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Dissertations from 2022
"Though Some Days the Blues Was Our Parade, Still We Marched Through All the Tears We Made": A Historical Examination of Soul Aesthetics & the Functionality of (Re)Evaluation, Olivia Ekeh, Afro-American Studies
“THEY CAN ONLY BE INFLUENCED BY THEIR FEARS”: REDEFINING WHITE MOB VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACKS, 1898 – 1917, RIOTS OR POGROMS?, DeRoy C. Gordon, Afro-American Studies
WHERE WE AT?!: BLACK WOMEN CULTURAL WORKERS AND ARTS ACTIVISM IN THE ERA OF BLACK POWER, Kiara M. Hill, Afro-American Studies
Conjuring New Worlds: Black Women’s Speculative Fiction and the Restructuring of Blackness, Chloe Hunt, Afro-American Studies
re(Sisters) in Captivity: Black Women, Bioexcess, and Technologies of Subversion, Candacé S. King, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2021
AFRO-ABORIGINAL ENCOUNTERS: BLACK ARTS AND THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF BLACK POWER, Alex M. Carter, Afro-American Studies
“Our Earnest Remonstrance”: Citizenship, Voting, and Providence, Rhode Island’s Black Community, 1770-1843, Christopher J. Martin, Afro-American Studies
"Whatever concerns them, as a race, concerns me": The Life and Activism of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Johanna Maria Ortner, Afro-American Studies
Black Organizations as a Way to Increase Black Students’ College Attendance Rates by Improving Their Academic Performance at Primary and Secondary Schools, Leydi Mercedes Vidal Perlaza, Afro-American Studies
Wild Women do Have the Blues: The Imagery of Vaudeville Blueswomen and Their Influences on August Wilson and Sherley Anne Williams, Fangfang Zhu, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2020
The African American Gothic Double, Kourtney Senquiz, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2019
‘BLACK INTIFADA’: BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT, PALESTINIAN POETRY OF RESISTANCE AND THE ROOTS OF BLACK AND PALESTINIAN SOLIDARITY, Nadia Alahmed, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2018
THE PRIVILEGE OF BLACKNESS: BLACK EMPOWERMENT AND THE FIGHT FOR LIBERATION IN ATTALA COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI 1865-1915, Evan Ashford, Afro-American Studies
"The Whole Nation Will Move": Grassroots Organizing in Harlem and the Advent of the Long, Hot Summers, Peter Blackmer, Afro-American Studies
(Re)defining Radicalism: The Rise of Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability, 1831-1895, Nneka D. Dennie, Afro-American Studies
Do Not Separate Her From Her Garden: Anne Spencer's Ecopoetics, Carlyn E. Ferrari, Afro-American Studies
WRITING NEW BOUNDARIES FOR THE LAW: BLACK WOMEN’S FICTION AND THE ABJECT IN PSYCHOANALYSIS, Angelique Warner, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2017
A Papered Freedom: Self-Purchase and Compensated Manumission in the Antebellum United States, Julia Bernier, Afro-American Studies
‘Woman thou art loosed’: Black Female Sexuality Unhinged in the Fiction of Frances Harper and Pauline Hopkins, Crystal Donkor, Afro-American Studies
Texts and Subtexts in Performing Blackness: Vernacular Masking in Key and Peele as a Lens for Viewing Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Musical Comedy, Spencer Kuchle, Afro-American Studies
THE AFROETHNIC IMPULSE AND RENEWAL: AFRICAN AMERICAN TRANSCULTURATIONS IN AFRO-LATINO BILDUNG NARRATIVES, 1961 to 2013, Trent Masiki, Afro-American Studies
A Site of Nation: Black Utopian Novels in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Xianzhi Meng, Afro-American Studies
We Are Roses From Our Mothers' Gardens: Black Feminist Visuality in African American Women's Art, Kelli Morgan, Afro-American Studies
Stories Written On Concrete: Understanding and (Re)Imagining Street Lit and Culture, 1990-2007, Jacinta Saffold, Afro-American Studies
MOVING AGAINST CLOTHESPINS:THE POLI(POE)TICS OF EMBODIMENT IN THE POETRY OF MIRIAM ALVES AND AUDRE LORDE, Flávia Santos de Araújo, Afro-American Studies
Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: Northern African American Children's Cultural and Political Resistance, 1780-1861, Crystal L. Webster, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2016
"Daring propaganda for the beauty of the Human Mind:" Critical Consciousness-Raising in the Poetry and Drama of the Black Power Era, 1965-1976, Markeysha D. Davis, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2015
Imaging Her Selves: Black Women Artists, Resistance, Image and Representation, 1938-1956, Heather Zahra Caldwell, Afro-American Studies
"The Imagination and Construction of the Black Criminal in American Literature, 1741-1910", Emahunn Campbell, Afro-American Studies
Creating the Ideal Mexican: 20th and 21st Century Racial and National Identity Discourses in Oaxaca, Savannah N. Carroll, Afro-American Studies
The (Dis)Ability of Color; or, That Middle World: Toward A New Understanding of 19th and 20th Century Passing Narratives, Julia S. Charles, Afro-American Studies
The Physical Uplift of the Race: The Emergence of the African American Physical Culture Movement, 1900-1930, J. Anthony Guillory, Afro-American Studies
Race Patriots: Black Poets, Transnational Identity, and Diasporic Versification in the United States Before the New Negro, Jason T. Hendrickson, Afro-American Studies
Sweat the Technique: Visible-izing Praxis Through Mimicry in Phillis Wheatley's "On Being Brought from Africa to America", Karla V. Zelaya, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2014
