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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"African American citizenship"”.
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Doorway to the Competitions of Life: African American Citizenship and Access to Higher Education
… the legal mechanisms designed to extend full citizenship rights to African Americans have failed. Although this failure affects many facets of the lives of African Americans, this study analyzes how the legal limitations placed on African American citizenship influence access to higher …
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Dark Stars of the Evening: Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920
… Stars of the Evening: Performing African American Citizenship and Identity in Germany, 1890-1920 </em>demonstrates that black performers in Germany developed wide networks in the performance world as they sought artistic opportunities beyond the racist circumscription of the …
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"""By the people"": representative literature and democratic representation in the United States, 1890-1930"
This dissertation examines American literary writing that also asks and answers these questions about the authors of popular government and the means to represent them. I include three case studies from 1890-1930 focused on the work of Hamlin Garland, Vachel Lindsay, and James Weldon Johnson. Each …
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The breakup: the Declaration of Independence, Frederick Douglass, and me
… This underlying hypocrisy has led generations of African Americahs, from the nation's beginning through current day, to careen between hope, desp air, fighting back, deciding to leave, or demanding change. This paper explores the meaning of the Declaration, the experience of black belonging in …