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Jamaica Kincaid’S “In The Night”: Jablesse, Obeah, And Diasporic Alterrains In At The Bottom Of The River, Jana Evans Braziel

Journal X

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A Critique Of Post/Colonial Nomadism, Mokhtar Ghambou

Journal X

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Realms Of Memory: Strategies Of Representation And Postcolonial Identity In North African Women's Cinema, Touria Khannous

Journal X

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Undertaking Partition: Palestine And Postcolonial Studies, Salah D. Hassan

Journal X

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Introduction, Jyotsna G. Singh, Daniel Vitkus

Journal X

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Black Feminisms And The Autobiography Of Malcolm X, Kevin Everod Quashie

Journal X

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Vanishing Acts: Civil Rights Reform And Dramatic Inversion In Douglas Turner Ward's Day Of Absence, Gershun Avilez

Study the South

Dramatist Douglas Turner Ward's innovative play Day of Absence first premiered in November 1965 in New York City and has seen a recent national revival, having been staged by theatre companies in Berkeley, New York, Washington, D. C., Omaha, and Chicago, as well as the Maitisong Festival in Gaborone, Botswana. It stands as a creative response to the African American civil rights situation after the 1964 act. Ward explores questions of Black labor and mobility and, in doing so, creates opportunities to invert the dynamics that have historically characterized U. S. society.

Toward Freedom: A Reading Of The National Memorial For Peace And Justice, Margaret Pless

Study the South

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in Montgomery, Alabama in 2018 to commemorate the black victims of lynching in the United States. The memorial’s monuments are unique because they resist the static, status quo understandings of history that so many of our monuments perpetuate. The memorial invites visitors to face disturbing truths in the hope of fostering reconciliation. Will it help us remember and reconcile as a nation? Montgomery is home to other monuments that undermine the history the memorial presents.

“We Got More Yesterday Than Anybody”: Child Ghosts And The National Trauma Of Anti-Black Racism In American Literature, Megan Swartzfager

Honors Theses

This thesis examines the roles of haunting in the context of racial violence in three texts: Beloved by Toni Morrison, Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, and Wolf Whistle by Lewis Nordan. In each of these texts, a parent is responsible for the death of a child. In the former two texts, both by Black authors, a Black parent kills a Black child in what they believe to be a protective act in the face of violence by white people. Wolf Whistle, however, written by a white author, is animated by the ghost of a character based on Emmett Till. …

The Mapuche And Chilean State: An Analysis Of The State Reaction To Mapuche Protests, Mckenna Gossrau

Honors Theses

The history between the Mapuche and Chilean state is long and complex. Since 2000, the conflict between the state and Mapuche has periodically drawn wider public attention as well as public demands for change. In this thesis, I look to examine how the Chilean state has reacted to the demands of the Mapuche since 2000. Mapuche activists have protested violently and peacefully against state policy that has left many rural Mapuche impoverished and landless. This project assesses the impact of protests on state-Mapuche policy. The project also examines how deeply entrenched neoliberal fiscal policies of the state play a central …

Success And Failure Of Indigenous Social Movements: A Comparative Case Study Of Ecuador And Chile, Jenna White

Honors Theses

This thesis is a comparative case study of the social movements of the Mapuche in Chile and the fourteen indigenous tribes in Ecuador. I study their social movements by utilizing the structural strain theory of social movements. This theory states that people in society experience deprivation, the people recognize the deprivation, a solution is proposed and this ideology is diffused to the society, events occur to begin motion of the movement, the society (including government) need to be open to change, and eventually there will be mobilization of resources in order to form a successful social movement. The dependent variable …

American Indian Sovereignty And Climate Change: Emerging Spaces And Coalitions To Assert American Indian Sovereignty During A Climate Crisis, Brenna Q. Gardner

Honors Theses

Climate change is a global issue that will affect most, if not all, populations on earth; however, it will not affect groups equally. While vulnerability varies between groups, poor, frontline, marginalized, and Indigenous people are particularly vulnerable. This thesis explores if the challenge of climate change as affecting multiple vulnerable populations presents emerging spaces in which American Indian sovereignty can be asserted. I provide a literature review on federal Indian policy and the American Indian Sovereignty movement in the 1960’s and 1970’s. I then analyze primary materials produced by the Indigenous Environmental Network and primary material surrounding the #NoDAPL movement. …

Immigrants: A Threat To The Economy Or Cultural Identity? A Case Study Of Haitian And Venezuelan Immigrants In Chile, Erin Geist

Honors Theses

Historically, countries often faced the difficult task of favoring one immigrant group over another. Typically, this is in response to their inability to support those immigrants due to an unstable economy. However, some scholars argue that during times of economic prosperity, excluding immigrants may be the result of the group’s incapacity to assimilate to the nation’s “cultural identity”. Since Chile’s conception as a nation and as one of the most prosperous Latin American countries, they have received notably minuscule immigration rates. As a result, Chileans prides themselves as a relatively homogeneous country. Consequently, in 2018, President Sebastián Piñera differentiated visas …

Finding Aid For The Blues Archive Poster Collection (Mum01783)

Archives & Special Collections: Finding Aids (alphabetical)

These blues posters, broadsides, and oversize printings, collected by various individuals and institutions, document the world of blues advertising.

