... terms, as well as in certain figures of media attention such as Pauline Pearce, a 45-year-old woman who stood up to rioters and thereby earned the media soubriquet the Heroine of Hackney. The opposition of female, matriarchal and maternal peacekeeping with masculine, youthful ... the riots. Rather than slipping through this gap, in the case of London and Ferguson such intersectional figures often became highly important to the events and the discourse which surrounded them. This kind of discourse demonstrated the central opposition in both the London and the ... rioter. Thus Lewis (2011...

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... status both as African Americans and as women. Third is the observation that, historically, African American women have escalated their political activity progressively, moving from a predominance of nontraditional activity to a predominance of traditional activity, and have emerged as prime users of these traditional avenues in contemporary American politics. As enslaved African females they were the victims of dual oppression, ... one issuing from race and the other from sex. Subjected to the slave status ascribed to their African male kin, they were further victimized by a body of hos...

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... I will study trends in the modern historiographical trajectory of this once scholarly and socially peripheral demographic. Initial literature on enslaved black women analyzes stereotypes constructed of African women brought to the new world. Published in 1972, "Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves", by Angela Davis, discusses ideological origins of the ... In a 2002 essay titled "The Pleasures of Resistance", scholar Stephanie Camp examines the transcendence of confinement slaves enjoyed during clandestine and illegal parties. Here, slaves were able to "take p...

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... understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures While it is important that individuals work to transform their consciousness, striving to be antiracist, it is important for us to remember that the struggle to end white supremacy is a struggle to change a system, a structure For our efforts to be truly effective, individual struggle to change consciousness must be fundamentally linked to collective effort to transform those structures ... build coalitions and create change, one must confront their own personal pains - this begins the he...

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... Kenneth B. Clark, in his book Dark Ghetto, comments on the negative effects seductive cultural deprivation theories exert on institutions. Of the American educational institution he writes: "To what extent are the contemporary social deprivation theories merely substitution notions of environmental immutability fatalism for earlier notions of biologically determined educational unmodifiability."(p 17) Although the author shares Mr ... . Clark's position and is aware of the dangers presented by institutionalized cultural racism, he does not believe it to be an insurmountable obstacle to m...

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... (Christopher, 1994, 65).The apartheid government would further strengthen this act by making black individuals in South Africa citizens of their ethnically designated homelands and therefore foreigners to white South Africa to further instigate racist policies . Homelands would initially spark concern by capitalist constituencies of agriculture and mining since it was believed that it would lock away labor into ... creating a cycle of temporary migrancy and Bantustan living (Wolpe,1972,436). This example showed how big capital used the racist institutions such as the Bantustans in their ...

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