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White tears: emotion regulation and white fragility
We contribute to the growing literature on white fragility by examining how the distinctively emotional manifestations of white fragility (which we dub ‘emotional white fragility’) make it more difficult for white people to have constructive, meaningful thoughts and conversations about race.
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The cognitive empire, politics of knowledge and African intellectual productions: reflections on struggles for epistemic freedom and resurgence of decolonisation in the twenty-first century
What has been the contribution of African intellectuals to postcolonial and decolonial scholarship?
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Can We All Get Along?
Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics
In a nation built by immigrants and bedeviled by the history and legacy of slavery and discrimination, how do we, as Americans, reconcile a commitment to equality and freedom with persistent inequality and discrimination? And what can we do about it? This widely acclaimed text by Paula D. McClain, with new coauthor Jessica D.
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Race and the Politics of the Exception
Equality, Sovereignty, and American Democracy
The traditional assumption today about race is that it is not political; that it has no political content and is a matter of individual beliefs and attitudes. In Race and the Politics of the Exception, Utz McKnight argues that race is in fact political and defines how it functions as a politics in the United States. McKnight organizes his book into three sections, beginning with a theoretical section about racial politics in the United States.
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American Politics and the African American Quest for Universal Freedom
This dynamic and comprehensive text from nationally renowned scholars continues to demonstrate the profound influence African Americans have had -- and continue to have -- on American politics.
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The Post-Racial Society is Here
Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State
In a provocative and controversial analysis, Wilbur C. Rich’s The Post-Racial Society is Here conclusively demonstrates that nation is in midst of a post-racial society. Yet many Americans are skeptical of this fundamental social transformation. The failure of recognition is related to the remnants of the previous race-based society.
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Race and Social Equity
A Nervous Area of Government
Ch. 2 The Saturation of Racial Inequities in the United States
Ch. 8 Assessing Racial Equity in Government
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American Exceptionalism and the Remains of Race
Multicultural Exorcisms
In contemporary American political culture, claims of American exceptionalism and anxieties over its prospects have resurged as an overarching theme in national political discourse. Yet never very far from such debates lie animating fears associated with race. Fears about the loss of national unity and trust often draw attention to looming changes in the racial demographics of the body politic.
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Contextual Predictors of Protest Behavior on Social Media: A #Ferguson Case Study
Using an original Python program, we extracted data from the 2014 #Ferguson Twitterstorm to explore contextual predictors of digital activism. Through content analysis we identify whether tweets related to police conduct, race relations, and perceptions of justice were influenced by local arrest rates and economic inequality.
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Epistemic Freedom in Africa
Deprovincialization and Decolonization
Chapter 1. Introduction: Seek Ye Epistemic Freedom First
Chapter 9. Rhodes Must Fall
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The Black Arts Movement, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and Cultural Discourse
During the postwar era following WWII, global powers, like the United States, offered support to war-torn European nations largely to safeguard their own interests and values.
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The wages of whiteness in the absence of wages: racial capitalism, reactionary intercommunalism and the rise of Trumpism
In November 1970, Black Panther Party leader Huey P. Newton gave a lecture at Boston College where he introduced his theory of intercommunalism.
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The “Crowd-factor” in connective action: comparing protest communication styles of Thai Facebook pages
This study draws on theories of connective action and actualizing citizenship norms to explore online protest communication styles in hybrid social movements.
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Rebellion in America
Citizen Uprisings, the News Media, and the Politics of Plutocracy
In a time of rising inequality and plutocratic government, citizens’ movements are emerging with growing frequency to offer populist challenges to the declining living standards of masses of Americans, and to protest the conditions through which individuals suffer in poor communities across the country. This book looks at the progression of modern social uprisings in the post-2008 period, including the Tea Party, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, the Bernie Sanders “Revolution,” Trump’s populism, the anti-Trump revolt, and #MeToo.
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Creating Student-Scholar-Activists: Discourse Instruction and Social Justice in Political Science Classrooms
This article advocates the use of discourse instruction as a means of integrating issues of social justice into the classroom and transcending the debate over politicization in academia.
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The excessive use of force against blacks in the United States of America
This paper examines the disproportionate killings of Blacks in the United States of America by the police. I argue that the legal standards in the United States regulate the use of force by police officers, are tainted with bias and do not comply with international law.
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Probing the Epidemic of Police Murders
For months, the Blueford family begged the Oakland City Council for answers to why and how their son Alan had been murdered by an Oakland police officer in May, 2012. They got a series of conflicting stories, none of which coincided with what people on the scene told them.
