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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Malcolm X"”.
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Hollywood and History : Spike Lee's "Malcolm X"
… figures. This master's thesis uses Spike Lee's "Malcolm X" as a case study on historical filmmaking in Hollywood. This thesis focuses on Lee's recreation of the life of Malcolm X in relationship to historical accuracy in a big budget Hollywood film. In order to assess Lee's film within a proper …
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Ministers and martyrs : Malcolm X and Martin Luther King
Loved or despised, black ministers Malcolm X and Martin Luther King made their ways from birth in Baptist parsonages separated by half a continent to significant positions in mid-twentieth century America. Both men were painfully dramatizing black problems and poignantly articulating black-white …
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From Malcolm X to Malcolm X Liberation University: A Liberatory Philosophy of Education, Black Student Radicalism and Black Independent Educational Institution Building 1960--1973
This dissertation extends research on Malcolm X's socio-political philosophies of Black Nationalism as juxtaposed to that of educational progression for African Americans during the 'Black Power' era. The influence of Malcolm X provoked a call for 'African-centered schooling,' or institutions in …
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From Malcolm X to Malcolm X Liberation University: a liberatory philosophy of education, Black student radicalism and Black independent educational institution building 1960-1973
This dissertation extends research on Malcolm X’s socio-political philosophies of Black Nationalism as juxtaposed to that of educational progression for African Americans during the ‘Black Power’ era. The influence of Malcolm X provoked a call for ‘African-centered schooling,’ or institutions in …
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What's Missing: Dichotomization and Misconceptions of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are two of the most famous African-American activists in American history. The purpose of this study is to analyze the similarities and differences between how King and X approached and conceptualized questions of violence, politics, and religion, while …
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Five Malcolms, one archive : Columbia University's Malcolm X Project and a history of narrative co-optation
… 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 the twenty-first …
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The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks: Rereading Readers
… portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in composition textbook anthologies known as Readers, and sheds light on the ways Readers incorporate writers from African-American backgrounds. Through qualitative methods, I analyze how King and Malcolm X are anthologized in five popular …
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The Multifarious Jihads Of Malcolm X: From Malcolm Little To El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Quote: I Am All That I Have Been. El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, 1964
Malcolm X is one of the most iconoclastic persons in the African American political and intellectual traditions. The challenge in performing the research for this thesis, was to find a way to examine the life of Malcolm X that is different from the scholarly work published to date. I contemplated …
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The rhetoric of autobiography : analysis of autobiographical writings of militant civil-rights leaders.
… by Huey P. Newton, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. These autobiographies represent rhetorical messages designed to show these highly controversial leaders in a favorable light. The first chapter examines previous studies of autobiography, and proposes the methodology for the analysis of …
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Uplifting The Black Race - only males need apply : Black male militancy in Malcom X, Panther, Boyz n' the hood, and Get on the bus
This thesis examines Malcolm X, Panther, Boyz N' The Hood and Get On The Bus, and reveals that a deliberate attempt is made on the part of these narratives to construct a specific black identity in relation to black activism. These films position black males in a space which allows them to directly …
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Motherwit through the Lives of Alberta King, Berdis Baldwin, and Louise Little
… Baldwin, the mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin respectively. Through an in-depth exploration of their lives I seek to accomplish the following: 1) Provide a more accurate and holistic understanding of Black American revolutionary history. 2) Present and analyze the …
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Convulsed in desperate living : ghetto criminality and the economy of survival in the Harlem narratives of Chester Himes, Claude Brown and Louise Meriwether
… radicalism of African-American leaders such as Malcolm X, George Jackson and Eldridge Cleaver found expression in polemical writings that targeted, in their critique of established white power structures, the American judicial and penal system. Drawing their rhetorical power from the authors' …
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Meridian International Contemporary Culture Center Proposed Addition to Meridian International Center
… swath of land opposite Meridian Hill/Malcolm X Park. On the site are two neoclassical residences, both designed by John Russel Pope in the early 20th century. Initially designed as diplomatic residences, when Meridian International Center purchased the site in 1960, the houses were …
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The Political Power Of The Black Church
… centers within the black community. Dr. King and Malcolm X used churches as mobilization centers in their attempts to equip African Americans with political information and the frame of mind needed for political change. When combining the various roles of the black church, over time, the church …
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Custom and interactive environments in StarLogo Nova for computational modeling
StarLogo Nova is an agent-based simulation and game programming application geared towards classroom learning. In many cases, StarLogo Nova can be an effective computational modeling tool, allowing students to apply their knowledge and gain a greater understanding of scientific concepts. However, …
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The African-American Islamic Renaissance and the Rise of the Nation of Islam
… and its charismatic leaders, particularly Malcolm X, who became a popular minister for the group in the early 1950s. I argue, however, that the NOI was in fact not the most popular African-American Islamic group until at least 1955, and even as late as 1959 its official membership numbers …
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God's wrathful children : toward an ethic of vengeance, retribution, and renewal for a post-apartheid nation
… Muntzer, and the African-American activist Malcolm X, wrestled with the interplay between faith and vengeance. Case studies of these revolutionaries are dealt with in the second part of the thesis, and assistance is sought from their experiences in clarifying our own theological formulation. …
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On Africana/Islamica existential thought: Don Mattera and the question of transcendence
… public discourse where Mattera is read alongside Malcolm X, the perceived proclivity of black/Africana existential thought (and philosophy) to privilege a hermeneutic of struggle proved inadequate. The hypothesis presented in this study is that inasmuch as Mattera has been read through the lenses …
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The Making of the Classic Period of the Long Black Power Movement in Los Angeles, California
<p>It is often believed that the Black Power Movement started after civil rights/black power activist Stokely Carmichael declared, “We want Black Power” in Greenwood, Mississippi on June 16, 1966 and ended in the 1970s. Similar to the Civil Rights Movement the Black Power Movement is often examined …
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The art and tradition of Black autobiography in the eighteenth century
… on religious and political authors, such as Malcolm X, Norman Mailer, and Eldridge Cleaver; while at the same time other studies have emerged dealing with the confessional mode in writing. Recent poets, such as Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Allen Ginsberg, who give various versions of …