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Radical and Militant Aspects of African American Rights Struggle in the United States in the 1960's.
Vajda, Jan ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Calda, Miloš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with people, organizations and movements which strived for better conditions of blacks in the United States of America during 1960's. However its focus is on those for whom the answer wasn't the integration into American society rather they pursued racial separation and often advocated violence. After introduction of some predecessors who held similar views during previous decades it addresses Malcolm X and influence of his opinions on the organizations, which emerged during second half of the decade. In the next chapter the aim is on Black Power movement, which emphasized the importance of economic and institutional autonomy of blacks. Next chapter examines the Black Panther Party and its promotion of armed self-defense which roused the USA. Ghetto activities of this party also have a space. Last chapter assesses the legacy of these groups.
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Malcolm X and His Significance for the African-American Rights Movement
Marinovová, Klára ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Kozák, Kryštof (referee)
The bachelor thesis "Malcolm X and his significance in the Civil Rights Movement" deals with life, ideology and philosophy of Malcolm X, representative of radical branch of African- American Civil Rights struggle. The work in its first part is based on Marcus Garvey's nationalistic ideas of black pride and racial exceptionality, which had an enormous impact on Malcolm during his childhood. In its second part it is based on incessant terror from supremacist groups and the pressure of white society. This all eventually ended up in breaking up of Malcolm's family and it contributed to his criminal activity in the streets of New York, district of Harlem. Text also deals with Malcolm's stay in prison, his acquaintance with ideology of Nation of Islam and his subsequent conversion to Islam and beginnings of his preaching career. Important passage is dedicated to comparison of thoughts and stands of Malcolm X with those of Martin L. King, often more respected representative of Civil Rights Movement's moderate section. Later withdrawal from Nation of Islam and Malcom's pilgrimage to Mecca were both highly significant events in his life changing his attitudes, which continued to modify and develop until his premature death. Based on analyses of Malcolm's life experience and thus his beliefs and attitude to...
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Radical and Militant Aspects of African American Rights Struggle in the United States in the 1960's.
Vajda, Jan ; Raška, Francis (advisor) ; Calda, Miloš (referee)
This bachelor thesis deals with people, organizations and movements which strived for better conditions of blacks in the United States of America during 1960's. However its focus is on those for whom the answer wasn't the integration into American society rather they pursued racial separation and often advocated violence. After introduction of some predecessors who held similar views during previous decades it addresses Malcolm X and influence of his opinions on the organizations, which emerged during second half of the decade. In the next chapter the aim is on Black Power movement, which emphasized the importance of economic and institutional autonomy of blacks. Next chapter examines the Black Panther Party and its promotion of armed self-defense which roused the USA. Ghetto activities of this party also have a space. Last chapter assesses the legacy of these groups.
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Sources of Conflicts Between African-Americans and Koreans living in the USA in the 1980s and 1990s
Fejerová, Eva ; Sehnálková, Jana (advisor) ; Kozák, Kryštof (referee)
This bachelor's thesis aims to examine the causes behind conflicts between two American ethnic minority groups - African Americans and Korean Americans. Problems between the members of these two groups were observed in all America's large cities in the 1980s and 1990s. The thesis begins with a short overview of the characteristics of the conflicts between the two groups. Subsequently, the media constructions and explanations of the conflicts are presented and discussed. The analytical part seeks to examine various approaches to explaining the tensions between African Americans and Koreans. It begins with examination of the common daily experiences of the two groups in Korean American stores in African American neighbourhoods that unveils the basic aspects of problematic co-existence between them. Next, the thesis examines the psychological process of negative stereotyping, the Middlemen minority theory (a socio-structural and economic theory), and the ideological, political and entrepreneurial motivations of the leaders of the anti-Korean protests to explain the likely causes of the tensions between Koreans and African Americans. The thesis concludes that the tensions between the groups were primarily caused by negative stereotypes of the other ethnicity, economic tensions between the different status...
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Tensions Within the Abolitionist Movement in the United States of America
Dvořáková, Irena ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Veselá, Pavla (referee)
The thesis deals with the abolitionist movement in the United States of America and approaches it as an internally disunited movement. It focuses on the conflicts between its most influential representatives, including William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass. Different motives of the anti-slavery leaders' involvement in the matter are analyzed and used to explain the arguments among these. Attention is given to the problem of racial oppression as one of the main forces having determined not only the development of the abolitionist movement but also the events following the 1865 Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, mostly the rise of the Black nationalism movement and of black racism. Even though many abolitionists saw slavery as based on racism and, therefore, endeavored to reach its abolition, in practice, many of them refused to acknowledge racial equality between white and African American people. This paradox is one of the central problems of American abolitionism examined in the thesis. The first three chapters discuss abolitionist ideas of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, and David Walker with focus on their distinct and opposing views. The fourth chapter deals with the emancipation of women as it was closely linked to the emancipation of slaves; the...
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