Turner, Ruby: A Living Legacy, Ruby Mckie Turner

Oral Histories

[Turner has] chosen not to write an oral history of African Americans but, rather, one of Colored Americans through images. These images are those who were among the first freeborn generation of the Civil War, thereby placing them in the historical period of the country changing its course to admit freed former slaves.

Performance: All Our Names Were Freedom, Jessica Wilkerson, Kevin Cozart

About the Project

Students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements), participated in a staged reading of All Our Names Were Freedom: Agency, Resiliency, and Community in Yalobusha County, a multivocal and multilayered narrative inspired by listening to the interviews recorded that semester. The event at the Spring Hill M. B. Baptist Church was attended by approximately 70 community members, UM faculty and students, and six of the interviewees.

Through The Words Of Those Who Have Experienced It: Reading The Whitney Plantation Along Neoslave Narratives, Sarah Payne

Study the South

Recent representations of slavery, however well intentioned, have provoked discussions about who should represent black pain and oppression and what purpose such representations serve. Also evoking such questions are contemporary plantation tours, most of which are white-centered, “moonlight and magnolia” recreations. There have been efforts to represent slavery more accurately at plantations such as Oak Alley, and most notably, the Whitney Plantation, which opened in 2014 in Wallace, Louisiana.

This essay asks how our understanding of the Whitney Plantation, as a representation of slavery, a public history project, and an example of dark tourism, might be affected by reading the …

Outstanding Women Of Yalobusha County: The Project Continues, Colton Babbitt, Brittany Brown, Keon A. Burns, Cecelia Parks, Michelle Bright, Rhondalyn K. Peairs

About the Project

Statements from the graduate students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements), preparing to collect the "untold stories" appeared in the North Mississippi Herald on October 17, 2019.

Recording Yalobusha's Black History: Phase I Begins, Dottie Chapman Reed

About the Project

In this article from North Mississippi Herald, October 17, 2019, Reed describes meeting the graduate students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements), at the University of Mississippi.

Fieldwork In Yalobusha County, Jessica Wilkerson

About the Project

A summary of the daytrip to Yalobusha County taken by graduate students in Jessica Wilkerson's class, SST 560 (Oral History of Southern Social Movements). After church services in both Water Valley and Coffeeville, the students made first connections with their interviewees.

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Author Unknown, Howley Haviland And Dresser (New York)

Sheet Music, Undated

Cover: photo of African American couples performing a dance with traditional costumes; a photo inset of Leon W. Washburn; Publisher: Howley Haviland and Dresser (New York)

Swanee / Music By George Gershwin; Words By I. Caesar, George Gershwin, I. Caesar, T.B. Harms Francis Day And Hunter (New York)

Sheet Music, Undated

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The Nation's Song / Words By J.M. Munyon And L.L.D., J. M. Munyon And L.L.D.

Sheet Music, Undated

Cover: scenes of patriotic drawings, in the middle a photo inset of; Publisher: M.D. Swisher (Philadelphia)

My Mother's Eyes / Music By Abel Baer; Words By Wolfe Gilbert, Abel Baer, Wolfe Gilbert, Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Sheet Music, Undated

Cover Only. Cover: Photo of George Jessel; Publisher: Leo Feist Inc. (New York)

Keep Smiling At Trouble (Trouble's A Bubble) / Music By Lewis Gesler; Words By Al Jolnson And B.G. De Sylva, Lewis Gesler, Al Jolnson, B. G. Desylva, Harms Incorporated (New York)

Sheet Music, Undated

photo of Al Jolson; Publisher: Harms Incorporated (New York)

The Invitation Rag / Words By Les Copland, Les Copland, Jerome H. Remick And Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, Undated

Cover Only. Cover: photo of Les Copeland; Publisher: Jerome H. Remick and Co. (New York)

I Don't Care What You Used To Be (I Know What You Are Today) / Words By Dubin Al And Jimmy Mc Hugh, Dubin Al, Jimmy Mchugh, Jack Mills Inc. (New York)

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Cover: drawing of a Caucasian couple; photo inset of Ruth Wales and Doris Relyea; Publisher: Jack Mills Inc. (New York)

Home Sweet Home / Words By G.J. Webb, G. J. Webb

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Cover: drawing of a woman playing piano; text reads The Bromo-Seltzer Collection of 54 Popular Songs; Publisher: x

First Heart Throbs / Words By Richard Eilenberg, Richard Eilenberg, Deluxe Music Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, Undated

Cover: drawing of a girl and a boy sitting in the garden, holding hands; Publisher: DeLuxe Music Co. (New York)

Don't You Remember Or Ben Bolt / Music By Nelson Kneass; Words By Thomas Dunn English, Nelson Kneass, Thomas Dunn English, Dana T. Bennett Co. (New York)

Sheet Music, Undated

Cover: Photos of Gecko, Svengali and Trilby, Mme. Vinard, Little Billee- Taffy- The Laird, Angele and Zou-Zou; Text reads: as sung by Miss Phyllis Neilson-Terry in the play of TRILBY; Publisher: Dana T. Bennett Co. (New York)