Black power

This thesis is a history of the Boston Black United Front’s (BBUF) activities combatting the growing carceral state in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and early 1970s.The BBUF was an “umbrella” organization within Boston’s Black community during the Black Power era and was parti…

This dissertation examine the sharp rise of black theatre companies during the Black Power

“The Right to Tell: Listening Practices, Race and Recordings, 1959-1978,” is a multidisciplinary examination of LP recordings and their role in the formation of racial and national listening practices. In order to do so, I look at the protocols and structures of perception and d…

This dissertation traces the full intellectual history of the Third World Turn: when theorists and activists in the United States began to look to liberation movements within the colonized and formerly colonized nations of the ‘Third World’ in search of models for political, soc…

Between 1964 and 1968, protests against anti-Black racism and police violence transformed cities across the United States. Against the backdrop of the civil rights movement and the emergent Black Power movement, these so-called “race riots” elicited a diverse groundswell of poli…

A Poetic Revolution: Ericka Huggins, Narrative Resistance, and Erotic Power is a historical and cultural study that broadens our understanding of the Black freedom movement by examining the conspiracy case and prison writing of former Black Panther Ericka Huggins. Using an archi…

This dissertation examines how Israel's establishment affected the relationship between Black Americans and American Jews in the United States. It traces the efforts of a group of leading American Jews, in the ranks of Jewish advocacy organizations, academia, show business, and …

In the early 1970s, Black leaders across the United States began to talk about the need for political activism and holding a meeting where people could gather to discuss ideas of change, moving from voicing anger and frustration during the 1960s and turning toward a new directio…

While scholarship on the modern Civil Rights Movement has emphasized the centrality of the Black church, popular and scholarly accounts of Black Power portray a movement marked by a profound de-Christianization. Soul Power upends this prevailing narrative, arguing that the Black…

James Forman's Black Manifesto demanded 500 million in reparations from the nation's white churches and synagogues for their financial, moral, and spiritual complicity in the centuries of injustice carried out upon African Americans. Many African-American ministers in the North …

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…

This thesis explores the relationships between the national Black Power Movement and desegregation politics in North Carolina higher education in the late 1960s and 1970s. During this time, North Carolina’s system of higher education remained embroiled in a battle to stall integ…

This dissertation asserts that institutions indigenous to the African diaspora facilitate transnational exchanges between black social movements by encouraging organizations and activists to identify with each other across national boundaries. Using the research methods of conte…