African American Studies

From the Hill to the Castle: Warren Robbins and the Founding of the National Museum of African Art

Alyssa Nicole Lanz — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:41:17 PDT

"De Donde Sos?" The Impossible Union of Blackness in Argentinidad

Arielle Carin Knight — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:37:05 PDT

This thesis¬¬¬ De Donde Sos?: The Impossible Fact Union of Blackness andin Argentinidad explores the cultural and spatial politics of Black identities in the city of Buenos Aires. More specifically, I consider the ways that Argentinas identity, as the Latin American exceptionracially white and Europeanis actually a product of the nationalist race ideology blanqueamiento.

Crossed Tongues: Reclaiming Black Antillean Female Subjectivity within the Narratives of Maryse Condé

Joella Adia Jones — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:35:41 PDT

The Fabric Described by Buildings

Davis Aaron Preston Knittle — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:15:14 PDT

Ain't No Fathers in the Hood: Constraint and Confinement of Black Fatherhood in the Contemporary United States

CaVar DeWayne Reid — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:06:42 PDT

Of Griottes & Pantomimes: Dyaspora Love, Dreams, Memories, and Realities in the Works of Edwidge Danticat as They Relate to Black Feminisms

Marsha Bianca Jean-Charles — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:06:16 PDT

In "Griottes & Pantomimes: Dyaspora Love, Dreams, Memories, and Realities in the Works of Edwidge Danticat as they relate to Black Feminisms", I explore the ways Danticats characters confront race, class, gender, sexuality and religiosity. It is my belief that Danticat uses her fiction literature to translate Black and Third World feminist theory into fictive practice. In my reading of Danticats work, she uses aspects of Black Feminisms to induce her characters with a standpoint epistemology that allows her to both express and resist their oppression. I use Danticats Breath, Eyes, Memory, Krik? Krak!, and The Farming of Bones to both construct her views on Haiti as a country with a distinct political history and to interrogate the manner in which she uses literature to dissect, problematize, and re-construct a Haitian female identity. Lastly, I work to understand how Danticats work fits into the discourses of Black, Caribbean, and Haitian womanhood and feminisms.

Rhyme and Dissonance: Shared Strategies in Works by Lorna Simpson, Wangechi Mutu and Leslie Hewitt

Sonia Louise Davis — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:36:08 PDT

Making Sense of the Black/White Middle Class Achievement Gap: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Joseph Kwabena Nsiah — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:35:28 PDT

Investigating Improvisation: Music Performance and the Disciplinary Divide

Lindsay Jordan Wright — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:33:14 PDT

Against a Better Prison: Gender Resopnsiveness and the Changing Terrain of Abolition

Alexis Alyse Phillips Horan — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:31:44 PDT

The New Great Migration: Reinventing Race Relations in the New South?

Miriam Simone Leshin — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:31:12 PDT

Location and Legitimacy in Women's Studies: New Perspectives on Race and Gender in the American Academy

Lesley Stuart Chapman — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:34:34 PDT

Making Plays, Making Change: Destabilizing Differences Through Theatre

Jessica Ruth Posner — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:33:46 PDT

Hello Operator? I Am Trying to Reach 'Equality': An Analysis of Black Women in the Bell System After the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Melanie Christine Nelson — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:33:28 PDT

Diaspora and Belonging: Black Jewish Americans and the State of Israel

Elana Baurer — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:33:24 PDT

A Search for Home: Diasporic Constructions, Encounters, and Imaginaries

Amber Nichole Jones — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:33:00 PDT

In this thesis, I draw upon interactions with African Americans living in Ghana as a means to explore some of the many factors that contribute to the acceptance of an African Diasporan identity in popular conceptions of Blackness in the United States. I seek to understand some of the complexities within Black American identites in regard to the formation of diasporan consciousnesses and the development of Pan-Africanist thought. I also explore conceptions of "home" in relation to African Diasporan identity construction and its associations with notions of "return" to a homeland or place of origin.

Toward the "One New Human": Undoing the Racial-Religious Bipolarirty of American Evangelicalism

Jason Craige Harris — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:31:55 PDT

Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer: The Failures of Integration and Re-Humanizing Blackness in Segregated Schools

Madeleine Elyse Sage-EL — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:30:22 PDT

Presenting and Absenting Violence

Gedney Harrison Barclay — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:29:37 PDT

When the Delay is the Movement: the 2005 New York City Transit Strike

Melanie Bin Jung — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:54:30 PDT

Deconstruction of the 2005 New York City transit strike through political, social, and physical lenses. Deconstruction of criminalization of strikers and examination of how politically and socially marginalizing processes also have a physical shape.