In the annals of popular American history, Paul Robeson is not generally looked upon as a significant player in black liberation discourse. However, close examination of Robeson’s newspaper column, “Here’s My Story,” supports the idea that Robeson helped conceptualize and orches…
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Though incorporating more open and green space into our urban communities is more important than ever in the United States, The Green Movement has focused on incorporating green space and walkability into heavily concentrated urban areas such as downtown Atlanta. However, there …
This dissertation relies on underused sources—including court martial records and black veterans’ pension files—to examine the experiences of black soldiers in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands during the post-Civil War era. It focuses on soldiers’ cross-cultural encounters with the r…
This dissertation is a history of black life in the wake of forced migration to the lower Mississippi Valley during the nineteenth century. It is a history of bought and brought enslaved people, of the local material and environmental conditions that drove their forced migration…
Students from low socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds often have extenuating circumstances that impede their academic achievement. While many of the factors affecting these students have been concentrated in urban cities, in recent decades, the nation's suburbs have become home to m…
This work is a comparative analysis of three diverse approaches on science, economics and politics and their respective interrelationship to race concluding that science itself might be both the product of and the cause of racial ideology; that a capitalist economic structure is…
This paper addresses the history and current state of five cemeteries that were created for African Americans in the St. Louis Missouri area. These cemeteries were created at various times pre-and post-Civil War. This paper uses research and images to show the past and present o…
This document will be used to bring awareness to the eclipsed music of historical composers of African lineage between the Classical and 20th century Periods in Western Music History. As classical musicians we learn about famous composers from periods ranging from antiquity to t…
African Americans have a long tradition of preserving their histories through archival projects. The purpose of the thesis is two-fold: to place African Americans in the history of community archiving and create tools to aid in creating these spaces for African descendants. The …
This dissertation explores lasting familial relationships and friendships among southern African Americans from the antebellum years to the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on southern Maryland, the dissertation shows how free and enslaved African Americans cultivated fam…
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which Intra-School Social Capital, or ISC (e.g., Parent-School Involvement, Parent-Teacher Interactions, Teacher-Student Support, Student-Peer Relations), and External-School Social Capital, or ESC (e.g., Parent-Home Invol…
Before the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) case, Black schools were led by Black principals, who were community leaders and role models held in high regard (Tillman, 2004b). However, this image and perception of the Black male principal began to vanish after the Brown v. Boar…
This thesis examines ways in which African Americans in the Women’s Army Corps during World War II opposed racial discrimination by way of writing letters and taking power of space.
This dissertation explores the significance of the folk for African American visual artists of the 20th century through paintings of Palmer C. Hayden. Alternatively labelled a superior colorist, a “janitor who paints”, a misguided humorist, a traditionalist whose work was neithe…
This paper analyzes the history of the Save the Audubon Movement – a activist movement in the 1980s and early 1990s protesting Columbia University’s plan to demolish the Audubon Ballroom and replace it with a modern biomedical research complex. The Audubon Ballroom is best known…
This book explores the impact of stereotypical concepts associated with black skin color in representations of black people during the English Renaissance, namely Shakespeare’s Othello (Othello) , Aaron (Titus Andronicus) , Caliban (The Tempest) , Rosaline (Love’s Labour’s Lost)…
Black matters are indeed spatial matters (McKittrick 2006 xii), and diverse spaces are not a stand in for racially inclusive spaces. Through a Black geographic and Black feminist exploration of my hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts, my Masters thesis provides a discursive ma…
Beverly Buchanan (Figure 1), born in Fuquay, North Carolina, October 8, 1940, was a prolific artist, scientist, and activist until her death on July 4, 2015. Her works of art range from beautifully bright oil pastels to austere stone sculptures to whimsical wooden shacks. While …
In July 1832, seventeen enslaved individuals and one free black man stole a whaleboat and sailed from Virginia’s Eastern Shore to New York City in search of freedom. This escape occurred months after Nat Turner’s revolt, and coincided with the rise of abolitionist ideologies and…