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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Black Panther"”.
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WAKANDA FOREVER: AN AFROCENTRIC ANALYSIS OF THE FILM BLACK PANTHER
Upon its release, Black Panther became a symbol of Afrofuturism and how the Black imagination could redefine Blackness and one's interpretation of Black People. Many asserted that African Americans had no "Wakanda" to call their own, but it was merely a fictional land from a comic book. This …
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Revolutionary Every Day: A Dramatic Exploration of Women and Their Agency in The Black Panther Party.
<p>This capstone project is centered around Black Panther women and explores what it means to be a revolutionary black woman dealing with politics surrounding gender in both private and public spaces during the late 1960’s and beyond. In addition, the project includes an original fictional play …
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'Any Name That Has Power': The Black Panthers of Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States, 1948-1977
<p>The US Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was an organization of the Black Power Movement, a cultural and a political nationalist movement central to the history of the African-American Freedom Struggle. The Black Panthers' anti-imperialist politics, militant visual style, grassroots …
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Black Panther Shatters Social Binaries to Explore Postcolonial Themes: How Ancestry, Identity, Revenge, and the Third Space Impact the Ability to Navigate Change and Create New Forms of Cultural Hybridity
… by hatred, polarity, and revenge, the movie <em>Black Panther</em> continues to offer a unique perspective on pertinent postcolonial themes that still haunt today. This paper will review how the movie reverses, eliminates, or shatters social binaries to explore such postcolonial themes as: …
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Women in the Black Panthers: Building or Departing from Traditions of Activism in the Freedom Struggle
… role of African American women activists in the BlackPanther Party by placing their activism in the broader historical context of blackwomen in the freedom struggle. This thesis sheds light on the continuities anddepartures from earlier work that characterized black women's activism and theBlack …
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'What Colour are You?': FBI Counter-Intelligence and the Targeting of White Hate and Black Extremist Groups in the 1960s
… against subversive organizations including Black Extremist groups like the Black Panther Party and White Hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan. With a mandate to neutralize the activities and minimize the risk of violence posed by the targeted organizations, COINTELPRO was one of the largest and …
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Phases of a Man Called 'Moon': Mayor Landrieu and Race Relations in New Orleans, 1960-1974
… middle-class whites and a large segment of the black community. As the 1970s unfolded, however, he found his coalition increasingly threatened not just by disgruntled white conservatives, which might be expected, but also by angry black radicals of the Black Panther Party. This study argues that …
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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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I Am Because We Are: Africana Womanism as a Vehicle of Empowerment and Influence
… has been to shed light on the experiences of Black women in Afrocentric groups' Nation of Gods and Earths, the Black Panther Party, and Rastafarians' that operated on the fringes of society during the 1960s through the early 2000s. This work articulates the gender dynamics between the men and …
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Decolonizing the Body of the Chosen One: The Bodily Performance of Anakin Skywalker, Buffy Summers, and T'Challa
… in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and T'Challa in Black Panther, these characters decolonize the body of the Chosen One through the expected performance of this hero by engaging with Judith Butler's theory in Performativity. However, each of these characters experiences colonizing violence and …
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From Malcolm X to Malcolm X Liberation University: A Liberatory Philosophy of Education, Black Student Radicalism and Black Independent Educational Institution Building 1960--1973
… on Malcolm X's socio-political philosophies of Black Nationalism as juxtaposed to that of educational progression for African Americans during the 'Black Power' era. The influence of Malcolm X provoked a call for 'African-centered schooling,' or institutions in the traditions of …
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From Malcolm X to Malcolm X Liberation University: a liberatory philosophy of education, Black student radicalism and Black independent educational institution building 1960-1973
… on Malcolm X’s socio-political philosophies of Black Nationalism as juxtaposed to that of educational progression for African Americans during the ‘Black Power’ era. The influence of Malcolm X provoked a call for ‘African-centered schooling,’ or institutions in the traditions of …
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The Revolution Will Be Videotaped: Making a Technology of Consciousness in the Long 1960s
… institutions from the RAND Corporation to the Black Panther Party, from psychiatrists’ offices to art galleries, and from prisons to state-funded media access centers. Between 1967 and 1973, American videographers across many of these institutional contexts participated in a common discourse, …
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Radicalism in America's "Industrial Jungle": Metaphors of the Primitive and the Industrial in Activist Texts
… four twentieth-century radical movements: the Black Panther Party, the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, the socialist tradition of taking industrial jobs, and the work of contemporary anarchists. Comparisons between these movements and Black Arts Movement texts, neo-slave narrative …
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Narrowing the Margin: The Role of the Black Superhero
… was so cool! Daredevil was so clever! If I have Black Panther do the same thing that’s impossible! It’s like, yeah, it’s impossible with Daredevil too, man. It’s like, I write Batman all the time, in Justice League, where he’s hanging out with seven guys who, by any logic, should be able to you …
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Making A Way Out Of No Way: A Phenomenological Study of Black Maternal Activism In Chicago
<p>To date, the lived experiences of Black maternal activists in North Lawndale have not been documented, even with the critical role many played while organizing with Dr. Martin Luther King as part of the Chicago Freedom Movement and the critical role of the Illinois Black Panther Party to the …
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Invisible men: space, race, and housing in African American literature
… Literary Studies and American Sociology demonize black men, and yet, beyond Bigger Thomas in Native Son and the Black Panther Party’s work in public housing in the 1970s, the narratives of black men in relationship to housing justice is startlingly undertheorized. My project contributes to both …