This work examines the interface between adaptation and acculturation to the experience of colonialism and the etiology of maladaptive parenting skills in a subjugated population, specifically the Latinx diaspora. It explores intergenerational trauma through the lens of the Dark…
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The Qur’anic concept of ittiba’ – usually rendered as followership- is one of the core themes in the sacred book. Applying the methodology developed by Toshihiko Izutsu, this study conducts a semantic analysis of the concept of ittiba’ and it is use in the Qur’anic discourse. Th…
Julius Eastman (1940-1990) shone brightly as a composer and performer in the American avant-garde of the late 1970s- ‘80s. He was highly visible as an incendiary queer black musician in the European-American tradition of classical music. However, at the end of his life and certa…
Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) can play a substantial role in the eating habits of African Americans. Because the study's focus is on African American communities, and because Faith-Based Organizations (FBOs) represent the center of many of these communities, these organizatio…
Applying Gloria Anzaldua’s Borderlands Theory to Leslie Marmon Silko’s novels Almanac of the Dead and Gardens in the Dunes shows how Silko’s inclusion of borders and border crossings in her writing highlights the history of oppression in the United States, and the lingering effe…
Post-colonial theorists have analyzed the impact that colonization has on identity where the individual is not only stripped of its pre-existing self but is left to make sense of life after colonization. The repercussions of colonization lie in the individual’s inability to go b…
Using the fictitious society of Gilead from Margaret Atwood’s novel “A Handmaid’s Tale” as it’s foundation, A Gift Shop in Gilead is an investigation into creating and commodifying a visual narrative of an oppressive theocracy into kitsch souvenirs and how this process simultane…
Since her fabrication, the Witch has been suffocated by the masculine voice and mode. Beginning with the witch-hunts, her social narrative has been completely dictated by men. All predicating texts were written by men, for men to use against women. From Macbeth to the King James…
The Black female experience in the United States is a colonized existence. This project’s analysis is specific to the North American U.S. geographic space and is not a diasporic project. Black women suffered from the greatest increase in the percentage of inmates incarcerated fo…
This dissertation defines and defends the concept of ‘criminal oppression.’ Criminal oppression occurs when people are excluded from full participation in important social and political institutions because they are perceived to have violated certain community norms. Oppression …
Throughout history, revolutions have been plagued by unpredictability; it is all but impossible to know when cultural systems will be turned on their heads. Is there a common motivator, to predict social unrest bubbling beneath the surface of society? I suggest the development o…
This arts-informed life-history study reveals how intra- and interpersonal and intergenerational coping mechanisms were used to internalize Soviet rule in Latvian public and private lives and exposes how oppressions operate across generational time. Forty eight of the author's i…
In South Asia, where sons are preferred and prioritized over daughters, girls and women struggle simply to survive. Due to the patriarchal nature of the region, females are inherently disadvantaged throughout India and its surrounding countries, as gender inequality affect their…
This thesis considers a theoretical tradition which is concerned with how adult literacies education might not always serve to socialise students into existing society, instead encouraging possibilities for desirable alternatives to it. Without this possibility, adult literacies…
Despite the end of apartheid in 1994 and the advent of democracy; the historical legacies of apartheid remain vivid in a post-apartheid society and inequality has worsened (IMF, 2020). As such, education is seen by many as a tool to address the persistent inequalities in South A…
The media has played a critical role in reproducing anti-Black violence in the United States, which has often harmed African American communities. Historically, the white press has depicted graphic imagery and descriptions of Black people being brutalized, with little ethical re…
For a long time, the veil has been a signifier of great contention in the cultural encounters between the West and the Muslim world. A great deal of research has been conducted on its meanings as it is received in (predominantly Western) contexts where the veil is interpreted as…
L’objectif de cette mini-thèse est d’étudier la vie de la femme dans Assèze l’Africaine de Calixthe Beyala. Dans ce roman, Beyala présente le tableau africain d’après les indépendances à travers les peines, les illusions et l’espoir de différents personnages féminins. Le lecteur…
If the potential of higher education to foster transformative, emancipatory learning is to be realized, it is necessary to consider the historical forces and social formations by which postsecondary education is (re)shaped. White supremacy operates in and on educational contexts…