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Doers Of The Living Word: Gospel Ideology And The African American Womanist Novel, Rebecca Erin Huskey
Doers Of The Living Word: Gospel Ideology And The African American Womanist Novel, Rebecca Erin Huskey
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In Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison issues a charge and illuminates the challenge that she and other African American writers face in defining the self through a racially oppressive language:
Neither blackness nor "people of color" stimulates in me notions of excessive, limitless love, anarchy, or routine dread. I cannot rely on these metaphorical shortcuts because I am a black writer struggling with and through a language that can powerfully evoke and enforce hidden signs of racial superiority, cultural hegemony, and dismissive "othering" of people and language which are by no means marginal or already and completely known and …
Motivational Factors That Influence African American Women To Serve As Michigan State Legislators, Rogenia Goza
Motivational Factors That Influence African American Women To Serve As Michigan State Legislators, Rogenia Goza
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Problem. The purpose of this study was to discover factors that influence the political career choice of African American women legislators to serve in the State of Michigan Congress. Therefore, this study focused on motivations that affected three African American women legislators' political experiences.
Method. This study used a case-study approach, and the end result is a multi-faceted case study of the political experiences of three State of Michigan African American women legislators. The techniques used in the ethnographic research---interviews, observations, note-taking, and reviews of public and personal documents---were intended to increase understanding of the observed phenomena. Data …