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Transformative Black Feminism and the Struggle Against Gender Inequality in the Civil Rights Movement
Black women’s pursuit of social justice has always centered on women’s rights to vote, education, and personal freedom. Black feminism underwent radical changes as women struggled for rights as women and Black individuals. To fully understand Black women’s contribution to the Civil Rights Movement, we should focus on what events led to the radicalization of…
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The Impact of Anti-intellectualism on African American Social Movements
Understanding African Americans in America society The concept of Blackness as an identity, class, and object of degradation to its opposite whiteness, functions as an internal and external response to white supremacy. At America’s conception, the Black/African population shared one identity and class, while the ruling class of white Americans reveled in their newfound democracy.…
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Free Palestine: Recognizing oppression
How would you explain the popularity of this narrative that the oppressed have to ensure the safety of the oppressors? Placing the question of violence at the forefront almost inevitably serves to obscure the issues that are at the center of struggles for justice Angela Y. Davis, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the…
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Age of Information: Recognizing Oppression
We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others Will Rogers As technology has advanced over the past three decades both younger and older generations have developed a dependency on cellphone usage. As an important and vital factor of modern communication and community, we rely on our phones…
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Students vs University of Wisconsin-Madison: Mary Fadele
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now James Baldwin 1. How do you feel about Dr.LaVar J. Charleston (Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer statement? (https://news.wisc.edu/condemning-racism-and-hate-choosing-community-and-belonging/ ) *link to statement* Personally, I felt that his statement was not for…
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