Dissertations / Theses: 'Black cultural studies'

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Evans, Howell. "The literature of the blues and black cultural studies." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0004265.

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Greene, Chloe Blysse. "Community Cultural Imprints: a Guide to Alter the Space Black Americans Occupy through Culturally Competent Urban Planning." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461329906.

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McKelvey, Mary Wilder. "A comparison of adjustment in divorced and separated black and white mothers: a cultural variant perspective /." The Ohio State University, 1996. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148793458997567.

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Amoah, Maame A. "FASHIONFUTURISM: The Afrofuturistic Approach To Cultural Identity inContemporary Black Fashion." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent15960737328946.

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Pelto, Brendan. "Black-Americans in Michigan's Copper Mining Narrative." Thesis, Michigan Technological University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10617571.

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This thesis details the Phase 1 archaeological investigation into Black-Americans who were active on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan during the mining boom of the 1850s–1880s. Using archaeological and archival methods, this thesis is a proof-of-concept for future work to be done that investigates the cultural heritage of Black Americans in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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Scott, Lionel D. "Living in a complex social world : the influence of cultural value orientation, perceived control, and racism-related stress on coping among African-American adolescents /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488205318509485.

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DeCoste, Kyle. "Street queens| The Original Pinettes and black feminism in New Orleans brass bands." Thesis, Tulane University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1599202.

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The musical traditions of New Orleans are largely patriarchal. As the predominant sonic signifier of New Orleans, the brass band amplifies this gender bias more than any other musical tradition in the city. Brass band song lyrics can at times revolve around the subjugation and objectification of women, which renders the brass band canon tricky to access for female musicians. These symbolic issues become socially reified in the male control of instruments and the barriers to professionalization experienced by female musicians. Indeed, female brass band musicians are in the minority, constituting few more than ten musicians in a city with somewhere in the vicinity of fifty bands, all of which feature about ten musicians. The available literature on brass bands has thus far focused almost exclusively on black men and, mostly due to the relative absence of women in brass bands, neglects to view gender as a category of analysis, reflecting the gender bias of the scene at large. Using black feminist theory, this thesis seeks to introduce gender as a key element to brass band research by studying the only current exception to male dominance in New Orleans’ brass band community, an all-female brass band named the Original Pinettes Brass Band. Their example forces us to reconsider the domain of brass band music not only as one where brass band instruments articulate power, but where gender is a primary element in the construction and consolidation of this power.

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Chambers, Alli D. "Cultural Solidarity, Free Space, and African Consciousness in the Formation of the Black Fraternity." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/154149.

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African American Studies
Ph.D.
This dissertation analyzes and broadens the discourse regarding the impact of culture and the emergence of the social movement by focusing on some of the links between culture and social movements. Drawing upon the idea of cycle of protests this work explains how African Americans were able to materialize, communicate, and ultimately sustain separate identities under antagonistic social conditions. Critical to the understanding of this work is the role the "free space" had in shaping the identity of both African Americans and the movement which occurred as a result of their attitudes. The free space can be described as a protected area, haven, or a small-scale setting which provides activist autonomy from dominant groups where they can nurture oppositional movement identities. This study is a multifaceted account of the Black Greek-letter organizations that explains the creation of these organizations within the Black community. There are four steps or levels which were examined in order to understand the rise or the establishment of the Black organization as a means of social protest. They are: 1) mediating factors or social grievances within a community, 2) the creation of the cultural free space, 3) the framing of the organization in relation to other social movements, 4) the personal orientation or cultural affiliation (African agency) of the organizations' members. Subsequently, this study analyzed how internal conflicts, hostile social and political environments, the creation of new organizations, and the dissemination of community grievances combine to create an atmosphere which allowed the African American community to create its own separate conscious identity. By dissecting the anatomy of the social movement and the interrelated patterns that define them one will be able to recognize and ultimately predict the rise of future social movements.
Temple University--Theses

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Pinchback-Hines, Cynthia Juanesta. "From isolation to insulation| The impact of campus culture on the existence of two cultural centers." Thesis, Indiana State University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3589549.

