Senior Independent Study Theses from 2023
The Creation of Black Paradise: Exploring Wealth Accumulation, Racial Politics, and Resilience of Black Neighborhoods In Detroit's East Side Through Archaeological Reconstruction, Jada B. Green
Department: Archaeology; Africana Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2022
Examining The School-To-Prison Pipeline: Interventions And Opportunities, Najee Hardaway
Department: Africana Studies
Afraid To Leave The Closet: An Exploration Of The History Of Heteronormativity Within The Black Church, Tracing The Effects On Gay Black Men, Rondell M. Mackey Jr.
Department: Africana Studies
Crowns: An Exploration Of The Memories And Lived Experiences Of Black Women And Hair, Seven N. Townsel
Department: Africana Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2021
Snapped: Examining how Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation and Food Access Impact Health Outcomes Among Low- income/Low-access (LILA) Populations in Georgia, Paige Clay
Department: Africana Studies; Political Science
Whitewashing v. Blackwashing: Structural Racism and Anti-Racist Praxis in Hollywood Cinema, Alyssa M. Smith
Department: Africana Studies
Colonial Roots: How Colonial Roots are Seen in Education, Entertainment, and Politics, Catalina R. Valdez
Department: Africana Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2020
“I want to know of love before I die”: Love, Intimacy, and Sexual Exploitation in the lives of Black Men, Kamal Morgan
Department: Africana Studies
Before the Streetlights Come on: An Analysis of the Politics of Black Motherhood Within American Society, Alana Smith
Department: Africana Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2019
Black Historical Caricatures and how they led to Black Lives Not Mattering in America, Ariel A. Collins
Department: Africana Studies
An Examination of the Senegalese Boat Migration, Ousmane Sy
Department: Africana Studies; History
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2018
Elite African American Football Players’ Career Paths from College, Professional Franchises, and Post Professional Athletic Careers, Roger An
Department: Africana Studies
A Bleak Hope For My Father: An Analysis of the Need For More Funding Earmarked towards Reentry Programs for African American Males, Derrius R. Jones
Department: Africana Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2017
In Support of Black Girlhood: An Analysis of the Disproportionate Punishment of Black Girls’ Identity Inside of Schools, Shar'da Hammett
Department: Africana Studies
Black Women's Bodies and the Restoration of Glory: Understanding Beyonce's Lemonade as Political Resistance, Emerald Rutledge
Department: Africana Studies
'Freedom for the Captives': A critical analysis of the movement to save the life of Troy Anthony Davis, Chadwick Smith
Department: Africana Studies; History
"The Least of These": Towards an Integrated Queer of Color Critique of the Prison Industrial Complex, Jahqwahn J. Watson
Department: Africana Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2016
Queer (Mask)ulinities: A Comparative Analysis of James Baldwin and Frank Ocean Challenging Heteronormativity in Misogyny, Race and Religion, Ama Addo
Department: Africana Studies
Perejil and Prejudice: A Theoretical and Historical Investigation of the Relationship between Haitians and Dominicans in the Dominican Republic, Ahlon A. Gonzalez
Department: Africana Studies
The Glass Ceiling in Schools: An Ethnographic Approach to Understanding the Racial and Economic Inequalities in Selected Chicago City and Suburban Schools, MacKenzie Rae Love
Department: Africana Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2015
The Impact of Neoliberalism on Urban Schools in Cities with Black Mayors: Cases in Newark, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., Miko J. Jones
Department: Africana Studies; History
Black Women in the Academy: An Argument for Greater Inclusion, Samantha Muther
Department: Africana Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2014
‘Tewo Zamani’—Sickness of this Generation: The Feminization of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, Weyni T. Berhe
Department: Africana Studies
Mass Incarceration: An Analysis of the Intersectionality of Oppressions and Its Effect on the African American Female during the War on Drugs, 1985-1991, Erica R. Bryant
Department: Africana Studies
The “Right” Model for Educating Ghanaian Girls: Emerging Themes and Messages from Ghanaian NGO Websites, Eryn E. Greaney
Department: Africana Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Internalized Racism, The Nadir, and Lynching: A study of George Schuyler’s Black No More and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage”, Randie D. Henderson
Department: Africana Studies; English
The New Niggers: A Historical and Contemporary Exploration of the Use of the "N-Word" in the African-American Community, LaTricia Mitchell
Department: Africana Studies
Oppositional Looking: A Critical Interrogation of The White Female Gaze in "Orange is the New Black", Tiara L. Patton
Department: Africana Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
The Destructive Consequences of President Barack Obama's New Tradition of Black Political Rhetoric and Post-Racial Discourse on the Black American Community, Amy E. Rice
Department: Africana Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2013
Education Movements in the South: Choice Education in the 20th and 21st century, Marcel Baugh
Department: Africana Studies
The Aesthetic Spaces Between Artistic Freedom and Cultural Traditions: New Methods For the Curation of Contemporary African Art, Isabelle Briggs
Department: Africana Studies
The Severed Relationship Between Black/Africana Studies and Black Communities, Gabrielle Hughley
Department: Africana Studies
Toward a New Approach: The Harms of a Racially Colorblind Education System and the Creation of a Positive Racial Identity at the College of Wooster, Jocelyn Kopfman
