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The Black Map Project: A Black People’S Epistemology Of Healing, Britton Williams Feb 2024

The Black Map Project: A Black People’S Epistemology Of Healing, Britton Williams

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This work is a love letter to Mary Turner and her descendants, by which I mean all Black people, that lifts recipes and roadmaps of Black creative healing and liberatory praxes. It is a freedom dream (Kelley, 2002) that dares to (re)imagine mental health care by holding Black healing and liberation centrally in mind. I do not seek to prove through this work but rather to provoke [thought|action|repair]. In this work, I unsettle prescribed notions of therapy that have long dismissed/erased/ignored the needs and [therapeutic] practices of Black people. The Black MAP Project resists epistemologies of ignorance (Mills, 2022)—born in …


Editors' Introduction, Raj G. Chetty, Beverly Greene Jan 2024

Editors' Introduction, Raj G. Chetty, Beverly Greene

Journal of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

No abstract provided.


Social Justice Autobiography, James Jones Jan 2024

Social Justice Autobiography, James Jones

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice autobiography on Civil rights; Muslim; social justice; racial hypocrisy; freedom


Social Justice Autobiography, Javar Hollins Jan 2024

Social Justice Autobiography, Javar Hollins

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice essay on Jim Crow South; crack epidemic; inter-racial cooperation


Imagine!, Gerard Lawless Jan 2024

Imagine!, Gerard Lawless

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Essay on imagination and freedom.


Social Justice Autobiography, Chanelle Burnett Jan 2024

Social Justice Autobiography, Chanelle Burnett

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice Autobiography on: Women prisoners; Humane treatment; Social Justice; Health care; Criminal Justice; Rehabilitation; Reform; Hypocrisy


Social Justice Autobiography, Lamont Kwesi Harrell Jan 2024

Social Justice Autobiography, Lamont Kwesi Harrell

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice essay on Social Justice; Afrikan lifestyle and philophy; Marcus Garvey; Umoja- unity and (Ujamaa)cooperative economies


My Soul's Awakening, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings Jan 2024

My Soul's Awakening, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Religion; Mental Health


Find Me, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings Jan 2024

Find Me, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Mental health


Black Lives Matters, Sometimes, Bobby Delgado Jan 2024

Black Lives Matters, Sometimes, Bobby Delgado

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Critical Essay on Prison life; race/racism; Latinx; gangs; reform; race traitors; US politics; popular culture (film); Texas syndicate; brutality; torture; building tenders; convict guards; Donald J. Trump; Nazism; Hitler


I Object, Douglas E'Vonne Dawkins Jan 2024

I Object, Douglas E'Vonne Dawkins

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poetry on social justice; criminal justice system; policing; systemic racism, Black genocide;


Unmasked, Remecos Barley Jan 2024

Unmasked, Remecos Barley

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Essay on Self-realization; Self-help; Mental health


The Ecosystem Of Justice, Corey Jasmin Jan 2024

The Ecosystem Of Justice, Corey Jasmin

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice essay on criminal justice; MLK; Israel and Palestine conflict; Nazi Germany; Holocaust; Prophet Amos.


What Does Social Justice Look Like?, Robert Gillens Jan 2024

What Does Social Justice Look Like?, Robert Gillens

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social justice autobiography on Mass Incarceration; Racialized Policing; Police Brutality; Police Killings; Rodney King; 1986 Anti-Crime Bill; 1994 Crime Bill Police


Social Justice Autobiography, Troy Glover Jan 2024

Social Justice Autobiography, Troy Glover

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice autobiography on Social Justice; Racial consciousness; racial shame; racial disparity; white privilege


Tilting The Scales, Ramelle Kamack Jan 2024

Tilting The Scales, Ramelle Kamack

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice Essay on LA Riots; Rodney King; Gangs; racial violence; police brutality; criminal justice system; Wisconsin; Truth-in-Sentencing; Black history; Sharecropping


I Am At Risk, Fontaine Baker Jan 2024

I Am At Risk, Fontaine Baker

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Racism; Policing; Racial profiling; Racial violence; KKK; healthcare; mental health; Slavery (legacy of)


Wearied Form, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings Jan 2024

Wearied Form, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Mental health; Self-consciousness


Voracious One, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings Jan 2024

Voracious One, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Mental health; forcible sedation


Invasion, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings Jan 2024

Invasion, Ramsceair Jacques Flemmings

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on mental health


Social Justice Autobiography, Dewitt Faulkner Jan 2024

Social Justice Autobiography, Dewitt Faulkner

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice autobiography on: LA Riots; Rodney King; Gangs; racial violence; police brutality; criminal justice system; Wisconsin; Truth-in-Sentencing; Black history; Sharecropping.


Department Of Corruption, Rashad El Jan 2024

Department Of Corruption, Rashad El

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Poem on Prison Life, Mental Health; Rehabilitation; Policing; Sentencing; Popular culture (film)


Social Justice Autobiography, Taurus Devault Jan 2024

Social Justice Autobiography, Taurus Devault

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice Autobiography on Self-improvement; self-education; social justice


Call For Reformation, Chanelle Burnett Jan 2024

Call For Reformation, Chanelle Burnett

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

No abstract provided.


The Monster In The Closet (Collectively, The Essays), Chanelle Burnett Jan 2024

The Monster In The Closet (Collectively, The Essays), Chanelle Burnett

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Creative Essays on Women prisoners; Humane treatment; Social Justice; Health care; Criminal Justice; Rehabilitation; Reform; Hypocrisy


Social Justice, Cedric Brumfeld Jan 2024

Social Justice, Cedric Brumfeld

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice Essay on: racism; School-to Prison Pipeline; Jim Crow; Civil Rights; New Jim Crow; Slavery by Another Name; mass incarceration


Untitled, Tyler Anerson Jan 2024

Untitled, Tyler Anerson

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Essay on Foster care; social workers; police brutality; community belonging


Them, John Adams Jan 2024

Them, John Adams

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Reflective essay on Homelessness; Military Service; Social Inclusion/Exclusion; Race; Social Invisibility


Untitled, Tyler Anserson Jan 2024

Untitled, Tyler Anserson

Writing Beyond the Prison Living Archive

Social Justice Autobiography on the topics of: Foster care; social workers; police brutality; community belonging


The Movie Is On!: Pragmatics Of The Video Joker In Who Killed Captain Alex?, Hunter Hulett Jan 2024

The Movie Is On!: Pragmatics Of The Video Joker In Who Killed Captain Alex?, Hunter Hulett

Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics

The film Who Killed Captain Alex? (WKCA) is a Ugandan film that provides an opportunity to examine the use of pragmatic and specifically deictic features to study the manipulation of borders between the film and reality. A commentator called the Video Joker (VJ) is the film’s deictic center, constantly destabilizing deictic relations and orienting the internal and external pragmatics of the film around themself. As the film’s ultimate pragmatic force, they occupy a position blurring diegesis and non-diegesis due to originating as real-time film commentators before being edited into the text. In this unique position, they shift the deixis’s organization …