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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"black power"”.
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Black power the shamantic associations of the raven and the crow.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-07, page: . Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1982.
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You Can’t Have Black Power without Green Power:The Black Economic Union
Alongside the call for “Black Power,” which became prominent in the late 1960s, numerous African American scholars and activists also promoted “Green Power;” the belief that Blacks needed to become involved in the economic infrastructure of America in order to improve …
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Subjugated Territory: The New Afrikan Independence Movement and the Space of Black Power
In this dissertation, I study the black revolutionary nationalist geography of the New Afrikan Independence Movement (NAIM) and the anti-racist space of Black Power. I adapt social theorist Henri Lefebvre’s concept of representational space to show how New Afrikan revolutionary nationalism …
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Soul power: the Black church and the Black Power Movement in Cairo, Illinois, 1969-74
… Movement has emphasized the centrality of the Black church, popular and scholarly accounts of Black Power portray a movement marked by a profound de-Christianization. Soul Power upends this prevailing narrative, arguing that the Black church played a sustained and pivotal role in the Black …
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The International Rise of Afro-Brazilian Modernism in the Age of African Decolonization and Black Power
… competing artistic representations of Brazilian blackness emerged from 1966 to 1988. The first began in 1966 when the Brazilian government positioned itself as a leading diplomatic partner for newly independent African nations by showcasing black Brazilian art in West Africa. Through exhibitions, …
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The Making of the Classic Period of the Long Black Power Movement in Los Angeles, California
<p>It is often believed that the Black Power Movement started after civil rights/black power activist Stokely Carmichael declared, “We want Black Power” in Greenwood, Mississippi on June 16, 1966 and ended in the 1970s. Similar to the Civil Rights Movement the Black Power Movement is often examined …
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Founded by Chance/sustained by Courage: Black Power, Class, and Dependency in Brooklyn, Illinois, 1830-1915
This project reconstructs and analyzes the residues of the social and political history of African-Americans' attempt in BrookIyn, Illinois to translate self-government into a model of autonomous achievement. Brooklyn's history can be divided into four periods.
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Black Power on a City College campus: how Woodrow Wilson junior college became Kennedy-King College
The scholarly research and writings regarding Black students and student activism on community college campuses remain scarce and at the periphery of the mainstream narrative on student activism. This dissertation will examine one student organization, the Afro-American History Club (AAHC), from …
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Black Power in a "Lily-White" School: The Black Campus Movement at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota
… connected to the national phenomenon of “The Black Campus Movement,” (BCM) itself a submovement of the larger United States’ Black Power Movement of the mid-twentieth century.</p> <p>The historiography of the BCM has failed to examine more minor instances of the movement, instead focusing on …
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Uncovering hidden fronts of Africa’s liberation struggle: Black power, black consciousness, and South Africa’s armed struggle, 1967-1985
<p>Many scholars have argued the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM)’s principal contribution was as an intellectual/student movement, and its main shortcoming the limited degree of active political and military opposition it was able to offer the apartheid regime. My dissertation, ‘Uncovering …
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Voices of Black power: The impact of vocational education on the lives of African Americans in Seattle in the 1960s – 1970s
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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International Connection, Domestic Radicalization: The Connection Between East Asia and Black Radicals
… this thesis examines the ways that the Black Power movement, primarily in the 1960’s connected with East Asian countries.</p> <p>Differentiating between the Black Power and the Civil Rights groups, this thesis will show why and how the Black Power movement needed international allies …
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Impossible allies: SNCC, Black freedom, and the civil rights liberal alliance
On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary of Black Power and amidst a resurgence of national interest in African American grassroots political mobilizations under the Black Lives Matter umbrella, this dissertation argues for a reformulation of how we understand the history of the civil rights …
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Something Better for Our Children: Black Organizing in the Chicago Public Schools, 1963--1971
This study examines the critical role of Black organizing for Chicago school reform in the 1960s, both in the Civil Rights and Black Power eras. During the Civil Rights era, there were organized efforts to push for integration of public schools to insure equality. Because of Mayor Richard J. …
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Nonviolent Bodies and the Experience of Breakdown in the American Movement for Civil Rights
… toward the more self-protective tactic of black power.
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