scholarly journals ‘Dynamic’ Obama Lectures ‘Bumbling’ Castro on Race Relations in Cuba , While Wilfully Blind to Black Lives Matter Movement in the US

2018 ◽  
pp. 249-262
Author(s):  
James Winter ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals Black Lives Matter and Catholic Whiteness: A Tale of Two Performances

Horizons ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Jaycox
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Theological Ethics ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Us ◽  
Moral Critique ◽  
Catholic Theological

The Black Lives Matter movement has received little scholarly attention from Catholic theologians and ethicists, despite the fact that it is the most conspicuous and publicly influential racial justice movement to be found in the US context in decades. The author argues on the basis of recent field research that this movement is most adequately understood from a theological ethics standpoint through a performativity lens, as a form of quasi-liturgical participation that constructs collective identity and sustains collective agency. The author draws upon ethnographic methods in order to demonstrate that the public moral critique of the movement is embedded in four interlocking narratives, and to interrogate the Catholic theological discipline itself as an object of this moral critique in light of its own performative habituation to whiteness.

Theorising anti-racism in health and social care

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esme Choonara
Keyword(s):  
White Supremacy ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Us ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Different Levels

The emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 in the context of a COVID-19 pandemic that was already disproportionally impacting on the lives of people from black, Asian and other minority ethnicities in the UK and the US has provoked scrutiny of how racism impacts on all areas of our lives. This article will examine some competing theories of racism, and ask what theoretical tools we need to successfully confront racism in health and social care. In particular, it will scrutinise the different levels at which racism operates – individual, institutional and structural – and ask how these are related. Furthermore, it will argue against theories that see racism as a product of whiteness per se or ‘white supremacy’, insisting instead that racism should be understood as firmly bound to the functioning and perpetuation of capitalism.

scholarly journals Viola Bernard and the case study of race in post-war America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy Damousi
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Us History ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Us ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Relationship

It is in the US that the case study genre is reinvented within a politicised psychiatric-psychoanalytical framework in the work of Viola Bernard. Bernard’s writings pose enduring questions about the relationship between activism and US psychiatry, politics and race relations. This chapter traces Bernard’s efforts to develop a new, authoritative and politically effective narrative through her case notes and advocacy about black subjects. This involved mobilising the case study genre in the public domain at large, for political as well as medical purposes, in the context of a turbulent period in US history.

scholarly journals Huckleberry Finn’s Conscience: Reckoning with the Evasion

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-508
Author(s):  
Steve Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Final Part ◽  
Moral Deliberation ◽  
Literary Scholarship ◽  
Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Civil War ◽  
Moral Guidance ◽  
Huckleberry Finn

Abstract Huck Finn’s struggles with his conscience, as depicted in Mark Twain’s famous novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (AHF) (1884), have been much discussed by philosophers; and various philosophical lessons have been extracted from Twain’s depiction of those struggles. Two of these philosophers stand out, in terms of influence: Jonathan Bennett and Nomy Arpaly. Here I argue that the lessons that Bennett and Arpaly draw are not supported by a careful reading of AHF. This becomes particularly apparent when we consider the final part of the book, commonly referred to, by literary scholars, as ‘the evasion’. During the evasion Huck behaves in ways that are extremely difficult to reconcile with the interpretations of AHF offered by Bennett and Arpaly. I extract a different philosophical lesson from AHF than either Bennett or Arpaly, which makes sense of the presence of the evasion in AHF. This lesson concerns the importance of conscious moral deliberation for moral guidance and for overcoming wrongful moral assumptions. I rely on an interpretation of AHF that is influential in literary scholarship. On it the evasion is understood as an allegory about US race relations during the 20-year period from the end of the US Civil War to the publication of AHF.

scholarly journals Embracing Germany: Interwar German Society and Black Germans through the Eyes of African American Reporters

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 447-473
Author(s):  
ROBBIE AITKEN
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Black People ◽  
German Society ◽  
Black Diaspora ◽  
Apparent Lack ◽  
Black Germans ◽  
The Us ◽  
Insight Into

This article looks at the published reports on visits made to interwar Germany by prominent black journalists Robert S. Abbot, J. A. Rogers and Lewis McMillan. Drawing on their own experiences as well as their engagement with German-based blacks, the reporters contrasted the oppressive conditions black people faced in the US with the apparent lack of colour prejudice in Germany. Their coverage serves as a critique of race relations in the US, while also providing snapshots into the conditions under which black Germans lived as well as an insight into the writers’ own perceptions of a broader black diaspora in development.

