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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"The Black Atlantic"”.
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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
… peculiar 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 …
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The Lake is History: Photographic Archives and the Black Atlantic in Essex County
… situates 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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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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Born she is the divine Christ child : female figurations of Christ in Black Atlantic literature, theatre, and cinema
In order to support and justify the slave trade and the colonial enterprise, Western powers relied heavily on distorted interpretations of Christian 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 …
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Aida Overton Walker, “Actor Lady”: Unveiling Race and Gender in African American Performance Motifs, 1900-1912
This thesis will examine the ways in which African American actress 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 …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
My dissertation is about transnational aspects of the Victorian era from the vantage point of what Paul Gilroy 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 …
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Nomads of the Body, Exiles of the Mind: Twentieth Century Transnational African American Mexican Art and Literature
<p>This dissertation examines the migration of African Americans from the U.S. to Mexico; however, these paths extend well beyond the North American continent and intersect with a much larger migration: the African Diaspora. The journeys of Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Willard Motley, and …
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Gold Griot: Jean-Michel Basquiat Telling (His) Story in Art
… from an early association with street art during the 1980s, the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat was largely regarded within the New 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 …
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The cosmic tantrum
This dissertation, entitled The Cosmic Tantrum, is presented in two parts: the body of creative work, in the form of a series of art works created over the course of two years of study, and the theoretical work discussed in this document. The creative work is subdivided into two sections: 1) a …
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Re-mapping the Atlantic: transatlantic mobility in contemporary African literature in French and English
The first two decades of the twenty-first century have seen a number of authors of African origin and from the recent diaspora writing in English and French produce works of prose fiction that explore the Atlantic from the perspective of young African characters on the move through that space. This …
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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
This thesis charts the globalising role of British geomagnetism in the age of revolution and reform. In the earlier decades of the nineteenth century, significant fiscal-military state resources were directed toward linking three momentous magnetic enterprises: Admiralty reform of practical …
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The Irish in Jamaica during the long eighteenth century (1698-1836)
… (1645-1865), a book that brought together a vast range 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 …