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…
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Slavery was a long-standing institution in Iran, as it was in other Muslim states and societies. The subject of this thesis is the history of slavery in Iran and its slow course toward abolition in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The thesis examines the sources and…
The study of memory is not only an inquiry into what happened but is just as much or more so about what is happening. Therefore, a study of the legacy of slavery requires a conscientious look into the lived experiences of members of post-emancipation societies. An investigation …
The goal of this study was to discover the actual changes in Tunisian women's perception of their role in the family and society through an examination of literary works, in Arabic, of contemporary Tunisian women writers. The study traced the development of the expression of Tun…
Chapter one presents the introductory matters: statement of the problem, purpose and limitation, and the methodology of the dissertation. Chapter two of this dissertation posits that some of the early criticisms of Deissmann--especially in respect to paramone service--are not en…
Though Malcolm X is one of the moat important orators of the twentieth century, his discourse has received little attention from rhetorical critics. The literature on Malcolm X that does exist in the field of communication studies can be divided into two categories, that which a…
This dissertation is a comparative analysis of American race riots, within and across historical eras, from Emancipation (1863) to the War on Drugs (1972). I argue that changes in the status of African-American citizenship produced different forms of race rioting. Examining riot…
The assumption that African-descended people were more able than European-descended people to labor in the “hot” climates of southern North America and the Caribbean was an important justification for slavery in the British Empire since at least the early eighteenth century, and…
Abolitionists from the Eighteenth Century to the mid-Nineteenth Century tended to be remembered by William Wilberforce, Joseph Soul, Thomas Clarkson, Samuel Bowly, and William Lloyd Garrison. All of these men have been extremely well represented throughout scholarship and the ar…
“Emancipation is an Act, Freedom is a State of Being”: Remembering Emancipation in Hampton Roads, 1917–1963: This paper traces the centralized organization and an activist turn in the commemoration of emancipation in the Hampton Roads region of Southeastern Virginia and Northeas…
The post-uprising Arab world is facing a problematic socio-political situation. For some, infusing the political realm with Islamic principles and reasoning--the practice of Islamic politics--is key for their emancipation. For others, such an infusion entails authoritarianism. B…