Theses from 2024
"There Will Be Funerals on Both Sides": A Critical Examination of George Jackson's Blood in My Eye, Damion Scott
The Struggle for Afrikan Liberation within an Afrikan Religious Community, Kemba Watson
Theses from 2023
Be Transformed by the Renewing of Your Mind: Narrative Explorations into the Oppressed Afrikan Consciousness, Samori-Alao Adeyemi
Cultural Parenting: Igbo Mothers Raising their Children in the United States, Anene Emodi-Onwuk
Points of Entry and Existence: A Case Study Examination of East African Migrants in Clarkston, Georgia, Lyric Hathaway
The GOD in HIV: How the Perceived Influence of Christianity on Sex Education Impacts Black Men Who Have Sex with Men’s Knowledge of HIV, Victor Sledge
Poetics of Black Foodscapes: A Qualitative Study Exploring Black Culinary Epistemologies in the Food Practices of Urban-dwelling African American Women Experiencing Food Apartheid, Armani Kirsten Stewart
Theses from 2022
(Re)Traumatization on Display: Balancing History, Trauma, & African American Visitor Experiences at Atlanta’s Museums, Blair Banks
Theses from 2021
The Last Dame of the Dynasty: The Life and Legacy of Dr. June Dobbs Butts, Jelon Alexander
What Happens at Freaknic Cannot Stay at Freaknik: Centering Black Women's Stories at Atlanta's Black College Spring Break (1983-2000), Kimberly K. Oglesby
Black Migrants Matter: A Narrative Study of the Experiences of Haitian Migrants in the United States, Brittany Ingrid Pradere
Imaging Insurrection: Protest, Photography, and the Visual Framing of Black Resistance, Zana Z. Sanders
The Black Panther Party and Mother Country Radicals: Black-White Coalitions and Alliances During the Black Power Movement, Marcus P. Smith
The Sexual Surveillance of Black Girlhood: How do Blackgirls Inhabit Their Bodies?, Aliyah Winfrey
Theses from 2020
Using My Body, Using My Labor: Exploring The Relationship Between African American Women And Chronic Hair Pulling Behavior, Kiana N. Clark
'Keep that Same Energy Sis': An Exploration of Black Women's Use of Offline Resistance Strategies, Gabrielle A. Donaldson
FUNKJAZZ KAFÉ: THE MUSIC, MARKETING, AND MOVEMENT, Nathalie D. Fox
Untold Truths: Explorations of Intra-Group Colorism and the Experiences of Light-Skinned Women That Identify As Black, Krysten L. Long
"The Good Lord Tells Me What to Do."- Granny Midwives and Georgia's Maternal Healthcare Crisis, Ruby J. Manley
Confessions Of A Black Female Rapper: An Autoethnographic Study On Navigating Selfhood And The Music Industry, Chinwe Salisa Maponya-Cook
Family Values: Pleasure Work, Black Genderqueers, and the Instagram Sphere, Sukhai Rawlins
"SHE WILL TELL ME THE TRUTH": Listening to Black Girls Co-Organizing Liberatory Spaces, Maya White
Theses from 2019
Embodying Blackness: Perceptions of African American Identity and Hiring Practices within African American Businesses, Lauren Arrington
Relocating Home: Second-Generation East African Women's Twitter-Use as sites of Homeplace, Identity, and Memory, Beza T. Fekade
Spill The Tea Sis': Misogynoir's Problem And Black Women's Support, Narratives And Identities Found In Love & Hip-Hop's Reality Tv Franchise, Adeerya J. Johnson
Building in Struggle: A Home Buying Cooperative as a Transformative Asset Accumulation Enterprise- A Case Study Analysis, Angela Yaa Jones
Eddie Murphy In The Cut: Race, Class, Culture, And 1980s Film Comedy, Gail A. McFarland
I Kept Pushin': Exploring the Experiences of Black Gay Male University Students, Dante Studamire
Theses from 2018
Choose or Lose: African-American Parents and the Decision-Making Process in School Choice, Marquis Baker
#WeKnowWhatYouDid: An Ethnographic Exploration of Male Socialization and Rape Culture at a Black College for Men, Eva M. Cooke
Prosecutors Under Persecution: A Phenomenological Study of Black Women Prosecutors, Jocilyn Gilbert
#Melanin: How Have Dark-skinned Black Women Engaged In Social Media Hashtags To Affirm, Validate and Celebrate Their Beauty?, Ololade S. Hassan
A Narrative Study: Understanding The Intersections Of Race, Class, Gender, And Sexuality In The Pathways To Crime And Incarceration In African American Women’s Lives, Rachelle A. Stewart
Gangsta Expressions 1983-1993: Exploring the Mental Health of African American Men, Alexzandra Strickland
Education Blues: A Study of the Experiences of Black Families Encountering Discipline Policies at a Charter School in Memphis, Tennessee, Ryan B. Warren
Black Matter: Re-Evaluating Representations Of Blackness Through Theatre Arts, Aubrey S. Williams
Theses from 2017
An Examination of the Relationship Between Black Millennial Social Media Use and Political Activism, Janessa R. Bailey
