This dissertation explores the lives of Afro-Mexicans who lived in the Port-City of Veracruz and its hinterland, known as Sotavento (Leeward), during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It focuses on the understudied Afro-Mexican population of Veracruz and uses it …
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America created a racist caste system within society to justify chattel slavery, violently locking Black Americans into the subordinate caste. The trauma of the resulting systemic racism created and continues to create intergenerational trauma within the Black American community…
This research investigates the identity and culture of Ghanaians in Toronto between 1960s and 2000—a visible minority group in Canada whose experiences are often categorized within other identities and whose history have engendered little investigations. The accounts of thirty-o…
The Abiel Smith School, located on the North Slope of Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the oldest Black schools in the United States in one of the oldest free Black communities. The Abiel Smith School was constructed between 1834 and 1835 as a means to resist raci…
This thesis discusses the relationships of misplaced ancestors of perceived African ancestry and the Muscogee Nation's ancestral lands in Middle Georgia. These ancestors were excavated from Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park (OMNHP) almost 90 years ago (1930s and 1940s) in…
In higher education choral curricula, the opportunity to study the breathtakingly rich scope of music rooted in Africa and the African diaspora with rigor and depth is often marginalized, neglected, or missing. If studied, it may be framed in the context of “other music” in cont…
This dissertation’s overarching thesis is that continental Bulsa histories and epistemologies complicate discourses of heritage tourism and scholarship of the slave trade. Through applying critical Africana and decolonial indigenous studies lenses, I make three overarching claim…
During my time in Iowa, my research has been focused on the pineapple as a symbol which represents welcoming and hospitality. This investigation into the rituals and the action of being welcomed or hospitable to others is from my own experiences. I have encountered many struggle…
Circular Metafictions: What Remains Unbound is Gathered is a hybrid-documentary that conceptualizes a trace from the Middle Passage toward biographical historiography to examine nuanced portraits of ordinary black life. I introduce my developing concept, Black Noetic Theory (BNT…
The politics of the Middle-Passage and its attendant socio-cultural and historical trauma is the starting point of this study. The dispersal of Africans, or at least people of African origin, to different parts of the world has produced over the past few decades numerous dissert…
This thesis presents an inquiry into the discursive construction of South African exile in jazz practices during the 1960s. Focusing on the decade in which exile coalesced for the first generation of musicians who escaped the strictures of South Africa's apartheid regime, I argu…
The purpose of this research study was to develop an understanding of how male adolescents of African descent made sense of their identities as they reacted to culturally affirming African images. A visual methodology of photo-elicitation was utilized to explore the themes that …
This project utilizes a biocultural approach to assess the demographics and health of the West African population from Elmina, Ghana. Elmina, selected by the Portuguese in 1482 as the site of the first European trade fort in sub-Saharan Africa, grew from a small coastal fishing …
One World Or None chronicles the tradition of transnational anti-racist and anti-imperial activist networks over key twentieth century moments. These moments were marked by international conferences, such as the 1911 First Universal Races Congress in London, the 1919 Paris Peace…
This dissertation critically examines the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem, a group of African American Hebrews from Chicago that migrated to Liberia in 1967 and Israel in 1969. The greater part of the scholarship engaging the group since 1967 has consistently labeled them…
African regional integration has its ideological roots in Pan-Africanism, which aims for the unity of African states and African people on the continent and in the diaspora. In terms of the institutional development, the formation of the AU in 2003 has been positively viewed as …
The power of the written word has the ability to move the masses into action! This research project seeks to follow the biographical journeys of two women who used their written talents as a means of objecting the current societal norms involving the socio-political and cultural…
This study, Bodies in Contexts: Holistic Ideals of Health, Healing, and Wellness in an American Orisha Community, examines how Orisha priests' notions of the human body affect their holistic understanding of health and healing as well as how they define well-being. Specifically,…
Challenging the prevalent assumption that diaspora and nationalism represent mutually opposed cultural formations, my dissertation rethinks the relationship between race, nation, and diaspora. Through my analyses of literary representations of Africa—by both diasporic writers su…