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3 days ago · A third major theme addressed by the literature of the Harlem Renaissance was race. Virtually every novel and play, and most of the poetry, explored race in America, especially the impact of race and racism on African Americans.
3 days ago · Definitions provide by the Racial Equity Tools Glossary. Race : A social construct that artificially divides people into distinct groups based on characteristics such as physical appearance (particularly color), ancestral heritage, cultural affiliation, cultural history, ethnic classification, and the social, economic and political needs of a ...
- Kathy Herrlich
- 2011
3 days ago · Racism is discrimination and prejudice against people based on their race or ethnicity. Racism can be present in social actions, practices, or political systems (e.g. apartheid) that support the expression of prejudice or aversion in discriminatory practices.
3 days ago · In other words, the intention of protest literature was—and remains—to show inequalities among races and socio-economic groups in America and to encourage a transformation in the society that engenders such inequalities. For African Americans, Some of the questions motivating African American protest poetry that inequality began with slavery.
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5 days ago · The Origins of Racism in the West. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780521888554; 348pp.; Price: £55.00. In 1994 I published a now widely cited and highly regarded volume entitled Immigration, Ethnicity and Racism in Britain, 1815–1914 (1), which, at the time, faced critical comment.
5 days ago · postcolonialism, the historical period or state of affairs representing the aftermath of Western colonialism; the term can also be used to describe the concurrent project to reclaim and rethink the history and agency of people subordinated under various forms of imperialism. Postcolonialism signals a possible future of overcoming colonialism ...
2 days ago · Objective definitions look at things like language, culture, customs, national origin, and ancestry and assume that ethnic groups exist because of where a person is situated socially. Subjective approaches to ethnicity look at ethnic self-identification. Subjective approaches understand ethnic identity as variable, flexible, and situational.
