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Fighting Over The Founders: How We Remember The American Revolution, Andrew Schocket Jan 2015

Fighting Over The Founders: How We Remember The American Revolution, Andrew Schocket

Andrew M Schocket

The American Revolution is all around us. It is pictured as big as billboards and as small as postage stamps, evoked in political campaigns and car advertising campaigns, relived in museums and revised in computer games. As the nation’s founding moment, the American Revolution serves as a source of powerful founding myths, and remains the most accessible and most contested event in U.S. history: more than any other, it stands as a proxy for how Americans perceive the nation’s aspirations. Americans’ increased fascination with the Revolution over the past two decades represents more than interest in the past. It’s also …


Closing The Gaps? The Politics Of Maori Inequality., Evan Poata-Smith Sep 2012

Closing The Gaps? The Politics Of Maori Inequality., Evan Poata-Smith

Evan S. Te Ahu Poata-Smith

No abstract provided.


Ka Tika A Muri, Ka Tika A Mua? Maori Protest Politics And The Treaty Of Waitangi Settlement Process, Evan Poata-Smith Sep 2012

Ka Tika A Muri, Ka Tika A Mua? Maori Protest Politics And The Treaty Of Waitangi Settlement Process, Evan Poata-Smith

Evan S. Te Ahu Poata-Smith

No abstract provided.


Writing As Migration: Brian Castro, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Identity, Wenche Ommundsen Nov 2011

Writing As Migration: Brian Castro, Multiculturalism And The Politics Of Identity, Wenche Ommundsen

Wenche Ommundsen

No abstract provided.


Looking Australia In The Face: Politics And Contemporary Literary Practice, Wenche Ommundsen Nov 2011

Looking Australia In The Face: Politics And Contemporary Literary Practice, Wenche Ommundsen

Wenche Ommundsen

No abstract provided.


Reflexivity In Fiction: Poetics And Politics, Wenche Ommundsen Nov 2011

Reflexivity In Fiction: Poetics And Politics, Wenche Ommundsen

Wenche Ommundsen

No abstract provided.


Buffalo's "Prophet Of Protest": The Political Leadership And Activism Of Reverend Dr. Bennett W. Smith, Sr., Sherri Wallace Jun 2001

Buffalo's "Prophet Of Protest": The Political Leadership And Activism Of Reverend Dr. Bennett W. Smith, Sr., Sherri Wallace

Sherri L. Wallace

Recently voted as one of Western New York's most influential people for the twentieth century (Gallivan 1999), the Reverend Dr. [Bennett W. Smith, Sr.] Sr.'s own electoral and political activism clearly emanate from the ethical expressions of the social justice ministry of his late friend and comrade, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King characterized social justice in terms of "comprehensive social empowerment." He believed that freedom for African-Americans without empowerment (i.e. "Civil Rights"), land and/or other social/economic resources, was not "true" freedom (Walker 1991, 24). King's philosophy, similar to Stokely Carmichael's view of "Black Power," articulated a "call …