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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Black Liberation"”.
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The Dutch Urban Areas Act : a black liberation perspective on the policy of exclusion
The Dutch Urban Areas Special Measures Act is a national policy in the Netherlands intended to improve the quality of life in distressed neighborhoods. The Act allows a municipality to designate neighborhoods where the municipality can alter the demographic composition through a housing permit …
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Message From The Grassroots: Exploring Black liberation in grassroots economic practice and planning in the Americas
… of underdevelopment and economic warfare on Black peoples (Africans and Afrodescendants) globally, this study brings into the fields of urban planning and local community & economic development the analytic and urgency of the Black Radical Peace Tradition. This involves an exploration of …
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James Cone's Black liberation theology and social change : an analysis of the rhetoric of dialectic.
… to his rhetorical/theological presentation of black liberation theology is examined. The role of conflict in social development is also stressed. Three of Cone's books demonstrate his theological pilgrimage and manifest the rhetorical power of "dialectic" when combined with unitary social …
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Mobilizing jazz communities: the dynamic use of jazz as a political resource in the Black Liberation Struggle, 1925-1965
… jazz musicians, to come to the forefront of black political activism and begin to mobilize jazz music in new and imaginative ways. Jazz music became a way to inspire activists’ participation in non-violent, direct action protests. Civil Rights activists mobilized jazz to broaden the scope and …
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I Am Black and Beautiful: An Examiniaton of the Black Coptic Church as the Manifestation of Liberation Theology
<p>What does the Black Coptic Church have to offer the study of Black theology? This is the essential question this dissertation seeks to examine through a descriptive and constructive analysis. I submit the doctrinal formulation of black liberation theology is locatable within the Black Coptic …
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Echoes of the Future-Past: Slavery and Sonic Testimony in African American and Diasporic Literature 1845-Present
… music as a mode of traumatic testimony unique to black diasporic populations by interrogating the relationship between the sounds blacks produce, the expression of traumatic experience, the mediation of American civic identity, and the production of black liberation ideology. The dissertation’s …
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Toward a Creole Christ : a theology of language and Christian hybridity.
Following the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960's and 70's, a new tradition of theology was inaugurated, known today as Black Liberation Theology. This tradition attempted to offer an account of Christianity that could challenge white racism and the theological structures that …
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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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The roots and influences of radical Black women in the 21st century
… concepts that define the lived experiences of Black women in the United States. Black women’s experiences of police violence at the intersections of gender, race, and class, particularly, have helped to create radical critiques of the system of white supremacy and police brutality. My thesis …
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Hip Hop, Bluegrass, Banjos, and Solidarity: Race and Class Histories in Appalachia U.S.A
… solidarity movement, I examine the history of Black oppression from slavery to current modes of oppression such as mass incarceration and colorblind constitutionalism. The presence of anti-Black racism and under acknowledgement of whiteness hinders any form of cross-racial solidarity. To combat …
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Healing Bodies: Micro-sites of Sovereignty as Places for Refuge, Regeneration, and World-building
… centers the strength-based perspectives of Black and Native American communities engaging in regenerative land care practices within the Coast Salish Territories known today as Seattle, Washington. Representing the significant themes of Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty, social and …
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Subjugated Territory: The New Afrikan Independence Movement and the Space of Black Power
In this dissertation, I study the black revolutionary nationalist geography of the New Afrikan Independence Movement (NAIM) and the anti-racist space of Black Power. I adapt social theorist Henri Lefebvre’s concept of representational space to show how New Afrikan revolutionary nationalism …
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“Lost in translation?”: Women’s issues in the struggle for national liberation in South Africa (1910-1985)
… women’s struggle for political and gender liberation within the political struggle of black men in South Africa, this study broadens the picture of female involvement within the anti-Segregation and anti-Apartheid struggles. In formal organizations such as trade unions and the Federation of …
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Towards A Black Catholic Theology of Reconciliation-Tucker
… proposes and examines the development of a Black Catholic theology of reconciliation based on the 1984 Catholic document, "What We Have Seen and Heard: A Pastoral Letter on Evangelization from the Black Bishops of the United States." The bishops cite that African American Catholics have …
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Drag, Drugs, and Demonstrations: Cultural Subversion under Capitalism
… a more explicitly political movement, the black liberation movement and its various permutations: the civil rights movement, the black power movement and the Black Panther Party, and the recent Black Lives Matter movement. Finally, I will assess the applicability of this theory to the …
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"The Day Beyoncé Turned Black": An Analysis of Media Responses to Beyoncé's Super Bowl 50 Halftime Performance
… of two key elements: Beyoncé’s support of Black liberation movements and her insertion of political speech into American football. The second method is a rhetorical analysis via the concept of the rhetorical enthymeme. I argue that the conservative framings of themes within the media’s …
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Uplifting The Black Race - only males need apply : Black male militancy in Malcom X, Panther, Boyz n' the hood, and Get on the bus
… part of these narratives to construct a specific black identity in relation to black activism. These films position black males in a space which allows them to directly affect issues regarding black identity, political activism, the black community, and the nation. Furthermore, Malcolm X, Panther, …
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The power of Pan Africanism: Tanzanian/African American linkages, 1947-1997
… engagements of Pan-Africanism enhanced through black internationalism exposes the cross-cultural fertilization of Tanzanian nationalism with the US black community’s self identity in the 1960s. By examining the interactions of black networks and the extension of hospitality between Tanzanians …
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Self-determination means determining self: lifestyle politics and the Republic of New Afrika, 1968-1989
… It considers in depth the connection between Black self-determination, citizenship, and territorial sovereignty as it seeks to position New Afrikans and their goals more prominently in the historical scholarship of the Black Liberation Movement and in public memory more generally. Next, my …
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Verse and Reversal: The Poetic Return to the Inner Child as Black Revolutionary Praxis
Black revolutionary movements historically have centered the role of the Black child—as either foundation, visionary, or representation of Black liberation. The identity of any given revolutionary movement is characterized by three tenets: resistance, imagination, and love. In order for the …
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