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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"black diaspora"”.
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Pan African narratives: sites of resistance in the Black diaspora
… from her shores and their descendants in the Diaspora has perpetuated discourse of longing and ambivalence. For centuries these various sentiments have emerged in Black literary expressions. The quest of this study is to advance Black narrative tradition by proposing a theoretical framework …
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Towards a Poetics of Bafflement: the Politics of Elsewhere in Contemporary Black Diaspora Visual Practice (1990-Present)
Towards a Poetics of Bafflement asserts that blackness baffles—confuses and frustrates—the order of knowledge that deems black subjectivities as pathological. This dissertation argues for the importance of the psychic and affective spaces that emerge in the work of contemporary black women and …
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Cartographies of Black Diaspora and Foster Care Diaspora: Arguments Toward Abolition in the Aftermath of<em> Partus Sequitur Ventrem</em>
… apparatuses that cyclically act to destabilize Black and “Other” subaltern populations from one generation to the next. Global foster care and adoption systems have become as common sensical as enslavement and chattel slavery all were as these systems are considered widely socially acceptable, …
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Nkwa (Life Affirming): A critical case study and Nkwaethnograhy of Black American students who studied abroad in the Black diaspora
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Queer Natives
"Although the black diaspora is often conceptualized primarily in terms of race, sexuality has been equally foundational to the construction of black diasporic culture and politics. ""Queer Natives"" begins from the premise that the black diaspora poses a historical and conceptual challenge to …
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May I grow to be as strong as my mother: The storytelling tradition of black women in Africa, the Caribbean and the United States
… transformation of the storytelling tradition of black women from orature to dramatic literature in three situations: Africa, the Caribbean and the United States. The study provides insights into the nature of black women's contemporary orature; a comparative evaluation of black women's orature …
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"Popular Culture in South Africa: The Limits of Black Identity in ""Drum"" Magazine"
… consider how commoditized cultural images from a black diaspora extend the imaginative capacity of black South Africans to construct new identities. I argue that a black identity connects to a black diasporic identity and to an abstract modern identity. It finds its cultural recognition in a …
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Mediated encounters in diasporic space:exploring processes of transculturation syncretism and identity redefinition in the Ghanaian diaspora in London
… The thesis traces the development of the black diaspora as the historical antecedent or precursor to more recent black diasporic formations. The concept of the black diaspora provides a context for understanding or imagining the fledgling Ghanaian diaspora as another offshoot within the …
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The politics of loving blackness in the UK
Can ‘loving blackness’ become a new discourse for anti-racism in the UK and the broader black diaspora? This thesis will critically assess the concept of ‘loving blackness as political resistance’ as outlined by the African American feminist bell hooks (1992). The thesis will show the ways in which …
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Cascade
… with a less critically engaged edge of the black diaspora in America: the realities and peculiarities of being black the Mountain West, in a city that did not experience a major historical black migration but has an established black population due only to the military and scattered …
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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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Righting and Re-Writing The Blueprint: The creation of an Afrofuturistic television series and a self-sustaining television network to disrupt the misrepresentation of the Caribbean Family in British Television Drama
… framework and the overall invisibility of the Black presence in British History. This thesis further addresses specific economic, historical, and social factors that mainstream television utilises, through drama, to control the narrative of the British Caribbean Family’s loss of identity, …
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Building Yoknapatawpha: Reading Space and the Plantation in William Faulkner
… how Go Down, Moses (1942) offers models of black domesticity that resist the oppressions of segregation and lynching – but which are dispersed through black diaspora and narrative exclusion. It considers how The Mansion (1959) revises and integrates details from earlier Yoknapatawpha texts …
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Mapping Caribbean Histories: Glissant, Walcott, and the Counter-Poetics of Modernity
… historical and ontological significance of the Black subject is often unjustly overlooked in favour of a Western historiography, is a point that has and continues to concern the scholar of the Caribbean and Black diaspora. Yet while many attempts have been made to counter this fallacy, only …
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Reparative Preservation through Immersive 3D Documentation: Cultural Memory, Spatial Justice, and Gullah Geechee Futures on Daufuskie Island
… with co-authored digital storytelling to support Black spatial memory and community sovereignty. Grounded in fieldwork on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina—a historic Gullah Geechee community confronting dispossession and cultural enclosure—the project co-creates Daufuskie3D …
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Meu encontro com a cobra coral e outros cobrasinofensivas: mulheres negras em situação de dança
… with the coral snake and other harmless snakes: black women ina dance situation”, is built in the Postgraduate in Dance at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) and is inserted in line 2, Processes and Configurationsin Dance. The main problem that arises is the condition of invisibility …
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Framing Standard and Dialect in Black Women's Novels
Framing Standard and Dialect in Black Women's Novels explores how Black women writers engage with their image in dominant Western discourse. Deliberately objectified, their discursive identities have been underwritten and overlooked. Using Sylvia Wynter's argument that the emergence of Black women …
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Diasporic identities, autochthonous rights: race, gender, and the cultural politics of Creole land rights in Nicaragua
… of femininity and masculinity, indigeneity and blackness, tradition and modernity, and autochthony and diaspora in their struggles for communal land rights. The historical part of the project examines successive waves of mobilization within the Creole community for access to land under colonial …
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REMEMORY: Territorial Justice in Both Americas
… the resistance tactics used by collectives of Black and Indigenous women in the Americas to fight for housing, land, and territorial justice. I put organizers from the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) in conversation with ancestral miners in Colombia's Cauca region, and …
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Imperial and Post-Colonial Identities:Zimbabwean Communities in Britain
… immigrants are a monolithic community of Blacks, the thesis’ examination of inter-community relations between Blacks, Whites, Coloureds and Asians unveils Zimbabwean immigrants fragmented by historic racial and ethnic allegiances and prejudices. Examining education and employment as …
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