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Spotts, K. "Black American History and Culture: Untold, Reframed, Stigmatized and Fetishized to the Point of Global Ethnocide." European Journal of Philosophy, Culture and Religion 7, no. 1 (April 19, 2023): 1–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.47672/ejpcr.1423.

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Purpose: A poetic work of fiction haunts the base of the Statue of Liberty. The act overshadowed the original tribute to the Civil War victory and the Emancipation Proclamation. Abraham Lincoln's praises of the Black American military fell silent. Eurocentrists shrouded centuries of genius and scaled-down Black American mastery. Sagas of barrier-breaking Olympians, military heroes, Wild West pioneers, and inventors ended as forgotten footnotes. Today, countries around the world fetishize Black American history and culture to the point of ethnocide. The real-time case study of Woni Spotts explores the phenomenon. Until ancient traditions evolve with authenticity, global cultures will wither and die. The presented research chronicles over half a millennium of archives. Lists with names, dates, and genealogies seal the Black American legacy in stone. Methodology: The presented research for case studies draws from archival data, dated events, news articles, and an interview with Woni Spotts. The case studies generated three lists. Fifty sports and competitions were dated and cataloged. The athletes were analyzed by a genealogist. Forty music and dance genres were cataloged by publishing or recording dates. The artists were analyzed by a genealogist. Copyright infringements were noted. Inventors were researched for U.S. patents. NASA astronauts and inventors were analyzed by a genealogist. Findings: The presented research showed centuries of untold, reframed, stigmatized, and fetishized Black American history and culture. In the case studies, foreigners of African descent (Africans, Caribbeans, Central Americans, and South Americans) practiced ethnocidal behavior in concert with European descendants. Prolific abolitionists, patriots, politicians, and inventors were written out of history. Superstar athletes were obstructed or outshined by fictional Recommendations: Case studies showed centuries of fragmented narratives created biases and distortions. Black Americans were written out of history, reframed as background characters, stigmatized with skewed statistics, and fetishized globally to the point of ethnocide. The presented research stands as a vital resource for preservationists. Music and dance genre architects were solidified by publishing and recording dates. Athletic events, inventions, and NASA scientists were recorded.
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Bunk, Brian D. "Harry Wills and the Image of the Black Boxer from Jack Johnson to Joe Louis." Journal of Sport History 39, no. 1 (April 1, 2012): 63–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.39.1.63.

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Abstract The African-American press created images of Harry Wills that were intended to restore the image of the black boxer after Jack Johnson and to use these positive representations as effective tools in the fight against inequality. Newspapers highlighted Wills’s moral character in contrast to Johnson’s questionable reputation. Articles, editorials, and cartoons presented Wills as a representative of all Americans regardless of race and appealed to notions of sportsmanship based on equal opportunity in support of the fighter’s efforts to gain a chance at the title. The representations also characterized Wills as a race man whose struggle against boxing’s color line was connected to the larger challenges facing all African Americans. The linking of a sports figure to the broader cause of civil rights would only intensify during the 1930s as figures such as Joe Louis became even more effective weapons in the fight against Jim Crow segregation.
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Essington, Amy. "Commodified and Criminalized: New Racism and African Americans in Contemporary Sports." Journal of Sport History 39, no. 1 (April 1, 2012): 182–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.39.1.182.

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Rahim, Raja Malikah. "“Our Life Out of the Dungeon”." Journal of Sport History 50, no. 3 (2023): 412–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21558450.50.3.08.

