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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"White power"”.
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White Power in Context: The Structural Correlates of White Power Support Events in the United States, 2012-2015
<p>Much of the prior research on white power groups focuses on very rare outcomes – criminal events, especially violent ones – without as much attention devoted to the more common or fundamental activities that often work to start the mobilization process for ethnocentric groups and the individuals …
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White Power and Profit in New England School Desegregation, 1964–1972
… schools in New England continued to exclude nonwhite children systematically. I argue that this began to change when desegregation became profitable for powerful white New Englanders. Starting with the nation’s most elite independent schools and later extending to public schools in New England’s …
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An Inhospitable Land: Anti-Italian Sentiment and Violence in Louisiana, 1891-1924
… of race relations between blacks and whites in Louisiana as well as in the South. Because of this ignorance, the Italians suffered social, political, and racial discrimination at the hands of the white power structure in Louisiana. This discrimination culminated with several violent …
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Life after hate : recovering from racism
… is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping white supremacists transition out of the extremist lifestyle and to helping those outside the supremacist community understand how these groups work. Founded by ex-supremacists, the group is one of the only organizations in the country dedicated to …
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Art, Anti-Blackness and the language of protest
… acknowledging Black struggles within the current White power structure. This thesis takes on a completely different positionality. Analysing post 1994 Black protests in South Africa, I argue that violent responses to creative Black protest interventions are not the work of misrecognition nor in …
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Narrowing the Margin: The Role of the Black Superhero
… For a long time these tales were formed by a white power fantasy, circulating in mainstream culture as over-exaggerated narrations. To give an example of white power fantasy, Dwayne McDuffie, a prolific writer in popular entertainment states:</p> <p>“…if I write, as I have many times, a story …
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Devouring the father: family and recuperation in Triomf and the Native Commissioner
… account for the largely unprecedented vigour of white writing in post- apartheid South Africa. Though there are a number of contributing socio-economic factors, it argues that there is an inherent ambivalence in many texts written by white South African authors. Texts that are generally …
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'Let There Be One': P.D. East, The Petal Paper and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
… East is a misunderstood figure. He was the sole white 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 …
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Identity Theft: HOAs and the Cultivation of Exceptional Whiteness
… (HOAD) was beginning to reveal itself as a powerful and calculated institution motivated by something beyond the espoused need for high property values or safety. Although the preponderant research insists that residents move to HOAD’s as a result of fear, I contend that they are motivated, …
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Convulsed in desperate living : ghetto criminality and the economy of survival in the Harlem narratives of Chester Himes, Claude Brown and Louise Meriwether
… that targeted, in their critique of established white power structures, the American judicial and penal system. Drawing their rhetorical power from the authors' direct experience of ghetto criminality, and from their encounters with the machinery of "criminal justice," the protest writings of …
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Sponsoring Educational Opportunity: Race, Racism, and Writing Instruction at the University of Illinois
… to preserve economic and/or political power and privilege. However, as a number of recent scholars suggest, much less is presently known about the means by which elites have employed literacy instruction to preserve and promote the power and privilege of white racism, particularly at …
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W. E. B. Du Bois's “Talented Tenth”: A Pioneering Conception of Transformational Leadership
… T. Washington's proposals to accommodate the white power structure through diminished educational and social expectations for African Americans. In contrast to Washington, Du Bois argued that justice and necessity required that blacks receive educational opportunities qualitatively equal to …
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The Voter ID: The New Black Codes
… located in the South-to limit the political power and social influence of African-Americans in the U.S. These laws came into existence during Reconstruction and transformed into the Jim Crow Laws, ushering in a new form of discrimination that sought to subjugate the African-American people …
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Mississippi Mau Mau : Medgar Evers and the black freedom struggle, 1952-1963
… and development of his approach to fighting white supremacy in Mississippi to his interpretation of the Mau Mau movement in British colonial Kenya. While Mississippi may have felt as though it was worlds apart from Kenya, Evers was profoundly influenced by the Mau Mau use of force and mass …
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For Alma Mater: Fighting for Change at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
… alumni who rebelled against the paternalistic White power structure that existed at their schools. At the core of this conflict, stood frustrated students and alumni petitioning their predominately White Boards of Trustees/administration to recognize their status as institutional stakeholders. …
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A review of vibration signal processing techniques for use in a real time condition monitoring system
… characterised by a Gaussian distribution and a white power spectral density. Once a bearing is damaged the nature of the vibration changes often with spikes or impulses present in the vibration signal. By detecting these impulses a measure of the condition of the bearing may be obtained. The …
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The accidental heritage: archaeology and identity in northern Cape York
… approach to one which addresses issues of the empowerment of indigenous (and other) people in terms of their heritage. It achieves this by tracing the development of my understanding of the contemporary cultures of northern Cape peoples through the implementation (and consequent frustrations) of …