Browsing by Subject "African Diaspora"
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(2011-06-30)Department: EnglishInstead of thinking of jazz in the hackneyed vocabulary of “canon-building,” I explore jazz as a technological construction very much built to reshape spatial and temporal boundaries across the African Diaspora. Jazz technê, ...
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(2014-05-16)Department: Spanish and PortugueseSPANISH AND PORTUGUESE “Dramas of Memory: Slavery and African Oral Traditions in the Historical Novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves” John Thomas Maddox IV Dissertation under Professors Earl E. Fitz ...
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(2013-07-01)Department: HistoryThis dissertation is a transatlantic story of Caribbean post-emancipation centered on the experiences of approximately fifty Afro-Barbadian families (346 people) who emigrated to Liberia in 1865. At the outset, it explores ...
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(2015-05-22)Department: HistoryThis dissertation project examines the impact of one particular insurgent slave group, the Black Auxiliary Troops of King Carlos IV, during the early years of the Haitian revolution. Led by free black generals Jean-François ...
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(2016-07-26)Department: English“The Sacred Act of Reading: Spirituality, Performance, and Power in Afro-Diasporic Literature” studies depictions of religious phenomena in multi-genre texts from across the Americas. Literary engagement with the philosophies ...