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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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TitleThe immanent American fantastic: immanence and liminality in contemporary U.S. fantastic literature
AuthorCiccolo, Drew J.
Date Created2022
Degree Date2022-10
DescriptionThis dissertation is a study of “the American fantastic,” i.e. the literary fantastic in an American context. I suggest that conceiving of the fantastic in the context of Gilles Deleuze’s and...
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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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TitleThe castaways: affect, alienation, and authorship in American sitcoms of the 1960s
AuthorDurst, Lawrence Bruce
Date Created2024
Degree Date2024-05
DescriptionThis dissertation reassesses a novel style of American sitcom that emerged in the mid-1960s in which serene depictions of suburbia that had dominated the genre in the late 1950s and early 1960s...
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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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TitleThe Brick
AuthorSinger, Sean Daniel
Date Created2013
Degree Date2013-05
DescriptionThe Brick: Newark’s Artistic Inquiry into Urban Crisis reads Newark through its artists, through their biographies and oral histories, and through their work as texts, and reads its artists through...
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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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TitleFolk feminism: the women of the American folk revival
AuthorMahmassani, Addie
Date Created2022
Degree Date2022-10
DescriptionThis dissertation approaches the American folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s from a feminist perspective, offering the concept of folk feminism as an analytical framework for...
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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...