African traditional religion is a highly non-dogmatic spiritual lifestyle that is practiced by millions of people around the world. Some African scholars argue that it is related to the religion practiced by the African Egyptians during the Dynastic Period. This study examines t…
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Prior to 1954, blacks in Fairfax County who wanted to receive an education beyond the seventh grade were bussed by the county to Manassas Regional High School in Prince William County or independently attended Dunbar High School, Phelps Vocational Center, Cardoza High School or …
This study posits that a preponderance of the misconceptions surrounding Malcolm X's rhetoric and personality stems substantially from failures to situate them within comprehensive contexts--cultural, historical, sociological, and rhetorical. It asserts that the linkage of Malco…
This is a case study of community change. The research questions are designed to discern how a previously stable, low- and middle-income black community destabilized, becoming a haven for criminal activities (open air illicit drug trade, homicides). Secondly, this research inves…
This study examines the often neglected genre of African-American conversion narratives: the extraordinary, often miraculous accounts of men and women who experience conversion to Christianity. It begins with an examination of the historical and literary circumstances under whic…
Amid the global superpower conflict and rising race-consciousness of the twentieth-century, “Third World” decolonization redrew the atlas and opened a future promising and dangerous to East and West alike. Much remains to be learned about its course in many parts of the world, i…
For the first time in critical theory, the Black subject can see itself whole. It can now tell its story from the emergence of the first humans in Africa to the present, as a relatively unbroken continuum. The epistemological conditions for the emergence of a new Black subjectiv…
The turbulent decade of the 1960's witnessed great changes in American society. The world of athletics was not immune from the strife. Athletics were becoming a viable forum for Black athletes to voice their opinions regarding their treatment in athletics, as well as their treat…
“‘Authors of the Liberation’” examines the evolution of the struggle for political black equality in the 1960s through the story of the Freedom Democrats—black Mississippians who challenged the seating of the “Regular” white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention.…
With this dissertation I present a self-narrative autoethnography to share the pedagogical practices that have been found to be successful in the academic achievement of mathematics with a specific sector of Students of Color, Black/African American students, in the urban inner-…
Research of the opportunity and achievement gap shows: “College completion rates vary, with Black and Hispanic students earning credentials at a lower rate than white and Asian students” (Tate, 2017, pg.1). The purpose of this correlational study was to explore the relationship …
The current disparities within Ohio’s mental healthcare system stem from a long history of barriers to access as well as racist diagnostic and treatment methods. Despite the impetus to provide care for Ohio’s mentally ill during the asylum movement of the early nineteenth centur…
The Civil Rights Movement is arguably one of America’s most defining periods. It was the true start of the establishment not just of legal equality, but moral equality between the African American and Caucasian communities. Many scholars start their works with famous civil right…
This dissertation uncovers the roots of discriminatory police power in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and traces Black-led efforts to make the city’s police bureaucracy more accountable to all citizens. It analyzes the politics of police reform in the century spanning the passage of two s…
America’s whaling industry serves as a microcosm of the interaction between white settlers and people of color, as well as the effect of that interaction on both groups. As an enterprise that brought great wealth to many, it also provides an opportunity to explore the realities …
Historic preservation of African American neighborhoods in Oklahoma City values restoration of buildings and objects but fails to authentically preserve or respect the original culture by actively excluding the Black community from Deep Deuce. Oklahoma City's rhetoric surroundin…
The central focus of this dissertation “Haitian Vodou: Pwen (Magical Charge) in Ritual Practice” is to elucidate a central component of Haitian Vodou ritual, known as pwen, which literally means “point” or magical charge. This query begins with a theoretical discussion of what p…
Postmortem punishment is defined as the mutilation of the body after death or the refusal of culturally prescribed burial rites to punish violations of civil, moral, cultural, or religious law. The use of postmortem punishment in British history evolved with colonization of the …
The preaching of Black women has long been ignored. This is due, in part, to a persistent narrowing of the definition of preaching to include only preaching sanctioned by ecclesiastical institutions and taking place in church pulpits. This dissertation expands the definition of …