Race, ideology, and power in Guyana

1983 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Percy C. Hintzen ◽  
Ralph R. Premdas
Keyword(s):  
Race Ideology

scholarly journals Who is it okay to punch?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Gonzalez ◽  
Alexandra McCoy
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Intergroup Conflict ◽  
Intergroup Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Psychology Literature ◽  
Group Attributes ◽  
Political Alignment ◽  
Race Ideology ◽  
Consistent Support

A popular contemporary meme involves the social acceptability of “punching Nazis.” This phenomenon raises the question: what characteristics make a group or member of a group more or less “punch-able”? More broadly, what group attributes yield support for physical violence against them? In this study, we build on the extant psychology literature on intergroup processes to look at what leads individuals to find physical violence against a group acceptable, and if the factors that lead to such acceptance differ from those that lead to sheer affective intolerance. We use two experimental tasks to test expectations built on prominent theories. In a “real-world rating task,” participants evaluated a series of real-world groups and individuals with varying characteristics such as race, ideology, intelligence, warmth, and tendency toward violence. Also, in a conjoint experiment, participants chose between two groups in terms of which they would support being punched, as various attributes were manipulated such as race, expressed ideological values, partisanship, income, tendency toward violence, and being described as disgusting or threatening. We find consistent support for effects of political alignment (particularly, expressed ideological values related to dominance) and perceived tendency toward violence, as well as mixed findings for race and several other factors. These findings synthesize theories on intergroup conflict with contemporary findings on affective polarization.

Race, ideology, and legal action

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin D. Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Legal Action ◽  
Race Ideology

Ethnic Authenticity, Class, and Autobiography: The Case of Hunger of Memory

PMLA ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 113 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Staten
Keyword(s):  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Mexican Descent ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Mexican History ◽  
Chicana Literature ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
Bourgeois Culture ◽  
Class Divisions ◽  
Culture Of Origin ◽  
Race Ideology

Richard Rodriguez's autobiographical Hunger of Memory (1982) is assigned to Chicano-Chicana literature because the book tells a story of growing up the child of Mexican immigrants, but Rodriguez rejects the term Chicano for himself and denies that it is possible or desirable for Americans of Mexican descent to retain an identification with their culture of origin. Rodriguez has been widely criticized as a sellout to white bourgeois culture, but his life narrative shows that his rejection of Chicano identity is rooted in the class-and-race ideology of his Mexican parents and thus in the contradictions of Mexican history. Chicano-Chicana nationalism assumes a simple dichotomy between the proletarian mestizo or mestiza and the bourgeois white oppressor. Rodriguez's family history, however, points toward race and class divisions within the population of Mexican descent that call into question the monolithic conceptions of Chicano-Chicana identity on the basis of which Rodriguez has been attacked.

scholarly journals Racism’s Back Door: A Mixed-Methods Content Analysis of Transformative Sketch Comedy in the US from 1960-2000

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Jennifer Kim
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Operating Modes ◽  
The Us ◽  
Sketch Comedy ◽  
Fair Game ◽  
Back Door ◽  
Saturday Night Live ◽  
Race Ideology

Comedy that challenges race ideology is transformative, widely available, and has the potential to affect processes of identity formation and weaken hegemonic continuity and dominance. Outside of the rules and constraints of serious discourse and cultural production, these comedic corrections thrive on discursive and semiotic ambiguity and temporality. Comedic corrections offer alternate interpretations overlooked or silenced by hegemonic structures and operating modes of cultural common sense. The view that their effects are ephemeral and insignificant is an incomplete and misguided evaluation. Since this paper adopts Hegel’s understanding of comedy as the spirit (Geist) made material, its very constitution, and thus its power, resides in exposing the internal thought processes often left unexamined, bringing them into the foreground, dissecting them, and exposing them for ridicule and transformation. In essence, the work of comedy is to consider all points of human processing and related structuration as fair game. The phenomenological nature of comedy calls for a micro-level examination. Select examples from The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (1968), The Richard Pryor Show (1977), Saturday Night Live (1990), and Chappelle’s Show (2003) will demonstrate representative ways that comedy attacks and transforms racial hegemony. 

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