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311	An Oblique Blackness: Reading Racial Formation in the Aesthetics of George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand, and Wayde Compton Haynes, Jeremy D. 10 1900 (has links) <p>This thesis examines how the poetics of George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand and Wayde Compton articulate unique aesthetic voices that are representative of a range of ethnic communities that collectively make-up blackness in Canada. Despite the different backgrounds, geographies, and ethnicities of these authors, blackness in Canada is regularly viewed as a homogeneous community that is most closely tied to the cultural histories of the American South and the Atlantic slave trade. Black Canadians have historically been excluded from the official narratives of the nation, disassociating blackness from Canadian-ness. Epithets such as “African-Canadian” are indicative of the way race distances citizenship and belonging. Each of these authors expresses an aesthetic through their poetics that is representative of the unique combination of social, political, cultural, and ethnic interactions that can be collectively described as racial formation. While each of these authors orients her or his own ethnic community in relation to the nation in different ways, their focus on collapsing the distance between citizenship and belonging can be read as a base for forming community from which collective resistance to the racial violence of exclusion can be grounded.</p> / Master of English Canada blackness race gender class African-Canadian poetry poetics critical race theory postcolonial theory multiculturalism nationalism belonging aesthetics blues jazz hip hop baptist Africa slave trade abolition community racial formation African American Studies Ethnic Studies Ethnomusicology Modern Literature Other English Language and Literature Reading and Language African American Studies
312	Cumulative Grief Pham, Xuan 18 December 2020 (has links) (PDF) A written thesis to accompany the M.F.A. Exhibition Cumulative Grief, in which the artist's personal and familial narrative explores the complexity and nuances of racial grief. Racial Melancholia Psychoanalysis Grief Immigration Plants Hy-Bi Art and Design Art and Materials Conservation Arts and Humanities Asian American Studies Asian History Ceramic Arts Environmental Studies Fine Arts History Interdisciplinary Arts and Media Migration Studies Multicultural Psychology Psychology Race and Ethnicity Sculpture Social and Behavioral Sciences Sociology Theory and Philosophy
313	Young, Urban, Professional, and Kenyan?: Conversations Surrounding Tribal Identity and Nationhood Achieng-Evensen, Charlotte 01 May 2016 (has links) By asking the question “How do young, urban, professional Kenyans make connections between tribal identity, colonialism, and the lived experience of nationhood?,” the researcher engages with eight participants in exploring their relationships with their tribal groups. From this juncture the researcher, through a co-constructed process with participants, interrogates the idea of nationhood by querying their interpretations of the concepts of power and resistance within their multi-ethnic societies. The utility of KuPiga Hadithi as a cultural responsive methodology for data collection along with poetic analysis as part of the qualitative tools of examination allowed the researcher to identify five emergent and iterative themes: (1) colonial wounds, (2) power inequities, (3) tensions, (4) intersection, and (5) hope. Participant discussion of these themes suggests an impenetrable link between tribal identity and nationhood. Schooling, as first a colonial and then national construct, works to mediate that link. Therefore, there is the need for a re-conceptualization of the term ‘nation’ in the post-Independence era. decolonization indigeneity researcher positionality nationhood colonial wounds indigenous knowing indigeneity researcher positionality KuPiga Hadithi Sage Philosophy Kenya Anticolonial theory Decolonization nationhood poetic analysis culturally responsive methodologies African Languages and Societies African Studies Community-Based Learning Community-Based Research Educational Sociology Ethnic Studies Inequality and Stratification International and Comparative Education Other Education Other Sociology Place and Environment Politics and Social Change Race and Ethnicity Regional Sociology Social and Cultural Anthropology Social Psychology and Interaction Sociology of Culture Theory, Knowledge and Science
314	The Reflection and Reification of Racialized Language in Popular Media Wright, Kelly E. 01 January 2017 (has links) This work highlights specific lexical items that have become racialized in specific contextual applications and tests how these words are cognitively processed. This work presents the results of a visual world (Huettig et al 2011) eye-tracking study designed to determine the perception and application of racialized (Coates 2011) adjectives. To objectively select the racialized adjectives used, I developed a corpus comprised of popular media sources, designed specifically to suit my research question. I collected publications from digital media sources such as Sports Illustrated, USA Today, and Fortune by scraping articles featuring specific search terms from their websites. This experiment seeks to aid in the demarcation of socially salient groups whose application of racialized adjectives to racialized images is near instantaneous, or at least less questioned. As we view growing social movements which revolve around the significant marks unconscious assumptions leave on American society, revealing how and where these lexical assignments arise and thrive allows us to interrogate the forces which build and reify such biases. Future research should attempt to address the harmful semiotics these lexical choices sustain. Racism Perception Linguistics Eye Tracking Corpus Media African American Studies American Popular Culture Cognition and Perception Critical and Cultural Studies Discourse and Text Linguistics Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Human Rights Law Inequality and Stratification Journalism Studies Law and Psychology Law and Race Multicultural Psychology Political Economy Psycholinguistics and Neurolinguistics Public Law and Legal Theory Race and Ethnicity Semantics and Pragmatics Social Media Social Welfare Law Theory and Philosophy