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Abstract “Our Life Out of the Dungeon” examines the life and career of Robert L. Vaughan, the legendary and longtime head basketball coach at Elizabeth City State University, an Historically Black University, and explores the racial and cultural politics of Black college basketball in the twentieth-century United States. Using oral history and Vaughan's words, this article moves Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Black college basketball to the forefront of African American history and sport history, providing a window onto the world of college basketball that existed on the other side of the color line and in the decades after segregation. African Americans at HBCUs revolutionized basketball and transformed the sport into a cultural staple that shaped Black people, communities, and institutions. Through Vaughan's words and experiences, we can understand the struggles and successes and the political and cultural language of Black college basketball within the context of what I call the “politics of Black athletic emancipation”—a Black athletic agenda that stood in opposition to racism and white supremacy and reverberated the ethos of self-determination and collective striving of African Americans who demanded the right to be free and the right to play basketball.
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Brooks, Scott N., and Dexter Blackman. "INTRODUCTION: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE HISTORY OF SPORT—NEW PERSPECTIVES." Journal of African American History 96, no. 4 (October 2011): 441–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.4.0441.

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Bebber, Brett. "Sports in African American Life: Essays on History and Culture." Journal of Sport History 48, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 209–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/21558450.48.2.13.

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Raley, J. Michael, and Lauren R. Rippy. ""We Have a Right to Live in This Country": Reverend Moses Broyles and the Struggle for Social Justice and Racial Equality in Nineteenth-Century Indiana." Indiana Magazine of History 120, no. 1 (March 2024): 32–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/imh.00002.

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ABSTRACT: Rev. Moses Broyles (1826–1882) ranks as a leading figure in Indiana's African American religious, political, racial, educational, and legal history. Born a slave in Maryland, he was sold as a child to John Broyles of Paducah, Kentucky, from whom he purchased his freedom in 1854. Thence he moved to Lancaster, Indiana, where he enrolled at the Eleutherian Institute. In 1857, he relocated to Indianapolis and joined the Second Baptist Church. Recognizing his oratorical skills and spiritual leadership, its members soon called Broyles as their pastor. As a bi-vocational minister, Rev. Broyles also taught at a private school for African American children and helped integrate Indianapolis High School. He was a fierce opponent of slavery who demanded equal rights and privileges for African Americans as U.S. citizens. Later, he served as a statewide leader in the Republican Party of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant even as he challenged Indiana's anti-Black laws.
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Wiggins, David K. "African American Sports Greats: A Biographical Dictionary." Sport History Review 27, no. 2 (November 1996): 209–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/shr.27.2.209.

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Smith, Maureen M. "The Strange Career of the Black Athlete: African Americans in Sport." Journal of Sport History 38, no. 1 (April 1, 2011): 174–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.38.1.174.

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Mangharam, Mukti Lakhi. "“Ubuntu Sports Inc.”: The Commodification of Culture in South African and American Sports." Safundi 12, no. 1 (January 2011): 27–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2011.533911.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African Americans – Sports – History"

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Hughes, Raymond Finley. "Desegregating the holy day : football, blacks and the Southeastern Conference /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487688507503898.

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Bennett, Robert Anthony III. "You Can’t Have Black Power without Green Power:The Black Economic Union." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365514328.

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Ryan, Mackenzie Anne. "An Analysis of National Football League Fandom and Its Promotion of Conservative Cultural Ideals About Race, Religion, and Gender." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1343359916.

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Humphrey, Ashley Renee. "Where's the Roda?: Understanding Capoeira Culture in an American Context." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1543574890650575.

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Bursuc, Vlad A. "Amateurism and Professionalism in the National Collegiate Athletic Association." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1374144535.

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Steward, Tyran Kai. "In the Shadow of Jim Crow: The Benching and Betrayal of Willis Ward." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374038170.

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Smith, Maureen Margaret. "Identity and citizenship : African American atheletes, sport, and the freedom struggles of the 1960s /." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488193272067809.

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Washington, Julius C. "Historic preservation, history, and the African American a discussion and framework for change /." Thesis, Atlanta, Georgia. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA252306.

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Thesis (Master of City Planning) Georgia Institute of Technology, March 1991.
"March 6, 1992." Description based on title screen as viewed on April 8, 2009. Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-126). Also available in print.
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Cosby, Bruce. "Technological politics and the political history of African-Americans." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1995. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/AAI9543185.

