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How race shapes expectations about whose losses matter
In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up by white supremacy, whites (as a group) are accustomed to winning; they have generally been able to exercise political rule without having to accept sharing it. Black citizens, on the other hand, are expected to be political heroes whose civic suffering enables progress toward racial justice. In this book, Juliet Hooker, a leading thinker on democracy and race, argues that the two most important forces driving racial politics in the United States today are Black grief and white grievance. Black grief is exemplified by current protests against police violence--the latest in a tradition of violent death and subsequent public mourning spurring Black political mobilization. The potent politics of white grievance, meanwhile, which is also not new, imagines the United States as a white country under siege. Drawing on African American political thought, Hooker examines key moments in US racial politics that illuminate the problem of loss in democracy. She connects today's Black Lives Matter protests to the use of lynching photographs to arouse public outrage over post-Reconstruction era racial terror, and she discusses Emmett Till's funeral as a catalyst for the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. She also traces the political weaponization of white victimhood during the Obama and Trump presidencies. Calling for an expansion of Black and white political imaginations, Hooker argues that both must learn to sit with loss, for different reasons and to different ends.
How race shapes expectations about whose losses matter
In democracies, citizens must accept loss; we can't always be on the winning side. But in the United States, the fundamental civic capacity of being able to lose is not distributed equally. Propped up by white supremacy, whites (as a group) are accustomed to winning; they have generally been able to exercise political rule without having to accept sharing it. Black citizens, on the other hand, are expected to be political heroes whose civic suffering enables progress toward racial justice. In this book, Juliet Hooker, a leading thinker on democracy and race, argues that the two most important forces driving racial politics in the United States today are Black grief and white grievance. Black grief is exemplified by current protests against police violence--the latest in a tradition of violent death and subsequent public mourning spurring Black political mobilization. The potent politics of white grievance, meanwhile, which is also not new, imagines the United States as a white country under siege. Drawing on African American political thought, Hooker examines key moments in US racial politics that illuminate the problem of loss in democracy. She connects today's Black Lives Matter protests to the use of lynching photographs to arouse public outrage over post-Reconstruction era racial terror, and she discusses Emmett Till's funeral as a catalyst for the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. She also traces the political weaponization of white victimhood during the Obama and Trump presidencies. Calling for an expansion of Black and white political imaginations, Hooker argues that both must learn to sit with loss, for different reasons and to different ends.
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I Was Wrong, But We Can Make It Right: Achieving Racial Equity presents an effective way forward to meet the following challenge: For America to survive and flourish, it is imperative that its institutions and social order be harmonious with its fundamental principles, including its overriding purpose to provide liberty and justice for all. Racism has infected American institutions and social order in direct contrast to these principles. This book responds to this contradiction. The goal of this book is to contribute directly to the transformation necessary for America to operate in a way that is consistent with its ideals.
This book contains a personal narrative of the gradual change from a white person unmindful of the scourge of racism to one committed to building a just society, a more perfect union, and, in particular, to achieving racial equality. This book also provides historical and other necessary information for understanding racism and its consequences, as well as actions each of us can take to end it.
Part One of the book recounts the author's personal journey - from being oblivious to the oppression of African Americans, to speaking out about America's failure to live up to its principles. Part Two of the book contains an analysis of racism and the means for achieving racial equality.
In sum, this book is an honest revelation of one person's path to greater understanding, and to help others along theirs, so that one day reconciliation will replace animosity, and racism will become a long-departed anomaly.
Shaped by centuries of migration, enslavement, freedom, colonization, and cultural mixture, Louisiana Creole identity is often simplified or misunderstood to fit into today's ideas about race and nationality. In Sunset Limited: An Autobiography of Creole, Wendy A. Gaudin fearlessly takes on the many meanings of Creole in a lyrical exploration of how this multilayered, transnational, bilingual, and racially expansive history of New Orleans and Louisiana has manifested itself in her own diasporic Creole family.
When Gaudin's Creole grandparents boarded the Sunset Limited train in Jim Crow-era New Orleans, they imagined new lives for themselves in the city of Los Angeles. The Sunset Limited produced a twentieth-century Creole community on the West Coast, whose members ate the traditional foods of south Louisiana, gathered in one another's homes and churches, spoke in the distinctive dialects of the Gulf Coast, and taught their children to respect their unique, blended ancestry and their centuries-long history. As an adult, yearning to know more about her Creole background, Gaudin returned to Louisiana. There, she began to trace her Creole ancestors back to the time before the Civil War, confronting hard truths about the past her grandparents left behind. Revisiting the lands of her ancestors, diving into the archival record, interviewing those who remained in New Orleans, and remembering the stories told to her by her elders, Gaudin sought answers to questions asked by many whose lives are shaped by migration: Why did her people leave their ancestral home? What did they lose in the leaving, and what did they gain? Sunset Limited explores the boundaries of what it means to be Creole, how migration shaped Gaudin's family and her community, and how this history is remembered and told. Incorporating historical narrative, oral history, biomythography, historiography, cultural geography, autoethnography, and poetry, Sunset Limited is as multidimensional and dynamic as Louisiana Creoles themselves. Weaving together the stories of her mixed-race elders, the artifacts of her ancestors, and memories of her California childhood, Gaudin argues that history is not a cold, linear record of the past. Rather, it is a deeply felt understanding of how we are shaped by the movements of our ancestors, and of our rich and ever-changing relationships with those who came before us.
