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Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
Ua12/2/85 Sigma Gamma Rho, Wku Archives
Ua12/2/85 Sigma Gamma Rho, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.
Ua12/2/86 Zeta Phi Beta, Wku Archives
Ua12/2/86 Zeta Phi Beta, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Records created by and about Zeta Phi Beta sorority.
Ua1c11/122 Wku Panhellenic Council Photo Collection, Wku Archives
Ua1c11/122 Wku Panhellenic Council Photo Collection, Wku Archives
WKU Archives Collection Inventories
Photographs removed from Panhellenic Council scrapbooks.
Developing More Equitable And Critically Conscious Organizations: Testimonios And Critical Platicas With Black And Latino/X Lgbtq+ Male Chrd Leaders, Mario Burton
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
This dissertation connects the recent DEIB movement within organizations to larger social justice movements, specifically those that impact workers and the workplace. Critical human resource development (CHRD) professionals, who serve as “insider activists”, are highlighted due to their work to continue movement objectives within organizations. Through testimonios and critical platicas, this study explores how Black and Latino/x LGBTQ+ CHRD professionals, in particular, are experiencing the workplace, especially as it relates to their engagement with how DEIB is practiced within organizations. Through this study, these professionals provide insights into the ways that workplaces can be redesigned and reimagined to be …
Her Voice Matters: Life Histories Of Black Women Teachers’ Working Conditions, G. Funmilayo Tyson-Devoe
Her Voice Matters: Life Histories Of Black Women Teachers’ Working Conditions, G. Funmilayo Tyson-Devoe
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
This study explored Black women’s lived experiences as teachers in urban schools during the era of 21st-century education reform. It centers around the relationships between Black women teachers (micro), their working conditions in low-performing urban schools (mesa), and neoliberal education policies (macro) that affect their work. The theoretical frames were Black feminist thought and critical race theory. The research questions were as follows: first, what are the working experiences of Black women teachers of tested subjects in low-performing urban public schools and, second, how do socio-political factors affect their working conditions? The research design was qualitative and included narrative inquiry …
How To Wear A Queen’S Crown ; From Slavery (17th Century) To 1990s, Ka-Mya Frye
How To Wear A Queen’S Crown ; From Slavery (17th Century) To 1990s, Ka-Mya Frye
ASPIRE 2024
There are six hairstyles I chose to feature in this project that embody a story with culture to be told about the hardships African American women in the US have faced up until almost the present day. I believe it will be a fun learning experience, not only for me but other African American women, potentially looking for some cultural hairstyles and learning about their “crown’s” history. A couple of styles that stood out from the age of slavery to the 1990s were cornrows, dreads, Bantu/Zulu knots, and the afro. I will discuss the history of these styles along with …
Romancing The University: Bipoc Scholars In Romance Novels In The 1980s And Now, Jayashree Kamble
Romancing The University: Bipoc Scholars In Romance Novels In The 1980s And Now, Jayashree Kamble
Publications and Research
English-language mass-market romance novels written by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) writers and starring BIPOC protagonists are a small but important group. This article is a comparative analysis of how recent representations of diversity in this sub-set of the genre, specifically the character of the Black academic and the language of racial justice, compare with the first group of BIPOC novels that were published in 1984 (Sandra Kitt’s Adam and Eva and All Good Things as well as Barbara Stephens’s A Toast to Love). In Adrianna Herrera’s American Love Story (2019), Katrina Jackson’s Office Hours (2020), and …
Ua19/16/2 Women's Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Women's Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Archives Records
Press releases and game statistics for WKU women's basketball team from August to December 2023.
Ua12/2/2 Talisman: Dimension, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/2 Talisman: Dimension, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Fall 2023 Talisman:
- Johnson, Katelyn . Flora & Fauna - Biology
- Pollard, Evynn. Inked Imagination
- Booth, Pandora. Sowing Grace - Mothers
- Murray, Debra. Shapes of Beauty
- Bivens, Emily. The Life Lesson
- Figures of Fall
- Meyers, Jeffrey. Level Up - eGames
- Walsh, Aidan. Unsung Heroes
- Sandlin, Ellie. Place to Be - Habitat for Humanity, Hotel, Inc.
