Dissertations / Theses: 'Racism studies'

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Mootoo, Alexis Nicole. "Structural Racism: Racists without Racism in Liberal Institutions within Colorblind States." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6909.

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Afro-Descendants suffer sustained discrimination and invisibility that is proliferated with policies that were once blatantly racist, but are now furtive. This study argues that structural racism is alive and well in liberal institutions such as publicly funded colleges and universities. Thus, structural racism is subtly replicated and reproduced within these institutions and by institutional agents who are Racist without Racism. This study builds on theories from Pierre Bourdieu, Frantz Fanon, Glen Loury and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. The juxtaposition of their theoretical arguments provides a deeper insight into how structural racism becomes a de facto reflexive phenomenon in liberal and progressive institutions such as universities, which are heralded as the epitome of racism-free spaces in colorblind states. Inspired by Lieberman’s nested mixed methods approach, the study examines Afro-Descendants’ sustained discrimination and invisibility in publicly funded universities in New York City and the city of São Paulo. The success of race-based affirmative action is examined quantitatively in New York City and São Paulo. Semi-structured interviews are conducted with Afro-Descendant professors, students and administrators in New York City and São Paulo’s publicly funded liberal university systems. These interviews are conducted to (1) understand the respondents’ experiences in their respective liberal spaces as racial minorities; and (2) determine whether they have benefited or been harmed by a public policy designed to ameliorate their inferior positions. Overall, findings from this study suggest that structural racism exists and persists in New York City and São Paulo. Moreover, Afro-Descendant participants in both cities acknowledge and experience structural racism within their respective liberal university systems.

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Crabtree, Michael F. "Strategies against racism." Thesis, Aston University, 1988. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10833/.

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The thesis compares two contrasting strategies employed with the aim of combating particular forms of racism within contemporary Britain. Both are assessed as political strategies in their own right and placed within the broader context of reformist and revolutionary political traditions. The sociology of social movements is examined critically, as are Marxist and post-Marxist writings on the role of human agency within social structures and on the nature of social movements. The history of the Anti Nazi League (ANL) in the late 1970s and its opposition to the National Front is considered as an example of anti-racist social movement based on the Trotskyist model of the United Front. The degree to which the Anti Nazi League corresponded to such a model is analysed as are the potential broader applications for such a strategy. The strategy with which the ANL is compared is the development of anti-racist and equal opportunities policies within local government in the 1980s, primarily by Labour-controlled local authorities. The theory of the local state and the political phenomenon of municipal socialism are discussed, specifically the role of various groups operating in and around local authorities in the formation and implementation of anti-racist policy and practice. Following this general discussion, two case studies in each of the areas of local authority housing, education and employment are explored to consider in depth the problems of specific anti-racist policies. In summation the efficacy of the two strategies are considered as parts of wider political currents in tandem with their declared specific objectives.

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Lyons, Bobbie Alexander. "Racism, Sexism and Ageism in America." W&M ScholarWorks, 1991. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625704.

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Cremer, Douglas J. "Toward an Anti-Racist Theology: American Racism and Catholic Social Thought." Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School, 2020. https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/etd/924.

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In the writings of the Vatican, the United States and Latin American bishops, and various theologians since the 1950s, Catholic social thought has generally failed to understand the pernicious depth of the system of racial classification, discrimination, and violence in the Americas. Catholic social thought still sees racism as based on the pre-existing, valid category of "race," requiring individual conversion and social effort. What is required instead is seeing the very concept of " race" as what must be rejected as the product of a racist ideology of politico-economic oppression and developing an anti-racist theological response that overcomes and eliminates this deadly ideology. It involves a re-imagining of the Imago Dei as the image of Jesus on the cross, of Mary and the women at the foot of the cross, as a direct confrontation with the principalities and powers that are invested in racist ideology, where the human and divine are connected through the cross and affirmed in the resurrection. It invokes a re-imagining of Laudato Si' as an anti-racist teaching, using many of the same ideas Pope Francis uses for his integral ecology to overcome the racist ideology that is inextricably tied up with modern capitalism and environmental despoliation.

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Johansson, Sandra. "The involuntary racist : A study on white racism evasiveness amongst social movements activists in Madrid, Spain." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Genus, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-138364.

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This study explores how white social movement activists in Madrid, Spain, relate to race and racism, a previously unexamined issue in the Spanish context. The study is based upon qualitative semi-structured interviews and analytically framed within critical whiteness studies. The first part of the study focuses on how the interviewed activists understand race, whiteness and racism at a conceptual level. The second part analyses three dominant discourses that the white activists employ to make sense of race and racism in the specific context of social movements. The findings indicate an important gap between the two and show that when referring to social movements, all activists engage in racism evasiveness, allowing them to reproduce a sincere fiction of the white self as a "good" and "non-racist" person. The study moreover discusses how the three discourses may influence the way in which anti-racist work can be framed and despite some differences, they all present serious limitations in terms of challenging both internal and external racial power relations.

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Couch, Christina (Christina Stewart). "Life after hate : recovering from racism." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101359.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Comparative Media Studies, 2015.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 25-30).
Life After Hate is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping white supremacists transition out of the extremist lifestyle and to helping those outside the supremacist community understand how these groups work. Founded by ex-supremacists, the group is one of the only organizations in the country dedicated to helping those involved in the white power movement recover from racism. This thesis follows the stories of Life After Hate members and explores the science behind both everyday and organized hate. Touching on neuroscience, psychology and criminology, this thesis addresses the mechanisms that give rise to overt racists as well as those that contribute to systemic discrimination.
by Christina Couch.
S.M.

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Wehrer, Margaret Mary Burdick John. "Race and racism in women-dominated progressive organizations." Related Electronic Resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Munoz, Brianna. "Racism in American Foreign Policy and Racial Bias in Conflict Intervention." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1971.

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The purpose of this thesis was to take a deep look into the history of race in American foreign policy in two White House administrations. The presidencies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bill Clinton were examined in which the influence of racism in domestic politics was demonstrated as a factor which shaped, and continues to shape, U.S. foreign policy. The research found that 1) segregation, 2) the concept of “primitiveness” formed due to the history between black and white nation-states and 3) the idea of “the other” used by the media and political elite are three manifestations of the consideration of race in Eisenhower’s foreign policy, particularly with respect to Ethiopia. The research also found that 1) American discomfort with white suffering, 2) the normalization of violence in black countries and usage of the term “tribalism,” and 3) the significance of ethno-racial identity all demonstrate the role of race in Clinton’s foreign policy which resulted in the disproportionate political prioritization of the Western Balkans over Rwanda.