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This case study examined how the campus culture influences the existence of a Black cultural center and a multicultural center at a predominantly White university. A qualitative ethnography was conducted using focus group interviews, personal interviews, archival research, and anecdotal observation. The results of the study identified five themes: (a) from isolation to insulation, (b) opportunities for involvement, (c) the perception problem, (d) challenges of change, and (e) leadership commitment.

A Pinchback model of relevance for cultural centers for predominantly White campuses was created for practitioners and administrators seeking ideas for making cultural centers relevant at their respective institutions. The model features external forces that influence campus culture and the forces within the campus culture that influence the cultural centers. The role of the cultural center is shown as broadening the difficult conversations around race, diversity, and inclusion.

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Reed, Ann. "Gateway to Africa the pilgrimage tourism of diaspora Africans to Ghana /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3223051.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Anthropology, 2006.
"Title from dissertation home page (viewed June 27, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2213. Advisers: Gracia Clark; Richard Wilk.

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Kivenko, Sharon Freda. "Mobile Bodies: Migration, Performance and Social Belonging in Malian Dance." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:26718756.

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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 creative ways in which professional and aspiring Malian dancers garner social recognition as they perform in local, national, and transnational arenas. How do bodies in motion - while dancing and migrating internationally - serve as strategic sites for re-negotiating social capital at home? Elaborating on Sheller’s “embodied theory of citizenship” (2012), this dissertation brings to light the work of Malian performance artists as they negotiate and articulate their social belonging through their dancing, music-making and acting. Trained by the State but (thanks to neoliberal reforms) left to their own devices to make work, find patrons, and make a living, Malian artists creatively and strategically shift the focus of their skills from nation-building to self-making. What sorts of possibilities for social belonging emerge as artists dance off of national stages and onto transnational ones? Can the work of Malian migrant dancers offer insights into modes of social belonging that are largely performatively (rather than discursively) constituted? Moreover, as a project methodologically focused on distilling ethnographic insights from rigorous dance training, this work brings together academic analyses of the sociality of dancing with on-the-ground lessons about the mechanics and aesthetics of performance. As a result, this project highlights the incisive ways in which scholarly practice is informed by performance practice.
Anthropology

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Howell, Danielle Marie. "Cloning the Ideal? Unpacking the Conflicting Ideologies and Cultural Anxieties in "Orphan Black"." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460059315.

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Malik, Sarita. "Representing Black Britain : Black images on British television from 1936 to the present day." Thesis, n.p, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Smith, Frederick. "The Politics of Ethnic Studies, Cultural Centers, and Student Activism| The Voices of Black Women at the Academic Borderlands." Thesis, Loyola Marymount University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10929596.

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Through employing critical narratives, this qualitative study examined the experiences of Black women who utilized their scholarship and activism to address campus climates at a predominantly Chicanx Latinx institution in Southern California. Six Black women—two faculty, two staff, and two students—participated in the study. All participants were active with Ethnic Studies (Pan-African Studies), the campus Cross Cultural Centers, and Black Student Union student organization in some capacity. Literature on the three areas focuses on the history of and ongoing struggle to exist, significance to campus life, and meaning in the lives of marginalized and minoritized communities. The study used three frameworks: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Race Theory, and Black Feminist and Black Womanist Theory to analyze the critical narratives of the women. Findings revealed Black women integrate community issues into their professional and personal lives, experience rare moments of being celebrated, and must contend with intentional efforts to silence their voices and activism. This study, informed by the Ethnic Studies politics of higher education, contributes to this field by identifying how Black women activists contribute to the moral and ethical leadership of campus climate conversations.

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Barnaby, Nicole. "The Biography of an Institution: The Cultural Formation of Mass Incarceration." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1459887258.

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Osborne, Freddie. "The Black Market : an application of the sound system model to independent filmmaking." Thesis, Kingston University, 2015. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/35022/.

