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Sights of Racial Violence: New Media Technologies and Acts of Watching, Memory, and Legitimation.
(2016)
This dissertation explores the relationship between race, technology, and media cultures by examining the phenomenon of watching anti-Black violence in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American culture. Through selected ...
"Out of This Confusion I Bring My Heart": Love, Liberation, and the Rise of Black Lesbian and Gay Cultural Politics in Late Twentieth Century America.
(2015)
This dissertation investigates themes of liberation and love in post-civil rights Black LGBT literary cultures. Tracing love as a political trope in African American literary history, I demonstrate how it operates as a ...
Railroading Black Families: African American Men, Family, and Labor in Post-Emancipation Georgia.
(2016)
This dissertation examines the role of work and family in shaping black men’s masculine identity in the post-emancipation South, focusing in particular on the transition to railroad work in Georgia in the late 19th century. ...
The Othello Effect: The Performance of Black Masculinity in Mid-Century Cinema
(2011)
This dissertation attempts to theorize the performance of black masculinity in the mid-twentieth century as a cultural process, by analyzing films with narratives that creatively confronted the problem of race and intercultural ...
Mental Disability and the Right to Vote.
(2015)
Nearly forty states disfranchise people based on their mental status. Despite the patchwork of laws limiting the voting rights of people with mental disabilities, one of America’s largest minority groups, few researchers ...
States of Exceptionalism: Race, Violence, and Governance.
(2015)
“States of Exceptionalism: Race, Violence, and Governance,” illuminates the role of racial ideologies in the organization and institutionalization of state power during the first quarter of the twentieth century, and shows ...
"Those Who Say Don't Know and Those Who Know Don't Say": The Nation of Islam and the Politics of Black Nationalism, 1930-1975
(2017)
This dissertation demonstrates the centrality of the Nation of Islam (NOI) and black nationalist politics to the modern black freedom movement. The Nation of Islam’s activism in prisons, courtrooms, and on college campuses ...
Rituals of Return in African American Women's Twentieth Century Literature and Performance.
(2012)
A substantial body of African American Studies scholarship has demonstrated how the unresolved pain, suffering, and violence of the past impacts the present, and,furthermore, how African American women writers and performers ...