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Speech: An Authentic Theology, Desmond Tutu
Speech: An Authentic Theology, Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Collection Textual
Archbishop Tutu's writings on black theology. Typed with a few handwritten notes.
Personal Notes On A Sheraton Hotels And Resorts Notepad, Desmond Tutu
Personal Notes On A Sheraton Hotels And Resorts Notepad, Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Collection Textual
Archbishop Tutu's handwritten notes.
Speech: Madiba The Man, Desmond Tutu
Speech: Madiba The Man, Desmond Tutu
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Collection Textual
Archbishop Tutu’s speech about Nelson Mandela.
The Exceptional Negro: Racism, White Privilege And The Lie Of Respectability Politics, Traci Ellis
The Exceptional Negro: Racism, White Privilege And The Lie Of Respectability Politics, Traci Ellis
Publications & Research
Overwhelmingly, black folks have close encounters on a regular basis with being marginalized, insulted, dismissed and discriminated against. It is the natural consequence of still being considered little more than a Negro in this country. Especially for the “Exceptional Negroes.” But, as we will see, the truth is that even with our exceptionalism, we are still just “Negroes” to white America and in case we forget that, they will swiftly remind us.
Suing For Spanish: Puerto Ricans, Bilingual Voting, And Legal Activism In The 1970s, Ariel Arnau
Suing For Spanish: Puerto Ricans, Bilingual Voting, And Legal Activism In The 1970s, Ariel Arnau
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation examines how the legal activism of a Puerto Rican group of activist-lawyers and community members contributed to the reshaping of voting law and language policy during the 1970s. The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund (PRLDEF) coordinated a series of lawsuits in Chicago, New York City, and Philadelphia during the early 1970s. The decisions in these lawsuits provided the legal framework to rewrite federal voting rights law during the Voting Rights Act (VRA) reauthorization hearings in 1975. These cases resulted in vastly expanded opportunity to vote for all language minorities in the United States. These civil rights …