Derrick started following the work of Romero Stokes, Georgia State University, Educational Policy Studies.
Derrick started following the work of Giovanni Dortch, University of North Texas, Sociology.
Derrick added a teaching document, a website, a CV.
Graduate Student, History
University of Memphis, English
University of Memphis, Journalism
Graduate Student
College of Arts and Science
Thesis Title: Fatherhood of God; Brotherhood of Man: Prince Hall Affiliated Freemasonry, Manhood, and Community Building in the South, 1870-1929
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Jacqueline Rouse
Layli Phillips Akinyele Umoja |
About
I am interested in the African Diaspora especially in the United States during the post-slavery era. I am interdisciplinary in the way I approach the African Diaspora combining history, gender, and culture. In 2012, I plan on receiving my PhD in History focusing on African American History and the African Diaspora, Graduate Certificate in Gender Studies focused on Womanism and Black Feminism, Graduate Certificate in African American Literature, and a MA in Journalism focusing on New Media and Documentary Filmmaking.
The dissertation examines Black freemasons in the south (TN & NC) during it's height--economics, membership, & activism. The secret nature of the organization has hidden its contribution and activism of the organization and its members. I argue the organization is part of a web of networks that fought for civil and human rights for African Americans as well as being a community builder. Through the organization, members were cultivated into leaders, activist, and created an initiatic identity that connects them to the African American community and humanity. The significance of my study is that I analyze the organization through a womanist lens and argue the organization has a diarchal gender relationship allowing women and men to take on leadership and activist roles that differed from the normative gender relationship of their time.
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