Reinventing the Mulatta in the United States for the 2000s

2020 ◽  
pp. 139-178
Author(s):  
Jasmine Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Black Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Television Series ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Consumer Citizenship ◽  
L Word

This chapter illustrates how mixed black women are moralized, pathologized, or eroticized in the public imaginary through an analysis of the film Monster’s Ball (2001) starring Halle Berry and the television series The L Word (2004-9) featuring Jennifer Beals. These two cultural productions serve as examples of the management and disciplining of blackness through sexuality and consumer citizenship. Illuminating how the historical specter of the mulatta figure both haunts and rearticulates discourses of multiculturalism and postrace in the 2000s, Monster’s Ball and The L Word both represent the anxieties and desires of an acceptable blackness that can be brought into civil society or contained.

scholarly journals Asia`s Role in Internet Governance

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-142
Author(s):  
Park Y. J.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Negotiation ◽  
Global Public Policy

Most stakeholders from Asia have not actively participated in the global Internet governance debate. This debate has been shaped by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers(ICANN) since 198 and the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) since 2006. Neither ICANN nor IGF are well received as global public policy negotiation platforms by stakeholders in Asia, but more and more stakeholders in Europe and the United States take both platforms seriously. Stakeholders in Internet governance come from the private sector and civil society as well as the public sector.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Jai Galliott ◽  
Jens David Ohlin ◽  
Duncan MacIntosh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Great Power ◽  
Weapon Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Broad Agreement ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
Second World ◽  
Control Regime

The question of whether new rules or regulations are required to govern, restrict, or even prohibit the use of autonomous weapon systems—defined by the United States as systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator or, in more hyperbolic terms, by the dysphemism “killer robots”—has preoccupied government actors, academics, and proponents of a global arms-control regime for the better part of a decade. Many civil-society groups claim that there is consistently growing momentum in support of a ban on lethal autonomous weapon systems, and frequently tout the number of (primarily second world) nations supporting their cause. However, to objective external observers, the way ahead appears elusive, as the debate lacks any kind of broad agreement, and there is a notable absence of great power support. Instead, the debate has become characterized by hyperbole aimed at capturing or alienating the public imagination....

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Jasmine Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Black Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Racial Ideologies ◽  
Sexual Regulation ◽  
Racial Democracy ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Media

The introduction describes the book's main arguments of how media representations of mixed-black women manage blackness— through its erasure, its sexual regulation, and by presenting an acceptable blackness with a goal to whiten the population. Stepping into contemporary debates surrounding a postracial United States and Brazilian racial democracy, the book illustrates overlapping racial ideologies that are only visible when Brazilian and U.S. cultural productions are read alongside one another. The introduction lays out the hemispheric framework, explains why and how the book uses the terms mulatta in the United States and mulata in Brazil, and defines concepts of racial management and racial intimacies. Finally, the introduction justifies the media archive and the time period of the 2000s.

scholarly journals Civil Society and Paths to Abolition

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-71
Author(s):  
Seymour Drescher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relative Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
National Perspective ◽  
The Impact

This article explores aspects of the abolitionist movements in comparative imperial and national perspective. Contrasting the transoceanic roads to emancipation in the pioneering British and French empires, it then examines subsequent cases in Russia, the United States of America and Brazil. It attempts to assess the relative impact of civil and/or military mobilizations—or their absence—in relation to the public sphere and legislative actors. It speculates on the impact of different forms and outcomes on the legacies of abolitions.

scholarly journals The Core Issue of Stability in Afghanistan: Envisioning the Future of Peace Deal

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ambreen Sikander, Dr. Rubab Hasan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Limited Time ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Core Issue

Afghanistan has been a battleground to the world’s largest powers. From USSR to NATO, through the Taliban, and now to the peace deal, Afghanistan holds a remarkable and yet chaotic history. Amidst the wars, some have succeeded for a limited time while others have failed. NATO has a history with Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks in the USA. The crucial matter is how to guarantee that states budding from divergence are set with the basics on which to assemble a robust peace. The keen and incisive analysis in serenity and the Public Purse provides a precious involvement to this attempt. This article provides an analysis of the post-9/11 period and the invasion of Afghanistan by U.S. forces, focusing on the ethnic origin of the native fighters and how assorted groups engaged in dissimilar aspects of the divergence. Furthermore, this learning also highlighted the United States grasp for Afghan civil society, promotes amplified admiration for human rights, helps to fight the prohibited trade in narcotics, and continues to endow with noteworthy humanitarian uphold. The United States has owed approximately $29 billion in civilian aid for Afghanistan and the perspective of U.S. policy headed for Afghanistan cannot be in point of truth assessed exclusively of a nearer estimation of Afghanistan’s existing and emergent security, political, and economic landscapes—and their collision on U.S. strategic aims.

Verán ustedes las chozas más humildes. El discurso de pobreza en la diplomacia pública cardenista dirigida a Estados Unidos

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-281
Author(s):  
Sylvia Dümmer Scheel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government ◽  
Lazaro Cardenas ◽  
The New Deal

El artículo analiza la diplomacia pública del gobierno de Lázaro Cárdenas centrándose en su opción por publicitar la pobreza nacional en el extranjero, especialmente en Estados Unidos. Se plantea que se trató de una estrategia inédita, que accedió a poner en riesgo el “prestigio nacional” con el fin de justificar ante la opinión pública estadounidense la necesidad de implementar las reformas contenidas en el Plan Sexenal. Aprovechando la inusual empatía hacia los pobres en tiempos del New Deal, se construyó una imagen específica de pobreza que fuera higiénica y redimible. Ésta, sin embargo, no generó consenso entre los mexicanos. This article analyzes the public diplomacy of the government of Lázaro Cárdenas, focusing on the administration’s decision to publicize the nation’s poverty internationally, especially in the United States. This study suggests that this was an unprecedented strategy, putting “national prestige” at risk in order to explain the importance of implementing the reforms contained in the Six Year Plan, in the face of public opinion in the United States. Taking advantage of the increased empathy felt towards the poor during the New Deal, a specific image of hygienic and redeemable poverty was constructed. However, this strategy did not generate agreement among Mexicans.

Interaction of Ukrainian Diaspora and the USA Government Regarding Celebration of Ukrainian Independence Day on January 22

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (47) ◽  
pp. 136-145
Author(s):  
Halyna Shchyhelska
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
The United States ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
The Public ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
The Us ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
The Usa

2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of Ukrainian independence. OnJanuary 22, 1918, the Ukrainian People’s Republic proclaimed its independence by adopting the IV Universal of the Ukrainian Central Rada, although this significant event was «wiped out» from the public consciousness on the territory of Ukraine during the years of the Soviet totalitarian regime. At the same time, January 22 was a crucial event for the Ukrainian diaspora in the USA. This article examines how American Ukrainians interacted with the USA Government institutions regarding the celebration and recognition of the Ukrainian Independence day on January 22. The attention is focused on the activities of ethnic Ukrainians in the United States, directed at the organization of the special celebration of the Ukrainian Independence anniversaries in the US Congress and cities. Drawing from the diaspora press and Congressional Records, this article argues that many members of Congress participated in the observed celebration and expressed kind feelings to the Ukrainian people, recognised their fight for freedom, during the House of Representatives and Senate sessions. Several Congressmen submitted the resolutions in the US Congress urging the President of United States to designate January 22 as «Ukrainian lndependence Day». January 22 was proclaimed Ukrainian Day by the governors of fifteen States and mayors of many cities. Keywords: January 22, Ukrainian independence day, Ukrainian diaspora, USA, interaction, Congress

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