Theme of Racial Oppression in Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’

The documentary Crip Camp presents a 1970s summer camp for disabled youth as a place of friendship and political dialogues that spawned the American disability rights movement. The film also represented Camp Jened as a haven of racial harmony and inclusion. Jened was not the only American micro-community of disability solidarity and political possibilities that also involved questions of racial politics. Scholars have criticized disability activists and disability studies scholars for neglecting problems of racial oppression. This historical study examines three examples of empowering disability subcultures in twentieth century America: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Warm Springs rehabilitation resort from the mid-1920s through the mid-1940s, the Rolling Quads at the University of California, Berkeley, in the late 1960s, and Camp Interdependence in California in the 1980s. The article interrogates the racial politics of these egalitarian communities.

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The Many Racial Effigies of Sara Baartman

Theatre Survey ◽

10.1017/s0040557417000254 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 58 (3) ◽

pp. 275-299 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kellen Hoxworth

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

Cape Town ◽

Racial Oppression ◽

Black Paint ◽

African Students ◽

The Many ◽

University Of Cape Town ◽

The University

Six African students enact a somber, silent dance. They stage a series of striking images at the base of South African artist Willie Bester's sculptureSara Baartman, in the Chancellor Oppenheimer Library at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Their faces and bodies smeared with black paint, the students articulate their protest ofSara Baartmanin explicitly racial terms, aligning their critiques of economic, colonial, and racial oppression under the sign of blackness.

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The Negro Digest: Race, Exceptionalism and the Second World War

Journal of American Studies ◽

10.1017/s0021875817001906 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 358-389 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

NICHOLAS GRANT

Keyword(s):

White Supremacy ◽

Jim Crow ◽

Global Analysis ◽

Second World War ◽

Border Crossing ◽

American Democracy ◽

Racial Oppression ◽

The Us ◽

The World ◽

Second World

This article examines the border-crossing journalism of the Negro Digest, a leading African American periodical, published from 1942 to 1951. The first title produced by the Johnson Publishing Company, the Digest had an international focus that connected Jim Crow to racial oppression around the world. However, while the magazine challenged white supremacy on a local and global level, its patriotic tone and faith in American democracy occasionally restricted its global analysis of racism. Ultimately, the internationalism of the Negro Digest was quintessentially American – wedded to the exceptional status of American freedom and an overriding belief that the US could change the world for the better.

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The Spirit of Brown

The Racial Glass Ceiling ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300223309.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Roy L. Brooks

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Supreme Court ◽

Legal Status ◽

National Narrative ◽

Racial Oppression ◽

The Supreme Court ◽

Racial History ◽

Black Equality ◽

Racial Progress ◽

Race Problem

This chapter lays the foundation for an understanding of the socio-legal race problem and possible solutions. It begins with the Supreme Court’s inglorious racial history in which the Court, from Dred Scott up to Brown v. Board of Education, engaged in a pattern and practice of sabotaging black equality granted by Congress. Racial oppression, including the torture and murder of blacks without trial, was part of a national narrative largely written by the Supreme Court. Brown was a conscious attempt by the Court to reverse its inglorious racial past. Brown had a profound effect on racial progress, changing the legal status of blacks which in turn greatly improved their socioeconomic and socio-cultural position in our society. But the Court, in the years following this landmark decision, did not remain faithful to the spirit of Brown. It began to impede black progress through its civil rights rulings by suppressing the black equality interest litigated in those cases. This is juridical subordination, which can be resolved if the Supreme Court remains faithful to the spirit of Brown. This is good social policy.

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We Are Not Free to Choose: Class Determinism in Zadie Smith’s NW

Arcadia - International Journal for Literary Studies ◽

10.1515/arcadia-2016-0029 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 51 (2) ◽

pp. 385-404 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Hui Wang

Keyword(s):

Social Class ◽

Lower Class ◽

Racial Oppression ◽

Economic Exploitation ◽

The People ◽

The Social ◽

Zadie Smith ◽

Divide And Rule ◽

New Perspective

AbstractNW by Zadie Smith opens with a multicultural and multiracial scene and revolves around the crises in the lives of four people with longstanding connection to Northwest London. The Northwest London in NW is a besieged city, and the people therein could not see any possibility of getting out because the gate has been latched with the concept of social class. In NW, the social class is materialized as space, economic position and race. Geographically NW features the main areas of London, and considers the role of that city in shaping the consciousness of the major characters, a partly spatial configuring of identity. In addition, the major characters in NW also suffer from occupational exclusion and economic exploitation, which then lead to their lower-class position since social class is constructed in such a way that agents are distributed according to their positions in the statistical distribution based on the economic and cultural capital. Finally the racial discrimination encountered by the characters in NW shows that class relations shape the form that racial oppression takes. The racialization of class issues becomes a politically effective tool for the wealthy to divide and rule the lower classes. In NW, Smith thus has adopted a more political attitude than in her previous books, so the relatively new perspective of her fiction might be the attention she draws to the persistent obstacles to class crossing and the acknowledgment of the rigid lines that still define the social classes.

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Supplemental Material for Understanding Internalized Racial Oppression and Second-Generation Vietnamese

Asian American Journal of Psychology ◽

10.1037/aap0000211.supp ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Second Generation ◽

Racial Oppression

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Leaning On Our Academic Shields of Gendered Support

Journal of Education Human Resources ◽

10.3138/jehr-2021-0014 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 40 (1) ◽

pp. 29-57

Author(s):

Soribel Genao ◽

Angie Beeman ◽

Tsedale M. Melaku

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Women Of Color ◽

White Male ◽

Academic Departments ◽

Theoretical Research ◽

Racial Oppression ◽

Gender Inequity ◽

Male And Female ◽

Experiences Of Women

Intersectionality reminds us that women of color face a particular kind of marginalization due to both gendered and racial oppression and underrepresentation. As such, they are more often “presumed incompetent” and may not feel as innately supported in social and professional structures as their white male and female counterparts. Additionally, the silencing effect of being one of very few women of color in academic departments puts us at risk for further marginalization, requiring that we engage in significant invisible labor that is neither recognized nor compensated. Grounded on our intersectionalities, we discuss our respective trajectories within our own fields and research, beginning with research that emphatically perpetuates the cycle of gender inequity in the academy. The discussion is then supported by analyzing the theoretical research on the salience of race, gender, and other axes of identity for the experiences of women of color. As authors, we present these narratives in an attempt to engage with ways of reflexivity that are, especially for women of color in academia, not usually discussed.

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