The White Response to Black Lives Matter and Mike Brown

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-323
Author(s):  
Chaz Briscoe
Keyword(s):  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Legal Remedy ◽  
White Backlash ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
The Face ◽  
White Hegemony ◽  
Race Problem

Using the year 2015 to frame and contextualize the discussion, this article asks why white backlash is an expected reaction to black resistance. In short, white backlash is built into the liberal construction of race. Utilizing Joel Olson’s conception of Herrenvolk democracy, this article analyzes how the color-blind norm of race moves race into a sphere of discourse where it is omnipresent but also disempowered for any legal remedy. Policing becomes an institution by which race is made apparent, as the inequitable treatment by the police dictates who is protected by the color line. Drawn from polling surveys and government reports, data is provided with regard to the unchanging perceptions of racial attitudes. Black Lives Matter takes up the Black radical tradition in order to reassert Black humanity in the face of a system that normalizes racial violence, racial terror, and its own racial ignorance. In this way BLM displays the counternarrative to white hegemony. This counternarrative forces us to realize the depth of the race problem by mobilizing a language of abolition. Circling back to Olson’s abolition democracy, this article concludes by looking at how far we must go in terms of applying abolition to our discourse, language, conception of humanity, and democracy.

Black Lives Matter! Organizational Resilience in the Face of Social Movements

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 16439
Author(s):  
Patrick Tinguely ◽  
Yash Raj Shrestha ◽  
Georg von Krogh
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Organizational Resilience ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Face

Strategies for Combating Erasure and Silencing

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
Yelaine Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
African American ◽  
Racial Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Art And Activism

Curated by Yelaine Rodriguez and edited by Tatiana Flores, this Dialogues stages a series of conversations around Afro-Latinx art through interventions by Afro-Latina cultural producers. Black Latinxs often feel excluded both from the framework of latinidad as well as from the designation “African American.” The essays address blackness in a US Latinx context, through discussion of curatorial approaches, biographical reflections, art historical inquiry, artistic projects, and museum-based activism. Recent conversations around Latinxs and Black Lives Matter reveal that in the popular imaginary, Latinx presupposes a Brown identity. In their contributions to “Afro-Latinx Art and Activism,” the authors argue for a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of Latinx that does not reproduce the racial attitudes of the Lusophone and Hispanophone countries of Latin America, nor the black-white binary of the United States. They look forward to a time when the terms Afro or Black might cease to be necessary qualifiers of Latinx.

“Peace at Home Is the Most Essential Thing”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brent M. S. Campney
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
World War I ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Board Of Education ◽  
World War ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
Black Populations ◽  
New Generation

This chapter chronicles the long “Red Summer” and persistent racial violence throughout the 1920s. With America's entry into World War I, black populations swelled in response to labor shortages, thus precipitating racial conflict over jobs and housing between white residents of northern industrial cities and the black newcomers. These tensions would culminate in the “Red Summer,” a season of race riots, conflagrations, and other types of spectacular violence. Though the wartime surge in violence would subside after 1921, racial prejudice and violence continued on. Despite these setbacks, however, black resistance likewise persisted; and this period marks the ascent of a new generation of civil rights activists, as well as a few other notable milestones such as the Thurman-Watts v. Board of Education of Coffeyville and Brown v. Board of Education decisions and the establishment of the Kansas City branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

‘Race’ and Resistance to Policing Before the ‘Windrush Years’: The Colonial Defence Committee and the Liverpool ‘Race Riots’ of 1948

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Fevre
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Black People ◽  
National Level ◽  
Black Population ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Race Riots ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One

Abstract Between 31 July and 2 August 1948, Liverpool experienced three nights of racial violence on a scale not witnessed since the end of the First World War. Despite being initiated by white rioters, the so-called ‘race riots’ of 1948 were more significant in terms of the relationship between the police and Liverpool’s black population. Previous studies have sought to understand why and what happened during the riots; however, there has been little analysis of the aftermath. This article looks specifically at how black people responded to the ‘race riots’ in 1948 and argues that this episode led to a period of heightened political activity at a local and national level centred around the issue of policing. It focusses on the Colonial Defence Committee (CDC) that was formed immediately after the riots to organize the legal defence of individuals believed to have been wrongfully arrested. In its structure and organizational methods, the CDC represented a prototype of the defence committees that became a hallmark of black political opposition to policing during the 1970s and 1980s. Examining the aftermath of the Liverpool ‘race riots’ in 1948, thus, offers new perspectives on the historical development of black political resistance to policing in twentieth-century Britain. On the one hand, it reveals a longer history of struggle against racially discriminatory policing, which predates the ‘Windrush years’ migration of the 1950s and early 1960s. It also highlights the historical continuities in the way that black resistance to policing manifested itself over the twentieth century.

