This collection includes theses and dissertations from the Department of Pan-African Studies, in the College of Arts & Sciences. It is not exhaustive since most paper theses and dissertations have not been digitized. Generally, paper copies of theses and dissertations published prior to 2014 can be accessed in the University of Louisville Libraries. If you would like to add your thesis or dissertation to this collection, please fill out the Electronic Theses & Dissertations form.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
The utilization of grassroots organizing by Black women pioneers to achieve reproductive justice., Madison Ruth Ellsworth
Class of 1884: Black education in Louisville and the inaugural graduating class of Central colored high school., Jordan Tierre Jackson-Collins
W.E. B. Du Bois and Audre Lorde's pan-african development: Remedies for the problem of othering., J.E. Young
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
To hell with 'that' religion: Malcolm X and an africana critical theory of religion., Jimmy Butts
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Western Christianity and the origins of antiblackness, eurocentrism, and white supremacist ideology., John Chenault
The underbelly of residential segregation, bussing to integrate and the educational ramifications: a case study of Louisville Kentucky., Camara Douglas
Authentically (un)real assessing VH!'s basketball wives and its violent & colorist portrayals of black women., Wilma Denae Powell
Putting colorism on trial intraracial colorism and its impact on crime trajectory among African Americans., Shaderica Ta'shawn Sibley
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
"If fear wasn't enough?!": African American perceptions of policing after Breonna Taylor's unprovoked death., Moriah Antoinette Bellamy
Black codes re-envisioned: the Dred Scott Majority opinion as an antiblack performative speech act., Tiffany Dillard-Knox
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Mitigating black claustrophobia: space, trauma, and healing modalities in the postcolonial narrative., Saleema Mustafa Campbell
Practicing Pan-Africanism: West Indians and governance in Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana., Nicholas C. McLeod
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Exploring the Indian opinion : interpretations of colonialism, anti-colonial activism, and Gandhi's influence in three African countries, 1950-1960., Alexander Ganesha Kaliannan
Queering black greek-lettered fraternities, masculinity and manhood : a queer of color critique of institutionality in higher education., Antron Demel Mahoney
Denkyem (Crocodile): Identity development and negotiation among Ghanaian-American Millennials., Jakia Marie
Fatal attraction : intimate partner violence among black LGBTQ relationships., Amberli A. Seay
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
There is water in the world for us : the environmental theories of Alice Walker., Janae Lewis Hall
"Triggers": systematic and social cues for black college student racial self-consciousness and rejection sensitivity, race-based., LeAnna T. Luney
African American grandmothers as the black matriarch : you don't live for yourself., Tanisha Nicole Stanford
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
When the silver screen fades to black : an analysis of black faces in film., Travesheia Rashel Bass
How the city of Indianapolis came to have African American Policemen and Firemen 80 years before the modern civil rights movement., Leon E. Bates
Teacher bias in elementary school and the factors that aid it., Camara Uras Douglas
Assessing cultural competence in a mental health outpatient facility., Alexis N. Keen Crook
Race, rebellion, and Arab Muslim slavery : the Zanj Rebellion in Iraq, 869 - 883 C.E., Nicholas C. McLeod
Imagining the Nigerian nation through the West African pilot 1960-1966., David Zintak
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
"What role we, as Negro youth of America, could play" : a new history of the Louisville NAACP youth, 1937-1955., Alexis Monique Johnson
#SayItLoud : securing racial & academic identities for African American students through social media., Joshua Chase Schuschke
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Against the grain : the challenges of black discourse within intercollegiate policy debate., Tiffany Yvonne Dillard-Knox
Reclaiming my body : black women and the fight for reproductive justice., Shelby Ray Pumphrey
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The hidden help : Black domestic workers in the Civil Rights Movement., Trena Easley Armstrong
Combating the sophomore slump through peer-mentoring among African American students at predominantly white institutions., Tiffany Christina Evans
Nkrumahism and neo-Nkrumahism., Prince Kwasi Bediako Frimpong
'Rainbow nation' or 'Rambo nation'? : a comparative literary analysis of thematic changes in pre- and post- 1994 Black township novels., D. A. Gantt 1986-
Theory, praxis and transformation : the dramatic writing of Suzan-Lori Parks as liberatory critical pedagogy., Tamika Keene
Art as a media for social commentary : a case study of Igbo bongo musicians, south-eastern Nigeria., Ruth Stellamaris Opara 1980-
Alternative performances of race and gender in hip-hop music : nerdcore counterculture., Jessica Elizabeth Ronald
An exploration of African folktales among the Gullah community of the South Carolina Sea Islands : history, culture, and identity., Tytianna Nikia Maria Wells Smith 1987-
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Invisible woman : a case study on black women's experiences in graduate degree programs in central Kentucky., Ciara Nicole Pierce
Away to freedom : African American soldiers and the War of 1812, Omar Shareef Price
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The trickster, the griot, and the goddess : optimal consciousness in the works of Ntozake Shange, Kara Walker and India. Arie., Tiffany D. Caesar 1985-
Postwar Sierra Leone : are programs of reconstruction addressing the causes of war?, Lovetta Anita Thompson 1985-
"Upside down from the word go" : Kentucky's black farmers speak out on the issue of land loss., Willie Jamaal Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Black female journalists : experiences of racism, sexism and classism in the newsroom., Amber Genile Duke 1981-
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
What to make of race? : a content analysis of the use of race in health research., Oliver Eugene Rollins Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
The unknown struggle : a comparative analysis of women in the Black Power movement., Elizabeth Michele Jones
Punishing the 'other' : race, ethnicity, and the American justice system., Kristen T. Valentine
