It is a somber truth that marginalized groups have often been ignored when illuminating events of the past, since white hegemony has sought to suppress the voices of and injustices committed upon the "inferior" for many centuries. ... "In Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder", Jennifer Morgan gathers journal entries from European explorers to make the case that white people used African women's bodies as an apparatus to "convey an emergent notion of racialized difference.... The first comprehensive book to be written about enslaved African American women is titl...

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In London in 2011 thousands of people protested, rioted and engaged in criminal activity from Saturday the 6th August through to Thursday the 11th of August. ... Thus one might emerge as in a category of ethnic minority and pro-civil order, or indeed as a white, British rioter. ... This intersectionality demonstrates the ways in which people can 'fall through the gap' in analyses which racialise the protest movement in particular demographic ways. ... The opposition to the privilege of ethno-centrism as it is perceived to favour white over black people in both the UK and the US mean...

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In addition, Armstrong was not only considered a jazz musician, also caught a lot of attention because in the period in which he lived, the racism against black people was common among American society, but thanks to his acclaimed talent and despite of the criticism he received in the press or in any place where he acted, for example, in one of his performances in New Orleans, the trumpeter played for three months only in white-clubs where blacks fans could only listen to his songs remaining outside on windows or hearing him in the radio broadcasts live. During one of his concerts, a white pre...

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In 19th century America, nearly any white person was a racist. ... This shows that he indeed belonged with any other white man in 19th century society that was just how America functioned at the time. ... In his famous speech at Peoria, Illinois, he states: "But in ascertaining the number of the people, for this purpose five slaves are counted as being equal to three whites. The slaves do not vote; they are only counted and so used, as to swell the influence of the white people's voted there is not instance of exact equality and the disadvantage is against us the whole chapter throug...

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