Charting Diaspora Within the Black Utopia: Liberia, Eatonville, Harlem, Wakanda, and Beyond
dc.creator | Casey, Marcie Renea | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-24T11:53:21Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-18 | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-10-18 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/etd-10012018-130439 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/15523 | |
dc.description.abstract | Black utopian logic works to decolonize and delink from the colonial matrix of power by maintaining a nationality separate from European culture and thought. The latest black utopia to reach mainstream popular culture finds its home in Wakanda, a fictional, technologically advanced nation in the Marvel Universe residing at the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya, Narobia, Somalia, and Uganda. In this thesis paper, I argue that Wakanda operates as a fictional black utopia that offers a reimagining of a black culture free from colonial power. I not only chart the history of the diaspora within the black utopia from the Republic of Liberia, Eatonville, Florida, Harlem, New York, to the fictional Wakanda, I also examine what this history means for the trajectory of black peoples worldwide. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.subject | African-American studies | |
dc.subject | Diaspora studies | |
dc.title | Charting Diaspora Within the Black Utopia: Liberia, Eatonville, Harlem, Wakanda, and Beyond | |
dc.type | thesis | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Vera Kutzinksi | |
dc.type.material | text | |
thesis.degree.name | MA | |
thesis.degree.level | thesis | |
thesis.degree.discipline | English | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Vanderbilt University | |
local.embargo.terms | 2020-10-18 | |
local.embargo.lift | 2020-10-18 | |
dc.contributor.committeeChair | Hortense Spillers |
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