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The article discusses the book "The Privateers" by Josh Cowen, which claims there is a vast right-wing conspiracy behind the success of school choice policies. The book alleges that organizations like the Council for National Policy are orchestrating this conspiracy, involving figures like the DeVos family and the Koch brothers. However, the article criticizes Cowen's lack of evidence and suggests that policymakers may have legitimate reasons for supporting school choice policies beyond a conspiracy. The author also questions Cowen's motives, suggesting he may be part of the conspiracy himself. [Extracted from the article]

The field of sociology has largely ignored critical race theory (CRT) as a relevant theoretical and pedagogical framework for the study of white supremacy and Indigenous and Black race relations in Canada. In the United States, CRT has long been a theoretical framework tethered to and contextualizing the underpinnings of systemic racism and white supremacy as the cornerstone of structural oppression in American legal society. The initial focus of this work was to study the operationalization of the myriad ways in which race and racial power were constructed and represented in American law and society and the attendant ways in which Black civil rights under American law could never be achieved through the application of legal jurisprudence. CRT's theoretical milieu has expanded beyond legal research to examine the sphere of racist structural oppression as systemically embedded in immigration, housing, education, employment, healthcare, and child welfare systems. The writing of this article has been an intentional active disruption to the claims that multiculturalism has the answers to race relations in an ever-changing Canadian society. While there are six main tenets of CRT, this article specifically focuses on three core tenets of CRT which argue that (1) racism is an ever-present dynamic of life in Canada; (2) racial subordination remains endemically tied to the political, cultural, and social milieu of white supremacy impacting the lives of Indigenous and Black peoples in Canada; and (3) racism has contributed to all historical and contemporary manifestations of structural oppression related to land theft and anti-Black racism. As such, CRT has much to contribute to race-radical research, pedagogy, and praxis when it comes to understanding race relations in a Canadian society grappling with an ever-changing multicultural narrative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The paper aims to explore the relationship between accounting and racial violence through an investigation of sharecropping in the postbellum American South. Design/methodology/approach: A range of primary sources including peonage case files of the US Department of Justice and the archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) are utilised. Data are analysed by reference to Randall Collins' theory of violence. Consistent with this theory, a micro-sociological approach to examining violent encounters is employed. Findings: It is demonstrated that the production of alternative or competing accounts, accounting manipulation and failure to account generated interactions where confrontational tension culminated in bluster, physical attacks and lynching. Such violence took place in the context of potent racial ideologies and institutions. Originality/value: The paper is distinctive in its focus on the interface between accounting and "actual" (as opposed to symbolic) violence. It reveals how accounting processes and traces featured in the highly charged emotional fields from which physical violence could erupt. The study advances knowledge of the role of accounting in race relations from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, a largely unexplored period in the accounting history literature. It also seeks to extend the research agenda on accounting and slavery (which has hitherto emphasised chattel slavery) to encompass the practice of debt peonage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Julia Prest's book, "Public Theatre and the Enslaved People of Colonial Saint-Domingue," provides a comprehensive examination of the history of theater in eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue. By analyzing local newspaper theater announcements, Prest uncovers the involvement of enslaved people, particularly urban domestics, in theater production. The book delves into the complexities of race and power dynamics within performances, highlighting the limits of speculation and the ethical responsibilities of historians. Additionally, the text explores the concept of mitigation and challenges assumptions about the homogeneity of the theater audience, while also examining the role of disability in the archives and its connection to violence and oppression. The author suggests that the public theater may have served as a means to alleviate societal tensions and reinforce hierarchies of ability. [Extracted from the article]

The article explores the emerging field of Pacific criminology through the personal reflections of its contributors, highlighting their experiences with racial injustices and the impact of historical events like the Dawn Raids, and advocating for a criminological approach.

There is an urgent and compelling need for systemic change to achieve diversity and inclusion goals in the biomedical sciences. Because faculty hold great influence in shaping research training environments, faculty development is a key aspect in building institutional capacity to create climates in which persons excluded because of their ethnicity or race (PEERs) can succeed. We present a mixed methods case study of one institution's efforts to improve mentorship of PEER doctoral students through mentorship education workshops for faculty. These workshops were one strategy among others intended to improve graduate trainees' experiences, and positively affect institutional climate with respect to racial and ethnic diversity. Surveys of 108 faculty mentors revealed that about 80% overall agreed or strongly agreed with the value of culturally responsive mentoring behaviors but about 63% overall agreed or strongly agreed that they were confident in their ability to enact those behaviors. Through a series of three focus groups, PEER doctoral students reported that they noticed mentors' efforts to address cultural diversity matters and identified some guidance for how to approach such topics. We discuss future directions and implications for using mentorship education to activate systemic change toward inclusive research training environments and promoting the value of mentorship within institutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is common scholarly and popular wisdom that racial quotas are illegal. However, the reality is that since 2020's racial reckoning, many of the largest companies have been touting specific, albeit voluntary, goals to hire or promote people of color, which this Article refers to as "racial targets." The Article addresses this phenomenon and shows that companies can defend racial targets as distinct from racial quotas, which involve a rigid number or proportion of opportunities reserved exclusively for minority groups. The political implications of the legal defensibility of racial targets are significant in this moment in American history, where race relations have become polarized and the conservative, pro-business U.S. Supreme Court may weigh in on the legality of voluntary goals set by some of the largest companies in the country. Large companies have historically been granted discretion to choose their strategies for paving the way toward equal employment opportunity for people of color. The Article grapples with whether this corporate-discretion ideal would inform the legal posture of racial targets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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During a period of rising partisan and racial polarization, how do partisanship, ideology, and racial antagonism influence attitudes toward reparations policies directed at the descendants of slaves? In this article, we use a wealth of public opinion data to examine trends in attitudes toward reparations and analyze the correlates of opposition to reparations proposals. We hypothesize that, given the ascendance over the past decade of a powerful racial justice movement and ensuing conservative backlash, racial attitudes should be particularly powerful in determining attitudes toward reparations. Using four original, nationally representative surveys, we show that negative racial attitudes play a central role in determining opposition to reparations, with effects that typically rival or exceed those of Republican partisanship or conservative ideology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Dangerous Intercourse" by Tessa Winkelmann is a pioneering work that examines the role of interracial sexual relationships between U.S. colonizers and Filipino subjects in the context of empire. The book argues that these encounters were not peripheral to the occupation of the Philippines, but rather a cornerstone of imperial rule and legitimacy. Winkelmann uses a range of primary sources, including court cases, memoirs, newspapers, and archives, to shed light on the history of gender and sexuality in the U.S. colonial period in the Philippines. The book explores themes such as the treatment of interracial relationships in colonial society, crimes of passion, the use of sexual relations to legitimize colonial and nationalist agendas, and the issue of Amerasian children. It also highlights the agency of Filipino women in these relationships, as well as the vulnerability they faced. The book provides valuable insights into the connection between sexual relations, power dynamics, and the production of knowledge in the colonial context. [Extracted from the article]

