Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin J. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Essential Feature ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Male Privilege ◽  
Psychological Entitlement ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Class Privilege ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination

The political context producing the Donald Trump presidency put into stark relief the confusion, feelings of victimization, and rage of some constituencies that voted for him. Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged: Entitlement’s Response to Social Progress explores the role of entitlement in fostering inequality in the United States. Scholars and activists in recent decades have correctly incorporated the topic of privilege into discussions of prejudice and discrimination. White privilege, male privilege, heterosexual privilege, and class privilege exemplify the unearned advantages given to socially preferred groups—advantages not enjoyed by marginalized groups. As a result, activists and scholars of prejudice integrate an examination of discrimination against target groups, alongside the corresponding benefits that come to those viewed as the societal norm and ideal (e.g., Whites, heterosexuals, and men). Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged examines psychological entitlement as an overlooked but essential feature of persistent inequality. Psychological entitlement refers to one’s sense of deservingness. In understanding resistance to social progress we must understand how members of advantaged groups come to understand their belief in their own worthiness relative to those in disadvantaged groups. The task of this project is an urgent inquiry given our current political context: What happens to entitled people when they feel pushed aside? What are they willing to tear down as they scramble to keep their grip on relative status and power? This book explores the predictable and unpredictable ways in which entitlement preserves and perpetuates inequality.

“Thank You, Black Twitter”: State Violence, Digital Counterpublics, and Pedagogies of Resistance

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Lamont Hill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Black People ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Political Organizing

In this article, I examine the role of Black Twitter as a “digital counterpublic” that enables critical pedagogy, political organizing, and both symbolic and material forms of resistance to anti-Black state violence within the United States. Focusing primarily on post-Ferguson events, I spotlight the ways that Black people have used Black Twitter and other digital counterpublics to engage in forms of pedagogy that reorganize relations of surveillance, reject rigid respectability politics, and contest the erasure of marginalized groups within the Black community.

scholarly journals Scholarly committees as elite public action: The SSRC and the origins of sociolinguistics

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (263) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Monica Heller
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Public Action ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Cold War

AbstractStarting in the early 1950s, the SSRC cultivated interdisciplinary research into the role of language in culture and thought through its Committees on Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics. Here, Monica Heller examines how the latter committee (1963–1979) helped establish sociolinguistics in the United States, investigating the tensions between language, culture, and inequality. In exploring how the committee shifted focus from the developing world to marginalized groups in the United States, Heller addresses how the research agendas of these scholarly structures are influenced by the political dynamics or ideologies of their time, in this case the Cold War and decolonization.

scholarly journals The Perpetuation of Stereotypes i in Croatian Public Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 287-297
Author(s):  
Jakob Patekar
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Black People ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
The United States ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
People Today

The way people are spoken or written about has a critical role in how they are perceived, and this in turn influences how they are positioned within a society – belonging to its core, the majority, or being relegated to the margins, the minority. Various authors have reflected on the role of language in dehumanizing, oppressing, and discriminating certain groups, be it the Jewish citizens during the Nazi regime in Germany, the Tutsi in the Rwandan genocide of 1994, black people in the United States since 1619, women throughout history, or gay and disabled people today, to name a few marginalized groups. In these and other cases, language was the first step in the othering and, consequently, the marginalization of a certain group. The aim of this paper is to explore the language of marginalization in Croatian public discourse, looking at how media workers and public figures contribute to stereotyping people with autism by using the words “autistic” and “autistically” as pejoratives. For this purpose, I analyzed one of the most visited newspaper websites in Croatia in relation to how these words are used. I found that journalists, writers, and politicians use “autistic” and “autistically” as pejoratives when they want to say that an individual, an institution, or a state is “out of touch with reality”, “self-centered”, “unresponsive”. In addition, “autistic” and “autistically” are often used with the intent to insult, thus further imbuing these words with negative connotations. I conclude that raising awareness is needed among media workers and public figures so that they recognize the danger of stereotyping people with autism through the pejorative use of the words “autistic” and “autistically”.

