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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"History, African"”.
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We too have a history: African American student experiences at Eastern Illinois University 1967-1982
… I explored is: What were the experiences of African American students at Eastern Illinois University during 1967-1982? Ultimately, this story displayed the resilience students possessed during the 1967-75 period and though confronted with a few instances of resistance, the early period of the …
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Community and Resistance in the Gateway City: Black National Consciousness, Working -Class Formation, and Social Movements in St. Louis, Missouri, 1941--1964
… the South. This study integrates the fields of African American urban history, African American labor and working-class history, and the history of the modern Black Freedom Movement. This project also extends a rapidly growing body of historical literature on African Americans in St. Louis."
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The Dawning of the Black New South: A Geo-Political, Social and Cultural History of Black Atlanta, Georgia, 1966--1996
… seeks to provide an intraracial narrative history of African American politics and class tensions in Atlanta, Georgia from 1966, the year when black power movement forces emerged and helped to elect Maynard H. Jackson as Atlanta's mayor to the 1996 Centennial Olympiad. Also, this study is …
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Tayeb Salih: Culture, History, Memory
Each episode, especially the long narratives, is a comment on the period in the life of the Arab nation during which it was written. Salih's main narrator is constantly engaged in recollection, reorganization, and interpretation of the past. What he remembers and what he forgets, what he …
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Machini Kubwa. Group Dancing, Politics, and Modernity in Umatengo, Tanzania
… practice. Challenging standing notions of static African culture, through an investigation of genre change this work shows the dynamic nature of rural musical life. It also investigates the complex relationship between local political action, local music, and the national stage. Finally, through …
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Mapping the River in Black and White: Trajectories of Race in the Niger Bend, Northern Mali
"This dissertation explores how local ideas about racial difference developed in the Niger Bend region of Northern Mali in West Africa. Local prejudices based on skin color and physical characteristics existed in Northern Mali long before the arrival of Europeans. Local intellectuals writing in …
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Contesting Whiteness: Race, Nationalism and British Empire Exhibitions Between the Wars
This study examines how various actors used the British Empire exhibitions of the interwar period to contest the privileges of whiteness found throughout the empire, demonstrating that imperial race relations were profoundly situational, even when focused on the maintenance of privilege. It …
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Education and the Formation of the Modern Ethiopian State, 1896--1974
This work highlights crucial developments in Ethiopian education such as the role of the Italian occupation in promoting an enhanced state-forming process and educational developments, the views of the main political actors to modern schooling, the role the Board of Education played in controlling …
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Creoles, Indian Immigrants and the Restructuring of Society and Economy in Mauritius, 1767-1885
During the nineteenth century Mauritian society and economy experienced a series of profound changes. The inclusion of the former French colony into the British Empire in 1814 led to a major restructuring of the colony's economy. The abolition in 1825 of the preferential tariff on West Indian sugar …
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Of disciples and sultans: Power, authority and society in the nineteenth century Mauritanian Gebla
This dissertation examines processes of political and cultural transformation in the Gebla, the region of southwest Mauritania that lies along the right bank of the Senegal river. Its focus is the nineteenth century, a time of political upheaval, economic change and imperialism in the Senegal …
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Self, Other, and Jump Rope Community: The Triumphs of African American Women
… Thought as a theoretical framework and Oral History as research methodology, the lives of four young African American women are explored as they leave their culturally insular surroundings, Jump Rope Communities, to seek access to the codes of power and registers of language in all-White, …
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The Expansion of Higher Education for Kenyans, With Special Emphasis on Women, From 1959--1969
… Kenyan politician, garnered 81 scholarships for Africans to attend over 40 colleges and universities in the U.S. (the largest to ever study at one time). In 1960, he received over 320 more to an additional 60 higher U.S. educational institutions. The 1959 and 1960 Airlifts, as they are called, …
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The European Presence in Africa: A Historical and Literary Study (Britain, France)
Literature devoted to the European experience in Africa has contributed both to justify colonialism and to undermine its tenets and presuppositions.
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Fanga: The Bamana in the middle Niger, 1830-1910
This study is about the history of the people identified as the Bamana. There are three major focal points of this study which are important to the historiography of West Africa and of political hegemony. First, this history is approached from the Bamana point of view. In addition, the Bamana Fanga …
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Land tenure and agriculture in Sayyoo-Afillo, Western Wallaga, Ethiopia, 1880-1974
This dissertation outlines the agrarian history of the Oromo from their sixteenth century migration to the twentieth century. Using linguistic evidence the study argues that in the pre-sixteenth century period the pastoral and the agricultural Oromo had an interdependent economy and a unified …
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The role of women in national development in Liberia, 1800-1900
… on the West Coast of Africa for resettlement of African-Americans. About seven thousand women from this group went through a long period of interaction with the indigenous African female population that inhabited the area before settler arrival. The study investigates the interaction processes of …
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The Dawning of the Black New South: A Geo-Political, Social, and Cultural History of Black Atlanta, Georgia, 1966-1996
… seeks to provide an intraracial narrative history of African American politics and class tensions in Atlanta, Georgia from 1966, the year when black power movement forces emerged and helped to elect Maynard H. Jackson as Atlanta’s mayor to the 1996 Centennial Olympiad. Also, this study is …
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The impact of industrial agrarian policies on soils: experiences of small-scale farmers in the rural Eastern Cape
After the end of legislated apartheid, the South African government changed old policies that had been driven by segregation against the black majority. Black small-scale farmers in rural areas were encouraged to join commercial agriculture to capitalise on state subsidies and support. …
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Building the Colonial Border Imaginary: German Colonialism, Race, and Space in East Africa, 1884-1895
The dissertation explores the intellectual history of the interconnection of European and African ideas about race and space in 19th-century European imperialism. I examine German colonial geographies of East Africa, meaning not only cartography, but the new discipline of human geography, which …
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Contradiction, conflict and convergence of class and nation in black South African politics, 1925-1985
As the history of South Africa has been a history of race relations, involving, as it did, the domination of blacks by whites, nationalism, the reaction to this domination, occupies a special position in the history of the black struggle. Yet the history of national liberation in South Africa …
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