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"Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
Title
"Public Order is Even More Important than the Rights of Negroes:" Race and Recreation in Charlotte, North Carolina, 1927-1973
Author
Ervin, Michael
Date Created
2015
Subjects--Topical
History, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
In July 1960, Charlotte’s Park and Recreation Commission enacted an official policy of desegregation in the city’s parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and recreation centers. This development, which resulted in the first integrated municipal swimm...
Afrocentricity for all: A case study examining the self-healing power of alternative curricula as a mediating tool of inclusion
Title
Afrocentricity for all: A case study examining the self-healing power of alternative curricula as a mediating tool of inclusion
Author
Watson, Marcia
Date Created
2015
Subjects--Topical
Education, Curriculum planning, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
Student achievement and school reform are some of the most pervasive topics in public school discourse. However, the curriculum is one area that remains virtually unchanged across U.S. schools. The efflorescence of federal legislative policies, su...
Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Title
Masking Modernity: Black Performance and the Struggle for a Modern Identity in the Progressive Era South
Author
Taylor, Emily
Date Created
2015
Subjects--Topical
History, Performing arts, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
Centering on the concept of dual identity, my thesis examines how the larger black community in the South adjusted to modernity through acts of masking. More specifically, this work analyzes minstrelsy and jubilee spirituals in an effort to explai...
Performing Arts Education and the Academic Identity Development of African American Male High School Students
Title
Performing Arts Education and the Academic Identity Development of African American Male High School Students
Author
Walton, Calvin
Date Created
2015
Subjects--Topical
Curriculum planning, Art--Study and teaching, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description
AbstractThis study examined the effects of performing arts participation on the academic achievement of African American male high school students. The study investigated how engagement in school-based performing arts influenced the academic ident...