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The Black Market research project takes an existing underground model from Black British popular culture, namely, the sound system, and transposes it to a filmmaking context to see if it is possible to achieve mainstream distribution, build an audience, and earn a living from filmmaking in a commercial sense using classical filmmaking techniques and a home grown, underground approach to making and disseminating films. The project was developed along two strands: an independent comedy series Mandem on the Wall, and the creation of a documentary archive examining the origins, development and current state of sound system culture, which evolved into the feature documentary Carnival Through the Eyes of Gladdy Wax. This thesis places this work within the context of the history of Black British filmmaking and my own personal trajectory and experience of the sound systems culture and its influence on my filmmaking. Historically, the representation of Black British culture in film and television has been controlled by commissioning editors at broadcasters like the BBC and Channel 4, and public funders, such as the British film Institute (BFI). Reflecting on the past struggles of Black British filmmakers with these institutions to get their voices heard, this project adopted a ‘for us by us’ (FUBU) approach as an alternative tactic, creating our own opportunities outside the traditional commissioning process, using the ad-supported, free-to-view YouTube platform to take Black youth culture to the mass market and build a loyal audience online. The methodology used in the production of the online comedy series is built on the audio-visual model of the sound system culture, this model is applied to a visual-audio platform like YouTube and generating cultural and social capital by building a hard-to-reach young black audience. This soon attracted the attention of the traditional gatekeepers, like Universal and Channel 4, and public institutions, like the Tate and the Home Office. However, having broken through into the mainstream, what are the subsequent implications for the Black market model?

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Watts, Brett Madison. "Our Lady of the Queers| The Black Madonna, the American Cultural Complex around Homophobia, and the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13422536.

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This dissertation explores the Black Madonna as the archetypal center of the American cultural complex around homophobia. The dissertation is designed to: (a) present an approach to Jungian concepts informed by complexity theory and transdisciplinarity; (b) integrate the unconscious in research, by honoring the feminine archetype in theory and methodology; (c) extend analytical psychology to the collective level through an exploration of archetype and the evolution of consciousness and culture; (d) detail the American cultural complex around homophobia; and (e) engage the religious function through the production of a meaningful, hermeneutic exploration of consciousness and cultural transformation.

The research question guiding this dissertation is as follows: through the irruptions of the American cultural complex around homophobia, how has the dominant culture’s unconscious, collective projection of the Black Madonna, symbolically embodied by gay men, constellated the transcendent function, supporting the emergence of an integral structure of consciousness and a partnership model of culture?

Several theoretical perspectives (Jungian and post-Jungian thought, complexity theory, Gebser’s structures of consciousness, Eisler’s Cultural Transformation theory, and Singer’s theory of the cultural complex) provide an integrated framework. The research is guided by a melding of approaches and methods, including transdisciplinarity, hermeneutics, and amplification.

The dark feminine archetype has been symbolically embodied by gay men throughout the course of the American struggle for gay rights. As the dominant culture is better able to relate to gay men, it may likewise better relate to the dark feminine archetype, imagined herein as the Black Madonna. Incremental shifts in homophobic attitudes seem to emerge through this relation to the Other and are indicative of evolved consciousness. Ongoing retraction of homophobic attitudes may help to move the culture towards an integral structure of consciousness and partnership model of culture, the unfolding of the Black Madonna archetype.

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Pyper, Brett. ""You can't listen alone"| Jazz, listening and sociality in a transitioning South Africa." Thesis, New York University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3614893.

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This is a study of contemporary jazz culture in post-apartheid South Africa. It demonstrates that the significance of jazz can productively be understood from the perspective of listeners, complementing the necessary attention that has historically been afforded to the creators and performers of the music. It describes the rich social life that has emerged around the collecting and sharing of jazz recordings by associations of listeners in this country. In these social contexts, a semi-public culture of listening has been created, it is argued, that is distinct from the formal jazz recording, broadcast and festival sectors, and extends across various social, cultural, linguistic and related boundaries to constitute a vibrant dimension of vernacular musical life. South African jazz appreciation societies illustrate that collecting may be a global phenomenon but that recordings can take on quite particular social lives in specific times and places, and that the extension of consumer capitalism to places like South Africa does not always automatically involve the same kinds of possessive individualism that they do in other settings, and might even serve as a catalyst for new forms of creativity. The study demonstrates, moreover, that what is casually referred to as "the jazz public" is an internally variegated and often enduringly segregated constellation of scenes, several of which remain quite intimate and, indeed, beyond the view of the "general public." The study foregrounds how one specific dimension of jazz culture – the modes of sociability with which the music has become associated among its listening devotees – can assume decidedly local forms and resonances, becoming part of the country's jazz heritage in its own right and throwing into relief the potential breadth, range and contrasts in the ways that jazz writ large can be figured and recontextualised as it is vernacularized around the world. The study recognizes the significant role that jazz appreciation societies play in creating culturally resonant grassroots social settings for this music, documents and analyses the creativity with which they do so, and considers the broader implications of their contribution to the musical elaboration of public space in contemporary South Africa.