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Williams, Nicole V. "Racial Identity Development in Prospective Teachers: Making Sense of Encounters with Racism." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1280329565.

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Pendakur, Vijay. "Asian American college students| Making racial meaning in an era of color-blind racism." Thesis, DePaul University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3584790.

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Since the end of the Civil Rights era, a new paradigm has emerged for understanding race and racism in American society. This neoliberal hegemonic discourse argues that systemic racism ended with the abolishment of formal, juridical racism and that any continued investment in race is both unnecessary and deeply problematic. Critical race theorists have named this framework color-blind racism. In recent years, color-blind racist discourse has been repackaged under a "post-race" label and the election of America's first non-White president has only served to bolster notions that America might have somehow transcended race.

For college students, the undergraduate years are often a time of great intellectual, emotional, and spiritual upheaval and this instability makes college a prime site for examining individuals' meaning-making and identity formation processes. Students of color are no exception to this overall phenomenon and the literature on racial identity development speaks to the dramatic changes in self-concept that individuals of color often experience while attending college. One group of students of color, Asian American college students, are deeply understudied and there is little scholarly writing on Asian American college students' racial identity development process.

This dissertation is a qualitative study of the effects of color-blind racism on the racial identity meaning-making of Asian American college freshmen. Using a narrative inquiry methodology, the author conducted lengthy in-person interviews with nine participants. The emergent themes from the study indicate that the participants' racial meaning-making process was heavily laden with elements of the ethnicity paradigm of race, color-blind racist tropes, and Asian American racial tropes. The study results suggest that these participants' hold little in the way of racial identity consciousness, as Asian Americans, and that their heavy investment in ethnic identity works to support a color-blind racial frame. Furthermore, elements of color-blind racism and Asian American racial formation appear to interlock in unique ways to produce complicity with the logic of color-blind racism and support for key elements of White racial hegemony. Further research is needed on the effects of color-blind racism on the identity development of college students broadly, and on Asian American students specifically.

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Wheeler, Ivy G. "Colorblind Racism: Our Education System's Role in Perpetuating Racial Caste in America." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1430765564.

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Santos, Marcio Henrique Casimiro Lopes Silva. "Crime de racismo ou injuria qualificada? = tipificações e representações das ocorrencias de praticas racistas entre os delegados de policia de Campinas." [s.n.], 2009. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/278843.

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Orientador: Gilda Figueireo Portugal Gouveia
Dissertação (mestrado)- Universidade Estdual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanos
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Resumo: A partir das dificuldades observadas entre os agentes jurídicos quanto a prerrogativa legal que possuem de qualificar as ocorrências policiais de práticas racistas em crime de racismo ou de injúria qualificada, buscou-se compreender os usos e sentidos atribuídos à legislação antirracismo, assim como as próprias concepções dos agentes sobre o tema. Entre aqueles agentes, os delegados de polícia da cidade de Campinas foram escolhidos para entrevistas pessoais nos distritos onde atuavam. Com as entrevistas, procurou-se trilhar os caminhos do tratamento jurídico destinado às discriminações racistas, tornando possível observar como operam alguns padrões de valor cultural ante àquela prerrogativa. Pôde-se observar como esta prática não se restringia àquela prerrogativa e nem à esfera das relações jurídicas, mas fazia parte de um contexto institucional maior, revelando-se como uma das faces de um racismo institucionalizado e que possuía implicações significativas sobre o exercício efetivo da cidadania plena. Tomou forma, assim, uma situação de subordinação social na qual o quadro normativo da sociedade não oferecia o suporte necessário à participação paritária na vida social, constituindo-se as práticas jurídicas como um importante mecanismo de reprodução das desigualdades sociais
Abstract: From the difficulties between the legal staff on legal prerogative to qualify the police occurrence of racist practices in crime of racism or qualified injury, sought to understand the uses and meanings attributed to the anti-racism law and the own conceptions of the officers on the subject. Among those officials, delegates of police of the city of Campinas were selected for personal interviews in the districts where they work. In the interviews, we tried to walk the ways of the legal treatment aimed at racial discrimination, making it possible to observe how some patterns of cultural value operates against that prerogative. It was noted how this practice is not restricted to that prerogative or to the sphere of legal relations, but was part of a larger institutional context, revealing itself as one of the faces of an institutionalized racism and that had significant implications on the effective exercise of full citizenship. Thus, took shape a situation of social subordination in which the normative framework of society did not offer the support necessary to participate as peers in social life, becoming legal practices as an important mechanism of reproduction of social inequalities
Mestrado
Pensamento Social
Mestre em Sociologia

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DeJonghe, Jennifer. "White Space| Racism, Nationalism and Wilderness in the United States." Thesis, Metropolitan State University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1569559.

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In the United States, the history of racism and racial oppression is often unexamined within environmental and preservationist movements. Wilderness preservation and access to nature has been used as a method of reinforcing racial hierarchy and promoting and advancing White agendas. Environmental heroes like John Muir promoted racist viewpoints toward others through a vision of wilderness that was exclusive and inaccessible. National Parks and other wilderness areas displaced the original inhabitants of the land now are representative of nature as a place of exclusion. In order to have success with their environmental goals, White environmentalists need to recognize and account for the racism, imperialism, and nationalism, both intentional and unintentional, that has harmed their movement.

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Young, Kurt B. "Institutional racism, redlining & the decline of six Atlanta communities." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 1994. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/484.

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Bank, mortgage and insurance redlining, as an extension of institutional racism, has been detrimental to the development of African American communities. Racism has always existed as a negative force in the lives of African Americans and has historically been observed with relative ease. Today, racism continues to hamper the social, political and economic advancement of African Americans but it has become highly sophisticated and less visible, making it much more difficult to detect by its victims. This difficulty in detection has caused confusion in the problem-solving efforts of those concerned with the decline of African American neighborhoods. This study discusses the impact of redlining in six Atlanta communities, first by analyzing the ideology responsible for the practice of racism; second, by discussing how racism has become institutionalized; and last, by examining redlining’s role in community housing markets and household finance. The research pinpoints particular indicators of neighborhood decline, such as homeownership, vacancy, abandonment and property value. Then the relationship between the redlining and decline, reflected in the behavior of the indicators, is exposed. The study found that redlining, in spite of legislation to stop it, continues to stunt the growth of African American communities. Specifically, its practice results in fewer new homes, more residents forced to rent, more vacancies and lower relative property value. These factors combine to generate a process of decline in African American neighborhoods over time.

