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(Fortress Press, 2000)
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(Vanderbilt News Service, 2005-02-11)
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(2020-07-27)Department: English and Comparative Media Analysis and PracticeI analyze the performances of contemporary African American and Asian American comedians to explore how they create and deploy personae that complement their critiques of structural oppression. I examine how these personae ...
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(2011-06-30)Department: EnglishInstead of thinking of jazz in the hackneyed vocabulary of “canon-building,” I explore jazz as a technological construction very much built to reshape spatial and temporal boundaries across the African Diaspora. Jazz technê, ...
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(Saint Louis University Public Law Review, 2010)This essay explores how the past Civil Rights Movement and discrimination against persons of color, mainly Latinos and African Americans, can help to address current forms of discrimination in our country. In particular, ...
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(2017-09-21)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityMy research questions pertain to (1) how Black undergraduate students—who were interested in STEM at college entrance—perceive influences on their choice of a STEM or non-STEM major and (2) to how students’ lived experiences ...
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(Wisconsin Law Review, 1996)Using Census data and the Survey of Income Program participation (SIPP), the authors use social science methodology to show that blacks pay more federal income tax than whites at the same income levels.
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(2013-04-09)Department: ReligionBlack authenticity is a false concept created by early European thinkers to overpower African people. Later the New Negro intellectuals used this misconception to compete with whiteness. However, their connotations of black ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009-07-21)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2017-06-15)Throughout history, Black children have been dehumanized, criminalized, and sexualized. Additionally, though education can be a transformative and liberative tool, Black children have been deprived of quality and equitable ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2016-06-15)Although research on Black students disproportionality in suspensions and expulsions has been conducted since the 1970s, it has mainly centered Black male students (Smith-Evans et al., 2014). For decades, there has been ...
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(2022-05-17)Department: Creative WritingBlack Holes & Their Feeding Habits is a collection of poems that centers around themes of addiction, identity, nature, various conceptions of home, and the ubiquitous negotiations between the self and the external world. ...
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(2020-12)This capstone project is studying the Black male experiences that completed and did not complete the program. Specifically, this project explores 5 Black men's experiences and the ecological and sociological barriers faced ...
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(2021-07-23)Department: SociologyUsing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 – Young Adult Sample (N=464), this study examines the relationship between college attainment and self-esteem among Black adults. Further, I examine whether ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: HistoryThis dissertation project centers on the overlooked work of activists whose organizing efforts during the Black Power era converged with their subsequent initiation into African diasporic religions like Haitian Vodou or ...
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(2023-07-23)Department: English and Comparative Media AnalysisThis dissertation names a conceptual framework that reads black queer and trans aesthetics, politics, and modes of affiliation for their contributions to ecological inquiry and Anthropocene criticism. Through an analysis ...
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(2018-08-14)Department: HistoryThis dissertation is an examination of religion, culture and social history in colonial Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa. The basic premise of this dissertation is that Africans and their descendants ...
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(2021-03-24)Department: ReligionThis dissertation closely reads the public rhetoric and performance of three monumental figures in black religious discourse - Martin Luther King, Jr., Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton – in order to trace how a personality-centered ...
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(2012-07-26)Department: EnglishBlack Theories of Citizenship in the Early United States, 1793-1860, examines early U.S. citizenship through the work of black activists and intellectuals writing between 1793 and 1861, just after the framing of the Federal ...