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My central research question is: how has white supremacy impacted African Diaspora women's mental health, access to mental healthcare, and identities as mental health patients in the United States as discernible in...

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The purpose of this research is to examine how television shows and their portrayals of professional Black women impact the interpretation of marriage rates by race and perpetuate ideologies about the angry, unlovable Black...

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This interview was conducted by Martin Jackson with Gloria Mobley Brown as part of Project 2020: A Collaborative Oral History. Mrs. Brown, 89, discusses her experiences as a Black student and educator, particularly during the...

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This research consisted of qualitative interviews with 21 Black women who currently held, had held, or were qualified for managerial-level positions in the public service sector. The research questions were as follows: (1) What...

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Maya Angelou's memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is just one of many titles challenged and banned in public schools for "sexually explicit" content. On page 71 of her 281 page autobiography, Angelou discloses that she was...

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This interview was conducted by Jackson Martin with Barbarba M. Boulware as part of Project 2020: A Collaborative Oral History. Mrs. Boulware discusses the challenges she faced as an educator during the Civil Rights Era and...

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Fauset's texts offer a repository of precisely what critic Alain Locke labeled retrograde: seemingly outdated plotlines and tropes that draw upon multiple literary, historical, and popular cultural sources. This essay aims to...

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Céline Sciamma as writer and director is peculiarly attentive to sensory detail, what things feel like, how they can be touched. This attention can be felt through her collaborative work with director of photography Crystel...

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The purpose of this study is to understand how African-American women's hairstyles in Facebook profile pictures are a means of self-presentation. The research questions are: 1) How do hairstyles enable Black women to create...

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Although the black community has experienced an untold number of trials in the United States of America, it has demonstrated resilience through adversity. This may be especially true of the women of black communities in this...

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