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TitleThe crime without a name: Genocide and the Black radical tradition

AuthorAdams, Jarrettia Nadine

Date Created2025

Degree Date2025-10

DescriptionWe Charge Genocide: The Crime of Government Against the Negro People (WCG) was a petition submitted in 1951 to the United Nations by the Civil Rights Congress (CRC) under the leadership of William L....

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TitleClaiming space: Black women, sport, and the struggle for athletic belonging in the twentieth century

AuthorBynes, Kiamsha

Date Created2025

Degree Date2025-05

DescriptionThis dissertation examines the experiences of Black women athletes and sportswomen in their fight for recognition, resources, and opportunities in athletic spaces. Rather than focusing solely on...

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TitleCaptive in promised land: Black lives, confinement, and incarceration in nineteenth-century urban America

AuthorFields, Whitney Nicole

Date Created2025

Degree Date2025-05

DescriptionThis dissertation is a history of the incarceration and labor of African Americans in the early nineteenth-century urban North. This study foregrounds African Americans as subjects within the...

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TitleFrom Reconstruction to the new Black politician: Barack Obama and a legacy of public representation

AuthorGlassco, Debra Elizabeth

Date Created2025

Degree Date2025-05

DescriptionThis dissertation examines shifts in the public meaning of the Black American politician, from the very first men who ventured into their roles as “colored men of distinction” to the time of...

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Title"To capture a vision fair:" Black sorority women and the shift from respectability politics to public policy, 1935-1975

AuthorThomas, Brooke Alexis

Date Created2023

Degree Date2023-05

Description"'To Capture a Vision Fair:' Black Sorority Women and the Shift from Respectability Politics to Public Policy, 1935-1975," illuminates the ways in which Black women reworked existing traditions and...