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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Black history"”.
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Black History Month: an investigation of the impact of a curriculum for increasing the knowledge of elementary students' knowledge of African-American history
… this current study was to show the importance of Black History being added to the curriculum for elementary students of all ethnicities, but especially with the African-American children. During this study the students were given a pre- and post-test on the Civil Rights Movement for the month of …
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The Effects of Learning about Black History on Racial Identity, Self-efficacy, Self-esteem, and Depression Among Low-Income African American Male Youth
… a shallow account from parents and schools about Black history. More importantly, African American male youth from low-income families rarely receive information about Black history. Youth today watch television for entertainment and through watching television learn about new facts and …
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A case study of the Black History 101 Mobile Museum’s impact on preservice teachers’ perceptions of the use of artifacts to teach culturally relevant content
… their beliefs about the importance of teaching Black history. The primary issue addressed in this study was how preservice teachers perceived their readiness to teach culturally relevant content, Black history in particular. The study was based on presurvey questions, survey, and semi-structured …
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Contentious Cosmopolitans: Black Public History and Civil Rights in Cold War Chicago, 1942-1972
… teachers, unionists, and cultural workers used black history to offer new ways of thinking about racial knowledge from a local level. Numerous efforts to promote and teach this history demonstrated how dissident cosmopolitan political currents from previous decades remained relevant to a vibrant …
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Biblical hermeneutics and black theology in South Africa
… seeks to investigate the use of the Bible in black theology in South Africa. It begins by judging the extent to which black theology's use of the Bible represents a clear theoretical break with white western theology. The use of concepts like the “Word of God", “the universality of the …
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Creative Spatializations: New Cartographies in Contemporary Black Canadian Fiction
… explores the ways in which contemporary black Canadian novels rewrite national space by integrating into it what might be called past and present black spatialities. Regardless of its official policy of multiculturalism, Canada appears unable to reflect the diversity of its population, …
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The memory of mythmaking: Transgenerational trauma and disability as a collective experience in Afrofuturist storytelling
… disability, and myth, particularly within Black speculative fiction, Afrofuturism, and Africanfuturism. Through the lenses of critical race theory, trauma theory, disability studies, and feminist theory, I will closely analyze how myth functions across five Black speculative fiction novels. …
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Is There a Difference Between the Degree to Which African-Americans are Studied in Represented Rural, Suburban, and Urban School Districts?
… to examine the extent to which African-American history is presented in a variety of elementary, middle, and high schools. Ninety surveys were distributed in urban, suburban, and rural school districts in western New York. The subjects were classroom teachers who responded to the surveys. The …
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"This is OUR AMERICA, TOO": Marcus B. Christian & the History of Black Louisiana
Louisiana's unique social and cultural history with its three-tiered racial system (rather than the biracial system that governed much of the United States) left the region and the history of its black inhabitants, outside of familiar narratives of United States black history. Marcus B. Christian, …
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Something Better for Our Children: Black Organizing in the Chicago Public Schools, 1963--1971
This study examines the critical role of Black organizing for Chicago school reform in the 1960s, both in the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. During the Civil Rights era, there were organized efforts to push for integration of public schools to insure equality. Because of Mayor Richard J. …
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The Klondike Memory Project: Klondike Memory Project: Race, Counter-Memory, and Planning Processes
… state narratives that attempt to decontextualize Black history from racist regimes and legacies to subjugate Black and Brown epistemologies. In this thesis, I propose that memory work and acts of truth-telling offer communities that have experienced racial planning and state erasure a pathway …
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Redignifying LaVilla: Visualizing and Recentering Black Epistemologies in the Revitalization of LaVilla, Jacksonville, Florida
… Voice and Sing Park signals a pivotal moment for Black Landscapes in the US South in which the City of Jacksonville is looking to use public space to acknowledge and preserve local Black history. As the downtown area transforms, there is a need for grounding revitalization in a reparative process …
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Always Out of Sight, Just Below the Surface: Steve Davis and the Problems of Researching Jazz Musicians
… figure; the coverage of jazz in the Philadelphia black press throughout the late 1940s and 1950s; the coverage of lesser known figures in jazz magazines such as Down Beat and Coda throughout the 1960s; and the challenges of researching the jazz scene in a smaller city such as Rochester, New York …
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Pan, Still on the Move: An Exploratory Study of the Steelpan's Uncharted Growth and Development in North America, and What Impact this Puts on the Pan Movement in its Place of Origin, the Caribbean
ABSTRACT This study examines the growth and development of the steelpan in its place of origin, Trinidad and the Caribbean, and its diffusion into North American cities in Canada and the USA. This topic is based on a personal interest in the progressive development of the steelpan including the …
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Cast Upon The Shadows: Essays Toward The Culturalogic Turn In Critical Race Theory
Unlike many Black-specific disciplines in the academy (Black psychology, Black history, etc), Black philosophy never completely forged a unique conceptual framework separate from American and Continental intellectual traditions. Instead the field has continued to define its validity by the extent …
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Sacred Freedom: Sustaining Afrocentric Spiritual Jazz in 21St Century Chicago
… headwaters of a certain form of Great Black Music that I call Afrocentric spiritual jazz in Chicago. However, that label is quickly expended as the work begins by examining the resistance of these Black musicians to any label. I theorize that this resistance is due to the experiences of …
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[W]hole: Journey to Fullness
<p>My work raises critical questions about Black history, race, gender, beauty, and privilege. My practice also highlights the intersectionality of colorism and racism. I use materials such as cardboard rectangles with handwritten words, brown paper, doors defaced by scratches, fire, printed …
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Gold Griot: Jean-Michel Basquiat Telling (His) Story in Art
… York avant-garde, as ‘an exotic other,’ a token Black artist in the world of American modern art; a perception which forced him to examine and seek to define his sense of identity within art and within society. Drawing upon what he described as his ‘cultural memory,’ Basquiat deftly mixed …
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