Do Black lives matter to clinical neuropsychologists? An introduction to a special issue

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Steven Paul Woods ◽  
Marc A. Norman
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Black Lives Matter

scholarly journals Sport, race and ethnicity in the wake of black lives matter: introduction to the special issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-191
Author(s):  
Adam B. Evans ◽  
Sine Agergaard ◽  
Paul Ian Campbell ◽  
Kevin Hylton ◽  
Verena Lenneis
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Black Lives Matter

The Matter of All Black Lives

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-97
Author(s):  
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz ◽  
Shamari Reid
Keyword(s):  
Toni Morrison ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Black Artists ◽  
Black Experience ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Timely Issue

Evoking the spirit of Toni Morrison, we were moved to view the work of the scholars in this special issue through the lens we used to frame a class we taught last spring— Black Lives Matter: A Multimodal Journey. The course was centered around Morrison’s notion of the Black Gaze and was designed to specifically ask the question: What becomes possible with regard to Black liberation when we center the Black Gaze? Our approach to the course purposely centered the beauty and brilliance of the Black experience through the work of Black artists, scholars, writers, entrepreneurs, and media producers. Furthermore, we organized our course by what one of our students, Sharina Gordon, called the “pillars” of Blackness (Gordon, 2021): Black Gaze, Black Genius, Black Joy, Black Healing, and Black Love. We found the Pillars of Blackness to be a useful construct as we read the articles in this special issue. In doing so, we highlight how the authors featured in such a timely issue center these pillars and offer them as a guide as we think about where we go next in our collective journey toward Black liberation.

If “Black Lives Matter in Literacy Research,” Then Take This Racial Turn: Developing Racial Literacies

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 530-552
Author(s):  
Marcus Croom
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Literacy Research

When I look back before 2020, before the murder of Mr. George Floyd in particular, and think about this special issue, “Black Lives Matter in Literacy Research,” a question comes to my mind: Are we, the field of literacy research, sure that we want to include literacy research among the incalculable responses (already in progress) to racist killings, anti-Blackness, Black living and dying, and ongoing injustices in the United States of America? In other words, will Black human beings matter to our field? With the hope that our field of literacy research is finally taking this racial turn as an institution, I introduce the post-White orientation as well as practice of race theory (PRT) and argue for the lifelong development of racial literacies among fellow literacy researchers. In short, this article is designed to support the development of racial literacies in the field of literacy research with the aim of affecting research, practice, and policy.

scholarly journals Race as a Carceral Terrain: Black Lives Matter Meets Reentry

2019 ◽  
Vol 99 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Community Reentry ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Critical Issues

In the United States, racialized people are disproportionately selected for punishment. Examining punishment discourses intersectionally unearths profound, unequal distinctions when controlling for the variety of victims’ identities within the punishment regime. For example, trans women of color are likely to face the harshest of realties when confronted with the prospect of punishment. However, missing from much of the academic carceral literature is a critical perspective situated in racialized epistemic frameworks. If racialized individuals are more likely to be affected by punishment systems, then, certainly, they are the foremost experts on what those realities are like. The Black Lives Matter hashtag came about during the aftermath of the George Zimmerman non-verdict in the killing of Trayvon Martin, and it helped to cultivate the organization which turned into a multiracial international movement in defense of Black dignity and humanity. While Black Lives Matter was initially inspired by police violence, it has expanded its reach to include causes beyond police malpractice and brutality. This special issue of The Prison Journal seeks to merge principles associated with Black Lives Matter (as noted on their website) with critical issues endemic to community reentry after incarceration and the racialized and gendered impediments it produces. The empirical pieces included are qualitative to reflect the epistemologies of the affected, as we believe that narratives more powerfully capture these hard-to-reach (or deviant in comparison to the norm) perspectives. This special issue includes articles that critically foreground the voices of formerly incarcerated citizens (including some who are mothers and fathers) and reentry service providers. Importantly, it provides suggestions for new directions in reimagining a more democratic and racially equitable society without current punishment regimes.

Virtual Theme Collection: Body Politics: Making Black Lives Matter

2020 ◽  
pp. 002193472097007
Author(s):  
Molefi Kete Asante
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Social

Few journals in the social sciences have published as much over the past twenty years on the reality of racial, cultural, and social inequality in law and practice as the Journal of Black Studies. In this special issue edited in the 50th year of the journal we have initiated a series related to the evolution of human relations that considers where we have been and what we need to arrive at the place where we should be. In this issue we look at the presence of violence against African descended people, the mediations of people, laws, and processes intervening in the nature of our interactions in order to establish a more humane future. This issue should allow teachers, scholars and students to re-evaluate and re-examine their own set of assumptions, actions, and potentialities in regard to humanity.