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Ratcliff, Anthony J. "Liberation at the end of a pen writing Pan-African politics of cultural struggle /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/74/.

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Gibbs, Lance L. O. ""It's not just about giving them money": Cultural Representations of Father Involvement Among Black West Indian Immigrants in the United States of America." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429105119.

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Beane, Frank C. II. "Cultural Jihad in the Antebellum South: Subtextual Resistance and Cultural Retention During the Second Great Awakening 1789-1865." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1601640672703752.

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Henderson, Abney Louis. "Four Women: An Analysis of the Artistry of Black Women in the Black Arts Movement, 1960s-1980s." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5236.

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This project honors and recognizes the art and activism of four Black woman--Nina Simone, Nikki Giovanni, Elizabeth Catlett, and Ntozake Shange that contributed to the revolutionary movements of the 1960s through the early 1980s. This thesis examines the works and political challenges of Black women by asking what elements in their artistry/activism addressed issues specifically related to Black women's unique position in America during the Black Revolution and feminist movements? Both primary and secondary sources such as literature from advocates of the Black Arts Movements and the lyrics, poetry, and visual art of the four Black women artists were used to gain perspectives to answer the thesis major questions. The creative visions and activism of these Black women expressed the dire need for the issues of Black women to be heard and also to address all forms of oppression that Black women experience with race, gender, social or economic status, and even cultural identity. The works of these Black women were radical and were also cultural reflections of Black women embracing their idiosyncratic position as Black women despite the climate of perpetual deceptions used either by White Western ideologies or Black male chauvinism. This thesis concluded that when the concerns of Black women are attended to by their own strengths of character and merits, they are also able in return to contribute to their own self-empowerment as well as to the development of racial, gender, and community uplift.

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Banks, Cerri Annette. "This is how we do it! Black women undergraduates, cultural capital and college success-reworking discourse /." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU0NWQmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=3739.

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Jernigan, Gisela Evelyn. "Grandparents' cultural and gender roles in multicultural picture books." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280423.

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My dissertation is a qualitative study using content analysis to explore the roles of grandparents in multicultural picture books. I developed 14 Cultural Markers to analyze my first research question concerning how grandparents from a variety of cultures fulfilled their roles as Family and Cultural Historians, Cultural Role Models, and Experts on Traditions. I identified one Cultural-Sharing Symbol per book to answer my research question regarding how Cultural Markers and Cultural-Sharing Symbols related to these grandparent roles. My third research question explored how Cultural-Sharing Symbols related to character growth in the grandparent/protagonists. My fourth research question considered how gender differences might have influenced grandparents from a variety of cultures as they fulfilled the studied roles. I developed seven Gender Continuum Markers to investigate possible differences in how the eight studied grandmothers fulfilled the three grandparent roles, compared to the eight studied grandfathers. My fifth research question considered how Gender Continuum Markers might relate to possible gender differences in the grandparent/grandchild relationship. To answer the five questions I selected 16 picture books featuring a grandfather and grandmother from the following cultures: African American, Mainstream, East Asian American, Asian American, European American, Latino, Jewish American and Native American. To organize and analyze my findings, I developed a technique related to intertextuality called cumulative story analysis. I found that both European American grandparents, both Native American grandparents, and the Jewish American grandfather fulfilled all three roles almost equally, using most possible Cultural Markers. Both Mainstream grandparents were portrayed with significantly fewer tradition Cultural Markers than the other grandparents. All grandchildren/protagonists grew by the books' ends. Continuity was the most prevalent, powerful Cultural Marker. Most grandparents were portrayed with Gender Continuum Markers that might be considered closer to the traditionally feminine side of the continuum for non-verbal interactions. There was even less verbal variation between genders; talk was usually portrayed with blended Gender Continuum Markers. There were definitely more gender similarities than differences when the books were compared both across cultures and within cultures. The bond of grandparent love existed beyond gender limitations.

