Due to the complex web of race discrimination, gender oppression, art-world elitism, and economics, black British women artists have been neglected by art historical discourse and criticism. My dissertation critically addresses these omissions. Since the 1980s, two London-based …
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In this dissertation, I revise our understanding of race and ethnicity, black nationalism, and Afrocentricity through an examination of the history of twentieth-century black nationalism. The overarching goal of the project is to reconceptualize race and ethnicity. Sociologists …
This dissertation is a literary and historical analysis of the concepts of Blackness and racial otherness as they are represented in Spanish literature from the Middle Ages through the Golden Age. While the presence of Muslims and Jews is well-known, and therefore, widely studie…
Inspired by the formation of the Non-Aligned Movement's declaration of anti-colonial political and economic unity, the Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers was formed during the 1958 Conference for Afro-Asian Writers that gathered novelists, poets and playwrights from across A…
Blackness and the Writing of Sound in Modernity is a critique of the tenants of the Western sonic avant-garde through black music. I engage African diasporic music as a critical site where the modernist distinction between human and technology is endlessly challenged and shatter…
In this thesis, I explore the ways by which new-wave black African immigrants confront and negotiate American tropes of blackness for individual and collective identity formations. Specifically, I focus on the memory of slavery as it is used for black collectivity in the United …
"Space Cadet" investigates black and Asian women's slippery presence in performance through collaboratively devised solos. I am interested in the (in)visibility of lived experience and am curious about the residues of subjugation and erasure in the body. Through this process, I …
This dissertation plumbs the often-eclipsed connections between antiblackness, Indigenous dispossession, sexuality, and urban space. It contributes to an understanding of the racial and gendered sexual economy of settler neoliberalism by examining a variety of (queer) narrations…
This thesis explores the tension between scientific and portrait photography in nineteenth-century United States through an examination of the daguerreotypes of African Americans who emigrated to Liberia under the auspices of the American Colonization Society. Through an analysi…
This essay aims to answer the question “How did America’s racist history affect Barack Obama’s work as president of the United States?” To answer this question, I will examine the following factors: the history of racism against Black Americans, definitions and rules of Blacknes…
This study explores the eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century German dramatic genre Sklavenstücke (slave plays). These plays, which until recently have not received any significant attention in scholarship, articulate a nuanced critique of slavery and the transatlantic slave…
Public health researchers and practitioners who study the opioid crisis contend that social connections combat addiction. Additionally, scholars who study Black communities have provided anecdotal evidence that the over-policing of Black public spaces contributes to social isola…
At the turn of the century, the discussion and prioritization of Blackness in art museums in the United States saw a noticeable shift. Black art and artists are becoming revered for their ingenuity and contribution to shifting the cannon on visual cultural production. Museums fi…