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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Griffin, Farah Jasmine. "'Who Set You Flowin'?': Migration, Urbanization, and African-American Culture," Yale University, May 1992.
This dissertation provides an interdisciplinary conceptual framework for analyzing and interpreting migration narratives—musical, visual, and literary works by African-American artists that portray The Great Migration. Based on a variety of artistic, historical, and theoretical sources, the study discusses reasons for migration, the initial confrontation with the urban landscape, the negotiation of that landscape, and a final vision that contemplates the consequences of migration and that sometimes reconsiders the South as a place of possibility for black people. Migration and urbanization are historically determined tropes in African-American culture; portrayal of the migration experience revolves around each artist’s conception of power and its effects upon migrants.
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