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Articles 1 - 8 of 8
Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
African American Literary Traditions In Justina Ireland’S Young Adult Novels Dread Nation And Deathless Divide, Gabrielle Sleeper
African American Literary Traditions In Justina Ireland’S Young Adult Novels Dread Nation And Deathless Divide, Gabrielle Sleeper
Honors Program Theses and Projects
Justina Ireland’s young adult novels Dread Nation (2017) and Deathless Divide (2020) tell the story of a Black girl by the name of Jane living in the aftermath of the Civil War, around 1880.
“Well, I’Ve Whispered ‘Racism’ In A Post-Racial World”: Satire And The Absurdity Of “Post-Racial” America, Joseph Gorman
“Well, I’Ve Whispered ‘Racism’ In A Post-Racial World”: Satire And The Absurdity Of “Post-Racial” America, Joseph Gorman
Master’s Theses and Projects
The purpose of this thesis project is to look at the works of contemporary African American satirists as they confront post-racial ideology. In looking at the works of Jordan Peele, Paul Beatty, Mat Johnson, and Boots Riley, thematic threads emerge to form a portrait of dire unrest amongst those non-white identities living in an allegedly post-racial world. Before analyzing the works, I first contextualize the thesis with a brief discussion of satire as a literary genre and African American satire as a literary subgenre, as well as address the emergence of post-racial ideology during the tenure of Barack Obama as …
Fight The Power: Subversion In The Oral Tradition Of African-American Art, Craig Demelo
Fight The Power: Subversion In The Oral Tradition Of African-American Art, Craig Demelo
Master’s Theses and Projects
No abstract provided.
African American Slave Medicine Of The 19th Century, Colin Fitzgerald
African American Slave Medicine Of The 19th Century, Colin Fitzgerald
Undergraduate Review
No abstract provided.
Torment Of The Repressed: Race And The Gothic In Hannah Crafts' And Charles Chesnutt's Fiction, Sharrisse Viltus
Torment Of The Repressed: Race And The Gothic In Hannah Crafts' And Charles Chesnutt's Fiction, Sharrisse Viltus
Undergraduate Review
No abstract provided.
Faculty In Print - Beyond The White Negro: Empathy And Anti-Racist Reading, Kimberly Chabot Davis
Faculty In Print - Beyond The White Negro: Empathy And Anti-Racist Reading, Kimberly Chabot Davis
Bridgewater Review
Excerpt from Kimberly Chabot Davis, Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading (University of Illinois Press, 2014)
Le Mélange Of Francophone Culture In William Wells Brown’S Clotel, Sandra Andrade
Le Mélange Of Francophone Culture In William Wells Brown’S Clotel, Sandra Andrade
Undergraduate Review
In Clotel; Or, The President’s Daughter, William Wells Brown argues that for fugitive African American slaves France represented freedom. This connection between African Americans and France that is familiar to many Americans in the twentieth century was existent at the time of Brown’s own escape. The Francophone culture became a major motivator in the author’s personal life and also in his writings. This project covers many themes, including the “tragic mulatta”, American identity, American freedom and slavery, and explores readings from Anna Brickhouse’s Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere, and Eve A. Raimon’s The Tragic Mulatta …
Fashion Statement Or Political Statement: The Use Of Fashion To Express Black Pride During The Civil Rights And Black Power Movements Of The 1960’S, Mary Vargas
Undergraduate Review
The Civil Rights Movement brought the plight of African Americans to the forefront of American political and intellectual thought. The ideological foundation of this movement was a feeling of black pride coupled with a strong sense of urgency for equality. Black activists and supporters, to express their solidarity and support of this movement, adorned symbolic clothing, accessories and hairstyles. Politics and fashion were fused during this time and the use of these symbolic fashion statements sent a clear message to America and the rest of the world that African Americans were proud of their heritage, that Black was indeed beautiful …