Log in

Relevant bibliographies by topics / Black Women's United Front / Dissertations / Theses

To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Black Women's United Front.

Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Black Women's United Front'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 28 July 2024

Last updated: 31 July 2025

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Consult the top 25 dissertations / theses for your research on the topic 'Black Women's United Front.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Browse dissertations / theses on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.

1

Van, Zelm Antoinette G. "On the front lines of freedom: Black and white women shape emancipation in Virginia, 1861-1890." W&M ScholarWorks, 1998. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539623923.

Full text

Abstract:

Black and white women in Virginia were on the front lines of the struggle over emancipation during and after the Civil War. Between 1861 and 1890, both former slave and former slaveholding women shaped black freedom and thereby re-invented themselves as citizens within their local communities.;Focusing on women who lived in the southeastern and south-central regions of Virginia, this study expands the narrative of Southern history to encompass the vigorous contest between black and white women over the meanings of slavery, the war, and freedom. Based on federal records and private papers, this

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Smith, Sonya. "Black women's self-concept : the effects of attitudes toward black male-white female relationships." Virtual Press, 1996. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1033636.

Full text

Abstract:

Various researchers (e.g., Copeland, 1977; Foster,1973; and Dickson, 1993) have theorized that due to negative self-imagery and the lack of eligible Black men, Black women's self-concept suffers as a result of "losing" potential Black partners to White women. The purpose of the present study was to empirically evaluate the relationship between Black women's self-concept and their attitudes toward Black men dating White women. In addition, level of racial identity development, dating practices, and selfratings of attractiveness were examined as moderating variables. Thirty-six single Black pre-

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Owens, Emily Alyssa. "Fantasies of Consent: Black Women's Sexual Labor in 19th Century New Orleans." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845425.

Full text

Abstract:

Fantasies of Consent: Black Women’s Sexual Labor 19th Century New Orleans draws on Louisiana legal statutes and Louisiana State Supreme Court records, alongside French and Spanish Caribbean colonial law, slave narratives, and pro-slavery writing, to craft legal, affective, and economic history of sex and slavery in antebellum New Orleans. This is the first full-length project on the history of non-reproductive sexual labor in slavery: I historicize the lives of women of color who sold, or were sold for, sex to white men. I analyze those labors, together, to understand major elements of sexual

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Menifield, Charles E. "Influence on minority groups in Congress : the black, women's issues, and hispanic caucuses /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9821336.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Craddock, Hannah Catherine. "Black Female Landowners in Richmond, Virginia 1850-1877." W&M ScholarWorks, 2012. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626697.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Marshall, Amani N. "Enslaved women runaways in South Carolina, 1820--1865." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278199.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 4025. Adviser: Claude Clegg. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 7, 2008).

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Taylor, Shockley Megan Newbury. ""We, too, are Americans": African American women, citizenship, and civil rights activism in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/284135.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation explores the activities of middle- and working-class African American women during and immediately after World War II in Detroit and Richmond, Virginia, in order to examine how World War II enabled African American women to negotiate new state structures in order to articulate citizenship in a way that located them within the state as contributors to the war effort and legitimated their calls for equality. This study provides a new understanding of the groundwork that lay behind the civil rights activism of the 1950s and 1960s. By looking at African American women's wartime p

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Del, Rio Jassmin. "Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality Rates in the United States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2153.

Full text

Abstract:

Introduction: The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in 1987 was 7.2 deaths per 100,000 live births compared to 18.0 deaths in 2015. This increase in MMR has occurred disproportionately. The same report demonstrates that black women are more than 3 times as likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than non-Hispanic white women. The present study explores how structural differences in the economy, education system, and public policy affect the health of black, pregnant women in the U.S. Methods: This research examined epidemiological studies of mat

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Pruneau, Leigh Ann 1957. "All the time is work time: Gender and the task system on antebellum lowcountry rice plantations." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/282532.

Full text

Abstract:

This is an analysis of the task system, the primary form of labor organization used by South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry rice planters. It examines the labor process of rice field hands, analyzes the extent to which gender shaped enslaved men and women's experiences of tasking, and explores some of the ramifications of task work on field women's lives. Conventional interpretations of the task system claim that it provided slaves with more autonomy, control, and opportunities for individual initiative than gang labor did. In contrast, this study finds that tasking was a multifaceted labor r

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Tully, Deborah Ann. "Discovering pathways to persistence for underrepresented racial minority women in STEM: a comparative study of women's, historically Black, and coeducational liberal arts colleges in the United States." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16584.

