scholarly journals Samarita Ibanez: An Identity Journey from First Life to Second

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samara Mamatovna Anarbaeva
Keyword(s):  
Second Life ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Global Space ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Virtual Body

When we are given the chance to have a Second Life online, we often choose to modify our offline selves with a little something extra, e.g. younger looking skin or a taller figure, or we choose a slightly different direction in terms of race and/or gender. This paper explores the construction of a Second Life avatar's identity in terms of race, and gender. In Second Life, users can embody a virtual body similar to or different from their offline body. Avatars are created by people who sit in front of a computer with a set of lived experiences, identities, characteristics, and beliefs. This work describes one avatar's journey into Second Life, focusing on the intersections of offline and online materializations of raced and gendered identities. In creating a second self, how do power imbalances based on gender and ethnicity within global space shape the creation of an avatar? What social and communicative issues emerge through Second Life existences? In order to respond to these questions, an ethnographic study as well as interviews with three different users of Second Life were conducted to examine the steps an individual takes when he or she becomes a resident of Second Life.

scholarly journals From "Looking for Alibrandi" to "Does my Head Look Big in This?": The role of Australian teenage novels in reconceptualising racialised-gendered identities

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lana Zannettino
Keyword(s):  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Ethnic Identification ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Biological Race

This paper undertakes a comparative analysis of three Australian teenage novels – Melina Marchetta’s ‘Looking for Alibrandi’ (1992), Randa Abdel-Fattah’s ‘Does my Head Look Big in This?’ (2005), and Morris Gleitzman’s ‘Girl Underground’ (2004). Drawing from feminist post-structural and post-colonial theories, the paper examines how each author has constructed the racialised-gendered identities of their female protagonists, including the ways in which they struggle to develop an identity in-between minority and dominant cultures. Also considered is how each author inter-weaves race, gender and class to produce subjects that are positioned differently across minority and dominant cultures. The similarities in how the authors have inscribed race and ethnicity on the subjectivities of their female characters, despite the novels being written at different points in time and focusing on different racial and ethnic identities, suggest that what it means to be a raced subject in Australia has more to do with the significance of all-at-once ‘belonging’ and ‘not belonging’ to the dominant culture, of ‘inclusion’ and ‘exclusion’ and of ‘sameness’ and ‘otherness’, than it has with the unique characteristics of biological race and ethnic identification. The paper argues that this kind of fiction carries with it an implicit pedagogy about race relations in Australia, which has the potential to subvert oppressive binary dualisms of race and gender by demonstrating possibilities for the development of hybrid cultural identities and ‘collaborations of humanity’.

Culturally speaking : media, intimacy, and the vocal dimension of race and gender

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Amanda Nell Edgar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Vocal Communication ◽  
University Of Missouri ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Gendered Identities ◽  
Saturday Night Live ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This project examines the racial and gendered meanings of vocal sound, focusing specifically on the ways voices and their cultural associations are circulated through media. I employ methods and theoretical assumptions drawn from cultural studies, rhetoric, and feminist and critical race theory to examine mediated voices. The traditional textual analysis methods and more innovative approaches specific to vocal communication studies I outline here are designed to map the relationship between two tenets of vocal ideology: vocal identity and vocal intimacy. Through this project, then, I extend previous literature on vocal sound's ability to construct and communicate aspects of racial and gendered identities. Additionally, this study theorizes the way these identities work with media's structures and the broader cultural context to encourage a sense of intimacy for consumers. The theoretical tenets of what I call "critical cultural vocalics" are concretized through analyses of Morgan Freeman's acting career, political impersonations on Saturday Night Live, and Whitevoice impressions by stand-up comedians of color. By examining these two intersecting and co-constitutive processes in the context of three case studies, I propose and demonstrate a critical cultural vocalics designed to foreground the ways vocal identity and vocal intimacy work together to idealize particular performances of race and gender through media's voices.

scholarly journals Liberating Knowledge at the Margins

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Michael Dudley
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Knowledge Organization Systems ◽  
Subject Headings ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Gender

This paper proposes an LIS research paradigm by which the transactional relationships between knowledge organization systems (KOS) and external scholarly discourses may be identified and examined. It considers subject headings as discursive acts (or Foucauldian “statements”) unto themselves—in terms of their materiality, rarity, exteriority, and accumulation—arising from such discourses, and which, through their usage in library catalogues and databases, produce their own discursive and non-discursive effects. It is argued that, since these statements lead through their existence and discovery (or absence and neglect) to the creation of further texts, then potentially oppressive discursive formations may result where marginalized knowledges are concerned. The paper aims to better understand these processes in scholarly discourses—and the role of libraries therein—by examining recent examples in the LIS literature regarding matters of race and gender, and which are suggestive of this emergent paradigm.

Marking Morality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Locke
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
Moral Community ◽  
Moral Reform ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Moral Politics ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Black Voters

In their pursuit of prohibition and moral politics, religious activists both harnessed and subverted two dominant regional discourses—those surrounding race and gender—to clothe themselves in the garb of righteousness. Prohibition did not merely reflect or reproduce regional norms, but neither did it occur in isolation from them. The creation of the clerics’ moral community depended on an ever-changing amalgamation of race, gender, class, religion, and politics. For instance, although white prohibitionists made explicit appeals to a “better sort” of black southerners, they simultaneously used African American opposition to moral reform as evidence for the need of laws disfranchising black voters. Likewise, male religious leaders loudly proclaimed themselves honorable defenders of female virtue, and while they welcomed female foot soldiers, their notion of male guardianship prevented them from accepting female activists as equal participants in the prohibition crusade.

