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Introduction: What is Israel/Palestine?
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Michael Barnett and others
Published: 15 March 2023
... is in a state of becoming something else due to the contested political status of the areas by numerous parties. The chapter notes that sovereignty is central to the modern world order and states without can seem to be an anomaly. It then mentions how apartheid will become a reality if current trends of unequal...
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Political Engagement, Divestment, and Cornell’s Two-China Policy
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Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick
Published: 31 July 2014
... that Rhodes and other Cornell administrators addressed the political engagement of faculty and students. In particular, it considers Rhodes's position regarding “constructive engagement” as well as apartheid and divestment in South Africa. It also looks at the establishment of the Cornell in Washington...
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Published: 31 January 2014
... complicity with South Africa’s apartheid regime, and the presence of ROTC on campus. Here the author talks about the dispute involving the Cornell Afro-American Society versus the university administration and faculty, along with the SDS’s support for Cornell’s black student activists; the ruling of the U.S...
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Published: 15 September 2017
...Although a constellation of factors would seem to have predisposed South Africa to make major new commitments to expand access to healthcare after the fall of apartheid, embrace of National Health Insurance has taken place in name only more than 20 years later. The chapter suggests that this sad...
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Published: 03 February 2011
...This chapter focuses on the role that the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has played in the formulation of U.S. foreign policy toward Africa since the 1960s. The pivotal role of the CBC in passing the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act (CAAA) of 1986 in particular places the discussion...
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J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: The Rights of Desire and the Embodied Lives of Animals
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Elizabeth S. Anker
Published: 16 November 2012
... in post-apartheid South Africa, Disgrace challenges the philosophical and practical wisdom of using the language of rights either to condemn wrongdoing or to instigate sociopolitical recovery. This chapter examines Disgrace 's use of the animal world as a surrogate...
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Published: 15 March 2023
... reality deeply and formally entrench apartheid-like regimes of control even if it could trigger the opportunity for a democratic state based on equality and citizenship rights. Che Michael Lynch Marc Barnett Michael BDS Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement Brown Nathan J Martin Steve Telhami...
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The Challenge of South African Apartheid
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Lauren Frances Turek
Published: 15 May 2020
...This chapter explores the evangelical contribution to the debate over U.S. relations with the apartheid government of South Africa and the global anti-apartheid movement. It talks about some members of the Southern Baptist Convention that joined progressive religious groups in order to protest U.S...
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“Despite the contradictions”
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Christine Jeske
Published: 15 December 2020
... in South Africa and the world since the earliest mercantile and colonial encounters between Europeans and Africans, and this narrative was never eradicated, despite antislavery, civil rights, and anti-apartheid movements that achieved important legal and structural changes. The struggle to change...
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Boy from the Bronx
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Bruce Dancis
Published: 31 January 2014
..., on May 29, 1969 before looking back at his growing up years: how he learned about anti-Semitism and racial prejudice; apartheid in the Bronx; his participation in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963 and in Freedom Run on March 14–16, 1965; and his involvement with the civil...
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SDS, South Africa, and the Security Index
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Bruce Dancis
Published: 31 January 2014
...The author discusses the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) decision to place him and other draft resisters on the Security Index, along with Cornell SDS’s program calling for the university’s “economic disengagement of Cornell from South African banks” due to the country’s apartheid policy...
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Published: 04 November 2016
... and Reconciliation Commission become the most widely surveyed and scrutinized reconciliation process, it has also become exemplary for communities seeking an extrajudicial “rejoinder” to traumatic events in their past, such as Greensboro. South Africa's transition from apartheid rule in the 1990s is commonly seen...
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Community
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Marcel Paret
Published: 15 February 2022
... to antiapartheid resistance amidst the 1980s as common opposition to apartheid racism connected disparate local areas. The absorption of trade unions and community groups into the African National Congress (ANC) left activists to build new vehicles of resistance, such as mobilizing place-based communities...
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Muslim Exceptionalism and Genocide
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Jennie E. Burnet
Published: 15 January 2023
... Rwandans of other faiths. It also talks about Muslims in Biryogo and Gisenyi that were deeply enmeshed in actor-networks that coalesced into genocidal agency due to the local histories of settlement, colonial apartheid policies, urbanization, and patronage ties entangled with business, trade, and politics...
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Between Homeland and Motherland: Africa, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Black Leadership in America
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Alvin B. Jr. Tillery
Published online: 18 August 2016
Published in print: 03 February 2011
... with Africa, the book shows how black leaders continuously balanced national, transnational, and community impulses, whether distancing themselves from Marcus Garvey's back-to-Africa movement, supporting the anticolonialism movements of the 1950s, or opposing South African apartheid in the 1980s....