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Parts Of Sound: Possibilities Of Listening Historically To Collection, Broadcast, And Exhibition, Noah Henry Fry Nickerson Jan 2020

Parts Of Sound: Possibilities Of Listening Historically To Collection, Broadcast, And Exhibition, Noah Henry Fry Nickerson

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


The Race For Time: Experiences In The Temporality Of Blackness, Eboni Cymone Grooms Jan 2020

The Race For Time: Experiences In The Temporality Of Blackness, Eboni Cymone Grooms

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


Beyond Their Homeland: Understanding The Experiences Of Black Women In Japan, Bernadette Tisha Benjamin Jan 2020

Beyond Their Homeland: Understanding The Experiences Of Black Women In Japan, Bernadette Tisha Benjamin

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Understanding how Black women conceptualize the role their racial and gender identities play within their experience in Japan.


Aunts & Uncles, Stephanie Njeri Wambugu Jan 2020

Aunts & Uncles, Stephanie Njeri Wambugu

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.


Diversifying Children’S Literature By The Retelling Of Folk Tradition And Orality In Afro-Caribbean Stories, Anthony Henry Jan 2020

Diversifying Children’S Literature By The Retelling Of Folk Tradition And Orality In Afro-Caribbean Stories, Anthony Henry

Senior Projects Spring 2020

Examining the historical context of Children's Literature in America and the Caribbean, there are common threads that occur. Linked by a complex history of racial tensions, the representation of Afro-Caribbean children are minimal compared to white children. Disconnected from the orality of previous generations, Afro-Caribbean writers utilizes folk tradition and dialect to retell those stories of their ancestors in an amalgamation of oral-literature text.