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Overcoming Marginalization and Discovering Identity through Literacy in Representative Works of Multi-Ethnic Literature
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-14)
In a study of multicultural literature, the dominance of ignorance and prejudice in propagating and perpetuating oppression and marginalization of others is all too common, as is the denial or suppression of the identity ...
Otherworldliness: Uncanny Literary Devices in the Liminal Spaces Created by Transnational Authors
(East Carolina University, 2021-04-20)
This thesis will argue that contemporary transnational authors, by virtue of their often complex, multicultural identities, have a unique ability to create "otherworldly" stories of global significance through their use ...
WITHIN THE RESTLESS WAKE OF TRAUMA: ORIGINS AND PURPOSES OF HAUNTINGS IN CARIBBEAN LITERATURE
(East Carolina University, 8/5/2020)
In this thesis, I have delved more deeply into a research paper I wrote for Dr. Seodial Frank H. Deena's graduate course in Caribbean Literature. I have extended my research by providing deeper historical background of the ...
Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Debate Between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany
(East Carolina University, 2020-01-06)
Martin Delany had different ideas about Uncle Tom's Cabin than did Frederick Douglass. Delany wrote his concerns in a series of letters that were published in Douglass' newspaper. Delany stated that Harriet Beecher Stowe ...
ACTING "WHITE": THE UNSPOKEN, UNDERSTOOD HIERARCHY OF BLACKNESS
(East Carolina University, 2020-01-09)
This thesis will examine how a variety of extenuating factors serve to complicate a black person's self-identity, as well as determine acceptance or exclusion from the black community in the United States. The introductory ...
RACIAL MINORITY LEARNERS: AN EXPLORATION OF PERCEPTIONS AMONG EDUCATORS OF COLOR
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-22)
Traditionally exclusive to dominant groups (whites/Caucasians), higher education institutions continue to inequitably serve people of color. Therefore, these institutions do not always allow opportunities for racial minority ...
PERFORMATIVE SYMBOLIC RESISTANCE: EXAMINING SYMBOLIC RESISTANCE EFFORTS OF BLACK PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES THROUGH A NEW METHODOLOGICAL ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK
(East Carolina University, 2021-07-22)
This dissertation introduces the concept of Performative Symbolic Resistance (PSR) as a way to describe and analyze the individual acts and performed by activists in their efforts to bring awareness to and combat social ...
Next Door
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)
The following is a screenplay that tells the story of two African American teenage girls, Lena and Jada, whose lives are interrupted by the mysterious teenage boy, Owen, who moves in next door to Lena. Lena, plagued by ...
A Study in Love
(East Carolina University, 2021-05-03)
This thesis contains three original short stories all centered around the theme of love. Through this theme, I explored what it means to love yourself, love others, and love as it relates to Christianity.
ENCOURAGING PREVENTIVE ACTION BY EMPLOYING EFFECTIVE RHETORIC IN PUBLIC COMMUNICATION OF THE ZIKA HAZARD AND ASSOCIATED RISKS
(East Carolina University, 2022-07-26)
Threats from Zika and other emergent arboviruses (arthropod-borne viruses) often receive little scholarly attention across most disciplines thanks in no small part to the traditional view that most emergent disease discourse ...