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Brothers of the Trade: Intersections of Racial Framing and Identity Processes upon African-Americans and African Immigrants in America - Ancestral Kinsmen of the American Slave Trade
(2012-07-16)
The "implicit rules" of the white racial framing shape meanings, structure interactions, and impose identities upon all who enter American society. The context of this current study conceptualizes how this racialized frame ...
A People's History of Philosophy: The Development and Ideological Segregation of Black Nationalism
(2012-10-19)
The primary objective of this thesis is to advocate for Black Nationalism's full inclusion in the academic field of political philosophy. By bringing the thinkers in the Black Nationalist tradition into this discourse, the ...
Stand Up and Be Counted: Race, Religion, and the Eisenhower Administration's Encounter with Arab Nationalism
(2012-10-19)
"Stand Up and be Counted" explores how American racial and religious beliefs guided the American encounter with Arab nationalism in the 1950s. It utilizes both traditional archival sources and less traditional cultural ...
Gramsci, Theory, and Modernity: A Historical Analysis of Antonio Gramsci's Conception of Race, Sex, Culture, and Politics
(2012-07-16)
The goal of this dissertation is to investigate the impact that historical (and cultural) contexts have on the production of theories and concepts. In specific, I am interested in the relationship between historical and ...
Nerds of Colors Assemble: The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Fandom
(2012-12-10)
With shows such as Big Bang Theory and the increased mainstreaming of San Diego Comic-con, now more than ever before, it is acceptable to be a “nerd”. The question now becomes what efforts are being made to appeal to fans ...
Crossing Borders and Building Alliances: Border Discourse within Literatures and Rhetorics of Color
(2012-10-19)
Building on Victor Villanueva and Malea Powell's research in rhetoric and writing, in my dissertation I assert that the hierarchical construction of knowledges within literatures and rhetorics has traditionally been utilized ...
Not a One-Way Street: Exploring the Role of Intersectional Representation on African American Male Students
(2012-07-16)
Representation is an enduring area of research in Political Science. While there has been an extensive amount of research in the area of minority representation, there is substantially less work considering multiple ...
Reclaiming Blackness: (Counter) Narratives of Racial Kinship in Black Gay Men‘s Sexual Stories
(2012-07-16)
Black gay male identities and their place within the social hierarchy are organized by interlocking systems of race, sexuality, gender and class. This produces the social marginality of black gay men in seemingly neutral ...
Poor Talk: Surveying Social Science Discourse on Urban Poverty
(2012-10-19)
Understanding the dynamic relationship between culture and structure is a fundamental sociological question. Since the founding of the social sciences -- when Marx explored the connection between the 'macrostructure' and ...