scholarly journals DILEMA IDENTITAS KULIT HITAM MELALUI PERNIKAHAN ANTAR-RAS DALAM DREAMS FROM MY FATHER KARYA BARRACK OBAMA

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-35
Author(s):  
Qori Islami Aris
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Social ◽  
The U.S

Abstrak Laki-laki dan perempuan biracial di AS, khususnya mereka yang memiliki warisan hitam-putih, terus-menerus dihadapkan pada krisis identitas pribadi, di mana mereka tidak dapat menyejajarkan diri dengan kedua sisi ras atau etnis mereka. Barack Obama, presiden petahana AS, juga mengalami situasi yang membingungkan selama tahap pengembangan kedirian dan identitasnya. Penelitian ini menyajikan penjelasan yang berkaitan dengan tantangan yang dihadapi Obama dalam pencarian identitasnya. Penelitian ini juga menyelidiki sejauh mana supremasi kulit putih dan inferioritas kulit hitam yang didesain sedemikian rupa masih terus berlanjut hingga saat ini. Dari penjabaran dapat disimpulkan bahwa ini merupakan kelemahan AS dalam upaya untuk mencapai keadilan dan kesetaraan antara Kulit Putih dan Hitam, bukanlah sarana yang dibutuhkan, melainkan realisasi dan penerimaan tentang pentingnya multirasalitas. Peneliti menggunakan metode kualitatif sebagai metode penelitian dalam upaya untuk memperoleh pemahaman secara mendalam tentang realitas sosial yang digambarkan dalam memoar.    Kata kunci: Kajian Budaya, Teori Critical Race, Nasionalisme Kulit Hitam, Rasisme Buta Warna   Abstract Biracial men and women in the U.S., particularly those with a black and white heritage are constantly faced with personal identity crisis, in which they are unable to align themselves with either side of their race or ethnicity. Barack Obama, the incumbent president of the U.S., also experienced such puzzling situations during the stages of his selfhood and identity development. This research presents an explanation relating to the challenges Obama faced in his search for identity. It also investigates the extent to which white supremacy and black inferiority by design still persists until today. It concludes by stating that what the U.S. is lacking in its effort to achieve justice and equality between the Caucasians and the Negroes, is not the means, but the realization and acceptance on the importance of multiraciality. The researcher employed qualitative method as the mode of research in an attempt to gain an in-depth understanding of the social realities depicted in the memoir.   Keywords: Cultural Studies, Critical Race Theory, Black Nationalism, Colorblind Racism

scholarly journals What’s Your Street Race? The Urgency of Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality as Lenses for Revising the U.S. Office of Management and Budget Guidelines, Census and Administrative Data in Latinx Communities and Beyond

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Nancy López ◽  
Howard Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Structural Inequities ◽  
The U.S

What’s your street race? If you were walking down the street what race do you think strangers would automatically assume you are based on what you look like? What is the universe of data and conceptual gaps that complicate or prevent rigorous data collection and analysis for advancing racial justice? Using Latinx communities in the U.S. as an example, we argue that scholars, researchers, practitioners and communities across traditional academic, sectoral and disciplinary boundaries can advance liberation by engaging the ontologies, epistemologies and conceptual guideposts of critical race theory and intersectionality in knowledge production for equity-use. This means not flattening the difference between race (master social status and relational positionality in a racially stratified society based on the social meanings ascribed to a conglomeration of one’s physical characteristics, including skin color, facial features and hair texture) and origin (ethnicity, cultural background, nationality or ancestry). We discuss the urgency of revising the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards, as well as the Census and other administrative data to include separate questions on self-identified race (mark all that apply) and street race (mark only one). We imagine street race as a rigorous “gold standard” for identifying and rectifying racialized structural inequities.

In the End, There Is No Such Thing as Unconscious Racism: CRT/Asian American Crit Counterstories by Undergraduate Students During the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 153270862110540
Author(s):  
Jeremy Hau Lam ◽  
Katrina Le ◽  
Laurence Parker
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Asian American ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Asian American Women ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Spring Semester ◽  
Honors College

This article emerged from undergraduate students in an Honors College class on critical race theory at the University of Utah during the spring semester 2020 during the pandemic. The counterstories evolve around critical race theory/Asian American Crit and the historical and current violence against the Asian American community in the United States. Given the recent anti-Asian American backlash which has emerged through the COVID-19 crisis, to the March 2021 murders of the Asian American women and others in Atlanta, we present these counterstories with the imperative of their importance for critical social justice to combat White supremacy.

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.

Finding Grace

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-145
Author(s):  
Aeriel A. Ashlee
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Asian American ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Model Minority ◽  
Racial Microaggressions ◽  
First Year ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Model Minority Myth ◽  
Race Theory

This chapter features a critical race counterstory from an Asian American womxn of color about her doctoral education and graduate school socialization. Framed within critical race theory, the author chronicles racial microaggressions she endured as a first-year higher education doctoral student. The author describes the ways in which the model minority myth is wielded as a tool of white supremacy and how the pervasive stereotype overlaps with the imposter syndrome to manifest in a unique oppression targeting Asian American graduate students. The author draws inspiration from Asian American activist Grace Lee Boggs, which helps her resist the intersectional oppression of white supremacy and patriarchy present within academia. The chapter concludes with recommendations to support womxn of color graduate students.

Racialized rooms and technologies of stardom in Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 448-462
Author(s):  
Joel Deshaye
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Jazz Musician

Drawing on recent theories of race from critical race theory, this article examines Michael Ondaatje’s 1976 novel Coming Through Slaughter to assess the involvement, or lack, of technologies of stardom such as photography and radio in the celebrity of the fictionalized jazz musician Charles “Buddy” Bolden. This essay builds on established postcolonial and aesthetic readings, and offers an alternative to the often-held view that Ondaatje is not concerned by race, or the suggestion that he is only preoccupied by art and artists. Its textual focus is an interpretation of the counterfactual (put differently, anachronistic) scene involving a radio and scenes related to the darkroom and the racial significance of its black and white negatives. It argues that these technologies “colour” the rooms in which they are found and thereby complicate ideas of domestic privacy and opposing publicity.

New Directions in Critical Race Theory and Sociology: Racism, White Supremacy, and Resistance

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (13) ◽  
pp. 1731-1740 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Christian ◽  
Louise Seamster ◽  
Victor Ray
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Critical Race ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
Empirical Inquiry ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Subject

Critical Race Theory (CRT) provides a highly generative perspective for studying racial phenomena in social, legal, and political life, but its integration with sociological theories of race has not been systematic. However, a group of sociologists has begun to show the relevance of CRT for driving empirical inquiry. This special issue (our first of two on the subject) shows the relevance of CRT for sociological theory and empirical research. In this introduction, we identify primary concerns of CRT and show their sociological utility. We argue that CRT better explains the long-standing continuity of racial inequality than theories grounded in “progress paradigm,” as CRT shows how racism and white supremacy are reproduced through multiple changing mechanisms.

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