Abstract Beliefs in conspiracy theories are widespread throughout the world, in every culture and community. ... The most common theories are that which circle HIV/AIDS. ... This study identifies these theories as it relates to origination, treatment, and prevention/protection. ... This research will specify how the theories cluster and remarkable aspects about these theories. ... Conspiracy theories (rumors, myths, urban legends) have a long history throughout the world. ...

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The racial class system overwhelmed Blacks with the harsh realities of stereotyping and the segregation of daily life in the Jim Crow South. ... The threat of physical pain, public humiliation, and death held Jim Crow system firmly in place. However, people did eventually begin to fight against the system. ... Why should these men fight for a democracy that in theory treated them as equals but in reality oppressed their race? ...

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In this paper I will discuss how two different theories of state repression can be applied to the Apartheid regime in South Africa. I will discuss how High Modernism, a theory constructed by James Scott, and Organic Nationalism, a theory put forth by Michael Mann, contributed to Apartheid ideology. ... The Afrikaner National Party played on this fear and developed the Apartheid system that was essentially "an economic system, designed to restrict blacks to the position of a permanently subordinate, low-paid working class." ... The Apartheid system also called for political segregation,...

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Theories of racial history were transformed into theories of world history. ... Explanations for advanced social systems in Africa were predicated on the belief of Caucasian mixture in the aristocratic or ruling elements. ... It also became associated with "republicanism, Protestantism, democracy, laissez-faire, economic theory, progress, and empire building" (Smedley 188). ... This idea passed on through the school system to the children enforcing the idea of racial superiority further into the social culture of America. ... Indian burial grounds, advanced social systems in Africa, etc.)...

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In the book "All God's Children" author Fox Butterfield delivered his point of view and his theory on the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence. ... Here the share cropper system reduced the African Americans to peons but then in 1867 the Southern states were forced to give African Americans to vote (Butterfield, F., 2008). ... White southerner's seen themselves as above the law, honor and slavery gave them that idea, but blacks seen themselves outside the law they couldn't go to court because the court system was controlled by whites and the only way t...

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One explanation for racial residential segregation is the racial threat theory (Kent & Carmichael, 2014). ... The racial threat theory can explain the persistence of racial residential segregation in terms of fear based on racial stereotyping. ... Similar to the racial threat theory, this theory also considers racial perceptions and attitudes as barriers to integration. ... The theory fails to explain this aspect, which the racial threat theory and the place stratification theory address. ... So far, improvements in the transportation system to connect black communities with various employmen...

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Ideally, the destruction of white privilege and the belief systems that support it could result in the formation of an equal nation. ... White privilege is a system that amasses to whites' greater wealth and resources. ... Using William Ryan's theories on equality, white privilege represents a major discrepancy in his "Fair Play" perspective. ... This Fair Shares theory calls for society to check the behavior of those that become overly ambitious at the expense of the less affluent. ...

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While the commonplace approach of analysing the novel would be to place it within the context of its time of publication and/or the time frame the story is set in, this paper seeks to determine its current-day relevance in terms of how racial issues are treated within the American judicial system. 3. ... (Interview: The Daily Show) The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has been banning the book since 2005, along with three other works by Grisham, on the grounds of it containing "content that could be deemed as 'inflammatory' in the prison system"("National Library ...

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It is maintained in this paper that the current usage of the term race, as perpetuated by clients, professionals, and systems in the mental health profession, is outdated, misleading, and sometimes destructive. ... This lauded myth of superior races did not arise overnight, but in fact has a historical development and can be traced back to the grandiloquent but deeply flawed theories of two prominent 18th century scientists - Carl Linnaeus and Johann Blumenbach. In 1735, Linnaeus published a biological schema used to classify plants and animals titled Systems of Nature, which later became th...

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The ideology of the Black Panther Party is the historical experiences of Black people in America translated through Marxism-Leninism theory. ... Under Marxist theory, the rising of the proletariat would cause a revolution of society and an overthrow of the system in charge. ... Point number five looks at the view that Black history and the studies of the Black society be incorporated into the education system. ... Point number six set the view that the government is obligated to provide a free system whereby medical advice, treatment, health education and research development programs are prov...

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Britain adopted this political theory as much as it could. ... Liberal theories also influenced the British government's reluctance to intervene in the time of the 1930's depression. ... The unification of Italy was also based on a liberal theory. ... The construction of the state education system from 1870 to 1914 seemed to be in response to the campaigns of women, however domestic skills were still taught to girls to pacify the men who feared that Britain might be in moral decline. ... All in all the state education system didn't really effect female pupils that much, sinc...

