... 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 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 ... ...

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... the similarities among all accounts. Such an approach would serve to help each group to understand their own struggles in a larger context, as well as enable them to commiserate with other groups regarding others" injustices. This way, as Hooks so eloquently puts it, we can " ensure that multicultural democracy will become a reality," (Hooks, 1995)....

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... syndicate across ethnic/racial dividesin pursuit of a common goal. For Wilson, the racial or ethnic group is more an abstract than an immutable reality. The individual acting in concert with other like-minded individuals is the overarching reality for Wilson. I share neither the pessimism of Katznelson nor the optimism of Wilson. Both Jonnes and Wilson have demonstrated examples of the effectiveness ... ...

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... 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 hostile public policy directed toward them as women. African American ... 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 emanc...

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... Where there is mass civil protest such as was seen in London in 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 ... category of ethnic minority and pro-civil order, or indeed as a white, British rioter. Thus Lewis (2011: online.) wrote that 'families and other local residents, including some from Tottenham's Hasidic Jewish community, also gathered to watch and jeer at police' during the riots in London. The a...

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