Afro-American Studies
Afro-American Studies Dissertations Collection
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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
- 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
DISSERTATIONS FROM 2006
- Mapping intersections: Black women's identities and the politics of home in transnational black American women's fiction (Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Opal Palmer Adisa, Haiti, Edwidge Danticat, Barbados), Sandra Caona Duvivier
- Courage under fire: African American firefighters and the struggle for racial equality (New York City, Maryland), 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 (Toni Morrison, Ann Allen Shockley, Alice Walker), 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 (Georgia Douglas Johnson, Alice Childress, Pearl Cleague), Brandon L. A Hutchinson
- Remembering Jim Crow: The literary memoir as historical source material (Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, Lillian Smith), 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 (South Africa), Francis Njubi Nesbitt