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Showing 1 to 20 of 449 for “"African American studies"”.
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Dialectical dimensions: the emergence and evolution of African American Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 1968-2008
… inception, proposed as a discipline was Black Studies that could spur new knowledge by countering Eurocentric modes of hegemony. Land grant institutions and public colleges, such as the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I), have an unique capacity and obligation to residents to …
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Philosophical blindness and the black subject: the deconstruction of a discipline
… and analysis of the content of the Black American Philosophical and Education Project. Of particular interest to me is the historical pursuit and experience of the study of Philosophy in the American higher education system by Black American students. This study is located at the …
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The Home as Refuge: Locating Homeplace Theory Within the Afrocentric Paradigm
… that home has been constructed by persons of African descent, and suggests that homeplace is a form of maroonage that is manifested both physically and psychologically. In addition to conceptually theorizing on homeplace, this project will also introduce Homeplace Theory, a theoretical …
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The Dawning of the Black New South: A Geo-Political, Social and Cultural History of Black Atlanta, Georgia, 1966--1996
… to provide an intraracial narrative history of African American politics and class tensions in Atlanta, Georgia from 1966, the year when black power movement forces emerged and helped to elect Maynard H. Jackson as Atlanta's mayor to the 1996 Centennial Olympiad. Also, this study is an ambitious …
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Treading Our Path Through the Blood of the Slaughtered: Race and Martyrdom in America, 1830-1968
… figures, resulting in a variegated canon of American martyrs outside the strict bounds of religious tradition. As a contribution to religious studies, American studies and African American studies, this dissertation identifies and examines the language, imagery and trajectory of the strain of …
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Africans in Louisiana: An Afrocentric Analysis of Southwest Louisiana’s Culture through the Lens of Spirituality
… Africa. This research will also evaluate the African culture of Louisiana that is often defined as “Creole” and sometimes “Cajun.” It will interrogate the idea of “Creole” (creolite/creoleness, creolization), which is often defined as a mixture of various cultures/races and as a culture …
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Reconceptualizing Intellectual Histories of Africana Studies: A Review of the Literature
Properly understood, Africana Studies is a stand-alone "discipline." One that goes beyond, and disengages the normative boundaries and understandings of Western disciplinarity. This work is premised on such an understanding of autonomy. It reifies such a proposition by compiling scholarly …
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“THE HOODOO YOU KNEW”: AN AFROCENTRIC (RE)LOCATION OF CONJURE AND HOODOO COSMOLOGY
… study contributes to the ongoing discourse on African spirituality and its contemporary relevance to African peoples in the Diaspora by exploring Hoodoo through an Afrocentric lens. By adopting this perspective, the researcher aims to normalize Hoodoo as a living spiritual system and shed light …
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Cultural Solidarity, Free Space, and African Consciousness in the Formation of the Black Fraternity
… idea of cycle of protests this work explains how African Americans were able to materialize, communicate, and ultimately sustain separate identities under antagonistic social conditions. Critical to the understanding of this work is the role the "free space" had in shaping the identity of both …
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WAKANDA FOREVER: AN AFROCENTRIC ANALYSIS OF THE FILM BLACK PANTHER
… of Black People. Many asserted that African Americans had no "Wakanda" to call their own, but it was merely a fictional land from a comic book. This dissertation examines the Black imagination as a tool of Black resistance and liberation through the film Black Panther. It looks to see …
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Ecological Examination of the Development of Color -Blind Racial Beliefs in Black College Students
The Ecological Model of Racial Socialization (EMRS) was tested among a sample of 204 Black college students from a Midwestern predominately White university. The EMRS explored the relation between the racial composition of participants' contexts and racial socialization provided by both familial …
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From Malcolm X to Malcolm X Liberation University: A Liberatory Philosophy of Education, Black Student Radicalism and Black Independent Educational Institution Building 1960--1973
… to that of educational progression for African Americans during the 'Black Power' era. The influence of Malcolm X provoked a call for 'African-centered schooling,' or institutions in the traditions of self-sufficiency, self-determination, and nationalistic pride. Malcolm X's expansive …
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An African American discourse community in Black & White: the New Orleans Tribune
In An African American Discourse Community in Black & White: The New Orleans Tribune, an archival study of the first black-owned daily newspaper in the United States, I argue that the newspaper rhetorically constructed a literate African American discourse community worthy of citizenship and equal …
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Repressions and revisions: the afterlife of slavery in Southern literature
… critical methodology from the fields of trauma studies, African American studies, historiography, and psychoanalysis to articulate how texts about the antebellum past enable later Southern authors to imagine present and future race relations in the South. I analyze how the particularities of the …
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Experiences Assisting or Hindering the Academic and Social Integration of African American Students at Southwestern Michigan College
… rates of minority students in general and African American students in particular have remained high in postsecondary education, particularly at community colleges. To gain information that is most useful for implementing policies and actions that will increase the retention and achievement …
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Tragic mercies and other journeys to redemption: defining the Morrisonian tragedy
… current portrayals of tragedy and tragic acts in African American literature. Using Toni Morrison’s Beloved as a foundational text, I argue that Morrison executes a literary aesthetic that disrupts traditional constructs of the tragedy that elevate Eurocentric ideologies at the expense of Black …
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Movement Before the Movement: Black Hospitals in Kansas City, 1890-1940
In the 1890s, Black physicians from the South began to move West due to westward expansion and Black population growth. The Black population in the Greater Kansas City Area expanded, creating the need for Black physicians and medical facilities. Segregation prevented Black physicians from treating …
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The Varieties of Tone Presence: On the Meanings of Musical Tone in Twentieth-Century Music
… social theory, semiotics, theories of emotion, African American studies, literary theory, usage-based linguistics, post-colonial theory, and phenomenology. I begin by offering a critique of three basic assumptions that constrain understandings of what we mean by pitch structure in post-tonal …
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