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We can’t change the world on our own, but we are willing to put expertise at the fingertips of those that share our desire to do so. Knowledge drives progress and one modest action we are taking is opening up validated scholarly content on racism and its prevention, on social and economic justice, on related educational resources and on their effects on society as a whole.
The more we know, the more effectively we can act.
We have curated some of our relevant books and journals content in this area – much of it free to view or open access – and our editorial teams will continue to collaborate with scholars and experts to organize and publish an expanded reading list on this microsite.
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The White Racial Frame
Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing
In this book sociologist Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame.
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Killing African Americans
Police and Vigilante Violence as a Racial Control Mechanism
Killing African Americans examines the pervasive, disproportionate, and persistent police and vigilante killings of African Americans in the United States as a racial control mechanism that sustains the racial control system of systemic racism. Noel A. Cazenave’s well-researched and conceptualized historical sociological study is one of the first books to focus exclusively on those killings and to treat them as political violence.
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Influence of racial stereotypes on investigative decision-making in criminal investigations: A qualitative comparative analysis
A multidisciplinary open access journal with a mission to make research and knowledge accessible to everyone without discrimination.
Recent research suggests that the police are aware of the general trends in street crime and, from such awareness, tend to form impressions of the likelihood that persons belonging to various racial groups will commit certain types of crimes (e.g. drugs-related crimes).
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Journal of Black Studies and Research
Black Police in America
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Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement
The African American struggle for civil rights in the twentieth century is one of the most important stories in American history. With all the information available, however, it is easy for even the most enthusiastic reader to be overwhelmed. In Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement, Yohuru Williams has synthesized the complex history of this period into a clear and compelling narrative.
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Black Feminist Thought
Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without.
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Race and Worrying About Police Brutality: The Hidden Injuries of Minority Status in America
An International Journal of Evidence-based Research, Policy, and Practice
Given the historically contentious relationship – including most notably the use of excessive and lethal force – between the police and African Americans, the current project examines the extent to which Blacks in the United States fear police brutality.
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Can We All Get Along?
Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics
In a nation built by immigrants and bedeviled by the history and legacy of slavery and discrimination, how do we, as Americans, reconcile a commitment to equality and freedom with persistent inequality and discrimination? And what can we do about it? This widely acclaimed text by Paula D. McClain, with new coauthor Jessica D.
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Racialisation and Imagined Publics in Southern Feminisms’ Solidarities
Drawing upon Clenora Hudson-Weems’ Africana Womanist theory and the conceptualisation of multiple public spheres by Nancy Fraser, Rita Filske and Lauren Berlant, I discuss how the African and African Diaspora feminist archive can be deployed across black public lives and Southern feminist solidariti…
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White folks’ work: digital allyship praxis in the #BlackLivesMatter movement
#BlackLivesMatter, a social-media-fueled social movement for racial justice in the United States, rose to international prominence between 2014 and 2016. Described by one of its co-creators as a call to collective action in the struggle against racial inequity, the movement’s hashtag (#BlackLivesMatter) was second to only #Ferguson among the most frequently used racial justice hashtags in the first 10 years of Twitter’s existence.
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Race and the Politics of the Exception
Equality, Sovereignty, and American Democracy
The traditional assumption today about race is that it is not political; that it has no political content and is a matter of individual beliefs and attitudes. In Race and the Politics of the Exception, Utz McKnight argues that race is in fact political and defines how it functions as a politics in the United States. McKnight organizes his book into three sections, beginning with a theoretical section about racial politics in the United States.
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We're a Winner’: Popular Music and the Black Power Movement
Ideological conviction and emotional courage are critical characteristics of successful political and social movements. The Black Power Movement (BPM), which rose out of the struggle for political and social rights associated with the Civil Rights Movement (CRM), possessed characteristics of ideological conviction and emotional courage.
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American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom
This dynamic and comprehensive text from nationally renowned scholars continues to demonstrate the profound influence African Americans have had -- and continue to have -- on American politics.
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The Post-Racial Society is Here
Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State
In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich’s The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this fundamental social transformation. The failure of recognition is related to the remnants of the previous race-based society.
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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Race
For many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study in departments of sociology, history, political science, English, and anthropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and political challenges, philosophers have become more interested in these areas.
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Race and Gender in Electronic Media
Content, Context, Culture
This volume will feature research examining the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. The topics of gender and race in electronic media have been hot topics of study and remain so today.
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Negotiating Hierarchy and Memory: African and Caribbean Troops from Former British Colonies in London's Imperial Spaces
The centenary of the outbreak of the First World War has refocused the attention of historians not just on the processes that led to war but also on the multitude of ethnicities who participated in the conflict.
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Diversity Resistance in Organizations
Understanding the Psychological Effects of Racism and Oppression
This new volume revisits diversity resistance 10 years later, examining the fluidity of diversity resistance in workplaces. Top-notch contributors provide insight about the motivations to resist diversity and inclusion as well as offer strategies for preventing and derailing diversity resistance and enhancing inclusion in organizations.
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Race and Contention in Twenty-First Century U.S. Media
This volume explores and clarifies the complex intersection of race and media in the contemporary United States.
Ch 3. New Media & New Possibilities: The Online Engagement of Young Black Activists (Nathan Jamel Riemer)
Ch 13. Black Studies in Prime Time: Racial Expertise and the Framing of Cultural Authority (Seneca Vaught)
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The unexamined Whiteness of teaching: how White teachers maintain and enact dominant racial ideologies
While much research that explores the role of race in education focuses on children of color, this article explores an aspect of the predominately White teaching force that educates them.
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Symposium: Christopher J. Lebron's The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
Engaging with the past: how #BlackLivesMatter points us to our predecessors and calls us to hope
This paper focuses on the contributions of Chris Lebron's book The Making of Black Lives Matter: The History of an Idea. Specifically, I examine his discussion of James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Audre Lorde and their opinions about love for their community, black self-actualization, and black liberation.
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Stay woke: The Black Lives Matter movement as a practical tool to develop critical voice
Courses: This unit activity is suited for upper-level college courses on persuasion, intercultural communication, diversity, leadership, social justice, civil discourse, argumentation, debate, and political communication.Objectives: After completing this unit, learners should be able to: improve the…
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Negotiating the ship on the head: Black British fiction
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‘A thought of home’ memorialising slavery and narrativising war in Horace Pippin’s paintings
This article investigates twentieth-century African American artist and World War I combat veteran, Horace Pippin’s multifaceted yet under-examined narrative paintings.
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Movements in Organizational Communication Research
Current Issues and Future Directions
Movements in Organizational Communication Research is an essential resource for anyone wishing to become familiar with the current state of organizational communication research and key trends in the field.
Ch. 3 Organizing Power and Resistance
Ch. 8 Difference, Diversity, and Inclusion
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology
The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology provides the most up to date exploration and analysis of research focused on Blacks in America.
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Shopping While Black
Consumer Racial Profiling in America
Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America lays out the results of nearly two decades of research on racial profiling in retail settings.
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Race
The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding.
Chapter 1: Representation: Stuart Hall and the “Politics of Signification”
Chapter 3: Cultivation Theory: Gerbner, Fear, Crime, and Cops
Chapter 11: Social Media: From Digital Divide to Empowerment
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities, STEM education, and the pursuit for legitimacy?
