The result of sixteen months of ethnographic research, this dissertation examines the activism of Sistren Theatre Collective in Jamaica and The Mothertongue Project in South …
Abstract of “Claiming Anjelamaría Dávila: Black Women’s Imaginings of Decolonization in Puerto Rico” by Katsí Yarí Rodríguez Velázquez, Ph.D., Brown University, February 2023 This dissertation …
Many bodies of work regarding the state of Africa in the present time are concerning whether the history of European colonialism in Africa was positive …
Genealogies of Capture and Evasion: A Black Feminist Meditation for Neoliberal Times is a genealogy, reassessment and critique of the inheritances and investments of present …
This is a work in political philosophy that considers the metamorphosis of the subject as it seeks alternative modes of being through revolutionary alteration of …
This dissertation queries the literary and cultural works of five Black Caribbean women between the 1970’s and 1990’s: Trinidadian-Canadian storyteller/librarian Rita Cox, Trinidadian novelist Merle …
“Of Master and State” submits Western war power to a critical treatment that identifies liberal legalism’s war in form, its social process of unnameable war. …
The United States of America annexed the Danish West Indies via a twenty-five-million-dollar purchase in 1917, forming the U.S. Virgin Islands. On March 31st, 2017, …
Rastafari Women’s Intellectual History and Activism in the Pan-African World is a visual ethnography that analyzes the ways Rastafari women build transnational communities through their …
This dissertation uses ethnography and archival research conducted between 2016 and 2020 to explore the myriad ways Black LGBT activists construct communal political ideologies work …
Soultelling for the People: The Black Storytelling Movement in the Post-Liberation Struggle, 1970s-1990s is a cultural history of the Black Storytelling Movement. Emerging out of …
Located at the nexus of African American history, critical geography,urban history, and cultural studies, this dissertation explores the racial operations of gentrification in Brooklyn, New …
This dissertation charts an alternate conceptual history of catastrophe theorized from the site of the plantation. In particular, I consider how modern-day ecological disasters in …
This dissertation offers an intellectual history of the African American “bad nigger” figure. It begins by identifying the “bad nigger” as a mythical character representing …
“What Dem Do to We No Have Name: Intimate Colonial Violence, Autonomy, and Black Women’s Art in Caribbean Nicaragua” traces a visual and discursive history …
This thesis analyzes how Nigerian characters interact with North African/Middle Easterners, South Asians, and East Asians, across two generations of Nigerian literature. Through a close …
This project explores the many ways in which women in the Black Panther Party navigated their roles as Black women, mothers, and revolutionaries and theorized …
