Review: Black Resistance to British Policing

Race & Class ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-121
Author(s):  
Gus John
Keyword(s):  
Black Resistance

Policing Black Film: Racism, Black Resistance and the Applicational Dexterity of Race Relations in Babylon

Sociology ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 003803852098579
Author(s):  
Clive James Nwonka
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Cultural Authority ◽  
The Political ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Black Cinema ◽  
Black Film ◽  
Black British ◽  
Black Resistance

The racial unrests permeating across Britain in the late 1970s resulted in a set of political agendas responding to racism to be brought into being though legislation, culminating in the passing of the 1976 Race Relations Act. Crucial to such agendas were strategies for the prevention of black urban uprisings against state authority and the politicisation of black youths against racism. The emergence of politicised black British film during the late 1970s offered a crucial counter-hegemonic exploration and re-enactment of an extra-filmic reality of police violence and popular racism within the British body social. However, these texts were subjected to forms of political censorship through a number of state organisations who identified radical black cinema as a political threat with the potential to incite violent responses from black youths. This article will offer a detailed analysis of Babylon (1980) and seeks to investigate the ideological processes leading to its X certification and the moral panic located in its representations of black youths within the crisis of race vis-a-vis the political, social and cultural authority of race relations, situating Babylon’s controversial X certification as an exemplar of the ‘applicational dexterity’ of the race relations discipline.

scholarly journals Black dissent in America: exploring Ava DuVernay’Selma and 13th against the background of the 2020 anti-racial discrimination protests

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-115
Author(s):  
Maria Eduarda Gil Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
The United States ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Specific Group ◽  
Recent Event ◽  
Racial Relations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
White Majority

The 2020 protests on police brutality and racial discrimination in the United States constitute the most recent event of black dissent in what is a history marked by injustice, humiliation, exploitation and the denial of freedom, equality and self-representation of a specific group of people. Dissent can be exercised in many ways and in different areas of society. Over the past few years, Ava DuVernay has produced filmic works that are counter-narratives to the forms of representation imposed on African-Americans by the dominant white majority. This paper analyzes two of those works, Selma (2014) and 13th (2016), and considers their potential as instruments of dissent within the context of black resistance, at a time when racial relations are once again under scrutiny.

scholarly journals Semiótica discursiva aplicada a um post de transição capilar do Facebook | Discursive semiotics applied to a capillary transition Facebook status

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-233
Author(s):  
Isaac Matheus Santos Batista ◽  
Marcelo Machado Martins ◽  
Laura Susana DUQUE-ARRAZOLA
Keyword(s):  
Political Activism ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Material World ◽  
Black Race ◽  
The People ◽  
Black Resistance

Muitas pessoas negras que lutam contra o racismo têm utilizado a internet como um meio para exercer sua cidadania e ativismo político. Um exemplo disso pode ser visto nos posts de transição capilar que são frutos da resistência dos negros contra o padrão de beleza hegemônico que privilegia o branco. Neste trabalho, analisamos como se dá a geração de sentido do discurso de um post do Facebook que mostra o resultado da transição capilar feita por uma pessoa negra. Por meio da semiótica discursiva, compreendemos que esse post de transição capilar apresenta uma valorização da negritude, ao dar um novo significado, agora positivo, às origens e aos traços físicos dos negros. Além disso, percebe-se que o discurso presente no ambiente virtual se impõe para o mundo material, pois o post também visa manipular os outros a valorizarem e aceitarem os traços diacríticos da raça negra.+++++Many people of color who struggle against racism have used internet as a means to exercise their citizenship and political activism. One example of this is the capillary transition Facebook status and posts that are a result of the black resistance against the white standard of beauty. In this paper, we will analyze the generation of meaning of the discourse of a Facebook status that shows the results of a capillary transition made by a person of color. Using the discursive semiotics, we comprehended that this status presents a valuation of blackness, by giving a new meaning, this time positive, to the origins and to the phenotypes of the people of color. Furthermore, we noticed that the discourse on the virtual environmentimposes itself out to the material world, because this status also aims to manipulate others topositively value and accept the diacritic features of the black race.

Black Families and Resistance in Kansas, 1880–1905

2019 ◽  
pp. 74-91
Author(s):  
Brent M. S. Campney
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Final Section ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Border States ◽  
Black Resistance

Pioneering a new methodology, this chapter shows that whites targeted particular black families for disproportionate racist violence, justifying it through a complicit press that circulated defamatory stories designed to create negative reputations about them and through a criminal justice system that hounded them. It challenges the contemporary white-authored narrative by demonstrating that whites targeted these families not because of their “bad character” but because of their refusal to submit to white supremacy. Investigating sources centered on Kansas and its border states over several decades, this study demonstrates that historians may unearth more credible stories about these families and their experiences. In the final section, the chapter assesses the significance of this methodology for the scholarship on black resistance and border studies.

White Supremacy and Black Resistance

2019 ◽  
pp. 159-181
Author(s):  
Stephen V. Ash
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Black Men ◽  
Women's Education ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Black Resistance

This chapter observes the biased treatment between white and black Richmonders, the injustice of slavery, and white supremacy. The topics of slavery and freedom, direct causes of the Civil War, are examined through the perspectives of individuals who supported different beliefs. This chapter also covers black resistance, and Southern whites’ fears about the rise of Black men and women’s education and independence.

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