Department: Africana Studies
Gallery of a Colored Girl: How Black and White Perceptions of the Black Female Body Affect the Ways Millennial African American Women Perform Race and Gender On and Off Stage, Jasmine Verreen
Department: Africana Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2011
"Hope I'm Funny...": An Exploration in the Performance of Black Masculinity By African American Male Standup Comedians, Yassamin Davoodi
Department: Africana Studies; Sociology and Anthropology
Who Do You Think You're Foolin'? Barack Obama and the Crisis of Multiethnic Identity, Timothy Rice
Department: Africana Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
West African Resistance and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: The Controversies and Contradictions Between Memory and History, Margaret R. Armstrong
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Hoover's Mandate and the Permanent Neutralization of Fred Hampton, Dierre Taylor
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2008
Fire in His Wake: Mobutu Sese Seko and Zaire in the 1970s, Benjamin Joseph Downs
Department: Africana Studies
A Revealing and Remarkable Transformation: An In-Depth Analysis of the Complex Life and Evolution of Malcolm X, Andrew Paul Garnett
Department: Africana Studies; History
A Revealing and Remarkable Transformation: An In-Depth Analysis of the Complex Life and Evolution of Malcom X, Andrew Paul Garnett
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Unfair and Unjust: Inconsistancies Between Black and White Women in Three Areas of Health Care, Carly Kammer
Cold War Superpower Rivalry in the Horn of Africa: How the Flood of Arms in the Region Resulted in Current Instbilities, Brendan Murphy
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000
Rap, Race, and Reaganomics: Political Dynamism in Hip-Hop Culture, Caitlin A. Pine
Department: Africana Studies; Political Science
Theses/Dissertations from 1999
And Still We Rise: The Historical Examination and Implications of Black Feminists Actions and Activities in America from 1850 to 1975, Timeka L. Thomas
Theses/Dissertations from 1998
The Impact of Communism on Garveyism: The Power Struggle Between the Working Class, Jamila B. Atkinson
Role of Hegemonically Based Racial Constructs in the Social, Political and Economic Interactions of Developing Countries: Hispanola a Case Study, Jana T. Harris
Department: Africana Studies; Spanish
Theses/Dissertations from 1997
Skin Color Perception: Preferential Treatment and Self-Concept Among Black College Students, Robyn Michelle Hill
The Land of Hope: Chicago from the Great Migration to the Race Riots, 1915-1919, Erin Lydon
From Africa to Germany: The Transition to German Culture for Afro-German Women, Marjorie Walter-Echols
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Missing Pages: A Classified, Annotated Bibliography, Reporting on the Material Concerning African-Americans and Education, 1865-1949, Available in Andrews Library, The College of Wooster, Ohio, Robert Allen Kugler III
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1993
Role of the Black Mother in Two-Parent Black Families: Lower- and Middle-Class, LaSonya Crawl
Department: Africana Studies
West African Religious Cultural Retentions of the Antebellum Period in the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands, Jennifer Duncan
Department: Africana Studies
West African Religious Cultural Retentions of the Antebellum Period in the South Carolina and Georgia Sea Islands, Jennifer Nolyn Duncan
Phillis Wheatley in Context: A Critique of Ten Poems Within the Socio-Historical Constraints of Her Life-Time, Erik B. Haakonsen
Department: Africana Studies; English
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
Black Theatre: What it has Been & What it Should Be, Lillian Tanina-Marie Bonds
An Analysis of Raical Black Literature and its Progression, Paul Gunning
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1991
Blacks in the Media: a Critical Analysis, Dionne Ousley
Department: Africana Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 1990
The Implications of the Philosophy of Carter G. Woodson as Outlined in The Mideducation of the Negro on the Eductional System for Blacks, Melford Patrick Ferguson
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Race and Class as Divisive Factors in the Women's Liberation Movement: Black Women and Feminism, Catherine White
Race and Class as Divisive Factors in the Women's Liberation Movement: Black Women and Feminism, Catherine White
The Development of Self-Esteem in the Interracial Child as a Result of Differential Socializtion Processes in Black/White Family Contexts, Tina Marie Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 1986
In Search of a Black Aesthetic in Theatre, Tracy Upton
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1983
Study of Black and White Female Criminality in Selected Cities in the United States: A Case Study of Atlanta, Georgia, Glenda Jones
Department: Africana Studies
Sickle Cell Disease in the United States: High Prevalence, Low Priority, Rodney McCalister
Department: Africana Studies
Sickle Cell Disease in the United States High Prevalence, Low Priority, Rodney Blockum McCalister
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1982
Power Dilemmas of Black Mayors of Major American Cities, Gary C. Adkins
Department: Africana Studies; Urban Studies
Public Policy, Poverty, and Socio-Political Factors Contributing to Collective Urban Violence, Susan Lee
Department: Africana Studies
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1979
Civil Rights Movement in Perspective: "Where Have All the Protestors Gone?", Derrick Cherry
Department: Africana Studies
Effect of Education on the Economic Mobility of Black Americans in Ohio, 1940-1970, Herbert L. Simmons
Department: Africana Studies