The Role of Race and Class in Defining the Australasian Amateur Community

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Race And Class

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison Hope Alkon ◽  
Julie Guthman
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Alternative Food ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Alternative Food Systems ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
To Come ◽  
Economic Inequalities

This chapter argues that food activists need to look beyond the politics of their plates to engage with broader questions of racial and economic inequalities, strategy and political transformation. It grounds the examples that follow in two ongoing scholarly debates. The first regards the role of inequalities, particularly of race and class, in shaping past and present industrial and alternative food systems. The second looks to strategies and tactics. While some have argued that the provision of relatively apolitical alternatives to industrial food systems lays the groundwork for transformative change, the editors of this volume urge activists to follow those profiled in this book towards more cooperative, oppositional and collective strategic choices. The introduction ends with an overview of the chapters to come.

“Gay? Prove it”: The politics of queer anti-deportation activism

Sexualities ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 958-975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel A Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Gay And Lesbian ◽  
The Political ◽  
Credibility Assessment ◽  
Political Asylum ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Perceived Credibility ◽  
The Social

This article examines how gender, sexuality, race and class intersect in queer asylum claims to influence the perceived credibility of gay and lesbian asylum applicants. Building on recent scholarship in queer migration studies that considers the role of gender and sexuality in the social construction of migrant illegality, this article explores how practices of credibility assessment in the political asylum process produce women and sexual minorities as deportable subjects. As I argue, the tactics utilized by gay male asylum applicants to resist deportation show how practices of credibility assessment in the political asylum process are linked to the state’s reproduction of sexual citizenship narratives, narratives that have a disproportionately negative impact upon queer female migrants of color. Accounting for the intersections among gender, sexuality, race and class in influencing the perceived credibility of gay and lesbian asylum applicants is thus crucial for conceptualizing alternative forms of queer anti-deportation activism.

The role of race and class in urban marginality

City ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 364-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Tissot
Keyword(s):  
Race And Class ◽  
Urban Marginality

scholarly journals “‘Like Refugees in their Own Country’: Racial Formation in post-Katrina U.S.”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rubén Peinado Abarrio
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Racial Issues ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary United States ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

Abstract: The controversy that followed hurricane Katrina and its representation by the media revealed unresolved racial issues in contemporary United States. Present-day New Orleans has become an ideal site for the application of Michael Omi and Howard Winant’s ‘racial formation’ theory, which challenges essentialist visions of race pointing to its sociohistorical construction. The present article makes use of this theoretical perspective to examine two pieces of fi ction set in post-Katrina U.S.: HBO’s TV series Treme, and Richard Ford’s short-story “Leaving for Kenosha”. Such an analysis unveils key connections between race and class, ideology, politics or the role of the media. Resumen: El huracán Katrina y su representación en los medios pone de manifi esto cuestiones raciales sin resolver en Estados Unidos. Nueva Orleans se ha convertido en un lugar idóneo para aplicar la teoría de la “formación racial” de Michael Omi y Howard Winant, un ataque a la visión esencialista del concepto “raza”. Este artículo parte de dicha teoría para examinar dos obras de fi cción situadas en Estados Unidos después del Katrina: la serie de televisión Treme y el relato de Richard Ford “Leaving for Kenosha”. Tal análisis pone de manifi esto la relación entre raza y clase, ideología o medios de comunicación.

School as a hostile institution: How Black and Immigrant Girls of Color Experience the Classroom

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124322110579
Author(s):  
Ranita Ray
Keyword(s):  
Black Girls ◽  
Colonial Education ◽  
Academic Gains ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Racial Harassment ◽  
Color Experience ◽  
Girls Of Color ◽  
Economically Marginalized ◽  
Gender Revolution

The paradox of girls’ academic gains over boys, across race and class, has perplexed scholars for the last few decades. Through a 3-year longitudinal ethnography of two predominantly economically marginalized and racially minoritized schools, I contend that while racially marginalized girls may have made academic gains, school is nevertheless a hostile institution for them. Focusing on the case of Black girls and recent immigrant girls of color, I identify three specific ways in which school functions as hostile institution for them: (1) gendered racial harassment from teachers, (2) erasure of intellect, and (3) estrangement within their communities. Furthermore, the denigration of immigrant girls becomes the conduit for misogynoir. I find that the gains of some racially marginalized girls in school often justify hostility against all of them. Bringing into conversation a feminist analysis of schooling that rejects girls’ educational gains as ubiquitous evidence of a gender revolution with a Black-colonial education framework that emphasizes schooling as a technology of oppression, I explore the current role of school as a hostile institution for Black girls and immigrant girls of color.

Glass Ceiling at Workplace: An Analysis with Reference to Laws of India

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Padma Kapoor ◽  
Vikramjit Kaur
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Glass Ceiling ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Organizational Hierarchy ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Gender Barriers ◽  
Condition Of Women

"Glass Ceiling" means an invisible or hidden barrier that describes the gender barriers, as it stands for gender, race, and class that obstruct women's opportunities for advancement at all levels of organizational hierarchy. It is not only a corporate term that is being generally used in the workplace for women but it is an unfortunate incident that can be happened at all levels, which lies in the mindset of people and society. The rise in female education and the feminization of higher professions - liberal and salaried have not removed the obstacles that women face in reaching the top levels of power, prestige, and remuneration. Women are facing various issues like gender inequality, discrimination, sexual abuse, and mental harassment at work or in society. So improving the condition of women, many organizations, Governments are coming forward and making some policies and laws for their betterment. This paper is an attempt to analyze the role of the Indian government towards the upliftment of women in their personal as well as professional growth.

Colonial legacies and racial hierarchies in the global economy: a review article

Race & Class ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 103-108
Author(s):  
Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Keyword(s):  
Social Stratification ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Stratification Economics ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Racial Hierarchies

This article reviews two recent books on persistent inequalities in the global economy and the role of colonial legacies and racial hierarchies in explaining them. Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire (2019) and Franklin Obeng-Odoom’s Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa (2020) draw on the Black Radical Tradition and stratification economics respectively to challenge mainstream understandings of racial hierarchies. After first outlining the strengths and key insights of each book, the author discusses how they could be expanded in a more radical manner, along the lines of anti-colonial, decolonial and black Marxism. She argues that in order to understand how racial hierarchies are connected to the development of capitalism, further engagement with radical scholarship that sees race and class as co-constituted would be required.

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