“How Can We Sing In A Strange Land?” The Pastoral Musician As A Master Griot/Griotte,
2025
Southern Methodist University
“How Can We Sing In A Strange Land?” The Pastoral Musician As A Master Griot/Griotte, Dollie Howell
Doctor of Pastoral Music Projects and Theses
The writer of Psalm 137 asks a question that poignantly resonates with the experiences of enslaved Africans who were taken captive, exiled from their homelands, and told to forget their languages, worship practices, and tribal traditions. Their dehumanization was intensified by expectations that “required a song and . . . mirth.” The question was “How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?” In response to this question of engaging in song as a community while in a strange land of deep and persistent systemic suffering, enslaved African-descended people founded a unique tradition within Christianity that responded to …
Matthew Kinnard,
2025
NIH
Matthew Kinnard, Matthew A. Kinnard M.S., Ph.D.
We Are NIH Oral History Project
No abstract provided.
Reimagining Law Enforcement Communication With The Black Deaf Community,
2025
Gallaudet University
Reimagining Law Enforcement Communication With The Black Deaf Community, Jeanelle Francis
Undergraduate University Honors Capstones
Law enforcement’s relationship with the Deaf community, particularly the African American/Black Deaf population, has historically been tense, leading to wrongful arrests, police brutality, and even fatalities. This capstone project examines the barriers to effective interaction between law enforcement and the Deaf community, specifically in first-encounter situations, highlighting the Black Deaf experience. Past research has addressed the language barriers that Deaf individuals face in situations such as traffic stops and legal proceedings. However, it rarely examines the specific experiences of Deaf Black/African American families impacted by police-induced trauma caused by an unfair power dynamic. This project is an exploratory study to …
Langston Hughes And The “Afro-American Narrative” Tradition,
2025
Texas A&M International University
Langston Hughes And The “Afro-American Narrative” Tradition, Paul Haynes
Theses and Dissertations
After introducing Langston Hughes and defining Robert B. Stepto’s “Afro-American narrative” tradition, Chapter One presents a biography of Hughes from his birth in 1902 until he came under the patronage of Charlotte Osgood Mason in 1927. Chapter One also addresses the aesthetic expectations of the Harlem Renaissance and the extent to which Hughes either met or failed to meet those expectations. Chapter Two presents a reading of Not without Laughter as an integrated narrative, addressing how Hughes’s authenticating strategies and Mason’s authenticating devices evenly control the novel. Chapter Three presents a reading of Hughes’s short-story cycle, The Ways of White …
Alternative Worlds: John Maddox Iv’S Fractal Families In New Millennium Narratives Of Afro-Puerto Rican Women,
2025
SUNY Oswego
Alternative Worlds: John Maddox Iv’S Fractal Families In New Millennium Narratives Of Afro-Puerto Rican Women, Roberta Hurtado
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Interlude 3: Untitled By Wifredo Lam,
2025
La Salle University
Interlude 3: Untitled By Wifredo Lam, Mey-Yen Moriuchi
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
“El Chino Se Considera Blanco Y Basta”: Racialización, Negritud Y Agencia En Apuntes Históricos De Los Chinos En Cuba De Antonio Chuffat Latour,
2025
The City University of New York
“El Chino Se Considera Blanco Y Basta”: Racialización, Negritud Y Agencia En Apuntes Históricos De Los Chinos En Cuba De Antonio Chuffat Latour, Sebastián Díaz Martínez
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
Apuntes históricos de los chinos en Cuba (1927) del escritor afro-chino-cubano Antonio Chuffat Latour es un caso privilegiado para analizar los imaginarios asociados raciales entre poblaciones afrocubanas y sino-cubanas frente a las discursos sobre la nación en la Cuba republicana. Si bien en el caso puntual de Chuffat ha sido contextualizado como un activo integrante de movimientos afrocubanos (Yun, 2008), es bastante limitada la presencia o importancia acordada a lo negro dentro de su obra. Aunque esta tiene como objetivo la recopilación de distintas fuentes sobre la experiencia china en Cuba, las interacciones y relaciones de mestizaje cultural entre ambas …
Full Issue,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Full Issue, Palara Editors
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Author Bios,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Author Bios, Palara Editors
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Front Matter,
2025
University of Texas at Arlington
Front Matter, Palara Editors
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Between Thirst And Hunger: Food And Afro- Chinese Entanglements In Monkey Hunting,
2025
Temple University
Between Thirst And Hunger: Food And Afro- Chinese Entanglements In Monkey Hunting, Chloe Huh Prudente
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
