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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"black identities"”.
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Black in Kingston: Youth Perspectives on "Blackness" and Belonging in a Small Ontario City
… the national profile of the experiences of black youth and the realities of racism in the city of Kingston, Ontario. The first event occurred in the spring of 2001 and involved the dramatic “high-risk takedown” by Kingston Police of two innocent black male youths who were wrongly profiled as …
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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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Does anyone here speak tashelhait? Perspectives on environment, identity and social change in south Morocco
… from view a diverse culture that includes large Black Moroccan communities who reside primarily in Morocco’s desert provinces. “Blackness” and all of its corresponding complexity is not generally associated with the countries and cultures of North Africa in either academic or popular discourse. …
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“I think we sounded black!”: space and community in Black drum and bugle corps
This thesis examines three Black drum and bugle corps from the Civil Rights era of the nineteen-fifties and sixties: the Carter Cadets and the CMCC Warriors Drum and Bugle Corps from New York City, NY and the Washington VIPs from Washington, D.C. It uses historical and ethnographic methods to …
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“If it’s in the game, it’s in the game” : Sondra Perry and technological likeness
… representation—specifically, as related to Black identities—Perry looks to new media like 3-D models and avatars to explore what it means for one’s likeness to live online. This project centers Perry’s IT’S IN THE GAME ‘18 or Mirror Gag for Projection and Five Universal Shot Trainers with …
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Rhetoric of trans* identities: public reactions to private confessions
… provided a hotbed of discussion about trans* identities. Caitlyn Jenner’s public announcement of her identity as transgender shortly followed by Rachel Dolezal unveiling as a woman with Caucasian heritage. Using publically accessible interviews such as the Diane Sawyer interview with Bruce …
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ILIZWE LIFILE
… identity. Part II looks at the negation of black cultural identity through covert impositions of Eurocentric culture and epistemology within education systems in my experience and within history. I employ concepts from Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2017) to develop …
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Encruzilhadas de um museu íntimo: afrografias da memória e fabulações críticas em fotos de família no Acervo da Laje, Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador
… with the preservation of peripheral memories and identities. Leda Martins’ concept of afrografias reveals photographic images that reflect Black identity and the processes of appropriation and reinterpretation of memory within the African diaspora, while critical fabulation, inspired by Saidiya …
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Conceptualizing Black Restorative Practices: Through the lens of Black Teachers who teach Black youth in schools
ABSTRACT Title of Dissertation: CONCEPTUALIZING BLACK RESTORATIVE PRACTICES: THROUGH THE LENS OF BLACK TEACHERS WHO TEACH BLACK YOUTH IN SCHOOLS Carlos A. Williams, Doctor of Philosophy, 2026 Dissertation directed by: Jennifer Turner, Ph.D.Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership Ebony Terrell …
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American pseudo-realism: the subversion of black agency in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935)
… American opera and the representation of blackness therein. Considering the opera both in its premiere iteration and as an institution of tokenization that has supplanted the equitable representation of black artists and narratives within this genre, I consider how this work has come to be …
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“I’ve Been Murdered”: An Autoethnographic Narrative of the School-to-Death Nexus
… low-income, queer, trans, nonbinary, and Black student. Guided by afro-pessimism, I critically examine 151 personal journal entries between 2011 and 2022 that illuminate the role of schooling in my mortality as a Black student. My writing examines the trauma caused by oppressive education …
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Respectable: Fashion Curatorial Methodologies Explored Through an Exhibition on Black American Women’s Respectability Discourse, 1865-1929
… as a fashion curator and research background, Black American and diasporic fashion culture serves as a case study. The thesis consists of a theoretical framework that joins theories and practices from history, art, and their curation to expand the methodological possibilities for fashion …
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Being Black and international in the United States: Navigating the contours of race and citizenship status in America
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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"I'm Rich Bitch:" Black Class Performance and the New Nouveau Riche
… the ways in which various representations of blackness challenge hegemonic understandings of what it means to be black in the United States. Focusing on the fluidity of identity, "I'm Rich Bitch" highlights the role that popular culture plays in redetermining populist perceptions of …