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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Black Culture"”.
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Living in Franklin Square: an exploration of black culture
… research seeking to provide explanation for why blacks continue to be underrepresented in higher education enrollment; however, none of these studies provides a full explanation. Ogbu (1969, 1978, 1985), who has given the fullest explanation of black underachievement for students at the primary …
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A social history of black culture in colonial North Carolina
… has attempted to provide a social history of black culture in colonial North Carolina against which it has sought to outline the aesthetic dimension of black life in that colony. The organization of the study--beginning with chapters on the historical background to the subject and including …
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Exit the Matrix, Enter the System: Capitalizing on Black Culture to Create and Sustain Community Institutions in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… tools, and forms of capital available to Black actors. Illuminating the political and economic contexts within which the work of community building takes place reveals both the possibilities and the limitations which face Black New Orleanians, embedded in this dynamic landscape. Attending …
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Racial Identity, Acculturation, and Well-Being among Black Canadian Immigrant Youth
… what successful acculturation looks like for Black Canadian immigrants using a tridimensional model of acculturation (Ferguson, Bornstein, & Pottinger, 2012), as well as how Black Canadian immigrants conceptualize their racial identity. Participants were 120 first and second generation Black …
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Spatial Realization: Understanding Black Cultural Engagement in Context of Space and Whiteness
This paper explores the ways in which Black people interact with their culture in the context of white institutional space as approached by the art installation titled Spatial Realization. By establishing a space that invites engagement with Black culture contextualized within a white institution …
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THE REAL ATLANTA: REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK SOUTHERN CULTURE, MASCULINITY, AND WOMANHOOD AS SEEN IN SEASON ONE OF THE FX SERIES ATLANTA
… <em>Atlanta</em>, challenges previous notions of Blackness on American television. The series <em>Atlanta </em>delves into conversations on hip-hop and Black culture through what has been considered an authentic representation of Black Atlanta. This paper examines tropes of Southerness and …
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Homage to Eleanora: A Musical Journey through the Billie Holiday Songbook
… bandleader and composer in the fields of music, black culture and more specifically the genre of jazz. The primary focus of this study is Billie Holiday’s discography, music, and compositions as treated in relation to the black culture of production. This study will explore a secondary content …
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"""Hitting a straight lick with a crooked stick"": Humor and the subversive in three novels by Zora Neale Hurston"
… emphasize her ebullience and celebration of Black culture, others call her fiction stereotypical and essentialist. Observing the workings of the recurrent humor in her works helps explode this critical binary opposition. Specifically, the carnivalesque and the heteroglossia often subvert …
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DOIN’ IT FOR THE CULTURE: DEFINING BLACKNESS, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY ON BLACK TWITTER
… among race, social media usage, identity, and culture. More specifically, its purpose is to examine how Black Twitter users interact on Twitter through the portals of three trending hashtags from 2015: #BlackExperience, #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies, and #AskRachel. The hashtags …
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Land | Lineage
… my work. In my thesis I use tha concept of Black Ecology to understand art rooted in tha relationship between race and geography. Black culture and city spaces in proximity to natural landscapes, or edgelands, reveal tha social and physical conditions of a place where these two worlds …
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Educating Black Youth Moral Principles through Black Art
This study examined the connection between Black youth moral behavior and the aesthetic value of Black art. Today's Black youth are impressed with elements in the media, their schools, and other social surroundings that have been a little less than upstanding. This exploration of moral relevance of …
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HARLEM IN SHAKESPEARE AND SHAKESPEARE IN HARLEM: THE SONNETS OF CLAUDE MCKAY, COUNTEE CULLEN, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND GWENDOLYN BROOKS
… a sense of two-ness born of being both black and American. The fundamental structure of the sonnet (octave, volta, sestet) is dialectical; it "contests the idea it just introduced" (Caplan, Poetic Form: An Introduction 75). The sonnet's self-reflexive structure has been adopted and …
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Justice-Centered Mentorship in Science Teacher Education: Black Men Decolonizing Science Teaching
… and the science classroom became a part of a Black man novice teacher’s science identity while being engaged in JCM that I facilitated as an experienced Black man high school science teacher. JCM draws on culturally responsible mentorship and justice-centered science pedagogy providing a …
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My ancestors’ wildest dream : How classroom management strategies from around the globe help us decrease the rates of suspensions and expulsions of Black students in the United States
… Education (2016) released a study reporting that Black children are suspended three times more often than their white counterparts. Considering that Gloria Ladson-Billings (1995) published her work on culturally relevant teaching more than 20 years ago, we should not have this issue today. A …
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Beyond the illusion of inclusion: A new vision for cannabis social equity
… The study finds that the commodification of Blackness alongside the sexualization and objectification of women is utilized to promote a White fantasy, decriminalize cannabis for white purposes and appropriate Black culture to sell magazines. Black representations are often found to be …
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Historicizing and Engaging Lindy Hop: The Development, Presence, and Absence of Black Cultural Values and Aesthetics
… in order to ascertain where elements of Black culture are present or absent. As Lindy Hop practice has transitioned from its point of origin in the Black space of the Savoy Ballroom to primarily white spaces today, questions arise about cultural preservation and erasure in this …
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LIBERATORY EXPRESSIONS: BLACK WOMEN, RESISTANCE AND THE CODED WORD, AN AFRICOLOGICAL EXAMINATION
… a purpose. The beautiful quilts sewn by enslaved Black women served dual functions, as bed coverings and as symbols of resistance and liberation. The decorative wrought-ironwork found on gates and doors throughout the United States serves as a Sankofic reminder and protector. The highly coded …
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Between afrocentrism and universality : detective fiction by black women
… 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 to the current discourse about race and class in US-American society. This discourse …
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Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857–1914
<p>“Building Black Manhattan” is the first study to examine the architectural contributions of Black women reformers to the urban development of New York City between the Civil War and the Great Migration. Through the construction of charitable and reform institutions throughout Manhattan, they …
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