315	Jewish Women’s Transracial Epistemological Networks: Representations of Black Women in the African Diaspora, 1930-1980 Gondek, Abby S 21 March 2018 (has links) This dissertation investigates how Jewish women social scientists relationally established their gendered-racialized subjectivities and theories about race-gender-sexuality-class through their portrayals of black women’s sexuality and family structures in the African Diaspora: the U.S., Brazil, South Africa, Swaziland, and the U.K. The central women in this study: Ellen Hellmann, Ruth Landes, Hilda Kuper, and Ruth Glass, were part of the same “political generation,” born in 1908-1912, coming of age when Jews of European descent experienced an ambivalent and conditional assimilation into whiteness, a form of internal colonization. I demonstrate how each woman’s familial origin point in Europe, parental class and political orientations, were important factors influencing her later personal/professional networks and social science theorizing about women of color. However, other important factors included the national racial context, the political affiliations of her partners, her marital status and her transracial fieldwork experiences. One of the main problems my work addresses is how the internal colonization process in differing nations within the Jewish diaspora differently affected and positioned Jewish social scientists from divergent class and political affiliations. Gendering Aamir Mufti’s primarily male-oriented argument, I demonstrate how Jewish internal divergences serve as an example that highlights the lack of uniformity within any “identity” group, and the ways that minority groups, like Jews, use measures of “abnormal” gender and sexuality, to create internal exiled minorities in order to try to assimilate into the majority colonizing culture. My dissertation addresses three problems within previous studies of Jewish social scientists by creating a gendered analysis of the history of Jews in social science, an analysis of Jewish subjectivity within histories of women (who were Jewish) in social science, and a critique of the either-or assumption that Jewishness necessarily equated with a “radical” anti-racist approach or a “colonizing” stance toward black communities. The data collection followed a mixed methods approach, incorporating archival research, ethnographic object analysis, site visits in Brazil and South Africa, consultations with library, archive and museum professionals, and interviews with scholars connected to the core women in the study. Jewish subjectivity Jewish diaspora African diaspora Jewish women black women history of social science internal colonization whiteness African History African Languages and Societies African Studies Gender and Sexuality History of Gender History of Religion Inequality and Stratification Intellectual History Jewish Studies Latin American History Latin American Studies Migration Studies Race and Ethnicity Social and Cultural Anthropology Theory, Knowledge and Science Urban Studies and Planning Women's History Women's Studies
316	Reimagining Movements: Towards a Queer Ecology and Trans/Black Feminism Benavente, Gabriel 30 March 2017 (has links) This thesis seeks to bridge feminist and environmental justice movements through the literature of black women writers. These writers create an archive that contribute towards the liberation of queer, black, and transgender peoples. In the novel Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler constructs a world that highlights the pervasive effects of climate change. As climate change expedites poverty, Americans begin to blame others, such as queer people, for the destruction of their country. Butler depicts the dangers of fundamentalism as a response to climate change, highlighting an imperative for a movement that does not romanticize the environment as heteronormative, but a space where queers can flourish. Just as queer and environmental justice movements are codependent on one another, feminist movements cannot be separate from black and transgender liberation. This thesis will demonstrate how writers, such as Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis, and Janet Mock, help establish a feminism that resists the erasure of black and transgender people. ecocriticism contemporary literature speculative fiction science fiction queer theory feminism english octavia butler janet mock toni morrison audre lorde climate change environmental justice african american activism transgender parable of the talents queer ecology African American Studies American Literature American Politics American Studies Arts and Humanities Continental Philosophy Ecology and Evolutionary Biology English Language and Literature Environmental Studies Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Feminist Philosophy Other Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Religion
