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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"White people"”.
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We the "White" People: Race, Culture, and the Virginia Constitution of 1902
… in an effort to reestablish what they saw as whites' natural right to control government rule over blacks, the delegates to Virginia's Constitutional Convention of 1901-1902 declared the new constitution law that they felt reflected "the true opinion of the people of Virginia." This thesis …
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The challenges faced by the only black team playing 6-down touch rugby at In2Touch : "I just saw all these white people and just thought Wah...what is going to happeb to us!"
… Sport itself is not magic-wand through which people naturally find it possible to put behind them societal differences. Differences from greater society are mirrored in sport and this was evident from my data.
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The Unseen Queen
… race relations through two character's eyes: a white-coded queen and her black-coded serving girl/maid, in a world where Emarys' people have begun colonising parts of Xuxa's land. The crux of the novel is the curse that has been placed on Emarys by her uncle which they embark on a quest to …
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Whiteness as Experienced by People of Color: An Empirical Phenomenological Study
Racism against non-white people continues to be a significant problem as we enter the twenty-first century. While slavery and other objectionable racist practices may be in the past, subtle yet powerful racism remains. This study explores racism against non-white people in the present by examining …
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Plugging Into Movement Work: White Racial Justice Action in the Era of Colorblind Racism
… the practices and consciousness of eight white identified participants, born 1970 or later, who are actively engaged in racial justice action. Although the field of critical whiteness studies has expanded markedly over the past couple of decades, little has been written specifically about …
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Recognizing Whiteness: An Autoethnographic Examination of Whiteness in My Life
The purpose of this research was to examine whiteness not merely as an individual attribute but as an ideological and structural system that organizes everyday life and grants privilege to those perceived as white. Using a blend of critical and evocative autoethnography, I wrote stories about my …
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Revealing whiteness: how one group used social media to uncover and challenge white supremacy operating in municipal political online messages
… BC used social media to identify and challenge white supremacy in municipal online texts. Research studying social justice advocacy groups operating via social media has shown that to achieve profound change, information needs to reach traditional news outlets before attention from those in …
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Becoming with the dog in South Africa Reflections on family, memory, and human-animal relations in post-apartheid South Africa
Can the relationship White people have with the figure of the dog, in what currently exists as South Africa, be free of antiblackness? Following instances where I saw black women who worked as domestic workers walk dogs belonging to their White employers, I write these letters addressed to you, my …
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Ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa in Twentieth Century Montana
… history of Montana’s Metis, Cree and Chippewa people as “landless Indians” in a twentieth century context. Landlessness among the Metis, Cree and Chippewa became a defining aspect of their identity by the twentieth century that distinguished them from both Indian and white people in the state. …
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Ethnogenesis of Metis, Cree and Chippewa in Twentieth Century Montana
… history of Montana’s Metis, Cree and Chippewa people as “landless Indians” in a twentieth century context. Landlessness among the Metis, Cree and Chippewa became a defining aspect of their identity by the twentieth century that distinguished them from both Indian and white people in the state. …
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White Lies: A Critical Race Study of Power and Privilege
… study of racial privilege as experienced by White people who have struggled to become more racially aware and socially active in dismantling racism and White privilege. The primary conceptual framework for this study was Critical Race Theory with Transformative Learning theory and Racial …
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“We deem it entirely fitting": Civil War memory in Oklahoma
… 1907 to 1922 and incorporating the narratives of white, Black, and Indigenous people living in the state. A study of primary sources such as newspapers and meeting minutes, along with contextual investigation of secondary literature, reveals the formulation of distinct stories of Civil War memory. …
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White Clinicians’ Way of Being with Their Black Clients
… 2020), this dissertation sought to explore how white people who inherently hold racial bias according to critical whiteness theory (Olcon, Gilbert, & Pulliam, 2019), navigate this within their therapeutic work and relationships as clinicians with Black clients. Using the framework of clinician …
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Analyse thematique de : Ngemena de Paul Lomami Tchibamba
… according to race, meaning that, Black and White people were allocated compartments that were far from each other. In some instances segregation would seem to be circumvented by assimilation that is when a Black person changes his/her behavior and imitates White behavior. But Tchibamba shows …
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Restoration, Resistance, and Reconstruction: Liberty at Last in Clarke County, Virginia, 1865-1879
… out struggle to define how African Americans and whites would share the new social, political, and economic landscape. In Clarke County, Virginia, whites attempted to create political solidarity by demonizing blacks. Black and white voting patterns show how well the editors of the local newspaper, …
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The lived experience of Qallunaat teachers in Nunavut: a heuristic enquiry study
… qualitative studies have been done on the people living in the Arctic, none have documented the lived experience both in and out of the classroom of the Qallunaat (meaning white people from the south) who live there. The purpose of the current study was to study the lived experience of …
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1863 Virginia: A short story
… time in U.S. history, free and enslaved black people; slave-owning and poor white people; and assimilated and resistant native people co-existed. The story follows Indi, a Pamunkey woman, and Abram – a self-liberated and formerly enslaved African man from White House plantation. Due to her …
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Nick Fury, Will Smith, and Other Black Authority Figures Breaking the Racial Contract in Popular Films of 2000-2015
… Racial Contract (1997) suggests that only some people, specifically white people, agree to form a state in which their absolute privileges in the political, economic, and social arenas are guaranteed by virtue of being white. This theory was used to understand the role of black people in …
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Women in the Black Panthers: Building or Departing from Traditions of Activism in the Freedom Struggle
… African Americans were trulyfree and equal to white people. Included in my analysis are black women'ʹsexperiences of sexual abuse and rape, which was used to keep blacks in theirplace and enforce white supremacy, but which spurred activism. Many womenin the Black Panther Party were activists in …
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How WEIRD are the South African acute pain guidelines? An analysis of the 2015 South African acute pain guidelines
… non-industrialised, non-rich and non-white people in the context of formulating the South African Acute Pain Guidelines, 2015 as published by the South African Society of Anaesthesiologists (the extant protocol at the time of writing). Methods: An established, peer-reviewed and …
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