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Youth Civic and Political Engagement
Chapter 1 Civic and political engagement among youth: Concepts, forms and factors
Chapter 2 Psychological factors linked to youth civic and political engagement
Chapter 3 Social and demographic factors linked to youth civic and political engagement
Chapter 4 Macro contextual factors linked to youth civic and political engagement
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Everyday Practice of Race in America
Ambiguous Privilege
An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society. McKnight develops a line of reasoning to explain how we accommodate racial categories in a period when it has become important to adopt anti-racist formal instruments in much of our daily lives.
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Race and Public Administration
Ch. 1 The Common Denominator: Persistent Racial Gaps in the Administration of Policy
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Urban Politics
Cities and Suburbs in a Global Age
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Strengthening legal protection against discrimination by algorithms and artificial intelligence
Algorithmic decision-making and other types of artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to predict who will commit crime, who will be a good employee, who will default on a loan, etc.
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Good black soldiers: race, masculinity, and US military recruiting in the 1970s
Following the implementation of the all-volunteer force (AVF) in 1973, the US military was forced to reach beyond the ideal figure of the white male soldier in order to meet personnel needs.
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The spectre of Haiti: structural antiblackness, the far-right backlash and the fear of a black majority in Brazil
This article situates the far-right backlash in Brazil within the larger Latin American context, including its colonial legacy, leftist governments’ failure to deliver promises of inclusion, and the US–China geopolitical dispute over the region’s strategic natural resources.
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Civil Rights in Public Service
Ch. 2 From the Heritage of African American Slavery to Modern Civil Rights Protection
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Thinking through race: white racial identity, motivated cognition and the unconscious maintenance of white supremacy
Recent research in political science has demonstrated the effects of implicit racism on whites’ political preferences and judgments.
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The White Power Presidency: Race and Class in the Trump Era
Recent research in political science has demonstrated the effects of implicit racism on whites’ political preferences and judgments.
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Scientific racism, race war and the global racial imaginary
The premise of this paper is the elucidation of a different ontology of global politics and order of the nineteenth century.
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Teaching Introduction to American Government/Politics: What We Learn from the Visual Images in Textbooks
Political science students learn the fundamental principles and values about the American political system from American government/politics textbooks.
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Ubuntu currere in the academy: a case study from the South African experience
Universities in the Global South continue to be confronted with the ethical demands for transformation and decolonsiation. In this paper, we discuss the epistemic possibilities for transforming and decolonising curricula.
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The Wealth of (Occupation) Networks? Communication Patterns and Information Distribution in a Twitter Protest Network
Can social media facilitate better protest action organization and coordination? This question has been at the forefront of discussion between media pundits and academic scholars. But what networking mechanisms and communication patterns help activists achieve better organization and coordination?
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Race, power, and knowledge: tracing the roots of exclusion in the development of political science in the United States
Scholars of race, ethnicity, and politics have long questioned why the discipline of political science has taken so long to recognize the legitimacy of the study of the politics of America’s racial minority groups.
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Singabantu bendawo: understanding the concept of land from the perspective of ubuntu
The 54th national conference of the African National Congress, the ruling party in South Africa, resolved amongst other things to review the country’s constitution such that it enables the government to implement land expropriation without compensation.
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Policing inequality and the inequality of policing: A look at the militarisation of policing around the world, focusing on Brazil and South Africa
The purpose of this article is to unpack the racialised, gendered and classed policing of communities in Brazil and South Africa, two useful analytical cases for the study of the militarisation of policing in post-colonial states.
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The Africana paradigm in Capital: the debts of Karl Marx to people of African descent
This article will attempt an original interpretation of Capital (Marx, K. 1867. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1. Marx/Engels Internet Archive, 1995, 1999.
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Taking a Knee: Neoliberalism, Radical Imaginaries, and the NFL Player Protest
This article analyzes the National Football League (NFL) player protests against institutionalized racism as a means of radical democratic discourse.
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Black lives and climate justice: courage and power in defending communities and Mother Earth
This article shares examples of the leadership of Black communities and social movements in the struggle for climate justice, in four different parts of the world: resisting extraction and promoting community health in Nigeria; addressing extreme climate impacts and building people’s sovereignty in…
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Wireless Protesters Move Around: Informational and Coordinative Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Protest Politics
This study explored information and communication technology (ICT) uses for protest politics, focusing on the case of a 2008 protest in Korea. Based on a survey of citizen activists (N = 322), it examined informational and coordinative uses of eight different ICTs for protest participation.
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The Trump majority: white womanhood and the making of female voters in the U.S.
The estimated 52% of white female voters who supported Donald Trump for President of the United States in 2016 animates this dialogue on the politics of groups and identities.