Language has the unique power to shape our identities, communicate our deepest truths, and reflect the dynamics of the societies we live in. Some words, however, carry with them more than just meaning-they hold centuries of history, power, and pain. The word nigger is one such term, one that has evolved dramatically over time, and its journey is intrinsically linked to the racial history of America and beyond.
From its origins in colonial slavery to its use as a tool of oppression and dehumanization, the word has long been associated with Black suffering and subjugation. Yet, throughout history, it has also been reclaimed and repurposed, transforming into a symbol of defiance, empowerment, and, at times, solidarity. The evolution of the N-word mirrors the progress, struggles, and ongoing battles for racial justice, as it shifts from a weapon of control to a subject of cultural debate.
This book delves into the origins, uses, and transformations of the N-word, exploring how it has shaped-and been shaped by-Black identity, the fight for civil rights, and the broader landscape of racial dynamics. We will examine the ways in which this word has functioned in different historical contexts, from the antebellum South and the rise of Jim Crow, to the Civil Rights Movement and the influence of hip-hop culture. It will also address the ongoing debates surrounding its use in contemporary society, especially in the age of social media and globalized communication.
The Origin and Evolution of 'Nigger': A History of Power, Pain, and Progression is not just about a single word, but about understanding the deep and often painful connections between language, race, and power. Through this examination, we seek to challenge the reader to reflect on the power of language in shaping our perceptions, our struggles, and our collective futures.
In this head-on confrontation with the prevailing practice of designating people of African descent black and those of European white, the author, a native of Ghana, lays out in this thought-provoking book his stimulating argument to back his call for an end to the practice
Among others, he argues that referring to a section of humanity as black, a colour that is generally associated with evil, malice and all that is bad and another group as white, a colour that epitomizes good, innocence and all that is desirable, helps institutionalize racism.
To the extent that his limited financial resources have so far prevented him from seeking redress at the appropriate human rights courts for what he regards as blatant discrimination against him, the events leading to the death of George Floyd have prompted him to begin a global campaign to achieve that goal.
In a passionate statement to round up his case, the author appeals to citizens of the global village, the jury as it were, to support his cause. Will the majority indeed come along with him to reverse what he considers an out-of-date practise, an indefensible vestige from yesteryear?
I Was Wrong, But We Can Make It Right: Achieving Racial Equity presents an effective way forward to meet the following challenge: For America to survive and flourish, it is imperative that its institutions and social order be harmonious with its fundamental principles, including its overriding purpose to provide liberty and justice for all. Racism has infected American institutions and social order in direct contrast to these principles. This book responds to this contradiction. The goal of this book is to contribute directly to the transformation necessary for America to operate in a way that is consistent with its ideals.
This book contains a personal narrative of the gradual change from a white person unmindful of the scourge of racism to one committed to building a just society, a more perfect union, and, in particular, to achieving racial equality. This book also provides historical and other necessary information for understanding racism and its consequences, as well as actions each of us can take to end it.
Part One of the book recounts the author's personal journey - from being oblivious to the oppression of African Americans, to speaking out about America's failure to live up to its principles. Part Two of the book contains an analysis of racism and the means for achieving racial equality.
In sum, this book is an honest revelation of one person's path to greater understanding, and to help others along theirs, so that one day reconciliation will replace animosity, and racism will become a long-departed anomaly.
Drawing from empirically grounded studies, the volume Situated Mixedness sheds light on the state of migration-related intimate diversity, that is, the simultaneous formation and existence of various configurations of conjugal mixedness. It examines this phenomenon in Belgium, a country in the European Union with a long history of immigration and where an important percentage of registered marriages are international.
Through the optic of situated mixedness, the volume pays attention to the (dis-)connections between intimate diversity and its surrounding environment. Bringing together mutually reinforcing or often contradicting emic and etic perspectives, it illuminates how specific context/s (socio-legal, cultural, temporal, etc.) not only can influence, stem from, or trigger a social phenomenon but also remain standstill without a particular impact on individual's lived experiences. It brings out in subtle ways the agency and subjectivities of individuals, nuancing thereby common-held views on socially Othered couples.
Focusing on the intimate sphere of individuals' life at the crossroads of anthropology and sociology, the volume contributes fresh insights not only to the study of migration and intermarriage but also to the literature on super- and hyper-diversity. It will be of interest to scholars, students, and social actors working on family-related migration, state policies, and social cohesion.
The Introduction and Chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.
First published in 1981, Ethnic Segregation in Cities argues that race and ethnicity are fundamental to writing about the city, and that economic patterns adapt themselves to race and ethnicity rather than vice versa. The problem of ethnic segregation is a burning one for both geographers and sociologists - geographers because of the concern for all aspects of urban deprivation, and sociologists because they are discovering that space and spatial processes are important factors in influencing social segregation or assimilation. The book brings together some of the main contributors to the literature on spatial aspects of ethnicity from both sides of the Atlantic. A variety of evidence from New York, Detroit, Bradford and Blackburn address the question of whether choice on the path of ethnic members, or constraints imposed by the host society are determinant factors influencing residential segregation. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, human geography and urban studies.