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Herring, Mary Hickert. "Identifying Unintended Racism by White Members in a Biracial Protestant Congregation." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2009. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/27145.

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Urban Education
Ph.D.
This ethnography explores the interracial encounters between individuals in a biracial old-line Protestant congregation. Using the theoretical framework of aversive racism, this dissertation suggests that an individual's racial paranoia and racial identity attitude helps to explain the way that white members interact with black members and the way they perceive these encounters. This dissertation addresses the questions: How do members of a biracial congregation interact across race? How do they engage in discussions about race? How does racial identity attitude inform their perspectives? It draws upon data collected over two periods: a two-month pilot study and a nine-month dissertation study. Data include field notes from more than 240 hours of observations during 80 visits, and transcripts of interviews with 17 people (nine black, eight white; two pastors, two staff, 13 members; ages 21 to 76) which averaged 2½-hours each. This dissertation describes three findings. (1) White members have learned to comfortably co-exist with black members in worship but have not developed deep enough relationships to learn from them the extent of racism that survives in the post Civil Rights era. (2) Misconceptions among white members about what is "politically correct" stifle constructive interracial dialogue about race issues and lead to aversive behaviors that have a racist effect for African American members. (3) With only modest social interaction across race and little dialogue about race, white members of the congregation hold markedly different perceptions than black members about the interracial life of this church and the problem with racism there. These findings are significant because they help us to understand the obstacles which this nation must address in order to respond to the complexities of race in urban America, of which this congregation offers a microcosm.
Temple University--Theses

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Iheduru, Adaobi C. "Examining the Social Distance Between Africans and African Americans: The Role of Internalized Racism." Wright State University Professional Psychology Program / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wsupsych1341565205.

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Lynch, Lucas Leonard. "Brazil's Anti-Racist Education Reforms And Their Effects On High School History Textbooks: Addressing Critical Reflection On Race And Racism." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/595642.

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Anti-racist legislation and education reforms for the past two decades in Brazil have required that curriculum in all basic education combat prejudice and racism and promote critical thinking of the nation's past and current ethnic-racial relations in an effort to construct a society that is more democratic, equal, and just. In response to the reforms, textbooks have been rewritten. This study analyzes one high school history textbook series that was approved by Brazil in 2012, and asks: How, and to what extent, do these new high school history textbooks address critical reflection on race and racism in Brazil? Using qualitative content analysis, I coded the above series for its attention in these matters. My findings reflect that though there are a number of cases where racism in Brazil was admitted, more explanation on the content on racism is needed, the content was too vague, or it lacked necessary details to make its analysis more informed for student reflection.

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Harris, Travis Terrell. "Putin' on for Da Lou: Hip Hop's Response to Racism in St. Louis." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1477068190.

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The brutal slaying of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014 by Police officer Darren Wilson is part of an endemic system of institutional racism against Blacks in St. Louis, Missouri. This system takes place in racialized spaces that entail disparate health care, failing schools, commercial redlining, an unjust justice system and several additional oppressive forces. I am seeking to understand the ways in which Hip Hop respond to these systems of oppression. I am interested in Hip Hop’s response because Hip Hoppers are enduring racism. Further, Hip Hop’s representation in popular culture draws attention to misogyny, drugs, violence and the glorification of money. Hip Hop scholars have already provided a significant amount of attention to debunking popular misconceptions and revealing that Hip Hop is so much more. I would like to add to this contribution by focusing on three emcees from St. Louis: Marcus Gray (Flame), Travis Tyler (Thi’sl), and Kareem Jackson (Tef Poe). their unique background of being from St. Louis, couches them as local experts in which they are able to respond to the killing of Michael Brown, the continued oppressive conditions and localized disenfranchisement. Using a performance studies framework, which involves a focus on embodied behaviors and cultural transmission, this paper analyzes the repertoires of Flame’s, Thi’sl’s and Tef Poe’s performances and activism. I contextualize their responses through a thorough examination of their background and their notions of the evils plaguing Ferguson. I argue that the three models of activism revealed by Flame’s, Thi’sl’s and Tef Poe’s performances in response to the killing of Michael Brown present the ways in which Hip Hop artists respond to the killing of Michael Brown. This paper will explore Hip Hop’s role within the larger Black freedom struggle.

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Hailstock, Michele. "Gendered racism in the workplace as experienced by women of color managers." Thesis, Capella University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3689231.

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As the workplace has diversified with the inclusion of women and minorities holding positions throughout all levels of the organization hierarchy, the question remains if gendered racism exists in the 2014 workplace for women managers with minority group background. Gendered racism, described by Philomena Essed in her 1991 book, Understanding Everyday Racism: An Interdisciplinary Theory, is a unique female experience due to their race and being a woman. Visible at this intersection of race and sex, women of color may experience the sexist and racist stereotypes dually assigned to women and minorities. This research provides a qualitative view of the experiences of gendered racism using Moustakas' transcendental phenomenology method. Data were collected from eight women who self-identified as Hispanic ( n=2) and Black (n=6). All the women with the exception of one were college graduates, managers in an organization of 50 or more employees, between the ages of 35 to 62 years old. The study findings validated the experiences of gender racism in the workplace through the lived experiences of women interviewed. The women revealed their experiences with gendered racism, which affected their workplace interactions with others, manifest psychological stressors, and tainted the vision of themselves. Additionally, all of the women developed coping skills to combat gendered racism, which allowed them to pivot their careers to higher levels in their organizations. The emerging themes revealed from the study's participants experiences of gendered racism are psychological effects, feeling discounted, acceptance or justification, disrespect, and self-confidence. This research provides a phenomenological description of the lived experiences of the gendered racism and the impact of these experiences in the workplace as reveal by women of color.

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Smart, Eric. "Transnational Perspectives on Ecocriticism: (Un)Natural Borders, National Privilege, and Environmental Racism." Ohio University Art and Sciences Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouashonors1555939805670678.

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Rodriguez, D. Maria Angelica. "Performing Whiteness: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Racism in Ballet." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Avdelningen för migration, etnicitet och samhälle (REMESO), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-177980.

