Black Gringos in Brazil?

2018 ◽  
pp. 106-143
Author(s):  
Patricia de Santana Pinho
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Financial Aid ◽  
Racial Solidarity ◽  
Roots Tourism ◽  
Tourist Guides ◽  
Afro Brazilian

This chapter examines how roots tourism has allowed for the construction of black racial solidarity between African Americans and Afro-Brazilians. Aware of their power as U.S. citizens, African Americans have actively “made use” of their identity, as both tourists and Americans, to support Afro-Brazilians. In addition to donating cash and goods and providing financial aid to Afro-Brazilian organizations, they have often requested black tourist guides and prioritized patronizing black-owned businesses so that their U.S. dollars are channeled to Afro-Brazilians. Afro-Brazilian actors, in general, have responded very positively to such practices of solidarity, even if they are also critical of, and ready to challenge, what they view as the tourists’ “Americanness.” Most importantly, Afro-Brazilian activists have also set the terms of engagement in these interactions and, rather than being mere beneficiaries, they have become important agents in these projects of transnational black solidarity, acting as co-producers in the processes of diaspora-making.

Residential Context and Racial Solidarity among African Americans

1995 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Bledsoe ◽  
Susan Welch ◽  
Lee Sigelman ◽  
Michael Combs
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Residential Context ◽  
Racial Solidarity

WHAT WE FACE

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Arlette Hirsch ◽  
Anthony Abraham Jack
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Black Family ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Racial Solidarity ◽  
Sociological Studies

AbstractWhile many sociological studies analyze the causes, conditions, and mechanisms perpetuating American racial inequality, the literature on how African Americans understand and explain these inequalities is less developed. Drawing on 150 interviews with middle-class and working-class African American men and women, this paper analyzes inductively how respondents define and conceptualize the most pressing obstacles facing their group when probed on this question. We find that middle- and working-class respondents alike identify the problem of racism as the most salient obstacle facing African Americans. Class differences appear with respect to what other obstacles are singled out as salient: while middle-class respondents focus on lack of racial solidarity among Blacks and economic problems (in this order), working-class respondents are more concerned with the fragility of the Black family followed by the lack of racial solidarity. This analysis discusses the relevance of considering how groups make sense of obstacles, and of racism and discrimination in particular, for the study of destigmatization and antiracist strategies of stigmatized minorities.

scholarly journals EVERYDAY ANTIRACISM: Competence and Religion in the Cultural Repertoire of the African American Elite

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michèle Lamont ◽  
Crystal Marie Fleming
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
College Education ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Racial Groups ◽  
Racial Solidarity ◽  
Cultural Membership ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Subordinate Role

This exploratory study makes a contribution to the literature on antiracism by unpacking the cultural categories through which everyday antiracism is experienced and practiced by extraordinarily successful African Americans. Using a phenomenological approach, we focus on processes of classification to analyze the criteria that members of the African American elite mobilize to compare racial groups and establish their equality. We first summarize results from earlier work on the antiracist strategies of White and African American workers. Second, drawing upon in-depth interviews with members of the Black elite, we show that demonstrating intelligence and competence, and gaining knowledge, are particularly valued strategies of equalization, while religion has a subordinate role within their antiracist repertoire. Thus, gaining cultural membership is often equated with educational and occupational attainment. Antiracist strategies that value college education and achievement by the standards of American individualism may exclude many poor and working-class African Americans from cultural membership. In this way, strategies of equalization based on educational and professional competence may prove dysfunctional for racial solidarity.

Catholics, Communism, and African Americans

2019 ◽  
pp. 240-263
Author(s):  
Cecilia A. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Body Of Christ ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Racial Solidarity ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter demonstrates how the integrity of “integral Catholics” was put to a stern test by the American church's willingness to countenance racism in the early and middle decades of the twentieth century. Although white ethnic communities had been provided with national parishes of their own since the late nineteenth century, expressions of African American ethnic/racial solidarity were widely viewed as an affront to the all-encompassing theology of the mystical body of Christ. The chapter shows how this patronizing racial ideology was shaken only after the Communist Party won substantial numbers of black converts in the 1930s and beyond.

Where There Is No Will There Is No Way

2018 ◽  
pp. 158-177
Author(s):  
Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Party System ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
White Allies ◽  
Racial Solidarity

This chapter explores Black Bostonians’ response to the deterioration of the national climate of race relations in the late 1890s. As the 1890s ended, black Bostonians questioned their previous trust in the two major parties and their faith in white allies. In their opposition, they enunciated a new political vision that advocated racial solidarity and rejected allegiance to the U. S. party system. By the beginning of the twentieth century, African Americans conceived a new political culture in which racial solidarity was paramount and partisan politics mistrusted.

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