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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"enslavement"”.
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Bonded: Legacies of Captivity and Fugitivity from Enslavement to Incarceration in the Cape
The contemporary hyper-incarceration of ‘Coloured' South Africans is re-situated within the broader historical dialectics of racialisation and creolisation, traversing from colonial slavery to the modern prison regime. This study uses theorisations of marronage, fugitivity, and hauntology to posit …
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A is for Other: Arabs, Race and Enslavement on the Early Modern English Stage
… is racialised through of notions of power and enslavement aligned to early modern versions of this other. To this end, this dissertationhopes to test the anachronisms of the label Arab thus responding to a call made by early modern race scholars Kim Hall and Peter Erikson to bring historical …
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Abd al-Rahman Al-Kawakibi's Tabai` al-Istibdad wa Masari` al-Isti`bad (The Characteristics of Despotism and The Demises of Enslavement): A Translation and Introduction
… Characteristics of Despotism and the Demises of Enslavement). The fact that <italic>Tabai‘ al-Istibdad</italic> is one of the fewest and most daring works to explore the various effects despotism has had on the different aspects of sociopolitical Arab life makes it an important and …
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Dismantling Lost Cause fables : a content analysis examining narrative and visual representations of slavery in U.S. history textbooks.
… of the American Civil War. Misperceptions about enslavement and the social construction of race abound in modern classrooms due to vague coverage and Eurocentric perspectives in U.S. history textbooks. Thus, slavery is simultaneously decontextualized and normalized in narrative descriptions and …
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Nervous Kitchens: Critical Readings of Black Women's Food Practices in The Soul Food Imaginary
… are made) but also the ways that histories of enslavement, migration, and domesticity are disseminated through fictionalized representations of Black women in the kitchen offering comfort through food. The project explores how images of these kitchens adhere to and diverge from the imaginary's …
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Pre-Colonial African Paradigms and Applications to Black Nationalism
… worldview is distorted by a calamity such as enslavement, the victims of that calamity are left marginal within the worldview of the oppressive power. From the European Enslavement of Africans, or to use Marimba Ani’s term, the Maafa, arose the notion of European or White Supremacy. Such a …
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The myth of the Black male beast in postclassical American cinema: ‘Forging’ stereotypes and discovering Black masculinities
… to the White supremacist Ego that imagines re/enslavement by Islamic/Blacks and enslavement by African/Americans. I define the other as Othellophilia; whereby the Black character is inscribed through a humanist perception of Othello and the racial equality of Black men whose racial heritage and …
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The Janus-face of capitalist labor: gender, race, and work in early modernity
… the domesticating of white women, and the enslavement of peoples of color. These three tendencies, taken together, represent the invention of new forms of labor relations that constituted capitalism in its emergent centuries. As such, these three processes can be taken together as mutually …
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A Pacific Coast Ontology of Intensity and Process in the Writings of Alfredo Vanín-Romero, Antonio Preciado-Bedoya, and Gregorio Martínez
… and the experience of material and subjective enslavement in the Pacific Coast of South America, I explore how each author links these subjective and material conditions with the outcome of the connection (intensity) and disconnection (process) of desire machines that make possible the …
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Spatial solutions for healing in marginalized communities: A case study on the Gullah/Geechee people
The enslavement of Africans in the Americas speaks to a terrible cruelty and greed that tarnishes the polished image the United States has long promulgated to itself and the international community. This experience also speaks to the endurance and innovation of Black Americans and their enslaved …
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Difficult history : saving Yangon from colonial nostalgia
… the 'difficult' histories of colonialism and enslavement, linking together the global stories of oppression through colonialism and slavery to the global tourism and pressure for economic growth today. I focus on Yangon, Myanmar (Rangoon, Burma), which has the world's largest collection of …
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THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF SLAVERY: CONSUMER IDENTITY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION IN HACIENDA LA ESPERANZA, MANATÍ, PUERTO RICO
… focuses on the human experience during enslavement in nineteenth-century Puerto Rico, one of the last three localities to outlaw the institution of slavery in the Americas. It reviews the history of slavery and the plantation economy in the Caribbean and how the different European …
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Slavery and Empire in Iberian Scholastic Thought, c. 1539-1682
… it shows that the centuries-long debates about enslavement in the medieval Mediterranean shaped how early modern thinkers conceptualized the advance of European slavery into the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds. When pondering whether or not a human being could be enslaved, the single …
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Flooding as Remembering: A Trickster’s Guide to Fugitive Ecology, Revolutionary Recall, and Speculative Worldbuilding Beyond the Plantationocene
… through dispossession of land, capture into enslavement, and genocide. This process was intertwined with the un-worlding of the landscape’s agency, which was captured and enclosed into property by arresting waterways’ movements through constrictive engineering using coercive labor. In the Bas …
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Forgery for Freedom: Enslaved Literacy and Resistance in the British Caribbean
… literate enslaved navigation of their enslavement and resistance, and British colonial laws’ complicated relationship with enslaved education. Furthermore, it adds a new perspective on the enslaveds’ relationship with literacy to existing historiography on Black literacy education in …
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Aesthetic Pedagogy: Kierkegaard and Adorno on the Communication of Possibility
… and concrete in defiance of their would be enslavement to the general and abstract. The aesthetic principle is that which requires Kierkegaard's readers to become active participants in the formation of the experienced meaning of his texts. Adorno's approach facilitates a reading of …
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Echoes of the Future-Past: Slavery and Sonic Testimony in African American and Diasporic Literature 1845-Present
… Echoes marks how the West’s histories of enslavement come to bear upon its contemporary affective and institutional relations, which I argue are arbitrated through the production and reception of black sound(s). Echoes accounts for over 150 years of black sonic testimonial practice, …
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“'They was Things Past the Tellin’: A Reconsideration of Sexuality and Memory in the Ex-Slave Narratives of the Federal Writers’ Project"
… sexuality and reproduction to the experience of enslavement and the long-term effects of these struggles on the attitudes of slavery’s survivors.</p>
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Critical Exploration of the Neo-Slave Narrative in Selected Walker and Morrison Novels
… identify with history of African American enslavement. Walker and Morrison express through their works the many ways African American women lived in bondage during slavery. Their characters speak volumes to the mis-treatment of African Americans.</p> <p>Neo-Slave Narratives are contemporary …
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A historical and intersectional analysis of discrimination and relationship functioning among Black Americans
… social history as forced migrants subjected to enslavement. Discourse around racial disparities indicates that Black Americans are less likely to marry (Cherlin, 2010) and experience poorer health (Mays, Cochran, & Barnes, 2007). Notably, racial discrimination is a daily and chronic stressor …
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