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Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

2000

African American Studies

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Educating Eighteenth-Century Black Children: The Bray Schools, Jennifer Bridges Oast Jan 2000

Educating Eighteenth-Century Black Children: The Bray Schools, Jennifer Bridges Oast

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Far From "Everybody's Everything": Literary Tricksters In African American And Chinese American Fiction, Crystal Suzette Anderson Jan 2000

Far From "Everybody's Everything": Literary Tricksters In African American And Chinese American Fiction, Crystal Suzette Anderson

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This dissertation examines trickster sensibilities and behavior as models for racial strategies in contemporary novels by African American and Chinese American authors. While many trickster studies focus on myth, I assert that realist fiction provides a unique historical and cultural space that shapes trickster behavior. John Edgar Wideman, Gloria Naylor, Frank Chin and Maxine Hong Kingston use the trickster in their novels to articulate diverse racial strategies for people of color who must negotiate among a variety of cultural influences. My critical trickster paradigm investigates the motives and behavior of tricksters. It utilizes close literary readings that are strengthened by …


The Influence Of Womanist Identity On The Development Of Eating Disorders And Depression In African American Female College Students, Theresa Ford Jan 2000

The Influence Of Womanist Identity On The Development Of Eating Disorders And Depression In African American Female College Students, Theresa Ford

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"From A Determined Resolution To Get Liberty": Slaves And The British In Revolutionary Norfolk County, Virginia, 1775-1781, Brian David Palladino Jan 2000

"From A Determined Resolution To Get Liberty": Slaves And The British In Revolutionary Norfolk County, Virginia, 1775-1781, Brian David Palladino

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Notions Of Refinement And Displays Of Dignity In African-American Home Spaces, 1885-1935, Roxane Victoria Pickens Jan 2000

Notions Of Refinement And Displays Of Dignity In African-American Home Spaces, 1885-1935, Roxane Victoria Pickens

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Exercising Their Freedom: The Great African-American Migration And Blacks Who Remained In The South, 1915-1920, Patrick E. O'Neil Jan 2000

Exercising Their Freedom: The Great African-American Migration And Blacks Who Remained In The South, 1915-1920, Patrick E. O'Neil

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No abstract provided.