scholarly journals CULTURAL POLITICAL ORGANIZING: Rewriting the Latinx “Criminal/Immigrant” Narrative of Surveillance

2021 ◽  
pp. 150-166
Author(s):  
Santos F. Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Political Organizing ◽  
Immigrant Narrative

Black “Crime,” Public Hysteria, and the Cinema of Containment: Black Cinema Aesthetics from Willie Dynamite to The Interrupters and a/k/a Mrs. George Gilbert

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Abugo Ongiri
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Mass Incarceration ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Black Cinema ◽  
Black Subjectivity ◽  
Political Organizing

This essay will explore the ways in which African American visual culture has attempted to negotiate criminalization and the current situation of what Richard Iton rightfully characterizes as “hyperincarceration.” It will explore the ways in which contemporary African American visual culture is engaged in negotiating between the literal material realities and consequences of mass incarceration and aesthetic constructions of violence. While mass incarceration is increasingly becoming understood as “the New Jim Crow” for African American political organizing, Black criminality has become the key lens through which questions of masculinity, class exclusion, gender, and selfhood get negotiated in African American visual culture. This essay will argue that the “subtext of ongoing Black captivity” is the pretext for much of what drives Black action genres and African American representation in general as a key signifier of a racialized identity and as an indicator of a Black subjectivity fraught with complexities of non-belonging.

Indigenous Politics and Education in Early to Mid-20th Century Chile: Foregrounding Mapuche Women and Transnational Conversations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Crow ◽  
Allison Ramay
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Indigenous Politics ◽  
Indigenous Activism ◽  
Political Organizing ◽  
Politics And Education ◽  
Gender And Nation

Mapuche intellectuals and political activists in early- to mid-20th-century Chile both worked within and subverted dominant modernizing and “civilizing” educational discourses. Mapuche women played an important role in the movement to democratize schooling in early-20th-century Chile by publishing articles in little-known Mapuche-run newspapers and advocating for Mapuche education broadly as well as specifically for women. There was also an important transnational dimension of Mapuche political organizing around education rights during this period. These two underexplored but important aspects of indigenous activism in Chile open interesting questions about the intersections between race, gender, and nation in the sphere of education.

scholarly journals Mierle Laderman Ukeles’ Maintenance and/as (Art) Work

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Petrossiants
Keyword(s):  
Visual Culture ◽  
Domestic Labor ◽  
Cultural Activism ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Political Organizing ◽  
Political Project

Considering the literature on feminist militancy and “domestic labor” of the late 1960s and early 70s from the perspective of Western visual culture, the artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles is undoubtedly a central figure. Surprisingly, however, her works have rarely been read through the lens of the international Wages for Housework movement. This essay proposes to read Ukeles’ cultural activism and work through the writing and political organizing of Silvia Federici, who also distanced herself from previously dominant and at times sectarian feminisms to articulate a pointedly (post-)autonomist feminism as a political project. The author is trying to grasp and describe the truly radical and imperative position that Ukeles activated, and continues to “maintain.”

“Thank You, Black Twitter”: State Violence, Digital Counterpublics, and Pedagogies of Resistance

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Lamont Hill
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Black Community ◽  
Black People ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Political Organizing

In this article, I examine the role of Black Twitter as a “digital counterpublic” that enables critical pedagogy, political organizing, and both symbolic and material forms of resistance to anti-Black state violence within the United States. Focusing primarily on post-Ferguson events, I spotlight the ways that Black people have used Black Twitter and other digital counterpublics to engage in forms of pedagogy that reorganize relations of surveillance, reject rigid respectability politics, and contest the erasure of marginalized groups within the Black community.

The Immigrant Narrative

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-196
Author(s):  
Eugenio M. Rothe ◽  
Andres J. Pumariega
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Psychological Trauma ◽  
Therapeutic Tool ◽  
Immigrant Experience ◽  
Immigrant Narrative ◽  
Historical Truth ◽  
Immigrant Narratives

The chapter on the immigrant narrative explains the role of human narratives in identity development and explains the origins, meanings, and importance of the quintessential American narrative, which is known as the narrative of the redemptive self. It explains how understanding the dynamics of this particular narrative facilitates the understanding of the American cultural experience and how many aspects of this narrative parallel the immigrant experience. It discusses the concepts of historical truth and narrative truth. It explains how the use of narratives can serve as a useful therapeutic tool to help the immigrant work through the traumas and losses associated with migration and to negotiate the different stages of transformation of the immigrant’s identity. This chapter also explains the neurobiology of memory formation and the distortions of memory and narrative that may result from psychological trauma. It discusses how psychotherapy involves the creation of new, more adaptive narratives that can provide healing and personal growth and its relevance in the immigrant experience. It also discusses immigrant narratives in contemporary literature and how these can be used as a therapeutic tool with the younger generations of immigrants. The chapter is illustrated with various clinical cases.

Rights, Democracy, and Islamist Women's Activism in Tunisia and Egypt

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Anwar Mhajne ◽  
Rasmus Brandt
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
Shared Experience ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Political Organizing ◽  
Significant Case ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Islamist Movements

Abstract In the early days after the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, Islamist movements and parties appeared to be the winners of the political transformation. This opened new opportunities for activism and political participation for Islamist men and women. The political organizing of the Egyptian Muslim Sisterhood and Ennahda women in Tunisia before, during, and after the Arab Spring provides a significant case for addressing the gap in the literature on Islamist women's political organizing and agency. Moreover, it addresses the lack of scholarly attention to the Muslim Sisterhood and Ennahda women and the agency they manifest in their sociopolitical activism. Relying on primary and secondary interviews with these activists, this article traces the framing strategies, activism, and roles of Islamist women in Egypt and Tunisia. In both cases, we argue that government repression and backlash against Islamist movements is a shared experience and a central topic of identification for Islamist women. Islamist women in Tunisia and Egypt became more visible in the aftermath of the uprisings and reached into decision-making bodies such as a parliament when their countries were on the path toward democracy. Women from the two groups highlight democracy, freedom, human rights, and women's rights to frame their activism.

Online political organizing

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keri Carpenter ◽  
Bonnie Nardi ◽  
James Moore ◽  
Scott Robertson ◽  
Daniel Drezner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Political Organizing

Catholicism and Working-Class Activism in Providence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Sterne
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Catholic Women ◽  
Political Organizing ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
New Americans ◽  
Lay Societies ◽  
The Church ◽  
Over Time

This chapter maintains that Catholic parishes were the most accessible and important institutions in Providence's ethnic, working-class neighborhoods in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and that as such, they played critical roles in politicizing new Americans. It was at church that the largest proportion of immigrants congregated on a regular basis. Parishes functioned not only as sources of spiritual solace but also as dispensers of charity, promoters of upward mobility, and centers of neighborhood life. Priests initially promoted lay societies to foster congregational loyalties, but over time the groups also served as political organizing spaces for Catholic women and men. For many, the Church served as a place where new Americans organized for change.

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