... for her offspring greatly limited a mother's mobility. However, motherhood did not mean that slave women were deprived of other strategies to resist their masters. As White points out, a woman's gender endowed her with the exclusive opportunity to feign illness or pregnancy, thereby evading desired productive quotas typically expected of her. "In an age when women's diseases were still shrouded ... could afford to lose." Because there were limited objective measures readily available to verify health complaints and claims of pregnancy, it was very common for a slave women to use the afor...

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... 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 institutionalized racism often leads to a perception of a particular group, generally blacks, as "culturally deprived" and, although biologically ... his inclusion in "City Trenches" of a quote by Engels, writing in 1893 why there was "No Large Socialist Party in America" as follows: "Then and more especially,...

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... a gradual extinction of constitution and not an immediate emancipation, which separated him from abolitionists, and explained why he was a part of the more moderate Whig Party. In his famous Cooper Union speech on February 27th, 1860, Lincoln expressed his agreement with the Founding Fathers that slavery is "an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and protected ... Henry Clay who devised the colonization idea. The Colonization Society supported the idea that Lincoln had, which was gradual emancipation, that slaveholders would be compensated for riding the problem of slavery and ...

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... his black supporters and criticized his way of settling on stage and off, accusing him of being an ''Uncle Tom'' (main character of the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin in which the story of a good slave is told that despite the many misfortunes that happen, he accepts his fate and its situation in relation to white people) and to not leading ... politics, was a bit judged by apparently used his prominence to White America to become himself in a freer figure during The Civil Rights Era of U.S. History. After that, the fame and the admiration for Louis Armstrong, was gro...

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... disparities along racial lines. As a result, minorities - African Americans in particular - have exclusively benefited from policies and programs aimed at narrowing this social gap between minorities and majorities. The policy of affirmative action in college admissions, and its relation to employment and narrowing social inequalities between minorities and majorities, however, is inherently unjust. In this paper, I will attempt ... to explain why affirmative action is not only unjust, but also a misguided policy which will reap results contrary to its ultimate goals. Affirmative action...

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... of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not involve force- (Hooks , 1995). She claims that "white supremacy" is a better phrase than "internalized racism" in describing the absorption by black people of negative attitudes typically held by white people about blackness. "White supremacy" is also useful when referring to how black people are able 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 w...

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... 2011 and Ferguson in 2014, questions of race, class, gender and other intersectional socio-political categories come to the fore. There is often an opposition between those who riot and those who oppose the rioters, between the establishment (represented by the government, the police) and those who protest against it. In London in 2011 thousands of people protested, rioted and ... 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 Lo...

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