Race, ethnicity and a post-racial/ethnic future: A philosophical reflection

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ovett Nwosimiri
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Social World ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
The World ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Ethnicity And Race ◽  
Prejudice And Discrimination ◽  
Racial Identity Formation ◽  
Racial Ethnic

Ethnicity and racial identity formation are elements of our social world. In recent years, there has been numerous works on ethnicity and race. Both concepts are controversial in different disciplines. The controversies around these concepts have been heated up by scholars who have devoted their time to the discourse of ethnicity and race, and to understand the ascription of both concepts. Ethnicity and race have been causes of conflict, prejudice and discrimination among various ethnic and racial groups around the world. Thus, this paper is an attempt to discuss and critically reflect about race, ethnicity and a post-racial/ethnic future in line with Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze’s idea of the post-racial future.

“WHITENESS” IN CONTEXT

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Jorge Ballinas ◽  
James D. Bachmeier
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
State Level ◽  
Community Survey ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Racial Identification ◽  
Racial Context ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Racial Identity Formation

Abstract Using data from the 2008–2016 American Community Survey, we compare the racial identification responses of the Mexican-origin population residing in California to their counterparts in Texas, the two states with the largest and most established Mexican-origin populations. We draw on existing theory and research in order to derive a theoretical account of state-level historical mechanisms that are likely to lead to varying patterns of racial identification within the two states and a set of propositions predicting the nature of this variation. Results indicate that the Mexican-origin population in Texas is substantially more likely to claim White racial identification than their counterparts in California, even after accounting for factors related to racial identity formation. Further analysis indicates that this result is robust and buffets the notion that the historical development of the racial context in Texas has engendered a present-day context in which “Whiteness” carries a distinctive social value, relative to California’s ethnoracial context, and that this social value is reflected in the ways in which individuals of Mexican origin respond to race questions on U.S. Census surveys.

COLOR CAPITAL, WHITE DEBT, AND THE PARADOX OF STRONG WHITE RACIAL IDENTITIES

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew W. Hughey
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
White Racial Identity ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Racial Projects ◽  
Racial Identity Formation

AbstractThis article examines how meaning is made of White racial identity by comparing two White racial projects assumed antithetical—White nationalists and White antiracists. While clear differences abound, they make meaning of Whiteness and racial “others” in surprisingly similar ways. Racial identity formation is structured by understandings of Whiteness as dull, empty, lacking, and incomplete (“White debt”) coupled with a search to alleviate those feelings through the appropriation of objects, discourses, and people coded as non-White (“Color capital”). Drawing from in-depth semi-structured interviews, fourteen months of ethnographic observations, and content analysis, this article demonstrates how the prevailing meanings of Whiteness, not their antithetical political projects or material resources, enable racial identity management. By examining seemingly antithetical White formations, the article illuminates not only striking differences but how divergent White actors similarly negotiate the dominant expectations of Whiteness.

scholarly journals Dismantling Purity: Toward a Feminist Curdling of Hawaiian Identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
L Brooke Rudow-Abouharb
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Native Hawaiian ◽  
Western European ◽  
Racial Identity Formation ◽  
Definition Of

This paper explores Hawaiian racial identity formation using María Lugones’s metaphor of curdling as a guiding theme. I aim to show that the accepted definition of “native Hawaiian” is based on a purity model of race that serves to undermine the unity of the Hawaiian Nation. I begin by outlining the pre-contact understanding of Hawaiian identity. This conception of identity was subsequently altered through various political agendas to fit within a Western/European notion of “pure” racial identity. I argue that continuing to use the imposed definition of “native Hawaiian” makes the fragmentation of Hawaiian identity and society difficult to overcome. Additionally, I offer a discussion of the gendered rhetoric of some Hawaiian activists that complicates the effort to regain a precolonial cultural identity that was largely egalitarian. Finally, I suggest that a rejection of racial purity and a rearticulation of Hawaiian identity that recaptures pre-contact, strategic notions of belonging by way of Lugones’s “impure resistance” can set the stage for a more inclusive Hawaiian Nation.

Socio-Psychological Processes in Racial Identity Formation: A Case Study of the Autobiographies of African American and Latino/a Activists

2009 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-205
Author(s):  
Monica M. White
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Kinship Networks ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Racial Knowledge ◽  
Racial Identity Formation

This essay explores the social-psychological processes of racial identity formation. As a result of an analysis of the autobiographies of African American and Latino/a activists, a distinct trajectory in the development of racial identity around three sources of racial knowledge is proposed: (1) kinship networks; (2) hegemonic influences; and (3) direct experience. These findings suggest a fluid, complex process of racial identity formation contrary to assumptions that racial formation is fixed, static and formulaic.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 209-214
Author(s):  
Jonathan Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
Institutional Frameworks ◽  
The World ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Linguistic Categories ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Us Cities

The detailed engagement with the relationship between linguistic and ethnoracial category-making that develops throughout the manuscript seeks to provoke broader discussions about the sociolinguistic, historical, political, and economic assemblages through which people come to look like a language and sound like a race in societies throughout the world. The conclusion articulates questions for future research focused on identity formation in other predominantly Latinx US cities, negotiations of raciolinguistic identities in differing institutional frameworks, and intersections among ethnoracial and linguistic categories in relation to linked axes of difference. By analyzing the construction of Latinx raciolinguistic identities in this Chicago high school and its surrounding communities, it becomes possible to reimagine the ways that race, ethnicity, and language structure everyday life across cultural contexts.

Comparing Three Methods of Measuring Race/Ethnicity

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paru R. Shah ◽  
Nicholas R. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Racial Identity ◽  
Bayesian Analysis ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Population Distributions ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Compare And Contrast ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
True Measure ◽  
Two Alternatives

AbstractIn this research note, we explore compare and contrast three methods for measuring race. We utilize as our baseline, or “true”, measure expert coded racial categories, and to this compare two alternatives. The first is a hybrid Bayesian analysis of racial/ethnic surname lists and population distributions, which allow us to develop a race probability score for each candidate. The second is a novel and innovative crowdsourcing method that allows many contributors to classify the racial identity of candidates. We analyze and discuss the potential benefits, pitfalls, and tradeoffs of each method. We conclude with the implications of these new measures for future election research as well as race and politics scholarship more broadly.

Sites of Sanctuary: Examining Blackness as “Something Fugitive” Through the Tactical Use of Ethnic Clubs by Haitian Immigrant High School Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 074355842110282
Author(s):  
Fabienne Doucet ◽  
David E. Kirkland
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Racial Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
Third Space ◽  
School Students ◽  
Third Space Theory ◽  
Black Adolescent ◽  
Racial Identity Formation

In this theoretical article, the authors elaborate a revisited theory of Third Space from a BlackCrit/Afropessimist stance, exploring Black youth ethnic and racial identity formation searching for place and belonging in the context of a raced world. To illustrate their theoretical contributions, the authors draw on empirical research conducted with Haiti-born and U.S.-born Haitian immigrant high school students and their teachers. They argue that, as Third Space, Haitian ethnic clubs were sites of sanctuary where students felt free to challenge, play with, and question complex ideas about racial identity, sites of resistance to test and exercise resistance against demoralizing forces, sites of fluidity for Black adolescent development, and sites for regulating and protecting Blackness. Thus, Third Space Theory from a BlackCrit perspective can offer an anti-racist approach to capturing how Black youth become aware of contradictions and ambivalence in the worlds they inhabit and their acceptance of situations where ambivalence helps in their learning and also their survivance.

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