scholarly journals The Color of Money or How to Redesign a “Monument in Your Pocket”

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-36
Author(s):  
Catherine R. Squires ◽  
Aisha Upton
Keyword(s):  
Women Activists ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Andrew Jackson ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Paper Currency ◽  
Comparative Content ◽  
Treasury Department

In 2016, the Treasury Department announced that the redesigned $20 bill would feature Harriet Tubman on its front, sparking jubilation from women activists who had campaigned for female representation on paper currency, which leaders referred to as a “monument in your pocket.” But the redesign also brought sharp rebukes from white conservatives, including Republican presidential candidates, who accused the Treasury of capitulating to “political correctness” at the expense of the honor and memory of President Andrew Jackson. This essay uses a comparative content analysis of dominant and people-of-color-focused news and editorial coverage of the redesign to incite a reparative, black feminist reading of how news contributors shaped and reshaped public memories of Tubman and Jackson.

Redesigning a Pocket Monument

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-55
Author(s):  
Catherine R. Squires ◽  
Aisha Upton
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Andrew Jackson ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Dollar Bill ◽  
Paper Currency ◽  
Reparative Reading ◽  
Treasury Department

In 2016, the Treasury Department announced that its planned redesign of the twenty-dollar bill would feature Harriet Tubman, sparking jubilation from activists who had campaigned for female representation on paper currency. But the redesign also brought sharp rebukes from white conservatives, including Republican presidential candidates, who accused the Treasury of capitulating to “political correctness” at the expense of the honor and memory of President Andrew Jackson. This chapter draws from a previous content analysis of news and editorial coverage of the redesign to incite a Black feminist reparative reading to elevate Tubman’s radical legacy over narratives that affirmed her as a postracial icon.

scholarly journals Simultaneous Elections and the Rise of Female Representation in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-72
Author(s):  
Luky Sandra Amalia ◽  
Aisah Putri Budiatri ◽  
Mouliza KD. Sweinstani ◽  
Atika Nur Kusumaningtyas ◽  
Esty Ekawati
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Institutional Innovation ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Legislative Elections ◽  
Women Candidates ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Female Candidates ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Legislative Election

In the 2019 election, the proportion of women elected to Indonesia’s People’s Representative Assembly ( Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat, DPR) increased significantly to almost 21 per cent. In this article, we ask whether an institutional innovation – the introduction of simultaneous presidential and legislative elections – contributed to this change. We examine the election results, demonstrating that, overall, women candidates did particularly well in provinces where the presidential candidate nominated by their party won a majority of the vote. Having established quantitatively a connection between results of the presidential elections and outcomes for women legislative candidates, we turn to our qualitative findings to seek a mechanism explaining this outcome. We argue that the simultaneous elections helped women candidates by easing their access to voters who supported one of the presidential candidates, but who were undecided on the legislative election. Rather than imposing additional burdens on female candidates, simultaneous elections assisted them.

Trans Studies and Resistance in an Academy Based on Masculinity Contest Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 407-420
Author(s):  
Travers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Tenure Track ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Trans People ◽  
Trans Studies ◽  
Labor Pool ◽  
Trans Women

Abstract Trans studies is a burgeoning and global interdisciplinary field of scholarship. Although trans people in general continue to remain on the margins of the academy in Canada and the United States, some of the trans scholars who contribute to the field of trans studies are in continuing faculty (tenure-track and tenured) positions. Trans women in general and trans women and trans feminine people of color, in particular, however, are particularly underrepresented in this labor pool. The author brings together a theoretical pastiche consisting of a Black feminist analysis of patriarchy as a layered phenomenon, trans necropolitics, and a masculinity contest culture paradigm to trouble this limit to representation within trans studies in Canada and the United States.

Populism, Trade, and Trump’s Path to Victory

2021 ◽  
pp. 50-70
Author(s):  
Kent Jones
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Trade Policy ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Banking Sector ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Andrew Jackson ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Us Trade Policy ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter traces US populism back to President Andrew Jackson (1828–1836), providing early characteristics of a US populist leader. Major US populist issues have included immigration, the banking sector, and more recently, foreign trade. While Franklin D. Roosevelt’s populist-inspired New Deal reforms included trade liberalizing measures, postwar populists linked advancing globalization in the late twentieth century to elitist trade policy, inspiring new populist movements. Anti-trade populists were unsuccessful third-party presidential candidates until Donald Trump exploited this issue, capturing the Republican Party nomination and developing particularly provocative anti-trade rhetoric. He successfully integrated an anti-trade platform with a host of other populist issues, and vowed to alter US trade policy to “make America great again.”

