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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"working class history"”.
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Community and Resistance in the Gateway City: Black National Consciousness, Working -Class Formation, and Social Movements in St. Louis, Missouri, 1941--1964
… case study, this dissertation argues that Black working-class formation and urban community-building propelled the major Black social movements between World War II and the early 1960s. The agendas emerging from these movements represented the racial and class interests of Black working people, …
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Classwork: Examining the Practices, Socialization, and Identities of Elementary School Teachers With Working Class Origins Through Their Oral Histories
This qualitative study examines how working class elementary school teachers experience identity, socialization, and practice. Oral history interviews were collected from six elementary school teachers, five female and one male with working class origins. Five were white and one was …
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History, identity and meaning : Cape Town's Coon Carnival in the 1960s and 1970s
… the general neglect of popular, "Coloured", working class history during the apartheid years. attempts to situate Cape Town's New Year Carnival within the international debate surrounding popular festival and identity. Following a broadly historical line of inquiry, this thesis straddles …
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Durham’s Self-Help And The Financialization Of The Bull City: Development Without Displacement? Or Displacement Without Development?
… housing, bringing in jobs, honoring a black working class history, supporting a better future for all, and cooperating and partnering with other institutions, their real estate development work leads to further inequality and dispossession of the poor, majority African-American and Latino …
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IZWI : the working conditions of African domestic workers in Cape Town in the 1980s
… in this sector of economy. Further, the African working class is in a peculiar position as a result of the strict enforcement of the Coloured Labour Preference Policy. This policy ensured the almost total exclusion of the African population from decent housing and education as well as employment. …
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Biblical hermeneutics and black theology in South Africa
… of struggle, especially in relation to the black working class struggle for iberation. Thus while it has been effective in fashioning a vision on liberation and providing a trenchant critique of white theology, it lacks the theoretical wherewithal to appropriate the Bible in a genuinely liberative …
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Sweating for democracy: working-class media and the struggle for 'hegemonic Jewishness,' 1919-1941
… economy of media, this dissertation examines the history of the Jewish working class counterpublic in the United States during the interwar period and its relationships to the broader public sphere. Between 1919 and 1941, organic intellectuals, such as B.C. Vladeck, J.B.S. Hardman, Fannia Cohn, …
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Escaping the Peripherality: Local Experiences of the US Military Presence in Northeast Thailand
… noise pollution, and a sense of racial and class superiority among military personnel in their interactions with the local populace. Nevertheless, Isan residents, already facing economic hardships and marginalization, endured these challenges while focusing on the financial benefits provided …