1.
Bell, Derrick Albert, Jr.
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......against what he saw as pervasive American racism, he first worked (1957–59) in the civil...from 1990 until his death. His Race, Racism and American Law (1973, 6th ed. 2008...Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (1992), Ethical Ambition: Living a......
2.
Baraka, Amiri
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......Broadway in New York City. A provocative political analyst, he has written many works that express a strident anger toward the racism of mainstream white American society. His volumes of poems include Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note (1961), Selected......
3.
Head, Bessie
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......and orphanages as a child. After 1964, she lived in exile in Botswana. Her candid writing voiced her strong concerns about racism, economic stagnation, and the status of women in her adopted country. Her novels include A Question of Power (1973), Maru......
4.
Mbeki, Thabo Mvuyelwa
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......second postapartheid president after the ANC's landslide win in 1999. He adopted a conservative fiscal policy while denouncing racism in South Africa and calling for affirmative action and economic empowerment for black South Africans. His public questioning......
5.
Pius XI
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......française movement in 1925) the pope was on unprecedentedly cordial terms. He spoke out continually against nationalism, racism, and totalitarianism and their menace to human dignity; hence the new feast of Christ the King, established to recall the......
6.
Scottsboro Case
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......state in 1946. The belief that the case against the "Scottsboro boys" was unproved and that the verdicts were the result of racism caused 1930s liberals and radicals to come to the defense of the youths. The fact that Communists used the case for propaganda......
7.
Vasconcelos, José
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......ardent Roman Catholic and a zealous apologist for the Spanish tradition. He denounced democracy and tended to glorify force and racism. Among his well-known works are La raza cósmica (1925) and Indología (1927). The first volume of his four-volume autobiography......
8.
censorship
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......debate. In the 1980s, some feminists attempted to ban pornography as injurious to women. Other activists, concerned with racism and other forms of bigotry, lobbied for the suppression of what came to be called hate speech.The producers of motion pictures......
9.
comedy
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......theater of the absurd such as Eugene Ionesco and Samuel Beckett and the so-called black comedy, often concerning topics like racism, sexual perversion, and murder, of playwrights such as Joe Orton, Harold Pinter, and David Mamet.BibliographySee B......
10.
Fanon, Frantz Omar
- Publication:
-
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2013
Read now
......first book, Black Skin, White Masks (1952, tr. 1967), is a psychoanalytic study of black life and the internalization of racism in a white-dominated world. In The Wretched of the Earth (1961, tr. 1963), widely considered his most important work......