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Showing 1 to 20 of 234 for “"abolition"”.
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Abolition as Obedience to the Higher Law
… times, but it remained the "root" idea of abolition. The concept of the higher law, by whatever name it was called, embraced at the minimum a complex of ideas. God, Creator of the universe, had established laws by which His creation was to be governed. These included the physical laws of …
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The Spring Street Church in the Age of Abolition
… an integrated congregation active in the local abolitionist movement. It is framed against the rapid economic and social changes taking place within New York and the immediate neighborhood of the Eighth Ward during the early 19th century. Research focuses on religious antislavery during the …
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Perfectly White: Light-Skinned Slaves and the Abolition Movement 1835 - 1865
This project looks at American abolitionists use of light-skinned slaves to prove to Northerners slavery was an abomination. This project is also a study of the social constructions of race and the meanings of skin color in Northern and Southern American societies. This research draws mostly upon …
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You May Start the Conversation Now: Two Exercises in Collaboration Towards Abolition
… Now: Two Exercises in Collaboration Towards Abolition is a portfolio of two screen-based collaborations between Kriss Li and Amber Kim, a prisoner in Washington State. The first piece, Abolition Film Society: Flipbook Cinema is a multi-media installation composed of a two-channel silent …
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Pedagogies of Abolition: A Phenomenological Exploration of Radical Study in Black Trans Communities
… exploration of how pedagogies of abolition manifests in the everyday lives of Black trans folks. I define the phenomenon pedagogies of abolition as the process of teaching/learning an abolitionist praxis (Q. Alexander, 2022; Dyke et al., 2018; Love, 2019; Meiners, 2011; Rodriguez, …
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The Time of Liberation: Angela Davis's Prison Abolition and Giorgio Agamben's Coming Community
… approach to advancing her call for prison abolition by way of Giorgio Agamben’s radical adjustments to traditional discourses about ontology in his work <em>The Coming Community. </em>Agamben’s rendering of ontology in terms of impotentiality and indifference, when put in dialogue with …
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The implications of the abolition of influx control legislation in the Western Cape
… the social processes set in motion with its abolition in the spheres of employment and urbanisation and argues that the way in which influx control has been defined is central to any analysis concerned with its abolition. In this regard, influx control has been viewed in two senses: a narrow …
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A survey of teachers' attitudes towards corporal punishment after the abolition of corporal punishment
… Act of 1996 heralded the start of the complete abolition of corporal punishment within all South African schools. The object of this investigation was to explore teachers' attitudes towards the abolition of corporal punishment and the factors that would contribute towards their attitude. The …
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The Afro-British Slave Narrative: The Rhetoric of Freedom in the Kairos of Abolition
… argues that the development of the British abolition movement was based on the abolitionists' perception that their actions were kairotic; they attempted to shape their own kairos by taking temporal events and reinterpreting them to construct a kairotic process that led to a perceived …
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Black Mosaic: The Assimilation and Marginalization of Afro -Peruvians in Post -Abolition Peru, 1854--1930
… of assimilation and marginalization in post-abolition Peru. My central argument is that Afro-Peruvians were important actors in the nation and identity-building building projects of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Peru in spite of their subaltern status. Methodologically, it views …
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Genealogies of Resistance to Incarceration: Abolition Politics within Deinstitutionalization and Anti-Prison Activism in the U.S.
<p>"Genealogies of resistance to incarceration: Abolition politics within de-institutionalization and anti- prison activism in the U.S." looks at two main sites in which abolition of "total institutions" is enacted. The first site is activism around penal and prison abolition. The second site is …
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C. S. Lewis and the Premodern Rhetorical Tradition: The Abolition of Man as Rhetoric and Philosophy of Education
… begins with the following question: How does The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) function as a rhetoric and philosophy of education to open up meaningful alternatives to modern education? Although Lewis originally composed and delivered the text as three lectures in response to the …
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Acting American in the Age of Abolition: Transatlantic Black American Celebrity and the Rise of Yankee Theatre, 1787--1827
… I argue that the swift rise of the English abolitionist movement in conjunction with the successful career of the black American actor Ira Aldridge in England were essential catalysts to the rise of Yankee Theatre, which began a new era in American professional theatre that for the first …
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The effects of the abolition of corporal punishment on learner academic performance in selected public schools in the Vhembe District
… The aim of the study was to find out how the abolition of corporal punishment has affected the learner performance in the Vhembe District’s public schools. The study is positioned in the pragmatism paradigm. The mixed methods approach was used to investigate the effects of the abolition of …
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Cartographies of Black Diaspora and Foster Care Diaspora: Arguments Toward Abolition in the Aftermath of<em> Partus Sequitur Ventrem</em>
<p>In this dissertation I argue that global foster care and adoption systems should be abolished because they are trauma inducing and grief producing state apparatuses that cyclically act to destabilize Black and “Other” subaltern populations from one generation to the next. Global foster care and …
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