DescriptionThis dissertation illuminates the participation of ordinary Black and white women in the Civil Rights Movement by examining an antipoverty program called The Mississippi Box Project. Founded in 1962...
DescriptionThis dissertation examines African American women’s anti-rape activism and
advocacy from 1974 to 1994, as the feminist movement against sexual violence grew
increasingly intertwined with the U.S....
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...
DescriptionThis scrapbook includes clippings about Count Basie and photographs of Count Basie as a band leader, the Count Basie Orchestra, and many performers and others associated with Count Basie.
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...
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...
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...
DescriptionThis scrapbook commemorates the proclamation of "Basie Day" in Kansas City on September 30, 1977 and henceforth, and includes clippings, photographs, a drawing of Count Basie, and correspondence.
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...