Mattiwilda Dobbs: A Study of Race, Class, and Gender in Opera, Lindsey Baker
The Invisible War: A Portrait Of Structural Racism and Mental Health in the Life of a Formerly Incarcerated U.S. Born Africana Man, Tarell C. Kyles
Beyonce Feminism: Feminist Messages' Impact on African American Female Identity, Laura-Ashley Taylor
Teaching Black Kids when Black Excellence isn't a Curriculum Priority - a Phenomenological Study, Letitia Y. Thornton
Humanities with a Black Focus: Margaret Walker Alexander and the Institute for the Study of the History, Life, and Culture of Black People, 1968-1979, Theron Wilkerson and Theron A. Wilkerson
A Woman’s Worth: A Phenomenological Study on Black Women Entrepreneurship And Building Net-Worth, Miriam Young
Theses from 2016
Our Grandmothers’ Ways: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use by the Gullah-Geechee in McIntosh County, Georgia, Roman Johnson
Thick Skin: The History of the Black Tattoo Community in Atlanta, Danielle Rosenthal
Black Men; Are You too “Masculine” for Mental Health Treatment?, Jasmine C. Thomas
FINDING JIHAD: How Urban & African-Centered Literature Impacted My Life, Jihad S. Uhuru
Looking Back to Go Forward: Student Evaluations of Experiences in African-Centered Educational Institutions, Ivan N. Vassall III
He's Dark, Dark; Colorism Among African American Men, Edlin Veras
Theses from 2015
Hero Me Not: Mammy, Magical Negro and the Constructed Containment of Storm from the X-Men, Chesya Burke
"Dead and Black" Motherhood and The Dialectics of Losing a Black Child to Homicide, Aisha Farley
The Development of Microaggressions in the Online Natural Hair Community: A Thematic Analysis, Yasmin Harrell
Black Themed Reality Television & Racial Identity: Gendered Perceptions from Black College Students, Calvin Monroe
Is It All Just For Laughs? An Examination of Gender Minstrelsy and its Manipulation of the Image of Black Womanhood, Brittany Sessions
Theses from 2014
Manifestations of Colorism in Interpersonal Relationship Preferences of Black Men, Julie Corso
Maternal Ministry, Other Mothering, And Finding Power For Women In The Black Church: A Phenomenological Exploration, Shauntia Lovett
Fatherhood from their Voices: Discovering the Meaning of Black Non-Residential Fatherhood, Amberly Thompson
Theses from 2013
Folk Medicine Use Among The Gullah: Bridging The Gap Between Folk Medicine And Westernized Medicine, Tiara S. Banks
They Aren't June Cleaver: Understanding the Experiences and Perceptions of African American Stay-at-Home Mothers, Lauren D. Fannin
"Who Says Storm Is The Only Black Superheroine?": An Interpretative Textual Analysis Of The Black Superheroine, Grace D. Gipson
The Role of Empowerment in the Job Search Process of Re-Entering African American Men, Chloe Jackson
Theses from 2012
Towards a Common Center: Locating Common Characteristics of African Centeredness in an Independent African Centered Learning Environment, Garfield R. Bright Jr
Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Patriarch: Black Masculine Identity Formation Within the Context of Romantic Relationships, Kayla N. Charleston
Art for whose Sake?: Defining African American Literature, Ebony Z. Gibson
Joseph Lowery and the Resurrection of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Deric A. Gilliard Mr.
Conscious Rap Music: Movement Music Revisited A Qualitative Study of Conscious Rappers and Activism, Ife J. Mohammed-Akinyela
Racial Formation in a "Post" Racial Society: How Are College Students being Prepared for Tomorrow?, Kinyatta N. Trice
Silence is Not Golden: Attitudes Towards Suicide in the African American Community, LaTrice Wright
Theses from 2011
From Mammy to Madea, and Examination of the Behaviors of Tyler Perry's Madea Character in Relation to the Mammy, Jezebel, and Sapphire Stereotypes, Nargis Fontaine
Recovery & Recognition: Black Women and the Lower Ninth Ward, Jamesia J. King
Disappearing Acts: The Mass Incarceration of African American Women, Christina Faye Meares
An Exploratory Study: Perceptions of Power Dynamics and Sexual Decision-Making among College-Age African American Women, LaTisha Oliver
Theses from 2010
Voices of the Earth: A Phenomenological Study of Women in the Nation of Gods and Earths, Ahmon J. Keiler-Bradshaw
Perceptions and Experiences in Elijah Muhammad's Economic Program: Voices from the Pioneers, Nafeesa Haniyah Muhammad
The Black Student Movement at the Ohio State University, Greer C. Stanford-Randle
Impact Repertory Theatre as a Tool of Empowerment: Black Youth Describe their Experiences and Perceptions, Asantewa Fulani Sunni-Ali