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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

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