- Youngers, Joel. An Endless Starry Sky
- Muscutt, Carson. True Colors - Queen Venus Knight
- Drury, Faith. Innovative Mind - Concrete Canoe, Steel Bridge
- Ousley, Rachael. One Man's Treasure - Matt Tullis
- Haines, Lily. Chuck Close
- Thompson, Sarah. En Pointe
- Hunt, Janie. Open Your Eyes
- Halstead, …
Defending The Call To Preach In Shirley Caesar’S Gospel Autobiography, Angela Nelson
Defending The Call To Preach In Shirley Caesar’S Gospel Autobiography, Angela Nelson
Popular Culture Faculty Publications
Shirley Caesar, a celebrated, multiple award-winning gospel singer and preacher, used and retold stories about three transformative spiritual experiences to build a case for defending her call to preach. These ritualistic spiritual events included chronicling her conversion, spirit baptism, and call experiences. In this discussion, I examine the contexts of Caesar’s familial and religious backgrounds, Christian Protestant preaching culture and gender, Caesar’s “parable” and “prolegomenon” of purpose, and Caesar’s defense of her call to preach. I conclude by exploring the ways in which, as an “outsider within,” Caesar’s “defense case story” negotiated and dissented from theological narratives about the place …
Cause Branding Lizzo And The Body Positivity Movement, Natalie Pesqueira
Cause Branding Lizzo And The Body Positivity Movement, Natalie Pesqueira
Whittier Scholars Program
Known for her songs about self love and acceptance, Lizzo has become a body positive icon and a role model for so many people with larger bodies since her rise to fame. This paper is an analysis of Lizzo’s place in the current body positive moment as a fat, Black woman and the ways in which she has been forced to participate in fat activism and fat resistance due to her identity. This paper will also analyze the ways in which Lizzo’s shapewear brand Yitty is branded– is it positive inclusion or is it a case of cause branding?
Consent In Conversation: Education Of Sexual Violence In Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Emily Benning
Consent In Conversation: Education Of Sexual Violence In Maya Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, Emily Benning
Richard T. Schellhase Essay Prize in Ethics
Maya Angelou’s memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is just one of many titles challenged and banned in public schools for “sexually explicit” content. On page 71 of her 281 page autobiography, Angelou discloses that she was raped at 8 years old by her mother’s boyfriend, and despite it being followed with scenes that emphasize the value of healing through literature, public attention has been directed to the (non-consensual) intercourse itself as a reason for censorship. As censorship efforts have expanded in the past two decades, challengers have continued to add more ban-worthy qualities to the list …
Ua19/16/2 Women's Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Women's Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Archives Records
Press releases and game statistics for WKU women's basketball team from January to July 2023.
Strategies Of Liberation And Empowerment In Maya Angelou's And Audre Lorde's Black Feminist Literature, Lydia Jernigan
Strategies Of Liberation And Empowerment In Maya Angelou's And Audre Lorde's Black Feminist Literature, Lydia Jernigan
Student Works
The progression of second-wave feminism in America saw Black feminist writers such as Maya Angelou and Audre Lorde utilizing literature, and notably poetry, to resist against their oppression, due not only to their gender but also to their race. Lorde states in her 1977 essay, “Poetry is Not a Luxury,” that poetry, for women, “is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.” One of the aims of Lorde’s explicitly political poems—as …
Black Feminist Thought: Black Women's Emerging Power As Agents Of Knowledge, Oluremi Alapo
Black Feminist Thought: Black Women's Emerging Power As Agents Of Knowledge, Oluremi Alapo
Open Educational Resources
To understand the black 21st woman’s struggle to reclaim herself from her experiences from the oppression of Structural Oppression. To discover the new standards of womanhood set after the years of the Atlantic slavery. To examine ways in which Black women can be empowered and also be known as an Agent of Knowledge.
Ua12/2/1 Let's Talk About Sex, Vol. 98, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/1 Let's Talk About Sex, Vol. 98, No. 5, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
College Heights Heraldmagazine regarding sex and students.
- Murray, Debra. Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby
- Murray, Debra. This is Definitely Changing Sex
- Anderson, Alexandria. This is the Best Place to Start – Sexual Health
- Stephens, Grace. It’s Okay to Be Sexy
- St. Clair, Molly. The Impact of Title IX on Intercollegiate Athletics
Bibliography, Cheryl Hopson
Bibliography, Cheryl Hopson
Faculty/Staff Personal Papers
Bibliography of publications by Cheryl Hopson.
Ua19/16/2 Track & Field Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Track & Field Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Archives Records
Press releases and match statistics for WKU track & field team in 2023.