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Shaw, John Brendan. "Touching History to Find “a Kind of Truth”: Black Women’s Queer Desires in Post-Civil Rights Literature, Film, and Music." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1468845503.

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Kilgour, Carol L. "The Black Holes of Beirut| An Investigation of the Cultural, Liminal and Psychic Spaces of a Political Hostage." Thesis, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3718000.

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The emergence of globalization has resulted in the formation of what Hardt and Negri (2001) term “Empire,” a regime of governance without territorial or temporal boundaries operating on all registers of life, from the level of political regulation down to the internalized level of self-regulation by an individual. This work posits that although Empire may be distinctive in its unbounded character and lacking an “outside,” voids, characterized as black holes, exist within Empire that haunt the spatial totality. Such geographical, physical and psychic black holes evoke uncanny sensations within the body.

Utilizing the argument that culture permeates individuals and informs how they conceive of themselves, the world, and others, the work adopted a complexity sensibility in the study of the black hole systems in an attempt to integrate the introspective, the interpersonal, intercultural, and international experiences that constitute a global existence.

The culturally contextualized complex depth psychological analysis of psychosis experienced during catastrophic psychic trauma undertaken in this work offered a more nuanced understanding to a traditional psychiatric interpretation. Having become aware of the complex cultural manifestations of psychosis, this work explored psychosis as a window through which the strangeness of unconscious functioning can be observed.

This dissertation examined the lived experience of a former hostage in war torn Lebanon using a hermeneutic design. The ordeal of being abducted from a geographic black hole (Lebanon) into a terrorist black hole, incarcerated within a physical black hole (solitary confinement) and the subsequent descent into a psychic black hole (psychosis) was investigated by viewing the geographical, terrorist, liminal, and psychic spaces through a complex depth psychological lens.

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Mishrell, Kirk W. "Rockin' The Tritone: Gender, Race & The Aesthetics of Aggressive Heavy Metal Subcultures." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/history_theses/52.

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This paper explores the dynamics of two regional heavy metal styles. It focuses on the aesthetics of Florida death metal and Norwegian black metal. This paper seeks to contribute but also deviate from the great studies linking music with cultural studies. Heavy metal has gained international attention from many social leaders concerned with the direction of its listeners. Heavy metal, from its early foundation, has been used to rebel against social order. As the music evolves, it becomes dangerous to the social establishment; challenging ideologies such as religion, globalization, feminism and common decency. This paper seeks to tell the story of the battle between hegemony and the subversive subculture of intense metal, giving voice to some truly disturbed individuals dissatisfied with the existing social institution. In doing so, I hope this study serves as model for future studies of radical youth culture.

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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.

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Maxson, Brian. "Review of Studies in Renaissance Humanism and Politics: Florence and Arezzo, by Robert Black." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6182.

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For nearly four decades Robert Black has published important books and articles on humanism, politics, and education in Renaissance Tuscany. Black published his first monograph, Benedetto Accolti and the Florentine Renaissance,in 1985. Far more than a simple biography, the book is a treasure trove of information about Florence in the mid-Quattrocento. ...

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Peck, RaShelle R. "Imperfect Resistance: Embodied Performances in Nairobi Underground Hip Hop." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397664120.

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Long, Khalid Yaya. "PEARL CLEAGE’S A SONG FOR CORETTA: CULTURAL PERFORMATIVITY AS HISTORIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTATION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1311293741.

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Rufus, Nicole O. "Moving Towards Home: An Exploration of Black American and Palestinian Solidarity." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/852.

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This thesis is an exploration of the relationship between Black Americans and Palestinians. I trace the historical relationship between Black Americans and Israel/Palestine in order to show how Black Americans move from large, overwhelming support for Israel to solidarity with Palestine and the Palestinian people. This thesis tracks the relationship between Black Americans and Jews (both domestically and abroad), Black leaders who opposed the state of Israel prior to 1967, the large shift in Black American support for Palestine that occurs after the Six Day War of 1967, the relationship between Black Americans and Arab Americans, and the current day Ferguson to Palestine movement.

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Jenkins, Rebecca D. "Forgotten: Scioto County's Lost Black History." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1429214056.

