scholarly journals I didn’t do that! Contested Definitions of Racialized Immigrant Youth in the Extra-Judicial Sanctions Program: Uncovering Hidden Voices.

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Monetta Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Immigrant Youth ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Popular Discourse ◽  
The Social ◽  
Judicial Sanctions

The social organization of knowledge focuses on how knowledge is created, enacted and shared by individuals in order to coordinate people’s actions. Using the frameworks of Institutional Ethnography (IE) and Critical Race Theory (CRT), this paper will look at the process of hearing the cases of racialized immigrant youth who are referred to the Extra-judicial Sanctions program in Calgary. I investigate how cultural knowledge impacts the way in which the youth’s cases are adjudicated.  In particular, looking at how knowledge about various racialized and ethnic groups is gained in an environment of popular discourse, and how this influences the cases of racialized immigrant youth. I then look at how this racialized knowledge impacts the process of the youth and their families attempting to contest the definitions that are assigned to them during the hearing process. I suggest that in the context of a neo-liberal, “colour-blind” Canadian society and policy, workers in the EJS process draw on their own cultural understandings in order to interpret the interactions with racialized immigrant youth, which then impacts the ability of the youth to truly have their voices heard.

The Structural Signification of Terrorism

2020 ◽  
pp. 26-58
Author(s):  
Caron E. Gentry
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
Essentially Contested Concept

This chapter argues that one of the central debates within Terrorism Studies will never be resolved: that of an agreed upon, objective definition. Several Terrorism Studies scholars believe that Terrorism Studies would be better off if it arrived at an objective definition for terrorism. Yet, this chapter demonstrates that how terrorism is largely understood is dependent upon various social structures, including gender, race, and heteronormativity. Thus, a thicker understanding of terrorism would acknowledge that it is an essentially contested concept or as an ‘utterance’. An agreed upon definition would present only a thin understanding, erasing the social structures that shape our understanding. Therefore, the chapter relies upon the concept of ‘aphasia,’ or calculated forgettings, from Critical Race theory. This concept holds that Western thought and society has purposefully forgotten how race and racialisation work to deny people of colour many things, including rationality, intelligence, and agency. Gender and heteronormativity operate in a similar way. Such operations infect all areas of life—the purpose of this chapter is to look at terrorism.

scholarly journals The Emperor Jones is the Reflection of the Black White Struggle: Modern American Drama

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-104
Author(s):  
Haider Ibrahim Khalil ◽  
Abdullah Mohd Nawi ◽  
Ansam Ali Flefil
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
White People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analyse Data ◽  
Clash Of Cultures ◽  
American Society

The Emperor Jones is the best viewpoint of O’Neill’s plays in depicting the black white people. This play exposes the portraying of black white conflict as modernism ideology. This play is focused on the suffering and the oppression of people. In this study, the scholar uses the qualitative method as storytelling type. In theoretical framework, the critical race theory is related to this study to analyse the speech which tackles the plot, characters and setting according to the concepts of clash of cultures. This study/ this paper also shows the clashes of culture in American society. Furthermore, the implication of this paper will be presented/ indicate the social, educational, linguistic and cultural style. In fact, this paper will add something to American literature by generalizing this study to other studies about black white people. In sum, this paper is to reflect the philosophy of O’Neill in portraying the black white people. The scholar uses the critical race theory to explain the struggles/ conflicts among the human beings. The researcher also uses the qualitative approach and narrative technique to analyse data. In the same way, the data/ material is collected by textual methods and analyse by the narrative approach. This study can be generalized to another study about O’Neill’s perspectives in depicting the black white people. 

scholarly journals Health Inequity and Institutional Ethnography: Mapping the Problem of Policy Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-80
Author(s):  
Elizabeth McGibbon ◽  
Katherine Fierlbeck ◽  
Tari Ajadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Health Inequity ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Narratives ◽  
Critical Policy ◽  
Relations Of Power

Health equity (HE) is a central concern across multiple disciplines and sectors, including nursing. However, the proliferation of the term has not resulted in corresponding policymaking that leads to a clear reduction of health inequities. The goal of this paper is to use institutional ethnographic methods to map the social organization of HE policy discourses in Canada, a process that serves to reproduce existing relations of power that stymie substantive change in policy aimed at reducing health inequity. In nursing, institutional ethnography (IE) is described as a method of inquiry for taking sides in order to expose socially organized practices of power. Starting from the standpoints of HE policy advocates we explain the methods of IE, focusing on a stepwise description of theoretical and practical applications in the area of policymaking. Results are discussed in the context of three thematic areas: 1) bounding HE talk within biomedical imperialism, 2) situating racialization and marginalization as a subaltern space in HE discourses, and 3) activating HE texts as ruling relations. We conclude with key points about our insights into the methodological and theoretical potential of critical policy research using IE to analyze the social organization of power in HE policy narratives. This paper contributes to critical nursing discourse in the area of HE, demonstrating how IE can be applied to disrupt socially organized neoliberal and colonialist narratives that recycle and redeploy oppressive policymaking practices within and beyond nursing.

We Matter Too: Employing Counterstorytelling to Expose the Equity Paradoxes Arresting Mattering and Racial Healing Among Faculty of Color

2021 ◽  
pp. 194084472110495
Author(s):  
Marlon C. James ◽  
Ana C. Díaz Beltrán ◽  
John A. Williams ◽  
Jemimah Young ◽  
Mónica V. Neshyba ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Faculty Of Color ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Faculty Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Racial Healing ◽  
Systemic Functioning

The present article problematizes faculty relationships within academic departments by applying critical race theory (counterstorytelling) to generate equity cases promoting racial healing. These equity cases illustrate the utility of an emergent typology, the equity paradox. More specifically, the equity paradox describes the web of reprisals endured by faculty of color who advocate for the authentic actualization of university-sponsored diversity goals. Each case is a fictional collage of counterstories created by the co-authors and informed by actual events personally experienced or directly witnessed. This approach allowed for ample complexity, authenticity, and utility because many faculty of color will relate to aspects of these case studies. Simultaneously, administrators and colleagues will gain insights into how racism impacts their colleagues of color. We integrate the racial healing and mattering construct throughout the equity cases to illustrate how racism impacts the individual, communal, and systemic functioning of academic departments. We conclude with implications for departmental transformation to redress the social, emotional, and professional harm of racism and reconstruct professional environments that foster healing and mattering among faculty of color.

scholarly journals Media Gatekeeping and Portrayal of Black Men in America

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-81
Author(s):  
Felix Kumah-Abiwu
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Black Men ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
White Racial Frame ◽  
Theoretical Insight

Black men continue to face many challenges in the United States, but their negative portrayal in the media seems to be one of the pervasive challenges facing them. While “occupying” a huge space in the media landscape, one wonders why such a space has not been adequately used to draw public interest/attention to the problems facing Black men. This dilemma with implications for policy outcomes (action/inaction) deserves further theoretical insight. To explore this, the article draws on the critical race theory and white racial frame with the literature on the social construction of Blackness, Black men, and media gatekeeping to advance the argument that the intersections of race, social structures, and media gatekeepers create incentives for the negative portrayal of Black men.

Investigating the social organization of family health work: an institutional ethnography

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 554-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Nichols ◽  
Micheal Fridman ◽  
Khaled Ramadan ◽  
Lee Ford Jones ◽  
Niraj Mistry
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Institutional Ethnography ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Health Work ◽  
The Social
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