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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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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...

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TitleRacial ideology and African students’ mid-20th century American experiences, 1954 - 1968

AuthorBoachi, Henry Seyram Kwesi

Date Created2025

Degree Date2025-10

DescriptionStudies exploring the experiences of African students in the United States in the mid-20th century have not been thorough in attending to the ways in which the programs that sponsored these students,...

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TitleTo count and be counted: quantification in the age of American slavery

AuthorWierda, Meagan

Date Created2022

Degree Date2022-10

DescriptionThis dissertation, which spans the period between the 1820s and the Civil War, uses debates about slavery and citizenship to explore how and to what end African Americans incorporated quantification...