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This thesis is a study of race and ethnicity in culture and the arts. It discusses whiteness and racism in ballet and addresses a gap in the literature for both disciplines Ballet and Race and Ethnic Studies. Even if ballet is a privileged art form that for centuries has served statecraft, survived revolutions, and political instability the problem of race in ballet is jeopardizing its validity and acceptance in the contemporary world. I ask if racism in ballet is more than behaviors, if it designates ideology, or if it is a matter of visuality and aesthetics. I do this to provide insight into how race is projected in and through the art form in question. The need to transcend the scope of a single discipline brought me to adopt interdisciplinary research to analyze ballet right at the intersection with crossing perspectives linked to the body, aesthetics, performance, privilege, race, and gender. The thesis shows that ballet gives material expression to whiteness as ideology and is compliant with an exclusive approach to an idea of the body and beauty that presupposes racist attitudes and behaviors. At the institutional level, the experience of ballet is whiteness -unnamed, unmarked, universal. But for those bodies outside the constructs of whiteness, the experience is marked by racism and objective barriers. The study informs that an exclusive discourse of the body, often disguised as aesthetic discourse, translates into limited access to ballet education, body shaming, harassment, and fewer job opportunities. However, ballet is an art form, it is more than whiteness or racism. It creates beauty in the body of the dancer which is both instrument and object of art. Ballet dancers invest their lives learning and performing an art form that some other people cherish, but how come a space of whiteness and racism is perceived as beautiful? The thesis elucidates the importance of this reflection also.

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Jordan, Cheryl D. "Stories of Resistance: Black Women Corporate Executives Opposing Gendered (Everyday) Racism." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1312461227.

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Matos, Camila Tavares de Moura Brasil. "A percepção da injúria racial e racismo entre os operadores do direito." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/2/2140/tde-03102017-153049/.

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O objetivo deste trabalho é compreender e analisar a percepção da injúria racial e racismo entre os operadores do Direito, compreendidos pelos promotores de justiça e juízes. Para tanto, baseou-se nos estudos pautados na construção do discurso jurídico e pelos Estudos Culturais do Direito. Esses conceitos são importantes para a análise quantitativa de dados, visto que se realizou pesquisa empírica em direito no Arquivo Geral do Tribunal de Justiça de São Paulo a fim de obter o levantamento de processos e inquéritos arquivados que versassem sobre crimes raciais contra pretos e pardos na cidade de São Paulo. Desta forma, é descrito todo o caminho metodológico percorrido para a pesquisa desde as buscas eletrônicas até a etapa de tratamento dos dados. Além disso, conceitos importantes como raça, cor, racismo e discriminação são estudados pelo manto da sociologia, já que o direito não consegue abranger estes conceitos em sua análise. Aponta como principais conclusões: o racismo afeta a percepção dos operadores do direito; os magistrados e promotores de justiça não enxergam o elemento racial contido nas ofensas verbais e condutas racistas promovidas pelos réus nos documentos jurídicos; os operadores do direito são influenciados por cultura jurídica que se apega às formas e procedimentos jurídicos, mais do que à situação fática de discriminação disposta em suas mesas.
The objective of this study is comprehend and analyze the perception of racial injury and racism between legal professionals, known as public prosecutors and judges. For this, qualitative analysis was based on studies guided by the construction of juridical discourse and by cultural studies of Law. These concepts are important for the qualitative analyses, because it was carried out empirical research in law at the General Archive of Court Justice of São Paulo by setting up archived processes and inquiries whose subject were racial crimes against black and brown people at the city of São Paulo. For this, it is described the methodological path taken for this research since electronic searches until the step of data treatment. In addition, key concepts as race, colour, racism and discrimination are studies by the cloak of sociology since the law cannot cover these institutes successfully. It indicates as main conclusions: racism affects the perception of legal professionals; the judges and public prosecutors doesnt see the racial element at the verbal offenses and racist conducts carried out by the defendants in the legal documents; legal professionals are influenced by a juridical culture who clings to the forms and legal procedures rather than to the factual situation of discrimination disposed at their desks.

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Berry, Damon T. "Blood Right: Racial Protectionism and the Problem of Christianity in American White Nationalism." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397563389.

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Strouble, Bruce Warren Jr. "Racism vs. Social Capital| A Case Study of Two Majority Black Communities." Thesis, Walden University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3717562.

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Several researchers have identified social capital as a means to improve the social sustainability of communities. While there have been many studies investigating the benefits of social capital in homogeneous White communities, few have examined it in Black homogeneous communities. Also, there has been limited research on the influence of racism on social capital in African American communities. In this dissertation a comparative case study was used within a critical race theory framework. The purpose was to explore the role of racial oppression in shaping social capital in majority African American communities. Data were collected from 2 majority Black communities in Florida. The collected data included reviews of local news reports, voter turnout reports, and community health assessments, along with focus groups and semi structured interviews with a purposive sample of 20 of the communities’ African American residents. Benet’s polarities of democracy model was employed to analyze the relationship between racism and social capital. Analysis included inductive coding followed by pattern matching to identify overarching themes between the selected cases. One key theme was that perceived racial disparity inhibited bridging and linking social capital in the selected communities. Another key theme was that racism created social capital deficiencies and a dysfunctional community culture, which limited the capacity to address collective issues. Social change implications include specific policy recommendations to state and local leaders to increase the participation of Black community members in democratic processes. Additionally, this research has potential to improve understanding of the various ways that racism may affect Black Communities.

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Srauy, Sambo. "SPEAKING ABOUT RACE: BIOPOWER AND RACISM IN THE VIDEOGAME LANDSCAPE." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2014. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/275331.

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Media & Communication
Ph.D.
This dissertation explores how discourses surrounding race and economics inform the way in which videogame creators understand their world and use that understanding to create content. Employing a Foucauldian discourse analysis, the content of two videogames, Skyrim and Max Payne 3, were analyzed. The analysis of Skyrim revealed that race is constructed as an inherently biological phenomenon. Moreover, culture is constructed as emerging from biology. The analysis of Max Payne 3 revealed that capitalism grounds the construction of race so that biology and culture serves to justify the economic position of light-skinned and dark-skinned Brazilians. These constructions come from various sources such as the works of J. R. R. Tolkien and film noir. The dissertation also interviews videogame developers using semi-structured interviews to examine the extent to which content creators are aware of these discourses and how industry norms and economics affect those discourses. Videogame developers revealed that these discourses stem from a market pressure to make videogame narratives understandable and sellable.
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McGehee, Elizabeth Hathhorn. "White Democracy, Racism, and Black Disfranchisement: North Carolina in the 1830's." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625541.

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McGee, Adam Michael. "Imagined Voodoo: Terror, Sex, and Racism in American Popular Culture." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11350.

