“Issa Rae’s ‘Creative Empire’: How Authenticity is Challenged by Art’s Relationship with Capitalism” *​

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April 2024

This project is my 131-page senior thesis which I worked on throughout my last year as an African American Studies major at Princeton University.

“On Being ‘That Girl’: How the Media Socializes Black Trans Girls Through their Hair” *

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April 2023

This project is my junior paper, my second largest research project at Princeton University. 

"How Elvis, the Movie and the Figure, Appropriate Black Struggle"

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May 2023

This essay was written for a class called "A History of Intellectual Appropriation of Blackness," taught by Dr. Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, that I took in Spring 2023 at Princeton University. 

"The Miseducation of Black Motherhood and Impossibility of Black Womanhood"

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December 2022

This essay, which has been retitled, is an excerpt of a larger project for a class called "In Living Color: Performing the Black '90s," taught by Dr. Rhaisa Williams, that I took in Fall 2022 at Princeton University.