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Blackmon, Janiece L. "I Am Because We Are: Africana Womanism as a Vehicle of Empowerment and Influence." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33840.
Full textThe Africana womanist did not see herself as an individual but rather a vital part of the entire Black community. From a feminist perspective, it would appear as though the women of these Afrocentric fringe groups were marginalized and oppressed by the men but this perspective fails to give credence to the fact that Rasta women, Earthsâ the female members of the NGEâ and women Panthers saw race and racism as a more pressing issue than that of sexism. That is not to say that women in these groups did not question or challenge some of the sexist actions of their male counterparts. When there was a challenge it was done so in a way that reminded the men of the tenets of their respective group and their responsibility to uphold those principles; principles that required the men to consider the women as equally valuable in the cause of the group and deserving of just treatment.
While adhering to a gender order that afforded the male members a more visible position, the women of this study did not view their positions as mothers, wives, and sister members as a hindrance to their own personal joy or freedom. In fact, using an Africana womanist point of view, they would argue that it was in the best interest of the entire Rasta, NGE, or BPP and by extension, the Black community for them to own their statuses as a form of empowerment. For it was through their wombs and nurturing that the next generation would be born, through their providing a stable home that would allow their husbands to focus their attentions on the issues concerning their communities outward and through their role as supportive â sistersâ encouraging the men that the community could advance socially.
Master of Arts
Keiler-Bradshaw, Ahmon J. "Voices of the Earth: A Phenomenological Study of Women in the Nation of Gods and Earths." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/aas_theses/2.
Full textBlasingame, Dionne. "The Trauma of Chattel Slavery: A Womanist Perspective Women on Georgia in Early American Times." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/138.
Full textDiamanka, Fanta. "Broadcasting Change: Radio Talk Shows, Education and Women’s Empowerment in Senegal." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1365168542.
Full textAboderin, Olutoyosi Abigail. "More Than a Hashtag: An Examination of the #BlackGirlMagic Phenomenon." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/592065.
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Cashawn Thompson, who is credited for coining the phrase “Black girls are magic” which was later shortened to Black Girl Magic, says in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that “at its core, the purpose of this movement is to create a platform where women of color can stand together against “the stereotyping, colorism, misogynoir and racism that is often their lived experience.” Julee Wilson, Fashion Senior Editor at Essence Magazine, reflects Thompson in her article written for HuffPost saying, “Black Girl Magic is a term used to illustrate the universal awesomeness of black women. It’s about celebrating anything we deem particularly dope, inspiring, or mind-blowing about ourselves.” (Wilson, 2016) Nielsen Media Research similarly defines #BlackGirlMagic as “a cross-platform gathering of empowered Black women who uplift each other and shine a light on the impressive accomplishments of Black women throughout the world, a hashtag which uncovers and addresses the daily racism that so
Temple University--Theses
Meggs, Michelle. ""Oh She Ratchet": An Examination of Tyler Perry's Madea and Christianee Porter's Miss Shirleen Characters as Agents of Black Women's Liberation." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2019. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/cauetds/199.
Full textOgwude, Haadiza N. "Popular Nigerian Women's Magazines and Discourses of Femininity: A Textual Analysis of Today's Woman, Genevieve, and Exquisite." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou161643816575918.
Full textNzute, Anastesia. "Utilisation of insecticide treated nets among women in rural Nigeria : themes, stories, and performance." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/620391.
Full textTaylor, Toniesha Latrice. "A Tradition Her Own: Womanist Rhetoric and the Womanist Sermon." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1231801444.
Full textHouston, D. Akil. "A DJ Speaks with Hands: Gender Education and Hiphop Culture." Ohio : Ohio University, 2008. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1227206771.
Full textTurner, Deidra Rochelle. "Religion and womanism in the lives of Central Texas African American Baptist women." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1619.
Full textRussell, Tiffany Simpkins. ""Survival is not an Academic Skill": Exploring How African American Female Graduates of a Private Boarding School Craft an Identity." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/eps_diss/43.
Full textSeed, Davis Lenora. "Domestic violence from an African American woman's perspective." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2001. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/301.
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Eaton, Kalenda C. "Talkin' bout a revolution Afro-politico womanism and the ideological transformation of the black community, 1965-1980 /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1093540674.