On the Margins of College Life: The Experiences of Racial and Ethnic Minority Men in the Extracurriculum

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-175
Author(s):  
Blake R. Silver
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Campus Climate ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
College Life ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Identity Strategies ◽  
Minority Men ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Minority

Today, racial and ethnic minority (REM) men complete college at lower rates and perceive a less welcoming campus climate than their white and female peers. Although these disparities in perceptions and outcomes are well-documented, we know less about how they are produced. Drawing on an ethnographic study at a four-year public university, I examine the experiences of REM men in the extracurricular realm of college. Findings illuminate how students become locked into narrow identity strategies in order to distance themselves from controlling images and conform to the demands of peers. These styles of self-presentation offer limited emotional dividends, making it difficult to feel a durable sense of belonging. Further, social class intersects with race and gender, shaping the capacity of REM men to navigate mistreatment and marginalization in the broader extracurricular landscape. This research has implications for scholarship and for efforts to support REM men in higher education.

The First Amendment in the Trump Era

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Zick
Keyword(s):  
First Amendment ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Past ◽  
Freedom Of Press ◽  
Mass Digitization ◽  
The Creation ◽  
And Gender

This book examines challenges to the First Amendment during the Trump Era. The Trump Era is characterized first and foremost by a president who has publicly challenged First Amendment free speech and press principles, norms, and rights. Candidate and now President Trump has declared “war” on the institutional press, publicly condemned individual protesters, blocked Twitter critics, made derogatory comments about race and gender, and exhibited a general intolerance of criticism and dissent. These events have transpired in an era also characterized by a diminished institutional press, mass digitization of speech, generational uncertainty about the benefits of freedom of speech, deepening social and cultural cleavages, the rise of intense and negative partisanship, and the proliferation of hateful expression. Together, these conditions pose serious threats to our First Amendment traditions concerning freedom of press and speech. In particular, they pose a distinctive threat to the creation and preservation of a culture of dissent, without which democracy itself is imperiled. Although some of the era’s conditions and challenges are new, many of the First Amendment concerns they raise are not. The book thus looks to historical events to highlight both what is unique about the Trump Era and what is historically familiar. In terms of rebuffing authoritarian impulses and resisting pressures to conform, the lessons of the past point the way forward.

scholarly journals Troubling Diversity and Inclusion: Racialized Women’s Experiences in the Canadian Armed Forces

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Tammy George
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Canadian Armed Forces ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Structural Inequities ◽  
Canadian Military

This article centers on the lived experiences of racialized servicewomen in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF). Drawing on qualitative interviews with racialized servicewomen, I problematize the function of contemporary diversity and inclusion initiatives within the CAF. Focusing on the intersection of race and gender in their lives provides a way to think through structural inequities within the Canadian military. By examining how these structures of power operate within the CAF, we are better situated to understand how current diversity and inclusion initiatives work to consolidate hegemonic power. Informed by feminist critical race theories and critical geography, I trace the experiences of racialized servicewomen to understand how they make sense of their inclusion and belonging and how they assess their everyday experiences in the context of diversity and inclusion strategies presented by the CAF. Their lived experiences reveal the importance of race and gender in their lives, and expose the limits of diversity and inclusion practices, particularly, in their inability to address deeper structural issues of white supremacy, heteronormativity, and patriarchy within the CAF. While concepts of diversity and inclusion are typically concerned with the inclusion of those on the margins, this research suggests that we must seriously interrogate the theoretical, practical, and political work of diversity and inclusion initiatives within a multicultural context. Troubling inclusion and diversity in the CAF demands we disrupt structures of dominance and reflect on how to re/conceptualize and re/integrate meaningful difference more substantially throughout institutional life in multicultural Canada.

Referral Patterns for Youths Identified at Risk for Suicide by Trained Gatekeepers

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Rodi ◽  
Lucas Godoy Garraza ◽  
Christine Walrath ◽  
Robert L. Stephens ◽  
D. Susanne Condron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Referral Patterns ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Lee Smith ◽  
Prevention Behavior ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
And Gender ◽  
To Receive

Background: In order to better understand the posttraining suicide prevention behavior of gatekeeper trainees, the present article examines the referral and service receipt patterns among gatekeeper-identified youths. Methods: Data for this study were drawn from 26 Garrett Lee Smith grantees funded between October 2005 and October 2009 who submitted data about the number, characteristics, and service access of identified youths. Results: The demographic characteristics of identified youths are not related to referral type or receipt. Furthermore, referral setting does not seem to be predictive of the type of referral. Demographic as well as other (nonrisk) characteristics of the youths are not key variables in determining identification or service receipt. Limitations: These data are not necessarily representative of all youths identified by gatekeepers represented in the dataset. The prevalence of risk among all members of the communities from which these data are drawn is unknown. Furthermore, these data likely disproportionately represent gatekeepers associated with systems that effectively track gatekeepers and youths. Conclusions: Gatekeepers appear to be identifying youth across settings, and those youths are being referred for services without regard for race and gender or the settings in which they are identified. Furthermore, youths that may be at highest risk may be more likely to receive those services.

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