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I analyze the historical and cultural processes by which American racism is reproduced, approaching the issue through the lens of "imagined voodoo" (as distinct from Haitian Vodou). I posit that the American Marine occupation of Haiti (1915-34) was crucial in shaping the American racial imaginary. In film, television, and literature, imagined voodoo continues to serve as an outlet for white racist anxieties. Because it is usually found in low-brow entertainment (like horror) and rarely mentions race explicitly, voodoo is able to evade critique, disseminating racism within a culture that is now largely--albeit superficially--intolerant of overt racism.
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Breau, Andrea M. Breau. "A Refuge for Racism: Gender, Sexuality and Multicultural Fantasies in Youth Social Practices in Lewiston, Maine." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534258123321749.

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Osifalujo, Andrew. "Code-switching in Working African Americans| Internalized Racism, Minority Status, and Organizational Commitment." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1588667.

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This study examined the relationships between internalized racism, perceived minority status, code-switching and three types of organizational commitment of African Americans. Overall, internalized racism and code-switching were related to less positive forms of organizational commitment. The perception of minority status was not related to affective or continuance commitment, but was strongly related to code-switching.

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McKelvie, Mary. "Surveilling Hate/Obscuring Racism?: Hate Group Surveillance and the Southern Poverty Law Center's "Hate Map"." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7060.

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In what ways does the legal and political monitoring of “hate groups” and "hate group activities" benefit the American left? Possible victims of crimes? Law enforcement? The state? Specifically, in what ways does the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” challenge and/or reiterate relations of power and knowledge? This thesis offers a feminist critical analysis of hate group surveillance and the Southern Poverty Law Center’s mapping of hate. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is a progressive legal advocacy group that aids in the surveillance of “hate groups” and legislation against “hate crimes.” I investigate the assumptions grounding the SPLC’s rhetorical use of the term “hate” and analyze their surveillance and mapping in order to add to the growing body of literature that that seeks to rethink the institution of whiteness and the relationship between progressive groups and law enforcement. The SPLC’s “Hate Map” offers a visualization of “hate” while simultaneously ignoring and obscuring racism. This thesis is meant to produce an alternative reading of this map and the SPLC’s hate group surveillance. Using a critical feminist framework that is intimately linked to critical race theory and anarchist criminology, I interrogate the SPLC’s methods of mapping and surveillance as well as their connection to law enforcement and governmentality. In analyzing SPLC’s “Hate Map” and their “Law Enforcement Resources” page, I contend that the SPLC's use of "hate" in lieu of racism is a reflection of their uncritical analysis of systematic racism and state violence associated with whiteness. While I recognize SPLC’s important role in combating crimes against marginalized groups through advocacy and legal aid, I contend that their rhetoric around “hate” and use of mapping and surveillance may potentially collude with governmentality and state violence against historically disenfranchised populations.

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James, Wynona Yvonne. "Imprint of Racism: A Phenomenological Study on White Adult Males' Exposure to Racial Antipathy, Historical Stereotypes, and Polarization Towards African Americans and Their Transformational Journey Towards Racial Reconciliation." Thesis, NSUWorks, 2018. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dcar_etd/117.

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Since the election of the first African American president in 2008, race relations have deteriorated in the United States. In May 2017, the emergence of the “alt-right” movement advocating for white nationalism caused further polarization between the races. This transcendental phenomenological research examined how white adult males’ exposure to racist ideologies influenced their perceptions towards African Americans, and how they emancipated from environments that promoted racist tenets. The study was guided by three research questions: How have white males been impacted by their exposure to racial antipathy and discrimination? What events or circumstances have white males experienced that led them to denouncing negative racial stereotypes and/or participation with hate groups? And, what efforts have they made to reconcile with individuals or groups they have harmed in the past? The literature review revealed racial conflict is a social phenomenon evolving from historical narratives posited by fear, social class, and white superiority. By employing qualitative data analysis, interviewing eight participants, and applying the theoretical lenses of critical race theory, social Darwinism, hate theory, and regenerative justice, the primary essence of the phenomenon acknowledged individuals are mentally and emotionally affected by negative historical narratives about racism. Six major themes evolved: 1) Familial Influences, 2) Southern White Experience, 3) Education and Race Relations, 4) Spiritual Convictions, 5) Immersion into the African American Experience, and 6) Physical and Mental Emancipation. The findings in this study contribute to the field of conflict resolution by advocating for advanced exploration into socio-psychology, racial reconciliation, and restorative justice.

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Cordero, Pedrosa Carlos Javier. "Fanon Matters: Relevance of Frantz Fanon's Intellectual and Political Work for Peace Studies." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.6035/14106.2021.93563.

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This dissertation explores the work of Frantz Fanon as a philosopher, psychiatrist, playwright, social and political theorist and anticolonial revolutionary. It is submitted to an academic program focused on peace studies to make a case for the relevance of Fanon’s intellectual and political work in this field of study and its related practices.
La presente tesis propone una exploración de la obra de Frantz Fanon como filósofo, psiquiatra, dramaturgo, teórico político y social, y revolucionario anticolonial. Esta tesis se presenta a un programa académico en estudios de paz con la intención de argumentar la relevancia del trabajo intelectual y político de Fanon en dicha disciplina y las prácticas asociadas a ellas.
Programa de Doctorat en Estudis Internacionals de Pau, Conflictes i Desenvolupament

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Main, Meredith. "Like Watching a Brother Die: Environmental Racism in Bahia, Brazil." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6893.

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Until the 1970s, small black fishing communities primarily populated Bahia’s north coast. A recent demand for luxury coastal real estate has radically altered the region’s social and environmental landscape. While Bahia’s population is roughly 80% poor and black, the coast is now a space of exclusivity and whiteness. Sewage infrastructure does not meet the needs of the growing population. Domestic sewage flows directly into urban rivers. Poor black fishers, whose food security and livelihoods depend on access to healthy water resources, suffer most in this context. This dissertation explores two interlinking forms of environmental racism – water pollution and racial profiling – that fishers in Praia de Buraquinho, Bahia, Brazil, experience daily. Based on fourteen months of ethnographic research, this project follows the lives of 75 fishers enmeshed in a struggle for environmental and racial justice. I uncover how coastal development has polluted the community's primary river fishery while private gated communities physically restrict fishers' access and subject them to racial profiling practices by private security guards. Ultimately, I argue that regional coastal development in Bahia represents a new model of capital accumulation through what I call “racialized environmental dispossession” that, as one Praia de Buraquinho fishers suggests, is "like watching a brother die."

