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The White Racial Frame
Centuries of Racial Framing and Counter-Framing
In this book sociologist Joe Feagin extends the systemic racism framework in previous Routledge books by developing an innovative concept, the white racial frame.
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White folks’ work: digital allyship praxis in the #BlackLivesMatter movement
#BlackLivesMatter, a social-media-fueled social movement for racial justice in the United States, rose to international prominence between 2014 and 2016. Described by one of its co-creators as a call to collective action in the struggle against racial inequity, the movement’s hashtag (#BlackLivesMatter) was second to only #Ferguson among the most frequently used racial justice hashtags in the first 10 years of Twitter’s existence.
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We're a Winner’: Popular Music and the Black Power Movement
Ideological conviction and emotional courage are critical characteristics of successful political and social movements. The Black Power Movement (BPM), which rose out of the struggle for political and social rights associated with the Civil Rights Movement (CRM), possessed characteristics of ideological conviction and emotional courage.
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Symposium: Christopher J. Lebron's The Making of Black Lives Matter: A Brief History of an Idea
Engaging with the past: how #BlackLivesMatter points us to our predecessors and calls us to hope
This paper focuses on the contributions of Chris Lebron's book The Making of Black Lives Matter: The History of an Idea. Specifically, I examine his discussion of James Baldwin, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Audre Lorde and their opinions about love for their community, black self-actualization, and black liberation.
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology
The Ashgate Research Companion to Black Sociology provides the most up to date exploration and analysis of research focused on Blacks in America.
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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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The tie that binds: race, gender and US violence
This article uses African-American women's experiences with violence as a particular lens to explore the relationships among (1) social constructions of violence; (2) how violence operates to link power relations of race and gender; and (3) potential contributions of transversal politics in anti-violence work.
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A ‘black Parisian’ march in remembrance of slavery: challenging the French collective imagination
On the 10 May 2008, approximately 2000 people marched through the center of Paris proclaiming that, ‘Slavery has been abolished, but prejudices not!’ Based on participant observation of this march, this article explores two main issues with regard to the challenges of blackness in contemporary Paris…
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Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity
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A Nation Apart
The African-American Experience and White Nationalism
This book examines the ongoing struggle for social justice by and for African Americans. Examining the persistent rolling back of civil and voting rights for this population and other minorities since the end of Reconstruction, the author discusses the continued colonization of African Americans and the rise of white nationalism before considering what can be done to create a democratic version of Americanism.
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The color of punishment: African Americans, skin tone, and the criminal justice system
Public debate and scholarly research has largely concentrated on the vast array of disparities between blacks and whites in their treatment by and experiences with the criminal justice system.
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Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Racisms
The study of contemporary forms of racism has expanded greatly over the past four decades. Although it has been a focus for scholarship and research for the past three centuries, it is perhaps over this more recent period that we have seen important transformations in the analytical frames and methods to explore the changing patterns of contemporary racisms.
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The Bellah Question: Slave Emancipation, Race, and Social Categories in Late Twentieth-Century Northern Mali
RésuméCet article esquisse le processus d’affranchissement des Touareg, autrefois esclaves, que l’on nomme généralement bellah, dans le Mali du nord, de la fin des années 1940 à nos jours, et les relations actuelles entre les anciens maîtres et les anciens esclaves.
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‘That black boy’s different class!’: a historical sociology of the black middle-classes, boundary-work and local football in the British East-Midlands c.1970−2010
Global Studies in Culture and Power
Seldom has leisure as a cultural activity been used to examine the boundary-work and lived realities of black middle-class men in the UK. Drawing on ethnographic data taken from a three-year study of one East-Midlands based African-Caribbean founded football club c.1970-2010, the article addresses these points.
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Racism in the Neoliberal Era
A Meta History of Elite White Power
Racism in the Neoliberal Era explains how simple racial binaries like black/white are no longer sufficient to explain the persistence of racism, capitalism, and elite white power. The neoliberal era features the largest black middle class in US history and extreme racial marginalization. Hohle focuses on how the origins and expansion of neoliberalism depended on language or semiotic assemblage of white-private and black public.
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Medical Students' Implicit Bias and the Communication of Norms in Medical Education
Issue. Medical educators should consider how institutional norms influence medical students' perceptions of implicit bias. Understanding normative structures in medical education can shed light on why this influence is associated with students' resistance to implicit bias. Evidence.
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A History of the Black Women's Movement in Brazil: Mobilization, Political Trajectory and Articulations with the State
This study examines the trajectory and consolidation process of the Black Women's Movement (BWM) in the Brazilian public sphere since the 1980s. Our objective is to understand the processes that underlie the constitution of this social movement, as well as its points of convergence and divergence with the black and feminist movements.
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Black Gotham: African Americans in New York City, 1900–2000
For almost four centuries, African Americans in New York City have engaged in ethnic “dream-work,” shaping the city and being shaped by the city in return.
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Black Resistance in the Americas
All across the United States, in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of Black protest against structural racism and other forms of racial injustice.
