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Black Mothering And Environmental Justice Activism: A Black Ecofeminist Framework, Kayla N. Miller , '25
Black Mothering And Environmental Justice Activism: A Black Ecofeminist Framework, Kayla N. Miller , '25
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No abstract provided.
It’S What Our Grandmas Did: Decoding Black Wellness, Joy, And Liberation In Contemporary Digital Hoodoo Practice Through A Cooperative Healing Literacies Framework, Patrick Li , '23
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Hoodoo, Conjure, and Rootwork refer to the constellation of African American traditions of spiritual and physical healing, ancestral devotion, retaliation, and protection created in response to chattel slavery. The current study investigates the multimodal potentials of Hoodoo for holistic healing in the contemporary digital age. Expanding on Erika Gault’s definition of digital Black religion studies as “the study of Black folks’ digital pathways to healing and wholeness (freedom) and their religious contribution to the development of digital technology,” I triangulate a framework of Hoodoo Healing Literacies (HHLs) using practices of Rootwork, Conjure, and CyberHoodoo. These practices correlate to bio-psycho, psycho-spiritual, …
Rise Of Meritocracy Under The No Child Left Behind Act: A Look Into Nclb’S Effects On Low-Income Students, Abdulahi O. Salam , '23
Rise Of Meritocracy Under The No Child Left Behind Act: A Look Into Nclb’S Effects On Low-Income Students, Abdulahi O. Salam , '23
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This paper uses the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to analyze the rise of meritocracy in American public education and its effect on low-income, minority students. NCLB grew out of a global need to produce, compete and innovate, and the public education infrastructure was used to manufacture workers. Schools focused on categorizing students by test scores and placing students on different educational, economic, and career paths. Success under meritocracy is individualist and disregards the systems of inequality that determine the losers and winners. Minority students are blamed for their lack of success instead of examining outside factors that …
As We Trudge Through: An Autoethnography Of My College Experience, Destiny R. Samuel , '22
As We Trudge Through: An Autoethnography Of My College Experience, Destiny R. Samuel , '22
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No abstract provided.
The Fundamental Jolt: The Native’S Untethering From The Character Of The Colonized Subject Through The Inherent Dialectics Of Colonial Violence, Maleyah Peterson , '21
The Fundamental Jolt: The Native’S Untethering From The Character Of The Colonized Subject Through The Inherent Dialectics Of Colonial Violence, Maleyah Peterson , '21
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No abstract provided.
A Hip Hop Episteme: Understanding Hip Hop Culture’S Ways Of Knowing And Expressing Knowledge Through Time Travel And Traditional African And Afro-Diasporic Spirituality, Brandon N. Ekweonu , '20
A Hip Hop Episteme: Understanding Hip Hop Culture’S Ways Of Knowing And Expressing Knowledge Through Time Travel And Traditional African And Afro-Diasporic Spirituality, Brandon N. Ekweonu , '20
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Perhaps one of my earliest and most interesting Hip Hop experiences occurred early on in my childhood. I remember being in my mother’s bedroom, and I think the lights were off. And I was using my mother’s Sharp CD-C600 Mini Component System with the 3-CD Drawer Changer to play a CD copy of 50 Cent’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’ album that she had purchased for me. I remember being really excited to be playing my favorite song on the album, “In Da Club” (I used to pretend it was my birthday and that 50 Cent was rapping for me, …
Gee’S Bend And The Commodification Of An African-American Tradition, Catherine Williams , '19
Gee’S Bend And The Commodification Of An African-American Tradition, Catherine Williams , '19
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The quilters of Gee’s Bend have experienced an incredible transformation within their community as a result of the outside discovery of their quilts. After multiple interventions during which the quilts were taken out of their original context, the women have risen to fame in the art and quilt worlds. In this thesis, I examine the transformation that both the community and their quilting tradition have undergone as a result of the aforementioned interventions.
Speaking Power: Analyzing The Expectations Of 20th-Century Black Womanhood Through Thomas Vs. Hill, Tiauna Lewis , '19
Speaking Power: Analyzing The Expectations Of 20th-Century Black Womanhood Through Thomas Vs. Hill, Tiauna Lewis , '19
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In this paper, I argue that Dr. Anita Hill was subjected to countless stereotypes of Black women during her 1991 testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Committee and a majority of the American public denied Hill her right to be her own witness and instead faced a panel of white men and millions of onlookers who were ignorant to the importance of looking at the case through an intersectional lens. While Judge Clarence Thomas called upon the trope of a wrongfully-accused Black man, Hill was made out to be akin to a white woman who accused an …
Civic Goods And The Machine In Westchester: An Unauthorized Minority Report: The Case Of New Rochelle And Mount Vernon New York, Roxanne Neilson , '15
Civic Goods And The Machine In Westchester: An Unauthorized Minority Report: The Case Of New Rochelle And Mount Vernon New York, Roxanne Neilson , '15
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The purpose of this study is to look at what impact shifting demographics in a suburb of New York City has on publicly funded institutions as waves of immigrant groups arrive and then establish themselves. The study answers the question: Does political participation and representation matter; does access to the polity transform subsequent newcomers to the suburbs equally? Is there a case for reparations? I examine the historical record and closely review both the literal and figurative paths that led to the success of some groups as well as the demise of others in two cities in Westchester County New …