Maternalist and Community Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Reese ◽  
Ian Breckenridge-Jackson ◽  
Julisa McCoy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Politics ◽  
Intersectionality Theory ◽  
Political Ideologies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Self Help Groups

This chapter explores the history of maternalist mobilization and women’s community politics in the United States. It argues that both “maternalism” and “community” have proved to be highly flexible mobilizing frames for women. Building on the insights of intersectionality theory, the authors suggest that women’s maternal and community politics is shaped by their social locations within multiple, intersecting relations of domination and subordination, as well as their political ideologies and historical context. The chapter begins by discussing the politically contradictory history of maternalist mobilization within the United States from the Progressive era to the present. It then explores other forms of women’s community politics, focusing on women’s community volunteerism, self-help groups, and community organizing. It discusses how these frames have been used both to build alliances among women and to divide or exclude women based on perceived differences and social inequalities based on race, nativity, class, or sexual orientation.

Impact of the 2020 crises on the arts and culture in the United States: The effect of COVID-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement in historical context

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-465
Author(s):  
Stanley N. Katz ◽  
Leah Reisman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Organizations ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Sector ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis article discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement on the arts and cultural sector in the United States, placing the 2020 crises in the context of the United States’s historically decentralized approach to supporting the arts and culture. After providing an overview of the United States’s private, locally focused history of arts funding, we use this historical lens to analyze the combined effects of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement on a single metropolitan area – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We trace a timeline of key events in the national and local pandemic response and the reaction of the arts community to the Black Lives Matter movement, arguing that the nature of these intersecting responses, and their fallout for the arts and cultural sector, stem directly from weaknesses in the United States’s historical approach to administering the arts. We suggest that, in the context of widespread organizational vulnerability caused by the pandemic, the United States’s decentralized approach to funding culture also undermines cultural organizations’ abilities to respond to issues of public relevance and demonstrate their civic value, threatening these organizations’ legitimacy.

Anti-Sterilization Abuse Organizing: A Retrospective Examination

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Marian McDonald
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minority Women ◽  
Federally Funded ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Retrospective Examination ◽  
The U.S

November 1988 marks the tenth anniversary of the U.S. Government's adoption of guidelines for federally-funded sterilizations. This action was the result of years of organizing by the anti-sterilization abuse movement which grew in the early 1970s in response to the alarming increase in numbers of coercive sterilizations, particularly among poor and minority women. This retrospective examination looks at the strengths and weaknesses of anti-sterilization abuse organizing in the United States, and draws out lessons for other areas of work. It begins by exploring the problem of sterilization abuse and the history of the movement against it. The movement is analyzed using key theoretical concepts of community organizing. An evaluation indicates that the anti-abuse efforts were successful and rich with lessons for reproductive rights and other popular health struggles today.

Refugee Resettlement and Macro Practice in the United States

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odessa Gonzalez Benson ◽  
Karin Wachter ◽  
Cherra Mathis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Program Planning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Macro Practice ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Beginnings ◽  
Macro Social Work

Resettlement-related macro practice reflects a complicated history of immigration and refugee resettlement in the United States, as well as international and domestic policies that shape opportunities and services available to refugees who resettle through these mechanisms. Four intersecting domains of resettlement macro practice are (a) community organizing and community development, (b) advocacy, (c) policy analysis and development, and (d) community-centered management and program planning. To engage meaningfully in macro social work requires a grasp of the history and policies that drive decision-making of individual practitioners and shape the experiences of people resettling to the United States in search of safety and new beginnings. Research and participatory approaches are integral to resettlement macro practice to ensure refugee communities are at the center of all efforts to inform structural and systemic change.

