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From:The Western Journal of Black Studies (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGrowing up in the Bronx and Harlem, Tupac learned and excelled in the verbal dexterity and exuberances that characterize African American working class speech culture. At the same time Tupac also absorbed influences...
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From:History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past (Vol. 32, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPaul Robeson was the most famous alumnus in the history of Rutgers College, but by the 1960s, four decades after his graduation, his name had been effectively erased from the school's public memory, a victim of Cold War...
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From:Public InterestPeer-ReviewedIt's easy to take the liberal academic out of the ivory tower but not the ivory tower out of the liberal academic. Katherine S. Newman, an urban anthropologist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, spent two years...
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From:The Oral History Review (Vol. 28, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCOMING FROM INDIA: A RADIO DOCUMENTARY. Producers, Marty Goldensohn and David Steven Cohen. Narrator, Chitra Ragavan. Trenton, NJ: NJN Radio and the New Jersey Historical Commission, 1998. 1 audiotape (50 minutes)....
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From:African American Review (Vol. 31, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed'This Child's Gonna Live,' authored by Sarah E. Wright, champions women's rights for freedom from sexual discrimination. The novel portrayed how a Black couple joined their efforts fighting for justice in a world...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThere is a tension between existentialism and determinism in the short stories in Richard Wright's 'Uncle Tom's Children.' Critics have remarked about the assertion of free will in the protagonists of the 'Native Son'...
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From:ARIEL (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: In an oft-cited passage in his 1974 monograph Contradictory Omens, Edward Kamau Brathwaite declares that white creoles have forfeited their claim to the spiritual life of the Caribbean. Whether intended or...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 60, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn this essay, I challenge Elaine H. Kim's suggestion that the best way for Korean Americans to resist American capitalism in the late twentieth century is to resist American racism; I also contest her argument that...
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From:Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 43, Issue 1)ABSTRACT Millions of children are victims of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation each year. Governments have responded with a range of measures, focusing primarily on seeking to prosecute perpetrators of...
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From:Journal of American Ethnic History (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedRacialised Barriers presents a well-organized comparison of the experiences of black peoples in the United States and England in the 1980s. This outstanding book outlines a methodological model for cross-national work...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 53, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction It's an ugly place. Even with subtle hints of spring in the atmosphere and the early-morning sun highlighting houses in the distance across the Hudson, there's something thick and rancid in the aura of...
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From:The Chronicle of Philanthropy (Vol. 30, Issue 4)AMERICA'S FOUNDATIONS have poured billions of dollars into the fight against climate change. What do they have to show for their money? Big environmental grant makers--Hewlett, MacArthur, Moore, Packard, and the...
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From:Educational Foundations (Vol. 22, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedSince the institution of slavery, education has represented "the practice of freedom" (hooks, 1994) for African Americans in the United States. The educational accomplishments of countless members of the Black community...
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From:The Mississippi Quarterly (Vol. 52, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThey are like us, I said. Do you think, in the first place, that such men could see anything of themselves and each other except the shadows which the fire casts upon the wall of the cave in front of them? How could...
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From:Monthly Review (Vol. 54, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe following three articles by Chicano/a writers depict the left within that movement in the Southwest during the years 1965-1975. The first article is an overview of the movement by Jorge Mariscal. Arnoldo Garcia...
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From:Journal of Social History (Vol. 41, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPrologue: The Presence of the Past in the Present There was very little fanfare or media attention paid to a ceremony on the afternoon of August 30, 1997, despite the fact that the event was seventy-four years in the...
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From:College Literature (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay offers a wide-ranging survey of the uneven and plural militarization of US war culture and everyday life during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. It argues that the cultural authority and...
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From:The Western Journal of Black Studies (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay analyzes why the American dream is failing African-Americans on three levels: increasing acts of racial violence, continuing withdrawal from liberal policies by middle-class White Americans, and new forms of...
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From:The Comparatist (Vol. 36) Peer-ReviewedCritics such as Marian Galik have stressed the importance of drawing literary parallels between literatures either of the same or different epochs, and sometimes traditionally and spatially very distant from each other...
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From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 8, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedI. Bernard Malamud's fifth and most recent novel, The Tenants, is vigorously alive. The dialogue and pace are brisk and racy; fact and fantasy combine with magical effect; the action mounts to a frantic climax. And...