Beyond Uncle Tom

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey D. Fields
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Black Racial Identity ◽  
Racial Authenticity ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Black Republicans

This chapter explores contemporary African American Republicans' reputation by looking at two important constituencies: other black people and white Republicans. Though they manifest it in different ways, black Republicans fear that their partisanship causes both groups to question their racial authenticity. Among other blacks, this questioning coalesces into a “sellout critique” that frames African American Republicans as operating counter to their black identity. On the other hand, African American Republicans report being held in a “skeptical embrace” by white Republicans who worry that African American Republicans will not be able to subordinate their racial identity to their Republican partisanship. Both the sellout critique and the skeptical embrace are grounded in a perceived incongruence between black racial identity and Republican partisanship. Yet African American Republicans themselves articulate strong identification with black identity and Republican partisanship. As a consequence, they are challenged with linking their racial identity and their partisanship in a way that removes unexpectedness.

Black people’s racial identity and their acceptance of Black-White Multiracial people

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 1181-1195
Author(s):  
Marisa Franco ◽  
Olivia L. Holmes ◽  
Felicia Swafford ◽  
Nolan Krueger ◽  
Kenneth Rice
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Racial Ideology ◽  
Racial Ideologies ◽  
Black Racial Identity ◽  
Personal Experiences

The current study examined whether Black people’s racial ideology, experiences of racism, and their interaction predict their acceptance of Black-White Multiracial people. Black racial ideologies represent an aspect of Black people’s racial identity that addresses their perspectives on how people within the Black community should behave. Participants ( N = 325) were administered a series of measures. Latent class analysis revealed three classes of Black racial identity: undifferentiated (average ideologies), integrationist (high assimilationist, humanist, and oppressed minority), and nationalist (high nationalist). The nationalist group was most likely to endorse rejecting Multiracial people as members of the Black community and also to endorse forcing a Black identity onto Multiracial people, whereas the integrationist group was least likely to make such endorsements. For participants in the nationalist (but not integrationist or undifferentiated) cluster, personal experiences of racism were related to endorsement of forcing a Black identity onto a Multiracial person. Findings suggest that Multiracial people might achieve the most identity affirmation and sense of community among Black people holding integrationist views.

scholarly journals Racism and Representation of Racialized Beauty in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 164-174
Author(s):  
Dr. Nirjharini Tripathy
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Bluest Eye ◽  
The Impact

The American novelist Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eye portrays black society and deals with the themes of black victimization and racial oppression. It presents a prolonged representation of the means in which the standards of internalized white beauty contort the life and existence of black women. This paper explores and elucidates the impact of race, racial oppression and representation in The Bluest Eye. And how racism also edifices the hatredness between Blackand White communities. This paper will discuss various issues and concepts such as Race, Race in the Colonial Period, Racializing the Other and Stereotyping. The paper also deals with understanding Representation through the ideas of Saussure, Barthes, Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Geertz, and Said. Racism is primarily a belief in the supremacy and dominance of one race upon another that consequences in the differences, discrimination and prejudice of people towards one another rooted and established on their race or ethnicity. Racism has deeply affected the African-American coloured people making them feel inferior. The Bluest Eye reflects the appalling effect on blacks individualising the values of a white culture that rejects them both immediately and incidentally. Even after abolition of slavery legally still the African-Americans faces the cruelty of racial discrimination and never considered equal to the whites. The Black people struggles to ascertain themselves with the white and their ethnic ways. Toni Morrison propounds on black cultural heritage and seeks the African-Americans to be gratified and proud of their black colour as well black identity. This paper conveys the essence of the coloured people’s fight for their race, and  also its continuance and forbearance in a principally multicultural White dominated  America.  

Race Doesn’t Matter

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey D. Fields
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Racial Uplift ◽  
Conservative Politics ◽  
Abstract Notion

This chapter focuses on African American Republicans who can be labeled as “color-blind” because their strategy for linking black identity to Republican politics involves de-emphasizing the role of race in black people's lives. These African American Republicans see themselves as linked to a broader black community, but they reject identity politics as the pathway to racial uplift. They endorse Republican social policy as part of a commitment to an abstract notion of conservative politics, not because the policies are good for black people. Indeed, for race-blind African American Republicans, the best thing for blacks is to abandon race-based identity politics.

African American Racial Identity and Learning

Education ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank C. Worrell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
African American ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
European American ◽  
Black Racial Identity ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Racial identity is one of the most frequently studied cultural identities in the United States, and it is examined most frequently in relation to African Americans. Racial identity is also examined in European American samples to a lesser extent, and there is a growing literature on the racial identity of biracial and multiracial individuals. Racial identity and ethnic identity are similar constructs, and there are some researchers who do not distinguish between the constructs, using the terms and the measurement instruments interchangeably. However, as the instruments are developed in relation to theoretical models that speak to one or the other construct specifically (i.e., ethnic or racial identity), this perspective is not adopted in this article. Thus this article focuses solely on racial identity as a construct and does not include literature on ethnic identity or studies that used instruments developed to measure ethnic identity. The relationship between racial identity and learning, and more specifically academic achievement, is typically studied in the context of the achievement gap among racial and ethnic groups in the United States, and is most closely associated with the achievement gap between African American and European American students. Thus, studies of the relationship of racial identity to learning typically involve black racial identity but not white racial identity. In most of the scholarship in this area, researchers examine the relationship of black racial identity attitudes to academic achievement or other academic constructs (e.g., motivation). Additionally, two of the preeminent theories of underachievement in African Americans and other underachieving groups—that is, cultural ecological theory and stereotype threat—implicate racial identity as a contributing factor. Although there is a strong belief that racial identity is related to learning, there is still considerable debate about the contexts in which this relationship is manifested and the strength and explanatory power of the relationship, and the evidence in favor of a direct relationship between the racial identity and learning is mixed at best.

