scholarly journals In Search of the British Indian in British India: White Orphans, Kipling's Kim, and Class in Colonial India

2004 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Hubel
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
British India ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
And Gender

Contemporary scholars struggling to keep their work politically meaningful and efficacious often, with the best of intentions, invoke the triad of race, gender and class. But though this three-part mantra is persistently and even passionately recited, usually in the introductory paragraphs of a scholarly piece, ‘attentive listening,’ as historian Douglas M. Peers asserts, ‘reveals that class is sounded with little more than a whisper’ (825). Unlike the other two, class largely remains an under-explored and, consequently, little understood category of experience and inquiry. I can say with certainty that this is true in my own field of postcolonial studies, with its sub-discipline of colonial discourse analysis. In part because of the politically justifiable emphasis on race in postcolonial research and theory (and only later, through feminist insistence, was that emphasis broadened to include gender), we have yet to develop as sustained, various, and subtle a critique of class as that which now exists for race and gender.

scholarly journals Fashioning the Post Colonial Reading: Cultural Representations In Vogue Mexico and Latin America and Arabia Editorials

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martyne Alphonso
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
And Gender

This study analyzes regional editorial content as produced by Vogue magazine. Vogue has developed an empire comprised of 22 international editions. Vogue Mexico & Latin America, and Vogue Arabia, are the only two editions that encompass numerous countries, cultures, and voices. Using discourse analysis through a cultural studies lens, this study analyzes six editorial spreads to uncover what cultural messages are being produced, how these images impact national identities, and who is or is not represented in the fashion image. Intersections of fashion with culture, identity, race, and gender, are analyzed through critical discourse analysis to address constructions of power, specifically within a cultural and postcolonial framework. Visual narratives in Vogue Arabia and Vogue Mexico & Latin America reflect values seemingly distinct to their region, but are charged with cultural assumptions and inaccuracies. For postcolonial cultures vying for identities independent of their colonial past, these marketable stereotypes continue to suppress their structural agency.

Sally Haslanger and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on the Possibility of Metaphysics of Resistance and its Implications for Postcolonial Feminist Theologizing

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 130-146
Author(s):  
Jeane C. Peracullo
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Asian Women ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Social Critique ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Social Theorist ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist ◽  
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

In Resisting Reality: Social Construction and Social Critique, contemporary feminist philosopher Sally Haslanger claims that the reality of race and gender (both social constructs) is built on unjust social structures and must be resisted. Meanwhile, contemporary social theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak extends the term ‘subaltern’ to Third World Asian women who were rendered inarticulate by centuries of oppressive masculinist, imperialist, and colonial rule. This article examines how a metaphysics of resistance, culled from philosophy and postcolonial studies, can contribute to expanding postcolonial feminist theologizing.

scholarly journals Representation of interracial couples on mainstream television : confining identities of race and gender in Heroes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Lasch
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Comic Book ◽  
Interracial Couples ◽  
Narrative Approach ◽  
Television Show ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender

Using textual and discourse analysis and a semiotic, narrative approach to television texts, I explore representations of identity, specifically interracial couples. I use three interracial couples on the popular mainstream television show Heroes to analyze and explicate the ideological portrayals of gender, race and their interplay as shown on television. Taking into account historical gender and race representational studies on television, I analyze Heroes as a multiracial, current mainstream television show in the contemporary comic book genre to understand the ways interracial couples are represented.

scholarly journals The Influence of Biographical Factors on Adult Learner Self-Directedness in an Open Distance Learning Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo-Anne Botha ◽  
Mariette Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Adult Learner ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Academic Activity ◽  
And Gender

