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FROM FAMILY TREES TO CORPORATE GREED: GENETIC GENEALOGY TESTING COMPANIES AND THE BLACK SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-24)
Genetic Genealogy tests from companies like AncestryDNA and 23andMe have gained immense popularity since their creation in the mid 2000s. They have become specifically relevant for Black Americans, who, due to the history ...
COLORING THE CANON: THE REVISIONIST WORK OF MICKALENE THOMAS
(Georgetown University, 2018-04-19)
American art museums have long been elite, white, male dominated spaces where white, Euro-American women have appeared as merely muses or subjects of artworks. Rarely are women of color represented in the museum in artworks ...
WHAT DOES REMEMBERANCE LOOK LIKE: MEMORIALIZING THE 1910 SLOCUM MASSACRE AMIDST UNCERTAINTY
(Georgetown University, 2019-04-17)
This thesis explores the challenges of memorializing the Slocum Massacre, a white massacre of the black community living in the area of Slocum, Texas in 1910. In doing so, it considers a combination of sources including ...
WE'VE BEEN IN FORMATION: BEYONCÉ'S POLITICAL VOICE THROUGH BLACK MUSICAL RESISTANCE
(Georgetown University, 2018-04-19)
You may have known her as a member of Destiny’s Child. You make have known her as the singer behind “Halo” and “Single Ladies.” You may know her as the wife of rapper Jay-Z. However, this senior thesis illuminates Beyoncé ...
WE MADE LEMONADE: BLACK WOMEN, SYNCRETIC RELIGION, AND VOODOO AESTHETICS IN AMERICAN CULTURE
(Georgetown University, 2018-04-19)
Historically, syncretic religion has never been positively represented with such a broad platform as it has through Beyoncé’s Lemonade. Through the historical origins of the practice with its inception in the Americas and ...