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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Afro-American"”.
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The Picaresque in Six Afro-American Novels
… and others), then transformed by Blacks in the American South into stories of the exploits of Brer Rabbit (Aunt Nancy), Slave John, and eventually, particularly in urban areas, the "Bad Nigger." Certain traditions of Afro-American literature and culture coincide with some characteristics of the …
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The Afro-American and the Second World War
… second World War had a great impact on the black American population. The issues of military participation and the aims expressed in Allied propaganda were seized upon by Afro-Americans in order to press their claims for equality at home. This war on two fronts, as it was called, found expression …
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Afro-American Manpower and Affirmative Action in High Level Occupations: 1970-80
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Fundamental properties of Afro-American hair as related to their straightening relaxing behaviour
… understanding of straightening processes in Afro hair by alkaline treatment. It is therefore fundamentally important to gain a more detailed insight into the properties of Afro-American hair. The geometry of Afro-American hair has been initially investigated by cross-sections of hair. The …
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Political Socialization in the Elementary School: The Role of The Afro-American Teacher
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Mothering strategies and maternal satisfaction among Latin American, Afro American, and Anglo American groups of at-risk mothers
… ethnic groups of at-risk mothers: Latin Americans, Afro Americans, and Anglo Americans. The Latin American group reported supporting a lower use of physical punishment when disciplining a child than its counterparts the Afro American and the Anglo American groups. All three groups of …
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The Reverend M. H. Harris, songleader: a comparative analysis of the functions of Afro-American work songs and spirituals
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Redefining Blackness in the Age of Whiteness: Mimicry, Ancestry, Gender Performance, and Self-Identity in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American Literature
… theory and the struggles that black Americans experience while mimicking whiteness or Western mores. Evaluating representations of black manhood and womanhood in the United States, or more specifically, Chicago’s Southside, Wright and Hansberry also reveal how race, class, gender, and …
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Between afrocentrism and universality : detective fiction by black women
This paper focuses on mysteries written by the Afro-American women authors Barbara Neely and Valerie Wilson Wesley. Both authors place a black woman in the role of the detective - an innovative feature not only in the realm of female detective literature of the past two decades but also with regard …
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Seminole Freedmen's Identity in Plural Setting (Ethnicity, Black-Indian, Symbol, Oklahoma)
… Oklahoma, United States of America, there are Afro-American, Seminole Freedmen, Seminole Indians and White men and women. Neither the Black nor the Indian populations are homogeneous. There are two categories of Blacks, one of which is variously known as "Seminole Freedmen" or "Natives," the …
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Afro-Canadian activism in the 1960s
Afro-Canadian activism became increasingly militant in the 1960s. The rise in militancy in the Afro-American leadership of the 1960s was one factor contributing to the new era of black politics in Canada. Increased immigration from the West Indies also encouraged the proliferation of Afro-Canadian …
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Slavery in Cape Town, 1806 to 1834
In an influential article on the evolution of Afro-American society on the British mainland of North America, written in 1980, Ira Berlin charged slave historians with having ''produced an essentially static vision of Afro-American life. From Stanley Elkins' Sambo to John W.Blassingame's …
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The labeling theory: an empirical test
… varied minority group labels (Negro, Colored, Afro-American, Black). The random sample of 800 was divided into four groups cf 200, each receiving a different form of the questionnaire. Proposed differentiation responses were measured by the use of mean prejudice scores on a cognitive, emotional …
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The female quest in the novels of Alice Walker
… well as to texts by black male writers and other Afro-American women writers.
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Interactions between Text and Music in Three Pieces by Jon Deak, Frank Proto, and Tom Johnson
… Hound of the Baskervilles (1984); Frank Proto’s Afro-American Fragments (1996); and Tom Johnson’s Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for Solo String Bass (1975). This essay explores the interactions between music and verbal text. Three categories of text-music interaction are proposed: music as …
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Home grown : the black experience in the city of Monroe, Michigan, 1900-1915
… analyzed, assessed and described the quality of Afro-American existence in Monroe from economic, social and biographical perspectives during the progressive era.A real shortage in traditional primary data, i.e., manuscript collections and family papers, required that the black-white experience in …
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Behind the mask: another perspective on the slavewomen's oral narratives
In the last twenty years, studies in Afro-American slavery have given special attention to the slave community and culture. They have emphasized the slaves' control over their lives, while glossing over the brutality of the institution of slavery. Slave women have been ignored until very recently, …
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The reaction of W.E.B. DuBois to European colonialism, 1900-1950
… W. E. B. DuBois was the most influential Afro-American to advocate the end of European colonialism and self-determination for the colonial people. The writings against colonialism fall into four basic areas: the factors that produced colonialism; the culture that tolerated it; the …
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