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Hace 2 días · These events inspired his next two works, "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" (1849), in which he coined the term "Dismal Science" to describe political economy, and Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850). The illiberal content of these works sullied Carlyle's reputation for some progressives, while endearing him to those that shared his views.
Hace 4 días · And the trope of reconstruction that I wish to trace is the trope of the New Negro in Afro-American discourse between 1895 and 1925. ... You will find the pertinent texts with discussion question in "The Making of African American Identity, Vol. III, 1917-1968."
Hace 2 días · Using a variety of theoretical lenses, including intersectionality and systemic racism theory, Feinstein places racist sexual violence into its broader context, tracing the legacies of such violence in today’s behaviour and discourse.
Hace 5 días · And yet Trollope is forced to acknowledge that his position is weak. He describes an episode of a Black laborer knocking off work early and being abused by an overseer, saying he’ll starve. The laborer replies “No massa; no starve now; God send plenty yam.”. Trollope muses “And who can blame the black man?
Hace 5 días · In his 1944 classic “An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy,” the Swedish Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal cited the impact and influence of black-owned newspapers, which he ...
Hace 4 días · Negro women, historically, have carried the dual burden of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. They have not always carried it graciously but they have carried it effectively... In the course of their climb, Negro women have had to fight against the stereotypes of "female dominance" on the one hand and loose morals on the other hand, both growing out of the roles forced upon them during the slavery ...
Hace 4 días · Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant, was the leader of the largest black mass movement in the nation's history. His Universal Negro Improvement Association, which had chapters throughout the U.S., the Caribbean and Africa, promoted race pride, economic self-sufficiency in the black community, and pan-Africanism.
