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Adams, Aaron M. "Climatology and Variability of Aerosol over Africa, the Atlantic, and the Americas." Scholarly Repository, 2011. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_theses/273.
Full textPerreault, Melanie Lynn. "First contact: Early English encounters with natives of Russia, West Africa, and the Americas, 1530-1614." W&M ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623910.
Full textBatista, Henrique Medeiros. ""Africa! Africa! Africa!" Black Identity in Marlos Nobre's Rhythmetron." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1586866469586654.
Full textNgwenya, Nomfundo Xenia. "Blacks without borders : African-Americans and South Africa 1984-2007." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.608616.
Full textWallace, Barbara Elizabeth. "'Fair daughters of Africa' : African American women in Baltimore, 1790-1860 (Maryland)." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?res_dat=xri:ssbe&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_dat=xri:ssbe:ft:keyresource:G_Rel_Diss_02.
Full textChristiano, Katrina Ann. "Gaming among Enslaved Africans in the Americas, and its Uses in Navigating Social Interactions." W&M ScholarWorks, 2010. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626619.
Full textMarouan, Maha. "The construction of religion and history in selected contemporary works of the African Americas." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431882.
Full textBroyles, Teresa Ann. "A Journey from West Africa to Slavery: African-American Life During the Eighteenth-Century." W&M ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1593092167.
Full textOjewale, Olugbenga Samson Mr. "America’s Inconsistent Foreign Policy to Africa; a Case Study of Apartheid South Africa." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3439.
Full textHiggin, Hannah Nicole. "Disseminating American ideals in Africa, 1949-1969." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709221.
Full textTinga, Tracy. "From Afro pessimism to Africa Rising: Anglo-American & Afro Media Representations of Africa." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/573560.
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This dissertation interrogates the representation of Africa as rising by examining the conditions that have led to the shift from an Afro pessimistic discourse to a more propulsive one. To do so, it examines how “Africa Rising” functions as a discourse articulated through transnational news networks, global financial, development, business organizations and Afrocentric digital platforms. It analyzes the recurring tropes, symbols and language used to signify the notion of “rising”, how various social actors are involved in the articulation of this discourse, the countries on the continent labelled as “rising”, which ones are not and why? It examines the conditions that have enabled the emergence of this discourse, and how they relate to other discourses. It examines the role of Afropolitans on the continent and the diaspora in the production and dissemination of this discourse through emerging Afrocentric digital platforms. Finally, it analyzes the tensions, contradictions and absences within this discourse and its implications for African countries. To address these questions, the rising discourse is theoretically contextualized within neoliberal globalization and development discourses, South-South relations, Postcolonial, journalism, digital media, and identity frameworks, to reveal the nuanced way that it articulates various ideological assumptions and the intersectional dimensions of race, gender and class in the production of the continent. Methodologically, this project applies a multi-sited critical discourse analysis, to a variety of news media texts from Anglo-American media, Afrocentric digital platforms and institutional reports. It also examines how various institutions deploy the notion of “Africa Rising.” Finally, this study includes interviews with content producers of Afrocentric digital platforms, to understand if and how they engage and situate their work within the “Africa Rising” discourse. This dissertation reveals that the Africa Rising discourse contradicts itself as it homogenizes the continent whilst pushing a neoliberal agenda that excludes countries within the continent that fail to adopt this agenda. It also reveals the tensions of neoliberalism on the continent, as countries with various profiles and histories struggle to adopt these policies. It reveals how various global social actors continue to influence affairs within the continent. Finally, it reveals the role that Afrocentric digital platforms are influencing perceptions about the African continent and how these platforms are intertwined with the neoliberal agenda.
Temple University--Theses
Leanne, Shelly. "African-American initiatives against minority rule in South Africa : a politicized diaspora in world politics." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259982.
Full textWills, Mary Jo. "Analysis of the Appointment of the First African American Ambassador to Apartheid-Era South Africa." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/70875.
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Arunga, Marcia Tate. "Back to Africa in the 21st Century: The Cultural Reconnection Experiences of African American Women." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch149315357668899.