Cristina García’s third novel, Monkey Hunting (2003), is a sweeping multigenerational family saga that surveys the history of Asian and African diasporas in the Americas and the impact of coerced, racialized labor and migrations. The scrumptious medley of foods in Monkey Hunting portrays its characters’ delight and dissatisfaction in their displacements. Food’s primary function remains as a vital source of nourishment, providing essential sustenance to the body. Food provides pleasure through sensory experiences that delight the palate and evoke emotions and memories associated with home and family. In many religions and spiritual systems, food takes a vital place in rituals …
Interlude 2: Tropic By Wifredo Lam,
2025
La Salle University
Interlude 2: Tropic By Wifredo Lam, Mey-Yen Moriuchi
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
A Cultural Pluralistic Reading On The Afro- And Chinese-Cuban Communities In Memorias De Una Cubanita Que Nació Con El Siglo (1964),
2025
Spelman College
A Cultural Pluralistic Reading On The Afro- And Chinese-Cuban Communities In Memorias De Una Cubanita Que Nació Con El Siglo (1964), Francisco Chen-López
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
This article deploys the cultural pluralism theory, which focuses on how minoritized groups integrate while preserving their cultural identities instead of assimilating into the dominant culture. In her memoir, Renée Méndez Capote describes how Black and Chinese people coexisted in twentieth-century Cuba while maintaining their own cultural identities and were in the process of integrating into the definition of the cubanidad. Via this theoretical framework, this research provides a different approach to studying the literary representation of Afro-Asian relationships in Cuba, aiming to contribute to the constantly growing field of Afro-Asian studies in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Interlude 1: The Eternal Presence By Wifredo Lam,
2025
La Salle University
Interlude 1: The Eternal Presence By Wifredo Lam, Mey-Yen Moriuchi
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
The Chinese-Afro-Cuban Diaspora And Its Many Faces,
2025
Vanderbilt University
The Chinese-Afro-Cuban Diaspora And Its Many Faces, Wiliam Luis
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
“Afro-Brazilian Nei Lopes’S Poetnics (2014)”,
2025
University of Alabama at Birmingham
“Afro-Brazilian Nei Lopes’S Poetnics (2014)”, John Maddox Iv
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Introduction,
2025
La Salle University
Introduction, Debbie Lee-Distefano, Luisa Marcela Ossa
PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association
No abstract provided.
Sundown In Indiana: A Midwest Story Of Racism, Exclusion, And Memory,
2025
James Madison University
Sundown In Indiana: A Midwest Story Of Racism, Exclusion, And Memory, Kelsey A. Snyder
Masters Theses, 2020-current
Sundown towns were a prominent aspect of the northern life from the early 1900s till in some places till the 1970s but they have been lost to history. These towns have been silenced and erased not just from the history books but from public memory. Indiana is my home state and the three towns that will be discussed have all had an impact on my personal development especially in understanding race. Decatur and Huntington places I have called home, both have been classified as sundown towns. The third, Marion was the location of the one the last known lynchings in …
Capturing The Intersection Of Black-American, Muslim Males And Education: Exploring Their Attitudes, Perceptions, And Lived Experiences Within An Islamic Consciousness,
2025
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Capturing The Intersection Of Black-American, Muslim Males And Education: Exploring Their Attitudes, Perceptions, And Lived Experiences Within An Islamic Consciousness, Kirk A. Talib-Deen
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
This dissertation explored the lived realities of Black-American, Muslim males and their attitudes, perceptions, histories, and endurances toward higher learning in America. It attempted to join and contribute to the more significant, historical, and extant conversations and literature on Black-American males and education, as well as their successes and failures. This dissertation adds to the dearth of literature on the intersection of Black-American, Muslim males, and education, and using jazz as an epistemological way of navigating and organizing the content, the research works to uncover, locate, and define an Islamic consciousness. While negating racist histories concomitant with the American narrative …
Invasion As A Structure: Carceral Capitalism, Necropolitics, And The Persistence Of Settler-Colonialism,
2025
Georgia Southern University
Invasion As A Structure: Carceral Capitalism, Necropolitics, And The Persistence Of Settler-Colonialism, Ethan Peacock
Honors College Theses
In the United States, settler-colonialism is often dismissed as a "bad chapter" of the past, an embarrassing episode of the nation's history, considered irrelevant to contemporary socio-political discussions. In contrast, while ongoing, Canada's reconciliation efforts remain performative, failing to address underlying colonial power structures. This project argues that settler-colonialism is not merely a historical phenomenon but a pervasive socio-political and cultural structure shaping the contemporary world. Capitalism depends on racialized and gendered hierarchies, continually produced through dispossession, marginalization, and exploitation. The prison-industrial complex (PIC) exemplifies this dynamic by industrializing dehumanization and weaponizing state violence against marginalized communities through mass incarceration, …
