Theses and Dissertations
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| Author | Title | Year |
| Alekent, Angelis DeMarco | Thug Luvahz: Representin’, Resistance and the Revolution of Black Same-Gender-Loving Peoples within the 21st Century | 2004 |
| Alexander, Lisa | Sci-fi television, the Undiscovered Country: Race and Race Relations in the 20th, 21st, 24th Centuries | 1999 |
| Alvarez, Diane (M.A.) | The Black Panther Party, the Huey P. Newton Alternative School, and the Long Beach Intercommunal Youth Institute: Giving One’s Soul and Life to Educate Our Youth | 1998 |
| Alvarez, Diane (Ph.D) | Do you see what I see? : a qualitative study on Black and Latino adolescents’ identity formation | 2003 |
| Ancalade, Dustin Kenneth | Then there was us : passing and identity formation among two rural southern Louisiana families | 2010 |
| Anderson, E. Frederick | The Development of Leadership and Organization Building in the Black Community of Los Angeles From 1900 Through World War II | 1980 |
| Anderson, Kabria | Locating the Black Madonna Archetype in the Literatures of the African Diaspora | 2005 |
| Assefa, Shiferaw | Towards a Professional Career (MLIS Portfolio) | 2002 |
| Austin, Neffetiti | A Look at the Intersectional Experience of Black Women in the Black Panther Party | 1996 |
| Baker III, Robert Earl | Black Student Power: SNCC and SASO | 2002 |
| Baker, Miquilaue | Ancestor Worship Within the Quilombo of Palmares | 2005 |
| Barrios, Olga (Abstract Only) | The Afro-American Performer Between 1920 and 1945: Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker and Their Artistic Fight for Freedom | 1987 |
| Baszile, Natalie | And a Wind to Cool My Brow: A Black Women’s Westward Journey | 1997 |
| Beers, Robin | Not either / or, but both-and : Caribbean-feminist vision in the poetry of Grance Nichols | 1994 |
| Bell, Zenobia Desha Jaye | African-American nomenclature [electronic resource] : the label identity shift from “negro” to “black” in the 1960s | 2013 |
| Benin, Sará. | The politics of a post-racial U.S. : a theoretical study | 2011 |
| Bowrin, Leslie | Black Resistance: An Interpretation of the Rastafarian Movement in Jamaica | 1986 |
| Boyd, Kaitlin Therese. | The criminalization of black Angeleno women : institutionalized racism and sexism in Los Angeles, 1928-1938 | 2012 |
| Brannon, Taquesha | A content analysis : media representations of Michelle Obama in the Washington Post and the New York Times | 2010 |
| Brimmer, Brandi | Preliminary Thoughts on Concubinage in the Antebellum South | 1998 |
| Brimmer, Brandi | All Her Rights and Privileges: African-American Women and the Politics of Civil War Widows’ Pensions | 1996 |
| Brown, Colette I. | “A Growth of Images”: Contexts, Politics, and Identities in the Plays of Adrienne Kennedy | 1996 |
| Browne, Anthony P | Toward a Gramscian analysis of the rainbow coalition | 1990 |
| Browne, E. Tsekani (M.A.) | The Widest Possible Application of Democratic Principles” : Gender & Nation in W.E.B. Du Bois’ Political Thought | 2000 |
| Burks, Ruth Elizabeth | The Effects of Censorship and Criticism on the Film Adaptations of Richard Wright’s Native Son | 1993 |
| Campbell, Marne (Ph.D) | Heaven’s ghetto? : African Americans and race in Los Angeles, 1850-1917 | 2006 |
| Carbado, Asmara. | When blood won’t tell : an intra-categorical intersectional framework for understanding the construction of race | 2012 |
| Cardinal, Judith Lyman | The Influence of Some Social Network Characteristics on Persisting/Non-Persisting Transfer Students from Nine Urban Community Colleges to UCLA | 1981 |
| Carothers, Katherine Hall | Images in Black and White: African-American Chicago on Film (V) | 1992 |