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Jackson, Marianne. "Flying Fat." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1249055649.

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Winsett, Shea. ""It's Not Meant for Us": Exploring the Intersection of Gentrification, Public Education, and Black Identity in Washington, D.C." W&M ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1563898946.

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This dissertation discusses themes of racial identity, meaning of space, and class through an exploration of the intersection of gentrification and public education in Washington, D.C. Through analysis of middle-class responses to gentrification I argue, 1) that the public education system is a site of gentrification, as it has become a site of capitalistic development and Black displacement; 2) that the American concept of race, including race relations, is not an aberration of typical American society, but a defining cultural feature; and 3) the best way to understand race and class in America is to use theory constructed from the philosophical writings of W.E.B Du Bois. I ultimately conclude that both Black and White middle-class Washingtonians view gentrification as an economic process, however, in discussing ownership of the city, White middle-class Washingtonians feel as though the right to claim ownership of the city is shaped by politician-backed developers who craft the city focusing on consumption and not on community cohesiveness. They thus feel excluded from the city based on being reduced to simply a consumer. The Black middle-class on the other hand, as exemplified by teachers, feels excluded from the city because the consumer options presented in the context of gentrification are “not for them” and in their eyes appeals to an aesthetic that is simultaneously White and middle-class. Moreover, Black Washingtonian educators embrace the discourse of displacement associated with gentrification, defining gentrification ultimately as “White take-over” of Black spaces and marking the public education system of the city as a site of such take over.

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Prier, Darius D. "Understanding Hip-Hop as a Counter-Public Space of Resistance for Black Male Youth in Urban Education." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1250280239.

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Amemate, Amelia AmeDela. "Black Bodies, White Masks?: Straight Hair Culture and Natural Hair Politics Among Ghanaian Women." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu157797167417396.

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Kelly, Aryn. "Mobilizing Images of Black Pain and Death through Digital Media: Visual Claims to Collective Identity After “I Can’t Breathe”." Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7827.

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In the wake of Eric Garner’s 2014 public execution at the hands of NYPD officers, online spaces such as Twitter saw an influx of remediated imagery referencing Ramsey Orta’s bystander cell phone video of Garner’s death. These images often explicitly reference the chokehold that killed Garner and/or they reappropriate Garner’s last words: “I can’t breathe.” To what formal dimensions in Orta’s video are these remediated images responding? What broader cultural work is the creation of these images doing? In this project, I regard Orta’s video as the point of entry for considering the cultural work of remediating images from it, as understanding its formal dimensions are necessary to recognizing the ways in which the remediated images attend to Garner’s body. I read this video using Scott Richmond’s revision of Christian Metz’s theory of cinematic identification to identify the concerning and compelling tension between over and under-identifying with onscreen subjects in Orta’s video, ultimately asserting that aligning with any body onscreen is ultimately a choice. Further, the remediated images attending to Garner’s body signal viewer’s chosen alignment with him or Orta, and claim Garner’s death as a socially constructed cultural trauma. These claims not only signal collective identification around the trauma on behalf of those who did not initially witness it, but also express belief in Garner’s experience despite a public discourse that continually emphasized his (and other black men’s) perceived violent potential.

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Zu-Bolton, Amber E. "All Trails Lead to Sterling: How Sterling Brown Fathered the Field of Black Literary and Cultural Studies, 1936-1969." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2711.

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Poet and professor Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) played a significant role in the birth of black literary and cultural studies through his literary and academic careers. Brown helped to establish a new wave of black cultural and folklore studies during his time as the “Director of Negro Affairs” for the Federal Writers’ Project. As a professor at Howard University, Brown influenced black literary studies through his literary criticisms and seminars and his role as a mentor to literary figures of the next generations. Through letters to and from Sterling Brown and manuscripts, this thesis argues that Brown’s poetry, publications and folk studies in the nineteen twenties and thirties where the groundwork for his most prolific role of teacher-mentor.

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Evans, Angel A. "Healing, Lived Writing Process, and the Making of Knowledge." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1617890978476659.

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Butts, andrew Jefferson. "America's Other Peculiar Institution: Exploring the York County Free Black Register as a Means of Social Control, 1798-1831." W&M ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626511.

