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Holmes, Janel L. "The Color of Memory: Reimagining the Antebellum South in Works by James McBride Through the use of Free Indirect Discourse." VCU Scholars Compass, 2016. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4220.

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This thesis examines the use of interior narrative techniques such as free indirect discourse and internal monologue in two of James McBride’s neo-slave narratives, Song Yet Sung (2008) and The Good Lord Bird (2013). Very limited critical attention has been given to these neo-slave narratives that illustrate McBrides attention to characterization and focalized narration. In these narratives McBride builds upon the revelations he explores in his bestselling memoir, The Color of Water (1996, 2006), where he learns to disassociate race and character. What he discovers about not only his mother, b

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Chapi, Aicha. "Towards a reading of Toni Morrison's fiction : African-American history, the arts and contemporary theory /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1995. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19671441.

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Watts, Billie Stephanie Powell. "Talk to me while I'm listening : a novella /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3115597.

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Bartlett, Andrew Walsh. "The free place : literary, visual, and jazz creations of space in the 1960s /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10312.

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Savery, Steven J. "The free Negro in Illinois prior to the Civil War, 1818-1860 /." View online, 1986. http://ia301519.us.archive.org/0/items/freenegroinillin00save/freenegroinillin00save.pdf.

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O'Donovan, Susan E. "Transforming work : slavery, free labor, and the household in Southwest Georgia, 1850-1880 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9808979.

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Reilly, Elizabeth Lauren. "The "scab" of slavery interracial female solidarity in literature about the antebellum South /." Click for download, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1588773401&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Jackson, Tambra Oni. "Learning to teach in Freedom Schools developing practices and identities as educators and activists /." Diss., Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users, 2006.

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Hollingsworth, Lauren Colleen. "Reading the (in)visible race African-American subject representation and formation in American literature /." Diss., [Riverside, Calif.] : University of California, Riverside, 2010. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=2019837021&SrchMode=2&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1274464483&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2010.<br>Includes abstract. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed May 21, 2010). Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.

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Hicks, Nytasia M. ""It's a care free way of life": A qualitative descriptive study on living-apart-together relationships among older black women." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1595603122018959.

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Kent, Alicia Adele. "Migrant modernities : historical and generic movement in fiction by African Americans and Native Americans in the early twentieth century (Charles Waddell Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Mourning Dove, D'Arcy McNickle)." Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?res_dat=xri:ssbe&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_dat=xri:ssbe:ft:keyresource:Kra_Diss_02.

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Kelley, Lucas Patrick. "Suffrage for White Men Only: The Disfranchisement of Free Men of Color in Antebellum North Carolina." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/73510.

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This thesis explores the disfranchisement of free men of color in 1835 North Carolina through the lens of antebellum citizenship and within the context of the racial turmoil of the 1830s. Citizenship and the evolution of southern racial ideology converged in the 1835 North Carolina Constitutional Convention. On the one hand, free men of color voted, a right permitted in North Carolina for all taxpaying men regardless of race and one of the most crucial components of citizenship in the early republic and Jacksonian periods. But on the other hand, some North Carolina white slaveholders saw free

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Thompson, Sidney 1965. "Bass Reeves: a History • a Novel • a Crusade, Volume 1: the Rise." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804965/.

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This literary/historical novel details the life of African-American Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves between the years 1838-1862 and 1883-1884. One plotline depicts Reeves’s youth as a slave, including his service as a body servant to a Confederate cavalry officer during the Civil War. Another plotline depicts him years later, after Emancipation, at the height of his deputy career, when he has become the most feared, most successful lawman in Indian Territory, the largest federal jurisdiction in American history and the most dangerous part of the Old West. A preface explores the uniqueness of thi

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Turley, Alicestyne. "SPIRITED AWAY: BLACK EVANGELICALS AND THE GOSPEL OF FREEDOM, 1790-1890." UKnowledge, 2009. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/79.

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The true nineteenth-century story of the Underground Railroad begins in the South and is spread North by free blacks, escaping southern slaves, and displaced, white, anti-slavery Protestant evangelicals. This study examines the role of free blacks, escaping slaves, and white Protestant evangelicals influenced by tenants of Kentucky’s Second Great Awakening who were inspired, directly or indirectly, to aid in African American community building. The impact of Kentucky’s Great Revival resulted in creation and expansion of systems of escape commonly referred to as the “Underground Railroad” which

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Ndounou, Monica White. "The color of Hollywood the cultural politics controlling the production of African American original screenplays, stage plays and novels adapted into films from 1980 to 2000 /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1180535612.

