Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Black Studies"
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A Capitalizing City: Dar Es Salaam and the Emergence of an African Entrepreneurial Elite (C. 1862-2015)
(2018-09-19)A Capitalizing City charts the ways some people of African descent in Dar es Salaam, the commercial and industrial capital of Tanzania, have attempted, historically, to either integrate into the modern capitalist system ... -
Marriage Interruptus: Black Marriage Interrupted in the British Novel, 1791-1810
(2021-09-10)Questions of race, slavery, and empire at the heart of several eighteenth-century British novels brought the problems of plantations in the British West Indies to British readers at home. Throughout the period scholars ... -
Mobile Bodies: Migration, Performance and Social Belonging in Malian Dance
(2016-01-27)Mobile Bodies is a dance ethnography about the interface of arts performance, sociality and labor migration. Based on intensive apprenticeship in Mande Dance undertaken in Bamako, Mali this dissertation considers the ... -
Protestants, Politics, and Power: Race, Gender, and Religion in the Post-Emancipation Mississippi River Valley, 1863-1900
(2015-05-17)This dissertation argues that Protestant Christianity provided the language through which individuals and communities created the political, social, and cultural future of the post-emancipation South. Christian arguments ... -
Same Folks, Different Strokes: Class, Culture, and the “New” Diversity at Elite Colleges and Universities
(2016-05-14)Beginning in 1998, selective colleges began adopting no-loan admissions policies to increase socioeconomic diversity. These colleges, however, get their new diversity from old sources. I show how half of lower-income black ... -
"Strange Longings": Phillis Wheatley and the African American Literary Imagination
(2017-05-12)Throughout the African American literary tradition, writers have engaged Phillis Wheatley as a forebear, invoking her poetry and her biography for a number of purposes. Because the ways in which black writers treat race ... -
“The Way We Play”: Black American History, Humanity, and Musical Identity
(2022-08-30)"'The Way We Play': Black American History, Humanity" and Musical Identity, considers the ways that Black Americans have turned to musical performance as a modality of socio-political expression and unity; ultimately, I ... -
Unholy Ghosts in the Age of Spirit: Identity, Intersectionality, and the Theological Horizons of Black Progress
(2017-05-12)The dissertation offers, at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and class, a constructive theological account of spirit in black Christianity. Although spirit is a pervasive trope in African-American religion, ...