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Full-Text Articles in Africana Studies
Victim Or Villain: Female Resilience And Agency In The Face Of Trauma In Chimamanda Adichie’S, Purple Hibiscus (2003) And Tsitsi Dangarembga’S, Nervous Conditions (1988), Adaobi Juliet Chukwuma
Victim Or Villain: Female Resilience And Agency In The Face Of Trauma In Chimamanda Adichie’S, Purple Hibiscus (2003) And Tsitsi Dangarembga’S, Nervous Conditions (1988), Adaobi Juliet Chukwuma
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
As long as disparities persist in the way women are treated as compared to their male counterparts, the issue of gender will continue to call forth literary productions. For this reason, female writers are on a mission to dismantle the stereotypes that keep women confined to societal roles. Grounded in a feminist framework, this study focuses on the gender disparity theme in Chimamanda Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions. The aim is to examine how these writers represent the trauma of women living in an African patriarchal system. The traumatic experiences of the female characters in both texts …
Libraries And Changing Humanities Fields, Peter Hesseldenz
Libraries And Changing Humanities Fields, Peter Hesseldenz
2024 R&I Day
A description of a project which explores how Humanities fields are changing as they grapple with diversity and inclusion issues, focusing particularly on curricula and teaching methods. The project also seeks to understand how well libraries are working with and supporting these changes with particular emphasis on the role of Academic Liaisons.
Death, Dreaming, And Diaspora: Achieving Orientation Through Afro-Spirituality, Liz Johnston, Jaime Elizabeth Johnston
Death, Dreaming, And Diaspora: Achieving Orientation Through Afro-Spirituality, Liz Johnston, Jaime Elizabeth Johnston
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Enslavement, colonization, and the systems that uphold racial injustice were and still are a series of new, unfathomable, and challenging experiences that prompt individuals within the diaspora to seek orientation. How does a human cope with centuries of attempts at the systematic destruction of their humanity, culture, and identity? How can they reclaim that identity, especially when so much of it seems lost? I address these questions by utilizing texts from the expansive body of work regarding ethnographic-historical-religious studies on Afro-spiritual practices to better analyze instances in literature in the ongoing practice of diasporic orientation. In this project, I argue …
Keynote: Story Culture Live: Black American Story Spaces As Actionable Antiracism Work, Clarissa J. Walker
Keynote: Story Culture Live: Black American Story Spaces As Actionable Antiracism Work, Clarissa J. Walker
Writing Center Journal
“Story Culture Live: Black American Story Spaces as Actionable Antiracism Work,“ was a keynote given at the Northeast Writing Centers Association Conference at the University of New Hampshire in spring 2023. The keynote details the genesis of my podcast, Story Culture Live, which reimagines storytelling as actionable activism in antiracist work and explores concepts such as Black teller agency, kinship, and collective responses to tensions through storytelling that can inform and build new stories in writing centers.
The Power Of Storytelling: A Case Study Exploring Black Studies Through Nigerian Women Writers, Genesis Flores, Gaetan Jean Louis, Alexa Victor
The Power Of Storytelling: A Case Study Exploring Black Studies Through Nigerian Women Writers, Genesis Flores, Gaetan Jean Louis, Alexa Victor
McNair Scholars Program
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The Impact Of Slavery And Colonialism On The Black Consciousness: Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, The Confessions Of Nat Turner, And Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl, Mariam Badawi
Theses and Dissertations
According to the German author, essayist, and empirical psychologist Karl Philipp Moritz, to be able to analyze someone psychologically, we have to be able to analyze ourselves as one would know oneself better than one would know anyone else. Therefore, he proposed the study of autobiographies to be able to delve into a writer's "innermost soul"; through their knowledge of themselves" (qtd. in Schlumbohm 32). Moreover, "the psychological effect that the ideology of white supremacy and European imperialism, in the form of slavery and colonialism, has had on Africa and her people has never been fully addressed and understood" (Nobles …
“Come Think With Me”: Finding Communion In The Liberatory Textual Practices Of Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jehan L. Roberson
“Come Think With Me”: Finding Communion In The Liberatory Textual Practices Of Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Jehan L. Roberson
Criticism
Defining text as anything that can be read, self-identified learner and artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed explores reading as radical communion within her multifaceted textual practice. A 2021 Guggenheim Fellow, Rasheed’s work spans vast bodies of knowledge and temporalities to interrogate both the aesthetic and the limits of the text. At times producing collages with letters cut out from books in her own expansive library, and at other times posting scans from various books that are marked up with her rigorous note-taking, Rasheed approaches the text as an invitation to commune with the author in order to collectively arrive at new …
Black Best-Selling Books And Bibliographical Concerns: The Essence Book Project, Jacinta R. Saffold, Kinohi Nishikawa
Black Best-Selling Books And Bibliographical Concerns: The Essence Book Project, Jacinta R. Saffold, Kinohi Nishikawa
Criticism
On October 27, 2021, the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) sponsored the first in a series of virtual interviews about the Essence Book Project. Founded by Jacinta R. Saffold, the BSA’s inaugural Dorothy Porter Wesley Fellow, the Essence Book Project is a database of the books that appeared on Essence magazine’s bestsellers’ list from 1994 to 2010. In talking about the project with Kinohi Nishikawa, Saffold highlights how Black best-selling books contribute new paths of inquiry to bibliographical scholarship and explains why it is important to archive contemporary Black print culture. Presented in this article is a modified version of …
Sweat Equity: Lynn Nottage's Radical Dialectic Of Deindustrialization, Jocelyn L. Buckner
Sweat Equity: Lynn Nottage's Radical Dialectic Of Deindustrialization, Jocelyn L. Buckner
