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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"civil rights era"”.
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He Thinks He's Down: White Appropriations of Black Masculinities in the Civil Rights Era, 1945-1979
… The dissertation demonstrates that during the civil rights era images of black men circulated widely in U.S. popular culture, in part because of the acceleration of the black freedom struggle. Media depictions of black men engaging in struggles for civil rights, integration, self-determination, …
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… While not a well-known figure in the Civil Rights Movement, this thesis contends Alexander dedicated her career to civil rights and challenging the status quo of the segregationist South.
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… While not a well-known figure in the Civil Rights Movement, this thesis contends Alexander dedicated her career to civil rights and challenging the status quo of the segregationist South.
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A comparative analysis of the experiences of African American students at Eastern Michigan University during the Civil Rights Era and in the 21st century: A historical case study
… examined links between Reconstruction and Civil Rights Era educational policies and practices and the impact of Eastern Michigan University’s (EMU) institutional policies and practices on black students. This historical case study delineated the experiences of black EMU students who …
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Something Better for Our Children: Black Organizing in the Chicago Public Schools, 1963--1971
… 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. Daley's control of Chicago and his support of Superintendent …
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African Americans' perspectives on racial solidarity
… were conducted with individuals from two generational cohorts: ages 18 to 30 (post-Civil Rights era) and ages 50 and older (Civil Rights era).</p> <p>This study describes a process by which racial solidarity appears to have diminished among some African Americans. This transition seems to …
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“I think we sounded black!”: space and community in Black drum and bugle corps
… three Black drum and bugle corps from the Civil Rights era of the nineteen-fifties and sixties: the Carter Cadets and the CMCC Warriors Drum and Bugle Corps from New York City, NY and the Washington VIPs from Washington, D.C. It uses historical and ethnographic methods to present a history …
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The Harrison High School Walkouts of 1968: Struggle for Equal Schools and Chinanismo in Chicago
… for urban school reform during the height of the civil rights era.
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"Not Free, Merely Licensed": The Black Middle Class As Political Language
… Emancipation period, has changed since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. This thesis attempts to examine this change in discourse.By examining the pre-civil rights era and the post-civil rights era, one can point to specific political language, such as the Moynihan Report, that begin to mark the …
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New Wine Calls for New Wineskins: Black Megachurch Approaches to Racial Inequality
The changing nature of racism in the post-Civil Rights period coincides with the decline in collective racial protest, or what some scholars consider the activist or prophetic wing, of black churches. As a result of the shift from the overt racism of the Civil Rights era to the hidden and often …
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"Our Generation Had Nothing to Do with Discrimination": White Southern Memory of Jim Crow and Civil Rights
… past, in this study I investigate how memory operates within the white racial frame, the dominant white-centric worldview, to uphold systemic racism and to maintain whites? collective and individual identities. Through a narrative analysis of original in-depth interviews conducted with 44 …
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Building Racial Tolerance Through Education: The Fisk University Race Relations Institute, 1944-1969
… to address racially-based issues and promote civil rights. This study shows that unlike the Southern grass-roots movements which educated and utilized the oppressed themselves to seek social changes, the Institute relied on sociological research, scholars, and educated leaders to stimulate …
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Native Lands in Enemy Territory: Indigenous and Asian American Veteran Erasure and Resistance in the Literature of War
… American writing. Their often-overlooked literature on war illuminates the unexpected social and political alliances between these communities as well as the various ways that military service and refugee status reshaped both. The novels that I explore here document these significant …
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The civil rights movement in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon"
… for his family history without addressing the Civil Rights era in which the main part of the narrative occurs. Commentary is needed on how the struggle for liberation of the black race as a whole during the Civil Rights Movement parallels the individual liberation that Milkman and other …
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Discursive Diversity Strategy: Signaling Theory and Implications for Firm Value
… business. Dating back to the pre-Civil Rights era, what scholars now call discursive strategy–the language and meaning that shape phenomena–has shaped the diversity landscape. Over the past 75 years, we have witnessed a pattern of strategic maneuvering of the discursive strategy …
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First Person Perspectives Of The Impact Of Segregation And The Civil Rights Movement On Southern White Racism
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s profoundly changed the lives of many young southern White citizens. Southern racism was a product of traditional indoctrination common in the culture of the Old South. During the generations after slavery to the Civil Rights Era, vulnerable White …
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Whither Color-Blind Love? A Foucauldian Discourse Analysis of Love in Black and White
… surrounding interracial marriage in the post-Civil Rights era, this study applies the key Foucauldian concepts of discourse, power, subjectivity, and critique to an interpretation of this text in relation to its sociohistorical context. Color-Blind Love emerges as the dominant discourse of the …
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Grassroots Impacts on the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Women Leaders’ Contributions to the Paradigm Shift in the Tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Its Affiliates
… that built grassroots movements during the civil rights era of the United States. These movements were produced by Christian women leaders, and they influenced a crucial transition in the leadership of the civil rights movement. Through their training and mobilizing tactics, women civil …
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Black in the Non-Black Imagination: How Anti-Black Ideology Shapes Non-Black Racial Discourse
… uniquely situated within the United States. Post-Civil Rights critical dialogues on race call for a move beyond the Black/white binary and the need to transcend dualistic racial paradigms. Though a typical critique of colorblind ideology implicates a social structure that oppresses all people of …
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