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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"African American History"”.
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Shedding Light on Dark Truths : The Interpretation of African American History at Tryon Palace in New Bern, NC
… homes and buildings at the site display local history but African Americans have only recently penetrated the interpretation. This thesis acknowledges the difficulties of displaying topics that are sensitive and emotional for many audiences while investigating the tremendous amount of African …
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Critical race museology: a case study of educational voices and leaders at the DuSable Museum of African American History
… scholarship on the teaching and preservation of African American history, public history, and broader transnational diasporic histories. As a case study, I contextualize the educational experiences of museum founders, educators, leaders, and historians who impacted the growth and development of …
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HISTORICAL INTIMACY: CONTEMPORARY RECLAMATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE DRAMA, POETRY, AND FICTION OF SUZAN-LORI PARKS, NATASHA TRETHEWAY, AND COLSON WHITEHEAD
… Trethewey, and Colson Whitehead – within the African American Literary Tradition explore relationships to history in light of a dominant rhetoric that represents African American history through a white, hegemonic lens. In Parks’ The America Play, Trethewey’s Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Whitehead’s …
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Black History Month: an investigation of the impact of a curriculum for increasing the knowledge of elementary students' knowledge of African-American history
… study was to show the importance of Black History being added to the curriculum for elementary students of all ethnicities, but especially with the African-American children. During this study the students were given a pre- and post-test on the Civil Rights Movement for the month of …
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Implementing African American Icons into an ESL Classroom
<p>African American history is rarely seen in schools today. This project tries to assess why there is a lack of African American history and why it is important to incorporate African American icons into an ESL classroom.</p>
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Fourteen
… is, consciously, a slice of United States history. It is a personal history; it is autobiography; it is biography and it is African American history. <italic>Fourteen<italic> is written as creative nonfiction and embraces a rich and poetic language that answer the questions, what does it …
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African American Males and Academic Achievement: Understanding the Challenges of Transitioning From High School to Higher Education
… <p>are none greater than those faced by African American males. On all levels,</p> <p>African American males have fallen short of achieving academically starting from</p> <p>kindergarten and continuing through college enrollment and completion. The study</p> <p>explores African American …
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"""Too Much Time for the Crime I Done"": Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Punishment in Illinois and South Carolina, 1865 to 1900"
… the nation. Such findings contribute directly to African-American history and immigration studies by exposing the importance of political representation to minority groups and the influence of society's perceptions concerning ""black criminality"" on late nineteenth-century criminal justice …
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Capital Constructions: Race and the Reimagining of Washington, D.C.'s Local History in the Twentieth Century
… the idea that Washington, D.C. possesses a local history. Through the investigation of two recognized historic districts--Georgetown and U Street--this thesis explores how Washington, D.C.'s local history has been commemorated. Examining the constructed nature of these historic districts--the …
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Museums of social conscience : interpreting a troubled past.
… the Matilda Joselyn Gage House, the Museum of African American History of Boston, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This thesis offers a current, wide-ranging perspective on these noteworthy organizations – their unique collections, innovative interpretative techniques, funding, …
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Let's Piece the Past Together: Writing a Book about African Diaspora Archaeology Education for Middle School Students
… the Past Together: An Archaeological Journey of African-American History for Kids. This book uses archaeological data to discuss African-American history and slavery while incorporating archaeological theory, education standards, and learning theory. Students are guided to construct the past …
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Let's Piece the Past Together: Writing a Book about African Diaspora Archaeology Education for Middle School Students
… the Past Together: An Archaeological Journey of African-American History for Kids. This book uses archaeological data to discuss African-American history and slavery while incorporating archaeological theory, education standards, and learning theory. Students are guided to construct the past …
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Is There a Difference Between the Degree to Which African-Americans are Studied in Represented Rural, Suburban, and Urban School Districts?
… of the study was to examine the extent to which African-American history is presented in a variety of elementary, middle, and high schools. Ninety surveys were distributed in urban, suburban, and rural school districts in western New York. The subjects were classroom teachers who responded to the …
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"This is OUR AMERICA, TOO": Marcus B. Christian & the History of Black Louisiana
Louisiana's unique social and cultural history with its three-tiered racial system (rather than the biracial system that governed much of the United States) left the region and the history of its black inhabitants, outside of familiar narratives of United States black history. Marcus B. Christian, …
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Sugar Hill: Architectural, Cultural and Historic Significance of an Early Twentieth Century African American Neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana
… States, efforts are being made to document African American history and its contribution to the development of this country. At all levels of government and through individual research, attempts are being made to recognize and pay tribute to the role of the Black American. These efforts …
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From Trial to Triumph: Representations of African Americans in Museum Exhibits
… I examine contemporary exhibits about African American history and culture at six museums to explore issues of racial representation, collective identity, and cultural authority. I conduct a systematic two-part investigation of exhibition practices across Black-owned/operated and …
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Precedents in African American architecture
As a sub-sets of American culture, African Americans have not been able to offer culturally specific architectural elements to the design process because the history of African American form and space has not been recognized within academia. This thesis is an attempt to fill the gaps in the African …
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A Place of Happy Retreat: Benefiting Locals and Visitors Through Sustainable Tourism Practices at Beale Street, Graceland and the National Civil Rights Museum
… the value of integrating the culture and history of the host community into the attraction, and using tourist attractions to provide personal and economic development for locals. Chapter One is titled "'Can I Live' on Beale Street," Chapter Two is titled "Opening the Gates of Graceland," …
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Crafting the past: the appropriation of found photography in the African-American revisionist art of Betye Saar
… inaccurate, or incomplete perspectives of African-American history. It will focus on the popular trend of referencing historic photographs in revisionist art and explore how Saar's method of including found images and objects differs from her contemporaries and the implications of her …
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"Undone by Murmurs of Love": Traumatic Legacies and the Struggle for Personal and Communal Identity Formation in Toni Morrison's Trilogy
… of racial oppression on personal and collective African American identity formation in Toni Morrison’s trilogy are explored in this thesis. Morrison reconstructs African American history in her trilogy, but she also enacts a cultural healing through content and form. Impossible choices are made …
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