To Build Something, Where They Are

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greta de Jong
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Black Representation ◽  
Government Grants ◽  
White Southerners ◽  
Development Initiatives

This chapter examines the efforts of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives to encourage cooperative enterprises and other economic development initiatives in rural southern communities. The services it provided to cooperatives ensured the survival of many black-owned businesses and encouraged African Americans to remain in the South instead of migrating away. The FSC’s activist staff continued the struggles for civil rights and social justice by working to increase black representation in economic development initiatives, encouraging black political participation, and organizing local communities to fight persistent racism. These efforts generated resistance from powerful white southerners. In 1979, accusations that the FSC was misusing government grants to fund political activities sparked an eighteen-month-long investigation that disrupted and weakened the organization, despite finding no evidence of wrongdoing.

The Social Impact of Sport

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-121
Author(s):  
Joseph Cornelius Spears, Jr. ◽  
Sean T. Coleman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
International Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Social

The COVID-19 pandemic assumed an international health threat, and in turn, spotlighted the distinct disparities in civil rights, opportunity, and inclusion witnessed by lived experiences of African Americans. Although these harsh disparities have existed through the United States of America's history, the age of technology and mass media in the 21st century allows for a deeper and broader look into the violation of African Americans civil liberties in virtual real time. Also, historically, the sports world has been instrumental in fighting for the civil rights of African Americans; athletes such as Jesse Owens and Muhammed Ali led by example. This chapter will showcase how the sports world continues to support social justice overall and specifically during this international pandemic. The authors will examine contemporary events like the transition in support for Colin Kaepernick's protest against police brutality and the NBA play-off (Bubble) protest in 2020.

scholarly journals Examining Race Privilege in America: The Preservation of Whiteness through the Systematic Oppression of African-Americans

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-125
Author(s):  
Justin Selner
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Education System ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Post Civil Rights

The prevailing assumption that race-relations have equalized in America is largely based on an incorrect and misinformed understanding of current socio-economic policies and public behaviors. The continued racialization and discrimination towards African-Americans may be linked to strategic efforts that seek to preserve the dominance and authority of whiteness. This paper examines such claims within the context of the post civil rights movement, with specific attention given to the media, education system, and implementations of social justice.

The Man Don’t Need Me Anymore

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greta de Jong
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Black Labor ◽  
Political Empowerment ◽  
White Families ◽  
Agricultural Mechanization ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter describes the extreme hardships facing plantation workers as a result of agricultural mechanization and economic reprisals against people who were involved in civil rights activism in the 1960s. Southern welfare and economic development policies were designed to encourage black out-migration from the region, enabling wealthy white families whose fortunes were built on exploiting black labor to avoid responsibility for those workers once they were no longer needed. At the same time, reducing the number of African Americans living in the plantation counties helped minimize the threat posed by black political empowerment. By the mid-1960s, these policies had forced hundreds of thousands of African Americans to leave the region and generated rising unemployment and poverty rates for those who remained.

scholarly journals “Remember Little Rock”: Racial (In)Justice and the Shaping of Contemporary White Evangelicalism

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 681
Author(s):  
Tammy Heise
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Flash Point ◽  
Little Rock ◽  
Religious Symbol ◽  
White Southerners ◽  
Brown Decision ◽  
The U.S

In 1957, Little Rock became a flash point for conflict over the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown decision. This article examines Little Rock as a religious symbol for white southerners—especially white southern evangelicals—as they sought to exercise their self-appointed roles as cultural guardians to devise competing, but ultimately complementary, strategies to manage social change to limit desegregation and other civil rights expansions for African Americans. This history reveals how support for segregation helped to convert white southern evangelicals to conservative political activism in this period.

Supporting Economic Development Initiatives in Local Communities: A Case Study in the Latin American Region

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Paz ◽  
John J. Zambrano Celly ◽  
Gabriela Vallejo ◽  
Nicholas Abrahams ◽  
Marcelo Pérez Benítez
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Latin American Region ◽  
Development Initiatives ◽  
American Region

Moral Factor of Social and Economic Progress

2007 ◽  
pp. 55-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Bogomolov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Moral Atmosphere ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Moral Factor

The article reveals the influence of the spiritual and moral atmosphere in the society on economic development. The emphasis is put especially on the role of social confidence and social justice. The author indicates also some measures on improving the worsening moral situation in Russia.

Policy perspectives of Turkey towards return migration: From permissive indifference to selective difference

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Özge Bilgili ◽  
Melissa Siegel
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Development Initiatives ◽  
Past Experiences

This is the first paper of its kind to look at policy perspectives on return migration in Turkey, based on an analysis of official documents and a series of interviews with Turkish authorities, government officials and academics. We identify several perspectives which range from the absence of a specific legislation to control return migration, to the concrete attempts to regulate the return of a selected group of migrants, namely the highly skilled. Subsequently, we show that these perspectives are built on a series of sometimes paradoxical arguments regarding economic development, past experiences about development initiatives and the country’s international objectives.

Drawing the Line between Dismissal for Alcoholism (Incapacity) and Dismissal for Drunkenness (Misconduct). Are the Boni Mores Compromised?

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Thandekile Phulu
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
Labour Practice ◽  
The Republic

In South Africa employees are protected by various pieces of legislation. Section 23 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996 provides for a right to fair labour practice. In its preamble the Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995 (hereafter referred to as the LRA) states that the purpose of the Act is to advance economic development, social justice, labour peace and democratisation of the workplace. The LRA also states that one of its objectives is to give effect to and regulate the fundamental rights conferred by section 27 of the Constitution. The Occupational Health and Safety Act as amended by the Occupational Health and Safety Amendment Act 181 of 1993 provides for the health and safety of persons at work and for the health and safety of persons in connection with the use of plant and machinery. The LRA provides for dismissal for incapacity and dismissals for misconduct. It also differentiates between the two. The LRA provides for both substantive and procedural fairness when dismissing an employee for incapacity and misconduct. This paper will examine the rationale behind differentiating between dismissal for drunkenness and dismissal for alcoholism.

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