fiction, Trimiko C Melancon

Dissertations from 2004

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"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

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Refusing to be silent: Tracing the role of the black woman protector on the American stage, Brandon L. A Hutchinson

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Remembering Jim Crow: The literary memoir as historical source material, Jennifer Jensen Wallach

Dissertations from 2003

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Living legacies: Black women, educational philosophies, and community service, 1865--1965, Stephanie Yvette Evans

Dissertations from 2002

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Black representation in American animated short films, 1928--1954, Christopher Paul Lehman

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Race for sanctions: The movement against apartheid, 1946--1994, Francis Njubi Nesbitt

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What's love got to do with it? The dynamics of desire, race and murder in the slave South, Carolyn Jean Powell