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Showing 1 to 20 of 187 for “"Race relations"”.
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Race relations and city planning
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City Planning, 1947.
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Race Relations and the Law in Britain
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Athol Fugard and race relations : social dynamics under apartheid
… exploitative and repressive system that uses race to define relations of power and dependence to ensure the supremacy of its white citizens at the expense of non-whites. The major focus of this study will be to explore the impact of the apartheid policies on individual citizens and …
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White Blinders: A Study of Race Relations Theory in Britain, 1948–1988
… of scholars who developed the academic field of race relations in Britain from the 1940s into the 1980s. The research and methodology performed throughout this period was both innovative and problematic due to the approaches taken. Early scholars, such as Kenneth L. Little, Michael Banton, Sheila …
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Ante-Bellum Race Relations in Middle Tennessee: A Study of Wilson County
Probably no group in the United States, past or present, has received more attention than the slaves. During slavery's existence, its opponents issued tracts, papers, and books deploring its evils, while advocates offered similar pieces of printed matter as evidence of its worth and godliness. From …
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Flood of Change: the Vanport Flood and Race Relations in Portland, Oregon
This thesis examines race relations amid dramatic social changes caused by the migration of African Americans and other Southerners into Portland, Oregon during World War II. The migrants lived in a housing project named Vanport and an exploration behind Portlanders’ negative opinion of newcomers …
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Examining the Battle House: the greek revival, religion, race relations, and slavery justifications
… architecture’s regulative rule over slavery and race relations during the Antebellum period in Alabama. I demonstrate how Battle’s comprehensive plan acts as a visual symbol for concepts of race and morality as well as a hierarchical tool meant to dictate a more rigid sense of morality for the …
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Progress is Painful: Race Relations and Education in Chicago Before The Great Migration
This thesis is the first work focused directly on race relations and education in Chicago before the Great Migration. Proceeding from the dearth of sources covering black Chicago before the First World War era, I argue three main points. First, I disagree with historians who assert that because …
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A rhetorical history of race relations in the early Pentecostal movement, 1906-1916.
In the spring of 1906, a religious awakening, known as the Azusa Street Revival, began at a small prayer meeting in Los Angeles. With its emphasis on an experiential "baptism in the Holy Spirit" and the accompanying phenomenon of "speaking in tongues," this awakening launched the Pentecostal …
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Building Racial Tolerance Through Education: The Fisk University Race Relations Institute, 1944-1969
… Spurgeon Johnson combined his expertise in race relations with the American Missionary Association and the Julius Rosenwald Fund to form the Fisk University Race Relations Institute. Johnson hoped that the Institute would serve as a vehicle to address racially-based issues and promote civil …
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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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The Tijaniyya Tariqa in Cape Town: the "normalization" of race relations in South Africa
… Tariqa in Cape Town: "Normalization" of Race Relations in South Africa" focuses on the spread to South Africa of the Tijaniyya order (tariqa) prominent in West Africa. Theoretically, the study aims to work within the bounds of the social sciences, while at the same time problematizing …
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Recognizing Race: The Impact of Twentieth-Century Feminist Movements on Race Relations in West Germany
… women discussed these matters, they ignored the race issues that existed within their own society. As an increase in racial tension spread throughout West Germany in the 1980s, Black German women faced both gendered and racial discrimination. It was during this time that these women unified and …
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Phases of a Man Called 'Moon': Mayor Landrieu and Race Relations in New Orleans, 1960-1974
This study examines the political career of Maurice Edwin "Moon" Landrieu from his election to the Louisiana legislature in 1960 to the end of his first term as mayor of New Orleans in 1974. Landrieu was a white southern liberal who vigorously supported the agenda of the civil rights movement. He …
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Race relations in schools: The effects of competition and hierarchy on education, sports participation, and standardized test scores
I investigate the influence of race upon high school student's approaches to education, sports participation, and high school test scores. The theoretical perspective employed suggest that the effect of race upon these items will vary across schools. To explain this school level variation, I employ …
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A Cure for Original Sin? Southern Baptists and Race 1970-1999: A Study of a Race Relations Sunday Institutional Initiative
Race and Christianity are inseparably intertwined in the U.S., past and present. While there has been much scholarship at this intersection recently, this study focuses on less explored areas: the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)--the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, and the somewhat …
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An investigation into the effectiveness of organisational change management processes for implementing race equality post the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000
… as an organisational change process post the Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000. The research was carried out using a range of methods within an over-arching constructivist approach to grounded theory in a single site case study. The case study was the Royal College of Psychiatrists which …
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The Status of Race Relationship Courses in the American College Curriculum
… to what extent materials and courses in Race Relations form a part of the curriculum of the college. Race Relations is one of the newer courses on the college level. The subject matter of the course is basic to all of the racial instruction given throughout the college. The contents of …
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Honor and the Southern lady: The persitence of antebellum ideology among elite Southern women, 1820-1877
… legal, economic and social status, gender relations and race relations. Southern honor and slavery were the social and economic basis of the hierarchical order of antebellum Southern life affecting women's lives and worldview. The war forced elite women to assume a greater responsibility …
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Contesting Whiteness: Race, Nationalism and British Empire Exhibitions Between the Wars
… the empire, demonstrating that imperial race relations were profoundly situational, even when focused on the maintenance of privilege. It attempts to outline multiple racial and national identities and traces how these identities were articulated and maneuvered through a transnational …
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