Jaytrice MackeyUndergraduate Humanities Honors Fellow

Jaytrice Mackey is a senior majoring in African American/Black Studies.

She is writing her honors thesis in African American Studies, intersecting resistance theory and Afro-studies to explore how trends within protest culture extend from the past and are repurposed in the present; focusing on hair, dance, song, and religion she is exploring the metaphysical forms of resistance, as well as how visions of the past alter and shape the world of our future. In her work, she examines the history of the war that has been raised on the Black being, and how the Black community has risen in response to this civil, social, and political unrest - that which bridges community to life and hope. Her analysis undermines the physicality of resistance studies to analyze the trends and patterns in Black cultural shifts and movements - actions that amplify the importance of memory and knowledge in resistance studies through a literature review and photographic analysis. She argues that we must use the strength and knowledge of those before to link arms with everyone. She argues that, to do this ensures our way forward, and the persistence of Black democracy.