317	The Battle Over Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Critical Race Theory in Florida: A Case Study on the Stop W.O.K.E. Act Castelin, Grace Anne 01 January 2024 (has links) (PDF) Accelerating from 2022 and continuing through 2024, the state of Florida has experienced significant policy changes, particularly within the realm of higher education and affairs of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Many progressive officials, experts, and activists assert arguments that the state is on the verge of evolving into an authoritarian regime while many illiberal policies are being produced through the Florida legislature and current executive leadership—social and economic sectors are consequently threatened in order to maintain political oppression. The Stop W.O.K.E. Act has served as a catalyst for shifting the state's political stance on DEI, culminating in a chain reaction of similar forms of legislation which create serious ramifications onto civic life, creating a tense environment in the state. Along with suppression of DEI, academic freedom especially has been jeopardized with Florida's next line of students and instructors left to bear the consequences. The following research will contribute to theory and understanding, by analyzing the common misconceptions that revolve around nuanced terms such as “woke”, DEI, and CRT, while also examining how these influenced legislation in other states. This paper will also investigate precisely how the Act was enacted in Florida by conducting research on theoretical perspectives, governmental proceedings, discourse among officials, court battles, and impacts that can likely last for generations, leading to potential harms onto the nation as a whole. Florida critical race theory DEI academic freedom social justice civil rights and discrimination African American Studies Civil Rights and Discrimination Conflict of Laws Cultural History Curriculum and Instruction Curriculum and Social Inquiry Education Law Ethnic Studies Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies First Amendment Fourteenth Amendment Higher Education Law Law and Politics Law and Race Law and Society Legal Legislation Political History Political Science Public History Social and Behavioral Sciences Social History Social Justice
318	Women of African Descent: Persistence in Completing A Doctorate Bailey-Iddrisu, Vannetta L. 09 November 2010 (has links) This study examines the educational persistence of women of African descent (WOAD) in pursuit of a doctorate degree at universities in the southeastern United States. WOAD are women of African ancestry born outside the African continent. These women are heirs to an inner dogged determination and spirit to survive despite all odds (Pulliam, 2003, p. 337).This study used Ellis’s (1997) Three Stages for Graduate Student Development as the conceptual framework to examine the persistent strategies used by these women to persist to the completion of their studies. Women African American Non-traditional student Doctoral Studies Women Studies Career Women of African Descent Graduate Studies Black women post graduate studies African American Studies American Studies Community-Based Learning Curriculum and Instruction Curriculum and Social Inquiry Educational Sociology Ethnic Studies Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Gender and Sexuality Higher Education Administration Higher Education and Teaching Inequality and Stratification International and Comparative Education Other Education Other Social and Behavioral Sciences Place and Environment Race and Ethnicity Social and Cultural Anthropology Sociology of Culture Urban Education Urban Studies and Planning Women's Studies
319	A Translation of Dominik Nagl’s Grenzfälle with an Introductory Analysis of the Translation Process Keady, Joseph 01 February 2020 (has links) My thesis is an analysis of my own translation of a chapter from Dominik Nagl's legal history 'Grenzfälle,' which addresses questions of citizenship and nationality in the context of the German colonies in Africa and the South Pacific. My analysis focuses primarily on strategies that I used in an effort to preserve the strangeness of a linguistic context that is, in many ways, "foreign" to twenty first-century North Americans while also striving to avoid reproducing the violence embedded in language that is historically laden with extreme power disparities. Germany Africa colonialism translation citizenship legal history African American Studies Africana Studies African History Civil Law Civil Rights and Discrimination Common Law Comparative and Foreign Law Comparative Literature Cultural Heritage Law Cultural History Diplomatic History Ethnic Studies European History European Languages and Societies European Law Family Law German Language and Literature Government Contracts History History of the Pacific Islands Holocaust and Genocide Studies Human Rights Law Immigration Law Indigenous Studies International Humanitarian Law International Law Jewish Studies Language Interpretation and Translation Law and Gender Law and Politics Law and Race Law and Society Legal Legal History Melanesian Studies Micronesian Studies Modern Languages Other Arts and Humanities Other German Language and Literature Other History Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Other Law Pacific Islands Languages and Societies Political History Polynesian Studies Public History Social History Translation Studies Transnational Law Women's History

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