Full textJones, Esther. "Traveling discourses: subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women’s speculative fictions in the Americas." The Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1155665383.
Full textBurns, Carolyn Diane. "The relevance of African American singing games to Xhosa children in South Africa a qualitative study /." Thesis, Montana State University, 2009. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2009/burns/BurnsC0509.pdf.
Full textKamali, Leila Francesca. "Spectres of the shore : the memory of Africa in contemporary African-American and Black British fiction." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2007. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4110/.
Full textGrant, Nicholas George. ""We shall win our freedoms together" : African Americans, South Africa and black international protest, 1945-1960." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/12750/.
Full textHutchinson, Tsekwa Jennifer. "'Travelling Tales' : American (re)constructions of South Africa and Africa through study abroad in Cape Town." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14804.
Full textPostcolonial theory has been critiqued for essentializing the North and being too theoretical. Yet it has also been described as essential for the ongoing decolonization of our world. Scholars in a range of disciplines have therefore suggested the need to 'examine specific practices and devises in particular times and places' in order to expose and challenge the ways that certain forms of discourse function to maintain imperialist interests and misrepresentations of Africa in the 'West.' To these ends, this study looks at the construction of early European/American travelers' tales and the experience of study abroad in South Africa as two particular practices that are relevant to the concerns of postcolonialism. While much has been written about each of these phenomena on their own, little has been done to bring them into a conversation with each other. To fill this gap, this dissertation draws on narrative analysis, symbolic convergence theory, discourse analysis and postcolonial theory to explore the dominant narratives that emerge in the pre-trip, embodied trip and post-trip tellings of both types of tales. In order to discover the meaning-making processes of these narratives, qualitative methods were used. Firstly, an extensive literature review was undertaken of early travelers' tales (written between 1600 and 1900), images of Africa in the United States, travel and tourism theory and study abroad literature. Eight focus groups and six one-on-one interviews were then conducted with a total of 36 American students, who were either directly enrolled at the University of Cape Town or participants in the School for International Training (SIT) in Cape Town. These interviews were then followed up with email correspondence once the students had returned home. This study found that while study abroad narratives have enormous potential to challenge the negative and inaccurate stereotypes about Africa in the United States, many strains still exist that mirror the rhetoric of early travelers' tales and promote notions of Africa as 'wild', 'dangerous' and 'underdeveloped' and South Africa as the 'light' version of Africa. However, in contrast to the writers of early travelers' tales, the students who participated in this study demonstrated many more instances of critical self-reflection and desire for change.
Dow, Philip Edward. "The influence of American evangelical missionaries on US relations with East and Central Africa during the Cold War." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607676.
Full textOrr, Rodney H. "African American missionaries to East Africa, 1900-1926 : a study in the ethnic reconnection of the Gospel." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/26827.
Full textMurray, Robert P. "Whiteness in Africa: Americo-Liberians and the Transformative Geographies of Race." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/23.
Full textJones, Esther L. "Traveling discourses subjectivity, space and spirituality in black women's speculative fictions in the Americas /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1155665383.
Full textHyman, Zoe Laura. "American segregationist ideology and white Southern Africa, 1948-1975." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/39449/.
Full textGrimm, Kevin E. "Symbol of Modernity: Ghana, African Americans, and the Eisenhower Administration." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1334240469.
Full textMkhize, Gabisile. "African Women| An Examination of Collective Organizing Among Grassroots Women in Post Apartheid South Africa." Thesis, The Ohio State University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3710319.