In this study, we explore Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and the ‘legitimated procedures’ of increasing capacity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. Conducting interviews with HBCU presidents, we argue that as HBCUs contend with a conflicting national context, investment in STEM education is perceived as a strategic pathway to address institutional concerns.
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Race and Social Equity
A Nervous Area of Government
In this compelling book the author contends that social equity--specifically racial equity--is a nervous area of government. Over the course of history, this nervousness has stifled many individuals and organizations, thus leading to an inability to seriously advance the reduction of racial inequities in government.
Ch. 2 The Saturation of Racial Inequities in the United States
Ch. 8 Assessing Racial Equity in Government
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Mixed, Blended Nation, and the politics of multiraciality in the United States
How do visual narratives of multiraciality shape, reflect, reinforce, and challenge discourses of race? In this essay, I consider the function of photographic narratives that seek to bring visibility and legitimacy to multiraciality.
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American Exceptionalism and the Remains of Race
Multicultural Exorcisms
In contemporary American political culture, claims of American exceptionalism and anxieties over its prospects have resurged as an overarching theme in national political discourse. Yet never very far from such debates lie animating fears associated with race. Fears about the loss of national unity and trust often draw attention to looming changes in the racial demographics of the body politic.
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Here is something you can't understand: the suffocating whiteness of communication studies
The authors utilize a modernity-coloniality framework to highlight practices of whiteness and white dominance within the academy and the field of communication studies in particular.
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On African-American Rhetoric
On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism.
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The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy
This book examines the disruptive nature of Trump news – both the news his administration makes and the coverage of it – related to dominant paradigms and ideologies of U.S. journalism.
Ch 6. By Any Other Name: White-Supremacist Terrorism in the Trump Era (Katherine M. Bell)
7. The Hell That Black People Live: Trump’s Reports to Journalists on Urban Conditions (Carolyn Guniss)
11. Scapegoater-in-Chief: Racist Undertones of Donald Trump’s Rhetorical Repertoire (Stephen J. Heidt)
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Accidents, icons, and indexing: The dynamics of news coverage of police use of force
Journalism Norms and News Construction: Rules for Representing Politics
This study explores the construction of news about police use of force in the Los Angeles Times over a six‐year period culminating in the crisis generated by the Rodney King beating.
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The Routledge History of Slavery
The Routledge History of Slavery is a landmark publication that provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of slavery from ancient Greece to the present day. Taking stock of the field of Slave Studies, the book explores the major advances that have taken place in the past few decades of study in this crucial field.
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The Journalism of Roy Wilkins and the Rise of Law-and-Order Rhetoric, 1964–1968
In late 1964, NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkins became the first African American newspaper columnist syndicated widely in the white, mainstream press. This study looks at how Wilkins used his new journalistic platform to engage in the emerging conservative discourse over law and order.
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The Black Arts Movement and the Black Panther Party in American Visual Culture
This book examines a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972. It begins with case studies of artist groups, including Spiral, OBAC and AfriCOBRA, who began questioning Western aesthetic traditions and created work that honored leaders, affirmed African American culture, and embraced an African lineage.
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Contextual Predictors of Protest Behavior on Social Media: A #Ferguson Case Study
Using an original Python program, we extracted data from the 2014 #Ferguson Twitterstorm to explore contextual predictors of digital activism. Through content analysis we identify whether tweets related to police conduct, race relations, and perceptions of justice were influenced by local arrest rates and economic inequality.
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Race/Gender/Class/Media
Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers
Race/Gender/Class/Media considers diversity in the mass media in three main settings: Audiences, Content, and Production. It brings together 53 readings—most are newly commissioned for this edition—by scholars representing a variety of social science and humanities disciplines.
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The tie that binds: race, gender and US violence
This article uses African-American women's experiences with violence as a particular lens to explore the relationships among (1) social constructions of violence; (2) how violence operates to link power relations of race and gender; and (3) potential contributions of transversal politics in anti-violence work.
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Living Legacies
Literary Responses to the Civil Rights Movement
In this timely and dynamic collection of essays, Laura Dubek brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the literary response to the most significant social movement of the twentieth century.
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#Handsupdontshoot: connective images and ethical witnessing
In the years since Michael Brown’s death, the hashtag #HandsUpDontShoot has been criticized for supposedly misrepresenting forensic evidence as framed by the Department of Justice. However, an expressive pull has kept alive both the hashtag and the sentiment behind it.
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Black Resistance in the Americas
All across the United States, in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of Black protest against structural racism and other forms of racial injustice.
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Epistemic Freedom in Africa
Deprovincialization and Decolonization
Epistemic Freedom in Africa is about the struggle for African people to think, theorize, interpret the world and write from where they are located, unencumbered by Eurocentrism.
Chapter 1. Introduction: Seek Ye Epistemic Freedom First
Chapter 9. Rhodes Must Fall
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The Black Arts Movement, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and Cultural Discourse
During the postwar era following WWII, global powers, like the United States, offered support to war-torn European nations largely to safeguard their own interests and values.
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The wages of whiteness in the absence of wages: racial capitalism, reactionary intercommunalism and the rise of Trumpism
In November 1970, Black Panther Party leader Huey P. Newton gave a lecture at Boston College where he introduced his theory of intercommunalism.
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The “Crowd-factor” in connective action: comparing protest communication styles of Thai Facebook pages
This study draws on theories of connective action and actualizing citizenship norms to explore online protest communication styles in hybrid social movements.
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A ‘black Parisian’ march in remembrance of slavery: challenging the French collective imagination
On the 10 May 2008, approximately 2000 people marched through the center of Paris proclaiming that, ‘Slavery has been abolished, but prejudices not!’ Based on participant observation of this march, this article explores two main issues with regard to the challenges of blackness in contemporary Paris…
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Caught between a rock and a hard place: navigating global research partnerships in the global South as an indigenous researcher
In my current project, I work as an independent researcher but sometimes also collaborate in global research projects. In my experience, a worrying number of the initial responses in the presence of Western researchers are carefully rehearsed. On average, it takes several meetings, if not months, to gain the trust of the community.
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Rebellion in America
Citizen Uprisings, the News Media, and the Politics of Plutocracy
In a time of rising inequality and plutocratic government, citizens’ movements are emerging with growing frequency to offer populist challenges to the declining living standards of masses of Americans, and to protest the conditions through which individuals suffer in poor communities across the country. This book looks at the progression of modern social uprisings in the post-2008 period, including the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Bernie Sanders “Revolution,” Trump’s populism, the anti-Trump revolt, and #MeToo.
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“Why do you make me hate myself?”: Re-teaching Whiteness, abuse, and love in urban teacher education
Teacher educators are constantly trying to improve the field to meet the needs of a growing urban populace. Inclusion of socially just philosophies in the curriculum is indeed essential, yet it can mask the recycling of normalized, oppressive Whiteness.
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The Civil Rights Movement
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The civil rights movement was arguably the most important reform in American history. This book recounts the extraordinary and often bloody story of how tens of thousands of ordinary African-Americans overcame long odds to dethrone segregation, to exercise the right to vote and to improve their economic standing.
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Activism and Rhetoric
Theories and Contexts for Political Engagement
The second edition of this formative collection offers analysis of the work rhetoric plays in the principles and practices of today’s culture of democratic activism.