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Winn, Alisha R. "Beyond the Business: Social and Cultural Aspects of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1809.

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The dissertation research is an examination of the social and cultural dynamics of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company (ALIC) in Atlanta, GA. During the Jim Crow era (and post Jim Crow era), the ALIC provided economic mobility through employment, home loans, life insurance, and community solidarity. The company was one of the largest and most successful African-American financial institution in the country during the 20th century. It was founded in 1905 by Alonzo F. Herndon, a prosperous black barber and entrepreneur who rose from enslavement to become by 1927 the wealthiest African American in Atlanta. Renamed as the Atlanta Life Financial Group (ALFG), today the insurance company remains the leading African American stock-owned insurance company in the nation. I examine how Atlanta Life employees conceptualized their relationships within the company (past and present) and the larger African American community of Atlanta, along with the role the institution played as a shared space for producing cultural identities through social interactions. I explore the multiple roles of the company that impacted the community in the past and current roles within the African American community. I also explore what the possible closing of the Herndon Home Museum mean for memories and heritage, and the Herndon family's accomplishments if the home were torn down.

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Mingo, Chivon A. "Identifying and Addressing Health Disparities in Black Older Adults with Osteoarthritis." Scholar Commons, 2010. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3540.

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Osteoarthritis (OA), the most common form of arthritis in older adults, often results in pain, disability and poor psychological well-being. Compared to White adults, Black adults consistently report more pain, more activity limitations, and have different perceptions about OA. Racial disparities also exist in treatments, and prevalence of arthritis. It is imperative to have effective interventions and treatment options for older Blacks. Yet, few arthritis interventions have included Black participants in their samples, and nearly all of those have failed to report separate analyses indicating the effectiveness for Black adults, thus leaving a gap in the literature. The purpose of this study is to begin to identify factors needed to design arthritis interventions that will reduce barriers and increase appeal to Blacks. The present dissertation consists of one study with two related parts. The first part consists of a needs assessment that examined intervention preferences, barriers to healthcare, knowledge about interventions and care, utilization, and health beliefs among Black and White adults with self-reported physician-diagnosed OA. The second part evaluated materials used in an existing arthritis intervention for acceptability. The study was based on the Arthritis Self Management Program (ASMP). Frequencies were examined to determine needs related to arthritis healthcare of Blacks and Whites recruited from the community. Independent samples t-tests and Pearson’s Chi-square analyses were examined to determine group differences between Blacks and Whites. Blacks were more likely to report cost, lack of trust, fear of being the only person of their race, lack of recommendation from their doctor, and lack of recommendation of a family or friends as barriers to participating in arthritis interventions. In addition, Blacks were more likely to prefer the intervention content, structure and delivery, and arthritis resources presented in the needs assessment in comparison to Whites. As for the evaluation of the intervention materials, Blacks and Whites were similar on most sections. Based on our findings we suggest that practical adaptations (e.g., cost) be made to existing arthritis interventions to increase cultural sensitivity. Such adaptations have the potential to minimize barriers and offer a program that would be appealing to Blacks with OA.

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Kaye, Sherry Ms. "Recasting the White Stereotype of Southern Appalachia: Contribution to Culture and Community by Black Appalachian Women." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3156.

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The myth and image of Southern Appalachia spun by local color writers of the early nineteenth century and, later, by local elites in privileged positions of power have long cast the historiography of the region in tones of Caucasian lineage and remediation. The production of culture, contribution to community, and service to church and, family long considered to be the domain of women has predominantly been viewed from the privilege of a white perspective. Prescriptive definitions of a monochromatic culture in the Uplands of Southern Appalachia has written out the cultural contribution of diverse ethnicities who continue to call the region home. The purpose of this study is to illuminate the ways in which women of color and diversity contribute to the production of culture through service to their communities, volunteer outreach, and service in the church and, as models of core Appalachian values for their families.

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Johnson, Alexandra Blythe. "Social change and shifting paradigms: the choice of healer among black South Africans in psychological counselling." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002507.