Full textThis dissertation examines how poor black South African women in rural areas organize themselves to address their poverty situations and meet their practical needs – those that pertain to their responsibilities as grandmothers, mothers, and community members – and assesses their organizations' effectiveness for meeting women's goals. My research is based on two groups that are members of the South African Rural Women's Movement. They are the Sisonke Women's Club Group (SSWCG) and the Siyabonga Women's Club Group (SBWCG). A majority of these women are illiterate and were de jure or de facto heads of households. Based on interviews and participant observation, I describe and analyze the strategies that these women employ in an attempt to alleviate poverty, better their lives, and assist in the survival of their families, each other, and the most vulnerable members of their community. Their strategies involve organizing in groups to support each other's income-generating activities and to help each other in times of emergency. Their activities include making floor mats, beading, sewing, baking, and providing caregiving for members who are sick and for orphans. I conclude that, although their organizing helps meet practical needs based on their traditional roles as women, it has not contributed to meeting strategic needs – to their empowerment as citizens or as heads of households.
Wilkin, Jeremy. "A marriage of convenience : Pax Americana, the African renaissance and the policing of Post-Cold War Africa." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3682.
Full textSmith, Kenneth. "The American “Civilizing Mission:” The Tuskegee Institute and its Involvement in African Colonialism." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/38832.
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Andrew Orr
Many historians believe that the United States did not play a major role in the European colonial affairs of Africa. The “civilizing mission” in Africa was largely a European matter that the United States did not have any involvement in and instead stayed out of African affairs. However, this is in fact not true. Industrial education was a new way of managing and “civilizing” African populations after the global end of slavery and the archetype of industrial education was in Tuskegee, Alabama at the Tuskegee Institute. The Tuskegee Institute was the pinnacle of industrial education. Students came not just from the United States, but from around the world as well to learn a trade or improved technologies in agriculture. It allowed students to attend the school for free in exchange for working the farms at the school and general upkeep while training them to be better farmers and tradesmen. On the surface, it offered an avenue for blacks to carve their own economic path. Implicitly, however, it did not offer African Americans and Africans a path towards upward mobility as it continued to relegate them to menial labor jobs and worked within the confines of the established racial hierarchy in which blacks were not granted the same opportunities as whites, in this instance it was education. This thesis argues that the Tuskegee Institute’s (now Tuskegee University) method of industrial education became an influential model for managing the African colonies via industrial education and that the United States was thus more involved in the “civilizing mission” than previously thought. The Tuskegee Institute first ventured into Africa when it assisted the German Colonial Government in Togo in establishing industrial education which helped to develop infrastructure and modern technology in the colony. Second, I examine Tuskegee’s role in Liberia as it established the Booker Washington Institute which is still in existence today. Lastly, I illustrate the diverse effects of the Tuskegee Model of education in Africa and how it correlated to Tuskegee education in the United States and how events in both Africa and the United States led to the collapse of the Tuskegee Model.
Howard, Lawrence C. "American involvement in Africa south of the Sahara, 1800-1860." New York : Garland Pub, 1988. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/18629170.html.
Full textMonroe, Alicia. "The mass media effect American perception and attitude toward Africa /." Connect to resource, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6623.
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Tiondi, Evaline. "Women, Environment and Development: Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America." Scholar Commons, 2000. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000028.
Full textUkiru, Judi Minage. "Acculturation experience of Africa immigrants in the United States of American." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2127.
Full textMartin, Maria A. "Underestimated Influences: North Africa in Classical Antiquity." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1301936096.
Full textMkhize, Gabisile Promise. "African Women: An Examination of Collective Organizing Among Grassroots Women in Post Apartheid South Africa." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1357308299.
Full textJordan, Donald L. "Changing American assessments of the Soviet threat in Africa: 1975-1985." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/21190.
Full textBrown, Kyndall Allen. "Culture, identity, and mathematics creating learning spaces for Africa-American males /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1866445251&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textAlford, Kwame Wes. "A prophet without honor : William Leon Hansberry and the origins of the discipline of African studies (1894-1939) /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9901212.
Full textOkumu, Frederick W. "Ethnic groups and U.S. foreign policy: An analysis on the African American influence on congressional foreign policy initiatives toward South Africa." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1992. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/3226.
Full textAnderson, Garnett Murphy II. "Examining causes of poverty in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1882.
Full textPedersen, Jennifer. "Sisters resist! : women's peace activism in West Africa and North America." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2160/208b63b8-4163-47ce-a511-323561cfb352.