Chapter 1: Borders of Engagement: Rethinking Scholarship, Activism, and the Academy
Chapter 6: Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles
Chapter 13: Speaking the Power of Truth: Rhetoric and Action for Our Times
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Blacks and Law Enforcement: Towards Police Brutality Reduction
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Publishing, the Curriculum and Black British Writing Today
This essay begins with two linked questions. First, to what extent is contemporary black and Asian British writing understood as British by British readers? And, second, which forces, especially in publishing and education, shape those opinions? Why would, say, Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) be more readily prescribed on an A-level syllabus than Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (2001), even today, in 2019?
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Education in Movement Spaces
Standing Rock to Chicago Freedom Square
This book amplifies the distinct, intersecting, and coalitional possibilities of education in the spaces of ongoing movements for Native and Black liberation. Contributors highlight the importance of activist-oriented teaching and learning in community encampments and other movement spaces for the preservation and expansion of resistance education.
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Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies
Featuring contributions from scholars from across the globe, Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies is a comprehensive resource that addresses the challenges related to public conversations around crime and policy. In an era of fake news, misguided rhetoric about immigrants and refugees, and efforts to toughen criminal laws, criminologists seeking to engage publicly around crime and policy arguably face an uphill battle.
Chapter 5 Articulation of Liberation Criminologies and Public Criminologies
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‘Ooh, eh eh … Just One Small Cap is Enough!’ Servants, Detergents, and their Prosthetic Significance
This article explores the potent entanglements of race and servitude in the historical drama of dirt and domesticity.
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Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity
Few issues have engaged sports scholars more than those of race and ethnicity. Today, globalization and migration mean all major sports leagues include players from around the globe, bringing into play a complex mix of racial, ethnic, cultural, political and geographical factors. These complexities have been examined from many angles by historians, sociologists, anthropologists and scientists.
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Imagining a Greater Justice
Criminal Violence, Punishment and Relational Justice
Even for violent crime, justice should mean more than punishment. By paying close attention to the relational harms suffered by victims, this book develops a concept of relational justice for survivors, offenders and community. Relational justice looks beyond traditional rules of legal responsibility to include the social and emotional dimensions of human experience, opening the way for a more compassionate, effective and just response to crime.
Esp. Chapter 10, “Healing the American Community: Race and Criminal Justice”
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Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce examines the systemic and institutional barriers and individual biases that continue to perpetuate a predominately White nonprofit performing arts workforce in the United States.
Chapter 1: Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Performing Arts Workforce
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Media Across the African Diaspora
Content, Audiences, and Influence
This volume gathers scholarship from varying disciplinary perspectives to explore media owned or created by members of the African diaspora, examine its relationship with diasporic audiences, and consider its impact on mainstream culture in general.
Ch 11. Social Media and Social Justice Movements After the Diminution of Black-owned Media in the United States (Jeffrey Blevins)
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Culturally Specific Pedagogy in the Mathematics Classroom
Strategies for Teachers and Students
Advocating for the use of culturally specific pedagogy to enhance the mathematics instruction of diverse students, this revised second edition offers a wide variety of conceptual and curricular resources for teaching mathematics in a way that combats and confronts the forms of oppression that students face today.
Ch. 8: Black Lives Matter: A Context for Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice
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Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter
African American History and Representation
Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment. Contributors explore how violence, signifying both an instrument of the white majority’s power and a modality of black resistance, has been understood and articulated in primary materials that range from slave narrative through "lynching plays" and Richard Wright’s fiction to contemporary activist poetry, and from photography of African American suffering through Blaxploitation cinema and Spike Lee’s films to rap lyrics and performances.
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Police Violence and Riots
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I Am Not Your Negro
A Docalogue
As the inaugural volume in the Docalogue series, this book models a new form for the discussion of documentary film. James Baldwin’s writing is intensely relevant to contemporary politics and culture, and Peck’s strategies for representing him and conveying his work in I Am Not Your Negro (2016) raise important questions about how documentary can bring the work of a complex thinker like Baldwin to a broader public.
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‘Losing an arm’: schooling as a site of black suffering
Drawing on data from a historical-ethnographic study of the cultural politics of school desegregation in Seattle, USA, the author explores suffering as a recurring theme in the narratives of four black leaders, educators and activists involved in the struggle for black educational opportunity in that city during the post-Civil Rights Era.
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Creating Student-Scholar-Activists: Discourse Instruction and Social Justice in Political Science Classrooms
This article advocates the use of discourse instruction as a means of integrating issues of social justice into the classroom and transcending the debate over politicization in academia.
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Racism and bullying in rural primary schools: protecting White identities post Macpherson
This article examines how two primary schools in rural England with overwhelmingly White populations (of students and teachers) dealt with incidents of racist bullying in relation to their race equality policies. The data are drawn from in-depth interviews with parents, head teachers and teachers.
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The excessive use of force against blacks in the United States of America
This paper examines the disproportionate killings of Blacks in the United States of America by the police. I argue that the legal standards in the United States regulate the use of force by police officers, are tainted with bias and do not comply with international law.
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Media Matters
Race & Gender in U.S. Politics
Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske’s classic text Media Matters remains both timely and insightful as an empirically rich examination of how the fierce battle over cultural meaning is negotiated in American popular culture. Media Matters takes us to the heart of social inequality and the call for social justice by interrogating some of the most important issues of its time.
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A Nation Apart
The African-American Experience and White Nationalism
This book examines the ongoing struggle for social justice by and for African Americans. Examining the persistent rolling back of civil and voting rights for this population and other minorities since the end of Reconstruction, the author discusses the continued colonization of African Americans and the rise of white nationalism before considering what can be done to create a democratic version of Americanism.
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Black Acting Methods
Critical Approaches
Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.
Chapter 7: Remembering, rewriting and re-imagining: Afrocentric approaches to directing new work for the theatre
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The color of punishment: African Americans, skin tone, and the criminal justice system
Public debate and scholarly research has largely concentrated on the vast array of disparities between blacks and whites in their treatment by and experiences with the criminal justice system.
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Race, Law, and American Society
1607-Present
This second edition of Gloria Browne-Marshall’s seminal work, tracing the history of racial discrimination in American law from colonial times to the present, is now available with major revisions. Throughout, she advocates for freedom and equality at the center, moving from their struggle for physical freedom in the slavery era to more recent battles for equal rights and economic equality.
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Geographies of Belonging: white women and black history
This article discusses the need for, and possibilities of, writing integrated and multicultural histories of Britain by focusing on the relationships formed between white and black women in the workplace but primarily through their families.
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Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Racisms
The study of contemporary forms of racism has expanded greatly over the past four decades. Although it has been a focus for scholarship and research for the past three centuries, it is perhaps over this more recent period that we have seen important transformations in the analytical frames and methods to explore the changing patterns of contemporary racisms.
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African American Patients in Psychotherapy
Understanding the Psychological Effects of Racism and Oppression
African American Patients in Psychotherapy integrates history, current events, arts, psychoanalytic thinking, and case studies to provide a model for understanding the social and historical dimensions of psychological development.
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The Bellah Question: Slave Emancipation, Race, and Social Categories in Late Twentieth-Century Northern Mali
RésuméCet article esquisse le processus d’affranchissement des Touareg, autrefois esclaves, que l’on nomme généralement bellah, dans le Mali du nord, de la fin des années 1940 à nos jours, et les relations actuelles entre les anciens maîtres et les anciens esclaves.
