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Gilroy is a scholar of cultural studies and black Atlantic diasporic culture with interests in the "myriad manifestations of black British culture". [8] He is the author of There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack (1987), Small Acts (1993), The Black Atlantic (1993), Between Camps (2000; also published as Against Race in the United States), and After Empire (2004; published as Postcolonial ...
South Jamaica (also commonly known as "Southside") is a residential neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, located south of downtown Jamaica.Although a proper border has not been established, the neighborhood is a subsection of greater Jamaica bounded by the Long Island Rail Road Main Line tracks, Jamaica Avenue, or Liberty Avenue to the north; the Van Wyck Expressway on the ...
Dobbs married Irene Ophelia Thompson in 1906. They had six daughters together, all of whom graduated from Spelman College.One daughter, Mattiwilda Dobbs, became a notable opera singer based in Europe, while daughter Josephine Dobbs Clement was later elected to the city board of education in Durham, North Carolina (she led integration and discussions about race), and Irene Dobbs Jackson was a ...
Chris Goode, a former Kansas City Parks and Recreation commissioner, wants to rename Troost Avenue, one of the city’s best-known streets, mostly because it served as a racial dividing line ...
During the period in which Miles developed his ideas (1970s-1980s), both he and other sociologists opposed to the analysis based on race relations. In those decades British sociology held an extensive debate between the race relations used analytically by Michael Banton, and the ideas about social conflict used by the scholar John Rex.
The controversy of the Sojourner Truth project continued into 1944 with the proposal of a 300-unit housing expansion. However, the DHC rejected the proposal out of belief that it "would be inviting a major controversy while gaining only a very small percentage of the houses needed to solve the immediate housing problem". [10]
May 23—A road race will avoid construction downtown this fall in its second year by shifting to a new course through the University District. The Boulevard Race benefiting the Community Cancer ...
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