Theatre Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"Lynn Nottage has devoted her career to researching and telling stories of Black individuals and communities with expressed interest in laborers, advocating for their agency, humanity, and legacy. In her second Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat, Nottage dramatizes more recent US history, illuminating the lives of workers marginalized by the deindustrialization of the Rust Belt in the early 2000s. Sweat is emblematic of Nottage's sustained effort to deploy playwriting as activism and stand in solidarity with those whose stories she chooses to tell. As a constant theme in her works, Lynn Nottage's stories align with marginalized workers' efforts and histories, …
The Black Testament: A Portrait Of Female Genealogy In The African Diaspora, Raven Mcshan
The Black Testament: A Portrait Of Female Genealogy In The African Diaspora, Raven Mcshan
<strong> Theses and Dissertations </strong>
The Black Testament: A Portrait of Genealogy in the African Diaspora is a hybrid work of creative nonfiction and poetry. These pieces are based on my genealogical research into my family history. The collection traces from my discoveries in the present time back through my lived experiences, the lives of my relatives, and the lives of my ancestors. The subject of the work focuses on the women in my family and the various influences they have had in my life. The collection grapples with themes such as black womanhood, diasporic existence, and complex heritage. The traveling back of genealogical research …
Final Master's Portfolio, Oluwatobi Idowu
Final Master's Portfolio, Oluwatobi Idowu
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
In this portfolio, Oluwatobi Idowu engages with texts and cultural artifacts that explore the concept of power, identity, oppression, and imperialism as they relate to Africa, African American and Indigenous cultures in North America. He also explores late capitalism in relation to Mark Fisher's central ideas about capitalist realism, and its effect on young people in the 21st century.
Let’S Stop Calling Them “Slave Narratives”: Anagrammatical Blackness In Our Academic Discourse, Joseph L. Coulombe
Let’S Stop Calling Them “Slave Narratives”: Anagrammatical Blackness In Our Academic Discourse, Joseph L. Coulombe
College of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Scholarship
The label “slave narrative” is a damaging misnomer that leads to critical distortions and misrepresentations. These important texts were written by free men and women, not slaves, who had emancipated themselves from America’s slave system, and they function as testimonials of self-determination that document their escape from enslavement and help to enact their own freedom. The label slave narrative, which emerged in the late 1930s during the Federal Writers Project, exemplifies “anagrammatical blackness,” as theorized by Christina Sharpe. The term perpetuates a reductive framework that de-centers the writers’ accomplishments and sustains the afterlives of slavery.
Utopian Promises, Dystopic Realities: Teaching Bell Hooks “No Love In The Wild”, Naimah H. Ford
Utopian Promises, Dystopic Realities: Teaching Bell Hooks “No Love In The Wild”, Naimah H. Ford
Feminist Pedagogy
This original teaching activity discusses bell hooks’ film review of Beasts of The Southern Wild and explains how it can be used to encourage students to recognize how popular culture reproduces and reinforces disturbing paradigms. This original teaching activity, based on hooks’ review “No Love in The Wild,” encourages students to be informed while navigating visual images in popular culture. This activity also explains how hooks’ film review and the film can be used to empower students with strategies to analyze film and other visual images that are seemingly progressive but support the strictures and structures that reinforce patriarchy, racism, …
Final Master's Portfolio, Consuela Jones
Final Master's Portfolio, Consuela Jones
Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects
This body of work focuses on illuminating the radical modes of womanhood centered in the featured texts.
Wilderness Is Not A Safe Space: How Nature Has Been Used As A Form Of Oppression Towards Black People Throughout American History, Dorothy Irrera
Wilderness Is Not A Safe Space: How Nature Has Been Used As A Form Of Oppression Towards Black People Throughout American History, Dorothy Irrera
English Honors Theses
This Capstone won Skidmore's Racial Justice Student Award. An analysis of literature, American history, and pop culture, Wilderness Is Not a Safe Space: How Nature Has Been Used as a Form of Oppression Towards Black People Throughout American History uses a sociological lens to approach the inherent relationship between racism and wilderness.
Entry Nr. 031 Un-Named African Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 031 Un-Named African Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 034 Bartholomäus, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 034 Bartholomäus, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 032 Un-Named African Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 032 Un-Named African Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 038 Un-Named Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 038 Un-Named Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 043 Un-Named Brother Of The Amina King, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 043 Un-Named Brother Of The Amina King, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 037 Un-Named Fula Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 037 Un-Named Fula Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 042 Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 042 Un-Named Amina Merchant, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 040 Sanjam Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 040 Sanjam Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 039 Un-Named Mangree Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 039 Un-Named Mangree Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 052 Un-Named Tembu (Or Temba) Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 052 Un-Named Tembu (Or Temba) Woman, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 047 Un-Named Akropon Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 047 Un-Named Akropon Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 045 Un-Named Amina Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 045 Un-Named Amina Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 046 Un-Named Akyem Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 046 Un-Named Akyem Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 048 Un-Named Okwa Or Okoi Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 048 Un-Named Okwa Or Okoi Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
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Entry Nr. 051 Un-Named Tembu (Or Temba) Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
Entry Nr. 051 Un-Named Tembu (Or Temba) Man, Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Robert Hanserd
500 African Voices
No abstract provided.