Cultural Citizenship and Refugee Integration

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Tebeje Molla
Keyword(s):  
Youth Violence ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Cultural Citizenship ◽  
Black Africans ◽  
African Refugees ◽  
Multicultural Policy ◽  
Equal Respect ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination

This chapter sheds light on the cultural citizenship of refugee-background Black Africans in Australia. Specifically, it elaborates on cultural citizenship as an analytical framework, outlines recent multicultural policy provisions in Australia, and highlights how conservative politicians and media personalities racialize youth violence and stigmatize Black Africans as dangerous criminals. Then the chapter proceeds to explain why racialized moral panic undermines the integration of African refugees. It argues that public humiliation emasculates self-efficacy, leading to youth disengagement. Second, the deprivation of cultural citizenship diminishes refugee youth's sense of affiliation. Third, public racial disparagement reinforces interpersonal racial prejudice and discrimination. Fourth, racial stigmatization perpetuates socio-economic disadvantages of refugee communities, durably positioning them on the margin of society. In light of these points, it is argued that a claim for equal respect and dignifying representation is a demand for full citizenship.

scholarly journals Evaluating Validity Properties of 25 Race-Related Scales

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil Hester ◽  
Jordan Axt ◽  
Eric Hehman
Keyword(s):  
Item Response Theory ◽  
Item Response ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Model Fit ◽  
Fit Indices ◽  
Scale Selection ◽  
Internal Reliability ◽  
Measurement Issues ◽  
Latent Constructs ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination

Racial attitudes, beliefs, and motivations lie at the center of many of the most influential theories of prejudice and discrimination. The extent to which such theories can meaningfully explain behavior hinges on accurate measurement of these latent constructs. We evaluated the validity properties of 25 race-related scales in a sample of 1,031,207 respondents using modern approaches such as dynamic fit indices, Item Response Theory, and nomological nets. Despite showing adequate internal reliability, many scales demonstrated poor model fit and had latent score distributions showing clear floor or ceiling effects, results that illustrate deficiencies in measures’ ability to capture their intended construct. Nomological nets further suggested that the theoretical space of “racial prejudice” is crowded with scales that may not actually capture meaningfully distinct latent constructs. We provide concrete recommendations for scale selection and renovation and outline implications for overlooking measurement issues in the study of prejudice and discrimination.

Multiracial People, Their Children, and Racism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miri Song
Keyword(s):  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Racial Awareness ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
And Coping

Will the children of multiracial people be subject to forms of racial prejudice and discrimination? How do parents teach their children about the realities of race and prepare them to deal with potential forms of discrimination and denigration? Existing studies of mixed people in Britain rarely explicitly address their experiences of racial stigmatization or denigration, and even less is known about how they, as parents, regard the racialized experiences of their children. In this chapter, I examine how multiracial participants’ own experiences of racism (or lack thereof) influence their expectations and concerns about how their own children are treated in the wider society. This chapter also documents the ways in which parents foster racial awareness and coping.

Individual differences in the propensity to make attributions to prejudice

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart S. Miller ◽  
Donald A. Saucier
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ambiguous Situations

Whether racism is perceived in ambiguous situations may depend on individual differences in perceivers’ beliefs about the prevalence of racial prejudice and discrimination, trivialization of targets’ concerns, and vigilance and confidence in recognizing instances of racial prejudice. In Studies 1 and 2, we develop a psychometrically sound measure of these beliefs, the Propensity to Make Attributions to Prejudice Scale (PMAPS), and provide evidence that the PMAPS is related to individual differences in the justification and suppression of prejudice. Studies 3 and 5 provide evidence that the PMAPS predicts attributions to prejudice in a variety of situations. Theoretically consistent racial and gender differences in the PMAPS were found in a large sample (Study 4). Together, these data provide evidence supporting the reliability and validity of the PMAPS and provide insights about the role that beliefs and expectations play in third-party observers’ judgments about expressions of prejudice.

