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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"W.E.B Du Bois"”.
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Rhetoric of Social Change, 1897-1907: Attitude as Incipient Action
… rhetoric of scholar and civic activist W.E.B. Du Bois to understand the role, motivations, influences, and shortcomings of his message upon a shifting current of black thought during the late ninetieth and early twentieth-century. In this study, I focus upon Du Bois' rhetorical aptitude in the …
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On Education and Social Power: The Educational Theories of W.E.B. Du Bois and Their Relevance to African -Centered Education
W.E.B. Du Bois offered an educational theory that sought to contextualize the role of schools and their relevance to social justice. Responding to the social-historical malaise of African American subordination, he proposed that schools could provide the impetus towards cultural, economic, and …
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School of the Elegiac
… of home and abroad. Quite fittingly, W.E.B. du Bois, who toward the end of his life acquired Ghanaian citizenship (he died and is buried in Ghana), serves as the major influence from which the connective (t)issues explored in the various sections are drawn. After the du Bois tradition of …
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A novel way to learn: black educational fiction from reconstruction to the Harlem renaissance
… of black fiction in tandem with black educational advancement from Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance. By reading education in the novels of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Sutton Griggs, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Jessie Redmon Fauset, I reveal an underexplored genealogy of black …
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In Search of Identity: Hafus in Japan
… Through the use of theories such as W.E.B. Du Bois’ concept of double consciousness and Kenneth Burke’s theory on symbols as terministic screens and identification, I analyze the controversy of Miss Japan 2015. Ultimately, this thesis attempts to understand what it means to be human through …
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Otherness and Assimilation: The Poetry of Double-consciousness in the Works of Charles Simic, Marilyn Chin, and Susan Atefat-Peckham
… is a native Yugoslavian (Serbia) who fled Europe during WWII. Chin arrived in the U.S. from Hong Kong as a child, and Atefat-Peckham is a first-generation American raised by Iranian parents. Each of these poets expresses some degree of assimilation and double-consciousness (as described by various …
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Confining the Demos: Incarceration in Democratic Political Thought
… in Plato, Alexis de Tocqueville, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Angela Y. Davis, I analyze the prison as both a site of democratic inequality and constitutive of democratic politics. This dissertation reconstructs the long history of incarceration in democratic political thought, showing how the …
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Escrita de si e do entrelugar em “Os pretos de pousaflores” e “Essa dama bate bué!”
Essa dissertação investiga duas obras da literatura contemporânea acerca da migração, Os pretos de Pousaflores (2023), de Aida Gomes, e Essa dama bate bué! (2021), de Yara Nakahanda Monteiro. A presente pesquisa busca analisar dois tópicos observados neste corpus: os procedimentos de escrita que …
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Infectious Agents: Race and Environment in Nineteenth-Century America
… immigration, Native American displacement, industrialization, westward expansion, and the rise of science - frustrated the quest for a unified American identity. While these events seem various, each one exacerbated a nation already bewildered by one central question. What is the traffic …
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Practices of Rooting & Spaces of Performative Becoming: An Exploration of British Caribbean Diasporic Identities through Dance
… and conversation as a form of knowledge production that both artist and researcher participate in. The thesis utilises embodied knowledge with information gained through the aforementioned processes and places them in critical dialogue within a framework of analysis that draws upon the work …
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Aida Overton Walker, “Actor Lady”: Unveiling Race and Gender in African American Performance Motifs, 1900-1912
… performances, including the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, David Krasner, Karen Sotiropoulos, Susan A. Glenn, Daphne Brooks and Jayna Brown. I will explore such critical texts alongside primary material, including the scripts and song sheets for In Dahomey: A Negro Musical …
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GEOGRAPHY HESITANT AND AFRICAN ASCENDANT: ADDICTION, DEBT, AND OTHER BIOSOCIAL BARRIERS TO (RE)MEMBERING—A CASE FOR BLACK SPACE AND AFRICANA GEOGRAPHICAL STUDIES
… with Africana Studies scholars (such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Franz Fanon, and Sylvia Wynter) —who are increasingly, if not frequently referenced by Black geographers; and also those scholars rarely, if ever appearing in geography manuscripts (including Cheikh Anta Diop, June Jordan, Oyèrónké Oyewùmí, …
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An Analysis of Socioeconomics and Education in American Literature: The Impact of Geography on Education
… unjust geographies have on socioeconomics and education through a closer examination of the landscape, domestic space, and social structure in each novel. This essay will apply Julia Kristeva’s abjection theory from Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection to the novels Child of God by Cormac …
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The lost revolution : capitalism, democracy and black citizenship in early twentieth-century America's biggest race conflicts
… democracy. Throughout the United States, W.E.B. Du Bois' "New Negroes," molded on the battlefields of Western Europe and the shop floors of the American mill, were determined to assert their claims to equal American citizenship. During the period of racial tumult following the end of World War I, …
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Whiteness and the Return of the "Black Body"
… work of Ralph Ellsion, Frederick Douglass, W.E.B Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and others. It is here that the presumption of the plasticity of the Black body, and the fact that it is a site of contested meanings, speaks to the historicity of the Black body's "being" as lived and meant within the …
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Transethnic America: nineteenth-century narratives of self, other, and nation
… and ethnic immigrant writers including W.E.B. Du Bois, Henry Adams, Henry James, and Mary Antin. For these unlikely interlocutors, whose social circles overlapped, duality becomes an indispensible trope that is nevertheless insufficient to describe personal and national identity.
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SAMO©... Pedro Kilkerry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, das pilhagens ou o modus da crítica
… critiques approach Black life and artistic production. Based on the “cases” of Pedro Kilkerry, a symbolist poet from Santo Antonio - Bahia, born at the end of the 19th century, “ignored” by Brazilian literary critics, and on the African American visual artist case, who had a “troubled life” in …
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Yellow over black: the precolonial and colonial history of race in Korea, 1883-1945
… to civilization as well as independence. First, during the precolonial period (1883-1910), Koreans constructed imagined racial inferiors, especially Blacks and American Indians, without their corporeal presence, and in doing so centrally shaped Korean racial identity from its beginning. By …
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W. E. B. Du Bois's “Talented Tenth”: A Pioneering Conception of Transformational Leadership
In 1903, W. E. B. Du Bois presented a radical leadership proposal for the transformation of African American life in the United States. His theoretical concept of the “Talented Tenth” emphasized the education and training in leadership of ten percent of the African-American population. This …
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