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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Black Belt"”.
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If Selma Were Heaven: Economic Transformation and Black Freedom Struggles in the Alabama Black Belt, 1901 - 2000
… for voting rights. The beating of peaceful black marchers by white state troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge that March catapulted the city and black demands for the ballot into the national spotlight. When the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was passed five months later, it cemented Selma as a …
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Having a bath in Japan: a biographical study of actress and black belt jūdōka Sarah Mayer (1896-1957)
… to receive the award of shōdan, or first degree black-belt, for judo, from the Butokukai, an increasingly militaristic, pedagogical institution, aimed at continuing the study of traditional and modern fighting techniques. Sarah’s training at the home of the art, the Kōdōkan in Tokyo, was …
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Predicting and Equipping Private Well Owners at Risk of Microbial Contamination After Flooding Events in the Alabama Black Belt
… created a groundwater quality epidemic in the Black Belt region of Alabama.Floodwater can infiltrate wells for extended periods, potentially exposing households to Escherichia coli (E. coli) and fecal coliforms. Here, the impact of flooding on well water users across the Black Belt was …
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Lightless Mornings: A Fine Legacy
… in his coalmines and cotton plantations in the Black Belt region of Alabama during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through personal research including interviews with other descendents of McCurdy, as well as scholarly research about the practice of convict leasing in Alabama, I explore …
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Ante-Bellum Race Relations in Middle Tennessee: A Study of Wilson County
… areas of the South that were not included in the Black Belt or in the mountainous regions that fostered the Southern abolitionists. Within the last decade, Chase C. Mooney brought forth one of the few works in recent years on slavery in Tennessee. His approach was to select fifteen counties, two …
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Social and cultural inclusion of queered and racialized performance during Chicago’s black pansy craze
… the pansy craze unique to Chicago's "Black Belt" neighborhoods lasted well into the 1940s. This project applies an intersectional lens to the Black pansy craze in Chicago's neighborhood of Bronzeville during the 1920s-1940s. Jose Esteban Muñoz’s disidentification theory serves as the …
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Desenvolvimento e avaliação de produto energético para atletas de judô
… for judo athletes carried out with eight male, black belt athletes after 3% loss of body weight though a specific diet. The group was randomly divided in two, one consuming a supplement and the other placebo (low calory) thirty minutes before the test. As results there were no significt …
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Educating for a New Economy: The Struggle to Redevelop a Jim Crow State, 1960-2000
… North Carolina and policy effects in the state’s black belt counties, this study shows why the civil rights movement was vital for shifting state policy in former Jim Crow states towards greater investment in human resources. By breaking down employment barriers to African Americans and opening up …
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The lived experiences of autistic adults as novice martial artists: A hermeneutic phenomenological approach to a reflexive thematic analysis
… Aikido course taught by officially registered black belt instructors within a formal dojo setting and the participants logged their experiences in a journal. Videos and photos were shot in the classes and used for elicitation in the semi-structured, sound-recorded interviews. Two phases of …
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Black Public Works: The Political Economy of Race and New Deal Infrastructure
… the types of projects that were built in Black communities. I show how New Deal infrastructure building was layered with contradictions and punctuated with moments of progress as well as lost opportunities for redress. I then analyze public works spending in counties that had sizeable …
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Addressing Insect Declines Via Biodiversity Monitoring, Ecological Restoration, and Population Genetics
… in Texas and Oklahoma, but also occurs in Black Belt prairies of Mississippi and Alabama. Mitochondrial and nuclear DNA analysis identified two distinct population clusters of T. texanus corresponding to the Texas and Oklahoma population and the Mississippi and Alabama population. Further, …
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Novel Time-Integrated Quantification of Sediment-Associated Fecal Indicator Bacteria in Rural Alabama Creek with Straight Pipes
In the Alabama Black Belt, widespread rural poverty, limited sewer access, and shrink-swell clays preclude the use of conventional septic systems, leading to both failing septic systems and discharge of raw sewage from homes through "straight pipes." The degree to which fecal microbes are …
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The relationship between self-actualization and aikido
… The interview was conducted with five practicing Black Belt Aikidoists.</p> <p>The research subjects were all Aikido students from four different schools with a common lineage. Later efforts to expend outside the lineage were not productive. There were three groups in this research. Those who were …
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African Americans in North Dakota 1800-1940
… generally have neglected the existence of black people in North Dakota's past. This study examined the participation by African Americans in North Dakota's social and economic history from 1800 to 1940. Further, the author explored the motivations for African Americans entering and settling …
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Investigating the Impact of Racial Capitalism and Chemical Alterlives on Black Communities and Their Environments: A Qualitative Study in Uniontown, Alabama
The environmental justice movement has made strides during the past few decades. However, with environmental inequities still prevalent throughout the United States, more research is necessary to advance the environmental justice discourse, provide education and awareness, and to implement positive …