In the 1960s, powerful images of minority athletes combined with their remarkable performances infiltrated mainstream American media and helped fuel a growing Black Power Movement. In the midst of racial violence and protests that challenged the contradiction between American id…
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The following analysis of slavery and abolition in the British Straits Settlements looks at the British East India Company's efforts to implement anti-slavery ordinances in their eastern territories from the first ordinance passed in 1795 at Prince of Wales' Island to 1843, when…
For African Americans soldiers serving in the armed forces during the Vietnam War the domestic scene loomed large. African Americans perceived racial issues, race relations, prejudice, and discrimination; in Vietnam through a lens heavily influenced by their earlier experiences …
Hayden White argues that to create a narrative is to "moralize." As historicists assert, the moral content of a narrative reflects the social, cultural and political discourses in which it is constructed as well as the ethical value systems that such discourses contain. However,…
Employing the term “soul culture” to describe the hairstyles, clothing, music, and leisure activities of black women coming of age in the 1960s and 70s, this dissertation argues that black women activists in the U.S. and in London used the space of the Black Liberation movement …
This dissertation examines a distinct period in the history of the US Organization, a cultural nationalist formation based in Southern California. The time frame of this study, roughly from 1965 until the early ‘70s, highlights US’ role within the prism of a popular resurgence i…
The dissertation examines race relations through the lens of private housing. It uses the papers of the NAACP, other groups, and individuals; plus federal, state, and local government documents; African-American newspapers; realty industry publications; court transcripts and dec…
This dissertation explores the significance of Africa (both as a literal geographic space and as an imagined or symbolic space) in 19th century American intellectual and literary culture. I argue that when nineteenth-century intellectuals grappled with the institution of slavery…
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 dissertation examines the introduction of evangelical religion into the Chattahoochee Valley of Georgia during the frontier era, the formation and characteristics of biracial churches during the antebellum period, and the post-bellum racial separation and organization of in…
This dissertation begins with the assumption that there is an African substratum in English, i.e. that a number of genetically related languages from the Niger-Kordofanian family of African languages have exerted influence on English. This influence is evident in the elements of…
This dissertation examines how Britain sought to use a key resource of empire--namely, labor supply--in the First World War, the contradictions of racism and ideology this entailed, and the impulses towards transformation of her rule abroad that were generated. Britain's labor r…
MOORE-SLOAN, SASHIR PASHA, M.A. Transcending the Politics of Respectability in the Progressive Era: Fannie Barrier Williams, Intersectionality, and the Power of the Pen (2020) Directed by Dr. Jerry Gershenhorn. 96 pp. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, Fannie Barrier William…
In May 1968, a racially, geographically, and politically diverse coalition of poor people joined forces to make themselves visible to the nation and protest the unseen poverty they suffered from on a daily basis. Under the leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conferen…
This study examined how mainstream and black press newspapers framed the phenomena of "racial profiling" three years before and three years after the September 11 terrorist attacks. It looked particularly at frames, ethnic groups, source selection and article emphasis. Results i…
This dissertation explores execution literature, a genre of literature popular in the Northeastern American colonies and successor states. The texts I explore are written between 1693 and 1817 and feature people of African descent. There are three types of texts that make up exe…
This dissertation is framed around the release of Beyoncé's visual album, Lemonade, on April 23, 2016 and its heavy incorporation of imagery that can be read as representative of the iconography of Afro-Atlantic religious iconography, specifically the Yoruba religion of southwes…
The Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) was an organization during the 1960's which adhered to a Pan-African revolutionary nationalist philosophy that blended Mao's critique of Marxism, the discipline and spiritual nature of the Nation of Islam, W.E.B. Du Bois' scholarship, the …
Based on the research questions employed in this study, the Nigerian immigrant community first began with student sojourners and is currently more effective within the African-American context. This community would perhaps have been much slower in evolving but for the crisis of …