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Nazemi, Mahtab. "Beyond racism: mapping ruling relations in a Canadian university from the standpoint of racialized female student activists." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104875.

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This study is an institutional ethnography which employs a critical race feminist theoretical framework in order to explicate the social relations that coordinate the experiences of racialized female student activists at McGill University. Interviews with students, administrators, faculty and staff, along with observations about texts, institutional language and experiences around equity at McGill make up the data for conducting this anti-racist feminist analysis. In the first part of this study, knowledge produced through the experiences of racialized female student activists – who make up the entry point of this study – exposes a disjuncture between McGill's self-portrayal as equitable and diverse and how it is experienced by some racialized women. The next part of this study explores some challenges to doing anti-racist activist work at McGill and the lack of – yet need for – an institutional memory that encourages present and future organizing to document, refer to, and build on past initiatives (successful and otherwise) around race, racism and equity.
Cette étude est une ethnographie institutionnelle qui emploie une cadre théorique féministe-critique afin d'expliquer les relations sociales qui coordonnent les expériences des étudiantes-organisatrice racialisées à l'Université McGill. Les entrevues avec les étudiantes, administrateurs, professeurs et employés, avec des observations sur les textes, la langue institutionelle et des expériences autour de l'équité à l'Université McGill constituent les données pour effectuer cette analyse anti-raciste féministe. Dans la première partie de cette étude, les connaissances produites par les expériences des étudiantes-organisatrice racialisées – qui constituent le point d'entrée de cette étude – expose une disjonction entre la façon dont l'Université se portrait comme équitable et diversifiée et comment elle est vécue par certains étudiantes racialisées. La prochaine partie de cette étude examine certains des défis au travail d'organisation anti-raciste à l'Université McGill et le manque (et le besoin) d'une mémoire institutionnelle qui encourage l'organisation actuelle et future de documenter, de consulter, et de s'appuyer sur les initiatives passées (réussie et autrement) autour de la race, le racisme et l'équité.

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Houdek, Matthew. "Common sense racism: the rhetorical grounds for making meaning of racialized violence." Diss., University of Iowa, 2018. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6140.

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In this dissertation, I conceptualize common sense racism as the material basis for the unconscious rhetorical processes that shape and normalize unsympathetic and uncritical public responses to racialized violence against black communities, and which thereby perpetuate racial structures of power and foment white innocence and indifference. This form of common sense is comprised of a set of deeply embedded logics and rationalities—fragmented forms of prepropositional knowledge—that have evolved over time through the shapeshifting ideologies of white supremacy and anti-blackness to partly determine how civil society understands and interprets ongoing legacies of violence. Rather than just thinking of common sense in how we discuss it in everyday talk, I conceptualize and critique it with regard to how it animates and informs some of the fundamental cultural constructs, such as language, time, and humanity, that "we" as a nation rely upon to orient ourselves to and make sense of the world around us. Through these frameworks, common sense racism structures rhetorically how civil society's institutions make meaning in moments of racial crisis, tension, and transformation, and how its dominant publics relate to ongoing histories of racial oppression and abuse, or rather, how they do not relate to them at all. Through three case studies, a theoretical chapter, and an introduction and conclusion, I offer a critical vocabulary for understanding the nation's inability to confront racialized violence while considering the means by which these systems of meaning-making can be disrupted by black vernacular rhetorical practices.

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Lester, Yvette Len. "GENDERED RACISM: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF AFRICANAMERICAN FEMALE LEADERS IN COUNSELOR EDUCATION." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1555346338929415.

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Chamberlin, William B. "From “Egyptian Darkness” to the Condemnation of Blackness: The Biblical Exodus and the Religious and Philosophical Origins of Racism." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/530982.

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African American Studies
M.A.
This thesis examines of the religious and philosophical origins of racism, arguing that anti-black, anti-African racism has its origins in the biblical account of the ancient Israelites’ exodus from Egypt and the events recounted in the Hebrew scriptures. It begins with an examination of the nature of racism itself, considering how the contemporary experience of and scholarship about racism can illuminate the search for racism’s historical origins. Contemporary experience has taught us that the functioning of racism often operates independently of the explicit racial prejudice coupled with power once thought to comprise it. This understanding has been reflected in scholarship that has examined how racism has functioned through hierarchical discourse, a concept which is defined and analyzed at some length. Following this examination comes a “genealogical” tracing of hierarchical discourse about African phenomena in the Western-dominated academy, leading to the centrality of the religious concept of idolatry in the making of racist accounts of African phenomena. Finally, the thesis concludes with a chapter on the mytho-historical exodus event, which gave birth to this concept of idolatry, analyzing the meaning and significance of the event in the making of racist discourse. This thesis demonstrates that a broader understanding of racism as an outgrowth of a worldview necessarily hostile to alternatives, when applied to the study of the historical development of racism, paints a far more convincing and complete portrait of the origins of racism, its historical development, and its present functioning than studies based on a more narrow understanding of racism.
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Posmykiewicz, Anna. "Religion, Multiculturalism and Racism in Poland : An interview-based exploration among members of religious minorities." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-328617.

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This thesis explores what members of religious minorities in Poland think about multiculturalism, the religious and ethnic homogeneity of Poland, and racism. The theoretical part includes discussion about the relation between Christianity and Polish national identity as well as the relation between Christianity and racism. The case study was based on the semi-structured interviews with five individuals representing various religious minorities. The research conclusions, drawing upon the participants’ observations, are explored within a theoretical framework. The results suggest that the lack of exposure is seen as the foremost reason for racial and religious prejudice. Moreover, religion is identified to be more central than skin colour or other ethnic features when assessing “others”. In order to change minorities' position in Polish society, Poland needs social integration programmes designed together with members of minority communities, as well as the Church’s support in building unity.

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Kushnick, Louis. "Race and class : racism and the reproduction of class-based societies : studies of Britain, the United States and western Europe." Thesis, University of Manchester, 1996. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669670.

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Bertino, Francesca. "La naissance du racisme d’État dans l’Italie coloniale." Thesis, Paris 10, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA100152/document.