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Probing the Epidemic of Police Murders
For months, the Blueford family begged the Oakland City Council for answers to why and how their son Alan had been murdered by an Oakland police officer in May, 2012. They got a series of conflicting stories, none of which coincided with what people on the scene told them.
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Archetypal Grief
Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss
Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss is a powerful exploration of the intergenerational psychological effects of child loss as experienced by women held in slavery in the Americas and of its ongoing effects in contemporary society. It presents the concept of archetypal grief in African American women: cultural trauma so deeply wounding that it spans generations.
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Black Males and the Criminal Justice System
Relying on a multidisciplinary framework of inquiry and critical perspective, this edited volume addresses the unique experiences of Black males within various stages of contact in the criminal justice system. It provides a comprehensive overview of the administration of justice, mental and physical health issues faced by Black males, and reintegration into society after system involvement.
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‘That black boy’s different class!’: a historical sociology of the black middle-classes, boundary-work and local football in the British East-Midlands c.1970−2010
Global Studies in Culture and Power
Seldom has leisure as a cultural activity been used to examine the boundary-work and lived realities of black middle-class men in the UK. Drawing on ethnographic data taken from a three-year study of one East-Midlands based African-Caribbean founded football club c.1970-2010, the article addresses these points.
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Youth Civic and Political Engagement
What exactly is civic and political participation? What factors influence young people’s participation? How can we encourage youth to participate actively in their own democracies?
Chapter 1 Civic and political engagement among youth: Concepts, forms and factors
Chapter 2 Psychological factors linked to youth civic and political engagement
Chapter 3 Social and demographic factors linked to youth civic and political engagement
Chapter 4 Macro contextual factors linked to youth civic and political engagement
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‘The Birth of Black Consciousness on the Screen’?: The African American Historical Experience, Blaxploitation, and the Production and Reception of Sounder (1972)
The black historical film Sounder (1972) was a key feature of the heated debate over race representation in Hollywood cinema in the early 1970s.
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News of Baltimore
Race, Rage and the City
This book examines how the media approached long-standing and long-simmering issues of race, class, violence, and social responsibility in Baltimore during the demonstrations, violence, and public debate in the spring of 2015.
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Racism in the Neoliberal Era
A Meta History of Elite White Power
Racism in the Neoliberal Era explains how simple racial binaries like black/white are no longer sufficient to explain the persistence of racism, capitalism, and elite white power. The neoliberal era features the largest black middle class in US history and extreme racial marginalization. Hohle focuses on how the origins and expansion of neoliberalism depended on language or semiotic assemblage of white-private and black public.
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Violence Against Black Bodies
An Intersectional Analysis of How Black Lives Continue to Matter
Violence Against Black Bodies argues that black deaths at the hands of police are just one form of violence that black and brown people face daily in the western world.
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Medical Students' Implicit Bias and the Communication of Norms in Medical Education
Issue. Medical educators should consider how institutional norms influence medical students' perceptions of implicit bias. Understanding normative structures in medical education can shed light on why this influence is associated with students' resistance to implicit bias. Evidence.
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Racial disparity reform: racial inequality and policy responses in US national politics
Persistent racial inequality in the US criminal justice system is a significant challenge for policy-makers.
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British Dance: Black Routes
British Dance, Black Routes is an outstanding collection of writings which re-reads the achievements of Black British dance artists, and places them within a broad historical, cultural and artistic context.
Appendix 2: Timeline of significant events 1946–2005 for British-based dancers who are Black
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A History of the Black Women's Movement in Brazil: Mobilization, Political Trajectory and Articulations with the State
This study examines the trajectory and consolidation process of the Black Women's Movement (BWM) in the Brazilian public sphere since the 1980s. Our objective is to understand the processes that underlie the constitution of this social movement, as well as its points of convergence and divergence with the black and feminist movements.
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Black Gotham: African Americans in New York City, 1900–2000
For almost four centuries, African Americans in New York City have engaged in ethnic “dream-work,” shaping the city and being shaped by the city in return.
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Listening to the Land/Playing off the Crowd: Black Public Performance Interventions in Artmaking and Placemaking
In his leadership in the Free Movement Project,1 public artist, Rend Smith brilliantly considers how Black people have not always been able to walk the streets free and are policed for their presence and movement through neighborhoods and streets where they are presumed not to be local. The corporeal restriction, to which his work points, is fastened to U.S. policing practices.
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150 Years of Economic Progress for African American Men: Measuring Outcomes and Sizing Up Roadblocks
This article uses data on relative incomes to measure the economic convergence (or lack thereof) of African American men over time, and reviews current research in economic history on the struggle for economic equality for African American men in the United States since the end of the Civil War in 1…
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Everyday Practice of Race in America
Ambiguous Privilege
An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society. McKnight develops a line of reasoning to explain how we accommodate racial categories in a period when it has become important to adopt anti-racist formal instruments in much of our daily lives.
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From Spray Cans to Minivans: Contesting the Legacy of Confederate Soldier Monuments in the Era of “Black Lives Matter”
On June 17, 2015, 21-year old white supremacist Dylann Roof opened fire during a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, killing nine parishioners, including pastor and South Carolina state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. In the weeks that followed, the Charleston shooting sparked a national conversation connecting recent events with the United States' history of race-based slavery and violence.
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The Color Line
A Short Introduction
The Color Line provides a concise history of the role of race and ethnicity in the US, from the early colonial period to the present, to reveal the public policies and private actions that have enabled racial subordination and the actors who have fought against it.
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Advertising images as social indicators: depictions of blacks in LIFE magazine, 1936–2000
One of the most important prerequisites for building a more visual social science is demonstrating that visual data provide answers to research questions, which are not addressed satisfactorily by the use of more conventional, non‐visual, methods.
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Colorblind Racial Profiling
A History, 1974 to the Present
Colorblind Racial Profiling outlines the history of racial profiling practices and policies in the United States from 1974 to the present day. Drawing on a wide variety of sources including case law, newspaper and television reporting, government reports, and police manuals, author Guy Padula traces how institutionalized racial profiling spread across the nation and analyzes how the United States Supreme Court sanctioned the practice.
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Made, laid and paid: photographic masculinities in a black men's magazine
Glossy men's magazines are frequently vilified for their overt visualising of gender stereotypes.
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Black and Asian Theatre In Britain
A History
Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed background to the work of African, Asian, and Caribbean diasporic companies and practitioners.
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A Face Like Mine: An Artist Self-Reflects on Her Identity against the Backdrop of South Africa's Transitions
In South Africa, there is still a dearth of recognised contemporary art led by black women.
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Among Cultures
The Challenge of Communication
Among Cultures: The Challenge of Communication, Third Edition explores intercultural communication and the relationship between communication and culture, using narrative as a common and compelling thread for studying intercultural interactions. Anchored in the position that people make sense of their worlds through choosing and telling narratives to themselves and others, this text is replete with narratives and stories.
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Race and Public Administration
Issues of race permeate virtually every corner of policy creation and implementation in the United States, yet theoretically driven research on interactions of policy, race, and ethnicity rarely offers practical tools that can be readily applied by current and future civil servants, private contractors, or nonprofit boards.
