scholarly journals "Yes, the Evil Queen is Latina!": Racial dynamics of online femslash fandoms

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rukmini Pande ◽  
Swati Moitra
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Multiple Loci ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Queer Spaces ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Communicative Space

Online media or participatory fandom has long been theorized as a unique creative and communicative space for women. Further, scholarly work has highlighted the possibility of it functioning as a space that is conducive to the articulation of queerness—both through transformative work and participant identity. However, this theorization has failed to account for the differential operations of these spaces when they are forced to deal with issues of race and racism. This essay argues that this is a significant blind spot as fannish spaces cannot but negotiate with the multiple loci of privilege and intersectional concerns that underpin their functioning. It therefore proposes a significant intervention in the study of the same, drawing our attention to the historically queer and oft-sidelined fannish spaces of femslash fandoms. This analysis seeks to locate the ways in which such queer spaces grapple with critiques of misogyny and homophobia in popular cultural texts and online spaces, as well as the problematics of race and racial identity within such spaces, focusing on the queer fan community built around the relationship of Regina Mills and Emma Swan, eponymously known as Swan Queen, in the television show Once Upon a Time (2011–).

African American Racial Identity and Learning

Education ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank C. Worrell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Academic Achievement ◽  
African American ◽  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
The United States ◽  
European American ◽  
Black Racial Identity ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Racial identity is one of the most frequently studied cultural identities in the United States, and it is examined most frequently in relation to African Americans. Racial identity is also examined in European American samples to a lesser extent, and there is a growing literature on the racial identity of biracial and multiracial individuals. Racial identity and ethnic identity are similar constructs, and there are some researchers who do not distinguish between the constructs, using the terms and the measurement instruments interchangeably. However, as the instruments are developed in relation to theoretical models that speak to one or the other construct specifically (i.e., ethnic or racial identity), this perspective is not adopted in this article. Thus this article focuses solely on racial identity as a construct and does not include literature on ethnic identity or studies that used instruments developed to measure ethnic identity. The relationship between racial identity and learning, and more specifically academic achievement, is typically studied in the context of the achievement gap among racial and ethnic groups in the United States, and is most closely associated with the achievement gap between African American and European American students. Thus, studies of the relationship of racial identity to learning typically involve black racial identity but not white racial identity. In most of the scholarship in this area, researchers examine the relationship of black racial identity attitudes to academic achievement or other academic constructs (e.g., motivation). Additionally, two of the preeminent theories of underachievement in African Americans and other underachieving groups—that is, cultural ecological theory and stereotype threat—implicate racial identity as a contributing factor. Although there is a strong belief that racial identity is related to learning, there is still considerable debate about the contexts in which this relationship is manifested and the strength and explanatory power of the relationship, and the evidence in favor of a direct relationship between the racial identity and learning is mixed at best.

A Sphinx upon the Dnieper: Black Modernism and the Yiddish Translation of Race

Slavic Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-289
Author(s):  
Eli Rosenblatt
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
James Weldon Johnson ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Black Modernism ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the context and content of the 1936 Soviet Yiddish publication of Neger-Dikhtung in Amerike, which remains to this day the most extensive anthology of African-Diasporic poetry in Yiddish translation. The collection included a critical introduction and translations of nearly one hundred individual poems by twenty-nine poets, both men and women, from across the United States and the Caribbean. This article examines the anthology's position amongst different notions of “the folk” in Soviet Yiddish folkloristics and the relationship of these ideas to Yiddish-language discourse about race and racism, the writings of James Weldon Johnson and W.E.B. Du Bois, with whom Magidoff corresponded, and the Yiddish modernist poetry of Shmuel Halkin, who edited the book series in which the anthology appears. When placed alongside Du Bois's and others’ visits to the Soviet Union in the 1930s, the appearance of African-American and Caribbean poetry in Yiddish translation shows how a transatlantic Jewish avant-garde interpreted and embedded itself within Soviet-African-American cultural exchange in the interwar years. Magidoff served as a Soviet correspondent for NBC and the Associated Press from 1935. He was accused of espionage and expelled from the USSR in 1948.

