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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"black politics"”.
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National Black Political Conventions in Black Politics, 1830-1976
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"Racially Charged": Negotiating Black Politics on the Superhero TV Adaptation, Black Lightning
This project takes Black Lightning as a case study of the representation of Black superheroes in comic book television adaptations. By focusing on the three main superheroes Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning; Anissa Pierce/Thunder/Black Bird; and Jennifer Pierce/Lightning, this project examines the …
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THE MYTH OF THE SLAVELESS SOCIETY: BLACK POLITICS AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF ANTISLAVERY IN MASSACHUSETTS, 1641-1783
… permitting the expansion of Indigenous and Black enslavement across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This narrative was, even at its creation, fatuous, illogical, and palpably erroneous. Nevertheless, it had a tangible impact on the shape of bondage and freedom in Massachusetts. …
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Afro-Canadian activism in the 1960s
… was one factor contributing to the new era of black politics in Canada. Increased immigration from the West Indies also encouraged the proliferation of Afro-Canadian organizations dedicated to challenging racial discrimination. Afro-Canadian activism, however, developed in a substantially …
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What's Missing: Dichotomization and Misconceptions of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
… and conceptualized questions of violence, politics, and religion, while challenging the simple dichotomization of their thought and work as they pertained to these themes. Pointing out flaws in how they have been commonly remembered in American history, this qualitative study thematically …
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Public Policy Preferences and Political Attitudes: Exploring the Generational Divide among African Americans
… to the next. Using data from the 1996 National Black Elections Study (NBES), I examine public policy preferences and political attitudes of African Americans. I use bivariate and multivariate analysis to show generational gaps in attitudes about issues related to major party performance. I draw …
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Prairie fires: urban rebellions as black working class politics in three Midwestern cities
… but also in altering the relationship between Blacks, urban communities, and the State as well as highlighting class fractures within Black politics. This interpretative lens validates the black urban rebellions not only as legitimate responses to oppression, but part of an American tradition …
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Living for the city : Drum magazine's journalism and the popular black press
… at both Drum's role in the birth of the popular black press and the magazine's complex conceptions of urban life. It argues that Drum's non-fiction promoted a cosmopolitan identity for its urban readers, in direct opposition to the efforts by the apartheid government to "retribralise" black urban …
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Race and local governance : theoretical reflections and examination of two case studies in the United Kingdom and South Africa: or #who said we weren't interested in justice, equality, democracy and freedom?'; emancipation in the ushering dusk of Black politics as White boys try to switch off the Enlightenment
As the sub-title suggests, and, as I start to write, this might not turn out to be an ordinary thesis. And who ever said that contingent agency was the sole preserve of the "posties". This introduction is intended to be a digressive statement of annoyance/anger, condensation of the research's core …
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Staging [in]visible subjects: Blackqueer bodies, social death and performance
Staging [In]visible Subjects: BlackQueer Bodies, Social Death and Performance is an examination of the ways in which death and violence operate within the lives of black/queer youth. Black/queer youth experience marginalization across several dimensions of difference (i.e. race, class, sexuality, …
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Black Workers and BME networks organising against racism in the NHS workplace
… differences and similarities of two forms of Black and minority ethnic self-organisation challenging racism in the NHS workplace. Based on case studies of two organisations – a local NHS BME Network and a local UNISON Black Self-Organised Group – the research explores the hypothesis that BME …
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The Gujaratis of Bolton: the leaders and the led
… thesis is a study of local rather than national black politics. The participation of Gujaratis, who comprise the largest ethnic minority community in Bolton, in local politics is constrained by their loyalty to Gujarati identities and by racism within political parties. The settlement patterns of …
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Electability Politics: How and Why Black Americans Vote in Primary Elections
<p>How do Black Americans make vote choice decisions in primary elections? This dissertation project answers this question by arguing that Black Americans are highly strategic voters and vote for the candidate that is perceived to be the most electable. I advance the argument that Black voters …
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The Permanence of Race: Governor Deval Patrick and the Deracialization Concept
… campaign for the unprecedented reelection of a black governor. This study finds that Governor Patrick used strategic faming and racial signifiers in his public discourse; Patrick symbolically affirmed his blackness and politically advocated issues, especially in education, sensitive to black and …
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No More "Sticking to Sports": Black Athlete Activism and Its Political Consequences
… to understand the political consequences of Black athlete activism. Despite the longstanding intersection of sports and politics, social-scientific inquiries into this symbiosis and its consequences for the political arena remain mostly absent. Most existing accounts of athlete activism, and …
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Racialized Reality: Crime News and Racial Stereotype Framing
… attitudes towards criminal justice reform and Black identity. Utilizing Framing Theory, this study focuses on whether negative stereotypes in crime news triggers racial prejudice and bias towards African Americans. Participants of this study will consist of current students at the University of …