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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"race riots"”.
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Toward a Performative Elision of the Intelligible Public: Pussy Riot, Riot Grrrl, and Race Riots
Using Judith Butler’s theory of performative subversion, this thesis investigates moments where subaltern political engagement happens outside of decorous political channels. With a heavy focus on Dick Hebdige’s bricolage, the work argues that commodification works against such moments. …
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Twelve Days of Hell: A Study of Violence, Historical Memory, and Media Coverage of the York, Pennsylvania Race Riots, 1968-2003
Race riots have struck America’s cities large and small for more than a century, and the media have retold these brutal events for American audiences. The 1960s, in particular, endured years of violent rioting due to social and economic inequalities between whites and blacks, and many of these …
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Black and brown relations in south L.A.: A mis-education
"I examine race relations between African Americans and Latin@s in the context of Southern California. Both groups have been historically discriminated, and are now participating in activities that some may call “racist” towards one another. This thesis departs from the Southern California “race …
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The Democratic Kaleidoscope in the United States: Vanquishing Structural Racism in the U.S. Federal Government
… with the relationship between democracy and race in the United States federal government. To analyze this problem, I rely on archival research from the 1967-8 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (commonly known as the Kerner Commission, after chairperson Governor Otto Kerner) to …
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Sustaining development in Detroit
… disparate pieces of development that form the traces of the once great industrial city of Detroit. It focuses primarily on Fordism as a type of modernist urbanism in which a powerful socio-economic agenda manipulated the growth of the city to that of a horizontal decentralization, dependent on …
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Uphill All the Way: The Fortunes of Progressivism, 1919-1929
… contested political period - marked by strikes, race riots, agrarian unrest, cultural conflict, government scandals, and economic depression - than the popular imagination often recalls. While examining the trajectory of progressives during the Harding and Coolidge years, this study also inquires …
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The Afro-American and the Second World War
… In 1943 a number of cities were disrupted by race riots, the largest of which took place in Detroit. More sympathetic whites urged their countrymen to practice what they preached abroad in their own country, a message which was taken up by President Truman when he acted in the field of civil …
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Use of Federal Troops in Civil Disturbances 1892-1968
… from the Coeur 'd'Alene Idaho incident to the race riots of 1968 and many are well known to anyone familiar with American history. The major concern of the study was the examination of each incident as a backdrop to the role played by federal military forces in civil disturbance. To accomplish …
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The impact of the struggle for racial equality in the United States on British racialised relations from 1958 to 1968
… during these crucial years between the 1958 race riots to the Kenyan Asian crisis. The first part of the thesis examines the background to British perceptions about both the 'special relationship' with the United States and images of African Americans in the period prior to the years under …
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Dust and dreams : a regional history of mining and community in south east New South Wales 1850-1914
… little research or interest, the Lambing Flat race riots often being the only instance in which the New South Wales gold fields are specifically mentioned. Furthermore, mining history has tended to emphasise the unusual, dramatic, and colourful aspects of the gold rushes at the expense of an …
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Dust and dreams : a regional history of mining and community in south east New South Wales 1850-1914
… little research or interest, the Lambing Flat race riots often being the only instance in which the New South Wales gold fields are specifically mentioned. Furthermore, mining history has tended to emphasise the unusual, dramatic, and colourful aspects of the gold rushes at the expense of an …
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A Glance in their Direction: The New York City Press and their Coverage of African Americans during World War II
… segregation of the Armed Forces, and the riots of 1943. Through examining the white and black media’s perception of these events I hope to elucidate how the press wrote about the topic of race during the period and if there was any change in their reporting on race due to the war. Although …