scholarly journals O MESTRE DE CAPOEIRA: fortalecendo filosofias e práticas de (re)existência negra perante desigualdades sociorraciais

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (26) ◽  
pp. 126-146
Author(s):  
FERNANDO SANTOS DE JESUS ◽  
VALERIE GRUBER
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
De Re ◽  
Ancestral Knowledge ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
The Face

O reconhecimento da capoeira como Patrimônio Cultural Imaterial da Humanidade pela UNESCO contribui para a valorização e a visibilização dessa prática de resistência negra brasileira a ná­vel mundial, mas também implica certas ressignificações em face das possá­veis essencializações. Portanto, consideramos necessário um olhar filosófico sobre a capoeira, dando ênfase aos saberes ancestrais e á  sua articulação no contexto da desigualdade sociorracial. O caminho percorrido neste artigo engendra aportes teóricos multidisciplinares, juntando conceitos que dialogam entre a filosofia da diferença de Foucault, Deleuze e Guattari e as perspectivas e reflexões sociogeográficas. Defendemos a ideia de que o mestre de capoeira representa um filósofo diaspórico que cria um espaço de possibilidades para coletividades marginalizadas e fortalece uma pedagogia da (re)existência negra. Entretanto, a capoeira se inscreve num campo diná¢mico, afetado por diferentes interesses econômicos, polá­ticos e morais, com os quais o mestre precisa articular agenciamentos que salvaguardem os mais perceptá­veis traços filosóficos da capoeira.Palavras-chave: Mestre de Capoeira. (Re)existência. Desigualdade.  THE MASTER OF CAPOEIRA: strengthening philosophies and practices of black (re)existence in the face of socioracial inequalitiesAbstract:  Since capoeira has been recognized as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by the UNESCO, this Brazilian practice of black resistance has been increasingly valorized and visibilized at a global level. But this also implies certain resignifications in the face of possible essentializations. Therefore, we consider it necessary to provide a philosophical perspective on capoeira, emphasizing ancestral knowledge and its articulation in the context of socioracial inequality. In this article, we use a multidisciplinary approach, establishing a dialogue between the philosophy of difference of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, and socio-geographical perspectives and reflections. We defend the idea that the ”˜mestre”™ (master) of capoeira represents a diasporic philosopher who creates a space of possibilities for marginalized collectivities and promotes pedagogics of black (re)existence. Meanwhile, capoeira is part of a dynamic field affected by different economic, political and moral interests, with which the 'mestre' needs to articulate entanglements that safeguard the most perceptible philosophical traits of capoeira.Keywords:  Mestre of capoeira. (Re)existence. Inequality.  EL MAESTRO DE CAPOEIRA: fortaleciendo filosofá­as y prácticas de (re)existencia negra ante desigualdades socioraciales  Resumen:  El reconocimiento de la capoeira como Patrimonio Cultural Inmaterial de la Humanidad por la UNESCO contribuye con la valorización y la visibilización de esta práctica de resistencia negra brasileña a nivel mundial, pero también implica ciertas resignificaciones frente a posibles esencializaciones. Por lo tanto, consideramos necesario el desarrollo de una perspectiva filosófica sobre la capoeira, la que hace hincapié en los saberes ancestrales y en su articulación en el contexto de la desigualdad socioracial. Asá­ se elaboraron aportes teóricos multidisciplinarios, reuniendo conceptos que dialogan entre la filosofá­a de la diferencia de Foucault, Deleuze y Guattari y las perspectivas y reflexiones sociogeográficas. En este artá­culo defendemos la idea de que el ”mestre” (maestro) de capoeira representa un filósofo diaspórico que crea un espacio de posibilidades para colectividades marginalizadas y fortalece una pedagogá­a de la (re)existencia negra. Entretanto, la capoeira se inscribe en un campo dinámico, afectado por diferentes intereses económicos, polá­ticos y morales, con los cuales el ”mestre” necesita articular agenciamientos que salvaguarden los más perceptibles trazos filosóficos de la capoeira.Palabras clave:  Mestre de Capoeira. (Re)existencia. Desigualdad.              

scholarly journals Populism and Protest

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Hirschmann
Keyword(s):  
Present Moment ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Protest Movement ◽  
Popular Protest ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Face ◽  
Government Change

The essay considers populism in the present moment in relation to Black Lives Matter as a popular protest movement. Popular protest movements demand that government change; populism in the present moment seeks to act extra-governmentally, and to this end relies on violence in the face of peace protest movement. This violence demonstrates the white patriarchalism of contemporary populism. I argue that peaceful, popular protest is an important tool to resist white patriarchal populist authoritarianism.

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