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Theses from 2024

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Three Strikes, then Two Strikes Your'e Out: Effects of Mandatory Sentencing Laws on Incarceration The Impact in Georgia, Mason Oruru

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"There Will Be Funerals on Both Sides": A Critical Examination of George Jackson's Blood in My Eye, Damion Scott

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The Struggle for Afrikan Liberation within an Afrikan Religious Community, Kemba Watson

Theses from 2023

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Be Transformed by the Renewing of Your Mind: Narrative Explorations into the Oppressed Afrikan Consciousness, Samori-Alao Adeyemi

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Cultural Parenting: Igbo Mothers Raising their Children in the United States, Anene Emodi-Onwuk

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Points of Entry and Existence: A Case Study Examination of East African Migrants in Clarkston, Georgia, Lyric Hathaway

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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

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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

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(Re)Traumatization on Display: Balancing History, Trauma, & African American Visitor Experiences at Atlanta’s Museums, Blair Banks

Theses from 2021

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The Last Dame of the Dynasty: The Life and Legacy of Dr. June Dobbs Butts, Jelon Alexander

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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

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Black Migrants Matter: A Narrative Study of the Experiences of Haitian Migrants in the United States, Brittany Ingrid Pradere

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Imaging Insurrection: Protest, Photography, and the Visual Framing of Black Resistance, Zana Z. Sanders

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The Black Panther Party and Mother Country Radicals: Black-White Coalitions and Alliances During the Black Power Movement, Marcus P. Smith

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The Sexual Surveillance of Black Girlhood: How do Blackgirls Inhabit Their Bodies?, Aliyah Winfrey

Theses from 2020

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Using My Body, Using My Labor: Exploring The Relationship Between African American Women And Chronic Hair Pulling Behavior, Kiana N. Clark

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'Keep that Same Energy Sis': An Exploration of Black Women's Use of Offline Resistance Strategies, Gabrielle A. Donaldson

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FUNKJAZZ KAFÉ: THE MUSIC, MARKETING, AND MOVEMENT, Nathalie D. Fox

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Untold Truths: Explorations of Intra-Group Colorism and the Experiences of Light-Skinned Women That Identify As Black, Krysten L. Long

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"The Good Lord Tells Me What to Do."- Granny Midwives and Georgia's Maternal Healthcare Crisis, Ruby J. Manley

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Confessions Of A Black Female Rapper: An Autoethnographic Study On Navigating Selfhood And The Music Industry, Chinwe Salisa Maponya-Cook

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Family Values: Pleasure Work, Black Genderqueers, and the Instagram Sphere, Sukhai Rawlins

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"SHE WILL TELL ME THE TRUTH": Listening to Black Girls Co-Organizing Liberatory Spaces, Maya White

Theses from 2019

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Embodying Blackness: Perceptions of African American Identity and Hiring Practices within African American Businesses, Lauren Arrington

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Relocating Home: Second-Generation East African Women's Twitter-Use as sites of Homeplace, Identity, and Memory, Beza T. Fekade

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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

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Building in Struggle: A Home Buying Cooperative as a Transformative Asset Accumulation Enterprise- A Case Study Analysis, Angela Yaa Jones

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Eddie Murphy In The Cut: Race, Class, Culture, And 1980s Film Comedy, Gail A. McFarland

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I Kept Pushin': Exploring the Experiences of Black Gay Male University Students, Dante Studamire

Theses from 2018

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Choose or Lose: African-American Parents and the Decision-Making Process in School Choice, Marquis Baker

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#WeKnowWhatYouDid: An Ethnographic Exploration of Male Socialization and Rape Culture at a Black College for Men, Eva M. Cooke

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Prosecutors Under Persecution: A Phenomenological Study of Black Women Prosecutors, Jocilyn Gilbert

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#Melanin: How Have Dark-skinned Black Women Engaged In Social Media Hashtags To Affirm, Validate and Celebrate Their Beauty?, Ololade S. Hassan

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The Daughters of Baartman Return the Gaze: Sexual Shaming and Africana Women's Perceptions of and Speculations on their Sexual Agency and Futures, Melanie Mccoy

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Accumulating Stress Over the Life Course: Exploring Narratives of, Upward Mobility, Infant Mortality and Resiliency of African American Women with Higher SES, Trinadi Payton

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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

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Gangsta Expressions 1983-1993: Exploring the Mental Health of African American Men, Alexzandra Strickland

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Education Blues: A Study of the Experiences of Black Families Encountering Discipline Policies at a Charter School in Memphis, Tennessee, Ryan B. Warren

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Black Matter: Re-Evaluating Representations Of Blackness Through Theatre Arts, Aubrey S. Williams

