Religion plays an essential role in managing health; however, there is limited research on religious practices among Black churchgoers diagnosed with hypertension. This research aims to understand how religious practices influence self-care in Black churchgoers diagnosed with hy…
For the past 60 years, less than 15% of the Black popular vote has gone to a Republican Presidential candidate. This trend started at the end of the Civil Rights Era and has been consistent for Republican candidates across the spectrum. In this Dissertation, I explore the social…
Through an analysis of nineteenth to mid twentieth century sources, this thesis seeks to address how white supremacy negatively affected black perceptions of Voodoo, and ultimately the state of New Orleans’s black community. Developed by enslaved Africans, New Orleans Voodoo, ov…
'No Easy Victories' provides a panoramic view of American activism on Africa from 1950 to 2000. It portrays companies, people and national networks that contributed to helping solve Africa's problems and, in turn, shows how African struggles informed US activism on civil rights …
"This book presents an analysis of both paid and unpaid work time, integrating a discussion of overwork, underwork, shortening the working week, and flexible work practices. From the broad perspective of social economics, time at work is determined within a complex web of evolvi…
Blacks in the Dutch World examines the interaction between Black history and Dutch history to gain an understanding of the historical development of racial attitudes. Allison Blakely reveals cracks in the self-image and reputation of Dutch society as a haven for those escaping i…
Negritude has been defined by Léopold Sédar Senghor as "the sum of the cultural values of the black world as they are expressed in the life, the institutions, and the works of black men." Sylvia Washington Bâ analyzes Senghor's poetry to show how the concept of negritude infuses…
'In the Shadow of Slavery' explores the wealth of plant life brought to the Americas by slaves and slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage and bedding, and afterwards cultivated in garden plots. These included coffee, watermelon and okra, as well as the constituents of man…
The Galindo virgins : violence, repetition, and the founding of Dominicanidad -- Of bandits and wenches : the US occupation (1916-1924) and the criminalization of Dominican Blackness -- Speaking in silences : literary interruptions and the massacre of 1937 -- Rayano consciousnes…
In Negro Soy Yo Marc D. Perry explores Cuba's hip hop movement as a window into the racial complexities of the island's ongoing transition from revolutionary socialism toward free-market capitalism. Centering on the music and lives of black-identified raperos (rappers), Perry ex…
This dissertation is a composition, of stories, many stories, of journeys, of people as they moved from Sudan to Canada, confronting and contesting the dominant refugee discourse(s). Stories that also challenge the form and content of academic writing. Form builds on content, mo…
A cross sectional study compared the coping styles of 60 African American men and women to 101 White males and females. This study was done to examine what specific adaptive and also maladaptive coping styles are used by HIV-positive African Americans compared to Whites. The goa…
Christian authors developed “ethno-political” rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks, and blackness as a discursive strategy for instructing their followers, maligning their opponents, and warning their communities about a number of different types of internal and externa…
The post-Homeric literary sources of the Greek period mention [special characters omitted] inhabitants of a distant land, whose physical appearance differs from the Mediterranean somatic norm, but approximates that of peoples referred to in modern times as Black Africans. In the…
This study explores the ways in which North Carolina community college leaders inspire first-generation African American college students (FGAACS) to graduate. Over the last couple of decades, there has been an influx in the number of FGAACS enrolling into college. Although the …
All of the black images which I examine can best be explained in terms of their relationship to Italians' perception of their personal power or their power on a national level, for example I critique the use of Africa and Africans in Fascist films, especially with regard to the …