... forfeiting the communal land occupied by migrant workers should they not return to their homelands .Since many migrants had families living in these lands they where unknowingly forced to go back to the Bantustans in order to preserve their claim of land occupation therefore creating a cycle of temporary migrancy and ... to control the movements of slaves took a new form in the few years before apartheid and during apartheid. The governments justification for pass laws where various , Herbert Cooke a government spokesmen articulated that the pass system was for benefit of the native shoul...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... laborers. Additionally, their "monstrous" bodies suggested savagery, substantiating European conceptions of African inferiority to further legitimize African subjugation. The first 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 ... 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 offspring greatly limited...

• Word Count: 1150
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

... examples of the positive influence similarly constructed coalitions have exerted at the local level. Having identified the primary obstacles to multiracial coalition building, 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 ... in South Bronx Rising, that being the social and political power available to groups which show a willingness and ability to organize and mobilize independent of racial and ethnic differences. Where K...

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... their involvement in traditional political acts such as registering, voting, and holding office, but also those nontraditional activities in which they engaged long before gaining a ballot. Because African American women are simultaneously members of two groups that have suffered the nation's most blatant exclusion from the normal channels of access to civic life, African Americans and women, their political behavior has ... ...

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... "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 white supremacy, where peoples of color join together in support of that common cause. Early coalitions, generally disregarded in the broad view of history, established...

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... the one hand, and intersectional and gender politics on the other, is something which has been noted in the literature (White, 2007). Where there is mass civil protest such as was seen in London in 2011 and Ferguson in 2014, questions of race, class, gender and ... of models of femininity and masculinity which oppose social norms such as violence and peacekeeping. Feminist readings such as that of Brenner (2000) are further of use because they highlight the intersectionality of gendered processes, in which black women in particular become a doubly charged political grouping in ... to ...

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