Christianity is an integral aspect of the lives of African-Americans. It is a source of psychological, social, economical and educational support. Conversely, the mental health agencies are perceived as being a part of the system designed to oppress African-Americans. As a resul…
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In this study, I argue that existing critical approaches overlook the literary and historical significance of oral and translated emancipatory narratives produced by early Diasporic writers/subjects. I use the term "emancipatory" instead of "slave" narrative because "emancipator…
This study examines the coverage of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States by the African Press, focusing specifically on the press in Ghana and Nigeria. By the very nature of the study, it is based substantially on primary sources with a limited use of secondary sources…
The dissertation investigates the historical roots of the continuous armed social conflicts in Northern Uganda during the past century. It probes the influence of colonial policies, environmental forces and other factors on the rise of ethnic claims to social solidarity and grou…
This study assesses the historical and educational implications of a 'griotic' methodology that was employed by free African Americans in the antebellum North. This griotic methodology involved a textual production of history by and for African Americans that was derived from a …
This dissertation utilizes archival documents, newspapers, and literature to trace the formation of black film culture in New York City between 1896-1935. I explore some of the many institutions surrounding cinema, such as censorship, labor, and film criticism that have been ove…
This study sought to understand the motivating factors that influence Black fathers’ engagement in their 5- to 11 year-old children's academic learning experiences within an urban context. Employing identity theory as its theoretical framework and interpretative phenomenological…
There is a gap in the literature on generativity and the leadership philosophy and praxis of African American Female Foreign Service Officers (AAFFSOs). I addressed this deficit, in part, by engaging an individual of exceptional merit and distinction—Aurelia Erskine Brazeal—as a…
In 2013, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court of Maryland ruled in The Coalition for Equity and Excellence in Maryland Higher Education et al. v. Maryland Higher Education Commission et al., that through the practice of offering duplicative academic programs at Maryland’s …
This dissertation, Black History Month in Suburban Schools; An Examination of K-12 Pedagogies, focuses on one Wisconsin school district’s Black History Month (BHM) instruction over the course of three years of ethnographic research. It explores the manner in which teachers engag…
This thesis examines the systematic dispossession of African American property by white planters in the Arkansas Delta. It argues white planters, backed by a legal system favorable to their interests, expropriated the black land in the once flourishing community of Edmondson, Ar…
On June 1, 1942, the United States Marine Corps accepted the enlistment of African American recruits for the first time since the Revolutionary War, ending approximately 159 years of strict prohibition of African American enlistments. Over 19,000 African Americans served in the …
This dissertation aimed to examine the hymn texts composed by the originator of the black gospel hymn, Charles Albert Tindley, and establish a greater understanding of the theological and social themes embedded in them. The researcher analyzed Tindley’s published hymns to discov…
It is no secret that America's history is one that reflects participation in chattel slavery in 1619. What is untold is the ways in which that part of America's past is reflected in curriculum. The question guiding this research is, "How is enslavement portrayed in 3rd through 5…
“Race in the Prairie State: Black Laws and African American Activism in Nineteenth Century Illinois” looks at Illinois’s anti-black legislation throughout the nineteenth century, tracing its evolution from pseudo-slavery and indentured servitude to the exclusion of black immigra…
The aim of this thesis is to narrate and analyze lynching and atypical violence in Denton County, Texas, between 1920 and 1926. Through this intensive study of a rural county in north Texas, the role of law enforcement in typical and systemic violence is observed and the relatio…
The desegregation of public schools continues to be a controversial topic in the U.S., particularly after the landmark Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) decision. It’s been over sixty years following Brown, yet U.S. schools have remained racially and socioeconomically…
Social scientists have long been interested in the ways that early life and educational attainment are related to racial health disparities among older adults in the US. With this dissertation, I contribute to this literature by developing an approach to studying “race” and heal…
The purpose of this study is to examine how the Moko Jumbie has changed physically and behaviorally to reflect social changes and changing ritual practices, to analyze how the Moko Jumbie was used as a form of antislavery resistance, to add to the interpretations of Christianste…