AFRICAN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS: BLACK INTELLECTUAL PERSPECTIVES 1850-1965, Vanessa Fabien, Afro-American Studies
"Survival Kits on Wax": The Politics, Poetics, and Productions of Gil Scott-Heron, 1970-1978, Donald Geesling, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2013
Uncovering the Covered Word and Image: Framing a Black Woman's Diasporan Stage-Space, Allia Abdullah Matta, Afro-American Studies
Composing the African Atlantic: Sun Ra, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, and the Poetics of African Diasporic Composition, James Gregory Carroll, Afro-American Studies
Approaches to Black Power: African American Grassroots Political Struggle in Cleveland, Ohio, 1960-1966, David M. Swiderski, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2012
In Search Of The Fraternal: Salvific Manhood And Male Intimacy In The Novels Of James Baldwin, Ernest L. Gibson III, Afro-American Studies
Pen Stroking the Soul of a People: Spiritual Foundations of Black Diasporan Literature, McKinley Eric Melton, Afro-American Studies
Ethel Payne: The First Lady of the Black Press: Black Journalism and its Advocacy Role from 1954 - 1991, Jamal E Watson, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2011
Intellect, Liberty, Life: Women’S Activism And The Politics Of Black Education In Antebellum America, Kabria Baumgartner, Afro-American Studies
"Journey Toward A Black Aesthetic": Hoyt Fuller, The Black Arts Movement & The Black Intellectual Community, Jonathan Bryan Fenderson, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2010
Africanizing the Territory: The History, Memory and Contemporary Imagination of Black Frontier Settlements in the Oklahoma Territory, Catherine Lynn Adams, Afro-American Studies
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, Afro-American Studies
"It is a new kind of militancy": March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946, David Lucander, Afro-American Studies
The Fight For Freedom Must Be Fought On All Fronts: Liberator Magazine And Black Radicalism, 1960-1971, Christopher Matthew Tinson, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2009
A woman of action: Elma Lewis, the arts, and the politics of culture in Boston, 1950-1986/, Daniel N. McClure, Afro-American Studies
The Artistry and Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois: A Twentieth Century African American Torchbearer, Alesia Elaine McFadden, Afro-American Studies
Liberation at the End of a Pen: Writing Pan-African Politics of Cultural Struggle, Anthony James Ratcliff, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2008
"The social responsibility of the administrator": Mordecai Wyatt Johnson and the dilemma of Black leadership, 1890-1976/, Thomas John Edge, Afro-American Studies
City of amalgamation: race, marriage, class and color in Boston, 1890-1930/, Zebulon V. Miletsky, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2007
American man: the ambitious searches of Richard Wright and Ernest Hemingway/, Michael Kwame Forbes, Afro-American Studies
The politics of creation : the short story in South Africa and the US/, Lloren Addison Foster, Afro-American Studies
Against wind and tide : African Americans' response to the colonization movement and emigration, 1770-1865/, Ousmane Kirumu Greene, Afro-American Studies
Wealthy free women of color in Charleston, South Carolina during slavery, Rita Reynolds, Afro-American Studies
Intersections in theatrics and politics: the case of Paul Robeson and Othello/, Lindsey R. Swindall, Afro-American Studies
Vindicating karma: jazz and the Black Arts movement/, W. S. Tkweme, Afro-American Studies
Between the black diaspora of enslavement and the Nigerian diaspora since the demise of colonialism : an assessment of the consequences of two historic migrations to the United States/, Paul E. Udofia, Afro-American Studies
The politics and poetics of African American women's identity performances: (re) reading black hair in fictional/non-fictional writings and cultural productions/, Eunice Angelica Whitmal, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2006
Mapping intersections: Black women's identities and the politics of home in transnational Black American women's fiction/, Sandra Caona Duvivier, Afro-American Studies
Courage under fire : African American firefighters and the struggle for racial equality/, David A. Goldberg, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2005
"To lawless rapine bred" : a study of early Northeastern execution literature featuring people of African descent/, Tanya M. Mears, Afro-American Studies
Disrupting dissemblance : transgressive black women as politics of counter-representation in African American women's fiction/, Trimiko C. Melancon, Afro-American Studies
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, Afro-American Studies
Refusing to be silent : tracing the role of the black woman protector on the American stage/, Brandon LA Hutchinson, Afro-American Studies
Remembering Jim Crow : the literary memoir as historical source material/, Jennifer Jensen Wallach, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2003
Living legacies : Black women, educational philosophies, and community service, 1865-1965/, Stephanie Y. Evans, Afro-American Studies
Dissertations from 2002
Black representation in American short films, 1928-1954, Christopher P. Lehman, Afro-American Studies
Race for sanctions : the movement against aparteid, 1946-1994/, Francis Njubi Nesbitt, Afro-American Studies
"What's love got to do with it?["] : the dynamics of desire, race and murder in the slave South/, Carolyn. Powell, Afro-American Studies