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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Racial uplift"”.
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Reconfiguring racial uplift: church-sponsored African American rhetorical work in the early twentieth century
… Specifically, I claim that members’ uptake of racial uplift entailed a middle-class project—not an economic project, not one stemming from their finances, but a cultural one. Their fraught program of constructing middle-class subjectivities has comprised both distancing behaviors—rejection of …
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The Feminine Representation of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois in Langston Hughes' Not Without Laughter
… narrow framework of African American uplift ideology. Hughes implies Booker T. Washington's racial uplift ideology from Up From Slavery within Aunt Hager Williams. In addition, Hughes implies W.E.B. DuBois' racial uplift ideology from Souls of Black Folk within Tempy Siles. In both …
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Lifting Word by Word: Ideologies of Literacy, Education and Feminism in the Rhetoric of Two Nineteenth Century African -American Women
… of the ideal and philosophy of education as racial uplift. The distinct ideologies and philosophies can be traced and delineated through the lives and writings of these early black feminist teachers. Further, it can be argued that for black women, teaching was and is a political act.
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The Hollow Class: African-American Class-Passing and the Popular
… Foster’s work on class passing but stress racial intersections with identity performance. I rely on New Historicism and Critical Race Theory to substantiate my examination of the literature. I look at specific moments in black America in the latter 20th century as inspiring literary …
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We Are A New Race:' Booker T. Washington's Use Of African American Spirituals In The Creation Of A New Negro Image
… New Negro into his students. Washington hoped to uplift the African American race by challenging racial caricatures prominent in American society. Washington's New Negro was patterned after Washington's own personality and was a respectable, Christian, southern African-American. This study also …
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"Aboriginally yours": The Society of American Indians and United States citizenship, 1890--1924.
… in 1910. They came to know the political and racial power structure of the United States as it was shaped by two wars, the Spanish American War and World War I. The SAI pushed for assimilation with consent, a racial uplift created with Indian participation and with respect for Indians as human …
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Visions of Paradise: The Migration to Oakland and Community Development Efforts of African Americans, 1900-1940
… American migrants shaped their community through racial uplift, with women at the heart of these efforts. White Oakland residents challenged Black residents through overt intimidation tactics and the consolidation of political power. Black activists at all levels - local, state, and national - …
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Behind the Banner of Patriotism: The New Orleans Chapter of the American Red Cross and Auxiliary Branches 6 and 11 (1914-1917)
… Branches within the mostly female organization, racial barriers did not prohibit them from uniting for the cause of national relief. The American Red Cross differed from other forms of biracial Progressivism by the very nature of public relief work for a national charity. American Red Cross …
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We Must Teach Wisely and Lead Aright': Civic Literacy and Writing Pedagogy In Late Nineteenth Century American Women's Journalism
… hospital care for poor and homeless children, racial uplift, and Native American Indian rights; 2) inspire civic literacy among readers; and 3) enact rhetorical education and/or writing instruction. Black, Mossell, and La Flesche use journalism as a site of important pedagogical work by …
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We've Stayed Uncomfortable: a Phenomenological Study of Black Female Collegiate Choral Conductors in North America
… students and peers, and tasks associated with racial uplift. The findings of this study could provide collegiate music administrators and admissions personnel an in-depth understanding of the complexity of issues faced by Black females in collegiate choral music as both students and professors.
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An Exploratory Analysis of How Maya Angelou, Audre Lorde, and Patrisse Cullors Radicalized the Meaning and Practice of Self-Care
… their era, their actions were referred to as “racial uplift”. My dissertation will ask whether “racial uplift” is congruent with abolitionist self-care. I will argue that Black women historically, have been encouraged to be silent, and to embrace a subordinate role. Zora Neale Hurston in Their …
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That We May Exert Our Influence More Powerfully: Race, Politics and Identity in Ohio's Southeast Borderland, 1802-1865
… and regional political alliances to pursue racial uplift and to press for their right to citizenship. Using newspapers, government documents, court documents, I examine the strategies employed by Black activists, as well as the attitudes held by white Southeast Ohioans. This thesis …
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"Six Days Thou Shalt Labor": African-Americans in the Southern Textile industry, 1895-1929
… of Jim Crow laws; the development of racial uplift organizations; the growth of Southern industry; the rise of labor unions; Progressive Era social agendas; and the influence of communism. Newspaper articles, oral histories, census records, company newsletters, and writings of …
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Building Black Manhattan: Architecture, Art, and the Politics of Respectability, 1857–1914
… Manhattan, they articulated a strategy of racial uplift through deliberate spatial construction.</p> <p>As reform work was one of the very few arenas in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in which women had a significant public voice, the buildings constructed to facilitate …
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Ecology of the color line: race and nature in American literature, 1895-1941
… A hundred years later, ecological crises join racial crises as perhaps the emergent problems of the twenty-first century. In Du Boisian spirit, my project explores how the color line and what I call the ecological line—the line that runs between humans and their environment—intersect. “Ecology …
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Emergent identities: The African American common woman in United States literature, 1831--1903
… and American slave pasts, Reconstruction, and racial uplift rhetoric. I argue that placing the literary common woman in conversation with black women's labor history destabilizes the emphasis on the bourgeois, representational heroine by establishing a pattern in which the common woman resists …
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“Quality is everything” : rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement in interwar women’s literature of England, Ireland and the United States
… by comparing birth control and African-American racial uplift rhetoric. Crossing the Atlantic, the fourth chapter looks at the influence of the English birth control movement on Irish novelist Kate O’Brien’s 1931 Without My Cloak, a novel that challenges Catholic narratives as well as the …
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“Quality is everything” : rhetoric of the transatlantic birth control movement in interwar women’s literature of England, Ireland and the United States
… by comparing birth control and African-American racial uplift rhetoric. Crossing the Atlantic, the fourth chapter looks at the influence of the English birth control movement on Irish novelist Kate O’Brien’s 1931 Without My Cloak, a novel that challenges Catholic narratives as well as the …
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“Most of All, I Wanted My Life to Count for Something:” Toward Black Feminist Theorization in Histories of California Medicine and Medical Education, 1858 to 1942
… also theorized healthcare through the lens of racial uplift, community empowerment, and social justice. Their work refutes the white, male-dominated historiography that has traditionally framed medical education reform as a linear progression toward inclusivity. Ultimately, this study argues …