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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Afterlife of slavery"”.
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Repressions and revisions: the afterlife of slavery in Southern literature
Though many scholars have explored the memory of slavery in Southern literature, my project expands these readings through a hybrid critical methodology from the fields of trauma studies, African American studies, historiography, and psychoanalysis to articulate how texts about the antebellum past …
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Shh... there's some racism in these policies: a phenomenological study of Black student experiences with on-campus housing policies
… on campus housing policies. I center Black ways of knowing and being by using BlackCrit to analyze the data and situating the study in an Afro-pessimistic frame. I frame this study through a lens that recognizes the historical positioning of Black people as less than present in the afterlife of …
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Rethinking the Liberian Predicament in Anti-Black Terms: On Repatriation, Modernity, and the Ethno-Racial Choreographies of Civil War
… protracted civil war was sustained for a period of 14-years (1989-2003), killing approximately 250 000 Liberians and displacing half of the population. Liberia’s war, like other contemporary African conflicts, has been persistently represented as an example of wanton violence, political …
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Sweetness is Not a Guarantee: Disrupting Picture Book Depictions of Black Children as Comestible
… politics involved in the depiction of Black children in picture book text and images, focusing particularly on the representation of Black children as food. My corpus of texts consists of six picture books by five different Black creators: three with poems by Joyce Carol Thomas and …
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The archives mixtape: an education in (un)making Black deaths
… policies, have to do with the premature deaths of Black people? I start with examining the role of changes in law and policy governing how schools are allocated federal Title I funding for “equitable” support of children from lower-income families and households in Black student premature deaths …