Literature as a Political Tool: Whig Efforts to Prevent the Election of Martin Van Buren

CLEaR ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jozef Pecina
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
The United States ◽  
Andrew Jackson ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
White House ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Martin Van Buren ◽  
The Future

Abstract Starting with Andrew Jackson, presidential candidates in the United States used campaign biographies as useful political tools, and since 1824 no presidential election year has passed without a campaign biography. Martin Van Buren, President Jackson’s successor in the White House, became a target of a vicious campaign intended to prevent his election. His Whig opponents used a number of literary genres to slander him, including a mock campaign biography and a novel. The article focuses on the portrayal of Martin Van Buren in The Life of Martin Van Buren, allegedly written by Davy Crockett in 1835, and a novel named The Partisan Leader; A Tale of the Future, written by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker in 1836. Though being of different genres, these curious and obscure works have certain things in common - they were written under pseudonyms, their main goal was to prevent the election of Martin Van Buren and both of them failed in their goal.

Arab and Black Feminisms

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Naber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Feminist Thought ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Resource Center ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Black Feminisms ◽  
The 1960S

This essay explores the conditions out of which a diasporic anti-imperialist Arab feminist group came into alignment with the Women of Color Resource Center. It focuses on the history and leaders of the Women of Color Resource Center and its roots in the 1960s and 1970s people of color and women of color based movements in the United States in order to map alliances among black feminist thought, radical women of color movements, and Palestinian de-colonization then and now.

This Moment is the Curriculum: Equity, Inclusion, and Collectivist Critical Curriculum Mapping for Study Abroad Programs in the COVID-19 Era

2020 ◽  
pp. 105382592097965
Author(s):  
Esther O. Ohito ◽  
Jamila Lyiscott ◽  
Keisha L. Green ◽  
Susan E. Wilcox
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Study Abroad ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Curriculum Mapping ◽  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
Study Abroad Programs ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

Background: This article explores critical curriculum mapping in experiential education through immersive travel or Study Abroad Programs (SAPs). Purpose: The tetrad of authors theorizes then models the practice of criticality in curriculum mapping for SAPs. Methodology/Approach: Using Black feminist thought as a theoretical moor and dialogue and reflexive narrative as methods, authors present a curriculum mapping framework that is berthed to collective knowledge of how Black women in the African diaspora make meaning of lived experience to survive a perpetually precarious world. Findings/Conclusions: The framework exemplifies an epistemological alternative to dominant individualistic Euro/American approaches to curriculum mapping. Such approaches privilege predictability and linearity, contributing to the low participation of collectivist-oriented Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students in SAPs. Implications: A collectivist critical orientation to curriculum mapping may, therefore, be useful for (a) epistemologically diversifying curricular responsiveness (with implications for teaching and learning in the unpredictable chaos of the current COVID-19 moment) and (b) addressing enduring issues of equity and inclusion in SAPs.

scholarly journals “Forget History. Forget What You’ve Seen Before. Forget What You Think You Know”: Re/Establishing Space for People of Color in Otto Bathurst’s Robin Hood

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Sabina Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Robin Hood ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Significant Change

This article discusses the representation of race in Otto Bathurst’s Robin Hood through an examination of Yahya, one of the pivotal figures of agitation for social reform in the film. It traces Yahya’s ancestry from his on-screen avatars to note a significant change that is displayed in the power dynamics between Yahya and Robin. Through this examination, the article will assert that dismissing the film’s commitment to diversity as “political correctness gone mad” not only fundamentally misunderstands what medievalism is and what it does, but also attempts to police Black bodies in a made-up past.

Formerly Undocumented Activists

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-132
Author(s):  
Kevin Escudero
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Women Activists ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Undocumented Immigrant ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Immigrant Rights ◽  
Undocumented Status ◽  
Immigrant Rights Movement

This chapter profiles the experiences of a group of individuals whose experiences are not often discussed within the literature on undocumented migration: formerly undocumented individuals. Focusing on the case of formerly undocumented immigrant women activists who have continued their involvement in the immigrant rights movement after adjusting their immigration status, the chapter highlights the importance of these organizers’ identities as women, people of color, and formerly undocumented individuals. Of the formerly undocumented women of color activists interviewed for this book, the majority discussed their efforts in providing mentorship to what they refer to as the future generation of undocumented activists. Through examples of roles as graduate students, musicians, and full-time organizers, these individuals’ experiences draw attention to the fluid, shifting nature of immigrant legal status, as well as the resonance of undocumented status in the lives of those who are no longer undocumented.

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