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Full-Text Articles in African American Studies
The Artistry And Activism Of Shirley Graham Du Bois: A Twentieth Century African American Torchbearer, Alesia Elaine Mcfadden
The Artistry And Activism Of Shirley Graham Du Bois: A Twentieth Century African American Torchbearer, Alesia Elaine Mcfadden
Open Access Dissertations
This dissertation traces the early origins of Shirley Graham Du Bois, a well known Negro achiever in the 1930s and 1940s, from the decades preceding her birth in 1896 up through the mid-twentieth century when she has reached mid life and achieved a number of successes. It attempts to reclaim from obscurity the significant cultural production that Shirley Graham contributed to American society. Her artistry and activism were manifested in many ways. As a very young woman she conducted, throughout the northern and eastern parts of the U. S., musical concerts extolling the beauty and significance of spirituals. While attending …
Liberation At The End Of A Pen: Writing Pan-African Politics Of Cultural Struggle, Anthony James Ratcliff
Liberation At The End Of A Pen: Writing Pan-African Politics Of Cultural Struggle, Anthony James Ratcliff
Open Access Dissertations
As a political, social, and cultural ideology, Pan-Africanism has been a complex movement attempting to ameliorate the dehumanizing effects of "the global Eurocentric colonial/modern capitalist model of power," which Anibal Quijano (2000) refers to as "the coloniality of power." The destructive forces of the coloniality of power--beginning with the transatlantic slave trade--that led to the dispersal and displacement of millions of Africans subsequently facilitated the creation of Pan-African political and cultural consciousness. Thus, this dissertation examines diverse articulations of Pan-African politics of cultural struggle as a response to racist and sexist oppression and economic exploitation of Afro-descendants. I am specifically …
American Jacobins: Revolutionary Radicalism In The Civil War Era, Jordan Lewis Reed
American Jacobins: Revolutionary Radicalism In The Civil War Era, Jordan Lewis Reed
Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014
This dissertation is an attempt to portray the revolutionary character of the American Civil War through a comparative methodology utilizing the French Revolution as both point of influence and as a parallel example. Within this novel context, subtle trends in the ideological development of the Republican Party's Radical wing undertake new meaning and an alternative revolutionary heritage takes shape around an idealization of the universalism of the French and Haitian Revolutions of the 1790s. The work argues that through a diffusion of ideas and knowledge of events from the streets of Paris into the fields of Haiti and onto the …
Becoming Free In The Cotton South – By Susan Eva O'Donovan, Manisha Sinha
Becoming Free In The Cotton South – By Susan Eva O'Donovan, Manisha Sinha
Manisha Sinha
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