| Carr, Peter Laurence. | Still not free : how individual freedom is gained through group solidarity | 2007 |
| Childs, Dennis | Signifying Badmen: The Outlaw Poetics of Nas, Goodie Mob, and the Coup | 1998 |
| Connor, Dexter | Guess who’s coming to dinner and Guess who : media’s influence on interracial relationships in America | |
| Crews, Karen Yvette (Abstract Only) | Mary Ann Shadd Cary and Female Black Nationalism | 1991 |
| Daniels, Jean Ellen (Abstract Only) | Family Functioning of Children with Down Syndrome | 1976 |
| Davidson, Adenike | Ann Petry’s The Street: A Fight for the Respect of Black Men and Women in Doctoral Program 1940’s America | 1992 |
| Delaney, Patricia L. (Abstract Only) | Understanding Qualidade: Conceptions of Race, Color, and Status in Northeastern Brazil | 1991 |
| Delaney, Patricia L. (Abstract Only) | The Hydra of Inequality in Brazil: A Case Study of Class, Gender, and Qualidade in the Northeast | 1994 |
| Dinwiddie, Gniesha Yvonne | Investigating Social-Psychological Influences on Educational Outcomes for African American Students at Institutions of Higher Learning | 2000 |
| Emerling, John Anthony | The Politics of the Fragment: A Theory of Romare Bearden’s Black-and-White Photomontages | 2000 |
| Feliciani, Daniela | In search of the horizon : the individual and the community in the work of Zora Neale Hurston | 1987 |
| Fields, Jarett | Voices of Warriors : Examining the Stono Rebellion | 2005 |
| Frank, Elizabeth Diana. | The end of welfare as we know it : media depictions of welfare in an era of reform, 1997-2000 | 2001 |
| Frierson, Sharon Melody. | Racing the biracial body [electronic resource] : biracial performativity and interpretation in Pinky and Caucasia | 2013 |
| Frigerio, Alejandro (Abstract Only) | With the Banner of Oxala: Social Construction and Maintenance of Reality in Afro-Brazilian Religions in Argentina | 1989 |
| Gayle, Janette Elice | Ann Gill : free woman of color at the nexus of politics and religion in nineteenth century Barbados | 2004 |
| Gilmore, Patiste M. (Abstract Only) | After the Game: Social Mobility Patterns of Retired African American Athletes | 1996 |
| Glocke, Aimee M. | Two Steps Forward and One and a Half Steps Back: Maria Stewart and Mary Ann Shadd Cary’s Fight for Inclusion into Early Black Nationalism – 1803-1893 | 2001 |
| Gooding, Cory Charles | Rastafari : Mobilization of the Mind and the People | 2006 |
| Hall, Christine Catherine Iijima (Abstract Only) | The Ethnic Identity of Racially Mixed Peoples: A Study of Black-Japanese | 1980 |
| Harris, Jessica Lynne. | Control and autonomy : food in the slave societies of Jamaica and South Carolina | 2010 |
| Harris, Lisa Elaine (Abstract Only) | Marital Conflict and Divorce: A Cross-cultural Study of Conciliation Court Participants | 1992 |
| Herbert, Lindsey Elizabeth | Erna Brodber’s Blackspace in Postcolonial Jamaica as an Alternative Methodology for the African Diaspora | 2002 |
| Herrero, Olga Barrios | The Black Theater Movement in the United States and South Africa: A Comparative Approach | 1991 |
| Herron, Waddell Michael (Abstract Only) | Integrated Planning Analysis at the Local Level | 1982 |
| Hodges, Nicole | Passport: A Journey from Black to White and Back | 1997 |
| Honarvar, Mina | Similarities and Differences in the Struggles of Moslem and Christian Women in Nigeria | 1997 |
| Hoy, Vielka Cecilia | Ethnicity and Revolution : Creating Identity via the Sandanista Revolution | 2005 |
| Humphrey, Amina | Nappy hair : the political and cultural semiotics of black hair | 2000 |
| Humphrey, Amina | Welcome African Roots: A Study in the Political and Cultural Semiotics of Black Hair in African American Growing-Up Literature | 1999 |