Racial divisions will shape 2016 election outcome

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Content Type ◽  
White Voters ◽  
The Us ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
High Turnout ◽  
Poll Data

Subject Race relations and the 2016 US election. Significance Race relations have taken a central role in the 2016 US presidential election. Since the 2014 death of Michael Brown at the hands of police in Ferguson, Missouri, many subsequent police killings of African Americans have attracted national attention, a social protest movement has arisen, and two separate alleged 'revenge' attacks by gunmen in Dallas and Baton Rouge in July killed eight police officers. Both the Republican and Democratic national conventions conveyed exceptionally high levels of vitriol toward their respective opponents and an incompatibility of worldview, as illustrated by respective arguments about the state of race relations in the United States. Impacts Trump will stake his bid on high turnout and broader support from the white electorate, but may struggle with degree-holding professionals. Strong surrogates, such as Barack and Michelle Obama, will help Clinton with outreach to non-white voters. The US electorate may be older and whiter than exit poll data suggest.

Counting the Bodies: Ferguson and Ferguson1

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
Bakary Diaby
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Sublime ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
American Race Relations ◽  
Romantic Aesthetics

This article examines the political and interpretive possibilities of Romantic Idealism for understanding contemporary American race relations. Working with Frances Ferguson’s Solitude and the Sublime, it puts Romantic aesthetics into a mutually constructive dialogue with afropessimist thought. That is, the underlying logic of Black Lives Matter proves to be one composed of Romantic “counting” as well as an afropessimist stance on Black alterity. Black Lives Matter, in this sense, features an aesthetics of omission and accumulation that reveals how Romantic Idealism intersects with a more expansive notion of materiality. Turning to Ferguson’s reading of William Wordsworth’s “We Are Seven,” the article contends that any analysis of Romanticism’s political stakes should make use of the Idealism central to it, and that such a use does not attenuate the urgency or efficacy of Romanticist work.

Anger as a catalyst for change? Incremental beliefs and anger’s constructive effects in conflict

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 1092-1106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Shuman ◽  
Eran Halperin ◽  
Michal Reifen Tagar
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Implicit Theories ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
Aggressive Behaviors ◽  
The Us ◽  
Traditional Understanding

The traditional understanding of the role of anger in conflicts is that it leads to aggressive actions that escalate conflict. However, recent research has found that under certain circumstances anger can have constructive effects such as increasing support for more risky conciliatory steps in negotiation. The current study aims to identify a psychological moderator that determines whether anger has such destructive or constructive effects. We propose that people’s beliefs about the malleability of groups (i.e., implicit theories about groups) moderate whether anger leads to conciliatory, constructive behaviors or destructive, aggressive behaviors. We test this hypothesis in two different contexts (a) race relations in the US in the context of recent protests against police brutality, and (b) the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Results indicated that induced anger (compared to control condition) increased support for aggressive policies for participants who believed that groups cannot change. In contrast, for those who believed groups can change, inducing anger actually increased support for conciliatory policies compared to a control condition. Together, this indicates that anger can have constructive effects in conflict when people believe that groups can change.

Mobility, Skepticism, and Counter-storytelling in African American Travel Writing: Carl Rowan's South of Freedom

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
GARY TOTTEN
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Willingness To Participate ◽  
Individual Action ◽  
Us South ◽  
Institutionalized Racism ◽  
The Us

In South of Freedom (1952), Carl Rowan frames his travels through an investigation of the US South in terms of his doubts about cultural change, his safety, and whites’ and blacks’ willingness to participate in racial reform, among other things. His skepticism about improvements in race relations and his critique of the country's inadequate progress toward such goals inform his examination of various states of freedom and unfreedom existing in the United States. Rowan's narrative and specific descriptions of his and others’ mobility operate as instances of counter-storytelling that incorporate such skepticism and critique. Ultimately, his theorizing of modes of resistance to institutionalized racism through individual action serves as a model for understanding African American travel writing and mobility more generally.

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