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This dissertation is a critical study of technopolitical issues in the history of African American people. Langdon Winner's theory of technopolitics was used to facilitate the analysis of large scale technologies and their compatibility with various political ends. I contextualized the central technopolitical issues within the major epochs of African American political history: the Atlantic slave trade, the African artisans of antebellum America, and the American Industrial Age. Throughout this study I have sought to correct negative stereotypes and to show how "technological gauges" were employed to belittle people of African descent. This research also has shown that the mainstream notion that Africans had no part in the history of technology is false. This study identifies and analyses specific technologies that played a major role in the political affairs of Africans and African Americans. Those technologies included nautical devices, fort construction, and automatic guns in Africa, and hoes, plows, tractors, cotton gins, and the mechanical cotton pickers in America. The findings of this study suggested that African Americans have been disengaged and victimized by western technologies. This dissertation proposes how to overcome the oppressive uses of technology.
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Vaughn, Curtis L. "Freedom Is Not Enough| African Americans in Antebellum Fairfax County." Thesis, George Mason University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3671770.

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Prior to the Civil War, the lives of free African Americans in Fairfax County, Virginia were both ordinary and extraordinary. Using the land as the underpinning of their existence, they approached life using methods that were common to the general population around them. Fairfax was a place that was undergoing a major transition from a plantation society to a culture dominated by self-reliant people operating small farms. Free African Americans who were able to gain access to land were a part of this process allowing them to discard the mantle of dependency associated with slavery. Nevertheless, as much as ex-slaves and their progeny attempted to live in the mainstream of this rural society, they faced laws and stereotypes that the county's white population did not have to confront. African Americans' ability to overcome race-based obstacles was dependent upon using their labor for their own benefit rather than for the comfort and profit of a former master or white employer.

When free African Americans were able to have access to the labor of their entire family, they were more likely to become self-reliant, but the vestiges of the slave system often stymied independence particularly for free women. Antebellum Fairfax had many families who had both slave and free members and some families who had both white and African American members. These divisions in families more often adversely impacted free African American women who could not rely on the labor of an enslaved husband or the lasting attention of a white male. Moreover, families who remained intact were more likely to be able to care for children and dependent aging members, while free African American females who headed households often saw their progeny subjected to forced apprenticeships in order for the family to survive.

Although the land provided the economic basis for the survival of free African Americans, the county's location along the border with Maryland and the District of Columbia also played a role in the lives of the county's free African American population. Virginia and its neighbors remained slave jurisdictions until the Civil War, but each government wished to stop the expansion of slavery within its borders. Each jurisdiction legislated against movement of new slaves into their territory and attempted to limit the movement of freed slaves into their jurisdictions. Still, in a compact border region restricting such movement was difficult. African Americans used the differences of laws initially to petition for freedom. As they gained access to the court system, free African Americans expanded their use of the judiciary by bringing their grievances before the courts which sided with the African American plaintiffs with surprising regularity. Although freed slaves and their offspring had few citizenship rights, they were able to use movement across borders and the ability to gain a hearing for their grievances to achieve increasing autonomy from their white neighbors.

No one story from the archives of the Fairfax County Courthouse completely defines the experience of free African Americans prior to the Civil War, but collectively they chronicle the lives of people who were an integral part of changing Fairfax County during the period. After freedom, many African Americans left Fairfax either voluntarily or through coercion. For those who stayed, their lives were so inter-connected both socially and economically with their white neighbors that any history of the county cannot ignore their role in the evolution of Fairfax.

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Books on the topic "African Americans – Sports – History"

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McCormick, Lisa Wade. African Americans in sports. Philadelphia: Mason Crest Publishers, 2012.

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African Americans in sports. Detroit: Lucent Books, 2012.

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Sports: African American history. New York: AV2 by Weigl, 2012.

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Smart, Nick David. Success in sports. Vero Beach, Fl: Rourke Press, 1995.

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Alan, Sailes Gary, ed. African Americans in sport: Contemporary themes. New Brunswick, N.J: Transaction Publishers, 1998.

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Hu, Evaleen. A level playing field: Sports and race. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., 1995.

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1951-, Wiggins David Kenneth, ed. Out of the shadows: A biographical history of African American athletes. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2006.

