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Description:: In the first two decades of the twenty-first century, we have witnessed a surge of public interest in and discussion around racial reckoning. Universities in the United States and across the globe are grappling with their historical associations with transatlantic and chattel slavery. This dissertation takes up the question of...
Keyword:: reconciliation, abolition, family, rhetorical analysis, redress, and Black feminism
Subject:: Gender studies and Rhetoric and Composition
Creator:: Ferrell, Ashley P
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 08/23/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16749 and etdadmin_upload_1013545

Description:: Black women performers have made, and continue to make, contributions to the U.S.-avant-garde performance canon and Black performance traditions that go largely unaccounted for in academic studies. Research has shown that across temporalities, Black women performers have mobilized experimental avant-garde aesthetics to disrupt and refuse essentialized notions of Blackness in...
Keyword:: Avant-garde performance, Performance studies, and Black feminism
Subject:: African American studies, Gender studies, and Performing arts
Creator:: Webb, Chaunesti Nichelle
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_903678 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16104

Description:: This dissertation argues that black women’s literature on black-white multiraciality critiques public debates that celebrate the racially ambiguous multiracial child as the solution to racial conflict. Under this framework, this project investigates the popularization of multiracial identity in late 20th and 21st century United States, United Kingdom, and Jamaica, and...
Keyword:: Black British literature, Queer theory, Mixed-race literature, Black feminism, African diaspora literature, and Critical race theory
Subject:: African American studies, Gender studies, and English literature
Creator:: Collins, Corrine Esther
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14807 and etdadmin_upload_685236

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