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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"racist society"”.
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Action to Awareness: Surfacing Dysconscious Racism through Focused Professional Development
… of teachers operating within an inherently racist society. Teachers struggle with many disadvantages from inadequate funding to lacking support structures. Yet these teachers continue to work hard to support their students. One external disadvantage these teachers may face and not even be …
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#BlackMamasMatter: The Significance of Motherhood and Mothering for Low-Income Black Single Mothers
… mothering, trying to raise Black children in a racist society, and navigating the neoliberal economic system. This dissertation examines how, in light of all this, such women perceive themselves as mothers and what they identify as the greatest influences on their ability to carry out their …
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Beyond Mourning: Afro-Pessimism in Contemporary African American Fiction
… life and black pain within the confines of a racist society to defend black subjects from the continued violence of systemic racism. Through a reading of three contemporary African American fiction texts, this thesis considers the implications of reading black life through its relationship to …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
… negotiation by transgressing the rituals of a society immersed in colonial dual thinking. They also create mechanisms to re-interpret their past and tradition in order to create an image of themselves that is not imposed by the status quo.</p> <p>In both novels, the protagonists have to undergo …
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Abjection in the novels of Marlene Van Niekerk
… the norms associated with a patriarchal and racist society in South Africa. Van Niekerk also undermines the norms that underpin such a society: religious indoctrination, gender oppression and Othering. By writing her novel Triomf (1999) in a demotic register, Van Niekerk furthermore questions …
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Pro-Black Prosody
… external violence inflicted by a systemically racist society. In other instances, the poems in this thesis are jazz poems, which is to say, poems that have been informed by jazz in both the subject matter and in rhythm. Over the years I have become a huge advocate of the utility of poetry in …
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A critical postmodern response to multiculturalism in popular culture
… the increasing ideological impetus of a “post-racist” society contradicts a spate of events that are symptomatic and constitutive of racial and ethnic essentialisms. Second, the logic of multiculturalism and antiracism has often been expressed in a language of race and identity rooted in a …
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Reading In-Between the Lines: Exploring the Experience of Cultivating Cultural Awareness with White Teacher Candidates in a Liberal Arts University in Georgia
… the researcher, participants, and ultimately in society. This form of inquiry allows researchers "to connect the practical with the theoretical, and the personal with the political, through passionate participation in, and critical reflection upon inquiry and life" (p. 3). Part of the challenge …
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Policy and practice in multicultural and anti-racist education : A case study of a multi-ethnic comprehensive school
… (L. E. A. ) policies on Multicutural and Anti-Racist Education. It consists of a detailed ethnographic case study of a multi-ethnic, inner-city comprehensive school which espoused a commitment to Multicultural and Anti- Racist Education, and concentrates on the school's efforts to put this …