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Voices Of The Say Her Name Campaign: Theorizing An Activist Rhetoric Of Blame, Alisa Davis
Voices Of The Say Her Name Campaign: Theorizing An Activist Rhetoric Of Blame, Alisa Davis
Theses and Dissertations
There is a lack of research in communication scholarship that analyzes how Black women employ blame from their unique standpoint. To combat this, this thesis analyzes the Say Her Name Campaign to demonstrate the ways Black women employ an activist rhetoric of blame that deconstructs their historical erasure in the discourse about antiblack police violence. Drawing upon Black feminist scholarship and epideictic rhetoric, I argue that an activist rhetoric of blame, used by Black women, dramatically puts on display the life of individuals who have experienced injustices and exposes blameworthy misogynoir attitudes in order to criticize the inherent flaws within …
The Invisible Crisis: Framing The Remediation Of Milwaukee's Lead Laterals, Isabella Rieke
The Invisible Crisis: Framing The Remediation Of Milwaukee's Lead Laterals, Isabella Rieke
Theses and Dissertations
When Milwaukee’s municipal water system was developed in 1874, one-half-inch lead pipes were used to convey water from the mains in the street to a customer’s home; the City has since acknowledged that nearly 100,000 such lead pipes are still in use today, a revelation which has opened for debate whether or not these pipes pose a galvanizing public health risk with far-reaching policy and infrastructure implications. This study explores the community response to Milwaukee’s lead laterals through the efforts of the Freshwater for Life Action Coalition (FLAC). How do Milwaukeeans understand the risks posed by the lead laterals? In …
Grassroots And Community Activism Within Milwaukee's Black Community: A Response To Central City Renewal And Revitalization Efforts In The Walnut Street Area, 1960s To 1980s, Madeline Mary Riordan
Grassroots And Community Activism Within Milwaukee's Black Community: A Response To Central City Renewal And Revitalization Efforts In The Walnut Street Area, 1960s To 1980s, Madeline Mary Riordan
Theses and Dissertations
Many researchers and scholars have explored the Black urban experience and have often chosen to focus on the systemic and institutionalized forms of racism that affect different aspects of Black lives. Descriptions of central city lives as told by Black central city residents are starkly similar to the descriptions of Black residents of industrialized cities throughout the United States. Fragments of the Black urban experience are contained in discussions of the effects of urban renewal efforts, including “redevelopment” and “revitalization,” beginning most heavily in the 1940s. Looking back at urban renewal designs and strategies from the 1940s through the 1980s …
Satirical Warfare: Guerrilla Girls' Performance And Activism From 1985-1995, Stephanie Lianne Rhyner
Satirical Warfare: Guerrilla Girls' Performance And Activism From 1985-1995, Stephanie Lianne Rhyner
Theses and Dissertations
In the spring of 1985, a group of seven female artists sat down in the loft of “Frida Kahlo” after the failed protest of MOMA’s show An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture, which featured a total of 169 artists, 13 of which were female. On this day, the Guerrilla Girls were formed and called themselves “the conscience of the art world.” The Guerrilla Girls entered the 1980s in a crucial period for feminism and activism, which included a change from second to third wave feminism, the forming of groups like ACT-Up against the government’s treatment of the AIDS epidemic, …
"To Avoid The Unimaginable": Neoliberalism And The Struggle For American Democracy Since The 1960s, Dawson Barrett
"To Avoid The Unimaginable": Neoliberalism And The Struggle For American Democracy Since The 1960s, Dawson Barrett
Theses and Dissertations
This study explores the structural, tactical, and strategic legacies of 1960s era activism on subsequent American social movements. Specifically, this project explains how the ascendancy of neoliberal policies on both national and global scales has dramatically shifted opportunities for social change. Case studies for these developments include Earth First! and the punk rock movement during the 1980s, the Student-Farmworker Alliance in the 1990s, and a variety of anti-war organizations in the 2000s.