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
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
Senior Independent Study Theses from 2000
Rap, Race, and Reaganomics: Political Dynamism in Hip-Hop Culture, Caitlin A. Pine
Department: Africana Studies; Political Science
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1998
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
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
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
Senior Independent Study Theses from 1991
Blacks in the Media: a Critical Analysis, Dionne Ousley
Department: Africana Studies
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Race and Class as Divisive Factors in the Women's Liberation Movement: Black Women and Feminism, Catherine White
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
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