She grew up in a middle class section of Birmingham, Alabama, that was known as Dynamite Hill, because of the frequent Ku Klux Klan bombings that occurred there. ... At age 15, Angela Davis left Birmingham to attend Elizabeth Irwin School in New York City. Unlike the segregated schools she attended in Alabama with inferior resources and curriculum, Irwin High provided Angela with new politically aggressive views. After completing high school, Angela Davis attended Brandeis University in Massachusetts from 1961-1965, where she would eventually graduate with honors. In 1963, Angela Davis'...

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Hegemony is "the process of moral, philosophical, and political leadership that a social group attains only with the active consent of other important social groups" (Artz). ... It is built by continually renegotiating with subordinates in the three major areas in which they benefit: material, political, and cultural. ... Where it used to be the family, church, and school, TV is now the primary social communicator. ... The political economy for production of media products spurred new social relationships. ... The narrative is linear with a beginning, middle or climax, and ending. ...

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