Browsing by Subject "blackness"
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(2020-04-20)The primary goal of this work is to acknowledge black death as a condition of black existence while also pushing back at this statement to claim the possibility of black life within and against black death. In other words, ...
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Contemporary Representations of Race: Mediating the New(s) Politics of Blackness in the Obama Moment (2017-05-09)This dissertation examines ways in which the myth of meritocracy, notions of America as post-racial, and instances of colorisms are articulated through CNN (Cable News Network) during the rise of then-Senator Barack Obama’s ...
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(2016-05-05)Cubanos con Decendencia Africana, or Cubans of African descent (CDA) in Havana have endured generations of being overlooked by the dominant historical discourse of the country that characterized them as second-class citizens. ...