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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Black leaders"”.
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A Conceptualisation of the self-perceptions of black professionals in relation to business leadership in South Africa
… gain an understanding of the self-perceptions of black South African professionals (and leaders) in relation to business leadership and how these self-perceptions influenced their behaviours, aspirations and self-perceived abilities in leadership positions. The leadership behaviour of black …
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A Narrative Inquiry of Black Leader Self-Determination for Urban Food Justice: A Critical Race Theory Perspective
Leaders within the black community are among the most important assets for black people in America. Given all that black Americans have experienced and still endure from social, economic, and political disenfranchisement, it is necessary to explore the values, beliefs, experiences, and practices of …
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The Story of His Life and Work: Public History at The Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial (1945-1956)
In 1945, Black leaders gained political and financial support from the governments of Virginia and the United States to establish the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial at the site of Washington’s birth in Franklin County, Virginia. The Memorial organization undertook public history work that …
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Teaching Shante Curtelia Dominique Ophelia Brown Johnson : an Autoethnography of a Black Male, Seventh-day Adventist, Jazz Avant-Garde Artist
<p>Leadership is part and parcel of societies and cultures. Leadership research can provide understanding that in turn provides knowledge, resources and growth opportunities for leaders. Leadership may be understood from a personal perspective as being bound up with identity. As I examine myself as …
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The Discourse of Racial Violence: Chicago, 1914--1923
"My dissertation argues that African-American leaders, and many sympathetic white elites, initially responded to the 1919 Chicago race riot by mobilizing elements of dominant discourses of race, gender, and class. Middle-class and elites whites, who largely did not participate in the violence, drew …
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The Gujaratis of Bolton: the leaders and the led
… thesis is a study of local rather than national black politics. The participation of Gujaratis, who comprise the largest ethnic minority community in Bolton, in local politics is constrained by their loyalty to Gujarati identities and by racism within political parties. The settlement patterns of …
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"Let Us Make Man": The Development of Black Male (Student)-Athletes in a Big-Time College Sport Program
Black athletes in big-time college sport programs at predominately White institutions (PWIs) are faced with many developmental challenges. This study attempted to collaborate with Black male sport participants in efforts to understand their perspectives on factors posited to impact their …
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Decoding Leadership Signals: Intersectional Perceptions of Agency, Communion, and Transformational Leadership Behaviors
… ongoing debates about whether transformational leadership behaviors (TLBs) are evaluated equitably across leader race and gender by examining the social signals these behaviors convey. Specifically, the studies explore whether TLBs are interpreted as agentic or communal signals, and whether …
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The rhetoric of autobiography : analysis of autobiographical writings of militant civil-rights leaders.
… nature of the autobiographies of militant black civil-rights leaders, this thesis examines A Lonely Rage by Bobby Seale, Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. These autobiographies represent rhetorical messages designed to show these highly …
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The Africanization of the Methodist Church : with special focus on the Revs. Zaccheus R. Mahabane and the Rev. Seth Mokitimi
This thesis discusses two African church leaders, the Rev. Zaccheus R. Mahabane and the Rev. Seth Molefi Mokitimi, and the role they played in eliciting change in the Methodist Church of Southern Africa. The thesis observes that social, political and economic factors influenced change in the …
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Colour in the lines: The racial politics and possibilities of US skateboarding culture
This thesis examines the informal sporting culture of skateboarding as a contested site of racial politics in the United States of America (US). Action sports scholars have long identified the ‘whiteness’ of this sport but rarely created space for the voices of people of colour (POC) within …