... apartheid government's racist policies allowed the creation of a pool of unemployed cheap black labor by instituting various laws such as color bars and a highly vulnerable migrant labor brought forward by Bantustans. This relationship in turn allowed the apartheid government to have the capital backing to ... explain how the Apartheid regime imploded due to its functional relationship with capitalism that in turn became dysfunctional. Capitalisms alliance with the South African government is as old as the state itself. In 1922 big mining capital and the Smut lead regime aliened to sma...

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

... , 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 aggression and violence is one which the media in Britain employed in its coverage of Pauline Pearce. This gendering ... of the riots emphasised feminine domesticity – the protecting of homes and places of work – in the face of young male violence (Mainardi, ... force of the rioters (representing disorder). Intersec...

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

... titled Ar'n't I a Woman by Deborah White. In it White discusses the dual prejudice of racism and sexism that black women of the antebellum period were burdened with. Since women were distinctively valued by slaveholders for their reproductive capacities, childcare and childbearing were inevitable responsibilities of the the female slave. Thus, motherhood gravely circumscribed their lives. This was ... by enslaved women's compromised ability to run away, where breastfeeding and general concern for her offspring greatly limited a mother's mobility. However, motherhood did not mean that sla...

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

... be necessary for whites to give up any privileges granted them by the exercising of white supremacy, as well as necessary for the racially oppressed to "show the way" and "affirm or help in that endeavor" (Hooks, 1995). Hooks states: There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are ... 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 that reinfo...

• Word Count: 608
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... on an individual and group basis, systematically refused to carry unwanted children to term and helped others who were so inclined, became runaways whose acumen and skill were cited as unique and superior to those of males, organizers and operatives. The sued for freedom and in some states they won. During the civil war, African American slave women escaped to work with the Union Army ... as laundresses, cooks and scouts and in other capacities as well ... . The emancipation Proclamation and the constitutional amendments and federal troop occupation of ht southern states that followed, ...

• Word Count: 486
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... an obstacle to multiracial coalition building is essential. The author identifies two types of racism-biological racism and cultural racism. He states that hardly anyone today would endorse biological racism, that is, a categorical belief in the biological inferiority of African-Americans. Old, rejected theories of biological inferiority have been replaced, in many instances, by a form of ... cultural racism within American institutions. This exists when implicit racist assumptions, particularly cultural ones, infect the conduct, practices and arrangements of institutions. This type of i...

• Word Count: 1618
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Graduate