How Domestic Violence and Political Activism are Related. A Case Study on African-American Women (eBook)

Friedarike Santner (Autor)

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2003 | 1. Auflage
143 Seiten
GRIN Verlag
978-3-638-17305-6 (ISBN)

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Diploma Thesis from the year 2002 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: very good, University of Vienna (Sociology/Anthropology), language: English, abstract: Already before studying social and cultural anthropology and political science, I was an enthusiastic reader of African-American novelists, especially those authored by James Baldwin, and having viewed racism as one form of marginalization and exclusion, I wanted to learn and gain knowledge about this phenomenon and enrolled for these two disciplines. Specializing on African politics in my study, I nevertheless remained interested in the African-American experience and decided to write my thesis on an issue that would be in some proximity to the latter.

Through contacts with African-American social and political activists, I finally encountered an issue that I wanted to tackle, it is a circumstance that, in my view then, constituted a contradiction, the gap between the enormous political and social activism of African-American women and on the other hand the high rate of domestic violence and sexual assault in U.S. Black communities.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.2.2003
• Verlagsort: München
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: domestic_violence • Domestic violence • political actrivism • political_actrivism
• ISBN-10: 3-638-17305-4 / 3638173054
• ISBN-13: 978-3-638-17305-6 / 9783638173056