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Published: 18 September 2009
... these two racial groups was not free of hardships and misunderstandings, as both races also struggled with the issues of intellectual elitism, sexism, national chauvinism, and disdain. African American–Caribbean solidarity decolonization Glissant Edouard Mayfield Curtis relational community Tosh Peter...
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Published: 02 November 2016
.... Fan perspectives on Sansa, Naylor finds, take the form of intense appreciations of her, reflections on how her narrative refracts issues of young women’s victimization and survival, and “defenses” that confront her detractors and implicate the role of sexism and misogyny in some fans’ vocal dislike...
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Published: 01 July 2012
...This chapter describes how women on the Left argued that sexism and male chauvinism permeated multiple aspects of society. As such, they believed that the battle against what they perceived as a fascist domestic ideology must extend to their personal and romantic relationships. The theme of women...
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Shaping Memories: Reflections of African American Women Writers
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Joanne Veal Gabbin (ed.)
Published online: 20 March 2014
Published in print: 11 August 2009
... includes a headnote summarizing the writer’s career and aesthetic development. In their pieces these women negotiate educational institutions and societal restrictions and find their voices despite racism, sexism, and religious chauvinism. They offer strong testimony to the power of words to heal...
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Wonder Women and the Web: How Female Comics Creators Leap from Private to Public in a Single Bound
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Aimee Valentine
Published: 28 February 2020
... Marjane Syllabus Notes from an Accidental Professor Barry visual literacy Wilson G Willow female comics creators Trina Robbins Nicole Hollander comics history sexism and comics Formal and customary restrictions within print publications have shaped the evolution of comics for centuries. Comics...
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Published: 11 September 2023
... Maria W Maria W. Stewart Sexism Racism Jeremiad Zilpha Elaw Part I of A Seat at the Table , “Foundations of Black Women’s Public Intellectualism,” includes two chapters, “‘Fired with a Holy Ambition’: Maria W. Stewart and the Foundations of Black Women’s Jeremiadic Tradition...
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King, Stuart, and Others
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Catharine Savage Brosman
Published: 01 October 2013
..., a Little Creole Girl , is likewise examined. By close reading and identification of critics’ presentism, the chapter responds to accusations of racism and sexism made by Helen Taylor, A. S. Elfenbein, and others against King and Stuart. King’s “The Little Convent Girl” is compared to stories...
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“You Make the Letters. The Letters Don’t Make You” The Construction of Memory and Identity in Stomp the Yard
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Matthew W. Hughey and Elizabeth C. Fine
Published: 18 February 2011
..., and the memory of the civil rights movement. It also demonstrates how the film transforms these identities and memories into a kind of shallow and hallow commodity that dulls the sharp edge of black Greek-letter organizations’ past and present activism. Finally, it shows how racism, classism, and sexism...
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From Out of the Shadows of Invisibility: Brazilian Women’s Football and the Pioneering Figure of Marta
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Cláudia Samuel Kessler and Silvana Vilodre Goellner
Published: 02 December 2016
... Akers Player of the Year Award US New York Cosmos NASL Neymar Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior North American Soccer League NASL Pelé Edson Arantes do Nascimento Ronaldinho Ronaldo de Assis Moreira Ronaldo Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro O Globo Olympic Games Futbol Brazil Pele Sexism...
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Published: 07 September 2017
... lived experiences—what it means to be simultaneously a racially minoritized individual but also a woman—but also the multiplicity of oppressions that black women experience, from racism to sexism and beyond. Black intellectualism Stewart Maria Beal Frances Garvey Amy Jacques Garvey Marcus Third...
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Excursus1 1 : XX Comics in an XY World
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Harriet E. H. Earle
Published: 19 June 2017
...This section moves away from the thread of discussion on representations of trauma and instead turn to an issue that is gaining momentum within the comics field–the representation of female characters and the matter of sexism in the industry: Where are there female creators? Most of the primary...
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Operationalizing “Baby” for Our Good: A Critical Cultural Commentary on Early Twentieth-Century Songs about Women as Baby and Baby Doll
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Melanie Bratcher
Published: 07 June 2018
...This chapter explores lyrics from early twentieth century songs about women as Baby, Doll, and Baby Doll; and locates links between survival aesthetics and social controls. Evidence is presented that describes African cultural inheritance and its appropriation as part of sexism and stereotyping...