Moral Panic Over Youth Violence

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL WELCH ◽  
ERIC A. PRICE ◽  
NANA YANKEY
Keyword(s):  
Youth Violence ◽  
Moral Panic

Race and Color: Jamaican Migrants in London and New York City

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Foner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Black Population ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Racial Context ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination

This article explores the significance of race among Jamaicans in New York City and London. What it means to be a black Jamaican, it is argued, depends on the racial context of the receiving area. Although in the United States and Britain Jamaicans face racial prejudice and discrimination, there are advantages to living in New York. Being part of the larger black population cushions Jamaican migrants in New York from some of the sting of racial prejudice and provides them with easier access to certain occupations and social institutions.

scholarly journals The Influence of Childhood Training on the Adulthood Rejection of Discrimination in Go Set a Watchman

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Faeze Rezazade ◽  
Esmaeil Zohdi
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Development ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Skin Color ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
And Behavior

Racial prejudice, injustice, and discrimination against people of colored skin, especially African Americans, has become a global issue since the twenty century. Blacks are deprived of their rights regardless of their human natures and are disenfranchised from White’s societies due to their skin color which has put them as inferior and clownish creatures in White’s point of view. Although many anti-racist effort and speeches has done to solve racist issues and eliminate racism and its circumstances, still racism is alive and Blacks are suffering from it. Although, many White individuals accept themselves as anti-racist characters that color of skin does not matter to them, they still show prejudice and discrimination towards Blacks and cannot consider them as equal as themselves. A reason to such Whites’ thought and behavior is that they have faced this issue since their childhood and therefore they cannot change it because this attitude is entangled with their personality and is deeply ingrained in them. Thus, a way to stop and eliminate discrimination, prejudice, and injustice is to train children, the next generation, as anti-racist and color-blind characters. In this regard, it has been tried to investigate the role of children training in the elimination of social and racial discrimination in Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (2015), which is sequel novel to her masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). Moreover, Jean Piaget’s theory of Children’s Cognitive Development has been used for a better understanding of this investigation.

scholarly journals Public Slavery, Racial Formation, and the Struggle over Honor in French New Orleans, 1718-1769

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Cécile Vidal
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Racial Prejudice ◽  
Slave System ◽  
White Population ◽  
Slave Society ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
The Way ◽  
French Regime

In New Orleans throughout the French Regime (1718-1769), ruling authorities did not only shape the slave system through the way they exercised their political and administrative prerogatives and functions, but were directly involved as slaveholders. Public slavery facilitated the emergence of New Orleans and Lower Louisiana society as a slave society, and was not necessarily incompatible with racial prejudice and discrimination. On the contrary, it fueled the construction of race. At the same time, it made visible the fact that honor did not only define the boundary between the free and the non-free and the identity of the white population.

scholarly journals Angel Faces, Killer Kids, and Appetites for Excess: Reapproaching Moral Panic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sarah Louise Wright
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Moral Panics ◽  
Social Situations ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Component Approach ◽  
Real Type

<p>It is argued that the contemporary era is one proliferated with moral panics (Thompson, 1998). This is just as the concept of moral panic, which has enjoyed nearly forty years of analytical purchase, is being ‘rethought’ with an impetus to connect its processes with developments in social theory. Underpinning this rethink is a primary question: what are moral panics extreme examples of? It is evident in the literature, however, that there is a varying degree to which a more longstanding question – why moral panics occur – is addressed as part of this rethink. I propose in this thesis that these questions are intimate with each other; that only by understanding why real episodes occur can a supposition of what the concept of moral panic is in an abstract sense begin. Another – related – proposal is that while the conjectural question remains elusive the approach to empirical cases of moral panic be in real-type/ideal-type terms. That is, that at the same time as the concept is employed to understand phenomena occurring in tangible social situations, a reflection upon the concept (the ideal-type) is undertaken in relation to how the real-type case under investigation challenges and/or supports its interpretative parameters. To demonstrate these relationships and their study, I examine in this thesis the case of ‘killer kids’, which emerged in 2002 and spanned across the sociopolitical landscape of Aotearoa/New Zealand for the next six years. At the heart of this case was a set of news images of a child, who at twelve years of age had been involved in a heinous crime resulting in the death of pizza delivery person Michael Choy. Seeking to understand how and why these images were fundamental to how this ‘real-type’ episode of moral panic unfolded in this space and time, I employ a two-component approach inspired by Norman Fairclough’s (1995a) Critical Discourse Analysis. The first component deconstructs the realtype case via a three-tiered analytical framework: content, process, and context. The second component reflects upon these tiers (in parts and as a whole) in relation to Stanley Cohen’s (1972) application of a ‘cycle of deviance amplification’ in addition to the stages of panic as described in his seminal work Folk Devils and Moral Panics. From the processual and contextual factors identified at play in the construction of ‘killer kids’ I conclude with a suggestion that moral panic can be thought of as a set of appetites that come together in an explosive discharge of excess energy.</p>

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