Ch. 1 The Common Denominator: Persistent Racial Gaps in the Administration of Policy
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Race, Ethnicity and Racism in Sports Coaching
In recent years there has been a steady increase in the racial and ethnic diversity of the playing workforce in many sports around the world. However, there has been a minimal throughput of racial and ethnic minorities into coaching and leadership positions. This book brings together leading researchers from around the world to examine key questions around ‘race’, ethnicity and racism in sports coaching.
Chapter 1: The under-representation of racial minorities in coaching and leadership positions in the United States
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Being called to ‘By the Rivers of Birminam’: the relational choreography of white looking
In this article, I offer the idea of relational choreography as a way of understanding white positionality as responsible for, as well as resistant to, racialising practices.
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Urban Politics
Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age
Urban Politics blends the most insightful classic and current political science and related literature with current issues in urban affairs. The book’s integrative theme is ‘power,’ demonstrating that the study of urban politics requires an analysist to look beyond the formal institutions and procedures of local government.
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Using qualitative research articles to talk about gender and race inequities in health care
Using peer-reviewed articles, this activity informs students of experiences female-identifying patients encounter in health-care contexts.
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Remembering the imperial context of emancipation commemoration in the former British slave-port cities of Bristol and Liverpool, 1933–1934
This article considers the marking of the centenary of British emancipation in 1933 and 1934 in two former slave-trading provincial port cities, Bristol and Liverpool.
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Black Wealth/White Wealth
A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
The award-winning Black Wealth / White Wealth offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro's groundbreaking research analyzes wealth - total assets and debts rather than income alone - to uncover deep and persistent racial inequality in America, and they show how public policies have failed to redress the problem.
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Teaching to Transform Urban Schools and Communities
Powerful Pedagogy in Practice
For preservice candidates and novice teachers facing the challenges of feeling underprepared to teach in urban schools, this book offers a framework for conceptualizing, planning, and engaging in powerful teaching. Veteran teacher educator Etta Ruth Hollins builds on previous work to focus on transformative practices that emphasize the purpose and process of teaching.
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Pedagogy of fear: toward a Fanonian theory of ‘safety’ in race dialogue
In education, it is common to put the condition of ‘safety’ around public race dialogue. The authors argue that this procedural rule maintains white comfort zones and becomes a symbolic form of violence experienced by people of color. In other words, they ask, ‘Safety for whom?’
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We the minority-of-minorities: a narrative inquiry of black female academics in the United Kingdom
This article highlights the additional marginalisation of black female academics within the UK academy of higher education. The article engages with the narratives of eight such women as they navigate their careers as a minority-of-minorities within high-ranking institutions.
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Strengthening legal protection against discrimination by algorithms and artificial intelligence
Algorithmic decision-making and other types of artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to predict who will commit crime, who will be a good employee, who will default on a loan, etc.
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Casting a Movement
The Welcome Table Initiative
Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors, directors, educators, playwrights, and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting.
Chapter 2: Playing with 'race' in the new millennium by Justin Emeka
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Clinical Grading in Medical School
Phenomenon: Performance during the clinical phase of medical school is associated with membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, competitiveness for highly selective residency specialties, and career advancement.
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English with an Accent
Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States
Since its initial publication, English with an Accent has provoked debate and controversy within classrooms through its in-depth scrutiny of American attitudes towards language. Rosina Lippi-Green discusses the ways in which discrimination based on accent functions to support and perpetuate social structures and unequal power relations.
Chapter 7: Teaching Children How to Discriminate (What We Learn From the Big Bad Wolf)
Chapter 9 Real People with a Real Language: The Workplace and the Judicial System
Chapter 10 The Real Trouble with Black Language
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Against collaboration – or the native who wanders off
On 5 January 2019, South African Twitter user Keabetswe, who goes by the Twitter handle @akreana_ tweeted: O jewa ke eng? (SeSotho for ‘What's eating you?’). This tweet went viral, as different communities across the digital universe shared pet peeves, current headaches, and humorous perspectives on everyday life. I imagine African academics too shared their pet peeves about what was eating them.
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Media Effects
Advances in Theory and Research
Now in its fourth edition, Media Effects again features essays from some of the finest scholars in the field and serves as a comprehensive reference volume for scholars, teachers, and students.
16. Media Stereotypes: Content, Effects, and Theory (prominent African American contributor)
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Unsettling allyship, unlearning and learning towards decolonising solidarity
Social movements are pedagogical spaces for collective learning across difference. Divergent worldviews, interest and identity, historical legacies and relations of power complicate notions of allyship and solidarity for common cause.
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The Newtonian slave body: Racial enlightenment in the Atlantic World
This essay examines an influential treatise on the causes of African skin color published by the Virginia-born physician John Mitchell in the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions in 1744.
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Critical Research in Sport, Health and Physical Education
How to Make a Difference
Within the overlapping fields of the sociology of sport, physical education and health education, the use of critical theories and the critical research paradigm has grown in scope. Yet what social impact has this research had?
Chapter 5: Critical research on Black sporting experiences in the United States: Athletic activism and the appeal for social justice
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Martin to Brown
The rise of the modern Black Lives Matter movement can be traced back to two key events, the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin and the 2014 death of Michael Brown.
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Football, Culture and Power
What does it mean when a hit that knocks an American football player unconscious is cheered by spectators? What are the consequences of such violence for the participants of this sport and for the entertainment culture in which it exists? This book brings together scholars and sport commentators to examine the relationship between American football, violence and the larger relations of power within contemporary society.
Chapter 14: The NFL, Activism, and #BlackLivesMatter
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Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education
Teachers Like Me
Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education examines how English and literacy teacher education—a space dominated by White, English-monolingual, middle class perspectives—shapes the experiences of preservice teachers of color and their construction of a teacher identity.
Chapter 1: Being the “Only One”: The Importance of Teacher Diversity for Literacy and English Education
Chapter 2: Teacher Educator by Day, Homeschooling Parent by Night: Examining Paradoxes in Being a Black Female Teacher Educator
Chapter 3: So-Called Social Justice Teaching and Multicultural Teacher Education: Rhetoric and Realities
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On deaf ears: anti-black police terror, multiracial protest and white loyalty to the state
In this essay, we explore the racialised dimensions of policing practices in Brazil. To do so, we look not at the police, their administrative organisation, and practices, but rather we examine the modes of sociality reflected in and produced by police violence.
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Residents’ Perceptions of Procedural Injustice During Encounters With the Police
The purpose of this study is to refine researchers’ understanding of procedural injustice. Specifically, hypotheses were tested to determine the influence that race, type of contact, place of encounter, and community context had on individuals’ perceptions of procedural injustice.
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Good black soldiers: race, masculinity, and US military recruiting in the 1970s
Following the implementation of the all-volunteer force (AVF) in 1973, the US military was forced to reach beyond the ideal figure of the white male soldier in order to meet personnel needs.
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Black Lives Matter: Racialised Policing in the United States
In August 2014, 18 year-old Michael Brown was shot in his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri, launching a series of events that would lead to increased media scrutiny of police interactions with people of colour in the United States.
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Race and Human Diversity
A Biocultural Approach
Race and Human Diversity is an introduction to the study of human diversity in both its biological and cultural dimensions. Robert L. Anemone examines the biological basis of human difference and how humans have biologically and culturally adapted to life in different environments.
