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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"History, Black"”.
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The relationship between Christian education practices and lifestyle discipleship in African American churches
… by the members of those churches. The aspect of Black consciousness was also considered alongside the practices to examine what if any difference this makes in the relationship. The study detailed the research concern and posed five research questions to study the relationship. Discipleship was …
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"""I Love Myself When I Am Laughing"": Tracing the Origins of Black Folk Comedy in Zora Neale Hurston's Plays Before ""Mule Bone"
… could be considered to comprise the origins of black folk comedy. For evidence, this dissertation introduces three selected plays---Spears (1925), Color Struck (1926), and De Turkey and De Law (1930)---that Hurston wrote before and during her collaboration with Hughes on Mule Bone. The aim of …
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A Covert From Storm: Race, Rights and Community in Nineteenth-Century Rural Michigan
… political, and economic assertiveness of the Black Civil War veterans in Covert, and that the white Yankees and European immigrants in the township welcomed and encouraged this assertiveness. This equality between Blacks and whites did not result in people of African descent having to deny …
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The Discourse of Racial Violence: Chicago, 1914--1923
… that a similarly restrained and rational black elite could work with respectable whites to maintain order. African-American leaders had also identified ""hoodlums"" as responsible for the riot, yet also wanted to critique the false equality the ""hoodlum"" narrative suggested. Initially …
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"""Too Much Time for the Crime I Done"": Race, Ethnicity, and the Politics of Punishment in Illinois and South Carolina, 1865 to 1900"
… findings contribute directly to African-American history and immigration studies by exposing the importance of political representation to minority groups and the influence of society's perceptions concerning ""black criminality"" on late nineteenth-century criminal justice systems. Understanding …
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Law, Labor, and Land in the Postbellum Cotton South: The Peonage Cases in Oglethorpe County, Georgia, 1865--1940
… African Americans did succeed in rescuing some blacks from the immediate grips of landowners. Initiated by landowners, peonage was ended by outside social and economic forces. After World War I, the boll weevil devastated cotton agriculture in Oglethorpe County. In addition to the boll weevil, …
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Building Racial Tolerance Through Education: The Fisk University Race Relations Institute, 1944-1969
This study concerns Fisk University's efforts to address the racial tensions of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Inspired by the racial tensions of the 1940s, Fisk sociologist Charles Spurgeon Johnson combined his expertise in race relations with the American Missionary Association and the Julius Rosenwald …
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Founded by Chance/sustained by Courage: Black Power, Class, and Dependency in Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915
… the residues of the social and political history of African-Americans' attempt in BrookIyn, Illinois to translate self-government into a model of autonomous achievement. Brooklyn's history can be divided into four periods.
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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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From Greenfield to Warfield: A survey of African-American concert singers
My father, Henry L. Nettles, is the possessor of a deep, rich bass voice. If given the chance he would have dedicated his life to the world of song. To a certain extent he has. However, he never achieved the acclaim and just rewards a person with his talent truly deserves. To whom do you turn to …
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The Slave Economy of Nineteenth Century Bahia: Export Agriculture and Local Market in the Reconcavo, 1780-1860
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991.
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A social history of black culture in colonial North Carolina
… this study has attempted to provide a social history of black culture in colonial North Carolina against which it has sought to outline the aesthetic dimension of black life in that colony. The organization of the study--beginning with chapters on the historical background to the subject and …
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The Harlem Renaissance and The Negritude Movement: Literary Relations and Influences (New York City)
Historical circumstances indicate that literary relations between the writers of the Harlem Renaissance of those of the Negritude Movement are based upon thematic and stylistic similarities as well as mere literary analogies.
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After Uncle Tom: The domestic dialogue on slavery and race, 1852--1859
This study contributes to the reevaluation of sentimentalism, specifically examining the ways in which different authors appropriated sentimentalism to argue about slavery and race. It considers Mary Eastman's Aunt Phillis's Cabin (1852), Harriet Beecher Stowe's Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1853), …
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Mentoring and locus of control of African American and European American doctoral students in a midwestern public research university
This descriptive study used quantitative and qualitative methods to compare mentoring relationships and locus of control of U.S. born African American and European American doctoral students at a Midwestern, public, research university. The study also sought to determine students' preferences for …
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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 New Deal Era and Blacks: A Study of Black and White Race Thought, 1933--1945
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T23:20:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7212247.pdf: 14176088 bytes, checksum: e5f85468f0a989ba72caf34ef798d23e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1971
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An Analysis of the Instructional Leadership Role of the Jamaican Principal as It Is Affected by Local and External Education System Document Policies
This exploratory study was designed to analyze the effect of educational systems documents on the instructional leadership role of Jamaican principals. Literature on instructional leadership, dynamics of leadership theory, and effective schools, coupled with the writer's knowledge of Jamaican …
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Justice-Centered Mentorship in Science Teacher Education: Black Men Decolonizing Science Teaching
… and the science classroom became a part of a Black man novice teacher’s science identity while being engaged in JCM that I facilitated as an experienced Black man high school science teacher. JCM draws on culturally responsible mentorship and justice-centered science pedagogy providing a …
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Injustice sheltered: Race relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign-Urbana, 1945-1962
This is a case study of the history of race relations at the University of Illinois and Champaign Urbana from the World War II era to the early 1960s. It tells the story of racial injustice perpetuated within this town-and-gown community and how those who were disconcerted with it struggled, …
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