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Showing 1 to 20 of 196 for “"White supremacy"”.
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Behind the Doors of White Supremacy
… and acts of violence and terrorism? The American white supremacy movements of the Ku Klux Klan and Christian Identity are deeply rooted in Protestant Christianity and are also responsible for some of the gravest acts of violence on American soil. The intersection between religious belief and …
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Identifying and addressing white supremacy in social work education
… and empirical approaches to identify and address white supremacy in social work education. Study 1 lays the theoretical foundation for this dissertation by proposing the incorporation of critical whiteness theory (CWT) in social work education. As a subject area, critical whiteness studies emerged …
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The Confrontation of White Supremacy: A Consciousness Raising Group Experience
This study investigated the responses of six white female high school teachers in a small, rural community in southern Georgia to discussions about and challenges to their belief systems concerning racial issues and the racial climate of their school. These women were part of a multi-session …
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Ideological parallels between Gamergate and white supremacy: a thematic content analysis
… ideological parallels with explicitly White Supremacist movements. Data gathered from a variety of Kotaku in Action threads were analyzed using thematic coding. The results of the analysis indicated a preoccupation with common elements of White Supremacist discourse regarding …
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Exploring racial battle fatigue and interrogating white supremacy in the academy
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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“Poor forsaken colored girls:” Rebecca Latimer Felton, white supremacy, and prison reform, 1865-1900
… that linked so-called "proper" womanhood to whiteness and marked black women as subhuman, impure, and unable to be reformed, and that this served to exclude black women from the designation of 'woman' and therefore from the Women's Prison Reform Movement. I also argue that overt acts of …
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"It's just a cross, don't shoot": white Supremacy and Christonormativity in a small midwestern town
… on the internet. Three conceptual frameworks, Whiteness, Christian hegemony, and spatiality were utilized in evaluating the data. Findings reveal a community that sits at the intersection of White and Christian privileges. So interconnected are these privileges that they create a system of …
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Critiquing the Soul of White Supremacy and the Spiritualities of Whiteness: Narrative and Everyday Praxis
<p>This dissertation argues that whiteness and the oppressive structures it creates are maintained, managed, and justified by the religio-cultural tools of white Christians in greater Fort Wayne, IN. This dissertation studies the relationship among the repertoires of white Christians, racism, and …
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Protecting the Self, Protecting White Supremacy: Exploring the Relationship Between Psychological Defense, Gender, and White Fragility
… may perpetuate the current system of straight White male hegemony. White fragility is one concept through which the internal operations of a relatively privileged group may be explored. White Fragility resembles psychological defense mechanisms (e.g., projection, denial) in its behavioral …
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Continuing inequity : the conveyance of white supremacy in the education policy speeches of President Barack Obama
… unknowingly continue practices and policies of white supremacy within educational policy and practice by constructing education in a neoliberal frame. With his promotion of school choice, quantifiable teacher quality, academic excellence, and the promotion of education as an economic imperative, …
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IN THE SOULS OF ALL OF US: MASCULINITY, WHITE SUPREMACY, AND THE DISCOURSE OF LYNCHING IN AMERICA
… a normative social discourse concerned with white supremacy, anti-blackness, and patriarchal control, it then returns to the modern day, examining how this discourse is present and continues to be perpetuated within modern American culture.
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White Faculty Members Resisting White Supremacy Culture in Service Learning and Community Engagement: A Critical Narrative Analysis
… study was to deconstruct how and to what extent white faculty members resisted upholding white supremacy culture (WSC; Okun, 1999) during a critical event (Mertova and Webster, 2019) in their service learning and community-engaged (SLCE) practice. There are many critiques of SLCE practices, …
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Beyond white defensiveness: White self doubt in a white teacher affinity group
This dissertation attempts to model how white educators can critically examine their attempts and missed attempts to dismantle racist policies and practices by looking inwards at themselves to deeply analyze what they are doing to help/hinder anti-racist efforts. It also considers how …
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Memorialising White Supremacy: The Politics of Statue Removal: A Comparative Case Study of the Rhodes Statue at the University of Cape Town and the Lee Statue in Charlottesville, Virginia
… disrupting prevailing hegemonic narratives of white supremacy, in both society and its symbolic landscape. The phenomena demonstrates that heterogeneous societies with pasts marred by segregation and racism are moving to reject and re-negotiate these histories and their symbols, a move that has …
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Amerikan dreams: Dialogues with white supremacists
The following is an ethnographic study of white supremacy. Using a cultural studies approach, I focus on ideology and how members of the openly white supremacist Army of Israel (AOI) practically accomplish aspects of their ideology on a daily basis. Further, I juxtapose the articulations of white …
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Nhetoric: Rhetorical power in cyberspace
The Alpha group is a faction of the white supremacy movement that has established a virtual presence in cyberspace. Rhetorical strategies of agitation are practiced by the Alpha group on the World Wide Web in an effort to encourage visiting avatars to join the white supremacy movement. This study …
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Honors College as Whitespace: An Institutional Ethnography
This dissertation brings together the theory of whitespace and institutional ethnography to examine how whiteness operates within collegiate honors education. Situated within sociological theories of whiteness, race in higher education, and honors education, the project addresses a significant gap: …
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Teacher Education For Racial Knowledge: Institutional And Pedagogical Challenges For Developing Racial Knowledge
… tensions that emerged for TEs who teach about White supremacy from within White supremacist institutions. Drawing primarily from Mills’ (1994, 1999, 2015) and Leonardo’s (2004) theoretical constructions of White supremacy, I proposed a framework for the logic of White supremacy and used this …
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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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Repressions and revisions: the afterlife of slavery in Southern literature
… texts demonstrate the varying processes by which white supremacy is enacted in the Jim Crow era. I argue in my first chapter that the plantation fictions of Thomas Nelson Page and Joel Chandler Harris commingle ideologies of antebellum paternalism and contemporary white supremacy to cast the …
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