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Whiteness is not contained
The emergence of COVID-19, or the Coronavirus, has sparked a wave of anti-Asian attacks around the world.
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Symposium: Aldon Morris' The Scholar Denied: W E B Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
Du Boisian sociology and intellectual reparations: for coloured scholars who consider suicide when our rainbows are not enuf
Drawing on Aldon Morris’ The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology (2015), this symposium essay explores the idea of intellectual reparations – the systematic corrective repair and redress of the epistemological, ontological, and pedagogical status quo through the purposeful inclusion of previously denied minorities scholars and their contributions to knowledge production.
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DACA AND THE DIFFERENTIATED LANDSCAPE FOR COLLEGE ACCESS: EXPERIENCES FROM A NEW DESTINATION STATE
The differentiated legal landscape that undocumented students face varies considerably across the United States. This study articulates the multiscalar and socio-legal contexts that frame the limitations and opportunities for undocumented youth accessing higher education in a new destination state.
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Youth in Superdiverse Societies
Growing up with globalization, diversity, and acculturation
Youth in Superdiverse Societies brings together theoretical, methodological and international approaches to the study of globalization, diversity, and acculturation in adolescence. It examines vital issues including migration, integration, cultural identities, ethnic minorities, and the interplay of ethnic and cultural diversity with experiences of growing up as an adolescent.
Ch 11: Ethnic majority and minority youth in multicultural societies
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Sport and National Identities
Globalization and Conflict
While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of ‘the nation’ has remained. This book examines the continuing but contested relevance of national identities in sport within the context of globalising forces. Including case studies from around the world, it considers the significance of sport in divided societies, former global empires and aspirational nations within federal states.
Chapter 8: Confronting America: Black commercial aesthetics, athlete activism and the nation reconsidered
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A case of hidden genocide? Disintegration and destruction of people of color in Napoleonic Europe, 1799–1815
Migration, social mobility, and integration of new populations in late eighteenth-century Europe resulted in an expansion of diversity, which contributed to abolition and culminated in full civil rights between 1791 and 1799.
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Digital Ethics
Rhetoric and Responsibility in Online Aggression
Digital Ethics delves into the shifting legal and ethical landscape in digital spaces and explores productive approaches for theorizing, understanding, and navigating through difficult ethical issues online.
9. Hateful Games: Why White Supremacist Recruiters Target Gamers and How to Stop Them
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The Illusion of Inclusion
This special issue of Wasafiri – ‘Black Britain: Beyond Definition’ – focuses on writers who are of black and mixed heritage. Labelling us in this way can, of course, be problematic. The badge ‘black writer’ or ‘Black British writer’ or ‘postcolonial writer’ isn't one many of us deliberately choose to wear. It has a homogenising, ghettoising effect.
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The discourse of the US alt-right online – a case study of the Traditionalist Worker Party blog
The use of social media by extreme right groups and the self-proclaimed formation of the ‘alt-right’ in recent years have been linked to the rise in US white nationalism.
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Racist America
Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations
This fourth edition of Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates many recent research studies and reports on U.S. racial issues that update and enhance the last edition’s chapters.
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“Nickel and Dimed” for Drug Crime: Unpacking the Process of Cumulative Racial Inequality
We apply a cumulative disadvantage framework to examine racial inequality in the criminal justice system for drug defendants.
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Does Discrimination Breed Mistrust? Examining the Role of Mediated and Non-Mediated Discrimination Experiences in Medical Mistrust
Medical mistrust is associated with a decreased likelihood of engaging in various health behaviors, including health utilization and preventive screening. Despite calls for research to address medical mistrust, few studies have explicitly delved into antecedents to medical mistrust.
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On Racial Disparities in Recent Fatal Police Shootings
Fatal police shootings in the United States continue to be a polarizing social and political issue. Clear disagreement between racial proportions of victims and nationwide racial demographics together with graphic video footage has created fertile ground for controversy.
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Critical Values and Transforming Data: Teaching Statistics with Social Justice
Despite the dearth of literature specifically on teaching statistics using social justice, there is precedent in the more general realm of teaching using social justice, or even in teaching mathematics using social justice.
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Driving While Black in the City of Angels
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An Analysis of the New York City Police Department's “Stop-and-Frisk” Policy in the Context of Claims of Racial Bias
Recent studies by police departments and researchers confirm that police stop persons of racial and ethnic minority groups more often than whites relative to their proportions in the population.
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Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth's descriptions of police relations
Research has highlighted the harmful effects of targeted police practices and the subsequent low trust in the police among ethnic minorities.
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‘A nigger in the new England’: ‘Sus’, the Brixton riot, and citizenship
In April 1981, Black youth in the South London neighborhood of Brixton participated in a two-day riot that resulted in numerous injuries and widespread property damage in an already economically depressed area.
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Popular Visual Images and the (Mis)Reading of Black Male Youth: a case for racial literacy in urban preservice teacher education
In the majority of public schools across the nation, Black male youth are undergoing what can be deemed as “educational genocide” – the killing off of any chances for an equitable education.
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Empire of Illusions: Film Censorship, Eugenics and Aboriginal Spectatorship in Australia’s Northern Territory 1928–1950
The rapid spread of cinema throughout the British colonies in the 1920s was regarded as a major threat to the stability of the empire. Following the lead of the British Colonial Office, the Australian federal government introduced the censorship of films specifically for Indigenous audiences.
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Building the Divided City: Race, Class and Social Housing in Southwark, 1945–1995
Southwark is a borough across the river from the City of London. Until late in the twentieth century, its Labour leaders used housing policy to prevent gentrification from flowing across its northern boundary. Nonetheless, at the turn of the century, Labour lost political control.
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Beyond diversity: anti-racist pedagogy in British History departments
The Royal Historical Society’s 2018 Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change is one of the most recent reports to raise the alarm on the prevalence of racism and negative experiences of students and staff of colour in Higher Education Institutions in the UK.
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A transformation of racist discourse? Colour-blind racism and biological racism in Dutch secondary schooling (1968–2017)
Scholars have observed a re-emergence of biological racism in the Netherlands. I question whether this form of racism is also making a comeback in Dutch secondary schooling, by drawing on critical race theory and Bonilla-Silva’s frames of colour-blind racism.
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Memory at Issue: On Slavery and the Slave Trade among Black French
The issue of memory has drawn a great deal of attention in the social sciences.
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Creating a space to #SayHerName: Rhetorical stratification in the networked sphere
This essay examines #SayHerName as a case study to analyze how circulation of the hashtag both challenged women’s erasure from #BlackLivesMatter discourse and motivated activists to center the stories of Black women killed in police interactions.
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Proactive policing and equal treatment of ethnic-minority youths
Proactive policing aims at suppressing delinquency at an early stage. In the Netherlands, it is applied, inter alia, to youths and youth groups to prevent them from slipping off into delinquent behaviour and crime.
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Finding last middle passage survivor Sally ‘Redoshi’ Smith on the page and screen
This article identifies for the first time the last living Middle Passage survivor, Sally ‘Redoshi’ Smith (ca. 1848–1937), and traces her life story across a range of archival sources, including the only known film footage of a female transatlantic slavery survivor.
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The spectre of Haiti: structural antiblackness, the far-right backlash and the fear of a black majority in Brazil
This article situates the far-right backlash in Brazil within the larger Latin American context, including its colonial legacy, leftist governments’ failure to deliver promises of inclusion, and the US–China geopolitical dispute over the region’s strategic natural resources.
