Browsing by Subject "African American studies"
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Relational Hermeneutics: A Womanist's Approach for Renewing the Reader's Self-Understanding, Commitments, and Practices
(2021)How do readers regain their enthusiasm for reading Scripture when what they are reading does not relate to their life’s circumstances? With all the competing voices in the world today, readers find it challenging to ... -
Sonic Records: Listening to Early Afro-Atlantic Literature and Music, 1650-1850
(2017)“Sonic Records” explores representations of early African diasporic musical life in literature. Rooted in an effort to recover the early history of an influential arts movement, the project also examines literature and sound ... -
The Case for Reparations: The Social Gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch, and a Program to Understand and Close the Racial Wealth Gap
(2021)Considerable attention is being given to the growing problem of the racial wealth gap in the United States of America. Understanding this chasm requires a critique of the government’s imprimatur on the institution of slavery, ... -
The Case for Reparations: The Social Gospel of Walter Rauschenbusch, and a Program to Understand and Close the Racial Wealth Gap
(2021)Considerable attention is being given to the growing problem of the racial wealth gap in the United States of America. Understanding this chasm requires a critique of the government’s imprimatur on the institution of slavery, ... -
The Death and Life of the American Novel: Radicalism and the Transformation of U.S. Literature in the 1960s
(2020)The sixties have long been regarded as a watershed moment in the history of the American novel. In the seventies and eighties critics tended to assume that the era dealt a deathblow to social realism and, by extension, the ... -
The Implications of Harry Emerson Fosdick’s Life-Situation Preaching for African-American Preachers
(2016)This study discusses the strengths, weaknesses, and implications of the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick’s life-situation preaching for young preachers in mainline churches in general and African-Americans in particular. ... -
The Only Constant is Change: How Adaptive Black Leadership is Crucial in the Quest for Equality
(2018)THE ONLY CONSTANT IS CHANGE: HOW ADAPTIVE BLACK LEADERSHIP IS CRUCIAL IN THE QUEST FOR EQUALITY This thesis will continue the conversation about black leadership, what it means today considering the changing political and ... -
The Space in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women's Literature
(2020)“The Space in Between: Middle Passage Movement and Black Women’s Literature” explores renderings of the Middle Passage in literature by African American and Caribbean writers. Departing from the premise that the term “Middle ... -
The World's Problem's Are Your Own: Septima Clark, Elza Freire and Grassroots Freedom Education in the American Decade of Development 1960-1970
(2020)In the attempt to plan and mobilize teaching on a massive scale, literacy campaigns bring otherwise implied working theories of human and societal development out in the open. Aside from offering a lens into the role of ... -
There’s a Storm Comin: How the Evangelical Church Responds to the Fergusons and Charlottesvilles that Shake and Shock America’s Sociopolitical Landscape
(2017)Surveys taken within the last two years have indicated that the majority of Americans believe that race relations are getting worse. This is in stark contrast to what the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of ... -
They’re There, Now What?: The Identities, Behaviors, and Perceptions of Black Judges
(2016)Prior to the Civil Rights Movement, fewer than 50 Black judges had been elected or appointed to the judiciary. As of August 2015, there are over 1,000 Black state and federal judges. As the number of black judges has increased, ... -
Unveiling Racism: Racial Reconciliation and a Heterogeneous Model for American Christian Life
(2014)Prophetic leaders, before and during the Civil Rights movement, were subjected to criticism and verbal and physical abuse. Many of these leaders were Christian pastors who felt a duty to stand up to injustice and inequality. ... -
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Pan-African Consciousness Raising and Organizing in the United States and Venezuela
(2016)We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Pan-African Consciousness Raising and Organizing in the United States and Venezuela, draws on fifteen months of field research accompanying organizers, participating in protests, ... -
We, Present in Space: Queer Performance Cultures of Transience and Care based in Black Feminisms
(2021)I rely on literary and performative investigations around home and comfort to reflect on how artists who identify as genderqueer, femme, or non-conforming (acknowledged as Queer, Transgender, and Non-binary identifying people ... -
Whosoever Doubts My Power: Conjuring Feminism in the Interwar Black Diaspora
(2017)This dissertation uses the revolutionary potential of Caribbean religion to theorize black feminism between the two World Wars. It argues that women artists and performers across the diaspora produced ethnographic and creative ...
