Black and Blue

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Wesley Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Popular Song ◽  
Circuit Of Culture ◽  
Trayvon Martin ◽  
Post Racial America

This mystory explores alienation in a law enforcement family and anti-racist allyship after the 2012 murder of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Situated within key circuit of culture moments of identity and representation, I use the popular song “What It Means” by Drive-By Truckers (2016) and my personal experience to address whiteness. Colorblindness and fragility are twin components of whiteness in post-racial America that animate alienation and allyship. Both embodied analyses of pop culture and personal experience describe white identity and white privilege at the interpersonal and intercultural level.

How “Identity Play” Protects White Privilege

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison LaGarry ◽  
Timothy Conder
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Contested Spaces ◽  
Identity Studies ◽  
White Teacher ◽  
Ethnographic Analysis ◽  
Second Wave

This chapter, “How ‘Identity Play’ Protects White Privilege: A Meta-Ethnographic Methodological Test,” presents the findings of a 2013 meta-ethnographic analysis on White identity in preservice teachers (PSTs), as well as a methodological test of those findings in light of recent publications on Second-Wave White Teacher Identity Studies (SWWTIS). In the 2013 meta-ethnography, the authors first found a reciprocal argument in which the authors described similar tools or strategies by which White PSTs defended their own privilege. Through further reflexive interpretation, the authors then found a line of argument that situated the multiple theories used in the studies as contested spaces in a larger figured world of whiteness. In testing findings from 2013 against recently published studies on SWWTIS, the authors found that the earlier study anticipated a shift in thinking and theorizing within the field.

scholarly journals A Paler Shade of White: Identity & In-group Critique in James Mason’s Siege

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.M. Berger
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Black People ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Research Report ◽  
White People

Discussions of extremist ideologies naturally focus on how in-groups criticize and attack out-groups. But many important extremist ideological texts are disproportionately focused criticizing their own in-group. This research report will use linkage-based analysis to examine Siege, a White nationalist tract that has played an important role shaping modern neo-Nazi movements, including such violent organizations as Atomwaffen Division and The Base. While Siege strongly attacks out-groups, including Jewish and Black people, the book is overwhelmingly a critique of how the White people of its in-group fall short of Nazi ideals. Siege’s central proposition—that the White in-group is disappointing, deeply corrupt, and complacent—shapes its argument for an “accelerationist” strategy to hasten the collapse of society in order to build something entirely new. Finally, this report briefly reviews comparable extremist texts from other movements to draw insights about how in-group critiques shape extremist strategies. These insights offer policymakers and law enforcement tools to anticipate and counter violent extremist strategies. They also highlight less-obvious avenues for potential counter-extremist interventions and messaging campaigns.

The Intolerable Price of Self-Respect

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-156
Author(s):  
Wesley C. Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Restorative Justice ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Black People ◽  
Electoral Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Made In ◽  
Trayvon Martin

The iced tea and Skittles Trayvon Martin carried home when he was murdered by George Zimmerman in February 2012 in suburban Sanford, Florida, represent an undeniable and terrifying truth: if you happen to be Black, the most basic of activities can get you killed in today’s America. In most cases, the killers walk free. Law enforcement and the legal system muster elaborate rationales, and leaders of the major institutions of the culture look the other way. James Baldwin’s observation is as pertinent today as it was when made in 1962: his countrymen, he recognized soberly, “have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know and do not want to know it.” In the end, almost no law enforcement is held accountable for the routine killings happening on the streets of America. Particularly for young Black citizens, this fact is a blunt daily reminder that for far too many in power, Black lives do not matter. The Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) and its organizations like the Dream Defenders, BYP100, SONG, and others have put healing and restorative justice at the center of their movement work, as this chapter covers. They try to answer: how can the movement build the best possible futures for Black people? Is abolition the best path? What are others? Through both movement and electoral politics, they seek fresh ways to make government bodies accountable to people at the base.

Black Embodied Wounds and the Traumatic Impact of the White Imaginary

2018 ◽  
pp. 142-162
Author(s):  
George Yancy
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
Black People ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Black Body ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Traumatic Impact ◽  
White Racist

This chapter theorizes racialization as an interstitial process. In the context of white supremacy, white privilege, and white power, whiteness functions as the transcendental norm that obfuscates its own racialization and normative constitution vis-à-vis Blackness, thereby marking the Black body within the socio-political matrix as “dangerous,” “evil,” “suspicious,” and “disposable.” It analyzes racialization as a site of trauma, a wounding, and a felt terror of both symbolic and existential annihilation. The experience of trauma thus is the result of a violation and violence that attempts to reduce Black people to a state of pure facticity, the very absence of transcendence, where Black alterity is reduced to the white racist imago. This paper contextualizes the historical backdrop of anti-Black racism through the examples of Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and the author’s personal experience with racial hate speech. This demonstrates how the Black body has undergone a long and enduring history of racialized somatic trauma.