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Toure, Abu Jaraad. "Towards A ‘Griotic’ Methodology: African Historiography, Identity Politics and Educational Implications." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1320631211.

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Sellers, Crystal Yvonne. ""I Sing Because I‘m Free": Developing a Systematic Vocal Pedagogy for the Modern Gospel Singer." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1249920108.

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Birge, Amy Anastasia. ""Mislike Me not for My Complexion": Shakespearean Intertextuality in the Works of Nineteenth-Century African-American Women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278175/.

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Caliban, the ultimate figure of linguistic and racial indeterminacy in The Tempest, became for African-American writers a symbol of colonial fears of rebellion against oppression and southern fears of black male sexual aggression. My dissertation thus explores what I call the "Calibanic Quadrangle" in essays and novels by Anna Julia Cooper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins. The figure of Caliban allows these authors to inflect the sentimental structure of the novel, to elevate Calibanic utterance to what Cooper calls "crude grandeur and exalted poesy," and to reveal

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Alzoubi, Mamoun. "Richard Wright's Trans-Nationalism: New Dimensions to to Modern American Expatriate Literature." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1466409579.

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Reeser, Alanna L. ""She believed her ballyhoo" women and advertising in fiction by Edna Ferber, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Fannie Hurst /." Click here for download, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1317334401&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=3260&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Calbert, Tonisha Marie. "(Re)Writing Apocalypse: Race, Gender, and Radical Change in Black Apocalyptic Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593596843453299.

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Erickson, Stacy M. "Animals-as-Trope in the Selected Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2227/.

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In this dissertation, I show how 20th century African-American women writers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison utilize animals-as-trope in order to illustrate the writers' humanity and literary vision. In the texts that I have selected, I have found that animals-as-trope functions in two important ways: the first function of animal as trope is a pragmatic one, which serves to express the humanity of African Americans; and the second function of animal tropes in African-American women's fiction is relational and expresses these writers' "ethic of caring" that stems fro

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Voltz, Noel Mellick. "“`It’s no disgrace to a colored girl to placer’: Sexual Commodification and Negotiation among Louisiana’s “Quadroons,” 1805-1860”." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1417682791.

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LoVerde, Andrew Jack. "A literature of change: Slave narrative rhetoric in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1996. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1234.

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Black, Jennifer. "Lock My Body, Can't Trap My Mind: A Study of the Scholarship and Social Movements Surrounding the Case of Imprisoned Radical Mumia Abu-Jamal." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1354642836.

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Hobratsch, Ben Melvin. "Creole Angel: The Self-Identity of the Free People of Color of Antebellum New Orleans." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2006. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5369/.

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This thesis is about the self-identity of antebellum New Orleans's free people of color. The emphasis of this work is that French culture, mixed Gallic and African ancestry, and freedom from slavery served as the three keys to the identity of this class of people. Taken together, these three factors separated the free people of color from the other major groups residing in New Orleans - Anglo-Americans, white Creoles and black slaves. The introduction provides an overview of the topic and states the need for this study. Chapter 1 provides a look at New Orleans from the perspective of the f

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Wiley, Antoinette Marchelle. "The Familiar Stranged." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1513009183178476.

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Piep, Karsten H. "Embattled Homefronts: Politics and Representation in American World War I Novels." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1109634736.

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Henry, Lucas Aaron. "Freedom Now!: Four Hard Bop and Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians' Musical Commentary on the Civil Rights Movement, 1958-1964." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2004. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-1110104-224112/unrestricted/HenryL121004f.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2004.<br>Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-1110104-224112 Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.

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McCullugh, Erin Elizabeth. ""Heaven's Last, Worst Gift to White Men": The Quadroons of Antebellum New Orleans." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3269.

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Visitors to Antebellum New Orleans rarely failed to comment on the highly visible population of free persons of color, particularly the women. Light, but not white, the women who collectively became known as Quadroons enjoyed a degree of affluence and liberty largely unknown outside of Southeastern Louisiana. The Quadroons of New Orleans, however, suffered from neglect and misrepresentation in nineteenth and twentieth-century accounts. Historians of slavery and southern black women, for example, have written at length on the sexual experiences of black women and white men. Most of the research

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Piep, Karsten H. "Embattled homefronts politics and representation in American World War I novels /." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1109634736.

