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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Africana Studies"”.
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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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A Discourse Analysis of the Centered and Critical Scholar-Activism of Martin Luther King Jr.
… King within the Scholar-Activist paradigm in Africana Studies. Further, the aim is to examine Martin Luther King, Jr. from the critical and centered Scholar-Activist paradigm of Africana Studies based on an analysis of his writings to determine whether his works should be included in or …
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GEOGRAPHY HESITANT AND AFRICAN ASCENDANT: ADDICTION, DEBT, AND OTHER BIOSOCIAL BARRIERS TO (RE)MEMBERING—A CASE FOR BLACK SPACE AND AFRICANA GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES
Africana Studies addresses fundamental though insufficiently considered Human Geography questions of existence, namely: what unique ways of knowing can African people offer humanity to ensure our collective survival on Earth? Less explored are the foundational assumptions being made about who does …
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Identity formation among a select group of black graduate students at Virginia Tech
… is a psychologist and Associate Professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center of Cornell University. He developed his model of Black identity development which he called the Negro to Black Conversion Experience in 1971. In 1991, modifications were made in the model by Cross which …
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The Home as Refuge: Locating Homeplace Theory Within the Afrocentric Paradigm
… the historical and socio-cultural role the Africana woman plays in the creation and maintenance of homeplace. By privileging Afrocentricity as the primary theoretical thrust, Homeplace Theory finds an intellectual home within the Afrocentric Paradigm with the addition of Afrocentric …
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From Counterspaces to Community:A Qualitative Case Study Analysis of Black Community Making at a PWI
… media accounts affiliated with the BSU, BRC, and Africana studies department were also analyzed. Findings from the study revealed a Black campus community defined by resilience and active engagement, with Black liberatory spaces serving as its foundation. The study underscored the significant role …
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(Re)inscribing Meaning: An Examination of the Effective Approaches, Adaptations and Improvisational Elements in Closing the Excellence Gap for Black Students
… offered by previous generations of scholars. Africana Studies methodological framing questions were used to examine the long-view experiences of African people as well as a three tier critical ethnographic research methods approach. The study revealed that Black students gained a level of …
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From behind the veil: unveiling the experiences of Black British-born males of African heritage navigating psychotherapy training within a White-dominated culture
… Drawing on a transdisciplinary approach—Black Africana Existentialism (BAE), Black Critical Race Theory (BCRT), and the Colonial Matrix of Power (CMP)—that constitute the Africana Critical Race Framework (ACRF), this research unveils nuanced ways Black male therapists resist and are shaped by …
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The roots and influences of radical Black women in the 21st century
<p>Gender, race, and class are concepts that define the lived experiences of Black women in the United States. Black women’s experiences of police violence at the intersections of gender, race, and class, particularly, have helped to create radical critiques of the system of white supremacy and …
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Social and cultural inclusion of queered and racialized performance during Chicago’s black pansy craze
<p>The historical period known as the "pansy craze" denotes a unique moment in United States history marked by wide-spread public fascination with “pansy” performance, or entertainment involving male entertainers performing in feminine personas suggestive of homosexuality. During the pansy craze, …
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Silence as Weakness or Strength in Hurston and Morrison
<p>In literature, voice is a literary device authors use to empower their characters. In fact, both Zora Neale Hurston, in her renowned novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Toni Morrison, in her 1981 novel Tar Baby, exploit voice in different ways. This thesis will investigate and explore the …
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Home
<p>My feature-length screenplay follows an anxious girl who, after her mother kicks her out of the house, is forced to live in her car. She’s in love with the dog walker but she’s the one who got her kicked out in the first place. Possessing the voices of queer, Black women, I display one possible …
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A Qualitative Study of the Time of Completion for African Graduate Students at Andrews University
… provided through scholarships, donors, and work-studies are crucial forms of aid for African graduate students. More programs such as the Aspire scholarship with Ghana, God’s Abundant Pantry, and Neighbor to Neighbor can help Andrews University become a place where African students go with …
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“We Gon’ Be Alright”: How resiliency & africultural coping behaviors factor into African American college students’ intentions to seek mental health services
<p>Background: African Americans, apprehension toward utilizing mental health services (MHS) has a long history in the United States. The low rates of utilizing MHS can result in detrimental health consequences, both mental and physical, despite there being a developing literature base on how …
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Islam, Christianity, Traditional Religions and Power Politics in Northern Nigeria Since Pre-Islamic Period
<p>Problem</p> <p>Currently in Northern Nigeria, religious interaction among the three major religious traditions, Islam, Christianity, and African Traditional Religion, is marred by violent religious conflicts. Also, competing concepts of religious legitimacy, which appeal to the historical …
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A Translation and Analysis of Spring's Bride by Mohammed Dib: Creating a Space for Indigenous North African Drama
The Ubu Repertory Theatre Script Collection, which is located in the archives at New York University, contains numerous manuscripts in the French language from dramatists all over the world. One of those manuscripts, <em>La fiancée du printemps </em>by Mohammed Dib, is my own translation of the …
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Teaching Shante Curtelia Dominique Ophelia Brown Johnson : an Autoethnography of a Black Male, Seventh-day Adventist, Jazz Avant-Garde Artist
<p>Leadership is part and parcel of societies and cultures. Leadership research can provide understanding that in turn provides knowledge, resources and growth opportunities for leaders. Leadership may be understood from a personal perspective as being bound up with identity. As I examine myself as …
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The Village on the Stage: Dramaturgies of Modernity in African Concert Dance
<p>My dissertation, <em>The Village on the Stage: Dramaturgies of Modernity in African Concert Dance</em>, analyzes the underlying theatrical logic in African concert dance through a dramaturgical model I call <em>the village on the stage</em>. The <em>village on the stage</em> dramaturgy has had …
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The Roots of Womanism as Identity, Empowerment, and Liberation for Black American Women: Raciolinguistic Genealogical Exploration
… womanist theology. Hudson-Weems, coined the term Africana womanism. After this analysis, I used raciolinguistic genealogy to analyze individual interview data from eight contemporary student-scholars. In exploring womanist thought as a language-based tool that Black American women can and do draw …
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The Jamaican Maroons of the 17th and 18th centuries: Survivalists of the New World
<p>The Jamaican Maroons, in the beginning, served as fugitive slaves avoiding captivity and liberating other enslaved people. To stop the Maroons from liberating other enslaved people, the British granting them freedom on the condition that they stop freeing slaves and even return runaways. …
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