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The Language of Empire
No full textThis manuscript focuses on Caribbean and American culture, in addition to, Guyanese Creolized English and American Standard English. The poems in this collection infuse oral and written poetic techniques to write back to the hierarchies of language and literature set by the British empire. Upon defense, this collection was distinguished as an affirming love letter to Black women
Moving Forward not Back: The Rule of Law & Equitable Growth Save Democracy
Get PDFThis dissertation focuses on the relevant factors that influence people’s perceived levels of democracy in their country. Using World Values Survey Wave 6 (2010-2014) I demonstrate that an interactive-effect between individuals’ confidence in the courts and their beliefs about the possibility of equitable economic growth account for the greatest effect on their perceived levels of democracy
Boys Will Be Boys
No full textThis is a work of fiction. The following five stories are all interconnected and of the young adult (YA) genre
From the Lafitte Greenway to the Carondelet Canal: Genealogy of an Emerging Place on the New Orleans Landscape
No full textIn 2015, New Orleans opened the Lafitte Greenway, a linear urban bike path. The Lafitte Greenway follows the footprint of the Carondelet Canal, a historic shipping channel developed in the late-eighteenth century. While it was created as a public resource, the Carondelet Canal became a thriving residential and commercial corridor during New Orleans’ antebellum period, accompanied by public spaces in which class- and race-based hierarchies were produced, contested, and reimagined. Archaeological and archival data from Square 240, a block along the canal’s route, illustrate the tensions inherent in the production of urban public spaces, both past and present. A genealogy of the Carondelet Canal connects past inequalities to the Lafitte Greenway’s emergence as a new public space within the current pattern of urban neoliberal development
Hindi for Beginners: The B Side
No full textThis thesis is a work of fiction written in fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at the University of New Orleans