Full textDocument formatted into pages; contains 185 p. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2007 Aug. 26.
Codner, Paul Martin. "The repeating text : Signifyin(g), creolization and marronage in African diaspora womanist narratives." FIU Digital Commons, 2006. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/2394.
Full textMokgwathi, Kutlwano. "Situating Southern African Masculinities: A Multimodal Thematic Analysis of the Construction of Rape Culture and Cultured Violence in the Digital Age of #MenAreTrash & #AmINext?" Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1620124202447593.
Full textMarr, Vanessa L. "Growing 'homeplace' in critical service-learning| An urban womanist pedagogy." Thesis, Wayne State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3616706.
Full textThis dissertation explores the role of critical service-learning from the perspective of urban community members. Specifically, it examines the counternarratives produced by Black women community gardeners who engage in academic service-learning with postsecondary faculty. The study focuses on this particular group because of the women's deep involvement with grassroots organizing that reflects their sense of self and other community members, as well as their personal and political relationships to Detroit, Michigan. Given the city's economic disparities rooted in racial segregation, structural violence and gender oppression, Detroit is a site of critical learning within a postindustrial/postcolonial context. This intersectionalist approach to service-learning is likened to bell hooks's concept of homeplace, a site of resistance created by Black women for the purposes of conducting anti-oppression work. Integrating community member interviews and the author's autoethnographic account to dialogically co-construct meaning, the study employs the womanist epistemological tenet of multivocality through connections to place, community, and activist praxis. Presenting Black female cultural expressions and life stories illustrated in the data, the study identifies holistic community-campus partnerships as those that emphasize environmental insight, cultural representation, reflexive relationships, and collective action. The dissertation has strong implications in service-learning research and practice, advancing an ethos of responsibility that provides a space for unheard voices to speak and for relationships among community members and academics to reflect a model based on solidarity as opposed to traditional paradigms centered on charity.
Moore, Aisha A. "Educating as a Vocation: A Phenomenological Study of Womanist Educational Leaders." Thesis, NSUWorks, 2016. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/fse_etd/77.
Full textMcGill, Keisha KaVon. "Experiences of African American Mothers Raising Gifted Children." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6923.
Full textSimpson, Caroline R. Dagley John C. "An exploration of the relationships among depression, womanist and racial identity in African American collegiate women." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SPRING/Counselor_Education,_Counseling_Psychology,_and_School_Psychology/Dissertation/Simpson_Caroline_2.pdf.
Full textRivers, NeCole L. "The Expectation of Emotional Strength and its Impact on African American Women's Weight." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1274.
Full textArunga, Marcia Tate. "Back to Africa in the 21st Century: The Cultural Reconnection Experiences of African American Women." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch149315357668899.
Full textvan, Drunen Vanessa. "Lack of Evaluation as Evaluation: Analysis of an African American Woman’s Narrative." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2011. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc84295/.
Full textJohnson, Pearlie Mae Wahlman Maude. "African American quilts an examination of feminism, identity, and empowerment in the fabric arts of Kansas City quilters /." Diss., UMK access, 2008.
Find full text"A dissertation in art history and sociology." Advisor: Maude Southwell Wahlman. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed Feb. 6, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 202-247). Online version of the print edition.
Sharpe, Chelsea. "Experiences of Parenting for African American Female Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5038.
Full textGaines, Rondee. "I am a Revolutionary Black Female Nationalist: A Womanist Analysis of Fulani Sunni Ali's Role as a New African Citizen and Minister of In-formation in the Provisional Government of the Republic of New Africa." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_diss/44.
Full textBrowdy, Ronisha Witlee. "Rhetorical Spirits: Spirituality as Rhetorical Device in New Age Womanist of Color Texts." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4642.
Full textMavumengwana, Ziyanda. "A rural xhosa woman's experience of marital satisfaction." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/11509.
Full textCaudell, Jennifer E. "A WHITE WOMAN’S VIEW INTO AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE OPPRESSION: DIRECTING DysFuNkTiOnAl? BY TERESA MCKINLEY." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2647.
Full textFord, Theresa. "The influence of womanist identity on the development of eating disorders and depression in African American female college students." W&M ScholarWorks, 2000. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550154065.
