... comprehensive book to be written about enslaved African American women is 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 illustrated by enslaved women's compromised ability to run away, where breastfeeding and general concern for her o...

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... seen as a catalyst for the events which followed. In both riots, gender and intersectional politics were both evident in the nature of the riots and in the discourse and language employed by rioters and the media. The process of gendering occurs when males and females are constructed as masculine and feminine through social norms and discourse. In the case of the August riots in London, a gendering ... 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...

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... Christopher, 1994, 65).This isolation of manual labor was a major concern since at that time big capital was already faced with chronic labor shortages and issues on profitability. These concerns by capital would quickly be answered by the basic structuring of these homelands and how they would operate to the benefit of a white South Africa. Bantustans quickly became the biggest source of labor within South ... case of South Africa the consumer base that could help sustain growth in the South African economy could not afford the output created in white South Africa and that was your blac...

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... . 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 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 ... 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 reinforce an...

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... . 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 toward altering their disadvantaged status both as African Americans ... 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. Th...

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... 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 multiracial coalition building. He believes that the individual is the ... , the second part of the book is devoted to an examination of potential remedies. The author exhorts black leaders to expand their vision and address race neutral issues that si...

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