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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"racial equality"”.
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Deeds, Not Words: African American Officers of World War I in the Battle for Racial Equality
This dissertation investigates the relatively untold story of the black officers of the Seventeenth Provisional Training Regiment, the first class of African Americans to receive officer training. In particular, this research examines the creation of the segregated Army officer training camp, these …
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The impact of the struggle for racial equality in the United States on British racialised relations from 1958 to 1968
… and the 1960s America faced a high level of racial tension. At the same time Britain imposed racially discriminatory immigration controls and passed legislation to outlaw racial discrimination. This thesis asks to what extent the events in the United States had an impact on the response of …
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“From the Synagogue to the Streets”: Outsider Rabbis, Mississippi, and the Civil Rights Movement
… rabbis known for their outspokenness regarding racial equality, Charles Mantinband of Hattiesburg and Perry Nussbaum of Jackson, is central to most southern Jewish studies. However, it neglects aspects of their background. Neither rabbi was a native Mississippian nor accepted as truly Southern …
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The Southern Baptist Convention and civil rights, 1954-1995
… theology was consistent with the advance of racial justice in the Southern Baptist Convention during the second half of the twentieth century. Historians have downplayed the role of conservative theology in the advancement of racial justice within the Southern Baptist Convention. Yet …
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Symbolic Racism 1986-2000: How and Why Racial Prejudice is Changing
Recent racial attitude research has focused on whites' increasing support for the principles of racial equality and lack of support for programs meant to bring about racial equality. As one explanation for this gap some researchers have hypothesized that a new form of symbolic racism with origins …
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STATECRAFT IN BLACK: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, PARTY POLITICS, AND THE RISE OF ETHNORACIAL INSTITUTIONS IN BRAZIL
… development of what I conceptualize as the ethnoracial state apparatus: the set of state institutions explicitly designed to shape racial and ethnic hierarchies. Focusing on Brazil, I employ a mixed-methods research design that combines statistical analysis with process-tracing case studies. The …
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Novel Speculations: Postrace Fictions in the 21st Century
… and rhetoric portray a nation moving toward racial equality while our statistics actually reveal the opposite. I argue that through the use of features such as futuristic orientation, racially unmarked characters, and the reconfiguration of racial groupings, postrace novels attempt to …
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What Is Care? The Birth and Identity Formation of an Alternative Public Middle School
… answers to questions of white privilege and racial equality. I further argue that the deficit model for understanding differential academic achievement, masked in deceptively ambiguous discourses of ""risk"" and ""alternative,"" is alive and well in the late nineties and will surely creep …
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Analysis of the Appointment of the First African American Ambassador to Apartheid-Era South Africa
… and transnational movements for human rights and racial equality. Among the domestic factors were the dynamics between the executive and legislative branches of government, interest groups, and activism. National and international politics and policies overlapped in four areas' "strategic …
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Exploring employment equity in leadership positions in the public sector: a case study of the Western Cape Education department
… of black professionals and the achievement of racial equality in the workplace remain significant obstacles, with under-representation persisting in many sectors (Coovadia, Jewkes, Barron, Sanders, and McIntyre, 2009). This study aimed to explore the role of Employment Equity in facilitating …
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Solving the ‘Mystery’ of Blackness through African American Detective Fiction: Pauline Hopkins’ and Rudolph Fisher’s Intervention in a White Tradition
… African American subjectivity and promote racial equality. Chapter 1 examines Fisher’s appropriation and disruption of the Holmesian tradition, particularly through his use of multiple detectives (5), a liminal character in N’gana Frimbo, masking, and doubling to question racial …
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The Invisibles of the Civil Rights Movement: Uncovering the Unseen Changemakers
… unknown figures acted to transform the racial equality of King’s dream into observable progress in their communities.</p>
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The myth of the Black male beast in postclassical American cinema: ‘Forging’ stereotypes and discovering Black masculinities
… through a humanist perception of Othello and the racial equality of Black men whose racial heritage and religion is respected. Four films: Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, 1971, A Soldier’s Story, 1984, Brother to Brother, 2004 and Collateral 2004, are studied and critiqued to contests the myth …
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Exploring Factors Influencing Employer Attitudes and Practices toward Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the New River Valley
… civil rights legislation in the 1960s to address racial inequities in income and employment, the executive branch and the courts have since retreated from efforts to pursue those policies aggressively. Meanwhile, anti-racism advocates, including the Montgomery County, Virginia based Dialogue on …
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'Let There Be One': P.D. East, The Petal Paper and the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi
… native to offer unqualified support to racial equality in the pages of a newspaper he owned during the earliest days of the Civil Rights Movement. Yet the few depictions of his life and work in The Petal Paper that exist, scholarly or otherwise, are brief and cursory, with the only …
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An Exploration of Worship Practices at an African American Church of Christ
… is deeply rooted in the American struggle for racial equality. Without a formal governing body, the Churches of Christ have survived throughout the majority of the 20th century without making an official stance on racial relations. Many leaders in the religious movement have claimed racial …
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Making urban progress legible : the role of territorial social indicators in the new economy
… of health, education, prosperity, income equality, gender equality, racial equality, and safety. I evaluate the index rankings with respect to population size, mean income, and change over time, and compare two cluster analyses of cities based on their social indicator scores and their …
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Everything in My Power: Harry S. Truman and the Fight Against Racial Discrimination
… dismantling of America's formalized systems of racial discrimination that positions the judiciary as the first branch of government to engage in this effort, identifies the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision as the beginning of the civil rights movement, or fails to recognize the …
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At Home in the World: Jawaharlal Nehru and Global Anti-Imperialism
… reformers concerned with working class and racial equality. A history of Nehru and his League connections underscores the significance of the international terrain in which Indian nationalists contested empire. In this project I argue that the making of Indian anti-colonial nationalism in …
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