Theses from 2017

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An Examination of the Relationship Between Black Millennial Social Media Use and Political Activism, Janessa R. Bailey

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Mattiwilda Dobbs: A Study of Race, Class, and Gender in Opera, Lindsey Baker

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The Hidden Curriculum: A Narrative Study on Instructors’ Need to Understand the Behavior & Schooling of African American Youth of Low Socioeconomic Status, Dia Bennett

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Understanding How Father Absence Affects The Educational Attainment Of African American Women Through The Lens of The Strong Black Woman Framework: A Narrative Study, Makeiva Jenkins

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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

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Beyonce Feminism: Feminist Messages' Impact on African American Female Identity, Laura-Ashley Taylor

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Teaching Black Kids when Black Excellence isn't a Curriculum Priority - a Phenomenological Study, Letitia Y. Thornton

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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

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A Woman’s Worth: A Phenomenological Study on Black Women Entrepreneurship And Building Net-Worth, Miriam Young

Theses from 2016

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They Had No King: Ella Baker and the Politics of Decentralized Organization Among African-Descended Populations, John Horhn

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Our Grandmothers’ Ways: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use by the Gullah-Geechee in McIntosh County, Georgia, Roman Johnson

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Thick Skin: The History of the Black Tattoo Community in Atlanta, Danielle Rosenthal

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Black Men; Are You too “Masculine” for Mental Health Treatment?, Jasmine C. Thomas

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FINDING JIHAD: How Urban & African-Centered Literature Impacted My Life, Jihad S. Uhuru

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Looking Back to Go Forward: Student Evaluations of Experiences in African-Centered Educational Institutions, Ivan N. Vassall III

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He's Dark, Dark; Colorism Among African American Men, Edlin Veras

Theses from 2015

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Hero Me Not: Mammy, Magical Negro and the Constructed Containment of Storm from the X-Men, Chesya Burke

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"Dead and Black" Motherhood and The Dialectics of Losing a Black Child to Homicide, Aisha Farley

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The Development of Microaggressions in the Online Natural Hair Community: A Thematic Analysis, Yasmin Harrell

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Black Themed Reality Television & Racial Identity: Gendered Perceptions from Black College Students, Calvin Monroe

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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

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Manifestations of Colorism in Interpersonal Relationship Preferences of Black Men, Julie Corso

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Maternal Ministry, Other Mothering, And Finding Power For Women In The Black Church: A Phenomenological Exploration, Shauntia Lovett

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Fatherhood from their Voices: Discovering the Meaning of Black Non-Residential Fatherhood, Amberly Thompson

Theses from 2013

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Folk Medicine Use Among The Gullah: Bridging The Gap Between Folk Medicine And Westernized Medicine, Tiara S. Banks

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They Aren't June Cleaver: Understanding the Experiences and Perceptions of African American Stay-at-Home Mothers, Lauren D. Fannin

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"Who Says Storm Is The Only Black Superheroine?": An Interpretative Textual Analysis Of The Black Superheroine, Grace D. Gipson

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The Role of Empowerment in the Job Search Process of Re-Entering African American Men, Chloe Jackson

Theses from 2012

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Towards a Common Center: Locating Common Characteristics of African Centeredness in an Independent African Centered Learning Environment, Garfield R. Bright Jr

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Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Patriarch: Black Masculine Identity Formation Within the Context of Romantic Relationships, Kayla N. Charleston

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Art for whose Sake?: Defining African American Literature, Ebony Z. Gibson

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Joseph Lowery and the Resurrection of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Deric A. Gilliard Mr.

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Conscious Rap Music: Movement Music Revisited A Qualitative Study of Conscious Rappers and Activism, Ife J. Mohammed-Akinyela

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Racial Formation in a "Post" Racial Society: How Are College Students being Prepared for Tomorrow?, Kinyatta N. Trice

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Silence is Not Golden: Attitudes Towards Suicide in the African American Community, LaTrice Wright

Theses from 2011

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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

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Recovery & Recognition: Black Women and the Lower Ninth Ward, Jamesia J. King

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Disappearing Acts: The Mass Incarceration of African American Women, Christina Faye Meares

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An Exploratory Study: Perceptions of Power Dynamics and Sexual Decision-Making among College-Age African American Women, LaTisha Oliver

Theses from 2010

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Voices of the Earth: A Phenomenological Study of Women in the Nation of Gods and Earths, Ahmon J. Keiler-Bradshaw

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Perceptions and Experiences in Elijah Muhammad's Economic Program: Voices from the Pioneers, Nafeesa Haniyah Muhammad

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The Black Student Movement at the Ohio State University, Greer C. Stanford-Randle

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Impact Repertory Theatre as a Tool of Empowerment: Black Youth Describe their Experiences and Perceptions, Asantewa Fulani Sunni-Ali