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Author:

Brown, Brittany Nicole

Title:

More Than Just Hair Talk: The Kinks, Curls AND Dueling Feminisms in YouTube’s Natural Hair Community

Graduate Program:

Media Studies

Keywords:

natural hair
YouTube
Black hair
Black feminism
postfeminism
natural hair community
YouTube community

File:

Download Brittany_Brown_Thesis_FINAL_April_8.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Rodino Colocino, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Sessoms, Amber Michelle

Title:

The Merging of the Personal and the Collective: Reimagining Black Natural Hair Care Digital Spaces as Sites of Critical Public Pedagogy

Graduate Program:

Lifelong Learning and Adult Education

Keywords:

natural hair
black hair
black women
african american women
digital spaces
blogs
critical public pedagogy
identity development
adult learning
adult identity development
blogging
online learning communities
critical consciousness
identity formation
popular culture
adult education
african american hair
black womanhood

File:

Download Sessoms_2017_FINAL_Dissertation_w_Vita.pdf

Committee Members:

Robin Redmon Wright, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robin Redmon Wright, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Elizabeth Jean Tisdell, Committee Member
Peter Jones Kareithi, Committee Member
Adnan A Qayyum, Outside Member

Author:

Hilton, Erica

Title:

Natural Hair Vlogging: A Thematic Analysis of Discrimination and Bias in the Industry

Graduate Program:

Mass Communications

Keywords:

natural hair
vlogging
Black women
YouTube
discrimination

File:

Download Dissertation_Hilton_20201113_.pdf

Committee Members:

Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michelle Rodino-Colocino, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Colleen Connolly-Ahern, Committee Member
Matthew Paul Mcallister, Committee Member
Niki Tanya Dickerson Vonlockette, Outside Member
Anthony Olorunnisola, Program Head/Chair