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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Black Atlantic"”.
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Debating Difference: Haitian Transnationalism in Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic
<p>Blacks who have descended from the nineteenth century Atlantic slave trade have historically debated and worked to claim a sense of cultural identity that reflects their African heritage and their identity as diasporic. I am particularly interested in how people of the black Atlantic claim their …
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A history of ideas : West Africa, "The Black Atlantic", and Pan-Africanism
(Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of African American and African Studies History, 2010
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Wayward Christians, Worldly Scriptures: Disarticulating Christianities in the Black Atlantic Public Sphere
… subset of lived Christian traditions in the black Atlantic world, and the ways in which black theology as a disciplinary formation has only partly included these competing constructions of Christianity in their account of marginalized and marooned peoples. This project will do three things. …
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The Lake is History: Photographic Archives and the Black Atlantic in Essex County
… Lake Erie and its environs as part of the Black Atlantic. Specifically, it maps the complex portrait of those environs as they emerge within the photographic archive of the Alvin D. McCurdy fonds. This dissertation follows the flow of vernacular photographs across Lake Erie to map …
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Born she is the divine Christ child : female figurations of Christ in Black Atlantic literature, theatre, and cinema
… scriptures to justify the oppression of black communities in Africa and beyond. The biblical curse of Canaan and the letters of Paul were often called upon to justify turning millions of human beings into merchandise to serve the Western semi-god of capitalism under the protective cloak …
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The cosmic tantrum
… philosophical systems of what is known as the Black Atlantic. I provide an explanation of the theoretical underpinnings of the creative work in the form of a possible theory of culture, which I have called an "insurgent ancestral aesthetic", elaborated in Part One. This theory of culture …
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Aida Overton Walker, “Actor Lady”: Unveiling Race and Gender in African American Performance Motifs, 1900-1912
… and dancer Aida Overton Walker navigated transatlantic racial and gendered codes within her theatrical performances. I will analyse relevant historical and cultural paradigms of the early twentieth century in order to situate her work within its context, in order to explore the specific racial …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… described more than two decades ago as the “black Atlantic.” Looking at various ways in which the black Atlantic was at times a British Atlantic, my dissertation aims to complicate a flow of discussion that Gilroy’s Americanist successors have interpreted largely in light of U.S. slavery and …
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Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature
… web of rhizomatic connections spanning the Black Atlantic, the Caribbean Ocean, the Mississippi River and the Rio Grande. This dissertation examines the history of African American migration to Mexico during the twentieth century a well-documented, yet understudied area of research. These …
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Gold Griot: Jean-Michel Basquiat Telling (His) Story in Art
… York avant-garde, as ‘an exotic other,’ a token Black artist in the world of American modern art; a perception which forced him to examine and seek to define his sense of identity within art and within society. Drawing upon what he described as his ‘cultural memory,’ Basquiat deftly mixed …
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All the King's Men: Slavery and Soldiering at the Cabrits Garrison (1763-1854)
… dissertation investigates the archaeology of Atlantic world wars and slavery on the island of Dominica during the Age of Revolution (c. 1774-1848). Using archival and archaeological evidence from households at the Cabrits Garrison occupied by lower status personnel in the British army, …
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Claude McKay and the transnational novel
… prerogatives to an internally diverse black diaspora. Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic construct provides a suggestive space in which to re-imagine the possibilities of affiliation in the port. The latter section of the chapter examines McKay’s particular influence on, and relationship, to …
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(In)visible entrepreneurs: creative enterprise in the urban music economy
… in the informal creative economy. Grime music, a black Atlantic creative expression, is used as a lens through which to explore and analyse the nature of entrepreneurship within this sector. East London, a site of poverty, movement and migration is the geographical starting point for the project. …
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Performing samba: Aesthetics, transnational modernisms, and race
… Janeiro became an important hub of an emerging Black Atlantic entertainment industry. Cariocas—the people who lived in Rio de Janeiro—listened to samba in ways that challenged and produced racial categories, celebrated the creativity of Black musicians and reinforced primitivistic notions of …
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Re-mapping the Atlantic: transatlantic mobility in contemporary African literature in French and English
… produce works of prose fiction that explore the Atlantic from the perspective of young African characters on the move through that space. This thesis examines a representative sample of five texts taken from that emergent and growing body of writing: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013), …
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Towards Dark Fecundity - Reimagining Black futures through visual arts practice, science fiction and Greek mythology
Towards Dark Fecundity - Reimagining Black futures through visual arts practice, science fiction and Greek mythology. This thesis articulates the development of my visual art and critical practice, exploring Black, female subjectivities within speculative narratives of the future. It proposes a new …
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The eye of the needle: magnetic survey and the compass of capital in the age of revolution and reform
… magnetic campaign, just as the uprisings of the Black Atlantic formed its material and theoretical infrastructure. Legislation and materials were reformed to reveal apparently natural laws, while the realities of contingency, struggle, and newer subtler forms of exploitation were lauded as …
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Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization
… reading of these literatures brings together Black Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Black Mediterranean frameworks to show their transhistorical connections and their exigency in a political and literary landscape in which forcibly displaced communities are underrepresented. I examine the poetics …
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The Irish in Jamaica during the long eighteenth century (1698-1836)
… of new research, which encompassed the entire Atlantic basin. Her study covered an extended chronological period, starting as far back as the sixteenth century and concluding with the abolition of slavery in the middle of the nineteenth century. This was a groundbreaking work in many respects …
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