Understanding White Nationalism in American Politics

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
Robert C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Political Science ◽  
American Politics ◽  
White Racism ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
The Subject ◽  
White Nationalism ◽  
Post Civil Rights ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyzes the contribution of Ronald Walters to the development of white nationalism as a theory of white subjugation and domination of African Americans in the post–civil rights era. It also discusses why his work has been ignored by political science scholarship on the subject, and the relationship between white nationalism and white racism.

Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion. By Melanye T. Price

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 897-898
Author(s):  
Robert Gooding-Williams
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Black Nationalism ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Black President ◽  
Post Civil Rights

This is a timely, engaging, and illuminating study of Black Nationalism. The book's “fundamental project,” Melanye T. Price writes, “is to systematically understand individual Black Nationalism adherence among African Americans in the post-Civil Rights era” (p. 60). Black Nationalism has a long history in African American politics, but with the demise of Jim Crow and the election of our first black president, we may reasonably wonder whether ordinary African American citizens are disposed to endorse it. Price's book is important because it addresses this question head-on, defending the thesis that a renewal of Black Nationalism remains a viable possibility in post-Obama America.

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles R. Stith
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Reconstruction Era ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Post Civil Rights ◽  
Historical Periods

This chapter presents former ambassador Charles Stith's reflections on the impact of African Americans on U.S. foreign policy during particular historical periods. He identifies four eras of impact that reflect an African American imprint on U.S. foreign policy. Those are the slavery era, the Reconstruction era, the civil rights era, and the post-civil rights era. Each era is noteworthy for its changes in status and power of African Americans and thus has implications relative to the question of impact. Each era also had its distinct foreign policy issues and challenges. Among his observations are that the foreign policy concerns of African Americans were both major and mainstream from era to era, whether the issue was the slave trade or the war against terrorism; that the unique contribution of African Americans to the foreign policy mix is to see America's geopolitical interests through the lens of human rights; and that the breadth of foreign policy interests by African Americans has reflected their position and power within the American body politic.

The Effect of Black Congressional Representation on Political Participation

2001 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudine Gay
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Midterm Elections ◽  
Congressional Representation ◽  
Voting Participation ◽  
Post Civil Rights

The election of African Americans to Congress is a primary achievement of the post– civil rights transition from protest to politics. I evaluate the link between black congressional representation and political engagement, as measured by voting participation. There are two related objectives: Construct a broader model of participation that takes into account a key component of the political environment since the civil rights era, and more fully appreciate the political significance of minority officeholding by considering its nonpolicy consequences. Using precinct data from eight midterm elections, I demonstrate that the election of blacks to Congress negatively affects white political involvement and only rarely increases political engagement among African Americans.

THE “SICK” RACIST

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Thomas ◽  
W. Carson Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Pharmacological Interventions ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Psychiatric Discourse ◽  
Post Civil Rights ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractSince the early 1960s, there has been a movement among activists, scholars, and policymakers to redefine racism as a psychopathological condition, identifiable and treatable through psychotherapeutic and pharmacological interventions. This development reflects, and is reflected by, the popular framing among mass media and ordinary social actors of racism and racist events as individual pathology rather than as a social problem. This shifting perspective on racism, from a social problem and a system to an individual pathology, has increasingly become a part of academic and psychiatric discourse since Jim Crow. In this article, we have two aims: first, to trace the emergence of “psychopathological racism”; second, to illustrate the relationship between “psychopathological racism” and “colorblind racism” in the post-Civil Rights era. We argue that the psychopathological view of racism compliments colorblindness in that larger structural issues are dismissed in favor of individual pathos. Furthermore, psychopathological explanations for racism dismiss socio-political contexts, eschewing the contributions of well over fifty years of social scientific research in the process.

On Post-Racial America in the Age of Obama

Daedalus ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-94
Author(s):  
Amina Gautier
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Black President ◽  
Post Civil Rights

Amina Gautier reflects on her childhood tendency to ask when, not if, there would be a black president. Growing up in the post-civil rights era, she was influenced by knowledge of earlier presidential bids by African Americans as well as references to the idea of a black president in popular culture, including television programs of the 1970s and 1980s that often saw adult characters project the ability to run for office onto black youth. However, Gautier cautions against conflating Barack Obama's historic election to president with the beginning of a “post-racial” era. She uses a personal experience of racial insensitivity to observe the distance we have yet to go before we are truly post-anything.

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Excavating Race and the Enduring Racisms in U.S. Curriculum

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (14) ◽  
pp. 103-130
Author(s):  
Anthony L. Brown ◽  
Keffrelyn D. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Civil Rights Era ◽  
Racial Discourses ◽  
Post Civil Rights

Drawing from Omi and Winant's (1994) racial formation theory and Holt's (1995) theory of race marking, in this chapter, we explore the context of race and curriculum for African Americans during post-Reconstruction and the post-civil rights era. Our inquiry focused on the racial discourses located in two sources of curricula knowledge: children's literature and U.S. history textbooks. In this analysis, we illustrate how the presence of race aligned with ideological beliefs about race that were prevalent in the wider societal discourse. We argue that the histories of race have maintained a permanent, enduring place in U.S. curriculum. While morphing in content and appearance, formations of race remained entrenched and pervasive, thus reflecting the condition we characterize as the enduring racisms of U.S. curriculum.

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