Entertaining mummies: embalming for the sideshow

1970 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard Conlogue ◽  
Ronald Beckett ◽  
Anthony Bravo ◽  
James Taylor ◽  
Richard Horne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Computed Tomography ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Conventional Radiography ◽  
The United States ◽  
Imaging Studies ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
National Geographic ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
History Of

This presentations examines a group of five mummies that were not prepared for the journey to the afterlife but rather preserved and exhibited for commercial enterprise, the sideshow. The study originally comprised five episodes of a forty episode series, «The Mummy Road Show» broadcast on the National Geographic Channel in the United States and internationally. A brief history of the sideshow will be presented to demonstrate the mummies’ roles in the development of that unique segment of the entertainment industry. The method of embalming will be discussed from both its historical context and ability to preserve internal organs. The use of conventional radiography, computed tomography and videoendoscopy to examine the skeletons and well preserved internal organs will be considered in an attempt to substantiate or refute the stories associated with each mummy. In addition, an autopsy conducted on one of the mummies will be correlated to the imaging studies.

Islamophobia

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Altaf Husain
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Work ◽  
South Asia ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
History Of

Islamophobia is not a new term but it has become commonly used in the United States following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This entry provides an overview of the demographics of the Muslim population in the United States. The historical context in which the use of the term first emerged is then identified, followed by a discussion of the two major approaches to defining Islamophobia. The term connotes either outright anti-Muslim bigotry due to religious intolerance or racism and xenophobia toward people from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia who are Muslim or who have a “Muslim-like” appearance. The history of anti-Muslim bigotry in the United States is traced from before the founding of the nation through present times. Implications are presented for social work with Muslim clients, organizations, and communities who may be impacted by anti-Muslim bigotry.

scholarly journals ESSAY ON HUMAN (RACE RELATIONS) IN THE UNITED STATES

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-267
Author(s):  
Frederick D. Bedell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Power Structure ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
History Of ◽  
Voter Suppression

This essay speaks to the context of domination and subordination in particular as it pertains to White Supremacy/White Privilege as manifested in the history of slavery and “Jim Crow” in the United States. It is within this historical context one can discern the present status of race relations in the United States that continues to foster race discrimination through the policies of the ethnic majority (white) power structure, e.g.-institutional racism, voter suppression laws, gerrymandering of voter districts and banking policies to name a few areas. The research of books, papers, television interviews and personal experiences provides a testament to present government policies that endeavor to maintain a social construct of dominance and subordination by the white power structure in the United States.

C.G. JUNG'S PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUE OF ACTIVE IMAGINATION IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Swan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Active Imagination ◽  
Conscious Awareness ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
History Of Psychoanalysis ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Technique ◽  
History Of

This essay in the history of psychoanalysis investigates C.G. Jung's psychotherapeutic technique of active imagination, a state of consciousness in which images from the unconscious are brought to conscious awareness and are expressed artistically in a number of different forms such as writing, painting, sculpting, or dance. This essay outlines the state of psychotherapeutics at the turn of the twentieth century and situates Jung's practice of active imagination in other researches concurrently being undertaken in France, England, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States.

scholarly journals COVID-19: Health disparities and social determinants of health

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (6) ◽  
pp. 771-776
Author(s):  
Élan C Burton ◽  
Delancy HS Bennett ◽  
Linda M Burton
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Current State ◽  
History Of

Social determinants of health (SDH) describe how a person’s education, economic status, and overall environment affect their health outcomes. In the United States, a long history of resource inequities has existed, particularly for those from ethnic minority backgrounds. The following is a literature review of SDH from a historical context, current state, and through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals European Whiteness? A Critical Approach

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bolette B. Blaagaard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Whiteness Studies ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
Critical Whiteness ◽  
History Of ◽  
The U.S

Born out of the United States' (U.S.) history of slavery and segregation and intertwined EUROPEAN WHITENESS? 21 with gender studies and feminism, the field of critical whiteness studies does not fit easily into a European setting and the particular historical context that entails. In order for a field of European critical whiteness studies to emerge, its relation to the U.S. theoretical framework, as well as the particularities of the European context need to be taken into account. The article makes a call for a multilayered approach to take over from the identity politics so often employed in the fields of U.S. gender, race, and whiteness studies.

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