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 …
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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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…