Chapter 11. Of One Blood: Joining the Civil Rights Struggle at Home

2018 ◽  
pp. 266-287
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
At Home

Families, Fathers, and the Black Community, 1950–2010

2019 ◽  
pp. 200-223
Author(s):  
Jürgen Martschukat
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Black Family ◽  
Black Families ◽  
American Family ◽  
Johnson Administration ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The 1960S

Chapter 11 looks at an African American family in 1970s Watts after the civil rights movement and the Watts riots. Its main character is the slaughterhouse worker Stan from Charles Burnett’s independent film Killer of Sheep (1977). In this film, Burnett makes a powerful counterargument in the debate on the “dysfunctional black family,” which a decade earlier was described by Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Johnson administration as being mired in a “tangle of pathology.” Stan is neither shiftless nor lazy but tries to get ahead and secure a decent living for his family. He endlessly struggles for the survival of his nuclear family but is constrained in his efforts and their success by the racist conditions of his life in 1970s America. The chapter approaches the massive debate on the black family and fatherhood in contemporary America through the film and its public reception, both in the 1970s and 1980s and after its re-release in 2007. Thus, the author uses the film to explore this discourse from the 1960s to today, from Patrick Moynihan to Barack Obama, and analyzes their comments on black families and fatherhood as well as those by their critics.

Lessons for the Reform Agenda

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pippa Norris ◽  
Thomas Wynter ◽  
Sarah Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Dispute Resolution ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Party Polarization ◽  
Public Demonstrations ◽  
Broad Consensus ◽  
At Home

Chapter 11 draws together the major conclusions from each of the chapters and considers their implications for the policy reform agenda. The consequences of electoral malpractice can be grave. Failures generate contentious elections characterized by lengthy court challenges, opposition boycotts, and public demonstrations. Major flaws weaken the legitimacy and credibility of elections, and thus corrode the foundation of liberal democracy. The chapter advocates four practical steps designed to improve the quality of American contests: improving the independence and professionalism of electoral administrators, implementing impartial dispute resolution mechanisms to deal with challenges, introducing registration and balloting facilities that maximize both security and convenience, and strengthening accountability and transparency. These steps could potentially reduce party polarization and expand a broad consensus about a bipartisan package of reforms. This chapter summarizes the book’s core arguments and the recommended policies helping to strengthen the quality of elections both at home and abroad.

Flashpoints for Asian American Studies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Student Protest ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
At Home

Born out of mid-century social movements, Civil Rights Era formations, and anti-war protests, Asian American studies is now an established field of transnational inquiry, diasporic engagement, and rights activism. These histories and origin points analogously serve as initial moorings for Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, a collection which considers—almost fifty years after its student protest founding—the possibilities of and limitations inherent in Asian American studies as historically entrenched, politically embedded, and institutionally situated interdiscipline. Unequivocally, Flashpoints for Asian American Studies investigates the multivalent ways in which the field has—and, at times and more provocatively, has not—responded to various contemporary crises, particularly as they are manifest in prevailing racist, sexist, homophobic, and exclusionary politics at home, ever-expanding imperial and militarized practices abroad, and neoliberal practices in higher education.

The Limits of Liberal Internationalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 222-240
Author(s):  
Hannah Higgin
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Exchange Programs ◽  
Liberal Internationalism ◽  
The Us ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
At Home ◽  
Western Ideals

This chapter addresses how Fulbright’s views on race complicated American exchange programs with African nations in the 1960s. At the height of the civil rights movement, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson sought to improve relations with newly decolonized African nations, and Fulbright’s influence over exchange programs complicated that pursuit. Though Fulbright believed that boosting mutual understanding through exchange was the world’s best hope for creating and maintaining peace, he did not believe that all people—not least Africans—would be able to grasp the liberal, Western ideals he wished to spread. Though he was known as a racial moderate, his outlook on policy was hemmed in by the color line at home and abroad, a fact that constrained the US government’s African exchange programming. He preferred that the focus of exchange programs remain on Europe.

Cyber conflict will probably become more destructive

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Criminal Activity ◽  
The West ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Political Dissent ◽  
Financial Gain ◽  
Cyber Conflict ◽  
At Home

Significance Although Orangeworm is not believed to be state-backed, governments are prioritising the development of offensive cyberweapons but deploying them in different ways. These range from sabotaging geopolitical rivals -- as with Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Israel -- to political espionage in the West, commercial espionage in China and financial gain in North Korea. Impacts No sector or industry will be safe from state-to-state cyber conflicts. Authoritarian states will use cyber tools to prevent or restrict political dissent and protest at home. Activist and civil rights groups will increasingly be targeted. The lines between political and criminal activity will blur further.

scholarly journals The Ku Klux Klan at Home in Hillsdale

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Aife Murray
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Mass Movement ◽  
Unintended Consequence ◽  
Ku Klux Klan ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Bergen County ◽  
To Come ◽  
At Home

In “The Ku Klux Klan at Home in Hillsdale,” author Aífe Murray travels to Bergen County to reckon with a dramatic set of events that occurred during her father’s Hillsdale youth when his family was attacked by the Second Ku Klux Klan; long-held by historians as this country’s most powerful far right movement. Through the author’s quest (including interviews with her father’s contemporaries on both sides of the Klan equation), she uncovers a Klan story that, in artifacts and acts, has been preserved within a larger, more common frame of America’s failure to come to terms with what occurred in the early 20th century. Within the long shadow of all-American terrorism, a tale is revealed of shifting power in the Pascack Valley with a local KKK populated by community leaders fearing changes that included Catholic encroachment. After the Klan’s demise, some victims, refusing to forget, kept the story alive while living beside their former terrorizers. The author notes that a mass movement of millions of otherwise ordinary white Protestants should be remembered not only for its legacy of terror (with which Americans continue to wrestle) but for how their fires forged an unintended consequence: subsequent storytellers, historians, and resistors like her father who made a life of civil rights activism.

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