This study argues that there are three major themes which emerge from a critical analysis of the early life and leadership of Elijah Muhammad. The first of these motifs is his centrality to the historical evolution of black nationalism and Islam as a counter-religion among Afric…
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“Phallic/ies and His(s)tories: Masculinity and the Black Nationalist Tradition, from Slave Spirituals to Rap Music” explores Black nationalism as an embodied-social politics, highlighting the ways in which its discourse has been informed not only by a politics of race, but by a …
Slaves in colonial and early national Virginia drew on their particular ethnic African cultures, especially Igbo from present-day south-eastern Nigeria, to adapt to the conditions of slavery in the Chesapeake region. Igbo peoples were the bringers of an ancestral tradition that …
This study explores the construction of postwar U.S. nationalism by examining the links between cultural artifacts, national identities, and U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Analyzing films, television, museum exhibits, and novels alongside U.S. foreign policy documents, …
Since the first African slave ship arrived on the American shores, the nature of life for these new inhabitants has differed greatly from that of any other immigrant group. The usual patterns of assimilation were not present. While most other immigrant groups were able to assimi…
For many African Americans, the 1935 Italian invasion of sovereign Ethiopia represented an instance of imperialism that was fundamentally connected to white supremacy within the United States. This perception resulted in a groundswell of activity on campuses, in the black press,…
The crisis in post-colonial, post-modern leadership has compelled some scholars and theorists of leadership to revisit the research, about the art of leadership and the theory. That is, to investigate the typology, personality, and psychological-emotional character of those who …
The Baltimore Afro American newspaper, founded in 1892 advocated an African identity and forged a connection to Africa and other parts of the Diaspora for the local and national Black community. This dissertation uses a Pan-African paradigm to examine the Afro American's coverag…
African American (also called Black American, or Black) students? performance in higher educational institutes reveal critical issues concerning their matriculation through higher education. A 2014 report by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on cohorts of unive…
Perhaps in no other area is the search for a positive black past more pronounced than in the field of black biography. The need for a better understanding of the black past is closely tied to the reconstruction of the lives of black leaders in the nineteenth century. These leade…
The National Negro Congress (NNC) was one of the Popular Front organizations formed during the 1930s which combined Left and Center or Communists, Socialists, and liberals, in one social action organization. It existed at varying levels of vitality from 1936 to 1947, addressing …
The reform role of black women during the thirty-year period at the turn of the century, 1890-1920, has received little attention from historians, who have analyzed the work of the educated, white elite in municipal reform, settlement houses, public health crusades, protective l…
This dissertation is an attempt to make a cross-disciplinary analysis of the art and culture of ancient Egypt, as African in origin, thus providing new areas of content for multicultural curricula. Its new areas of content adds to the national debate on multicultural studies, wh…
This dissertation, an historical overview of black American autobiography from Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X, examines a recurring pattern and two related themes in the genre. Ever since the escaped slave narratives established bondage, flight, and freedom as the three-part pa…
See What The Afro Says: The Baltimore Afro-American 1892-1950 is a history of one of America's leading black newspapers. Founded in 1892 and still extant today, the Afro-American has been an agent of social control and social change. The owners of the newspaper had three goals f…
This dissertation examines the convergence of Atlantic World medicine and disease with the 1721 smallpox epidemic in Boston and controversy that arose over the practice of inoculation. In Boston, Puritan beliefs intersected with the growing importance of theoretical medical trai…
This exegetical and homiletical study provides evidence for recognizing the presence of African Blacks in the Christian scriptures and their contribution to the richness of the biblical message. The initial biblical story dealing with Blacks is considered to be found in the so c…
The episode began to unfold when the Portuguese first occupied Mombasa in the 1590s. In 1637 Dom Jeronimo Chingulia, the rebellious king of Mombasa, was killed at Jiddah in Southern Arabia, uncaptured by the Portuguese. The revolt is seen here as an integral part of a general di…