First Person: H_NGM_N: What one says, and doesn’t say, to white educators

2021 ◽  
Vol 102 (5) ◽  
pp. 54-57
Author(s):  
Lois Beardslee
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Racial Integration ◽  
First Person ◽  
White Educators ◽  
Children Of Color ◽  
White Teacher ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Defensive Reactions ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
American Author

Native American author Lois Beardslee discusses how she has experienced the power differentials that arise from the lack of significant racial integration in the field of education. Beardslee describes how a white teacher reacted when she, while serving as a substitute teacher’s aide, suggested finding a substitute for the game hangman, a game reminiscent of the violent lynchings and executions by hanging experienced within communities of color. Beardslee explores how the pervasive whiteness of education and the defensive reactions of white educators when questioned makes it difficult for teachers and children of color to speak out.

Contributions to the History of Psychology: IV. Joseph Buchanan (1785-1829) and the “Law of Exercise” (1812)

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thom Verhave
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Physiological Psychology ◽  
History Of Psychology ◽  
Major Work ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
American Author

This is a discussion of the law of exercise as found in a work of a forgotten American author whose major work has been described as “the first native American treatise on physiological psychology.”

Agnotology and Ideology

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-185
Author(s):  
Victorene L. King
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Hiring Practices ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Transformative Change ◽  
Predominately White ◽  
White Teacher ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Teacher Workforce ◽  
New Policies

During periods of local and national unrest, leaders engage in discussions surrounding the reexamination of old policies and the consideration of new policies. Their changes to policies and procedures may be symbolic to silence objections or performative to feign new awareness, but symbolic and performative changes will not lead to transformative change. So how does a nation fix a problem of which many of its citizens are mostly ignorant? How do organizations redress inequitable hiring practices when they believe America is a meritocracy where everyone has the same chance of succeeding? How do educational institutions restructure teaching practices when the predominately White teacher workforce continues to resist talking about race? Transformative change will require the unexamined power of Eurocentric culture and thought that normalizes the marginalization, oppression, and subordination of Communities of Color and other groups of people based on gender, class, and citizenship to be completely exposed and then abolished.

Ecowomanism

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie L. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Spiritual Beliefs ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Intersectional Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Women Of African Descent ◽  
Human And Nature

This essay provides a definition and theoretical frame for ecowomanism. The approach to environmental justice centers the perspectives of women of African descent and reflects upon these women’s activist methods, religious practices, and theories on how to engage earth justice. As a part of the womanist tradition, methodologically ecowomanism features race, class, gender intersectional analysis to examine environmental injustice around the planet. Thus, it builds upon an environmental justice paradigm that also links social justice to environmental justice. Ecowomanism highlights the necessity for race-class-gender intersectional analysis when examining the logic of domination, and unjust public policies that result in environmental health disparities that historically disadvantage communities of color. As an aspect of third wave womanist religious thought, ecowomanism is also shaped by religious worldviews reflective of African cosmologies and uphold a moral imperative for earth justice. Noting the significance of African and Native American cosmologies that link divine, human and nature realms into an interconnected web of life, ecowomanism takes into account the religious practices and spiritual beliefs that are important tenets and points of inspiration for ecowomanist activism.

A Call for Onto-Epistemological Diversity in Early Childhood Education and Care: Centering Global South Conceptualizations of Childhood/s

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Salazar Pérez ◽  
Cinthya M. Saavedra
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
White Male ◽  
Global South ◽  
Children Of Color ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Global North ◽  
Chicana Feminisms

In this chapter, we call for onto-epistemological diversity in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC). Specifically, we discuss the need to center the brilliance of children and communities of color, which we argue, can be facilitated by foregrounding global south perspectives, such as Black and Chicana feminisms. Mainstream perspectives in ECEC, however, have been dominantly constructed from global north perspectives, producing a normalized White, male, middle-class, heterosexual version of childhood, where minoritized children are viewed as deficit. Although there have been important challenges to the discourse of a normalized, deficit child, we argue much of this work has remained grounded in global north positionings, which separate theory from the lived realities of children of color. As such, we introduce Black and Chicana feminisms as global south visions to transform approaches to research and pedagogy in ECEC and, in turn, disrupt inequities.

scholarly journals Sexual Harassment in Display Work: The Case of the Modeling Industry

2021 ◽  
pp. 089124322110368
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Elise Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
First Person ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Feminist Analysis ◽  
Specific Category ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Over Time

This feminist analysis focuses on sexual harassment within a specific category of jobs known as display work, where primarily women’s bodies are commodified and sold to consumers, and often through the conduits of powerful male industry leaders. Using qualitative content analysis methods to analyze 88 subjective, first-person narratives of harassment from 70 models working within the fashion business, I describe how the commodification of bodies interacts with the particular features of the modeling industry—the premium placed on youth, ambiguous industry demands, and the presence of kingmakers—to produce an environment in which opportunities for sexual harassment can proliferate. All these factors impose extreme worker vulnerability costs on predominantly women and ultimately contribute to maintaining gender-based, hierarchical power differentials between men wielding authority within the industry and these models over time.

scholarly journals Unsettling the Binarisms of Dominant Discourse in Hanay Geiogamah’s Plays Body Indian and Foghorn

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Danica Čerče
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Whiteness Studies ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Critical Whiteness ◽  
American Author

This essay deals with two plays by the contemporary Native American author Hanay Geiogamah, Body Indian and Foghorn. Based on the premise that literature plays an important role in disrupting the exercise of power and written against the backdrop of critical whiteness studies, it investigates how the playwright intervenes in the assumptions about whiteness as a static privilege-granting category and system of dominance.

First Person, First People: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories

1999 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Jim Charles ◽  
Andrew Garrod ◽  
Colleen Larimore
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
First Person

scholarly journals The Editor’s Note

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (5) ◽  
pp. 4-4
Author(s):  
Joan Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Individual Change ◽  
White Educators ◽  
Complex Interplay ◽  
Children Of Color ◽  
Racial Experiences

Every change at an institution like a school has to begin with individual change. Since white educators make up the majority of the teachers and administrators in U.S. schools, we can accomplish little in the realm of changing beliefs about race until we change ourselves. And we cannot improve the education of children of color until we understand the complex interplay of the racial experiences we bring to school every day.

scholarly journals COVID-19’s Impact on Visitation Behavior to US National Parks From Communities of Color - Evidence From Mobile Phone Data

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Alba ◽  
Bing Pan ◽  
Junjun Yin ◽  
William L. Rice ◽  
Prasenjit Mitra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mobile Phone Data ◽  
Location Based Service ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Visitation Rates ◽  
Us National Parks ◽  
Ways Of Life

Abstract The widespread COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed many people’s ways of life. With the necessity of social distancing and lock downs across the United States, evidence shows more people engage in outdoor activities. With the utilization of location-based service (LBS) data, we seek to explore how visitation patterns to national parks changed among communities of color during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results show that visitation rates to national parks located closer than 347km to individuals have increased amidst the pandemic, but the converse was demonstrated amongst parks located further than 347km from individuals. More importantly, COVID-19 has adversely impacted visitation figures amongst non-white and Native American communities, with visitation volumes declining if these communities are situated further from national parks. Our results show disproportionately low-representations amongst national park visitors from these communities of color. African American communities display a particularly concerning trend whereby their visitation to national parks is substantially lower amongst communities closer to national parks.

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