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According to Marx's theory of alienation, it is a separation of things that are naturally meant to be together, and therefore a person actually becomes an "alien" in the world they live in. Marx focuses his theory on social alienation which can be seen in Wright's book. ... The final type from Marx's theory is alienation from each other which means one is alienated from other humans. ... He struggled to liberate himself from the alienation of white people and the working system because it was strongly looked down upon by whites and blacks. ...

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When it comes to the theory of any particular enlightenment, we cannot overlook the accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker, because his inventions and theories have contributed to the adaptation of the political, social, and economic structures within the United States. ... He was also the first scientist to study the relativity of time and space two centuries before Einstein's Theory of Relativity. ... I can add with truth that nobody wishes more ardently to see a good system commenced for raising the condition both of their body & mind to what it ought to be, as fast as the imbecility of...

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This grip on the minds of African Americans led to W.E.B Du Bois' theory of double consciousness. ... Du Bois' double consciousness theory. Du Bois' double consciousness theory is viewing oneself through the eyes of others. Du Bois claims that this theory associates precisely with African Americans. ... Du Bois, for critiquing the flaws in the American system and showing African Americans that they are better than what is portrayed. ...

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Affirmative Action Prior to the teachings and ideals of affirmative action, the theories of Martin Luther King existed as a means of creating equality between the masses. ... Despite the fact that affirmative action, or better known as equity, was designed as a an aid for minorities, many groups today see it as a deterrence in present day social systems. ...

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Janice describes her community as poor blacks' trapped in the system. ... Application of Theory Janice's life provides insight of her identity development process and her journey in the development of a positive racial identity. The major processes that comprise identity development are addressed by Erik Erikson in his theory of psycho-social development. ...

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My theory, the real reason that the war was fought was about expansion West and not about slavery. ... Slavery had been first and foremost an economic system for the South. ... This feeds into the theory that if African-Americans were not disenfranchised, they would have gained control of the South. ...

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James Baldwin was a civil rights activist in America; not only did he fight for "the injustice system of racism, but also the rampant homophobia and ant-intellectualism" (Baldwin, 165). ... Baldwin talks about feeling like a rarity and an attraction, being called the n-word, and he shares his theory of how evolved the world will become. ... The opinion that James Baldwin's prediction of a dark revolution will ultimately come to pass is a theory I believe shall come to pass. ...

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Reading the critiques of feminism from African-American women's views added made me think about feminism and race in a different way. I had read some of bell hooks before and other articles regarding women and race, but in this unit I particularly enjoyed reading the selection from the Combahee Riv...

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James Johnson ends his book, "The Autobiography of and Ex-Coloured Man" with a paragraph containing the statement, "[these men] are men who are making history and a race. I, too, might have taken part in a work so glorious."(211) These words are meant to be taken in the context of reflection of th...

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Despite these facts, the development of the legal system with regard to race seems to have become stagnant. ... There are several levels within the system at which discrimination could occur. The initial contact which anyone has with the justice system is with the police. The police are the institution which serve as a gateway to the legal system, and thus it is only logical to look here first. ... So other aspects of the criminal justice system must be examined. ...

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King instructed the Negro community to refrain from engaging in harm to others implying an agreement with John Stuart Mill's theory of utility. King implied that he believed in the utilitarian theory of happiness through no harm to others when he said that "in the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. ...

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Black political and social activists within prisons were important because they provided an in depth criticism of the American criminal Justice system. The court system, wardens and conditions of the prisoners such as George Jackson, Bobby Seale and the Folsom Cadre produced acclaimed documents critical of the penal system. ... The convict lease system farmed black and a few white prisoners out to work in factories, mines, and fields that built the New south. Through a gaping loophole in the 13th Amendment, politicians replaced slavery with a penal system designed to control black labor. ...

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Although the 13th Amendment stated that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude... shall exist within the United States," a new agricultural system, the crop lien, kept the blacks under the control of their (former) "masters". With unfair trade practices and a limited amount of capital being exchanged, the blacks in the South were not free to do as they pleased; once again they were caught in a system that profited the white Southerners. ... Southern whites were allowed to set up a system that kept blacks as prisoners without any say on their future. ... The amendments to the Constitution...

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In struggling against the brutal dynamics of a system that simultaneously set before her ideals of "true womanhood," yet refused to acknowledge her as a human being, Jacobs rises scarred but victorious. ... DuBois introduced the theory of double-consciousness in the early twentieth century. ... This theory postulated that the person who embodied its principles would experience a divided loyalty to each culture, as well as difficulties with identification. ...

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