| Hyppolite, Joanne | Neither Here nor There : Caribbean-American Women Writers in the United States | 1994 |
| Jackson, Michelle Renee | A Descriptive Study of the Postpartum Attributes of Maternal Adaptation Among Drug-Dependent Mothers | 1992 |
| Johnson, Celisse Greer | Popular Dance Styles of the 1920’s in Harlem, New York | 1986 |
| Johnson, Tamara | The impact of negative stereotypes & representations of African-Americans in the media and African-American incarceration | 2012 |
| Jones, Rhonda Jean (Abstract Only) | The Role of Social Network Structure and Perceived Social Support in Facilitating Psychological Functioning in Black Families | 1983 |
| Kadotani, Akiko | Search for Wholeness : Interdependence of Character, Culture, and History in Paule Marshall’s Fiction | 1988 |
| Kelley, Robin Davis Gibran (Abstract Only) | Hammer n’ Hoe: Black Radicalism and the Communist Party in Alabama, 1929-1941 | 1987 |
| Kimani, Abraham Sr. | Mothers of the city : the Phyllis Wheatley Club and Home, the Great Migration, and communal family in Black Chicago, 1910-1930 | 2012 |
| King, Elaine Lucille (Abstract Only) | Ethnicity as a Relevant Dimension of the Self-Concepts of Black Children | 1981 |
| Lake, Tara | Writing a New Song of the Harlem Renaissance : Noble Sissle, Shuffle Along, and the Impact of Sissle’s Work on American Performance Culture | 2005 |
| Levine, Jennifer | Institutional Access: Legally Sanctioned Rape, Sexual Exploitation and Medical Experimentation of Slave Women in the Antebellum South | 1998 |
| Lewis, Abigail | The Role of the Young Women’s Christian Association in Shaping the Gender Consciousness of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, 1960-1965 | 1999 |
| Linsey, Jalani J | Insiders zoned out : the consequences of exclusionary zoning in Cucamonga and remedies to its effects | 2010 |
| Longshore, Douglas Yale (Abstract Only) | School Racial Composition and Intergroup Hostility: The Control Threat in Desegregated Schools | 1981 |
| Marshall, John M | Emma | 1979 |
| Martin, Kameelah | Recapturing the Conjure Women: African American Healing Women in Literature | 2003 |
| Massaro, Mary L | The Maasai of Tanzania : context and case for a participatory model of development | 1989 |
| Matthews, Monique | The African American Students’ Social Experience at UCLA: A Qualitative Study | 1996 |
| Mbanza, Alana Angelique. | A qualitative analysis of the academic experiences of Masters students in Afro-American Studies | 2011 |
| McClure, Faith Holmes (Abstract Only) | Cardiovascular Stress Responses in Black Hypertensive and Normotensive Families | 1989 |
| McGee, Stacy Renee. | “Dis da fi we Belize” : the Afro-Belizean experience and the politics of identity | 2007 |
| McNair, Kimberly LaVerne | The commodification of revolutionary icons and protest culture: the impact of print advertisement and Hip-Hop fashion | 2007 |
| Merid, Beza | New “New black intellectuals” : stand-up comedy & social critique in the age of Obama / Beza Merid. | 2009 |
| Mills, Jesse | Creole trombone : Kid Ory and early recorded jazz in Los Angeles | 1999 |
| Millward, Jessica | “As Cool as I am Now” : Identity, Abortion and Infanticide in the Slave South | 1997 |
| Mitchell, Carmen Nicole | Dancing with Dark Majesties: House Music and African American Women as House Divas | 2000 |
| Morris, Keidra (M.A.) | Myth-making and Nation-Building in Contemporary Black British Literature | 2000 |
| Naylor, Celia | “Trying to Trace a Future in the Sand” : An Exploratory and Historical Bibliography of Anglophone Caribbean Literary Works, 1900-1990 | 1990 |
| Oneal, Michael Vincent (Abstract Only) | The Afro-American Consciousness: An Analysis of the P-Funk Aesthetic | 1987 |
