The Revolution changed the social rank of race and gender in America. African Americans, Native Americans, and women during the American Revolution experience a small amount of equality. There was an erosion of class differentiation because of the new ideals that the Revolution supported. Egalita...
The Declaration fought for the freedom of the white American; the rights of the black man were not included in this new revolutionary legislation. ... "In fact there was a notable gap between antislavery rhetoric and the realities of revolutionary politics. The slavery issue could not be allowed to divide revolutionary alliances or to take precedence over such critical questions as military defense and political reconstruction." ... By 1775 the necessities of war had pulled both free and slave Negroes towards the British army, many of them clutching promises of freedom as their eventual rewar...
Violence was understood as a floating signifier: the fact that violence could be destructive and oppressive or productive and revolutionary signaled that its meaning lay in its context. ... I think this was a crucial point of the conflict, and had to be understood as a declaration of war by the political establishment. ... Here again we find the method of inversion, as "incarcerated people were central to the revolutionary aims of the Black Arts movement both in the works they wrote and in the symbol they provided of imprisonment in a radically oppressive society" (Borstelmann 2011: 101). ... ...
AgFund Response I read the AgFunds story the week after you mentioned it in class and then reread parts of it today. The whole subject is an uncomfortable one without a doubt. The delay in response is due primarily to two reasons. First of all, I didn't want to insult your intelligence with a ...
World War II led to increased industrialization in South Africa. This was because importation of European goods was very difficult during the war, and to compensate South Africa began to produce its own consumer goods. This period of increased industrialization created new job opportunities for black Africans, and after the war led to an influx of black Africans in urban centers seeking wage employment. ... For the most part Scott discusses his theory with regard to progressive revolutionary states that employed Authoritarian High Modernism for the benefit of the whole of the citizens. .....
This strategy was best demonstrated in the Algerian-French conflict through revolutionary decolonization as Fanon and Césaire express through Marxist theories. ... Césaire, like Fanon, was supportive of the war for Algerian independence. ...
As an African American composing (and endeavoring to distribute) poetry in the United States just 60 or somewhere in the vicinity years after the end of the Civil War, a period when indications of prejudice-including explicit segregation, brutality, and even lynchings-were still widespread, Langston Hughes inescapably investigated such points as oppression and liberation in his work (Evans 2010). ... Langston Hughes was a man ahead of his time with views that saw beyond color barriers, and while his writings did appeal to interracial groups who were into "serious" modern literature h...
