Browsing UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "African and African Diaspora Studies"
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African-centered psychology within black studies : a call for the centrality of African-centered psychology within the field of black studies
(2013-05)In an effort to accentuate the need for Black Psychological theory, research and methodology within the field of Africology, Africana professor Dr. DeReef Jamison argues that in order to gain a full understanding of the ... -
After paradise : Jamaican tourism and nationalism in the wake of colonialism
(2019-08-16)In the tourist’s popular imagination Jamaica is red, green and gold; reggae music played on pristine beaches, a dreadlocked man selling artwork, weed, coconuts and the big bamboo. Jamaica is tourism. Jamaica is Reggae. ... -
"Are you getting angry Doctor?" : Madea, strategy and the fictional rejection of black female containment
(2014-05)Within the scope of this thesis, I provide close textual and visual readings of director/actor/producer Tyler Perry's most well-known character, Mable "Madea" Simmons -- a performance he does in full female drag attire -- ... -
Benevolent patriarchy & gender violence : unveiling Black men’s illusion of mea innocentia in Bluefields Nicaragua
(2022-05-09)Implementing a Black feminist perspective, this ethnographic research examines the seemingly contradictory circumstances in which respectable heterosexual Afrodescendant Creole men of Bluefields are involved in familial ... -
Body, flesh, skin, canvas : black/queer/women and tattoos as diasporic art, reclamation, and performance
(2017-05)Body, Flesh, Skin Canvas: Black/Queer/Women and Tattoos as Diasporic Art, Reclamation, and Performance concerns black/queer/women’s participation in tattoo culture in the United States. Considering the relationship between ... -
Coming to America : race, class, nationality and mobility in “African” Hip Hop
(2013-05)This report examines Hip Hop performance in Africa –with a focus on Nigeria- and analyzes how questions of race, racial identity, class and nationality feature in the works of African artists. The Nigerian/African artists ... -
Culture is autonomy, autonomy is revolution : Afro-Nicaraguan Creole women’s cultural politics of opacity
(2017-05-08)This report explores the relationship between expressive culture and decolonial politics by taking up an analysis of contemporary Afro-Nicaraguan women’s diasporic cultural production. It shows how, in the face of political ... -
Diasporic dialogues in Black concert dance : racial politics, dance history, and aesthetics
(2014-05)This report examines diasporic dialogues in Black concert dance focusing on dialogues between Brazil and the United States and analyzes how racial politics and cultural exchanges contributed to shape a Black aesthetic in ... -
Doing the work : the Black Lives Matter Movement in Austin, Texas
(2018-12-07)This dissertation explores the tension in Black political thought between redemptive and revolutionary frameworks for social change. The following study, the first ethnography of the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLMM), ... -
Furtive Blackness : on being in and outside of law
(2021-05-05)This dissertation is comprised of three chapters; Furtive Blackness: On Blackness and Being (“Furtive Blackness”), The Strict Scrutiny of Black and BlaQueer Life (“Strict Scrutiny”) and Sexual Profiling: BlaQueer Furtivity. ... -
I am pouring sweet water on my altar for you : theorizing women of color feminism at the junctures of storm/water, femininity, race and power
(2015-05)This thesis is a meditation on the womanness of water and the wateriness of black and brown womannness. It begins with a consideration of those women that were swept away in the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami in Sri Lanka and ... -
"I can turn karaoke into open mic night" : an exploration of Asian American men in hip hop
(2013-05)The purpose of this report is to explore the ways in which Asian American men participate in hip hop culture, and what this participation says about their politics and representation in United States media and popular ... -
"I had drunk the sparkling waters of the Demerara River" : Afro-Guyanese women's embodiment and self-referential practices
(2022-12-05)This paper focuses on Afro-Guyanese women’s literary and visual meditations on the rivers that run through Guyana and the Atlantic Ocean that borders the country. In this report, I examine Carmen Subryan’s Black-Water Women ... -
Insidious morality : on the connections between “good intentions”, bad faith and anti-black racism
(2016-08)This report is delivered in two parts and aims to accomplish two endeavors. First, is to complete an examination of the insidious underside of morality identified by Friedrich Nietzsche in relation to black studies. As ... -
Jezebel by another name : Black women, carceral geography, and the practice of urban marronage in Chicago
(2022-08-11)“Jezebel By Another Name: Black Women, Carceral Geography, and the Practice of Urban Marronage in Chicago,” examines how Black women (including Black/Afro Latinas), femmes, and non-men in Chicago navigate the carceral, ... -
Let the waters flow : (trans)locating Afro-Latina feminist thought
(2013-12)When thinking specifically of transnationalism, African diaspora and the fluidity of identity: Where do we locate Afro-Latina women? The answer for this question would seem to come from a Black or Chicano feminist thought, ... -
Mammy and la madama : altar egos
(2021-12-09)This project considers the spiritual dimensions of the mammy figure through the lens of the material religious practices of Puerto Rican espiritismo. Additionally, this paper traces the history of the mammy in United States ... -
Mothers and monsters : Black female subjectivity in Black speculative fiction
(2015-05)For if, as literary theorist Barbara Christian argues "people of color have always theorized--but in forms quite different from the Western form of abstract logic" and "often in narrative forms," then it only makes sense ... -
(Politically) Black at Toronto Pride : queering diaspora, borders, and disruption
(2019-05-07)On July 3, 2016, the Toronto Pride parade began its procession down Toronto streets. Before it would end, Black Lives Matter – Toronto organizers would disrupt the event with a protest. This collective of Black queer and ... -
The politics of race and mental illness in the Post-Emancipation US South : Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane in historical perspective
(2014-05)In "The Politics of Race and Mental Illness" I explore the relationship between conceptualizations of black mental health and white social control from 1865 to 1881. Chapter one historically contextualizes black mental ...
