Browsing by Subject "blackness"

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    • Minor Moves: Growth, Fugitivity, and Children's Physical Movement 

      Curseen, Allison Samantha (2014)
      From tendencies to reduce the Underground Railroad to the imperative "follow the north star" to the iconic images of Ruby Bridges' 1960 "step forward" on the stairs of William Frantz Elementary School, America prefers to ...

    • Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius 

      Durham, I. Augustus (2018)
      This dissertation draws on Sigmund Freud’s essay “Mourning and Melancholia” (1917) to track melancholy and genius in black letters, culture, and history from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment; it contends ...