Full text

Abstract:

The low participation rate of university students in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), specifically those from underrepresented minority groups, is an area of national concern in the United States. The U.S. Federal Government has spent more than $1.1 billion to secure a well-trained STEM workforce with a principal aim of focusing upon groups that are underrepresented in STEM. While these efforts have produced increased minority student STEM enrolment, retention results are less impressive. Minority women comprise more than 20% of the U.S. population yet earn less

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Fry, Jennifer Reed. "'Our girls can match 'em every time': The Political Activities of African American Women in Philadelphia, 1912-1941." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2010. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/61373.

Full text

Abstract:

History<br>Ph.D.<br>This dissertation challenges the dominant interpretation in women's history of the 1920s and 1930s as the "doldrums of the women's movement," and demonstrates that Philadelphia's political history is incomplete without the inclusion of African American women's voices. Given their well-developed bases of power in social reform, club, church, and interracial groups and strong tradition of political activism, these women exerted tangible pressure on Philadelphia's political leaders to reshape the reform agenda. When success was not forthcoming through traditional political mea

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Walker, Pamela N. ""Pray for Me and My Kids": Correspondence between Rural Black Women and White Northern Women During the Civil Rights Movement." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2015. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1999.

Full text

Abstract:

This paper examines the experiences of rural black women in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement by examining correspondence of the grassroots anti-poverty organization the Box Project. The Box Project, founded in 1962 by white Vermont resident and radical activist Virginia Naeve, provided direct relief to black families living in Mississippi but also opened positive and clandestine lines of communication between southern black women and outsiders, most often white women. The efforts of the Box Project have been largely left out of the dialogue surrounding Civil Rights, which has often

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Spong, Kaitlyn M. "“Your love is too thick”: An Analysis of Black Motherhood in Slave Narratives, Neo-Slave Narratives, and Our Contemporary Moment." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2018. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2573.

Full text

Abstract:

In this paper, Kait Spong examines alternative practices of mothering that are strategic nature, heavily analyzing Patricia Hill Collins’ concepts of “othermothering” and “preservative love” as applied to Toni Morrison’s 1987 novel, Beloved and Harriet Jacob’s 1861 slave narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Using literary analysis as a vehicle, Spong then applies these West African notions of motherhood to a modern context by evaluating contemporary social movements such as Black Lives Matter where black mothers have played a prominent role in making public statements against syst

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Wiggins, Rebecca Wiltberger. "MEETING AT THE THRESHOLD: SLAVERY’S INFLUENCE ON HOSPITALITY AND BLACK PERSONHOOD IN LATE-ANTEBELLUM AMERICAN LITERATURE." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/83.

Full text

Abstract:

In my dissertation, I argue that both white and black authors of the late-1850s and early-1860s used scenes of race-centered hospitality in their narratives to combat the pervasive stereotypes of black inferiority that flourished under the influence of chattel slavery. The wide-spread scenes of hospitality in antebellum literature—including shared meals, entertaining overnight guests, and business meetings in personal homes—are too inextricably bound to contemporary discussions of blackness and whiteness to be ignored. In arguing for the humanizing effects of playing host or guest as a black p

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Pierson, Madeleine. "A Model For Empowerment: Lugenia Burns Hope’s Community Vision Through the Neighborhood Union." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/890.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis examines the work of reformer Lugenia Burns Hope and her community organization, the Neighborhood Union, as a case study to unpack scholarly characterizations of black elite uplift strategies during the early 20th century. The Neighborhood Union was established in 1908 in Atlanta by Hope and women from the community to build stronger neighborhoods and to combat the deleterious effects of the 1906 Race Riots and Jim Crow laws. Neighborhood Union settlement houses provided basic and extracurricular services, including kindergartens for working mothers, vocational classes, and lecture

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Walch, Barbara Hunter. "Sallye B. Mathis and Mary L. Singleton: Black pioneers on the Jacksonville, Florida, City Council." UNF Digital Commons, 1988. https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/704.

Full text

Abstract:

In 1967 Sallye Brooks Mathis and Mary Littlejohn Singleton were elected the first blacks in sixty years, and the first women ever, to the city council of Jacksonville, Florida. These two women had been raised in Jacksonville in a black community which, in spite of racial discrimination and segregation since the Civil War, had demonstrated positive leadership and cooperative action as it developed its own organizations and maintained a thriving civic life. Jacksonville blacks participated in politics when allowed to do so and initiated several economic boycotts and court suits to resist racial

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Munoz, Cabrera Patricia. "Journeying: narratives of female empowerment in Gayl Jones's and Toni Morrison's ficton." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210259.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation discusses Gayl Jones’s and Toni Morrison’s characterisation of black women’s journeying towards empowered subjectivity and agency. <p><p>Through comparative analysis of eight fictional works, I explore the writers’ idea of female freedom and emancipation, the structures of power affecting the transition from oppressed towards liberated subject positions, and the literary techniques through which the authors facilitate these seminal trajectories.<p><p>My research addresses a corpus comprised of three novels and one book-long poem by Gayl Jones, as well as four novels by Toni M

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Taylor, Michelle Lynette. "Emergent identities: The African American common woman in United States literature, 1831--1903." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/18035.

