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Race Matters: 1968 as Living History in the Black Freedom Struggle
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White Women in the 1960s Freedom Movement, From Memory to History: The writing of “Shiloh Witness,” a chapter in Deep in Our Hearts (2000)
Published 2019-05-01“…Browning, a white female veteran of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, reflects on the writing of an autobiographical chapter she wrote for a collective book published in 2000 (Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement). …”
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The Contested Terrain of Historical Memory in Contemporary Mississippi
Published 2011-06-01“…Many white Mississippians interested in acknowledging the history of the civil rights movement have yet to link that history with interpretations of slavery and the Civil War. …”
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The Same Old New South: Pride or Prejudice?
Published 2017-01-01“…It examines how each is celebrated in Atlanta, Georgia, focusing on the way in which the Old South was remembered from the end of the Civil War until the Civil Rights movement a century later – the «Old New South» – and how it has been re-remembered in the period since the Civil Rights movement – the «new New South». …”
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White Women and the Fight for Equality in the Southern United States (1920-1964)
Published 2008-09-01“…Unlike the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s that was led and popularized by charismatic male black leaders, the struggle for civil rights that preceded it was mostly led by white reformers, among whom women played a disproportionately important role, not always recognized as such. …”
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Race, Gender, and Power : Black Women, White Women, and Racial Segregation in the Southern United States (1920-1970)
Published 2010-09-01“…However, if the participation of black and white women in the civil rights movement proved as empowering to both groups, it did not foster a strong sense of solidarity among them. …”
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Graphic Nonviolence: Framing “Good Trouble” in John Lewis’ March
Published 2019-03-01“…Finally, the framing strategies of March will be correlated to the mobilization strategies of the civil rights movement.…”
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“This is 1986. This isn’t like the 60s and 50s”: Locating the Long Civil Rights Narrative in Just Mercy (2019)
Published 2024-06-01“…Most mainstream films about the civil rights movement are set in the South in the 1950-1960s, but this article points out how Hollywood in the 2010s broke new ground by also portraying civil rights struggles after that era. …”
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Quand l’économie écologique dé-nature la justice environnementale
Published 2019-03-01“…As a first step, this article presents an historical reminder of the emergence of the notion of environmental justice alongside the civil rights movement in the United States. Next, I propose to examine the conceptualization of nature within the two major approaches of the environmental justice literature (ecological economics and socioecology) to see if they participate in the imposition of a Western-centered definition. …”
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Nord et Sud dans la construction de l’identité noire américaine : réflexions sur le Mouvement pour les Droits Civiques
Published 2012-04-01“…The present article examines the role played by the southern Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s in the construction of a national African American identity. …”
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The New Apartheid
Published 2024-02-01“… The fundamental distinction between a Civil Rights movement such as the African National Congress and a liberation movement like Poqo lies in the status of white settlers and Apartheid. …”
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Performing Dissent: Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson before HUAC (1955-1956)
Published 2021-12-01“…While Seeger’s testimony in August 1955 championed individual liberty and freedom of speech, using the First Amendment as the foundation for his position, Robeson’s testimony delivered in June 1956 invoked an internationalist sense of social justice, linking left-wing politics, the civil rights movement within the United States, and decolonization efforts around the world.…”
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The Olympic “Revolt” of 1968 and its Lessons for Contemporary African American Athletic Activism
Published 2019-03-01“…At a basic level, the exercise reminds us that sport-based activism is not unprecedented and, when it emerges, tends to be connected with the larger social movements of the day (the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s and Black Lives Matter more recently). …”
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Mythologies of American violence in Alan Ball's True Blood series
Published 2016-09-01“…Vampire, werewolf movie codes and motifs are very often recycled in various episodes of the series to problematize current problems in American society such as the women’s liberation movement, the gay and lesbian rights, the civil rights movement etc. All of them provide starkly original variations on the central notions of trouble and evil.The show addresses some the following key issues: which aesthetic, formal and ideological strategies are adopted to represent the different layers of reality? …”
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La désobéissance civile aux Etats-Unis contemporains : triomphe incomplet du libéralisme sur la gauche, routine et réactivation par les mouvements sociaux de l’immigration
Published 2024-04-01“…Secondly, drawing on examples from the immigrant mobilizations of the 2000 and 2010 decades, with a counterpoint to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s, the article shows how the diversity of civil disobedience practices is structured by cyclical mutations, between routinization and defusing on the one hand, revival and reactivation on the other, where reactivation depends on the taking of certain forms of risk which is then turned against the authorities by drawing on mass mobilization.…”
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Horsing Around: Carnivalesque Humor and the Aesthetics of Dehierarchization in Mister Ed
Published 2018-06-01“…Mister Ed playfully advocates a radical move toward alternative representations of body, identity, and species, even postulating an analogy between the African American Civil Rights Movement and the discourse of animal liberation. …”
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Telling About Southern Fluctuations: Elizabeth Spencer at the Back Door
Published 2011-06-01“…It deals with race relations and southern violence, two highly controversial issues at the time since the Civil Rights Movements were beginning. The novel, reminiscent of William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust (1948), stages the search for a culprit after the murder of a white man. …”
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Violences à l’acte, violences dans l’acte : pour une histoire des théâtres féministes états-uniens
Published 2020-11-01“…A look back at the origins of American feminist theatres, built in parallel with the civil rights movements as from the 1960s, allows the history of these theatres to be rehabilitated. …”
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