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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Racial Violence"”.
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The Discourse of Racial Violence: Chicago, 1914--1923
… whites, who largely did not participate in the violence, drew on these discourses because these narratives reinforced their own claims to power---their standing as the sole possessors of restraint and reason, in contrast to the ""hoodlums of both races"" responsible for riot violence. A racism …
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Policing racial violence in Boston : a case study of an innovative program
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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A Study of Intra-Racial Violence Among Black Males: A Matter of "Diss"Respect
… that the rationales for interpersonal violence surround four themes: (1) Self-defense; (2) trespassing on territory; (3) acting in the defense of third parties; and (4) threatening behavior. It was declared by the respondents that the following actions were found to be disrespectful: …
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Into "the Dead Zone" : racial violence and white supremacist genocide in Jim Crow Virginia, 1902-1951
… Exemplifying this perceived distaste for racial violence, Byrd signed the nation’s first state-wide anti-lynching law in 1928. Within the historiography of the state, the law is frequently used to stress Virginia’s milder form of segregation compared to other southern states. This …
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Destroying Blackness One Body At A Time: Examining The Mediated Representations Of Lynchings Past And Present
<p>This thesis explores the politics of racial violence in America. Lynchings have served as a means for controlling black communities since the end of the Civil War. For southerners, the model of the plantation economy had to be followed during industrialization in order to maintain social and …
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Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa
… on the dog-Human relationships as sites of racial violence. The core analytic framework and theory I employ to explore these extreme, mundane, and in-between forms of violence, is Afro-Pessimism.
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Fair Treatment? African-American Presence at International Expositions in the South, 1884 - 1902
… and the rise of Jim Crow, disfranchisement, and racial violence during this time period. This study examines the details of African-American presence and representation at each of these fairs and how the changing state of race relations in the South at the turn of the century influenced …
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How To Make Him Stop: Geographies of Ownership & Perpetration
… in shaping contemporary forms of gender-based violence (GBV) perpetration in the United States. Through contrapuntal analysis of landmark scholarship on domestic abuse perpetration, I argue that abusive men's tactics of surveillance, coercion, and entrapment both mirror and exploit the …
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Lessons in Black and White: The Racial and Gender Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow *South, 1887--1939
My final two chapters explore ritualistic racial violence as the extreme of racial and gender socialization. The attendance and participation in the mass mob lynchings of African Americans took white children outside of the daily experiences of racism. For white male youths, the community …
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More than just a game: the impact of sports on racial segregation in one southern town
… most of Lowndes County had a clear history of racial violence and bigotry. However, when the community was faced with mandated desegregation of the high school, instead of resorting to violence, the citizens focused on football. The outstanding success of African American football players and …
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Through the Heart of the City: Interstates and Black Geographies in Urban America
… contend that I-630 was constructed using the racialized language and tactics of urban renewal and was fundamental to improving Little Rock’s national reputation by purging the city's social memory and legacy of racial violence. Planning strategies elucidated the local, state, and federal …
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#JuccoStruggle: A Critical Examination into the Lived Experiences of Black Male Community College Athletes
… of BMSAs; as such, I assumed that the continued violence against Black people was a physical projection of a psychic and emotional web sustained by the othering of Blackness or anti-Blackness. This study was informed by the primary research question: How does anti-Blackness produce itself in …
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Policing the boundaries of whiteness : monsters made in the USA
… academics of color in my effort to mark out the racial violence of Whiteness embodied by the Klansman, the Night Doctor, and the White Monstrous Feminine.
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Both Sides of the Tracks: Louisville and Nashville Railroad's African -American Workers in Louisville, Kentucky, 1915--1945
… the African-American community's efforts to end racial inequality. Because Louisville and the L&NRR recognized their importance in these two contexts, Louisville's African-American L&NRR workers experienced a complex interplay of strategies by the city and company to maintain amenable race …
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Magic Mulatto: Barack Obama's Biracial Body and Race Performance
… the ways President Barack Obama navigates his biracial identity through race performances in his discourse. Born to a Kenyan father and European mother, Obama was in a unique position to speak on racial issues, especially since occurrences of racial violence began to debunk the myth of a …
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'Let There Be One': P.D. East, The Petal Paper and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
… native to offer unqualified support to racial equality in the pages of a newspaper he owned during the earliest days of the Civil Rights Movement. Yet the few depictions of his life and work in The Petal Paper that exist, scholarly or otherwise, are brief and cursory, with the only …
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The dead rise the dead and walk among the living: An examination of the haunting South, queerness, and grotesqueries in Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Local Color"
… work intends to delineate the ways in which the racial violence, inequality, and unrest surrounding the South’s past refuses to ever be fully a part of the past – rather images and ideas surrounding these horrors return at the least expected moment in unexpected guises to haunt and remind the …
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The Retreats of Reconstruction: Race, Leisure, and the Politics of Segregation at the New Jersey Shore, 1865--1920
… the political meanings of consumption and racial segregation in the public and commercial leisure spaces of the New Jersey shore during the Reconstruction era. Moving beyond issues of identity, racial violence, and labor disputes, I show how Jim Crow unfolded and operated in the post-Civil …
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The Cold War and decolonization in British Guiana: The Anglo-American intervention and Guianese nationalist politics
… volatile society that left the colony marred by racial violence. Additionally, Guianese autonomy was limited by Anglo-American Cold War imperatives in the Caribbean. The decolonization of British Guiana became a struggle, and eventually a compromise, between British and American officials, as …
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Proving Rape: Sex, Race, and Representation in Chicago Trials and Society, 1937--1969
… made"" accusation; a justification for white racial violence against African American men; an act difficult to complete if a woman truly resisted. This project makes known the strategies used to successfully prosecute rapes in mid-twentieth century Chicago. By demonstrating that women who did …
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