... 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 aforementioned excuses to reduce her workload. Moreover, infanticide, abortion and use of contraceptives were also forms of resistance among enslaved women. In his article "Resisting Reproduction", Liese M. ... capital and were so opposed to this function that they would take necessary measures to avoid conception. While it is nearly impossible to gauge whether the use of cotton root had a significant...

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... . 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 institutionalized racism often leads to a perception of a particular group, generally blacks, as "culturally deprived" and, although biologically equal, environmentally disadvantaged to ... somehow incapable of fully exploiting that biological equality. Noted African-American social psychologi...

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... 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 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 ... 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. Hoo...

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... of how Americans treated black people at that time. Louis made ​​his own way through the great musicians, being accepted at the end for his splendid creativity and humility as a person. On the other hand, this musician had a major impact in the wide view of television and participated in some shows on Broadway, and movies with musical roles from ''Pennies from Heaven'' in 1936 to ''Hello, ... cause much furor such as the composition ''West end Blues'', in which the final chorus by Armstrong was a masterpiece or of the song "Heebie Jeebies" which would be the first time where he beg...

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... , is hypocritically unjust for fairly obvious reasons. For one, why would any social policy aimed at providing equal treatment for all people regardless of race, differentiate between people on the basis of race, not to mention use that basis as a reason for treating them differently? Isn't it unfair to discriminate against anyone ... because discrimination 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 inju...

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... can be linked with the development of the question on whether the institution of slavery could grow with the nation or not. An interrelated issue that was linked to this issue was the issue of race. Examining Lincoln's attitude toward slavery also opens up political and cultural contentions at large in the American nation. Abraham Lincoln is often referred to as the Great Emancipator, yet, he ... did not publicly call for the ... at least, quite skeptically. However, his decisions would not only be based on his stance on race, but also his political stance on the law which intertwined...

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... the complex inter-space between the simple dichotomy formed in the discourse on the riots. Rather than slipping through this gap, in the case 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 London and the Ferguson cases: namely, that between the forces of the establishment (representing order) and the force of the ... Mark Duggan was. No one would say the unsayable, that the rioters were, I suspect on the whole, black' (Birbalsing...

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