Full textAlston, Booker Thomas. "Transatlantic Latter-day Saints: Mormon circulations between America and South Africa." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12720.
Full text"Transatlantic Latter-days Saints" is an analysis of Mormonism in South Africa from a history of religions perspective. Contextualizing the Mormon experience in South Africa, the central concern of this dissertation is whether or not the religion's history in the country should be defined as distinctly American. By tracking historical transatlantic circulations, mapping changing territories, and utilizing the comparative strategies of scholars such as Jonathan Z. Smith and David Chidester, this study documents and analyses the changing associations of South African Mormonism with America. In some instances, such as its nineteenth-century practice of polygamy and its twentieth century policies of racial prejudice, Mormonism appears to be more at home in South Africa than in America. In other areas, such as the contributions made by Mormon missionaries during the 1930s in the organization and development of the game of baseball in South Africa, the religion utilized its American heritage to contribute to its advantage as well as to the Americanization of South Africa. While these case studies yield conclusive outcomes, others, such as the historical mapping of the life and legend of Gobo Fango, display the complexity of tracking transatlantic circulations between America and South Africa. This dissertation demonstrates that despite Mormonism's location on the periphery of South Africa and South Africa's peripheral position within Mormonism, the transatlantic circulations that link America, Mormonism, and South Africa raise issues that are often of central concern to both countries and to the religion. By attending to Mormon circulations between America and South Africa, this dissertation develops alternative perspectives on such important areas of study as nineteenthcentury missions, slavery, policies of racial discrimination, and American popular culture.
Albanese, Ciriaco Gerardo. "Black on black : visions of America from African-Americans /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09ara326.pdf.
Full textHarning, Jeannie. "The South African lobby in America: the battle over sanctions." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002989.
Full textSelby, Amy Lynn. "Africa in Cleveland: Colonial Wars and Perceptions of Race and Empire in American Newspapers." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1337651968.
Full textFlannery, Maria Ifetayo. "Locating 'Africa' Within the Diaspora: The Significance of the Relationship Between Haiti and Free Africans of Philadelphia Following the Haitian Revolution." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/381869.
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The purpose of this study is to produce an Africological model that lends attention to epistemological questions in African diaspora research through theoretical and culturally based analysis, ultimately to aid the historical and psychological restoration of Africans in diaspora. This work reflects the theoretical and historic stream of scholarship that centers geographic Africa as the adhesive principle of study in shaping and understanding the cultural and political ally-ship between different African diasporic communities. My aim is to illustrate what Africa represents in diaspora and how it was shaped in the conscious minds and actions of early Africans in diaspora from their own vantage point. Secondly, through a case study of the intra-diasporic relationship between Haiti and free Africans of Philadelphia following the Haitian Revolution, this work lays precedence for the expansion of an African diasporic consciousness. The significance of the intra-diasporic relationship is in the mutual recognition that Haitians and Africans in North America considered themselves a common people. Moreover, they developed an international relationship during the early 19th century to serve their mutual interest in African freedom and autonomous development despite Western expansion. My research locates Africa as the place of origin for dispersed and migrating African diasporic communities, operating as a binding source. In this study Africa is explored as a cognitive and geo-political cultural location for African people in diaspora. I support that African diasporic communities exist as extended African cultural locations of awareness which can and have been negotiated by communities depending on their agency, support, and circumstance to achieve collective goals.
Temple University--Theses
Rapoo, Connie. "Figures of sacrifice Africa in the transnational imaginary /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1610482411&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textAbimbola, Taiwo. "Malaria, Labor Supply, and Schooling in Sub-Saharan Africa." Scholar Commons, 2007. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/588.
Full textClark, Myra, and E. Mann. "Perspectives About Responsibility for Diabetes Management Among Rural African American Women." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8368.
Full textAusten, Benjamin. "Raceball : African Americans and myths of America in baseball literature." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/18419.
Full textPye, David Kenneth. "Legal subversives African American lawyers in the Jim Crow South /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2010. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3396343.
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