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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Black president"”.
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All dressed up with nowhere to go? the rapid transformation of the South African parliamentary committee system (in comparative theoretical perspective)
… the National Assembly elect the country's first black President, Nelson Mandela, will never forget the moving spectacle that followed, as black MP after black MP was sworn into a parliament that had, for over four decades, overseen and sustained the immoral laws of the Apartheid state. Now, in …
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Black Power on a City College campus: how Woodrow Wilson junior college became Kennedy-King College
The scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community college campuses remain scarce and at the periphery of the mainstream narrative on student activism. This dissertation will examine one student organization, the Afro-American History Club (AAHC), from …
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A historical analysis of South Africa’s post-1994 multilateral drive in selected international multilateral organisations
… state when Nelson Mandela became the first black president. This era marked a new course for a new democratic South Africa. The post-apartheid political dispensation has ushered in a prestigious opportunity for a newly democratic South Africa to reconnect with the other states in different …
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The Social Construction of Black Fatherhood in Responsible Fatherhood Policies
… of responsible fatherhood programs: low-income Black fathers. </p> <p>The first article addresses the question of whether and how congressional discourse disrupts or legitimizes negative cultural formula stories about Black fatherhood. This study examines congressional discourse during hearings …
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Cacophonous geographies : the symbolic and material landscapes of race
… of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, the country has struggled with questions regarding the salience of racial inequality. While the days following Katrina harshly illuminated these inequalities, the election of the country's first black president …
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Through Smoke and Mirrors: Constructing Identity between the Myths of Black Inferiority and a Post-Racial America
… 2008, Pinar, 2008) as a methodology and Black Feminist Thought (Collins, 2000), double consciousness (DuBois, 1903), and the Nigrescence Theory of black identity development (Cross, 1991) as the theoretical framework, I examine my experiences from childhood to adulthood. Through these …
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The Africanization of the Methodist Church : with special focus on the Revs. Zaccheus R. Mahabane and the Rev. Seth Mokitimi
… of Southern Africa (MCSA). The role played by black leaders was important in moving the church out of its past to become a voice for the voiceless. Though Mahabane's and Mokitimi's social locations were different, the causes to which they gave their full measure of devotion were comparable. …
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Assessment of Phonological and Orthographic Differences in Adults With Reading Disabilities
<p>There is debate surrounding how to effectively identify and distinguish reading disabilities from other deficits in college populations. Although several theories have proposed a positive relationship between nonword decoding weaknesses and higher intelligence levels, currently there is no …