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Contesting ‘Race’ and Sport
Shaming the Colour Line
In the decade since Kevin Hylton’s seminal book ‘Race’ and Sport: Critical Race Theory was published, racialised issues have remained at the forefront of sport and leisure studies.
Chapter 7, 'Critical Race Theory Matters in Sport'.
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Towards transitional justice? Black reparations and the end of mass incarceration
There are many commonalities between the goals of transitional justice and domestic redress movements. We look at the movement for reparations for enslavement and Jim Crow in the United States as an example of a domestic reparations movement, and argue for the usefulness of the concept of transitional justice.
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Civil Rights in Public Service
Promises of justice and equality made in the U.S. Constitution, numerous Amendments, and decisions of the Supreme Court are hallmarks of American civil rights. Yet the realities of inequality remain facts of modern life for too many Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino Americans, even though state-mandated racial segregation has been outlawed for years.
Ch. 2 From the Heritage of African American Slavery to Modern Civil Rights Protection
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“Better to kill them off at once”: race, violence, and human rights in antebellum western state constitutional conventions
My paper argues that delegates to antebellum western state constitutional conventions, in both slave and free states, expressed violent, even homicidal ideas about free black people. They predicted and described mass exterminations, lynching, and even a race war.
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Paul Gilroy and the cultural politics of decline
Paul Gilroy has been an influential cultural theorist and scholar, but he has also been important to wider debates concerning decline and identity in contemporary Britain, Gilroy's contention that contemporary Britain suffered from postcolonial melancholia built on some of his earliest published wor…
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Culture and Diversity in the United States
So Many Ways to Be American
Knowledge of and sensitivity toward diversity is an essential skill in the contemporary United States and the wider world. This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, religion, age, health and disability, and region and geography.
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Whiteness, Masculinity and the Ambivalent Embodiment of ‘British Justice’ in Colonial Burma
When British judges in colonial South Asia attempted to perform their duties with detached objectivity they were also performatively enacting a particular construction of imperial white masculinity. This was an ambivalent embodied enactment.
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Will Black Lives Matter to the Police? African Americans’ Concerns about Trump’s Presidency
Based on a 2017 national survey of 1,000 Black Americans, perceptions regarding the implications of Donald Trump’s election as President on race relations, police-minority relations, and police treatment of Black citizens in the United States were examined.
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The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism.
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A Conversation with Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in Chapelton, Jamaica. He came to London in 1963 and joined the Black Panthers at school. In 1977 he was awarded a C Day Lewis Fellowship, becoming the writer-in-residence for the London Borough of Lambeth. He went on to work at the Keskidee Centre, the first home of black theatre and art. Johnson's poems first appeared in the journal Race Today.
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Thinking through race: white racial identity, motivated cognition and the unconscious maintenance of white supremacy
Recent research in political science has demonstrated the effects of implicit racism on whites’ political preferences and judgments.
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The White Power Presidency: Race and Class in the Trump Era
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College students’ perceptions of police use of force: do suspect race and ethnicity matter?
Incidents of police use of force continue to draw a considerable amount of attention from both researchers and the public alike. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between suspect race and ethnicity and perceptions of police use of force among college students.
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Race, prior offending, and juvenile court outcomes
Both theory and research in the study of race in the juvenile justice system have attempted to identify the contexts in which race matters.
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Scientific racism, race war and the global racial imaginary
The premise of this paper is the elucidation of a different ontology of global politics and order of the nineteenth century.
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Teaching Introduction to American Government/Politics: What We Learn from the Visual Images in Textbooks
Political science students learn the fundamental principles and values about the American political system from American government/politics textbooks.
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Ubuntu currere in the academy: a case study from the South African experience
Universities in the Global South continue to be confronted with the ethical demands for transformation and decolonsiation. In this paper, we discuss the epistemic possibilities for transforming and decolonising curricula.
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Untangling the Grip of White Privilege in Education through Consultation and Systems Change: Introduction to the Special Issue
This article introduces the articles in the special issue, School consultation grounded in social justice: Dismantling white privilege in education. The authors first highlight salient aspects of each of the five articles.
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The Moderating Role of Ethnic Identity on the Relationship Between School Climate and Self-Esteem for African American Adolescents
Positive self-esteem is linked to academic success for K–12 students. However, self-esteem declines during adolescence, especially for African Americans. Positive perceptions of school climate are well-studied predictors of self-esteem.
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Social media affordances in the context of police transparency: An analysis of the first public archive of police body camera videos
As more police departments adopt body cameras (BCs), there is a hope that the devices will help usher in a new era of police accountability.
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Deepening Diversity: A Collection of Teaching Perspectives and Strategies from Social Justice Advocates
Contemporary population trends impact leisure experiences and service delivery, requiring recreation and leisure departments to prepare students to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse clientele.
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“The Most Insidious Legacy”—Teaching About Redlining and the Impact of Racial Residential Segregation
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The Wealth of (Occupation) Networks? Communication Patterns and Information Distribution in a Twitter Protest Network
Can social media facilitate better protest action organization and coordination? This question has been at the forefront of discussion between media pundits and academic scholars. But what networking mechanisms and communication patterns help activists achieve better organization and coordination?
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From Manenberg to Soweto: race and coloured identity in the black consciousness poetry of James Matthews
The Black Consciousness poetry of James Matthews, internationally recognised Coloured writer from the Cape Flats, reflects the growing popularisation amongst politicised Coloured people during the 1970s of the idea that racial distinctions in general, and Coloured identity in particular, had histori…
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Race, power, and knowledge: tracing the roots of exclusion in the development of political science in the United States
Scholars of race, ethnicity, and politics have long questioned why the discipline of political science has taken so long to recognize the legitimacy of the study of the politics of America’s racial minority groups.
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The Colour of Law, Power and Knowledge: Introducing Critical Race Theory in (Post-) Apartheid South Africa
Many legal scholars, practitioners and judges have overlooked the ways in which racial identities and hierarchies have been woven into social systems like law, labour, social power, knowledge and ideology.
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The Fiction of Transformation: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Law, Society and the Legal Profession in South Africa
Notwithstanding South Africa recently having celebrated 20 years of its democracy, it remains one of the most unequal societies in the world. The South African Constitution guarantees the right to equality, yet the country remains divided along racial lines.
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Beyond Race and Ethnicity: Exploring the Effects of Ethnic Identity and Its Implications for Cancer Communication Efforts
Within the health communication literature there has been an increased focus on the use of cultural and identity-based message tailoring to enhance the effectiveness of messages and interventions, particularly among minority and underserved populations.
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Redefining Black Consciousness and resistance: The intersection of Black Consciousness and Black feminist thought
This article explores Black womxn's self-representations of key experiences in the #RhodesMustFall (#RMF) movement, when the movement explicitly adopts Black feminist theory, such as intersectionality, as an approach for anti-racist resistance in South African higher education.
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Singabantu bendawo: understanding the concept of land from the perspective of ubuntu
The 54th national conference of the African National Congress, the ruling party in South Africa, resolved amongst other things to review the country’s constitution such that it enables the government to implement land expropriation without compensation.
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What is anthropology that decolonising scholarship should be mindful of it?
