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Coloring: An Investigation Of Racial Identity Politics Within The Black Indian Community, Charlene Jeanette Graham
Coloring: An Investigation Of Racial Identity Politics Within The Black Indian Community, Charlene Jeanette Graham
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Historical interconnections between Native Americans and many people of African descent in America created a group of Black Indians whose lineage continues today. Though largely unrecognized, they remain an important racially mixed group. Through analysis using qualitative feminist methodologies, this thesis examines the history and analyzes the narratives of African-Native American females regarding their racial identity and political claims of tribal citizenship. Their socialization, which includes kin keeping, extended families and the sharing of family stories, allows them to claim native ancestry because of the information usually passed down to them from mothers, grandmothers, aunts and other family members. Their …
Working The Margins: Women In The Comic Book Industry, Wesley Chenault
Working The Margins: Women In The Comic Book Industry, Wesley Chenault
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Women have been involved in the writing, illustrating, and production of comic books at almost every step of the genre’s development. The years between the late 1960s and the late 1990s were tumultuous for the comic book industry. At the societal level, these years were saturated with changes that challenged normative ideas of sex roles and gender. The goal of this study is two-fold: it documents the specific contributions to the comic book industry made by the women interviewed, and it addresses research questions that focus on gender, change, and comic books. This project asks: What was the role and …
“You Talking To Me?” Considering Black Women’S Racialized And Gendered Experiences With And Responses Or Reactions To Street Harassment From Men, Melinda Mills
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
This thesis explores the various discursive strategies that black women employ when they encounter street harassment from men. To investigate the ways in which these women choose to respond to men’s attention during social interactions, I examine their perception of social situations to understand how they view urban spaces and strangers within these spaces. Drawing on qualitative interviews that I conducted with 10 black women, I focus on how the unique convergence of this group’s racial and gender identities can expose them to sexist and racist street harassment. Thus, I argue that black women face street harassment as a result …
In Search Of Martha Root: An American Baha'i Feminist And Peace Advocate In The Early Twentieth Century, Jiling Yang
In Search Of Martha Root: An American Baha'i Feminist And Peace Advocate In The Early Twentieth Century, Jiling Yang
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Theses
Martha Root (1872-1939) was an exceptional religious and spiritual activist, a leading figure in the international women's peace movement, and a new organism of a new world in the early twentieth century. This thesis represents Martha Root from three aspects: the early life of Martha Root, her four world teaching trips from 1919 to 1939, with a focus on her peace advocacy, and an investigation into her gender awareness and identity construction by reflecting on Tahirih the Pure, Iran's Greatest Woman, Martha Root's only book.