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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Black Agency"”.
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American pseudo-realism: the subversion of black agency in George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess (1935)
… American opera and the representation of blackness therein. Considering the opera both in its premiere iteration and as an institution of tokenization that has supplanted the equitable representation of black artists and narratives within this genre, I consider how this work has come to be …
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Re-assessing the inner city of Johannesburg : an exploration into emerging African urbanism and the discovery of black agency in Phaswane Mpe's Welcome to our Hillbrow and Kgebetli Moele's Room 207
… tactics, African urbanites can lay claim to agency amidst difficult conditions and can also shape their urban environments into flexible and enabling spaces. This approach challenges the idea that African cities are simply 'dysfunctional' or 'chaotic'. Simultaneously, this allows the stigma …
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The Black Body in Political Photography, 1990-2020
Black political art has been an important element of Black liberation efforts in the 20th and 21st centuries. Black artist-activists of the past and present have demonstrated a concern with systems of oppression that perpetuate multiple forms of racial trauma in the lives of Black people. This …
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Tuskegee, Achimota and the Construction of Black Transcultural Identity
… as a means of exploring the broader issues of black transcultural identity and black agency in education policy formation and implementation in the U.S. and in the Gold Coast. The two black actors who figure prominently in this case study are Booker T. Washington, the president and founder of …
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Toward a rhetoric of symbolic reparations : overlapping genres in George W. Bush's apology for slavery.
… is mythic, rewrite the historical narrative with black agency responsible for emancipation, and begin a process of identification which is at the heart of reconciliation rhetoric. He both atones and engages image-restoration discourse, and in doing so, avoids many of the criticisms leveled at …
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Owning Home: African-American Agriculture In Lower Richland County, South Carolina, 1868-1890
… stability of their homes. Their stories of black agency and community, centered on agriculture, have been largely lost in the haze that surrounds historical memory of Reconstruction and its immediate aftermath. From their farming practices and land-use policies to their heavy involvement in …