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Race, Ethnicity and Racism in Sports Coaching
Chapter 1: The under-representation of racial minorities in coaching and leadership positions in the United States
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Black Wealth/White Wealth
A New Perspective on Racial Inequality
The award-winning Black Wealth / White Wealth offers a powerful portrait of racial inequality based on an analysis of private wealth. Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro's groundbreaking research analyzes wealth - total assets and debts rather than income alone - to uncover deep and persistent racial inequality in America, and they show how public policies have failed to redress the problem.
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Violence Against Black Bodies
An Intersectional Analysis of How Black Lives Continue to Matter
Violence Against Black Bodies argues that black deaths at the hands of police are just one form of violence that black and brown people face daily in the western world.
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Clinical Grading in Medical School
Phenomenon: Performance during the clinical phase of medical school is associated with membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, competitiveness for highly selective residency specialties, and career advancement.
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Unsettling allyship, unlearning and learning towards decolonising solidarity
Social movements are pedagogical spaces for collective learning across difference. Divergent worldviews, interest and identity, historical legacies and relations of power complicate notions of allyship and solidarity for common cause.
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Football, Culture and Power
Chapter 14: The NFL, Activism, and #BlackLivesMatter
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Black Lives Matter: Racialised Policing in the United States
In August 2014, 18 year-old Michael Brown was shot in his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri, launching a series of events that would lead to increased media scrutiny of police interactions with people of colour in the United States.
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Race and Human Diversity
A Biocultural Approach
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Symposium: Aldon Morris' The Scholar Denied: W E B Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology
Du Boisian sociology and intellectual reparations: for coloured scholars who consider suicide when our rainbows are not enuf
Drawing on Aldon Morris’ The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology (2015), this symposium essay explores the idea of intellectual reparations – the systematic corrective repair and redress of the epistemological, ontological, and pedagogical status quo through the purposeful inclusion of previously denied minorities scholars and their contributions to knowledge production.
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Youth in Superdiverse Societies
Growing up with globalization, diversity, and acculturation
Ch 11: Ethnic majority and minority youth in multicultural societies
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Sport and National Identities
Globalization and Conflict
Chapter 8: Confronting America: Black commercial aesthetics, athlete activism and the nation reconsidered
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Racist America
Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations
This fourth edition of Racist America is significantly revised and updated, with an eye toward racism issues arising regularly in our contemporary era. This edition incorporates many recent research studies and reports on U.S. racial issues that update and enhance the last edition’s chapters.
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“Nickel and Dimed” for Drug Crime: Unpacking the Process of Cumulative Racial Inequality
We apply a cumulative disadvantage framework to examine racial inequality in the criminal justice system for drug defendants.
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‘A nigger in the new England’: ‘Sus’, the Brixton riot, and citizenship
In April 1981, Black youth in the South London neighborhood of Brixton participated in a two-day riot that resulted in numerous injuries and widespread property damage in an already economically depressed area.
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Memory at Issue: On Slavery and the Slave Trade among Black French
The issue of memory has drawn a great deal of attention in the social sciences.
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Contesting ‘Race’ and Sport
Shaming the Colour Line
Chapter 7, 'Critical Race Theory Matters in Sport'.
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Towards transitional justice? Black reparations and the end of mass incarceration
There are many commonalities between the goals of transitional justice and domestic redress movements. We look at the movement for reparations for enslavement and Jim Crow in the United States as an example of a domestic reparations movement, and argue for the usefulness of the concept of transitional justice.
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Culture and Diversity in the United States
So Many Ways to Be American
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The Colour of Law, Power and Knowledge: Introducing Critical Race Theory in (Post-) Apartheid South Africa
Many legal scholars, practitioners and judges have overlooked the ways in which racial identities and hierarchies have been woven into social systems like law, labour, social power, knowledge and ideology.
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The Fiction of Transformation: An Analysis of the Relationship Between Law, Society and the Legal Profession in South Africa
Notwithstanding South Africa recently having celebrated 20 years of its democracy, it remains one of the most unequal societies in the world. The South African Constitution guarantees the right to equality, yet the country remains divided along racial lines.
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A Long Road to Freedom: The Exoneration Pipeline in the United States, 1989–2015
Research on criminal exoneration, a judicial declaration of innocence post-conviction, has emphasized the demographics of exonerees and the evidentiary bases of exoneration. Few studies have analyzed the temporal gap between conviction and exoneration.
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An Institutional Approach to Fostering Inclusion and Addressing Racial Bias: Implications for Diversity in Academic Medicine
Issue: While an increasingly diverse workforce of clinicians, researchers, and educators will be needed to address the nation’s future healthcare challenges, underrepresented in medicine (UIM) perspectives remain relatively absent from academic medicine.
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Black in the city: on the ruse of ethnicity and language in an antiblack landscape
Montreal, a city delimited by a French-speaking East and an English-speaking West, is often used as an example of how language can organize urban landscapes. That said, examining Black life in Montreal complicates that tidy narrative by illustrating how race, not language, configures the city. Broadly, this study examines the way racial and linguistic divisions play out in the geography of the city.
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The struggle for ‘our streets’: the digital and physical spatial politics of the Ferguson Movement
The Ferguson Movement of 2014 and 2015 reached national salience immediately following the murder of Michael Brown, after residents took to social media platforms to report from what many activists called ‘ground zero.’