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Social change in South Africa brings to light the multiplicity of world-views operating in our society, which individuals encountering a variety of social contexts are faced with. This raises questions about the choices black South Africans face in response to influences from Western and traditional African culture. This issue was approached through examining helpseeking choices made between different health care sectors that stem from different world-views. This would indicate whether individuals are drawing on a variety of belief systems. The sources of their beliefs are put into context by looking at the communities of practice that influence their local knowledge. Help-seeking is also influenced by the identities the individual may ascribe to, which are derived from the multiple positions held by them in different social contexts. In this research the use of health-care sectors by four black women attending psychotherapy is examined. Their use of these sectors reflects a potential multiplicity of world views. Semistructured interviews were conducted, focusing on participants' prior experience of different help options, and their current perceptions of traditional African healing and psychology. The texts were analysed using a qualitative hermeneutic method, the reading guide. Data was looked at through three main themes, the individual's relationship to the health care sectors, their knowledge of different world views, and the identities they adopted which may be influential in their choice of a healer. It was found that in two participants there was some movement away from traditional beliefs, with one rejecting the traditional healers who did not help her, once she has discovered therapy, and another identifying herself completely with Western medicine. In contrast, one participant illustrated a rediscovery of traditional healing, whilst still attending psychotherapy. This suggests that shifts in knowledge are not necessarily away from traditional beliefs. It was also found that the two participants who had experienced a broader variety of social contexts and identified with multiple belief systems, tended to use a variety of Western and traditional healing sources and selected the healing option they felt was most appropriate to a particular problem. It is argued therefore that having a variety of knowledge and beliefs places individuals in a more powerful position to determine their choice of action than those with a limited range of knowledge.

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Whatley, Cierra K. "Black Women's Experiences with Street Harassment: A Qualitative Inquiry." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron153685678409421.

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Blackbird, Leila K. "Entwined Threads of Red and Black: The Hidden History of Indigenous Enslavement in Louisiana, 1699-1824." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2559.

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Contrary to nationalist teleologies, the enslavement of Native Americans was not a small and isolated practice in the territories that now comprise the United States. This thesis is a case study of its history in Louisiana from European contact through the Early American Period, utilizing French Superior Council and Spanish judicial records, Louisiana Supreme Court case files, statistical analysis of slave records, and the synthesis and reinterpretation of existing scholarship. This paper primarily argues that it was through anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity and with the utilization of socially constructed racial designations that “Indianness” was controlled and exploited, and that Native Americans and their mixed-race Black-Native descendants continued to be enslaved alongside the larger population Africans and African Americans in Louisiana. Lacking a decolonized lens and historiography inclusive of the enslavement of Indigenous peoples, the American story ignores the full impact of white settler colonialism and historical trauma.

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Shiburi, Piet Thapedi. "The attitude of Black people of Hammanskraal towards Afrikaans and changes in this regard : a sociolinguistic and cultural studies approach." Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76024.

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This explorative, qualitative study examines the attitude of Black people of Hammanskraal towards Afrikaans. The role that Afrikaans plays in this attitude was looked at. Qualitative research methodology was employed. Mixed method approach was also used. The findings of this study revealed that respondents’ attitude towards Afrikaans was generally negative. Possible reasons are the severe impact of apartheid policies on Black people and the negative attitude of the Boeremag towards them.
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2019.
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De, Barros Khym Isaac. "Hues of brown a case study of the psychotherapeutic process exploring racial and cultural identity between a Black West Indian female client and an African American female therapist /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3350513.

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Gonzalez, Oscar A. "The Central American Question: Nicaraguan Cultural Production and Francisco Goldman's The Ordinary Seaman." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2225.

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This study examines the cultural production and political history of Nicaragua from the 1960s to the early 1990s and interprets Francisco Goldman’s The Ordinary Seaman alongside Central America’s literary boom period, the nation-building project of the revolutionary letrados, and race relations between Nicaragua’s Pacific region and its two autonomous sectors of the Atlantic coast. It is argued that Central American ways of seeing are colored by the interplay between a revolutionary past, the myth of the pure Indio or mestizo, and the erasure of national identity in the US contact zone. Rather than recuperating a Central American identity, it is maintained that exposing the construction of said identity uncovers the hidden blackness and the heterogeneity of the Central American isthmus. Ultimately, the thesis aims at giving visibility to forgotten and ignored Central American narratives, histories, and people, and stresses the significance of studying the region within a literary and black Atlantic perspective.

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