<p>This study investigated the relationship between self-directedness (as measured by the Adult Learner Self-Directedness Scale) and biographical factors such as age, race, and gender of adult learners enrolled at a South African open distance learning (ODL) higher education institution. Correlational and inferential statistical analyses were used. A stratified random sample of 1,102 mainly black and female learners participated in the study. The Adult Learner Self-Directedness Scale (ALSDS) identified four constructs of adult learner self-directedness in an Open Distance Learning Higher Education (ODLHE) milieu, namely the strategic utilisation of officially provided resources, engaged academic activity, success orientation for ODLHE, and academically motivated behaviour. The research indicated that significant differences exist between the gender, race and age groups with regard to self-directedness.</p><p>With regard to gender, males scored significantly higher than females on success orientation for ODLHE and engaged academic activity. With regard to race, Indian participants scored significantly higher than the other race groups on strategic utilisation of officially provided resources and engaged academic activity. The white participants scored significantly higher than the other race groups on success orientation for ODLHE. In terms of age, the age group &gt;50 scored significantly higher than the other age groups on success orientation for ODLHE and self-efficacy. In terms of success orientation, the means for the age groups seem to increase as the ages of participants increase. The age group 18-25 scored significantly higher than the other age groups on engaged academic activity.</p>

By Black Women’s Hands: Building Equitable Justice

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-77
Author(s):  
Livia Maria San’t AnnaE Sant’Anna Vaz
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
The Other ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Brazilian Society ◽  
History Of ◽  
System Data ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Vulnerabilities

The article evinces the need for the inclusion of Black women in the Brazilian justice system if equitable justice is to be achieved. The intersecting oppressions of race and gender to which Black women have been subjected down through the colonialist, slave-owning history of Brazil are still conditioning Black women’s access to spaces of power, notedly in the Brazilian justice system. Data are presented that illustrate the effects of institutional racism and sexism on justice officials, particularly how the dearth of Black women – the most vulnerabilized social category in Brazilian society – produces a single, white-centric, androcentric interpretation that ultimately makes the achievement of justice a white man’s privilege. From this perspective, Black women find themselves at a kind of intersectional crossroads that, on one hand, reinforces their social vulnerabilities while, on the other hand, it potentializes their ability to foster an epistemological, hermeneutic transformation inside the justice system, aimed at building a system that incorporates gender and race equity.

Psychoanalytical Theory in Postcolonial Discourse

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-140
Author(s):  
Audrius Beinorius ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
The Future ◽  
Postcolonial Discourse ◽  
Theoretical Project

This article deals with some earlier applications of psychology for the analysis of the colonial condition offered by three thinkers—Octave Mannoni, Frantz Fanon and recent applications of Freudian psychoanalytical theory in the poststructuralist approach of Homi K. Bhaba. An attempt is made to compare their standpoints and reflect more broadly on what their implications mean for the future of psychoanalysis’ place in postcolonial critique. Also to answer a vital question in the theoretical project of postcolonial studies: Is psychoanalysis a universally applicable theory for psychic disruption in the colonial context? What are differences in the application of psychological theory for studies of colonial discourse? The conclusion of the paper is: Despite the problematic inheritance of racializing thinking psychoanalysis has proved to be an important and reoccurring methodology in colonial critique and postcolonial theory. Nevertheless, it is necessary to recognize that psychoanalysis itself is a colonial discipline and must become an object of colonial discourse analysis.

Trends in Marital Happiness by Gender and Race, 1973 to 2006

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 1379-1404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamadi Corra ◽  
Shannon K. Carter ◽  
J. Scott Carter ◽  
David Knox
Keyword(s):  
General Social Survey ◽  
The Other ◽  
Marital Happiness ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Over Time

This article uses data from the 1973-2006 General Social Survey to assess the interactive impact of race and gender on marital happiness over time. Findings indicate independent and significant effects for both variables, with Whites and husbands reporting greater marital happiness than Blacks and wives. Comparing four subgroups (White husbands, White wives, Black husbands, and Black wives), the authors find that White husbands report the highest levels of marital happiness whereas Black wives report the lowest. Assessment of trends from the 1970s to the 2000s reveals a convergence among the groups: Although White husbands consistently report the highest levels of marital happiness, there has been a steady decline in the gap between all four groups. Most notably, Black wives exhibit a significant increase in marital happiness relative to the other groups. Findings are discussed in the context of the changing structure and composition of families in contemporary U.S. society.

DuBois's “Double Consciousness”: Race and Gender in Progressive Era American Thought

1992 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolph Reed
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
The Other ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
True Self ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Other World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
American Thought ◽  
Dark Body

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two un-reconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

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