I Can’t Wear Your Colors

White Balance ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 102-125
Author(s):  
Justin Gomer
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Low Income ◽  
School Desegregation ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Justice Department ◽  
Neutral Language

This chapter examines Ronald Reagan’s first presidential term, the rise of the War on Drugs, and Rocky III (1982). Reagan took office hopeful that he could ban affirmative action and stop school desegregation orders by reframing racial discrimination as an individual rather than a group is- sue. With this, Reagan’s Justice Department developed a politics of colorblind neoliberalism. Reagan also ramped up the War on Drugs, which targeted low-income black communities and relied on resurrecting popular media representations of urban blacks as animalistic criminals in need of discipline and punishment by the state. Rocky III engages Reagan’s War and, in so doing, reveals that although colorblindness in many ways represented a new racial discourse in America—one based in racially neutral language and neoliberal notions of individualism—beginning in the 1980s it increasingly relied on very old tenets of antiblackness.

Lord, How Dare We Celebrate

White Balance ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 163-197
Author(s):  
Justin Gomer
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Inner City ◽  
Educational Reform ◽  
Low Income ◽  
White Woman ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Urban Neighborhoods ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
Film Genres

The final chapter examines teacher films, those movies in which a (typically) suburban white woman accepts a job teaching student of color in low-income urban neighborhoods. Although the late 1980s and 1990s certainly do not mark the first instances of teachers as protagonists in American cinema, it was during these years that films centered around white teachers and their inner-city nonwhite pupils became increasingly popular and developed specific themes and tropes that were inherently informed by the logic of colorblindness. This analysis of this genre is situated, most notably the 1995 film Dangerous Minds, within the context of the War on Drugs, urban blight, the dismantling of affirmative action, and, most importantly, neoliberal educational reform in arguing that colorblindness ultimately produced entirely new film genres that are inherently colorblind.

scholarly journals Animal Oppression and Solidarity: Examining Representations of Animals and Their Allies in Twenty-First Century Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Tayler Zavitz ◽  
Corie Kielbiski
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
First Century ◽  
Complex Media ◽  
Animal Suffering ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Human World ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Literature And Film

Popular media, both literature and film, provide a location in which animal suffering, resistance and solidarity are finally visible. An examination of Bong Joon-ho’s award-winning film Okja (2017) and Karen Joy Fowler’s New York Timesbest-selling novel We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (2013) reveals complex media representations of animals that highlight the significance of twenty-first century media in depicting the animal in the human world.

Economic decline and incarceration

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley A. Hill
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Illicit Drug Use ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Gang Violence ◽  
Economic Decline ◽  
Post Industrial

The post-industrial turn in the economy during the 1970s has had a lasting impact on black communities, leading to high rates of crime, unemployment, gang violence, and illicit drug use. The ‘war on drugs’ disproportionately affected African-American communities, leading to spiralling rates of incarceration. Incarceration takes a toll on the health of inmates, but also on their entire families. This chapter looks at the health and family consequences of illicit drug use and especially mass incarceration.

The Malleability Narrative in Entertainment and Social Media: Explaining Pathways to Happiness in Media Content

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Vandenbosch ◽  
Steven Eggermont
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Communication Theory ◽  
Cultural Sociology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Audience Research ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Analytical Research

Abstract Media effects research has documented the prevalence of different ideals in media content, and their effects on media users. We developed a framework for the representation of such ideals, and that may increase our understanding of the effects media have on users' well-being. Drawing on cultural sociology, communication theory, and psychological literature, we introduce the malleability narrative of mediated ideals, described as “a collection of media representations of a variety of ideals that tend to be portrayed as within reach for anyone who is committed to pursuing his/her own self-interest.” The aim of the framework is to foster content analytical research on the occurrence of the malleability narrative in popular media and to stimulate audience research on interactions between media users and the malleability narrative in media, while taking account of different explanatory routes and the heterogeneity of the audience.

