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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"poor whites"”.
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Governing Poor Whites: Race, philanthropy and transnational governmentality between the United States and South Africa
Throughout the twentieth century so-called Poor Whites caused anxiety in countries where racial domination was crucial, such as South Africa, the colonies of European empire and the United States. The Poor Whites were troubling for a number of reasons, not least because they threatened white …
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At the Margins of the Plantation: Alternative Modernities and an Archaeology of the "Poor Whites" of Barbados
… an historical archaeological examination of the "poor whites" or "Redlegs" of Barbados. Excavations were undertaken from October 2012 to July 2013 in an abandoned tenantry, Below Cliff, on the east coast of the island, once inhabited by dozens of families locally referred to as the "poor whites" …
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A 'Demonstration Plot' for Equality: A Qualitative Analysis of Clarence Jordan and Koinonia Farm
… liberation and uplift for African Americans and poor whites in Sumter County, Georgia.
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'Savages','Animals' and 'Criminals':Capitalism, Racial Threat and the U.S Long war on Immigration
… dehumanizing labor necessary to capitalism. Non-whites, and eventually poor whites, are pushed to those places of dehumanizing labor within society, in order for the whole system to survive. Although the purposes this dehumanization serve might seem to be at odds with each other at times, the …
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Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies
… by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967, the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) represented a bold attempt to revitalize the black freedom struggle as a movement explicitly based on class, not race. Incorporating African Americans, ethnic Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, American Indians, and poor whites, …
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Women, welfare and the nurturing of Afrikaner nationalism : a social history of the Afrikaanse Christelike Vroue Vereniging, c.1870-1939
… The ACVV sought to fashion Afrikaans whites into 'Afrikaners' through philanthropic activity. At first, this was especially true of rural branches, but from the early 1920s, Cape Town's ACVV also responded to the growing influx of 'poor whites' by focusing specifically on social …
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One or Two Things I Know About Us: Narrative Strategies for Autoethnography, Self-Representation and Healing in Four Memoirs by Poor-white Women from the U.S. South
… examines autobiographical writings by formerly poor white Southern women, who are rarely considered as a group and are more typically studied with “rough South” male writers, which would suggest that few women have contributed their own gendered experience to discussions of class, race, and …
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The discovery and development of the Namaqualand Diamond Field, 1925-1950
… in regard to the preferred status of “poor whites” in the mining industry. In short, the thesis examines how the history of mining sustained the racial hierarchies of colonialism, segregation and apartheid, and the marginalisation of non-white labour. Today, the diamond diggings on the …
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The discovery and development of the Namaqualand Diamond Field, 1925-1950
… in regard to the preferred status of “poor whites” in the mining industry. In short, the thesis examines how the history of mining sustained the racial hierarchies of colonialism, segregation and apartheid, and the marginalisation of non-white labour. Today, the diamond diggings on the …