... 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] ... when women's diseases were still shrouded in mystery, getting the maximum amount of work from [slave] women of childbearing age while remaining confident that no damage was done to her reproductive organs was a guessing game that few white...

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

... 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). Intersectional politi...

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

... 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 the problem with Lincoln's beliefs on interracial societies with his sociopolitical and moral issues. At the same time it did gain more acceptance for abolition because the main argument was that African Americans could not be integrated into ... white society. As a result the Whigs used Re-Colonization to compromise between expansion of slavery and abolition of it with extensive measures like the creation of Lib...

• Word Count: 2007
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• Grade Level: Graduate

... justifies her use of the term "white supremacy" as opposed to "racist" when describing the institutionalized oppression based on "race," stating, "-white supremacy" is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining ... the broad view of history, established by enslaved Africans, free Africans, and Native Americans, helped to combat the Eurocentric stereotypes internalized by Native and African Americans. In attempting to include whites in such a coalition, it ... by the exercising of white supremacy, as well as necessary for the r...

• Word Count: 608
• Approx Pages: 2
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... against non-White minorities occurred in the past, reverse discrimination should not be implemented against the White majority - a majority which had nothing to do with the discrimination of the past -- as a means of undoing past injustices and narrowing racial gaps. Proponents of affirmative action policies, on the other hand, would probably respond to the notion that affirmative action is unfair to ... of affirmative action would find appropriate is not whether affirmative action is unfair to White people, but rather whether social disadvantage is a legitimate personal qualification to...

• Word Count: 1008
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... linked to the days of slavery in North America, where black slaves maintained their rooted music through love and desire for freedom, would occur over time a phenomenon beyond the music itself that would revolutionize not only the black and white society, but also the whole world and that fact was: the beginning of Jazz in the town of New Orleans, its spread, but above ... , harmonically, Louis Armstrong always supported his classic way of playing the instruments as he used to play in his hometown, the fact that allowed its dynamic rhythms and his fantastic vocal sound became popula...

• Word Count: 1036
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... , 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 significantly affect the African-American community with the same degree of fervor they accord race specific issues. He encourages the rejection of group specific political mobilization promoted by those pessimistic of ... requires quite unusually powerful incentives. Often there is a sudden violent elan, but the bourgeoisie need only wait passively and the dissimilar elements of the working class fall apart again." ...

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