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Amex: Discord and Unity in the Canadian Vietnam-Era Anti-Draft Movement, 1969-1971

engaging in direct political activism, many aid group members viewed helping draft dodgers and deserters immigrate as a form of war resistance.5 Exile groups consisted entirely of American immigrants and ... were usually defined by their members’ continued identification as Americans in exile. Some, like the aid groups, focused on helping Americans adjust to life in Canada. Others also emphasized political

The Depiction of Native Hawaiians in American Media

representation and the impact of stereotypes on both Native Hawaiian identity and public views of Native Hawaiians is scarce. This paper uses political cartoons, travel ephemera, film footage, and various forms of ... knowledge of Hawaiʻi is little to none, so you are looking forward to learning more about the “Paradise of the Pacific.”2 Your first exposure to Hawaiian political, cultural, and financial affairs comes from

Internalized Oppression: Exploring the Nuanced Experiences of Gender and Sexuality in Historically Black Colleges and Universities

ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 642, no. 1 (2012), 43–60. 8 Erica Lorraine Williams, “Women’s Studies and Sexuality Studies at HBCUs: The Audre Lorde Project at Spelman ... the domestic sphere, received little help from white feminist movements, and were later forced to form their own Black feminist resistance against heterosexist, male-dominated schools and political

A brief history of PINS

1983 (20 August 1983 in the Western cape), and cOSATU (congress of South African Trade Unions) in 1985 (1 December 1985 in Durban).The academic world, not known for its political activism, was also ... its political activism, was also stirring during this time. Marxist and other radical approaches were in the ascendancy in the disciplines of Sociology, especially Industrial Sociology, History

Asazi ukuthi iyozala nkomoni: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe's historical imagination of the future

This study will attempt to foreground the various underlying facets of Sobukwe's historical imagination and social philosophy through a close reading of his speeches and writings. It will be shown ... social philosophy is clearly stated by Raboroko earlier in the same document as being a contention over the political interests represented in the Freedom Charter: "[t]he crucial issue today is whether the

Recipes for Life: Black Women, Cooking, and Memory

Black culture on a personal and communal level. The personal, political, economic, and cultural are all expressed in these culinary texts. Scholarship and the continued practice of African American ... , ed. Eric Foner and Lisa McGirr (Temple University Press, 2011), 400-401. 3 Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,” The Journal of American History 91

From apartheid to empire: How (post)apartheid South Africa became an anti-poor black society

Using psycho-political analysis as a method of seeing and interpreting, this essay meditates on why and how Frantz Fanon's observation that 'the Black is not a [hu]marí is true in (post)apartheid ... ) Postcolonialism and Political Theory. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.         [ Links ] Gordon, L (2008) An introduction to Africana philosophy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.         [ Links ] Guelke

Anarchism and climate change activism

anarchism (opposition to the state and Marxist political parties and movements)', provide a way of distinguishing the XR from anarchism. Thus, showing how it might or might not be following in the footsteps ... , contradicts their protest as they are protesting against a political system with hierarchies. The book further explores XR's demand for a citizen's assembly and XR's theory of change, the civil resistance model

A Tale of Two Motherlands: Bridging the Gap Between the American and Korean Identities of Korean War Adoptees

story of the “full-blooded” Korean child as a way to correct America’s failure in the war and mend their political relationship with South Korea. These children were the only remaining presence of the ... emotional and physical transformations, the media also used the children as a political tool to further advance Cold War sentiments within the United States. Comparing their lives in Korea to their lives in

The haunting quality of racism

Anti-racism has nurtured many visions of post-racism futures. All this talk and political action relies on and reproduces discourses of racism. While much of this discursive force lies in what is ... arises from such implicature. We develop a discursive account of its constitution in acts of dialogical repression, and we consider some of the social psychological and political ramifications of haunting

Journeying with Psychology in Society (PINS) and vision for the future

how political activism and professional roles intersected (and, sometimes, did not). This interaction between political activism and professional role was what I later came to know as scholar-activism ... not an exaggeration to say that PINS (along with other activist magazines like SPEAK and WIP (Work in Progress), was not only a strong emotional and political anchor during my undergraduate ad early

Writing outside history: Reification, agency and the discourse on identity and difference

The recent debates about the transformation, or decolonization, of higher education in South Africa have underscored the continuing salience of "identity" in post-apartheid political discourse ... of capital. London: Verso.         [ Links ] Ci, J (2011) Evaluating agency: A fundamental question for social and political philosophy. Metaphilosophy, 42(3), 261-281.         [ Links ] Culler, J

Understanding climate injustice as social pathology through the lens of psychoanalysis, recognition theory and critical psychology

standpoint is found in Hegel's political philosophy: social pathologies begin when institutions and social practices deviate from the progressive potential for reason attained through the course of history ... investigate political systems with respect to freedom, equality and justice, but should also reflect on the socio-emotional, intersubjective concept of vulnerability. His approach combines Hegel's theory of

Challenging Ciscentric Feminist Margins: A South African Study on Gender-Based Violence in the Lives of Black Trans Women

related to 'political blackness'-grounded in black consciousness philosophy. It refers to the black experience of all persons who have historically experienced racialised systematic disadvantage under ... largely construed as a structural and institutional phenomenon. Gender, within this framework, is framed as inescapably embedded in the political arrangements of society (Montesanti, 2015). Third-wave

A Case study of "Necklacing": When the case has a face

This article reports on, and develops, existing studies by Mbuqe (2010), and Mbuqe & Laubscher (2019). Political violence is the general phenomenon of interest, research and theoretical access to ... Emmanuel Levinas, as well as the imperatives of Unobuntu. Keywords: Nombulelo Dilato; "Necklacing"; Political Violence; Emmanuel Levinas; Responsibility     "We are bound up in a delicate network

Sobukwe and the psychosocial

The political writings of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, like those of Anton Muziwakhe Lembede and Steve Bantu Biko, are shot through with psychological notions (ideas of consciousness, mental ... ourselves from a materialist form of political critique. Hence, furthermore, the imperative Gordon (2000) asserts in respect of an anti-racist African philosophy: the need for detailed exploration of the

The North American Gamble: An Examination of Nation-State Projects in Canada and the United States

political campaign for secession and subsequent sovereignty. This paper will first examine the nation-state project in the Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis. Second, it will examine the ... American identities, and how these in turn shaped the political philosophy of Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis. A staunch proponent of slavery and states’ rights, Davis would come to lead a nation state

Asazi ukuthi iyozala nkomoni: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe's historical imagination of the future

This study will attempt to foreground the various underlying facets of Sobukwe's historical imagination and social philosophy through a close reading of his speeches and writings. It will be shown ... social philosophy is clearly stated by Raboroko earlier in the same document as being a contention over the political interests represented in the Freedom Charter: "[t]he crucial issue today is whether the

PhDing while panicking in a Pandemic

, particularly the researcher's unique social, political and historical context (Schmid, 2019). In autoethnography research, researchers share their own stories and their voice is foregrounded in the research ... in uncovering oppressions that may be deeply hidden (Maseti, 2018). Autoethnography is also valuable in that it shows how the personal/ psychological is connected to the political, and how the

Race, Place, and Religion: African American Missionaries in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

take upon themselves aspects of Anglo-Christian ‘civilization,’ they should do so under their own political autonomy rather than being led by Europeans or African Americans.25 While this does somewhat