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En Italie, la réflexion sur le racisme, la race et leur rôle dans l’histoire nationale est fréquemment reléguée aux discours et aux pratiques qui ont caractérisé la période fasciste. Nombreuses sont les zones d’ombre qui persistent aussi bien au sujet des rapports que les humanités, les sciences et le discours politique ont entretenus avec la race et le racisme tout au long de l’histoire nationale, qu’à celui des liens entre la dimension coloniale et la dimension métropolitaine. Nous avons choisi d’examiner l’émergence du discours sur la race et les fonctions qu’il a rempli dans un domaine déterminé, celui du juridico-politique et dans deux lieux géographiques précis, le Midi et la colonie, pendant l’époque libérale italienne. Il s’agit d’une reconstruction qui a comme objectif la compréhension des rapports complexes que l’Italie libérale a entretenu avec la différence et avec les discours sur celle-ci. Notre objectif est de dévoiler la rationalité sous-jacente aux pratiques racistes, l’horizon entre lequel celles-ci trouvent leur propre possibilité d’émergence et, simultanément, leur propre justification : en d’autres termes, le discours qui est sous-jacent à leur mise en œuvre. Au terme de notre étude, nous pouvons affirmer que le discours moderne sur la race et les pratiques assimilables à ce que nous avons appelé un racisme d’État sont présents en Italie pendant la période libérale, aussi bien si nous considérons le Sud de la péninsule, que si nous nous intéressons aux débuts de la colonisation. La perspective eurocentrique de la connaissance et les relations coloniales de domination, soutenues par l’élaboration de l’idée moderne de race comme principe de naturalisation de ces mêmes relations, n’ont pas produit leurs effets uniquement aux marges et ne se sont pas limitées aux relations entre Européens et non-Européens, mais, au contraire, elles ont également investi les savoirs et les territoires qui se trouvaient au centre. Le Midi, dans cette perspective, nous semble être un exemple paradigmatique de ces dynamiques
In Italy, the reflection on racism, race and their role in the national history is frequently relegated to the speeches and to the practices which characterized the fascist period. Many grey areas persist on the one hand about the relationships that the humanities, the sciences and the political speech maintained with the race and the racism throughout the national history, and on the other hand, about the links between the colonial dimension and the metropolitan dimension. We chose to examine the emergence of the speech on race and the functions which it performed in a determined domain, that of legal-politics and in two precise geographical areas, south Italy and the colony, during the Italian liberal period. It’s a reconstruction which has for objective the understanding of the complex relationships which liberal Italy maintained with the difference and with the speeches on this one. Our objective is to reveal the underlying rationality to the racist practices, the horizon between which they find their own possibility of emergence and, simultaneously, their own justification: in other words, the speech which is underlying in their implementation. At the end of our study, we can assert that the modern speech on race and the practices comparable to what we called a state racism are present in Italy during the liberal period, as well if we consider the South of the peninsula, that if we are interested on the beginnings of the colonization. The Eurocentric perspective of the knowledge and the colonial relations of domination, supported by the elaboration of the modern idea of race as principle of naturalization of the same relations, did not produce their effects only in the margins and did not limit themselves to the relations between Europeans and non-Europeans, but, on the contrary, they also invested the knowledge and the territories which were in the centre. The South of Italy, in this perspective, seems to us to be a paradigmatic example of these dynamics

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Campbell, Aaron R. "Integrated Overview, Case-Studies and Analysis: Income Inequality in Latin America, Post-1980." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2010. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/89.

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This thesis provides an integrated overview on the historical and contemporary literature dedicated to the study of within-country income inequality in Latin America. The central hypothesis of this report is that there are underlying factors that drive the persistent levels of high within-country inequality experienced by Latin American countries. We study two countries, Brazil and Bolivia, through the process of reform and growth, and note the effects on the labor markets. Using all available statistics and the wealth of knowledge compiled since the early 1980s, this study identifies those trends, and the factors that cause them to reappear in numerous cases across South America. Focusing on periods of recession and post-stabilization growth in countries with rising or consistently unequal distributions of wealth, this report identifies viable trends in unemployment, linking them to external events and the social climate of Latin America. Employing case-study methodology (see Chapters 6 and 7) this thesis builds a framework with which to study national and regional inequality, then applies it to two cases: Brazil and Bolivia. This thesis’ main findings are that the political and economic reforms and restructurings during the crisis in the 1980s, and the post-1980 era of stabilization and growth, generally perpetuated or worsened the levels of income inequality for countries in Latin America. Further analysis concludes that unsustainable external debt, boom-and-bust cycles, more deeper-seated cultural factors cannot be overlooked. Low government spending on social and educational development is the unfortunate consequence of copious external debt and public interest payments in Latin America; instead of promoting long-term growth, Latin American regimes are instead forced to focus on high interest rates and protecting wildly volatile currencies. Ethnic composition, entrenched class-structure, and cultural norms each play significant roles in income disparity, the extent of which varies by case. The limitations of this research are firstly, that regression analysis is inconclusive; no strong correlation between growth and inequality can be observed, even within the highly unequal region of Latin America.. Further, tax data, which provides the basis for measurements of income inequality, varies from country to country, making cross-country statistical meta-analysis difficult. Lastly, data was not collectible until the early 1980s, and has missing observations, further complicating the task of statistical analysis. Thus, this study bases its findings on empirical evidence, data, and basic economic theory, in explaining the factors and causes of inequality.

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Ghebil, Nisrit, Larsson Lukas Peterström, and Almir Cancarevic. "Varumärken och mångfald : En studie om mångfald hos olika varumärken på Instagram baserat på deras rasifierade följare." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation (from 2013), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-67786.

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Ämnet vi valt för denna uppsats är mångfald och representation. Vi kommer att undersöka hur mångfalden på Instagram-flödet hos modehus påverkar deras icke-vita följare på Instagram. Vi kommer även att studera hur representation påverkar människors attityder och vilka konsekvenser för de rasifierade följarna som kan uppstå vid brist på representation – med fokus på hur synen och känslor för varumärket påverkas. I denna uppsats kommer vi att främst utgå ifrån intervjuer med rasifierade följare som har ett visst intresse av mode och som följer minst ett varumärke på Instagram. Vi har valt att utgå ifrån varumärken som intervjuobjekten själva får välja. Detta för att få ett så genuint svar som möjligt då vi anser att man har bäst koll på varumärken som man själv följer. Fokus kommer att vara att förstå hur mångfald och representation påverkar följarnas känslor för varumärket. Det vill säga; vi kommer att studera hur människors känslor och attityder för varumärket påverkas utifrån mångfalden på varumärkets Instagram-flöde. I intervjuerna har vi valt att avgränsa oss till icke-vita följare mellan 18-27 år.
The subject we chose for this thesis is diversity and representation. We will study how the diversity of the Instagram feed of brands affects their non-white followers on Instagram. We will also study how representation affects non-white people and the consequences that can arise in the absence of representation - focusing on how the perspective and feelings of the brand is affected. In this essay, we will primarily assume interviews with people who have a certain interest in fashion and follows at least one brand on Instagram. We have chosen to study brands chosen by our interviewees because we think that will give us the most honest answers. We believe that the interviewees will be more up to date on the brand that way. The focus will be to understand how diversity and representation affect the feelings of the followers for the brand. We will study how people's feelings for the brand are influenced based on the brand's Instagram feed. We will look at the fashion brand’s Instagram posts to find out the amount of diversity they show in their posts, so we have actual numbers to report. We will also conduct interviews and analyze these interviews to bring out thoughts and feelings towards the different brands. We have chosen to delimit non-white followers between the age of 18-27.

