Academic placement in high school classes is an important decision that can have long-term effects on student success. Research indicates that students most often remain in high or low tracks year after year. However, the precision of placements relative to real achievement disp…
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This qualitative meta-synthesis studied the inequities of HBCUs as it pertains to the NCAA and the black student-athlete. The study adopted the CRT and Social Constructivism paradigm and synthesized and interpreted the findings of eighteen purposefully sampled empirical qualitat…
Black culture has shaped the American landscape in unique but often unrecognized ways. Black burial sites and cemeteries honor ancestors and are a site of reverence (LaRoche & Blakey, 1997). However, they are routinely neglected, reflecting America’s history of segregation. …
The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to describe the Black Kindergarten Movement through efforts of the Black Women’s Clubs and their communities at the time right after the Reconstruction and into the Progressive Era. The common documents that were used in the data collect…
For this Thesis project I interviewed seven women of West African descent and documented their unique stories about identity and the tensions they have experienced between their West African and American cultural heritage(s). One important charge of the film is to engage the inf…
The career path of African American novelist Chester Himes is often characterised as a u-turn. Himes grew to recognition in the 1940s as a writer of the Popular Front, and a pioneer of the era's black 'protest' fiction. However, after falling out of domestic favour in the early …
In 2006, The United Nations reported that the "global distribution of income is very unequal and the inequality has not been falling over time" (Davies et al 2006:1)1. Visibly, these inequalities are overwhelmingly racialized. Black people all over the world continue to be subje…
Although the black diaspora is often conceptualized primarily in terms of race, sexuality has been equally foundational to the construction of black diasporic culture and politics. “Queer Natives” begins from the premise that the black diaspora poses a historical and conceptual …
This dissertation examines the Black Hermeneutic Situation in order to uncover Black Rhetoric's possibilities for thinking Being. Martin Heidegger's phenomenological hermeneutics and his theories on thinking and Being provide the theoretical framework through which this disserta…
For centuries, Islam has played a dynamic role in the lives of Africans and their descendants around the world. Throughout that history, the oral tradition has remained consistently significant in how ideas, knowledge and stories tied to culture and resistance have been communic…
The United States Assemblies of God has been celebrated as one of the most diverse Christian organizations in America, nearly mirroring the nation’s ethnic population demographically. This diversity has emerged from the growth and development of multiethnic congregations, as wel…
This dissertation explores and analyzes What is Black dance and the role that Black dance plays in the professional development of teaching artists in Black arts’ educational organizations preparing Black dancers for careers on the concert stage. What is Black Dance has evoked c…
The purpose of this qualitative retrospective interview study was to examine the experiences of Black students (N=15) in Linked Learning pathways and the role aspirational, navigational, familial, linguistic, resistant, and social capital play (if any) in the experiences of Blac…
The overt nature of racism in the United States has morphed into what researchers describe as microaggression (Sue et al., 2007; Sue, 2010a). Microaggressions are “everyday verbal, nonverbal, and environmental slights, snubs, or insults, whether intentional or unintentional, tha…
Ballet’s problem with race and inclusion has been well-documented over the last 15 years. One of the natural outgrowths of Black dancers being systematically excluded from the art form - largely because of America’s sordid racist history and Jim Crow segregation laws and ballet’…
This dissertation examines the cultural practices of the 2018 Malcolm X Festival, hosted by the Pan-African Connection: Bookstore, Art Gallery, and Resource Center on May 19, 2018. Analyzing literacy practices, rhetorical theory, and visual rhetoric, this dissertation project ex…
Gospel singing is a musically sophisticated and culturally influential vocal performance style. Yet, its pedagogy is often expressed through the lens of formal/classical training or a Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) umbrella for all non-classical styles. This is problematic …
For as long as I can remember, I have struggled with understanding who I am. What makes me is something I try to make sense of through art. When I started working on this my graduation show, the idea behind it was to make a portrait of the Mexico I know, but when the pandemic hi…
In this project, I want to breakdown the fascination and phenomena of the Black woman's body, precisely the assumption that being a Black woman or girl automatically means you will have a very pronounced butt. I wanted to understand from other Black women's perspectives what it …