Ua19/16/2 Softball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Softball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Archives Records
Press releases and game statistics for WKU softball team in 2023.
Ua19/16/2 Tennis Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Tennis Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Archives Records
Press releases and match statistics for WKU tennis team in 2023.
Ua19/16/2 Volleyball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Volleyball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Archives Records
Press releases and game statistics for WKU volleyball team in 2023.
How Racial Trauma Manifests In Black Women From Direct And Indirect Encounters With Police Brutality, Ashley Turner
How Racial Trauma Manifests In Black Women From Direct And Indirect Encounters With Police Brutality, Ashley Turner
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
This phenomenological study explored Black women’s lived experiences with racial trauma stemming from direct and indirect encounters with police brutality. A total of nine participants living in Washington state participated in this study. They identified as Black, ciswomen, fluent in English, and at least 21-years-old. In-depth, semi-structured, qualitative interviews were conducted to explore participants’ experiences with police. Transcripts were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The results consisted of the following five themes: (a) forms of police encounters, (b) influence of identity, (c) perceived reason for police brutality, (d) emotions stemming from police brutality, and (e) tactics to survive police interactions. …
Empowered Presence: Theorizing An Afrocentric Performance Of Leadership By African American Women, Sharon Wamble-King
Empowered Presence: Theorizing An Afrocentric Performance Of Leadership By African American Women, Sharon Wamble-King
Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses
There is a paucity of theorizing concerning leadership enactments performed by African American women. The performances have been marginalized and obscured within the Western leadership canon as they fall outside its epistemological boundaries; they have also been sidelined within Critical Leadership Studies. This study employed Afrocentricity as a decolonizing paradigm and Africology as the research methodology to describe and define a leadership phenomenon enacted by African American women. Setting aside Western conceptions of leadership, focus groups of African American women examined video excerpts of Africana women’s oral performances through an Africological lens. Participants’ Afrocentric-oriented perceptions sparked collective storytelling and Meaning-Making …
Apocalypse Eternal: "The Road" And "Parable" Series As Pilgrimage, Caleb Gurule
Apocalypse Eternal: "The Road" And "Parable" Series As Pilgrimage, Caleb Gurule
Senior Honors Theses
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road represent two different views on how humans create meaning in a postapocalyptic world. The authors’ writings utilize the critical dystopia genre, in which the protagonists’ surroundings are bleak but the possibility of redemption remains. As Butler’s Lauren Olamina travels from her burned-down home to a place where she can begin a new community with her religion, Earthseed, as the foundational structure, she brings together a group of diverse and useful people who aid her in her pilgrimage to a better place. The protagonist’s identity as a mentally impaired black …
Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White
Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White
Eartha M. M. White Textual Material
Notes for a speech, mentions anniversaries, holidays, religion, and church. No date given
Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White
Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White
Eartha M. M. White Textual Material
Notes for a speech. No date given.
Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White
Speech Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White
Eartha M. M. White Textual Material
Notes for a speech. No date given.
Genealogical Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White
Genealogical Notes, Eartha Mary Magdalene White
Eartha M. M. White Textual Material
Genealogical notes on Eartha White's family. No date given.
Ua19/16/2 Women's Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
Ua19/16/2 Women's Basketball Press Releases, Wku Athletic Media Relations
WKU Archives Records
Press releases, photos and game statistics for WKU women's basketball team from August to December 2022.
Ua12/2/2 Talisman: Forge, Wku Student Affairs
Ua12/2/2 Talisman: Forge, Wku Student Affairs
WKU Archives Records
Fall 2022 Talisman:
- Our Mission
- Hunter, Leah. Forge
- Coles, Jack. Fakes
- Richer, Caily. Trailblazers – Kiara Braxton-Davis, Ashley Garrett, Torales Guadalupe
- Clifton, Zachary & Audrey Plescia. Built By Discipline – Bodybuilders, Meg Boshaw, Michelle Jones
- Jones, Michelle. Healthy Fried Rice
- Booth, Pandora. A Silent Strike – Quiet Quitting
- Moore, Emily. Strawberry Sun
- Fleshman, McKenna. Humans of WKU – Sada Jewel, Alaina Webber, Michael Ballard, Amara Danturthi
- Sandlin, Ellie. Forged in Fire – Zechariah Nelson
- Price, Devon. Not Too Pretty – Women in New Roles
- Whitsitt, Ashley. Ghost in Training
- Meyers, Jeffrey. Identity in Ink – Tattoos
- Hunter, Leah. After the …