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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"African Diaspora"”.
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What drives West African Diaspora students to success?
… investigated the first and second-generation diaspora of West Africa and also examined if there were differences between the two generations. The goal was that if such differences exist, it will help plan the learning experience for students with similar backgrounds. The research used …
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Podcasting and the African diaspora in the United States
… who are producing podcasts for English-speaking Africans and African diaspora audiences in the United States. The study focuses on the types of podcast content produced, the target audience, the distribution platforms used, and the motivations of the podcasters who are actively targeting Africans …
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Feminizing the West African diaspora in France: 1974-2005
… France, completely changing the dynamics of the diaspora in France. My dissertation examines their experience from 1974-2005, in order to explore what it meant to be African, black and female in France, a country where citizenship has long been premised on an abstract model that is understood as …
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Renegotiating Resistance: African Diaspora Film and the Discourse of Third Cinema
… the discourse of Third Cinema with contemporary African diaspora film practices in a renegotiation of cinematic resistance. Proceeding from Gilles Deleuze's theory that the evolution of cinema from classical to modern materialized out of the historic rupture produced by World War II, my thesis …
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An exploration of students from the African diaspora negotiating academic literacies
… of a group of university students with African diasporic connections, an under-researched group in UK HE. Building on the traditions of ideological and ethnographic approaches to academic literacies research, the thesis highlights power relations involved in a range of life experiences, …
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David Fram: Lithuanian Yiddish Poet of the South African Diaspora and Illuminating Love
… investigates the Yiddish poems of the South African Lithuanian immigrant David Fram. It locates Fram’s poetry and aesthetics in the context of Yiddish poetry in general and Lithuanian-South African Yiddish literature in particular. In doing this it identifies and investigates Fram’s main …
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Black Brazilian female dancer-choreographer-educators : creating alternative axes of action in the African diaspora
… cultural, and sociopolitical identities in the African diaspora. By introducing the concept of alternative axes of action as spatial longitudinal oblique lines established slightly outside of a mainstream vertical axis where bodily balance and motion - and sociopolitical actions - are often …
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The discursive scaling of Black womanhood: Experiences of African immigrant women in the African diaspora
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Understanding factors for investment into South African diaspora bonds: an extended theory of planned behaviour
… in financing infrastructure development. Diaspora bonds offer a promising alternative financing mechanism for infrastructure development in emerging markets like South Africa. This study explores investor demand for South African diaspora bonds, employing thematic analysis within an …
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Socially Racialized and Statistically Invisible: U.S. Census Recognition of The Middle Eastern and North African Diaspora
… categorization of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) individuals within federal statistical collection, particularly focusing on the U.S. Decennial Census’ racial and ethnic classifications as outlined in the OMB’s Statistical Policy Directive no. 15. Historically classified solely as …
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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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Argentina in The African Diaspora: Afro-Argentine And African American Cultural Production, Race, And Nation Building in the 19th Century
… theories. In both the U.S. and Argentina, the African American and the Afro-Argentine populations and their cultural productions were ignored and/or rejected in the construction of the discourse of national identity in the nineteenth century. My argument is, however, that their cultural …
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Uniting African Philosophy with Traditional African Dance Rituals to Help Heal Mental Health Symptoms from the Impact of the African Diaspora
<p>The mental health challenges of members of the African diaspora have been a worldwide occurrence for centuries, initially beginning with the transatlantic slave trade. Africans were scattered abroad to different countries and subjected to the severe psychological impact of enslavement. Despite …
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Telehealth in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Human-Centered Design Approach to Bridging Gaps in Healthcare and Wellbeing Across the African Diaspora
… of communities in sub-Saharan Africa and the diaspora. A few of the needs identified are access to affordable care providers in rural/remote areas, healthcare management and tracking of individual health outcomes over time, healthcare management for family members in different areas of the …
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Rediasporizing Bahia: the lived experiences of blackness and the cultural politics of Bahian hip-hop
… cultures and race in Brazil’s most “African” locale. Cultural representations, tourism groups, and government agencies commonly portray Salvador as brimming with exotic and premodern Africanisms through the retention of African roots, traditions, and origins. This uses essentialist …
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Chere
… explores the phenomenon of migration and the African diaspora. This exploration was originated by contrasting aspects of forced and voluntary migration in addition to Kvasnyand and Hales' idea, that "Belonging everywhere or not belonging anywhere" describes the situation among people of the …
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The Voices of Educators and Elders: Examining a Supplemental Educational Program Through a Culturally Responsive Lens in Gullah Geechee and African American Communities
<p>African American students in South Carolina experience historical educational suppression (Anderson, 1988; Bowers et al., 2018; Fabel, 2019). This qualitative case study investigated how the use of African Diaspora and Gullah Geechee culture in supplemental education programs supported the …
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Bodied knowledges (where our blood is born): maternal narratives and articulations of black women's diaspora identity
… Narratives and Articulations of Black Women's Diaspora Identity is an intervention in black diasporic criticism and black feminism. It highlights black women's diaspora literature, maternal narratives, and interrogations of identity. I employ a black feminist diaspora literary lens to identify, …
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