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Bayo Holsey
Bio: Bayo Holsey is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: History. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 219 citations.
Topics: History
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TL;DR: Hunter as discussed by the authors, "Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War", is a book about women's lives and labor in the South during the American Civil War.
Abstract: To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War. Tera W. Hunter. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997. 311 pp. (Cloth US$29.95)
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TL;DR: Semley et al. as discussed by the authors described history's interdisciplinary roots, ruts, and routes as a road map of human history and its interdisciplinary connections to the present day.
Abstract: History’s Interdisciplinary Roots, Ruts, and Routes Lorelle Semley* , Teresa Barnes, Bayo Holsey, and Egodi Uchendu Department of History, College of the Holy Cross,Worcester, MA 01610, USA Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL 61801, USA Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA Department of History, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nsukka, Nigeria *Corresponding Author: lsemley@holycross.edu
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TL;DR: Les AA. explorent la definition et le sens meme de diaspora en tant que concept as discussed by the authors and tentent de demontrer que les relations qui lient la diasporas doivent s'articuler et ne sont pas inevitables.
Abstract: Les AA. explorent la definition et le sens meme de diaspora en tant que concept. Une grande part des debats actuels continue a suggerer que la diaspora est tout simplement une manifestation logique de la dispersion, qu'importe comment cette diaspora a ete creee ou depuis combien de temps elle existe. Les AA. tentent de demontrer que les relations qui lient la diaspora doivent s'articuler et ne sont pas inevitables, et que la diaspora est a la fois processus et condition. En tant que processus, elle est en permanence en cours de formation, et en tant que condition, elle se situe a l'interieur des hierarchies globales de race et de sexe (ou de genre). Cependant, tout comme la diaspora est faite, elle peut etre defaite et les chercheurs doivent ainsi examiner les moments de son demantelement. En effet, les efforts faits pour discerner les elements constitutifs de la ou des diasporas soulevent des questions importantes sur la facon dont l'Afrique est conceptualisee relativement a sa diaspora. Ces efforts mettent egalement en evidence la necessite d'examiner la superposition et l'intersection de diasporas issues de localisations historiques multiples.
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TL;DR: In the closing decades of the 20th century, a broadly shared view took hold that the stigmatization of those who were already vulnerable provided the context within which diseases spread, exacerbating morbidity and mortality.
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TL;DR: The authors examines the use of W. E. B. Du Bois's reflections on the "psychological wage" of whiteness and concludes that the psychological wage serves poorly as a new explanation for the old question of why white workers have refused to make common cause with African Americans.
Abstract: Scholarship on whiteness has grown dramatically over the past decade, affecting nu- merous academic disciplines from literary criticism and American studies to history, sociology, geography, education, and anthropology. Despite its visibility and quantity, the genre has generated few serious historiographical assessments of its rise, development, strengths, and weaknesses. This essay, which critically examines the concept of whiteness and the ways labor historians have built their analyses around it, seeks to subject historical studies of whiteness to overdue scrutiny and to stimulate a debate on the utility of whiteness as a category of historical analysis. Toward that end, the essay explores the multiple and shifting definitions of whiteness used by scholars, concluding that historians have employed arbitrary and inconsistent definitions of their core concept, some overly expansive or metaphorically grounded and others that are radically restricted; whiteness has become a blank screen onto which those who claim to analyze it can project their own meanings. The essay critically examines historians' use of W. E. B. Du Bois's reflections on the “psychological wage”—something of a foundational text for whiteness scholars—and concludes that the “psychological wage” of whiteness serves poorly as a new explanation for the old question of why white workers have refused to make common cause with African Americans. Whiteness scholars' assertions of the nonwhite status of various immigrant groups (the Irish and eastern and southern Europeans in particular) and the processes by which these groups allegedly became white are challenged, as is whiteness scholars' tendency toward highly selective readings of racial discourses. The essay faults some whiteness scholarship produced by historians for a lack of grounding in archival and other empirical evidence, for passive voice constructions (which obscure the agents who purportedly define immigrants as not white), and for a problematic reliance upon psychohistory in the absence of actual immigrant voices. Historians' use of the concept of whiteness, the essay concludes, suffers from a number of potentially fatal methodological and conceptual flaws; within American labor history, the whiteness project has failed to deliver on its promises.
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TL;DR: In this article, African American teachers have been actively involved in political movements that sought to improve the material conditions of African Americans, and more contemporary examinations of Af-Am teachers' involvement in social movements have been presented.
Abstract: Historically, African American teachers have been actively involved in political movements that sought to improve the material conditions of African Americans. More contemporary examinations of Afr...
129 citations