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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"the Middle Passage"”.
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The Space in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women's Literature
<p>“The Space in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women’s Literature” explores renderings of the Middle Passage in literature by African American and Caribbean writers. Departing from the premise that the term “Middle Passage” is insufficient where it concerns describing the massive …
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Ethnic admixture in African American ancestry as reflected in dental patterns
While the mixture of genes with those of European descent has been studied rather thoroughly, the African-Native-American-Asian-American admixture has not been as widely acknowledged or studied in the United States; Since shovel shaped incisors occur more frequently among Native Americans and …
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Poetics of the Abyss: History, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality in Édouard Glissant's Early Thought
<p>This dissertation follows the possibilities of a specific form of Caribbean thought that arises out of the particularities of Antillean history: Édouard Glissant’s notions of antillanité and an archipelagic thought. By means of a critical analysis of one of the “beginnings” of the history of the …
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Precedents in African American architecture
… culturally specific architectural elements to the design process because the history of African American form and space has not been recognized within academia. This thesis is an attempt to fill the gaps in the African American history of form and space. I do so by producing computational …
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Dream of an elsewhere: contemporary African American travel writing
… of physical journeying have been pivotal to the story of men and women of African descent in the United States for hundreds of years, since the original traumatic forced displacement of the Middle Passage that generated a diasporic subjectivity intertwined with corporeal motion. The …
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August Wilson’s Century Cycle: Preserving History and Honoring African Rituals Through the Proverb of the Sankofa
… been studied by scholars as a documentation of the history of African Americans. His ten plays in that cycle use historical events to chronicle the African American experience in America during the twentieth-century. My examination of his plays focuses on connection between the characters in his …
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Whiteness and the Return of the "Black Body"
The objective of this dissertation project is to theorize and understand Black embodiment within the context of white hegemony, that is, within the context of a white racist anti-Black world. I theorize the Black body as a site of lived historicity vis-á-vis whiteness as the transcendental …
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Liberated Africans and Law in the South Atlantic, c. 1839-1871
This thesis explores how anti-slave-trade laws shaped the opportunities and limitations for enslaved people during the most intensive phase of abolition (c. 1839-1856) against the Brazilian slave trade, the largest in the Atlantic world. It focuses on case studies from Sierra Leone, South Africa, …
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The captives are translated, attached at the wrists' : a study of Antillean identities in the works of Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau
This thesis presents a study of the various interpretations of Creole identities in the French Caribbean, with reference to the literary works of three esteemed French Creole authors, namely, Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé and Patrick Chamoiseau. Due to the horrific nature of the transatlantic …
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Toward a Curatorial Praxis of Planetarity
This PhD by Published Work analyzes the author’s curatorial practice through the lens of literary, postcolonial, and feminist theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s critical concept of planetarity and, in doing so, drafts planetarity as a curatorial praxis. The thesis is set against and within the …
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Orifice of Return
… intuitive and intellectual claims at survival. The poems in this collection illustrate the multifaceted nature of my craft, through which the personal, the collective, and the political are commingled, but wrestling forces. As Audre Lorde declares, there are many kinds of open, the poems of this …