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Toni Morrison: Biography, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2020

Toni Morrison: Biography, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd

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Beyond The Boundaries Of Childhood: Northern African American Children's Cultural And Political Resistance, 1780-1861, Crystal L. Webster Nov 2017

Beyond The Boundaries Of Childhood: Northern African American Children's Cultural And Political Resistance, 1780-1861, Crystal L. Webster

Doctoral Dissertations

Notions of childhood as a distinct developmental period of life were concretized during the nineteenth century. Features of children’s lives including innocence, play, and exclusion from labor became markers of ideal childhoods as part of the racialized modernization of childhood. This dissertation uncovers the ways in which modern constructions of childhood attempted to subjugate northern African American children throughout the nineteenth century and highlights the means by which black children and conceptualizations of black childhood became agents and sites of resistance. In doing so, it demonstrates both how African American children experienced age-based forms of subjugation as well as their …


We Are Roses From Our Mothers' Gardens: Black Feminist Visuality In African American Women's Art, Kelli Morgan Nov 2017

We Are Roses From Our Mothers' Gardens: Black Feminist Visuality In African American Women's Art, Kelli Morgan

Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT WE ARE ROSES FROM OUR MOTHERS’ GARDENS: BLACK FEMINIST VISUALITY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S ART MAY 2017 KELLI MORGAN, B.A., WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY M.A., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Ph.D., UNIVERISTY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor Manisha Sinha We Are Roses From Our Mothers' Gardens posits that in differing historical periods African American women visual artists employed various media and create from individual political thoughts, intellectual views, and aesthetic interests to emphasize the innate unification of a Black woman’s race, gender, sexuality, class, and selfhood and how this multifaceted dynamic of Black women’s identity and material reality produces a …


The Afroethnic Impulse And Renewal: African American Transculturations In Afro-Latino Bildung Narratives, 1961 To 2013, Trent Masiki Jul 2017

The Afroethnic Impulse And Renewal: African American Transculturations In Afro-Latino Bildung Narratives, 1961 To 2013, Trent Masiki

Doctoral Dissertations

Until now, there has been little sustained critical attention to the way African American literature, history, culture, and politics influence transculturation and ethnoracial identity formation in Afro-Latino bildung narratives. This dissertation addresses that oversight. The Afroethnic Impulse and Renewal: African American Transculturations in Afro-Latino Bildung Narratives, 1961 to 2013, examines a long, but often neglected, history of intercultural affinities and literary encounters between African Americans and Afro-Latinos from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. In The Afroethnic Impulse and Renewal, I explore African American literary and cultural influences in the personal essays, memoirs, and autobiographically inspired fiction of …


“If There Are Men Who Are Afraid To Die, There Are Women Who Are Not”: African American Women's Civil Rights Leadership In Boston, 1920-1975., Julie De Chantal Jul 2016

“If There Are Men Who Are Afraid To Die, There Are Women Who Are Not”: African American Women's Civil Rights Leadership In Boston, 1920-1975., Julie De Chantal

Doctoral Dissertations

Since the 1980s, narratives surrounding the Boston Busing Crisis focus on South Boston white working-class’s reaction to Judge Arthur W. Garrity's forced desegregation order of 1974. Yet, by analyzing the crises from such narrow perspective, the narratives leave out half of the story. This dissertation challenges these narratives by situating the busing crisis as the culmination of more than half a century of grassroots activism led by Black working-class mothers. By taking action at the neighborhood and the city levels, these mothers succeeded where the National Association for the Advancement of the Colored People and the Urban League had failed. …


Raiding The Inarticulate: Postmodernisms, Feminist Theory And Black Female Creativity, C. Margot Hennessy May 2010

Raiding The Inarticulate: Postmodernisms, Feminist Theory And Black Female Creativity, C. Margot Hennessy

Open Access Dissertations

This is an investigation into the ways that postmodern theories and feminist theories have both failed to learn from each other and yet also reveal the blindness' implicit in each other. Postmodern theory has consistently failed to engage gender in any significant way and feminist theory has consisted failed to find the usefulness of the methods and questions posed by postmodern theorists. Both approaches have failed to address the very real and important perspectives of the post colonial others who have been addressing the questions of race, gender, history, and agency for hundred of years. The second half of this …


Toni Morrison: Playing In The Dark, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2004

Toni Morrison: Playing In The Dark, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Ralph Ellison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2003

Ralph Ellison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2003

Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2003

Toni Morrison: The Bluest Eye, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Toni Morrison: Jazz, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2003

Toni Morrison: Jazz, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Toni Morrison: Paradise, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2003

Toni Morrison: Paradise, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Ann Petry: The Narrows, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2002

Ann Petry: The Narrows, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Ann Petry: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2002

Ann Petry: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Ann Petry: Country Place, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2002

Ann Petry: Country Place, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Ann Petry: Miss Muriel And Other Stories, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2002

Ann Petry: Miss Muriel And Other Stories, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Ann Petry: The Street, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2002

Ann Petry: The Street, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Toni Morrison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2002

Toni Morrison: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Toni Morrison: Sula, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2002

Toni Morrison: Sula, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Toni Morrison: Sula, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2002

Toni Morrison: Sula, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd

A Yęmisi Jimoh

Article on Sula by Toni Morrison.


Dorothy West: The Living Is Easy, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: The Living Is Easy, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Dorothy West: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, Reminiscences, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: The Richer, The Poorer: Stories, Sketches, Reminiscences, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Gwendolyn Brooks: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Gwendolyn Brooks: Biography, A Yemisi Jimoh, Phd

Afro-American Studies Faculty Publication Series

No abstract provided.


Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd Jan 2001

Dorothy West: The Wedding, A Yęmisi Jimoh, Phd

A Yęmisi Jimoh

Article on The Wedding by Dorothy West.