Relationship of Racial Identity to Cultural Competence and Self-Esteem among Rehabilitation Counseling Graduate Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-29
Author(s):  
Mark H. Chae ◽  
Anthonia Adegbesan ◽  
Sharon Hirsch ◽  
Danny Wolstein ◽  
Alex Shay ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Multicultural Competence ◽  
Rehabilitation Counseling ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselor ◽  
Identity Attitudes ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The current study investigated the relationship of racial identity to cultural competence and self-esteem among 134 rehabilitation counseling graduate students. Additionally, the study investigated the relationship between exposure to diversity related experiences and cultural competence. Multiple regression analyses indicated that White racial identity attitudes accounted for significant variance in self-reported perceived multicultural competence and self-esteem. Additionally, multicultural coursework was predictive of multicultural competence. Implications for rehabilitation counselor education and training are presented.

Self-Control and Deliberate Ignorance

2020 ◽  
pp. 293-314
Author(s):  
Sammy Basu ◽  
James Friedrich
Keyword(s):  
Blind Spot ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Personal Bias ◽  
Bias Blind Spot ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter considers the relationship of individual “self-control” to epistemic behavior and ethical responsibility. The authors distinguish deliberate ignorance into two forms: partiality-preserving and impartiality-enhancing, associating the former with “epistemic diligence/negligence” and the latter with “epistemic restraint/recklessness.” As such, they argue that ethical responsibility entails three prescriptive orders of self-control. First, in the moment, the individual should reactively self-control epistemic relevance. However, research on cognitive irregularities such as the introspection illusion highlights difficulties in doing so. Second, the individual should proactively regulate information available to self and others. Here, the authors’ own studies test whether individuals will consistently guard against information contamination. They find that a personal “bias blind-spot” compromises such epistemic discretion. Given epistemic responsibility but unreliable introspection, then, the individual needs a third order of self-control. That is, in certain decision-making situations the individual is obliged to utilize institutions of epistemic justice that mandate to decision-makers information availability/restraint.

scholarly journals Illness Narratives and Facebook: Living Illness Well

Humanities ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Hinson ◽  
Ben Sword
Keyword(s):  
Support Group ◽  
Illness Narratives ◽  
Vein Thrombosis ◽  
Doctor Visits ◽  
Patient Agency ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
One Year ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Deep Vein ◽  
The Relationship

Earlier scholarship provides important insights into the relationship of individual stories and narratives. Interactions with healthcare professionals and the healthcare system can often subsume the individual’s authority/agency. The patient’s narrative often gets lost in the elaborate web of doctor visits, referrals, medical records, case notes, etc. Online spaces such as Facebook, however, provide individuals with a platform through which they can understand, craft, and communicate their own personal illness narratives. Realizing this, this paper examines how the narratives of illness shared in illness-related Facebook groups help individuals make sense out of the disruption caused by their personal experience while residing in the ‘kingdom of the ill.’ To observe the construction and communication of these narratives, the researchers observed the activity of an online pulmonary embolism and deep-vein thrombosis survivor support group for one year. In this online space, individuals gained agency and authority in the construction of their own illness narratives. The findings of the research demonstrated both the importance of narrative in an individual’s health/illness journey as well as the need to further explore avenues that establish and bolster patient agency within the medical system.

Law’s Origin in Desire

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Clam
Keyword(s):  
Blind Spot ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fourth Term ◽  
Social Orders ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Ontological Framework ◽  
The Relationship

SummaryThis article develops the theoretical tools for a reversal of the traditional relationship of law to society and science, a relationship in which law appears to be the “smaller” term engulfed by the other two. It introduces a fourth term, desire, in which law has to be reflected. Normativity must be thought from the “incarnative” aspects of its demands: its edges cut through bodies and their desire. Thus legal regulation is fundamentally linked with a prohibitive emphasis immanent to all symbolic orders. However, the symbolicity of social orders has been mostly depicted in speculative and narrative styles of explanation - involving ‘Urzenen’ and violent, sacrificial origins. This article argues that it is important to de-narrativise such accounts and to develop a theory of incarnative normativity which fits into the post-ontological framework of science. Such a theory must work its way through a reassessment of the relationship between cognition and normation. It can thus be shown how epistemes shape the elusive construction of objects they manage to always have “in their back”, in the blind spot of their cognitive project.

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