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Graduate Student Projects
Finding Sarah Ann
Thirty Dollars Reward
20 Days In the Bottom of a Vegetable Cart
Secret Agent
Family Tree
Mothers and Daughters
Legacies
Bibliography
Fade to White – Ilda and the Right to Remain
Ilda - A Model of Black Placemaking
Institutions - Making Ilda "Geographic"
Destabilizing Ilda - Bulldozing Black Geographies
Why Ilda Matters - In Wesley's Footsteps
Fade to White - Bibliography
Bridgett Town: How Hostile Nostalgia Obscured its Memory and how Henri Lefebvre's Production of Space Could Bring it Back
Bridgett Town: Lived Spaces
Bridgett Town: Conceived Spaces
Bridgett Town: Perceived Spaces
Bridgett Town: Further Study
Bridgett Town: Bibliography
Separate, But Self-Determined: Black Education & Community in Occoquan
Geographies of Exclusion and Agency
Excellence in an Age of Neglect
Consolidation, Transportation, Integration
Remembering: An Ongoing Act of Resistance
Bibliography
Mapping Black Entrepreneurship in Loudoun County
Origin of Black Entrepreneurship in Loudoun County
Black Agency During Jim Crow
What Did Communal Success Look Like?
Why The Past Is Important for the Present
Remembering Old Loudoun County
Bibliography
RACE & DISABILITY AS GAUGES OF WORTHINESS: A HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA
RACE, DISABILITY & EDUCATION: USING DIGITAL RECON TO DISRUPT THE "MASTER NARRATIVE"
RACE, DISABILITY & EDUCATION: A BRIEF HISTORY
RACE, DISABILITY & EDUCATION IN 20TH CENTURY FAIRFAX COUNTY: MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SEGREGATE
RACE, DISABILITY & EDUCATION: LIFE FOR STUDENTS OF DIFFERENT RACES & ABILITY IN FAIRFAX COUNTY
DREW-SMITH SCHOOL
OAK GROVE SCHOOL
RACE, DISABILITY & EDUCATION: WHAT NEXT?
RACE & DISABILITY AS GAUGES OF WORTHINESS: BIBLIOGRAPHY
Hannah's Story: Gender Subversion in Jim Crow Era Loudoun County
Nokes Family: Black Life in Loudoun County
A Mother's Love: Hannah & Jennie's Autonomy
A Witness with a Mind of Her Own: Hannah's Role in the Crawford Case
Then and Now: Connections Between the Past and Present
Bibliography
Black Church Salience in Northern Virginia
Black Church Leadership
Black Church Community
Black Churches and the Fight for equality
Conclusion: Salience of Black Churches
Resources
Undergraduate Student Projects
Partus Sequitur Ventrum "That Which is Born Follows the Womb"
Instruments of Death or Agency?
Violence, Compassion or Both?
What Does Black Childhood + Menstruation = ?
Questions? Implications?
Bibliography
More Than Books: The Truth Behind Segregated Libraries in Northern Virginia
Community, Identity, & Citizenship
Separate, But Not So Equal
Libraries as Geographies of Opportunity, Citizenship, & Resistance
More than books
Bibliography
The Retelling of the Spring Bank Resistance
Spring Bank Black Geography
The Defamation of Spencer and Alfred
Surveillance of Black Bodies
Why Black Lives Are Important Today
Bibliography
Destruction of Narratives
Bias
Newspapers (cite the interview)
Treatment On Base
Returning Home
Black Woman Vets
Highlighting the struggles of black veterans in NoVA (Fairfax)
Conclusion
Works Citied Page
Jennie Dean's Community
The Creation of a Community
Manassas Industrial School
Jennie Dean High School
Reflecting on Dean's Community
Bibliography
Law and Punishment as a Tool for Racial Violence in Reconstruction Era Virginia
(re)-producing history
Crime, Punishment, and American Understanding
Virginia Prisons as an Epicenter of Legal Racial Violence
The Permeation of Racial Violence into the Criminal Justice System
Conclusion: Exigence, Implications, and Solutions
Resilience and Remembering in Laurel Grove School Museum
A Brief History of Black Life in Franconia
Sustaining Their Community: Development of the Schoolhouse and Church
Keeping the Memory Alive: Development into a Museum
Conclusion: Resilience Through the Generations
Bibliography
Preserving Black Culture
Reston Black Focus: The Mission
Reston Black Focus Festival
Challenging the Norm
Bibliography
Land of the Freedmen: A look at Freedman's Village
Freedman's Village: What Happened?
Freedman's Village: Villager Resistance
Freedman's Village: Where Are They Now?
Freedman's Village: Conclusion
Navigating the Roads of Segregation with Joseph McCoy
Lynching of McCoy
Geographies of Segregation
What Landmarks Remain Today?
Final Remarks
Racialized violence of Virginia Newspapers (1860-1930)
What is the mission of these newspapers?
How did Virginia Newspapers utilize communication to brutalize African American?
What are the implications?
The Answer
Sports and Black Lives Next Door
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