Race and U.S. Panethnic Formation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yen Le Espiritu
Keyword(s):  
White Privilege ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Identity ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Racial Categorization ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Contested Terrain ◽  
Existing Data ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Effective Site

Panethnicity refers to the development of bridging organizations and the generalization of solidarity among subgroups that are racialized to be homogeneous by outsiders. This chapter argues that while the formation of a consolidated white identity in the United States is self-motivated and linked to white privilege, panethnicity for people of color is a product of racial categorization and bound up with power relations. As the influx of new immigrants transforms the demographic composition of existing groups such as Asian Americans and Latinos, group members face the challenge of bridging the class, ethnic, and generational chasms dividing the immigrants and the U.S.-born. In all, existing data confirm the plural and ambivalent nature of panethnicity: it is a highly contested terrain on which different groups merge and clash over terms of inclusion but also an effective site from which to forge alliances with other groups both within and across the U.S. borders.

scholarly journals “We Dare Entertain Thoughts not to the Liking of Present-Day Bigots”: Radical Slavs, Race, Civil Rights, and Anti-Communism in Red-Scare America

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-157
Author(s):  
Robert M. Zecker
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
White Privilege ◽  
White Identity ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
White Americans ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Racial Privilege ◽  
Poll Tax

Developing a white identity was a key component in immigrants’ acculturation to America. Many immigrants learned to distance themselves from black fellow workers through cultural productions that delineated blacks as impermissible outsiders, and made a case for Slavic or Mediterranean inclusion in the Caucasian republic. Yet “red” immigrants resisted white privilege. During the 1930s-1950s, members of the International Workers Order endorsed anti-colonial movements and civil rights for blacks at home. The Slovak Workers Order and other IWO lodges joined the “American Crusade Against Lynching” and lobbied for an end to the poll tax and segregation. During World War II the IWO was active in anti-lynching and anti-poll-tax campaigns. While in the 1940s many white Americans violently resisted black attempts to integrate neighbourhoods, the radical groups sought to counter the hegemonic white narrative and build cross-racial alliances while preserving members’ discreet, ethnic identities. In no small measure because of this anti-racist activism, the Order was placed on the Attorney General’s List of Subversive Organizations. By 1954 the Order was dismantled, but for a brief moment some “red” members opted out of racial privilege in favour of black-white solidarity.

Allegation of diversion of recovered proceeds of crime: defect in the EFCC Act 2004 and the need for amendment

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirajo Yakubu
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Financial Crime ◽  
Content Type ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Personal Use ◽  
Proceeds Of Crime ◽  
Economic Crimes ◽  
Laws And Regulations

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to critically examine the Economic and Financial Crime Act 2004 to investigate whether there are defects in the 2004 Acts which enable abuse of the system by those who are responsible for fighting corruption and other economic crimes in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts qualitative methods of research. The research studied the laws and regulations relevant to the recovery and management of proceeds of crime. However, personal experience of the author in the civil service, security and law enforcement accounts significantly. Findings The paper finds that the provisions of the EFCC Act 2004 relevant to the recovery of proceeds of crime and management of recovered assets are defective. The 2004 Act contains loopholes that enable mismanagement and diversion of recovered assets for personal use. Although the EFCC Act empowers the Minister of Justice to issue Regulations to regulate the activities of the EFCC, the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations 2019 the Minister of Justice issued cannot be used to close the loopholes. Thus, there is an urgent need to amend the EFCC Act 2004. Research limitations/implications Non-availability of data on the mismanagement of seized and recovered assets is a severe limitation. Thus, analysis in this research focuses on the laws and regulations to illustrates the defects in the 2004 Act. Also, the study could only use reported cases and incidence of corruption among the security and law enforcement to illustrate unsuitability of security and law enforcement for the position of the chairman of the EFCC. Originality/value There is no comprehensive work that examines the defects of the provisions of the 2004 Act that breeds lack of transparency in the recovery of proceeds of crime as well as mismanagement of recovered assets. Therefore, this paper is of value to the Nigerian Government and the National Assembly in considering amendments to the EFCC Act 2004. The paper is also of importance to researchers.

Forecast of Transmedia Language Learning With a Chance of Meatballs

2022 ◽  
pp. 355-380
Author(s):  
Yun Joon Jason Lee ◽  
Jiyoung Seo
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
College Class

This chapter reflects on a Korean ESL college class transformation into a transmedia learning environment. Lee and Seo illustrates the importance of pop culture knowledge in language learning along with constructing a positive rapport between the instructor and the students. The movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was used as the text of the class through interactions with students. They began to build the transmedia story about the movie. Students researched through multiple platforms to construct the movie through their major knowledge, personal experience, and findings on the internet. Furthermore, students developed their language skills to apply English to the movie related content. This chapter will illustrate how the students engaged in such activity and what became the transmedia project.

Forecast of Transmedia Language Learning With a Chance of Meatballs

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-68
Author(s):  
Yun Joon Jason Lee ◽  
Jiyoung Seo
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
College Class

This chapter reflects on a Korean ESL college class transformation into a transmedia learning environment. Lee and Seo illustrates the importance of pop culture knowledge in language learning along with constructing a positive rapport between the instructor and the students. The movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs was used as the text of the class through interactions with students. They began to build the transmedia story about the movie. Students researched through multiple platforms to construct the movie through their major knowledge, personal experience, and findings on the internet. Furthermore, students developed their language skills to apply English to the movie related content. This chapter will illustrate how the students engaged in such activity and what became the transmedia project.

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