Whither the Republican Party

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corey D. Fields
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Black Identity ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
Black Republicans ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter addresses how the tensions between the different factions of African American Republicans structure relations with white Republicans. White Republicans provide the platform upon which black Republicans gain election, notoriety, and resources. The relationship is symmetrically beneficial since black Republicans provide tangible proof of racial diversity within the GOP. To maintain support among white Republicans, African Americans must talk about black identity in a way that is consistent with what white Republicans want to hear. When African-Americans call on white Republicans to speak to black interests specifically and treat conservative social policy as a basis for black advancement, relations with white Republicans are contentious and adversarial. As a consequence, a very specific kind of African American Republican rises to prominence within the GOP.

African American Folklore, Folklife, and Race

2018 ◽  
pp. 719-740
Author(s):  
Anand Prahlad
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black People ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
American Folklore ◽  
The Creation

The study of African American folklore has been grounded from its beginnings in the colonial period in discourses and power dynamics of race. This chapter posits that these beginnings have given rise to two folkloristic traditions, with differing agendas, methodologies, aesthetics, relationships to black communities, and investments in race. The mainstream tradition has been aligned with scholarly trends within academe and has seldom focused explicitly on the most pressing concerns of black people, or on the most obvious influence on the creation and expression of black folklore, namely race. The other tradition has been more aligned with the political interests, racial histories, and day-to-day needs of African American communities. This chapter critically examines these two tributaries, relative to issues of race, arguing for an African American folklore and folklife studies that embraces an African American–centered political focus while encompassing the unique intellectual contributions of both.

Cultivating a Morality of Care in African American Adolescents: A Culture-Based Model of Violence Prevention

1995 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janie Ward
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Youth Violence ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
African American Adolescents ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Oppression ◽  
Black Racial Identity ◽  
Racial Solidarity

In this article, Janie Ward looks at the historical traditions of caring, interdependence, and valuing justice within the African American community. She posits that what has been lost to African American youth enmeshed in the violence of U.S. society is an awareness that aggression is a violation of the care and connectedness implicit in the notion of Black racial identity and community. Ward concludes that a solution to youth violence may lie in reconnecting African American teens to the communal values and traditions that have allowed Blacks to develop racial identity and racial solidarity in spite of their economic and social oppression in the United States.

Am I My Sister’s Keeper? Linking Domestic Violence Attitudes to Black Racial Identity

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sha’Kema M. Blackmon ◽  
Archandria Owens ◽  
Meaghan Leigh Geiss ◽  
Vanessa Laskowsky ◽  
Stephanie Donahue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Gender Role Attitudes ◽  
American Women ◽  
Black Racial Identity ◽  
Identity Attitudes ◽  
Willingness To Help ◽  
Violence Attitudes

This exploratory online investigation sought to examine the links between African American college women’s gender role attitudes, Black racial identity attitudes, and domestic violence attitudes toward African American women in heterosexual marital relationships where domestic violence occurs ( N = 192). Less sophisticated Black racial identity attitudes (i.e., pre-encounter and immersion-emersion) predicted greater self-reports of justifying domestic violence toward African American women and believing that African American women benefit from abuse. Pre-encounter and immersion-emersion attitudes also predicted less willingness to help victims. An Afrocentric worldview (i.e., internalization Afrocentricity) was positively predictive of believing that African American women benefit from domestic violence as well as greater willingness to help victims. Appreciating one’s African American identity and other racial and ethnic groups (i.e., internalization multiculturalist inclusive) predicted less justification, fewer reports that African American women benefit from abuse, and a greater willingness to help victims. Post hoc mediation analyses revealed that gender role attitudes and an investment in protecting African American male domestic violence perpetrators (i.e., Black male victimage and justification beliefs) mediated the link between internalization Afrocentricity attitudes and the belief that African American women benefit from abuse.

scholarly journals Framing a Trickster Character in Two Different Media and Eras: A Study on Br’er Rabbit in Uncle Remus’ Stories and Disney’s Song of the South

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
Nur Saktiningrum
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
The Other ◽  
The South ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
American Folklore ◽  
The One ◽  
Over Time

This article analyses Br’er Rabbit, a trickster character in African-American folklore. As a trickster Br’er Rabbit possesses a paradoxical nature. On the one hand, Br’er Rabbit acts as a hero but on the other hand, he constantly plays tricks on others and by doing so, he is also violating the prevailing values. These two opposing aspects of trickster’s nature offer an interesting subject for the research. The questions considered worth focusing on in discussing the subject are: How can trickster character be described? What values are represented by trickster character? Is there any shift in the description and represented values in different media and over time? The study presented in this article was aimed at investigating the transformation of how the trickster is characterized and values represented by trickster Br’er Rabbit in Uncle Remus’ folktale version of “The Wonderful Tar Baby (1881) and The Laughing Place” (1903) written by Joel Chandler Harries and the same trickster character in the same stories featured in Disney’s “Song of the South” (1946). By comparing and contrasting both narratives in different media and eras, it is uncovered that there are some changes on the depiction and nature as well as values represented by Br’er Rabbit, the trickster character. The study presented in this article was aimed at investigating the transformation of values represented by trickster Br’er Rabbit in Uncle Remus’ folktale version of “Tar Baby and The Laughing Place” (1879) written by Joel Chandler Harries and the same trickster character in the same stories featured in Disney’s “Song of the South.” The research questions of this study are answered by applying Barths’ theory and method in studying headlines news. This model of research enables the researcher to understand and interprete values represented by the trickster character in different times and media.

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