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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"social justice movements"”.
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Understanding Distancing Behaviors in Social Justice Activism and Organizations: An Interpretive Descriptive Study
The United States has seen many social justice movements over time, seeking to improve conditions for various populations. While many of these movements have made significant changes and improvements over time, they have also been prone to various setbacks. While there are many factors that …
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A Bricolage Approach to Cultural Heritage Concerns: Brant, Ontario, Canada/Turtle Island
… institutions. Critical museology aligns with social justice movements, seeking to dismantle hierarchical systems and patriarchal control of resources and knowledge.
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Making White Guilt Fitting
… that white guilt is at variance with the aims of social justice movements. Taking on Baldwin's perspective on whiteness as a subjective choice, I develop an Identity-Based Account of white guilt describing the emotion as tracking culpability for a pernicious form of self-identification. My central …
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BLACK REMOVAL AND INVISIBILITY: AT THE INTERSECTIONS OF RACE AND CITIZENSHIP IN THE 21st CENTURY
… of Black immigrants been rendered marginal to social justice movements? What are the consequences of their marginalization for political representation? Lastly, how are Black immigrants responding and transforming the immigrants’ movement? I rely on qualitative methods, including participant …
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The Origin, Present, and Future of Regional Art Museums — Using the Woodmere Art Museum as a Case Study
… and they must deal with some of the same social, institutional, and ethical issues faced by larger public-facing institutions with a smaller pool of resources. The chapter “Present Challenges” looks at the need to develop sustainable management and financial structures and inclusive …
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Storytending is a Verb! Activating Participatory Feminist Media Praxis Through Womxn Who Rock: Making Scenes, Building Communities
… women and popular music in cultural scenes and social justice movements in the Americas and beyond. It encompasses three interwoven components: Teaching: project-based coursework at the graduate and undergraduate levels; Convening: an annual participant-driven unConference and film festival; …
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The Emotional Heschel
… about the place of American Jews in broader social justice movements. Heschel views humans as interconnected in a web of affects and emotions; through affects, humans are connected to God, history and memory, and one another. The Emotional Heschel isolates emotions in particular works as …
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Traditions and Transformations in the Work of Adál: Surrealism, <i>El sainete</i>, and Spanglish
… established photographic techniques as well as social justice movements of the 1960s. It is also informed by eighteenth and nineteenth century Puerto Rican literary and theater traditions such as the <em>sainete</em>. These traditions are at the root of Puerto Rican humor which is uniquely …
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“They shall be speaking forever” : performing revolution, riot, and the nation in the centenary commemorations of Ireland’s 1916 Rising
… The histories of labor, suffragist, and other social justice movements in Ireland are often sidelined or subsumed by the history of the nationalist movement; this dissertation investigates art that explores these fraught relationships. Throughout, I argue that the centenary commemorations …
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Bearing Il/liberal Secondary Witness: Un/disciplined Pedagogies of Response to Testimonial Narratives
… crisis posed by anticolonial and other social justice movements by accommodating and defusing the radical potential of difference; third, it also encompasses neoliberalism, as a form of biopower that differentially distributes vulnerability and protection to populations based on their …
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Poetry and Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa
… climate marked by government corruption, rising social inequality and widespread immiseration. I argue that both ‘poetry’ and ‘post-Apartheid’ are developing and contested concepts that acquire meaning in concrete circumstances and continue to take on fresh resonance in South Africa today. I …
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Of heart, mind & belonging: Reflections on anti-racist white identity development
… activists have actively participated within movements for racial justice in the United States, in both the pre-and post-civil rights era. Inspired by the voices, work and leadership of people of color, as well as through multiracial coalition building, anti-racist white activism has taken …