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Black hoops: The history of African-Americans in basketball. New York: Scholastic Press, 1999.

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Telfair, Earl. The black athletes of the District of Columbia during the segregated years: Remembering. [Washington, D.C.?: s.n.], 1999.

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Ashe, Arthur. A hard road toglory: A history of the African-American athlete, 1919-1945. New York, NY: Warner Books, 1988.

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Book chapters on the topic "African Americans – Sports – History"

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Perkins, Linda M. "African American Women, Femininity and Their History in Physical Education and Sports in American Higher Education: From World War I Through the Mid-century." In ‘Femininity’ and the History of Women's Education, 37–62. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54233-7_3.

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Moore, Louis. "The African American Athlete." In A Companion to American Sport History, 434–53. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118609446.ch19.

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Noel, A. Cazenave. "Violence-Centered Racial Control Systems and Mechanisms In U.S. History." In Killing African Americans, 80–121. New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. | Series: New critical viewpoints on society series: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429507045-3.

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Coleman, Robin R. Means. "African Americans and Broadcasting." In A Companion to the History of American Broadcasting, 389–412. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118646151.ch18.

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Robbins, Janice I., and Carol L. Tieso. "How Might Equality be Achieved for African Americans?" In Engaging with History in the Classroom, 49–65. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003234937-5.

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Loue, Sana. "African Americans: History and Experience as the “Other”." In SpringerBriefs in Social Work, 1–13. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9002-9_1.

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Kaur, Tarminder. "A tale of two sports fields." In Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation, 167–80. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429508110-12.

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Chipande, Hikabwa D., and Davies Banda. "Sports and Politics in Postcolonial Africa." In The Palgrave Handbook of African Colonial and Postcolonial History, 1263–83. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59426-6_50.

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Al-Kuwari, Shaikha H. "History and Culture of Muslims in America." In Arab Americans in the United States, 25–42. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-7417-7_3.

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AbstractThis chapter offers a comprehensive review of the history of Muslims in America. The chapter will be divided into three sections. The first section reviews the history of Muslims in America, including African American Muslims, Arab American Muslims, and South Asian American Muslims, and their immigration history, as well as Islamic movements and the groups’ relationships. The second section of the chapter will discuss the significance of mosques in the lives of American Muslim immigrants. This section will include ethnographic observations related to the experience of visiting mosques and the dynamic political and religious roles of mosques in Dearborn, MI. The third section of the chapter addresses the culture and identity of American Muslim immigrants as they relate to family and marriage, gender roles, and identity formation.
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Gennaro, Michael, and Saheed Aderinto. "Introduction." In Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation, 1–13. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429508110-1.

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Conference papers on the topic "African Americans – Sports – History"

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Gitiaux, Xavier, and Huzefa Rangwala. "mdfa: Multi-Differential Fairness Auditor for Black Box Classifiers." In Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence {IJCAI-19}. California: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/814.

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Machine learning algorithms are increasingly involved in sensitive decision-making processes with adversarial implications on individuals. This paper presents a new tool, mdfa that identifies the characteristics of the victims of a classifier's discrimination. We measure discrimination as a violation of multi-differential fairness. Multi-differential fairness is a guarantee that a black box classifier's outcomes do not leak information on the sensitive attributes of a small group of individuals. We reduce the problem of identifying worst-case violations to matching distributions and predicting where sensitive attributes and classifier's outcomes coincide. We apply mdfa to a recidivism risk assessment classifier widely used in the United States and demonstrate that for individuals with little criminal history, identified African-Americans are three-times more likely to be considered at high risk of violent recidivism than similar non-African-Americans.
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SMITH, JENNIFER. "Placemaking through Storytelling: Remembering Sacred Spaces." In 2021 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference. ACSA Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.aia.inter.21.15.

