Word: jacksonism
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...Orleans resident Rick Delaup first noticed Rlickman in the late 1980s, drawn to the rough demeanor and incessant whistle of the clown who performed in the French Quarter’s Jackson Square...
Delaup says he was intrigued by the image of Rlickman blowing balloons for children in Jackson Square while selling drugs...
...black community has also taken up the cause. “ABHW participated a lot more in Take Back The Night in the last two years,” said Allana N. Jackson ’03, the organization’s president. “I was glad to see more black people at the events, and that the events were publicized in our community as well...
...complicate the issue of gender in many student groups. “Sometimes black women or minority women in general feel like they are asked to make a choice between being a feminist and having group loyalty to their ethnicity or racial group,” says ABHW president Jackson. “The feminist movement has often been run or led by white women who aren’t sensitive to those issues, and some black nationalist movements have been very patriarchal. We’re starting to move past that...
...Jackson says ABWH does not officially identify as feminist because of a desire to address the intersection of race and gender, without putting either first...