scholarly journals El ‘éxito negro’ y la ‘belleza negra’ en las páginas sociales

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Franklin Gil Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Black People ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Black Beauty

Resumen: En este artículo se presentan diversasreflexiones sobre las representaciones mediáticas de laspersonas negras de clase media y alta en las páginas sociales.Éstas parecen ser correlatos de la idea propuestapor Fanon (1968): “para el negro, sólo hay un destino.Y ese destino es blanco” (p. 6). Por un lado, el libretofantasioso del éxito negro se concentra en resaltar laexcepcionalidad: el ascenso social y la pertenencia ala clase media y alta no es ‘natural’ de lo ‘negro’, es unaccidente propiciado por la fortuna, la casualidad o unesfuerzo y sacrificios inusuales. Por el otro, el conceptosexualizado de ‘belleza negra’ parece centrarse en laidea de la blanquitud como capital cultural incorporado,refuerza la existencia de la ‘raza’ y muestra la capacidaddel capitalismo para aprovechar la valoración de las diferenciaspropuesta por el multiculturalismo. Finalmente,se analizan las estrategias para crear una Negro society,cuestión que implica neutralizar las críticas al racismo, ofrecerlas pruebas de su inexistencia a través de personajesejemplares y exitosos e insistir en el carácter meritocráticodel resultado de la ubicación en el orden de clase, cuestiónque refuerza la ideología de la democracia racial.Palabras clave: belleza negra, ascenso social, clase,raza, género, personas negras.‘Black Success’ and ‘Black beauty’ in the Social PagesAbstract: This article presents several reflections onthe media representations about black middle class and‘black elites’ in the social press. These representationsare related with the idea proposed by Fanon: “for blackpeople there is only one destination. And that destinationis white” (1968:6). First, the fantasy script of the ‘blacksuccess’ focuses on highlighting the exceptionality of thesocial mobility of the black people, because the socialmobility is an accident favored by the lucky or an unusualeffort and sacrifices. Secondly, the sexualized concept of‘black beauty’ focuses on the idea of whiteness as a culturalcapital embodiment, in the existence of the ‘race’and shows the ability of capitalism to take advantage ofthe value of the differences on the multicultural context.Finally, this paper analyzes the strategies used to createa Black Society, subject that involves neutralizing thecriticism of racism, providing evidence of the absence ofracism in society through exemplary and successful blackpeople in order to show the centrality of merit in placingpeople in the class order, and reinforcing the ideology ofracial democracy.Key words: Black beauty, social mobility, class, race,gender, black people.

‘Social Change, Friendship and Civic Participation’

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 111-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaojun Li ◽  
Mike Savage ◽  
Andrew Pickles
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
British Household Panel Survey ◽  
Panel Survey ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Social

This paper studies the changing distribution of social capital and its impact on class formation in England and Wales from a ‘class structural’ perspective. It compares data from the Social Mobility Inquiry (1972) and the British Household Panel Survey (1992 and 1998) to show a distinct change in the class profiling of membership in civic organisations, with traditionally working-class dominated associations losing their working-class character, and middle-class dominated associations becoming even more middle-class dominated. Similar changes are evident for class-differentiated patterns of friendship. Our study indicates the class polarization of social capital in England and Wales.

The Iconic Ghetto

2012 ◽  
Vol 642 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elijah Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Black People ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
Powerful Source ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
Racial Divide ◽  
Iconic Status ◽  
The City

In the minds of many Americans, the ghetto is where “the black people live,” symbolizing an impoverished, crime-prone, drug-infested, and violent area of the city. Aided by the mass media and popular culture, this image of the ghetto has achieved an iconic status, and serves as a powerful source of stereotype, prejudice, and discrimination. The history of racism in America, along with the ascription of “ghetto” to anonymous blacks, has burdened blacks with a negative presumption they must disprove before they can establish mutually trusting relationships with others. The poorest blacks occupy a caste-like status, and for the black middle class, contradictions and dilemmas of status are common, underscoring the racial divide and exacerbating racial tensions.

The Black Middle Class in White Space

2019 ◽  
pp. 17-37
Author(s):  
Tina K. Sacks
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Stereotype Threat ◽  
Allostatic Load ◽  
Black People ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Health Related

This chapter describes and analyzes the Black middle class in the United States with a particular focus on how this group fares in healthcare settings. The author defines the term “Black middle class,” including data on the group’s economic well-being. The chapter argues that American healthcare institutions are best characterized as predominantly White institutions in which Black people are vulnerable to stereotyping and structural discrimination. The author describes the concept of stereotype threat and health-related stereotype threat, applies it to the study of health disparities among the Black middle class, and emphasizes implications for Black women. The chapter also presents empirical research on how racial stereotyping, allostatic load, and stress negatively affect Black people’s health.

Through the diameter of respectability: the politics of historical representation in postemancipation colonial Trinidad

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 271-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Kingsley Scott
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
Historical Representation ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
Petite Bourgeoisie ◽  
British Education

Examines the concepts of "respectability" and "reputation" and their emergent functions in the colonial politics immediately following emancipation in Trinidad. Author explains how these concepts presupposed and entailed a different representation and valuation of local historical processes, and how the "diameter" of respectability relates to the emergence of an educated colored and black "petite bourgeoisie" as Trinidad's plantation complex developed into a class-based Creole society. He first discusses how after 1838 British education imposed British ideas of respectability in Trinidad, which in the last half of the 19th c. were adapted by an emerging local black middle class to be operative for their social mobility. He then juxtaposes the burgeoning of a large urban black underclass in the same period, and the revival by the underclass of the island's Carnival, where a set of values opposed to the norms of respectability were conjured.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Onoso Imoagene
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Black People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Middle Class ◽  
National Origin ◽  
Color Line ◽  
Economic Diversity ◽  
The Future

In the conclusion, I rearticulate the main points of beyond racialization theory. I discuss what the experiences of the adult second generation of Nigerian ancestry in the United States and Britain reveal about the intersections of race, class, national origin, and ethnicity in these countries. I discuss what their experiences tell us about the future of the color line and understandings of blackness in the United States and Britain. The experiences of the second generation of Nigerian ancestry show that the ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic diversity among black people is being recognized and increasingly so. Their experiences suggest that their presence in the black middle class in both countries has the potential to change the largely negative ways black people are viewed and possibly help redefine what it means to be black in these two countries.

Avoiding Blackness

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Roth-Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Black People ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
The Social ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Class Youth ◽  
Social Imperative ◽  
Made In

Chapter 5 explores the “flip side” of boa aparência (or whitening), as middle-class youth and parents seek to secure the investment that they have made in their family’s whiteness by avoiding contact with black people and black spaces. Stronger than the fear of physically “black” bodies, however, is the fear of embodied practices associated with blackness, practices which circulate independent of dark-skinned people while threatening to steal the whiteness of middle-class youth. These fears, and the social imperative to avoid contact with blackness, are presented through the case study of Bola, a moreno (brown-skinned) middle-class youth who boldly disregards established social and racial borders. This chapter also expands on the struggle over prime urban spaces in Rio de Janeiro, showing how the presence of black youth in private, air-conditioned, and exclusive shopping malls inspires increased racial anxiety.

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