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ACRAWSA: Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Journal (Online)
"The Myth of Post-Racialism: Hegemonic and Counterhegemonic Stories About Race and Racism in the United States."
2011 •
Babacar M'Baye
J. App. Prac. & Process
Back to Basics: Returning to the Matter of Black Inferiority and White Supremacy in the Post-Brown Era
2004 •
Regina Austin
'I am Blacker Than You': Theorizing Conflict between African Immigrants and African Americans in the United States
Benjamin Okonofua
Racism: African Americans’ Experiences as Victims of Slavery and Segregation as Implemented by the Policies of White Supremacy
2021 •
Fred Bedell
This essay will be divided into three parts – Slavery, Segregation, and Past and Recent Events that will document the impact on the social, political, and economic fabric of marginalized communities. It will focus on the social construct theory of domination and subordination and the caste system that subjugated African Americans under the guise of white supremacy
Exploring the Social and Academic Experiences of International Students in Higher Education Institutions
Negotiating the Boundaries of American Blackness
Angellar Manguvo
African students in the United States are assigned a racial identity ‘Black' in accordance with racial stratifications of the U.S. society. This designation makes it necessary for them to negotiate the structural constructions of American Blackness. Guided by social constructivism, the author explored African students' negotiation of Black racial solidarity. African students' racial solidarity was embedded within shared perspectives of common fate, which provided a reference for collective Black identity but; however, did not culminate into strong racial in-group loyalty. African students' racial solidarity was mitigated by the desire to exonerate themselves from inherent Black stereotypes. This was exacerbated by their non-prototypic cultural characteristics, which, according to native-born counterparts, rendered them ‘illegitimate' in-group members. The increasing presence of foreign-born Black students unveils both commonalities and heterogeneity among Black s...
To Be American Is To Be Indebted To Blackness: Understanding Blackness as Constitutive of an
2023 •
Jordon Crawford
In this paper, I argue that African-American’s fight for national inclusion and belonging, from the American Revolution to the late twentieth century, centres some of the founding contradictions and tensions of America’s democratic project even as it implores Americans to embark on a process of national healing and reconciliation. Starting with a discussion on the founding contradiction of the United States, embodied through the juxtaposition of its declaration of human equality while retaining the practice and institution of chattel slavery, I will show some of the earliest struggles and constraints placed on Black life in America and our ability to access meaningful and gratuitous entry into society. Following the North’s victory of the Civil War, American life saw an opportunity to effectively include now-freed Black Americans into its fold. Despite some of the achievements that highlighted Black American life during the Reconstruction Era, that, too, was mediated by forms of legalised discrimination such as segregated Jim Crow, particularly in the South. Eventually, the dehumanising trauma of slavery mixed with the experiences of Southern Jim Crow, as well as better job opportunities in the North, saw an influx of Black migrants to Northern States in what came to be dubbed the Great Migration. However, it would take over another half century, manifested in the Civil Rights Movement, for widespread, national organising, advocating for the acknowledgement and enforcement of Black folks' citizenship and the rights. This paper takes up these historical moments in African-American life, in an attempt to shed light not only on the obstacles, but also on the nuanced forms of physical and political resistance and ideological advancements that came to define these socio-political moments.
Fearing the loss of one’s black identity: Implications for self-determination and transition
2007 •
Michael K. Thomas
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
One Year Later and the Myth of a Post-Racial Society
2009 •
Lawrence Bobo, Michael Dawson
Many commentators, both conservative and liberal, have celebrated the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, claiming the election signified America has truly become a “post-racial” society. It is not just Lou Dobbs who argues the United States in the “21st century [is a] post-partisan, post-racial society.” This view is consistent with beliefs the majority of White Americans have held for well over a decade: that African Americans have achieved, or will soon achieve, racial equality in the United States despite substantial evidence to the contrary. Indeed, this view is consistent with opinions found in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and elsewhere—attitudes that even the tragic events following the Katrina disaster had nothing to do with race.
American Journal of Sociology
Through Different Eyes: Black and White Perspectives on American Race Relations.Peter I. Rose , Stanley Rothman , William J. Wilson
1975 •
Anthony Orum
Du Bois Review
What We Face: Framing Problems in the Black Community
Nicole Arlette Hirsch
While 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.
