Antiblackness
"The modern world is fundamentally antiblack. In this book, scholars from across the disciplines grapple, unflinchingly, with antiblackness-its enduring depth, breadth, and violence. Casting radical doubt on the foundational categories of the modern world, the Social and the Hum…
The Black urban community: from dusk till dawn
"From Michelle Obama to Condoleezza Rice, Black women are uniquely scrutinized in the public eye. In Re-Imagining Black Women, Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd explores how Black women--and Blackness more broadly--are understood in our political imagination and often become the subjects…
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…
This study was an examination of current Black participation in STEM and education. The purpose of this mixed method research study is to understand the possible reasons for low enrollment rates for Black high school students in STEM secondary courses. A historical perspective o…
Within the confines of slavery, nearly every aspect of an individual is controlled: their movement, their speech, their appearance. Expressing elements of identity through material culture was one form of rebellion practiced by enslaved people in the Americas, as messages of per…
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)…
This critical qualitative dissertation aimed to highlight the experiences and amplify the voices of Black, public school educators in the Boston metro area. Grounded in critical race theory and further defined by trauma and organizational/systems theories, this study illuminated…
The contemporary American Dream is based on the myth that anyone can obtain upward mobility if they work hard enough, regardless of their class or race. This ideology supports the idea that America is the land of equal opportunity, democracy, and liberty. This framework is probl…
The persistence of racial disparities in breastfeeding is associated with a range of interconnected factors, such as historical, cultural, social, social, and psychological. The current gap in the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding among Black mothers and White mothers has le…
This dissertation examines different films, literary, and performance art pieces created by contemporary afro-descendant women from Peru, Cuba, and Brazil after the sixties with emphasis on the most relevant works of Conceição Evaristo, Sara Gómez, Victoria Santa Cruz, and Lucía…
Processes of Black racialization in Mestizo Latin America open a space to expose how subjectivities emerge and change while in tension with broader national ideas and transnational discourses. Morenos , typically dark skin individuals of African descent, inhabit the boundaries o…