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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Racial Others"”.
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… to justify both slavery and colonization. The racial stereotypes established by these race scientists also permeate the literature of the nineteenth century. Into this world are born Frankenstein’s Creature, Bertha Mason, and Heathcliff, three characters who function as racial ‘Others’ in their …
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Education for Empire: Manual Labor, Civilization, and the Family in Nineteenth-Century American Missionary Education
… political sovereignty ahead of conversion, and others continued to engage in ""illicit"" sexual relations despite their conversion, missionaries adjusted their expectations concerning how quickly and how thoroughly racial others could be ""civilized."" This shift in expectation solidified in the …
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Interactions of diverse students in a South African university residence : the case of Tuks Village
… was to understand how students from different racial and ethnic backgrounds interpret their own experiences as they had to share their personal space with people who had previously been seen as the outgroup. The study was qualitative in nature and used a case study research design. …
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Unhuman Encounters in Early Modern Drama
… frightening and comic stage devils, simulated racial Others, uncanny echoes, and even the books central to humanist study. The media innovations of the theater thus enriched and complicated early modern thinking about the purported humanizing qualities of the literary arts.
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Rethinking Tennessee Williams' "Desperate" Women
… from and ideological relationships to ethnic and racial Others and people from lower socioeconomic classes, their motivations lose some of their critical abstraction and gain a new level of complexity.
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Adventuring Men and Changeable Women in Early Modern Drama
… man's self-identity, but in an added context of racial difference. Chapter 3 reads Shakespeare's Othello in comparison with the other three plays, suggesting that the main factor in Othello's failure to establish himself successfully in Venice, his Other's territory, is his inability to claim …
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“Automatic obedience, synthetic schizophrenia, mass-produced to order. That is the Russian dream, and America is not far behind” : Fascism as a Reaction to a Crisis of Masculinity in William S. Burroughs’s Queer
… him to engage in meaningful relationships with others. He is trapped in a vicious cycle of reaching out to others for intimacy which he so fiercely craves, and being rejected, further exacerbating his frustration in his identity and the ensuing need for control. This kind of identity crisis is …
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Moving the Nation: Multiculturalism, Race, Representation, and Emotional Belonging in Canada
… child from Uganda, a long-time as well as racialized and visually impaired journalist with CBC Radio (a daily site of Canadian nation-making that for too long neglected the stories of ethno-racial others), and a serious student of history, I explore what it means to live in a postcolonial …
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Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow and 1960s Critical Essays: Renarrativizing Western American Literature for the West and for America
… the past Wests, acknowledges past crimes against racial others and against western lands, promotes a sense of hope for a native western art, and raises America's consciousness of the personal, environmental, and cultural costs of adhering to the metanarratives of the culturally dominant mythic …
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Race and place : green collar jobs and the movement for economic democracy in Los Angeles and Cleveland
… the perspectives and experiences of "racial others" might enhance critical reflection and dialogic exchange in civil society- led economic planning projects as to fortify progressive coalitions and direct their policy visions towards the deepest problems hindering democratic society. …
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The ‘Failed’ Detectives: Failure as a Structure of Feeling in American Detective Fiction, 1914-1953
… existence: an increased tension against racial Others in Fisher’s case, and loss of communal bonding in Hammett’s. In common, both writers attempt to deal with the crisis by constructing a dialogic rationality by casing plural detectives as a substitute for the monologic one in the …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… rejected popular notions of blackness as a racial marker of African slavery with its implied negative qualities. Instead, their works convey a different idea about blackness as a pliable marker of cultural agency that not only constitutes a part of English culture, but is performed by people …
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Playing with Power: An Autoethnographic Study of "The Last of Us" as a Black Gamer
… where they can write and research about racial Others without being questioned about their loyalty to the White race. I use critical theory as a framework to dismantle the racial trauma produced by experiences with academic projects that employ the regressive dogmatism of identity …