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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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Communicable Miscommunication
Bigotry’s birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings Bayard Rustin Houstonians influence social culture in a multitude of different ways especially our understanding of sex. In a city of hot girls and pimps, the artistry portrays safe sex…
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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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