Liberals perceive more racism than conservatives when police shoot Black men—But, reading about White privilege increases perceived racism, and shifts attributions of guilt, regardless of political ideology

Anti-immigrant sentiments in California during the early 1990s raised questions about that state's association with nativism, the impact of recessions on public anxieties, and the validity of public opinion polls in measuring related attitudes and concerns. A series of California Field Polls administered statewide between 1982 and 1998 (most samples exceeding 1,000 persons) were used to examine Californians’ attitudes regarding legal and illegal immigration, amnesty for undocumented aliens, identification cards for immigrants, and job competition between immigrants and Americans. Employing cross-tabulations and logistic regression, the study found a consistent relationship between responses to the issues and such demographic variables as political ideology, education, age, income, Protestant religion, and Latino ethnicity as well as between those responses and shifts in respondents’ financial perceptions and expectations. The study concludes that California was more likely a microcosm of the nation, reflecting its dual attitudes toward immigrants, rather than the leader of a neonativist movement.

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14. Kehinde Wiley: An Alternate Reality

Inquiry@Queen's Undergraduate Research Conference Proceedings ◽

10.24908/iqurcp.9891 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Carling Spinney

Keyword(s):

Black Men ◽

Art History ◽

White Privilege ◽

American Culture ◽

Black American ◽

Traditional Art ◽

Historical Tradition ◽

Alternate Reality ◽

Contemporary Artist

Contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley depicts the dramatic friction between urban, black American culture in contrast to luxurious, baroque backdrops; making a bold commentary on art historical injustices. Why does this combination strike us as so surprising? Wiley’s paintings explicitly stress an “alternate reality,” one in which black presence is not eclipsed. Too often racialized persons and their respective cultures have been painted out or misconstrued in the canon of art history. The majority of Wiley’s subjects are racialized men positioned in traditional art historical poses. These canonical references highlight a clash between not only old and new, but between the tradition of white privilege and the disadvantage experienced by racialized individuals. In his colossal paintings, Wiley quotes celebrated artists such as Titian, Ingres, van Dyck and Gericault; thus highlighting a past not realized. In art historical convention, racialized subjects have typically been either ignored, hypersexualized, demonized or exoticized. Such conventional discrimination is confronted in Wiley’s impactful paintings. But do these paintings only encourage viewers to look up the canonical works Wiley references, thus solidifying the art historical tradition of white privilege and the “othering” of racialized persons? Do they simply highlight the “impersonation,” and thus the impossibility, of black men in positions of power? Ultimately, this problematization is unfounded. Wiley utilizes art historical quotations and aesthetic discordance in order to illuminate a past in need of correction as well as a higher degree of consciousness.

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Waraburra Nura

NEW Emerging scholars in Australian Indigenous Studies ◽

10.5130/nesais.v5i1.1581 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Manning Nolan-Laykoski

Keyword(s):

Political Ideology ◽

White Privilege ◽

Black History ◽

Human Condition ◽

Art And Politics ◽

Political Events ◽

Art Collection ◽

The Relationship ◽

Political Realm

My visit to the UTS’s Indigenous Art Collection and the Waraburra Nura (the Happy Wanderers place) Indigenous garden afforded me the opportunity to re-engage once again with the knowledge that my white privilege has a black history. As a member of the Munnungali clan and Yugambeh Nation-Language people who reside in the Bouedesert area of the Gold Coast Hinterland, I am already deeply connected and sensitive to issues of Colonial representations of history, the role of Indigenism in contesting Western knowledge orthodoxies, the importance of pushing back against the reproduction of the colonised as fixed identities and why under-theorizing the deprived and disadvantaged Australian Indigenous human condition, allows it to proliferate. As a whole, Jennifer Newman’s and Alice McAuliffe’s talk and the artwork on display reflected Indigenous survival, resilience and thriving. It also reflected the relationship between art and politics, not only because it represented both Western and Indigenous political ideology, through an account of political events of historical moments in time, but also because it illustrated how the artist themselves (since their art production is a commitment to a political stance) belong to the political realm.

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Attractive mode force microscopy of chiral liquid crystal surfaces

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100121740 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 268-269

Author(s):

B.D. Terris ◽

R. J. Twieg ◽

C. Nguyen ◽

G. Sigaud ◽

H. T. Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Liquid Crystal ◽

Crystal Surfaces ◽

Free Surfaces ◽

Control Range ◽

Force Microscopy ◽

Liquid Crystal Films ◽

Chiral Liquid Crystal ◽

Crystal Films ◽

Electrostatic Charging ◽

And Shifts

We have used a force microscope in the attractive, or noncontact, mode to image a variety of surfaces. In this mode, the microscope tip is oscillated near its resonant frequency and shifts in this frequency due to changes in the surface-tip force gradient are detected. We have used this technique in a variety of applications to polymers, including electrostatic charging, phase separation of ionomer surfaces, and crazing of glassy films.Most recently, we have applied the force microscope to imaging the free surfaces of chiral liquid crystal films. The compounds used (Table 1) have been chosen for their polymorphic variety of fluid mesophases, all of which exist within the temperature control range of our force microscope.

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Speech Therapy Services in a Large School System: A Six-Year Overview

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.0704.207 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 207-219 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Constance P. DesRoches

Keyword(s):

School System ◽

Speech Therapy ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Case Load ◽

Number Of Children ◽

School Population ◽

System A ◽

Therapy Services ◽

And Shifts ◽

Selection Factors

A statistical review provides analysis of four years of speech therapy services of a suburban school system which can be used for comparison with other school system programs. Included are data on the percentages of the school population enrolled in therapy, the categories of disabilities and the number of children in each category, the sex and grade-level distribution of those in therapy, and shifts in case-load selection. Factors affecting changes in case-load profiles are identified and discussed.

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HIV/AIDS Diagnoses Rising in Young Black Men in Most States

Internal Medicine News ◽

10.1016/s1097-8690(08)71104-1 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 41 (19) ◽

pp. 35

Author(s):

ELIZABETH MECHCATIE

Keyword(s):

Black Men ◽

Hiv Aids

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Racial Prejudice Predicts Less Desire to Learn About White Privilege

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000314 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 48 (5) ◽

pp. 310-319 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John G. Conway ◽

Nikolette P. Lipsey ◽

Gabrielle Pogge ◽

Kate A. Ratliff

Keyword(s):

White Privilege ◽

Racial Prejudice ◽

Affective Responses ◽

White People ◽

Total N ◽

Desire To Change

Abstract. White people often experience unpleasant emotions in response to learning about White privilege ( Phillips & Lowery, 2015 ; Pinterits, Poteat, & Spanierman, 2009 ). Two studies (total N = 1,310) examined how race attitudes relate to White people’s desires to avoid or learn information about White privilege. White participants completed measures of their race attitudes, desire to change White privilege, and their desire to avoid learning information about White privilege. Study 1 showed that participants who preferred their racial in-group reported less desire to change White privilege and greater desire to avoid learning information about White privilege. Inconsistent with expectations, Study 2 showed that participants who anticipated negative affective responses to learning about White privilege reported greater desire to change White privilege.

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