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Osborn, Kyle N. ""Bondage or Barbarism," Parson Brownlow and the Rhetoric of Racism in East Tennessee, 1845-1867." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2007. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2111.

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This study analyzes the rhetoric of William "Parson" Brownlow during the Civil War era. Within the pages of the Whig, Brownlow's famous newspaper, he created a fixed image of African Americans. Brownlow argued that when removed from slavery, people of African descent naturally became barbaric, and thus slavery was needed to ensure the safety of the white population. Despite this consistency in racial thought, Brownlow, through the course of the 1850s shifted from defending slavery as a necessary evil to promoting slavery as an unqualified blessing in the years before the Civil War. Furthermore, during Brownlow's governorship of Tennessee during Reconstruction, Brownlow argued that slavery was economically deleterious to poor white farmers. These findings have important implications for the history of Appalachia. Most specifically, Brownlow's racist rhetoric suggests that race perceptions in East Tennessee were not significantly separable from the race sentiments of the larger South.

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Singleton, Kennth L. "Harry H. Singleton.II, a warrior as activist: racism in Horry county, South Carolina , 1965-2005." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2009. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/157.

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This historical narrative examined the impact of institutional and individual racism during the Post Civil Rights Era by analyzing the life and work of minister, businessman, and educator, Reverend Harry H. Singleton, II of Horry County. South Carolina. Special attention was given to Singleton’s role in the integration of Horry County Public Schools. the Conway High School football boycott, and his work as a civil rights leader with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Further, incidents in Singleton’s life and career as a civil rights activist reflect the legal support of district courts in South Carolina. particularly in the case of Harry H. Singleton v. Horry County Board of Education. Based on the research, Singleton’s life is reflective of an African-American leader whose contributions to race relations on the grassroots level was indicative of his life experiences growing up in Edgefield. South Carolina and his commitment to correcting racism in Horry County, South Carolina from 1965 to 2005.

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Chan, Courtney. "Healing from Racism with Compassion Meditation: Effects of Coping on Mental Health." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1613.

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This study examines whether Compassion Meditation (CM) can help ethnic minority college students heal from race-related stress. The present study hypothesized that through participation in a CM intervention, the augmentation of adaptive coping strategies (i.e., self-compassion) and the reduction of maladaptive coping strategies (i.e., internalization, defined as self-blame, and detachment, defined as social isolation) would reduce depression and PTSD. Participants (N = 9) participated in an 8-session weekly CM intervention and completed three questionnaires at the beginning, middle, and end of the intervention. Results demonstrated that increasing self-compassion predicted decreases in depression, and that reducing coping via detachment predicted decreases in PTSD. In addition, all nine participants met the clinical cutoff for major depression at pre-intervention, but only five remained above the cutoff point by post-intervention. Implications for future CM interventions, research, and prevention strategies are discussed.

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Ingram, Jurdene Arlette. ""Racism, we gotta deal with it": experiences of African American graduate students at a predominately white university." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13770.

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Master of Science
Department of Marriage and Family Therapy
Joyce Baptist
Universities around the country are consistently focusing on increasing diversity among the student population, yet little is known about how minority graduate student populations fair academically and personally in predominately White institutions, specifically African American graduate students. This qualitative study examines the lived experiences of six African American graduate students. Participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide on their experiences in a predominately White graduate program. The findings support previous research that indicates that social conditions have not changed and minority students are still not well integrated into their programs. Findings also suggest that although Berry’s (1987) model of acculturation can be used to conceptualize the experience of African American undergraduate students, the experience of graduate students is more complex, and only partially supported by this model. Suggestions for how universities can better improve the environment for African American graduate students are included.

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Evans, Jazmin Antwynette. "Scientific Racism's Role in the Social Thought of African Intellectual, Moral, and Physical inferiority." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/581847.

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African American Studies
M.A.
Scientific Racism was a method used by some to legitimize racist social thought without any compelling scientific evidence. This study seeks to identify, through the Afrocentric Paradigm, some of these studies and how they have influenced the modern western institution of medicine. It is also the aim of this research to examine the ways Africans were exploited by the western institution of medicine to progress the field. Drawing on The Post Traumatic Slave Theory, I will examine how modern-day Africans in America are affected by the experiences of enslaved Africans.
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Dunbar, Anthony W. "Critical race information theory applying a CRITical race lens to information studies /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1779835191&sid=16&Fmt=2&clientId=48051&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Strouble, Bruce W. "Racism vs. Social Capital: A Case Study of Two Majority Black Communities." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1353.

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Several researchers have identified social capital as a means to improve the social sustainability of communities. While there have been many studies investigating the benefits of social capital in homogeneous White communities, few have examined it in Black homogeneous communities. Also, there has been limited research on the influence of racism on social capital in African American communities. In this dissertation a comparative case study was used within a critical race theory framework. The purpose was to explore the role of racial oppression in shaping social capital in majority African American communities. Data were collected from 2 majority Black communities in Florida. The collected data included reviews of local news reports, voter turnout reports, and community health assessments, along with focus groups and semi structured interviews with a purposive sample of 20 of the communities' African American residents. Benet's polarities of democracy model was employed to analyze the relationship between racism and social capital. Analysis included inductive coding followed by pattern matching to identify overarching themes between the selected cases. One key theme was that perceived racial disparity inhibited bridging and linking social capital in the selected communities. Another key theme was that racism created social capital deficiencies and a dysfunctional community culture, which limited the capacity to address collective issues. Social change implications include specific policy recommendations to state and local leaders to increase the participation of Black community members in democratic processes. Additionally, this research has potential to improve understanding of the various ways that racism may affect Black Communities.

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