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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Civil rights movements"”.
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The Lexington, Kentucky Civil Rights Movement
… differences between the northern and southern civil rights movements through the examination of the black freedom struggle in Lexington, Kentucky. The geographical location of Lexington offers a unique perspective in civil rights movement activity, as the local movement was not distinctly …
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"individual yet as one": Performing Deafness and Performing Community in Mark Medoff's Children of a Lesser God
… More importantly, the play coincided with civil rights movements by people with disabilities, which culminated in the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Disabilities, including deafness, were called into being as part of a national identity. These movements posited …
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Labor, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mid-Twentieth Century Texas
… role did ordinary people play in shaping these movements? Using oral history interviews, the Texas Labor Archives, and the papers of dozens of black, brown, and white activists, this dissertation follows diverse labor, civil rights, and political organizers from the mid-1930s to the …
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Any Bodies' Protest Novel: Challenging the Politics of Canon Formation in the works of Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin
… s not an engagement with the women ' s and civil rights ' movements or a self-aware "Harlem Renaissance." No, the aesthetic techniques employed by all three authors fashion disparate yet searing critiques of the multitude of social, cultural, and economic forces driving the interpretations …
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Using a mosaic-based approach to construct children's understanding of safe space in school
… confused term, originating in 1960’s civil rights movements and popularised through psychotherapy, has recently been described as the second-most popular strategy for supporting children’s anxiety in UK schools. The scarce research literature documents adult views of the benefits of …
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"No matter what, I got everybody's back" : planning for beloved community in the inner-ring suburbs
Throughout the history of the United States, civil rights movements have been inspired, moved to action, and given courage by the vision of a "beloved community." This thesis posits that urban planning fields, too, should take this vision seriously as a guide for designing community development …
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Representing the 'Crisis' in Masculinity : British and North American Male Playwrights, 1990-2005.
… of second-wave feminism, gay activism and civil rights movements. In this context, the discursively central position of the white, heterosexual, middle-class male subject looked to be decentred by a host of radical projects that claimed identity positions as constructed and contingent. In …
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Pseudo-Democracy in America, 1945-1960: Anticommunism versus the Social Issues of African Americans and Women.
… to discrimination, educational, workforce, and civil rights issues that concerned African Americans and women. A slight period of peace allowed these groups to petition the government for help, but the response was often inadequate. As a result, these two groups formed social and political …
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Listening at the Edges: Aural Experience and Affect in a New York Jazz Scene
… on the ethos of the 1960s countercultural and Civil Rights movements and reproduce their investments in the ideas of social and musical marginality in the post-Fordist New York of the early 21st century.</p>
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Generations Apart: A Mixed Methods Study of Black Women's Attitudes About Race and Social Activism
… involved in the creation and formation of Black civil society. The abolitionist, Black women's club, and civil rights movements challenged White supremacy and created institutions that fought for political, social, and economic justice. Historically, Black women have engaged in the struggle for …
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Politics of Repatriation: Formalizing Indigenous Cultural Property Rights
… it relates to the subject of indigenous cultural rights. Using the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, PA and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL as models for the repatriation process, I will show the historic political tensions and …
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Living With Crisis: Family, Labor, and Environment in Flint, Michigan
… Flint has a long history of powerful union and civil rights movements but is now notorious for high unemployment rates, blighted neighborhoods, and an eroded tax base and population. Living with Crisis: Family, Labor, and Environment in Flint, Michigan examines the Flint water crisis as the …
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"Museu das remoções" potencia de resistencia creativa y efectiva como respuesta sociocultural a Río de Janeiro en mega eventos.
… which took place amidst the rise of various civil rights movements in Rio de Janeiro. The introduction of a form of city management called 'urban entrepreneurship,' (Harvey, 1996) prompted a steady loss of civil rights in the city. The Evictions Museum is just one manifestation of the fight …
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Mobilizing jazz communities: the dynamic use of jazz as a political resource in the Black Liberation Struggle, 1925-1965
… and sustaining African American socio-political movements during the twentieth century, and has a particular emphasis on the New Negro and Civil Rights Movements. Informed by the perspectives of social movement theorists describing culture’s significance in the development of sustained collective …
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Five Malcolms, one archive : Columbia University's Malcolm X Project and a history of narrative co-optation
February 21, 2011 marked the 46th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X. Despite an almost incomprehensible amount of cross-disciplinary scholarship designed to analyze the monumental impact of the slain leader, recent work by Dr. Manning Marable suggests that it is actually only now, in …
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Space Race: African American Newspapers Respond to Sputnik and Apollo 11
… achieved during the Cold War and the civil rights movement stimulated debate within the newspapers, and that ultimately centered around two questions: why the Soviets were successful in launching a satellite before the US, and what benefits could come from landing on the moon. …
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Freedom and Equality Now! Contextualizing the Nexus between the Civil Rights Movement and Drama
… exclusion and inequality were impugned when the Civil Rights Movement undertook the challenge to bring about social and racial egalitarianism. The success of the Movement depended on contributions from many sources. This study focuses on the cultural entity of theatre to examine the contributions …