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In an Alabama town there is a bottom-up movement to communicate under-represented, African-American history through a series of “sacred sites” in the landscape. This under- represented history includes: former slaves engaged in early city development, Black land owners, redlining practices, and racial injustice. History education presently does not have the capacity to fully discuss these truths, and there is a movement to make them apparent in our cities. Rosenwald Schools, lynching sites, cemeteries, and formerly segregated schools are considered sacred due to their significance in the African- American and simply, American experience. In The Power of Place Dolores Hayden argues that we are fascinated with the past when touring historic sites but miss opportunities to translate this to our neighborhoods imbued with place- making potential. She states, “If Americans were to find their own social history preserved in the public landscapes of their own neighborhoods and cities, then connection to the past might be different” (Hayden, 46). This connection to place and history exists for local African-American families and has potential to engage a collective city. While some histories are painful, all should be evident for united progress. As stated by a Community Remembrance Project member, “There can be no reconciliation and healing without remembering the past” (2021).
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Prazma, Charlene, Hao Li, Robert Y. Suruki, Wayne H. Anderson, and Hector G. Ortega. "Subgroup Analysis As A Method For Biomarker Identification: Association Of CHI3L1 In A Subset Of African Americans With Prior History Of Exacerbation." In American Thoracic Society 2011 International Conference, May 13-18, 2011 • Denver Colorado. American Thoracic Society, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm-conference.2011.183.1_meetingabstracts.a6377.

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Purrington, Kristen S., Julie J. Ruterbusch, Mark Manning, Michael S. Simon, Jennifer Beebe-Dimmer, and Ann G. Schwartz. "Abstract C042: Family history of cancer among African Americans with breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal cancers in the Detroit Research on Cancer Survivors cohort." In Abstracts: Twelfth AACR Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; September 20-23, 2019; San Francisco, CA. American Association for Cancer Research, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1158/1538-7755.disp19-c042.

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Macken, Jared. "The Ordinary within the Extraordinary: The Ideology and Architectural Form of Boley, an “All-Black Town” in the Prairie." In 111th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings. ACSA Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.am.111.63.

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In 1908, Booker T. Washington stepped off the Fort Smith and Western Railway train into the town of Boley, Oklahoma. Washington found a bustling main street home to over 2,500 African American citizens. He described this collective of individuals as unified around a common goal, “with the definite intention of getting a home and building up a community where they can, as they say, be ‘free.’” The main street was the physical manifestation of this idea, the center of the community. It was comprised of ordinary banks, store front shops, theaters, and social clubs, all of which connected to form a dynamic cosmopolitan street— an architectural collective form. Each building aligned with its neighbor creating a single linear street, a space where the culture of the town thrived. This public space became a symbol of the extraordinary lives and ideology of its citizens, who produced an intentional utopia in the middle of the prairie. Boley is one of more than fifty “All-Black Towns” that developed in “Indian Territory” before Oklahoma became a state. Despite their prominence, these towns’ potential and influence was suppressed when the territory became a state in 1907. State development was driven by lawmaker’s ambition to control the sovereign land of Native Americans and impose control over towns like Boley by enacting Jim Crow Laws legalizing segregation. This agenda manifests itself in the form and ideology of the state’s colonial towns. However, the story of the state’s history does not reflect the narrative of colonization. Instead, it is dominated by tales of sturdy “pioneers” realizing their role within the myth of manifest destiny. In contrast, Boley’s history is an alternative to this myth, a symbol of a radical ideology of freedom, and a form that reinforces this idea. Boley’s narrative begins to debunk the myth of manifest destiny and contrast with other colonial town forms. This paper explores the relationship between the architectural form of Boley’s main street and the town’s cultural significance, linking the founding community’s ideology to architectural spaces that transformed the ordinary street into a dynamic social space. The paper compares Boley’s unified linear main street, which emphasized its citizens and their freedom, with another town typology built around the same time: Perry’s centralized courthouse square that emphasized the seat of power that was colonizing Cherokee Nation land. Analysis of these slightly varied architectural forms and ideologies reorients the historical narrative of the state. As a result, these suppressed urban stories, in particular that of Boley’s, are able to make new contributions to architectural discourse on the city and also change the dominant narratives of American Expansion.
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