Sport, Social Justice, and the Limits of Dissent After George Floyd: A Reply to Butterworth

2020 ◽  
pp. 216747952097635
Author(s):  
Jeffrey B. Kurtz
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
National Anthem ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Spirit Of Sport ◽  
Lead Article

Michael Butterworth’s lead article in the August-October special issue of Communication & Sport raised important insights about unity within sport. This reply argues that those insights were encumbered by a blind spot: Where Butterworth critiqued examples of unity that minimized the agonistic spirit of sport, he gave free pass to calls for unity on behalf of social justice. My reply works through examples of dissent from protests that marked the sporting landscape following the murder of George Floyd. Specifically, I consider the case of Rachel Hill, an attacker for the Chicago Red Stars of the Women’s National Soccer League, who elected to stand during the national anthem while her entire team kneeled in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. Hill’s “tinted dissent” poses difficult questions for Butterworth’s theorizing about the merits of rivalry and sporting agonism: Thinking beyond the national anthem, how might Hill’s decision to stand, and the backlash she endured, reveal a troubling totalizing logic within calls for social justice? Can our scholarship make space for dispositions that strive to understand, and not solely critique, the strange dynamics of power that pervade sport? How should instances of dissenting athlete-activism be judged?

Special Issue: Black Lives Matter and Global Struggles for Racial Justice in Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 196-198
Author(s):  
Sharon Walker ◽  
Krystal Strong ◽  
Derron Wallace ◽  
Arathi Sriprakash ◽  
Leon Tikly ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Racial Justice ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Black Lives Matter

Editors’ Introduction to the International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches Black Lives Matter Special Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie ◽  
John H. Hitchcock
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Police Officer ◽  
Implicit Bias ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Black Lives Matter

With this editorial, we introduce the Black Lives Matter special issue (i.e., Volume 13, Issue 1) of the International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests that took place in the United States and worldwide in response to the brutal killing of unarmed George Perry Floyd Jr. by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minnesota, during an arrest, we chronicle the evolution of this special issue. Then, we preview the 12 articles in this special issue, paying particular attention to the foreword and afterword, both of which are exceptional. As each work is read, we encourage readers to reflect on the topic of implicit bias and institutionalized (i.e., systematic) racism pertaining to members of Black communities. Further, we hope that readers encourage others to read and to reflect on these special issue articles—and then engage in much needed dialogue with them.

Dialogue is Anything but Silent: A Foreword to the Black Lives Matter Special Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Abrams ◽  
Sandra Schamroth Abrams
Keyword(s):  
Active Listening ◽  
Black Faculty ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Open Dialogue ◽  
Conducting Research

This foreword to the Black Lives Matter special issue looks to embrace active listening and open dialogue via writing, and it calls attention to the confines of traditional publishing that otherwise do not support dialogue in writing. Building upon Onwuegbuzie’s (2021) Framework for Promoting Anti-Racism in America, the foreword begins with sections that address the need to “engage in continuous self-reflection,” “listen more than you speak,” “whenever possible, collaborate with Black faculty,” and “refrain from conducting research that promotes cultural deficit models.” Thereafter, the voices of Dr. Aliya E. Holmes, Dr. David Bell, Kesshem Williams, and Leslie Laboriel underscore the courage necessary to share experiences and to engage in open dialogue; change is anything but silent.

BEYOND MOVEMENTS: THE ONTOLOGY OF BLACK LIVES MATTER

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-496
Author(s):  
Glenn E. Bracey
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Black People ◽  
Social Regulation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Black Lives Matter

This special issue on Black Lives Matter provides insights on the choices activists and organizations are making to defend Black lives in light of various, often unsupportive, political contexts. This concluding essay takes a step back to consider how anti-blackness conditions and shapes the ongoing movement for Black lives. Whites’ refusal to see Black people as fully and irrevocably human facilitates their constant aggression against Black people, including treating Black people as socially dead and beyond the bounds of social regulation. Consequently, scholars should conceptualize the movement for Black lives as a fundamentally defensive movement for recognition as persons rather than an insurgent attempt to integrate into white society. Starting analyses with realization of global antiblackness as a fundamental context allows social movement scholars to better conceptualize race, understand relationships between competing parties, recognize the scope and goals of Black movements, understand organizations’ strategic choices, and opens new areas for inquiry and analysis.

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