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Kent, Alicia A. "Migrant modernities : historical and generic movement in fiction by African Americans and Native Americans in the early twentieth century /." 2000. http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/connect/dissertations.html.

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Haller, Charlotte A. "Taking liberties : households, race, and black freedom in revolutionary North Carolina /." 2000. http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/connect/dissertations.html.

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Butler-Evans, Elliott. "Race, gender and desire narrative strategies and the production of ideology in the fiction of Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker /." 1987. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/17792361.html.

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Aslakson, Kenneth Randolph 1963. "Making race : the role of free blacks in the development of New Orleans' three-caste society, 1791-1812." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/15925.

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"Making Race: The Role of Free Blacks in the Development of New Orleans' Three-Caste Society, 1791-1812" excavates the ways that free people of African descent in New Orleans built an autonomous identity as a third "race" in what would become a unique racial caste system in the United States. I argue that in the time period I study, which encompasses not only the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, but also the rise of plantation slavery and the arrival of over twelve thousand refugees from the revolution-torn French West Indies, New Orleans's free blacks took advantage of political, cultural and leg

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Hicks, Kimberly Anne. "Race marks: Miscegenation in nineteenth-century American fiction." 1997. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9737538.

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This dissertation examines the process of miscegenation in the work of four authors who occupy pivotal positions in American writing about race. It is concerned with a variety of fictional and non-fictional texts produced by William Wells Brown, George Washington Cable, Pauline Hopkins, and Thomas Dixon between the years 1846 and 1915. This study will examine how miscegenation provided these authors with a way of narrativizing American race relations in a period which encompasses slavery, emancipation, Reconstruction and Redemption, as well as the creation of a segregated South and an imperial

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Reynolds, Rita. "Wealthy free women of color in Charleston, South Carolina during slavery." 2007. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3275800.

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This dissertation focuses on the lives and experiences of a small group of affluent free mulatto women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina. Unlike their enslaved sisters we know very little about their community and the place they occupied in it. To comprehend the everyday world wealthy free women of color inhabited I begin by examining the origins of the wealthy free colored community in Charleston. I then investigate individual case studies of five wealthy free mulatto and black women and how their varying choices, made under differing degrees of societal duress, molded and formed their

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Vaughn, Tracy L. "(W)rites of passing: The performance of identity in fiction and personal narratives." 2005. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3212756.

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In my dissertation, "(W)rites of Passing: The Performance of Identity in Fiction and Personal Narratives," I explore the literary, historical, psychological and cultural dimensions of passing, particularly as it relates to race and class. Through the works of Arnold van Gennep, Stephen Greenblatt, and Victor Turner, I have discovered intriguing comparisons between the forms of "class-passing" presented in 16th and 18th century British novels with 20th and 21st century "race passing" novels. In much of my work on race passing and African American literature, I argue that while racial passing ma

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Duvivier, Sandra Caona. "Mapping intersections: Black women's identities and the politics of home in transnational black American women's fiction." 2006. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3215912.

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Transnational black American women writers' literary renderings of "home" evidence an intersectional relationship among black American literature and cultures. This dissertation analyzes, through the trope of home, these authors' portrayals of the multiplicity of experiences informing black American women's lives and identities both domestically and transnationally. Embracing the transnationalism of black American female subjects, as well as a paradigm of intersectionality, this dissertation creates a framework that challenges not only canon formation with regards to black women's literature i

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Sibanda, Brian. "Perception by incomgruity." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/19847.

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This study examines the paradoxical and at the same time interesting relationship between Christian religion and the system of slavery in the American historical context. Through the use of Kenneth Burke’s concept and theory of Perception by Incongruity as a theoretical and conceptual framework, this study examines Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Frederick Douglass’ The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave. In the view of this study, Perception by Incongruity, as a theoretical and conceptual tool has the literary and the rhetorical resources to unmask th

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Fanning, Sara. "Haiti and the U.S. : African American emigration and the recognition debate." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/3874.

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My dissertation examines the cultural, political, and economic relationship between Haiti and the United States in the early nineteenth century--a key period in the development of both young nations. Most scholarship on this relationship has revolved around either the Haitian Revolution or later periods, from the mid-nineteenth century onward. Through trade, migration, and politics, the two countries had a more substantial role in one another's formative years than the literature currently suggests. Haitian leaders actively sought to attract African Americans to the island and believed they

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