Affirmative action quotas in Brazilian higher education

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyusyena Kirakosyan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Low Income ◽  
White Students ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Socioeconomic Inequality ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Disadvantaged Populations ◽  
Brazilian Case

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to address its drastic socioeconomic inequality and to compel its higher education institutions to diversify significantly while democratizing access to those schools. Brazil recently passed a sweeping affirmative action law requiring its public universities to reserve half of their available spots for low-income and non-White students. This article examines the underlying assumptions and implications of Brazil’s adoption of affirmative-action quotas for higher education. Design/methodology/approach – The article offers comparative analysis of Brazil’s efforts with the experiences with quota and diversity policies in higher education in other countries. Findings – It can be contended that, while the recent quota law in Brazil represents an important step in addressing socioeconomic and political inequalities, the measure is too limited in scope to empower historically disadvantaged populations and diminish future inequalities confronting these populations. This article concludes by underscoring the importance of efforts to develop a more comprehensive framing of affirmative action and diversity policies in Brazil’s higher education, along with a simultaneous reform of public secondary education in the nation. Originality/value – The article considers experiences with educational quotas in other countries and draws some useful comparisons and parallels to the Brazilian case.

scholarly journals THE MANY FACES OF STRICT SCRUTINY: HOW THE SUPREME COURT CHANGES THE RULES IN RACE CASES

2010 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Gerstmann ◽  
Christopher Shortell
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Racial Profiling ◽  
Single Test ◽  
Strict Scrutiny ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Many

In this paper, we argue that there is no single test called strict scrutiny when the Court considers claims of racial discrimination. In fact, the Court changes the rules depending on why and how the government is using race. By examining racial redistricting, remedial affirmative action, and diversity-based affirmative action cases, we show how the Court uses at least three verydifferent versions of strict scrutiny. The costs of maintaining the fiction of unitary strict scrutiny is high. In the area of racial profiling, for example, courts refuse to apply strict scrutiny for fear that it will either overly hamper police or will weaken strict scrutiny in other areas of racial discrimination. An open acknowledgment that the Court is already using different standards of analysis for different types of racial discrimination would allow courts to craft appropriate standards without fear of diminishing protections in other areas.

scholarly journals LA DISCRIMINACIÓN RACIAL A LAS COMUNIDADES NEGRAS: ANÁLISIS DESDE EL DIARIO EL UNIVERSAL DE CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-120
Author(s):  
Jesús Natividad Pérez Palomino ◽  
Neidy Gutiérrez Soza
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
General Knowledge ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
The City

Este artículo abordó las noticias relacionadas con las comunidades negras, principalmente referidas a la discriminación racial y racismo en la sección “Cartagena”, cronológicamente dos años (2012 y 2013). La sección “Cartagena”, la segunda en importancia en el diario El Universal, donde se recogen las principales problemáticas de la ciudad.Este análisis del discurso de los textos escritos, se ha basado en la realidad de las comunidades negras y cómo asumen el abordaje de estas noticias, principalmente la discriminación racial. Además de la concepción que tienen los periodistas, igualmente los líderes y lideresas de la comunidad.Entre los resultados se identificó que los periodistas del diario El Universal, tienen conocimientos generales sobre lo que es el racismo y la discriminación racial establecida en tres categorías tales como: desprecio, rechazo y exclusión. En el período de la investigación, el Diario Universal en la sección Cartagena desarrolló 67 noticias relacionadas con la comunidad negra de las cuales solamente 9 abordaron sobre la discriminación racial.SummaryThis article addressed the news related to black communities, mainly regarding racial discrimination and racism in the "Cartagena" section, based chronologically on two years: 2012 and 2013. The "Cartagena" section is the second largest in the newspaper El Universal, where the main problems of the city are collected.This discourse analysis of written texts, has been based on the realities of black communities and how they assume these news, particularly racial discrimination. As well as the conception that the journalists and leaders from the community have.Among the results we identified that the journalists of the newspaper El Universal, have general knowledge about what is racism and racial discrimination, and it’s established in three categories such as: hatred, rejection and exclusion. In the period of investigation, the Universal Newspaper in Cartagena section developed 67 news related to the black community of which only 9 addressed information on racial discrimination.

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