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Title: A sociological analysis of the African personality among Zambian students
Creator: Tembo, Jacob Sani
Date: 1980
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Collective action, socio-political attitudes, and social change preferences : a multidimensional measure of Black activism
Creator: Thomas, Oseela Nadine
Date: 2001
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: The politics of sounding black : nationalism, agency, and the experience of black jazz musicians
Creator: Gomez, Jonathan
Date: 2018
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Sounding and being black have meant many different things throughout the history of jazz, from "authenticity" and "realness" to militancy and rebellion. In this thesis, I attempt to reframe such understandings by foregrounding the voices of the musician practitioners and the sound of their music by looking at their lives and work through the lens of black nationalism. Exploring the social, political, and economic consequences of being and sounding black, I posit that a sonic black nationalism...
Show moreSounding and being black have meant many different things throughout the history of jazz, from "authenticity" and "realness" to militancy and rebellion. In this thesis, I attempt to reframe such understandings by foregrounding the voices of the musician practitioners and the sound of their music by looking at their lives and work through the lens of black nationalism. Exploring the social, political, and economic consequences of being and sounding black, I posit that a sonic black nationalism is evinced which, rather than being a radical political orientation, instead situates black jazz musicians within larger black communities and life in the United States. In particular, I look at the ways in which the cross-racial politics of patronage in jazz has affected the sound of the music, the importance of 1950s black musicking for both the musicians and larger black communities, and finally at the ways in which great man narratives occlude the importance of group sound and groove for black musicians of the 1960s.
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Title: From Black Power to the new millennium : the evolution of African centered education in Detroit, Michigan 1970--2000
Creator: Chike, Kefentse K.
Date: 2011
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: ABSTRACTFrom Black Power to the New Millennium: The Evolution of African Centered Education in Detroit, Michigan from 1970 until 2000.By Kefentse K. ChikeThis research examines the birth and evolution of the Independent Black School Movement which evolved into the Contemporary Independent African Centered Education Movement. The Independent Black School Movement emerged from the Community Control of Schools Movement during the Black Power era in the late 1960's. The architects of this...
Show moreABSTRACTFrom Black Power to the New Millennium: The Evolution of African Centered Education in Detroit, Michigan from 1970 until 2000.By Kefentse K. ChikeThis research examines the birth and evolution of the Independent Black School Movement which evolved into the Contemporary Independent African Centered Education Movement. The Independent Black School Movement emerged from the Community Control of Schools Movement during the Black Power era in the late 1960's. The architects of this movement withdrew from the Community of Control of Schools Movement and established several private schools that were independently own and operated by African Americans. These schools were established and operated within the philosophical and ideological context of Black Power and Black Nationalism. The first Independent Black Schools emerged on the East coast in New York, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Within a short period of time Independent Black schools were established within cities throughout the United States. The independent Black School Movement came to be known as the African Centered Education Movement. The objective of this work is to examine and document the inception and evolution of the Independent Black School Movement/Contemporary Independent African-centered Education Movement in Detroit, Michigan from 1970 until 2000. Moreover, this study seeks to determine the degree that the founding goals of nation-building and the related ideologies of Black Nationalism and Black Power were sustained as the movement evolved. This study examines the growth and evolution of the Independent Black School Movement to the Contemporary Independent African-centered Education Movement in four phases; the Pre-Formal Phase 1962-1972, the Independent Phase 1970-1990, the Public/Independent Phase 1990-1995, and the Public Phase 1994-2000.
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