Decolonising scholarship in South African anthropology has met with an ingrained scepticism about ethnographic valorisations of forms of life that claim to be indigenous. This scepticism comes from a very long history of opposing ethnological essentialisms created in the colonial mode.
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Policing inequality and the inequality of policing: A look at the militarisation of policing around the world, focusing on Brazil and South Africa
The purpose of this article is to unpack the racialised, gendered and classed policing of communities in Brazil and South Africa, two useful analytical cases for the study of the militarisation of policing in post-colonial states.
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“Come Out to Show Them”: Speech and Ambivalence in the Work of Steve Reich and Glenn Ligon
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Lost in reading: The predicament of postcolonial writing in Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation
Kamel Daoud’s novel The Meursault Investigation (first published in Algeria in 2013 as Meursault, contre-enquête) has sparked controversy. In 2014 it won awards in France and was nominated for the Prix Goncourt, and won the 2015 Goncourt First Novel Prize.
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Laughing While Black: Resistance, Coping and the Use of Humor as a Pandemic Pastime among Blacks
For centuries Africans were captured and brought to America in bondage and forced to forge a new culture. The development of a Black culture gave rise to humor as a coping mechanism against the oppressive state they found themselves in.
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ATLANTIC CROSSING
The Atlantic is a space through which racialized identities are dynamically produced and are re-produced by particular practices, in particular places, at particular times.
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A Long Road to Freedom: The Exoneration Pipeline in the United States, 1989–2015
Research on criminal exoneration, a judicial declaration of innocence post-conviction, has emphasized the demographics of exonerees and the evidentiary bases of exoneration. Few studies have analyzed the temporal gap between conviction and exoneration.
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“Remember the ship”: Narrating the Empire Windrush
Despite the ubiquity of the SS Empire Windrush as a symbol of post-war Caribbean migration to Britain, there are few literary evocations of its journey and arrival, and, of those, the majority are literary commissions from 1998, the year in which the ship was to become legendary.
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Hair politics in the blogosphere: Safe spaces and the politics of self-representation in Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah
This article studies the way hair politics are explored in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) and the novel’s representativeness within the “third wave” of the hair movements. The focus is on the reconfiguration of counter-discursive “safe spaces” as defined by Patricia Collins.
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Development and diaspora: separate concerns?
The article considers recent work on the nature of the black diaspora in the West and its relationship with Africa and African development.
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Nation and contestation: Black British writing
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The Africana paradigm in Capital: the debts of Karl Marx to people of African descent
This article will attempt an original interpretation of Capital (Marx, K. 1867. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1. Marx/Engels Internet Archive, 1995, 1999.
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A ‘bad fit’ for ‘our’ kids: politics, identity, race and power in parental discourse on educational programming & child well-being
Issues of race and class have long been at the center of discourses involving the American public education system.
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Black History, Oral History, and Genealogy*
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An Institutional Approach to Fostering Inclusion and Addressing Racial Bias: Implications for Diversity in Academic Medicine
Issue: While an increasingly diverse workforce of clinicians, researchers, and educators will be needed to address the nation’s future healthcare challenges, underrepresented in medicine (UIM) perspectives remain relatively absent from academic medicine.
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Memory, Struggle, and Power: On Interviewing Political Activists
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Black Feminisms and Postcolonial Paradigms: Researching Educational Inequalities
Embodying diversity: problems and paradoxes for Black feminists
This paper examines some of the problems and paradoxes of embodying diversity for organisations. With reference to a research project based on interviews with diversity practitioners, as well as personal experience of working within universities as a Black feminist, this paper explores how diversity becomes a commitment that requires that those who embody that diversity express happiness and gratitude.
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Bearing Witness While Black
Theorizing African American mobile journalism after Ferguson
Modern black citizen journalists have embraced the mobile phone as their storytelling tool of choice to produce paradigm-shifting displays of raw reportage that challenge long-standing narratives of race, power, and privilege in America.
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Counter-hegemonic commemorative play: marginalized pasts and the politics of memory in the digital game Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry
In this article, I argue that digital games hold the potential to influence processes of cultural memory related to past and contemporary forms of marginalization.
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EVERYBODY'S GOT A LITTLE LIGHT UNDER THE SUN
Black luminosity and the visual culture of surveillance
This article examines the production of The Book of Negroes during the British evacuation of New York in 1783 and situates it as the first government-issued document for state regulated migration between the United States and Canada that explicitly links corporeal identifiers to the right to travel.
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Taking a Knee: Neoliberalism, Radical Imaginaries, and the NFL Player Protest
This article analyzes the National Football League (NFL) player protests against institutionalized racism as a means of radical democratic discourse.
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Black queer womanhood matters: searching for the queer herstory of Black Lives Matter in television dramas
Although the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) was created by three Black women, two of whom identify as queer, mainstream representations of the movement often erase the founders’ identities.
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Perceptions of race, crime, and policing among Ferguson protesters
Research demonstrates that race is commonly associated with perceptions of crime and thus, crime committed by people of color is often overestimated by the public, particularly white Americans.
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Black lives and climate justice: courage and power in defending communities and Mother Earth
This article shares examples of the leadership of Black communities and social movements in the struggle for climate justice, in four different parts of the world: resisting extraction and promoting community health in Nigeria; addressing extreme climate impacts and building people’s sovereignty in…
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The economics of apartheid: An introduction
Twenty years after apartheid was formally abolished it continues to shape South African society. Its legacy persists over and above interest in it as a perverse phenomenon.
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Black in the city: on the ruse of ethnicity and language in an antiblack landscape
Montreal, a city delimited by a French-speaking East and an English-speaking West, is often used as an example of how language can organize urban landscapes. That said, examining Black life in Montreal complicates that tidy narrative by illustrating how race, not language, configures the city. Broadly, this study examines the way racial and linguistic divisions play out in the geography of the city.
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The struggle for ‘our streets’: the digital and physical spatial politics of the Ferguson Movement
The Ferguson Movement of 2014 and 2015 reached national salience immediately following the murder of Michael Brown, after residents took to social media platforms to report from what many activists called ‘ground zero.’
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Race matters: confronting the legacy of empire and colonialism
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Slavery and the Death Penalty
A Study in Abolition
It has long been acknowledged that the death penalty in the United States of America has been shaped by the country’s history of slavery and racial violence, but this book considers the lesser-explored relationship between the two practices’ respective abolitionist movements. The book explains how the historical and conceptual links between slavery and capital punishment have both helped and hindered efforts to end capital punishment.
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Different styles of policing: discretionary power in street controls by the public police in France and Germany
By analysing French and German police stop and search on the streets based on embedded observations in police patrols and findings of a large school survey, this article comparatively questions their determinants.
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Wireless Protesters Move Around: Informational and Coordinative Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Protest Politics
This study explored information and communication technology (ICT) uses for protest politics, focusing on the case of a 2008 protest in Korea. Based on a survey of citizen activists (N = 322), it examined informational and coordinative uses of eight different ICTs for protest participation.
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The Trump majority: white womanhood and the making of female voters in the U.S.
The estimated 52% of white female voters who supported Donald Trump for President of the United States in 2016 animates this dialogue on the politics of groups and identities.
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ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SLAVERY REPARATION
This essay draws on the theories of Melanie Klein and others in the British object relations school to explore the psychological dynamics of the slavery reparations debate in Africa, Britain, and the USA.