Full textBenin, Jamal. "PAN-AFRICAN STUDIES COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF A COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2013. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/216537.
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ABSTRACT This is a case study of how a community education program became institutionalized at Temple University. The Pan-African Studies Community Education Program (PASCEP) has been located at Temple since 1979. The research illuminates the events that led to PASCEP coming onto Temple University's campus. The main research question was: "Why and how did Pan-African Studies Community Education Program develop from a Community Education Program in North Central Philadelphia to a Temple University campus-based program, and what were the important factors contributing to its development and institutionalization within Temple University?" The research used a qualitative case study method. Data were collected from archival repositories at Temple University and the City of Philadelphia as well as from original documents provided by the Community Education Program and participants in the study. Documents included newspaper articles, letters, reports, and organizational histories as well as transcripts from thirty semi-structured participant interviews. Semi-structured interviews were held with 30 participants who were involved or familiar with the movement and the university between 1975 and 1979. The research indicates that the Community Education Program acted as a local movement center connected with the Civil rights movement. I employed Social Movement theories and Aldon Morris's Indigenous perspective to examine the trajectory of the Community Education Program from the neighborhood to the University. Much of the organizing, mobilizing, and planning done by the members in the Community Education Program/local movement center was managed by Black women. Therefore, the research employed Belinda Robnett's perspective on Bridge Leaders and Toni King and Alease Ferguson's standpoint on Black Womanist Professional Leadership Development to illuminate the leadership styles of the Black women in the local movement center, and their relationships with Temple University faculty and administrators, as well. Results from the inquiry demonstrate that community activism constituted social movement collective action behavior as the Community Education Program and its supporters became an effective local movement center. The study indicates that leadership, political opportunity, resource mobilization, and participation during the tenure in the Program in the community as well as after the introduction of the Community Education Program to the University were indispensable factors in the institutionalization of the Community Education Program.
Temple University--Theses
Chevers, Ivy E. "A Study Of Rastafarian Culture In Columbus,Ohio: Notes From An African American Woman's Journey." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1221592719.
Full textHarden, Renata. "Identities in Motion: An Autoethnography of an African American Woman's Journey to Burkina Faso, Benin, and Ghana." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1182028035.
Full textOjediran, Oludolapo. "Speaking in an alien voice : a womanist comparison of the use of language by Scottish and West African female playwrights." Thesis, Queen Margaret University, 2012. https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/7334.
Full textSummers, Douglas E. "Singleness among African American women with children developing an assessment to determine needs for ministry /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textEvans, Josephine B. A. "A woman's place is in the struggle? : South African women writers and the politics of gender." Thesis, University of York, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261085.
Full textTaylor-Lindheim, Tabitha. "A Mixed-Methods Study Exploring the African American Woman's Experiences of the Strong Black Woman Stereotype." Thesis, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10125629.
Full textThe strong black woman (SBW) phenomenon was explored in college-educated African American women in the Los Angeles region. Quantitative measures indicated that these women averaged high levels of stress, depression, and perceived racism. Qualitative data derived from short open-ended questions yielded eight themes describing both the positive aspects of being a SBW (being a role model for family and community, and feeling empowered), as well as its negative aspects (prejudice, internalized bias, stress, masking, self-neglect, and relational strain). Correlational and regression analyses explored the relationships among the quantitative and qualitative variables. Clinical and research implications and recommendations were discussed.
Heath, Corliss D. "Not on My Street: Exploration of Culture, Meaning and Perceptions of HIV Risk among Middle Class African American Women." Scholar Commons, 2014. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/5625.
Full textvan, Uitert Catherine Gardner Guyon. "Paradox and Paradise: Conflicting Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Nature in Aminata Sow Fall's Douceurs du bercail." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2010. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2352.
Full textGhaemmaghami, Amy Carol. "Milk Enough for All: The African-American Woman's Quest for Identity and Authority in Toni Morrison's "Beloved"." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625561.
Full textRoss, Helen M. "A woman's world at a time of war : an analysis of selected women's diaries during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1182.
Full textHowell, Maxine Eudalee. "Towards a womanist pneumatological pedagogy : an investigation into the development and articulation of a theological pedagogy by, and for, marginalised African-Caribbean women." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5303/.
