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The reaction of W.E.B. DuBois to European colonialism, 1900-1950
… fifty years of the twentieth century, W. E. B. DuBois was the most influential Afro-American to advocate the end of European colonialism and self-determination for the colonial people. The writings against colonialism fall into four basic areas: the factors that produced colonialism; the culture …
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Decaying gentility in A streetcar named Desire: An actress' analysis of Blanche DuBois
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"DuBois and Damnation" Engaging the African Worldview: Rejecting the Dialectic of Race and Gender
Using DuBoisian Phenomenology, a holistic methodological approach, this thesis examines race and gender in the context of DuBois' seminal essay "The Damnation of Women". "The Damnation of Women" demarks the emergence of a new dialectic and practical approach to the liberation of humanity. To that …
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The Feminine Representation of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois in Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter
… Williams. In addition, Hughes implies W.E.B. DuBois' racial uplift ideology from Souls of Black Folk within Tempy Siles. In both characters, he criticizes the ideologies. In addition, the ideologies work toward an initial construction of masculinity for Sandy, the protagonist, and ultimately …
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Emilio Dubois y Eloy: sujetos descentrados en dos novelas de Carlos Droguett: el descentramiento como crítica a la modernidad chilena
… personajes, el bandido Eloy y el asesino Emilio Dubois representarían, a través de su descentramiento como sujetos, de la fragmentación en la escritura y su representación alegórica de la nación, una crítica política a los procesos de modernización vividos en Chile tanto a principios de siglo …
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Exploring hedonistic consumption from an identity perspective: an interpretative study
… look at what luxury is and enables (Berry, 1994; Dubois and Laurent, 1996; Dubois et al., 2001; Lageat et al., 2003; Phau and Prendergast, 2001; Vigneron and Johnson, 1999). This document is aimed at filling a gap in knowledge by investigating how consumers create the meanings they associate with …
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African-American attitudes toward higher education and their struggle with collective identity and the burden of "acting White"
… Americans during the time of Washington and DuBois placed on industrial and higher education to the value placed by contemporary African- Americans. This cultural shift is linked to African-American collective identity and the contemporary burden of "acting White." In an effort to understand …
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Cyclocoelidae do Brasil (Trematoda)
… (Rudolphi, 1819) Dubois, 1965, Cyclocoelum (Haematotrephus) brasilianum Stossich, 1902, Ophthalmophagus magalhaesi Travassos, 1921, Typhlocoelum cucumerinum (Rudolphi, 1809) Stossich, 1902 and Neivaia cymbium (Diesing, 1850) Dubois, 1959. …
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Rethinking Tennessee Williams' "Desperate" Women
Although Amanda Wingfield, Blanche DuBois, and Maggie Pollitt are examined frequently in scholarship on Tennessee Williams's plays, many critics assume that the three women's Southern femininity translates to fragility and that their nostalgia for the Confederate past constitutes delusion. …
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Modelo de resolución de incertidumbre en sistemas expertos a partir de la teoría de la posibilidad
… 5. Las medidas de posibilidad y necesidad de Dubois y Prade que, como una extensión del anterior, trata con conocimiento a la vez incierto e impreciso. En la segunda parte, tras analizar el motor de inferencia desarrollado por Dubois y Prade, se propone una modificación de la valoración de la …
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Ground state perturbation theory for the many electron system in a static lattice: some plasmon properties of insulators
… equation form are noted. Using the method of DuBois, the plasmon excited state is studied. In particular, plasmon energies and lifetimes are calculated in the pair approximation for several insulators.
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The French Organ Toccata from 1874 to 1934
… discussion of ten organ toccatas by Boellmann, Dubois, Dupre, Duruflé, Gigout, Guilmant, Peeters, Vieme and Widor. The toccatas appear chronologically, beginning with Guilmant's Final from Sonata no. 1 (1874) and concluding with Durufle's Toccata from the Suite op. 5 (1934). The analytical …
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Beyond gangsta: hip-hop, web culture and racial masking in the musical work of Tyler, The Creator
… and analyzed by scholars such as W.E.B. DuBois and Frantz Fanon informs the theoretical frame of this dissertation but also reflects Tyler’s investments in subverting American racial ideology in his controversial audio-visual performances. Through his participation in and appropriating of …
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The New American Slavery: Capitalism and the Ghettoization of American Prisons as a Profitable Corporate Business
… in size and management, referred to by W.E. DuBois as a change "from a family institution to an industrial system."1 This outlook shows either a brutal mental display or operational conceit. That is to say, both “slavery” and "capitalism" are abstracted in exacting traditional and …
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Teacher Mentors: Lived Experiences Mentoring At-Risk Middle School Students
… Christensen, Stout, & Pohl, 2012). According to Dubois and Karcher (2014), current research centers on mentors who are volunteers working in school-based mentoring programs. There is little known about the role of teachers as mentors for students in school-based mentoring programs (Aylon, 2011; …
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Magic Mulatto: Barack Obama's Biracial Body and Race Performance
… audiences to a more intense sense of W.E.B. DuBois’ double consciousness, hyperconsciousness in order to truly overpower the color line.
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Exploring the Implications of White Teacher Identity in a Critical Participatory Action Research Study
… I have attempted to honour the words of W.E.B. DuBois (1903), who claimed long ago that “the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.” The great wrongs he spoke—the wrongs of racism, of white supremacy, of dismissing the import of racial justice …
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Race, the Internet, and the Hurricane: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Black Identity Online During the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
… Hurricane Katrina's landfall, utilizing W.E.B. DuBois' observations of Black identity as a cultural lens. This research uncovered a wide range of political and economic views about Black existence in America, centered upon a common articulation of Black identity."
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The labeling theory: an empirical test
… to some degree. Others, such as W. E. B. Dubois, argued that names only identify things and if one changes a label by which a thing is identified the meaning will not be changed. The major aim of the present study was to determine if there were any significant differences in responses …
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