Full text

Abstract:

This dissertation examines the intersection of resistance, gender, and respectability in African American literature from 1831 to 1903 through the figure of the "common woman." As a category of analysis, the common woman is an alternative to the bourgeois African American heroine, and is characterized by a number of qualities: the lack of formal education; reliance on folk-based methods of knowledge; non-traditional views on the family; aggressive articulation of her rights and the rights of the community; and finally, her use of labor as a tool for manipulating the culture of oppression. Whil

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Blum, Francelle L. "When marriages fail: Divorce in nineteenth-century Texas." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/22242.

Full text

Abstract:

Divorce in nineteenth-century Texas was rooted in social customs as much as law, with class, gender, and race serving as strong influences on marital experiences and decisions to divorce. Legal divorce took place primarily at the local level, with the option of appeal to the Texas Supreme Court. Under Mexican rule, Anglo settlers had no option for divorce, and marital status was itself often uncertain, resulting in the practice of bond marriage (marriage by contract). For a short time under the Republic of Texas, a few Texans sought legislative divorce. However, judicial divorce soon became th

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Agogbuo, Stella Uloma. "Girls' schooling in Africa and the dilemma of reproductive health care among sub-Saharan African women in the United States /." 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3250205.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0481. Adviser: William Trent. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-155) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Gregory, Jane Howe. "Persistence and irony in the incarceration of women in the Texas Penitentiary, 1907-1910." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/13836.

Full text

Abstract:

Between 1907 and 1910, Progressive reformers' attacks on the convict lease system of the Texas Penitentiary brought sexual misconduct of guards with female prisoners into public view and prompted officials to transfer women convicts from farm to farm in an attempt to contain both the abuse and the publicity it generated. In spite of the moves, the efforts of reformers, and the hiring of the first penitentiary matron, little of substance changed for women prisoners. They remained on a penal farm, guarded and supervised by men, their work and housing strictly divided by race. Persistent patterns

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Lindsey, Treva Blaine. "Configuring Modernities: New Negro Womanhood in the Nation's Capital, 1890-1940." Diss., 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/2409.

Full text

Abstract:

<p>During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a cadre of black women merged the ideals of the "New Woman" and the "New Negro" to configure New Negro Womanhood. For these women, the combining of these two figurations encapsulated the complexity and strivings of black women attempting to achieve racial and gender equality and authorial control of their bodies and aspirations. New Negro women challenged racial and gender inequality and exclusion from participating in contemporaneous political and cultural currents. New Negro women are meaningful in understanding how ideas about b

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Brown, Layla Dalal. "We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Pan-African Consciousness Raising and Organizing in the United States and Venezuela." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10161/12262.

Full text

Abstract:

<p>We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Pan-African Consciousness Raising and Organizing in the United States and Venezuela, draws on fifteen months of field research accompanying organizers, participating in protests, planning/strategy meetings, state-run programs, academic conferences and everyday life in these two countries. Through comparative examination of the processes by which African Diaspora youth become radically politicized, this work deconstructs tendencies to deify political s/heroes of eras past by historicizing their ascent to political acclaim and centering the narratives

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Morris, Allen William. "Prophetic theology in the Kairos tradition : a pentecostal and reformed perspective in black liberation theology in South Africa." Thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25907.

Full text

Abstract:

This study focused on the ‘silence of the prophets’ in the post-apartheid era. It sought to understand why the prophets, who spoke out so vehemently against the injustices of apartheid, did not speak out against the injustices of the government after 1994 even when it became blatantly apparent that corruption was beginning to unfold on various levels, especially with the introduction of the so-called Arms Deal. Accordingly, the study singles out Drs Allan Boesak and Frank Chikane who were among the fiercest opponents of the apartheid regime before 1994. The study traced the impact of t

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Freeman, Tyrone McKinley. "Gospel of Giving: The Philanthropy of Madam C.J. Walker, 1867-1919." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/6176.

Full text

Abstract:

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)<br>This dissertation employs a historical approach to the philanthropic activities of Madam C.J. Walker, an African American female entrepreneur who built an international beauty culture company that employed thousands of people, primarily black women, and generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual revenues during the Jim Crow era. The field of philanthropic studies has recognized Walker as a philanthropist, but has not effectively accounted for how her story challenges conventional understandings of philanthropy. I use histor

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!