Full textSeay, Nancy Parker. "Elderly African American Clergywomen as Community and Educational Resources." Connect to full text in OhioLINK ETD Center, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=toledo1262958506.
Full textTypescript. "Submitted as partial fulfillment of the requirements for The Master of Education in Educational Theory and Social Foundations." "A thesis entitled"--at head of title. Bibliography: leaves 97-104.
Harwell, Raena Jamila. "This Woman's Work: The Sociopolitical Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2011. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/138885.
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In November 2006, award-winning novelist, Bebe Moore Campbell died at the age of 56 after a short battle with brain cancer. Although the author was widely-known and acclaimed for her first novel, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine (1992) there had been no serious study of her life, nor her literary and activist work. This dissertation examines Campbell's activism in two periods: as a student at the University of Pittsburgh during the 1960s Black Student Movement, and later as a mental health advocate near the end of her life in 2006. It also analyzes Campbell's first and final novels, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine and 72 Hour Hold (2005) and the direct relationship between her novels and her activist work. Oral history interview, primary source document analysis, and textual analysis of the two novels, were employed to examine and reconstruct Campbell's activist activities, approaches, intentions and impact in both her work as a student activist at the University of Pittsburgh and her work as a mental health advocate and spokesperson for the National Alliance for Mental Illness. A key idea considered is the impact of her early activism and consciousness on her later activism, writing, and advocacy. I describe the subject's activism within the Black Action Society from 1967-1971 and her negotiation of the black nationalist ideologies espoused during the 1960s. Campbell's first novel Your Blues Ain't Like Mine and is correlated to her emerging political consciousness (specific to race and gender) and the concern for racial violence during the Black Liberation period. The examination of recurrent themes in Your Blues reveals a direct relationship to Campbell's activism at the University of Pittsburgh. I also document Campbell's later involvement in the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), her role as a national spokesperson, and the local activism that sparked the birth of the NAMI Urban-Los Angeles chapter, serving black and Latino communities (1999-2006). Campbell's final novel, 72 Hour Hold, is examined closely for its socio-political commentary and emphasis on mental health disparities, coping with mental illness, and advocacy in black communities. Campbell utilized recurring signature themes within each novel to theorize and connect popular audiences with African American historical memory and current sociopolitical issues. Drawing from social movement theories, I contend that Campbell's activism, writing, and intellectual development reflect the process of frame alignment. That is, through writing and other activist practices she effectively amplifies, extends, and transforms sociopolitical concerns specific to African American communities, effectively engaging a broad range of readers and constituents. By elucidating Campbell's formal and informal leadership roles within two social movement organizations and her deliberate use of writing as an activist tool, I conclude that in both activist periods Campbell's effective use of resources, personal charisma, and mobilizing strategies aided in grassroots/local and institutional change. This biographical and critical study of the sociopolitical activism of Bebe Moore Campbell establishes the necessity for scholarly examination of African American women writers marketed to popular audiences and expands the study of African American women's contemporary activism, health activism, and black student activism.
Temple University--Theses
Hutelmyer, Laura L. "Gertrude Bustill Mossell and "Our Woman's Department" advocating change through a weekly advice column, 1885-1887 /." Click here for download, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1273139921&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textWhite, Monica T. "Speaking in our own tongues language and conversations between african based creative theory and western based traditional theory towards a theory of womanist dramatic discourse /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0001182.
Full textDevoe, Yolandé Aileen Ifalami PhD. "In Pictures and Words: A Womanist Answer to Addressing the Lived Experience of African American Women and Their Bodies—A Gumbo of Liberation and Healing." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1603278646105912.
Full textWomack, Monica S. "African-American Students' Perceptions of Their Student-Teacher Relationship with White College Instructors and Academic Achievement While Enrolled in Early College High School." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1429633581.
Full textCrous, Marisa Ellen. "A woman’s sell-by date : the experience of ageing amongst a group of women in Stellenbosch." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6573.
Full textNewton, Kathryn. "African American Women's Perceptions of and Experiences with Mandated Substance Abuse Treatment: Implications for Counselors." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04242008-014909/.
Full textTitle from file title page. Brian J. Dew, committee chair; Kris Varjas, Barbara Gormley, Catherine Cadenhead, Leslie Jackson, committee members. Electronic text (169 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed July 7, 2008. Includes bibliographical references.