... 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...

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... 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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... better qualified. For example, let's say that School X has one hundred slots available for new applicants, but has reserved twenty of those slots only for minorities. The other eighty slots are open for the top eighty applicants without regard to race. Admission to School X does not depend on being in the top one hundred applicants, as it did before affirmative action ... ...

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... performer, to be later his vocalist condition which had a predominant impact on jazz singing.  On the other hand, The "Armstrong" phenomenon that we are going to be analyzing step by step, made ​​a huge repercussion for several reasons: not only was known as ''Ambassador Satch'', a cultural ambassador, under ... play in his hometown, the fact that allowed its dynamic rhythms and his fantastic vocal sound became popular with the great contribution of ''scat'' (where the voice starts dropping words into conventional syllables, reproducing the nuances of instrumental improvisation). In ...

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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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... hope that the expansion of slavery would be stopped, but would also adhere to the Constitution as the people have the right to property and opponents would argue that slaves are property. From 1837, when Lincoln first attacked slavery as bad politics, his thoughts evolved from thinking that slavery would eventually die out by compromising that southern states could have its ... . In his famous speech at Peoria, Illinois, he states: "But in ascertaining the number of the people, for this purpose five slaves are counted as being equal to three whites. The slaves do not vote; they are only ...

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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 ...

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