... historical overview in which traditional and nontraditional political actions will be examined. The first debate is that throughout their existence of the American continent, African American women have been engaged in political activity, the nature of which has been determined by the legal and cultural circumstances they faced at the time. The second is that African American women's political activities have been directed ... of these traditional avenues in contemporary American politics. As enslaved African females they were the victims of dual oppression, one issuing from race and th...

• Word Count: 486
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate

... the Community of Slaves", by Angela Davis, discusses ideological origins of the black slave woman's characterization as aggressive and matriarchal by white scholars. Davis claims that although the black woman performed jobs that "expressed the socially conditioned inferiority of women" she was still exempt from designations of femininity that would have otherwise sheltered her from carrying out more arduous, "manly" tasks. Thus, in order ... to maximize the ... total labor accrued from a slave woman, she "had to be annulled as [a] woman, that is, as [a] woman in her historical stance of...

• Word Count: 1150
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... be accomplished. He believes the answer to lie in the formation of a national multiracial coalition. The first half of the book addresses what the author perceives to be obstacles to the formation of these multiracial coalitions. He stresses the need for a new political strategy wherein the concerns of the American population as a whole and its racial minority population are simultaneously addressed. In order for a progressive national multiracial coalition to flourish the idea of the "apartheid society" or ... America as "two nations" is unacceptable. For this reason an examination of ...

• Word Count: 1618
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... capital (who wanted lower wages by replacing expensive white workers with cheap black labor) but how capitalisms interests would override that of race in order to increase profitability . In contrast with Capitals interest of profit making the Apartheid government's goal was that of the creation of a "white" South Africa, a racially segregated society that vouched for separate development on both macro and interpersonal levels (Christopher, 1994 ... , 65). The National party's notion of separating race groups was helped by pre-apartheid policies called the native land acts of 1913 and fu...

• Word Count: 2088
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... to exercise "white supremacist control" over one another. Hooks views the emphasis of the struggle against "white supremacy" as helping to form coalitions among peoples of color as a catalyst of dismantling white supremacy, where peoples of color join together in support of that common cause. Early coalitions, generally disregarded in the broad view of history, established by enslaved Africans, free Africans, and Native Americans, ... Americans. In attempting to include whites in such a coalition, it would be necessary for whites to give up any privileges granted them by the exercising ...

• Word Count: 608
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... it demonstrates the complex inter-space between the simple dichotomy formed in the discourse on 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 Ferguson cases: namely, that between the forces of the establishment (representing order) and the force of the rioters (representing ... disorder). Intersectional politics entered into debates and media coverage o...

• Word Count: 1528
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate