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2003 •
Edythe Weeks
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Black Rising: An Editorial Note on the Increasing Popularity of a US American Racial Ethnonym
I. M. Nick
In historic protests sparked by the wrongful deaths of US civilians, demonstrators have taken to the streets in record numbers demanding justice and an end to institutionalized racism. US media coverage of this movement has frequently utilized the racial ethnonym Black as opposed to African(-)American. As this note discusses, this choice in nomenclature may not only be due to the increasing prominence of the Black Lives Matter Movement. It may also be indicative of earlier, large-scale shifts in autonymy. This note presents some of the demographic, linguistic, and sociopolitical factors that may well have played a role in the rising use of Black as both an ethnoracial and political identifier.
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Special Issue Introductory Essay: Black Lives Matter
2022 •
Mia Moody-Ramirez
Mass media messages create, popularize, and reinforce stereotypical narratives of Black people that fuel fear and hatred of the group (Dates & Pease, 1994). Blackface representations overemphasized and ridiculed personality traits, mannerisms, and the vernacular of Black people. Narratives of Black men included images of criminals, dupes, social deviants, and brutes. In the 21st century, U.S. media continued to frame Black men negatively—as drug dealers, pimps, and thugs—to provide a rationale for the high number of them in prison. After the 13th Amendment passed, free Black men in chain gangs provided free labor, and this legacy lives on in for-profit prisons that benefit from the income generated from the sale of everyday necessities, such as toi- letries, telephone calls, and food.
The State of Black America, 1999: The Impact of Color-Consciousness in the United States
1998 •
William Spriggs
Insulated Blackness: the cause for fracture in Black political identity
Insulated Blackness the cause for fracture in Black political identity
2021 •
Sherice J Nelson, Timothy Lewis
The Black Political Identity is often treated as a monolith in American politics, with interest groups and political parties employing blanket policy solutions to appease and engage African Americans. However, observations and scholarship show that Black Americans are not monolithic, possessing divergent views about social policies, so much so that some Black Americans can hold political positions that are oppositional to collective Black advancement. Therefore, this work theorizes the concept of insulated Blackness – the extent to which self- identified African Americans oppose pro-Black remedial policies and/or disagree with commonly held ideologies about the Black condition, as a result of an existence insulated from frequent experiences of racial discrimination. This analysis will use the 2016 American National Election Study to assess experientially constructed political Blackness in terms of policies and ideologies considered synonymous with Blackness. The analysis also presents predicted probability models that demonstrate that political Blackness is rooted in the heightened racial discrimination experiences. We conclude that self-identified Blacks may exist outside of the identity of political Blackness because they perceive they are insulated from racial discrimination.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal
Black lives matter: On the denial of systemic racism, White liberals, and polite racism
2020 •
Eddy S Ng
Institutional Racism in America
Institutional Racism in America
2020 •
Jim Meyer
People of color have never been free in AMERICA. The social construct of race has always been used to acquire and maintain power and to create artificial impediments that separate, control and silence the black and brown population. This social construction of “race” in AMERICA was constructed by elite white power to help construct artificial disparities between whites and blacks to describe black inferiority and white superiority. The fundamental suppositions of white innocence and black guilt are all part of what Charles Mills wrote, “The terms of the Racial Contract mean that nonwhite ‘sub-personhood’ is enshrined simultaneously with white personhood.” Racist ideas have long been intertwined into the social fabric of AMERICA. Ibram Kendi, the director of the Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University noted that, “There has not been a society-wide and intensive challenge to racist ideas in the US…They’ve [non-black people] been taught that we are criminals, that we are violent that we are predators and think we need to be monitored.” Americans must decide whether AMERICA will truly be an interracial, multicultural democracy or whether AMERICA once again remains distinctly racist, unequal and immersed heavily in its racist past.
A Socio-Behavioral Model of Racism Against the Black Community and Avenues for Anti-Racism Research
2022 •
Ashley Payne
Sociological researchers have made immense strides in understanding systemic racism, privilege, and bias against Black people. Relational Frame Theory provides a contemporary account of human language and cognition that intersects within complex external contingency systems that may provide a provisionally adequate model of racial bias and racism. We propose a reticulated model that includes nested relational frames and external contingency systems that operate at the level of the individual (implicit), communities (white privilege), and system policies (systemic racism). This approach is organized from within the framework of Critical Race Theory as an area of sociological scholarship that captures racial disadvantages at multiple levels of organization. We extend this model by describing avenues for future research to inform anti-racism strategies to dismantle this complex and pervasive socio-behavioral phenomenon. At all levels, police violence against the Black community is prov...
International Journal of Social Science and Economics Invention
The Shift in Perception of Blacks in America
2020 •
Erol Y Dincer
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The Duality of Blackness in America
2019 •
Jazmine Richardson