Perspectives on Racial Phenotypicality Bias

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith B. Maddox
Keyword(s):  
Impression Formation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Phenotypic Characteristics ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Psychological Models ◽  
The Face ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination

This article reviews research examining racial phenotypicality bias—within-category stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination based on race-related phenotypic characteristics of the face. A literature review of research examining skin tone bias, drawing largely from work examining perceptions of Blacks in the United States, reveals that individuals with features typical of members of their racial category are perceived and treated more negatively by social perceivers. Furthermore, this treatment has broad implications for social status and health. Despite this evidence, the tendency to attend to and use within-race variation in phenotypic appearance has been over-looked in social psychological models of impression formation. However, several theoretical frameworks have recently been proposed to explain the role of phenotype-based expectancies in social representation and judgment. Drawing on the strengths of each perspective, a rudimentary model of racial phenotypicality bias is proposed. This analysis suggests that future examinations guided by the current framework (or similar others) can complement existing evidence toward a greater understanding of the role of phenotypic variation in social perception.

scholarly journals The Role of Community Support and Social Networks Among Marginalized Groups in Later Life

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 40-41
Author(s):  
Samuel Van Vleet
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Community Support ◽  
Later Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Final Sample ◽  
Regression Techniques ◽  
Race Ethnicity

Abstract As the aging population in the United States continues to grow, so does the need for advancement and critical research to better understand later life experiences. The presence of cumulative disadvantages among racial minorities can often lead to later life health disparities. The goal of this study is to assess the role that social networks and community support play in later life health for marginalized communities. Data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study were analyzed using general linear regression techniques. This allowed for better understanding into the relationships between community support, social networks, race/ethnicity and self-reported health. The final sample included 3,857 participants aged 65 and older. After controlling for other variables, community support and social networks had statistically significant positive relationship with later life health. Race/ethnicity was the strongest predictor of worse later life health. The results of this study show the importance of later life social support for predicting health scores. White participants not only maintained higher health scores as compared to Black and Hispanic participants, but they also reported higher levels of social networks and community support. Findings from this study help build upon the literature regarding community support and social networks in later life.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Iain Crawford
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
The United States ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Social Experiment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Long Read ◽  
Central Claim

Lays out the argument for the book and its central claim that the dynamic between Dickens and Martineau, which has been long read in the personalized terms of a quarrel that ended their professional connection, is more fully understood as the expression of incompatible visions of liberalism, the role of women in social progress, and the nature of democratic society. An essential element of their difference lay in their different experiences of and responses to the social experiment developing in the United States, and the book reconceptualizes their respective encounters with and writing about America.

scholarly journals Subscribing to gendertrash

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 13-41
Author(s):  
Sidney Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Resource Sharing ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Distribution Model ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Cultural Inheritance ◽  
Digital Collection ◽  
Promotional Materials

This article situates the Canadian zine series gendertrash between the international political context of early 1990s trans periodicals and its material roots in Toronto’s Church-Wellesley village, while also providing a brief discussion of how its form and distribution relate to contemporary scholarship on the zine as genre. Published cross-promotional materials in a number of influential trans periodicals from Canada and the United States, as well as archived correspondence, demonstrate the ‘zine’s involvement in broader networks of solidarity and resource-sharing – against which the radical politics of this early “gender queer” publication become all the more apparent. The ArQuives’ 2017 gendertrash digital collection promises an expanded sense of trans cultural inheritance yet raises ethical questions around privacy and archival categorizations of identity. This article concludes, building on earlier critiques of similar digitization projects, by positing an affect-based analogy between the role of gendertrash’s subscription/distribution model and that of this recent digital collection.

The Role of Gender and Sensation Seeking in Film Choice

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smita C. Banerjee ◽  
Kathryn Greene ◽  
Marina Krcmar ◽  
Zhanna Bagdasarov ◽  
Dovile Ruginyte
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Arousal ◽  
Subject Design ◽  
Happy Mood

This study demonstrates the significance of individual difference factors, particularly gender and sensation seeking, in predicting media choice (examined through hypothetical descriptions of films that participants anticipated they would view). This study used a 2 (Positive mood/negative mood) × 2 (High arousal/low arousal) within-subject design with 544 undergraduate students recruited from a large northeastern university in the United States. Results showed that happy films and high arousal films were preferred over sad films and low-arousal films, respectively. In terms of gender differences, female viewers reported a greater preference than male viewers for happy-mood films. Also, male viewers reported a greater preference for high-arousal films compared to female viewers, and female viewers reported a greater preference for low-arousal films compared to male viewers. Finally, high sensation seekers reported a preference for high-arousal films. Implications for research design and importance of exploring media characteristics are discussed.

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