| Ounjian-Auque, Jennifer L. | African-Americans and the prison industrial complex from a critical race theory perspective | 2002 |
| Parent, Anthony | Either A Fool or a Fury: The Emergence of Paternalism in Colonial Virginia Slave Society | 1982 |
| Piper, Edna | Beyond the Next Veil: Black Women Inventors | 1989 |
| Prillerman, Shelly Lynette (Abstract Only) | Coping with a Stressful Transition: A Prospective Study of Black Student Adjustment to a Predominately White University | 1988 |
| Reece, Sydney | Black Women in European Space: Bilingualism, Chaos, and National Identity | 1999 |
| Reimers, Birthe | An Exploratory Study of African American Soldier and German Civilian Familial Relationships | 2006 |
| Richardson, Molly | To Represent Self: Popular Visual Depictions of Black Bodies in Colonial and Antebellum American | 2004 |
| Rohn, Caitlin Elizabeth. | Reproduction in Gayl Jones’ Corregidora and Alice Walker’s Meridian : incapacitation of bodies and minds | 2007 |
| Rose, Karla Marie. | Born of Abraham, living as Hagar : the untold story of black feminist thought | 2010 |
| Ryder, Ulli | Consequence of Human Cargo: A Creative/Critical Response to the Literature of the African Diaspora | 1997 |
| Sato, Mirei | “I Am Not a Racist, But…?” Imported Racism: A Survey of Japanese Views of African Americans | 2001 |
| Sawires, Sharif | Directly observed therapy : Managing Risk, Resistance and Adherence | 2005 |
| Shelton, Cherri | Artistic representation : Josephine Baker in Jazz-Age Paris and the politics of a new Negro aesthetic | 2007 |
| Siqwana-Ndulo,Nombulelo- Winifred | Rural African Family Structure in the Transkei, South Africa | 1993 |
| Smedley, Brian D. (Abstract Only) | Environmental Climate Perceptions, Psychosocial Stress, Social Supports, and Adaptational Outcomes Among African-American College Students: A Test of a Social-Ecological Model | 1992 |
| Smith, Anton L. | What Does it Mean to be a Member of Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic? | 2002 |
| Smith, Malaika (M.A.) | The African American Heroine in Octavia Butler’s Wild seed and Parable of the Sower | 1994 |
| Stevenson, Alva Moore | Afro-Mexican Racial and Ethnic Self-identity: Three Generations of the Thornton Family in Nogales, Arizona | 2004 |
| Stockdale, Mark (Abstract Only) | Landscape as Metaphor: The Underground in Afro-American Literature | 1982 |
| Such, David G | Music, Metaphor and Values Among Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians Living in New York City | 1985 |
| Taylor, Eric R. | Resistance on the Deadly Atlantic: A History of Slave Insurrections During the Middle Passage | 1996 |
| Teague, Janira | The Breeder of “Human Cattle” : A New Perspective on Slave Breeding During American Slavery | 2006 |
| Thompson, Lisa | Audre Lorde as Theorist: The Essence of Self in the Poetry and Prose of a Warrior | 1991 |
| Toth, Lynda Lou (Abstract Only) | A Multivariate Study of Connotative Symbol Perception Between Afro-American and Euro-Americans | 1976 |
| Tyler, Bruce Michael | Black Radicalism in Southern California, 1950-1982 | 1983 |
| Wilcher, Myisha | The Issue of Cultural Politics is the Same : African American Novice Educators Offer Critical Insights for Teacher Education Reform in the Twenty-First Century | 2002 |
| Wild, Avram | To Protect and Serve: The Importance of Album Covers in the Preservation and Dissemination of Hip Hop | 1998 |
| Williams, Jakobi | A Panic in all This Country: Nat Turner’s Complex and Dynamic Religious Background | 2002 |
| York, Wendy Michelle | Discourses of Interracial Families in Contemporary Documentary Film and Reflections of Lived Experiences of White Birth Mothers of African Descent Children | 2000 |