This article discusses the Marxist-Feminist Theses III and VIII. It is based on the 'French-speaking materialist feminist' theoretical perspective that has been developed at the end of the 1970s by Colette Guillaumin (with the concept of 'sexage'), Monique Wittig (with the concept of 'straight mind'), Nicole-Claude Mathieu, Christine Delphy and other members of the Nouvelles Questions Féministes journal's board. The article first presents this theorization, which is too unknown to many English-speaking theorists. It then shows how 'French-speaking materialist feminist' theoretical perspective fully demonstrated that 'sex' was a structural social relation as much as class is (Gender relations are relations of production). The article also analyses how this theoretical perspective enables us to pay a deep attention to the 'race question'. Therefore, it appears as the missing link that can help bridging at least two important theoretical and political gaps: first, between Marxist feminism and lesbian theory, and, second, between Black feminism and Marxist feminism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract This article presents the lived and reflected experience of an Afro-centered psychology pilot study group. In addition to promoting collective studies, the group also aimed to experiment with an anti-racist inspired pedagogical-therapeutic methodological approach, aiming to promote processes of personal and professional Afrocentration. The group consisted of five psychologists from Brazil and Angola who shared a prior interest in the study. They met online monthly between July 2020 and August 2021. The reflections produced at each meeting were recorded in minutes. These records were collectively organized and analyzed to identify units of meaning. The reflections point to challenges in Psychology: 1) the need for Brazilian and Angolan psychology to open to authors who produce from Africa and the diaspora; and 2) the need for reflection and knowledge production based on the potential of traditional African and Afro-Brazilian practices as therapeutic tools.

Objectives: Recently, research has focused both on the influence of institutional racism and how the Global Majority, which includes Black, Indigenous and People of Color, heal from processes related to racial and other forms of oppression. We propose a framework of healing research methodologies that is situated within emerging diversity science trends. This framework specifically is designed to apply diversity science principles to develop research that is culturally relevant and can help explain intragroup processes related to healing from institutional racism. Methods: Drawing from the diversity science, liberation and critical research methodologies, and psychological healing practices literature, we propose a healing research methodologies framework. Results: The healing research methodologies framework consists of six critical components: maintains social justice ethics, adopts liberation methodologies, implements healing methods, embraces interdisciplinary approaches, catalyzes action, and promotes community accessibility. Conclusions: We offer recommendations to guide future diversity science healing research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

This article presents the results of a research that sought to investigate how the sociopolitical contexts related to race relations that framed the career paths of representatives of two generations of Black executives favored or inhibited the processes through which they carried out the work of self- -production as subjects, building or not positively affirmed Black identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "The Afterbirth of Empire" by Christine Taitano DeLisle explores the experiences of women in Guam under U.S. colonialism. DeLisle argues that Guamanian women, particularly CHamoru women in roles such as midwives, nurses, and educators, created a new version of CHamoru womanhood that adapted to colonization while resisting oppressive systems. The author emphasizes the importance of studying women within the context of empire, postcolonialism, and indigeneity, and highlights the significance of Indigenous actors and knowledge in women's history. The article also examines the complexities of colonial rule in Guam and the ways in which women navigated and challenged these systems. [Extracted from the article]

This paper examines school leaders' evasive attitudes towards race in Salt Lake City (SLC), Utah, between 1969 and 1975. Salt Lake's unique demographic status as predominantly white and Mormon underscored elements of white anti-Black racism under the guise of innocence. Utilizing critical whiteness theory and historical inquiry to analyze archival documents and interviews, I highlight one white superintendent, Arthur Wiscombe, and his failed attempts to confront anti-Blackness in schools as he navigated his conflicting values of racial justice, good intentions, and white Niceness. Framing the past as prologue, I uncover the historical legacy of white supremacy's influence on local school policies and leaders' actions, and make explicit connections to the repetition of these patterns today. Contemporary iterations of white supremacy rely on the same tools of whiteness used during intense periods of integration and racial awareness in Salt Lake City in the 1960s and 1970s. I conclude that white educational leaders must look more closely at the 'nice', color-evasive discourse that enables them to maintain power and privilege in their communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents the results of broad research developed by a group of Brazilian scholars to make an assessment of affirmative action policies in admissions to higher education in Brazil, namely the quota legislation in place since 2012, which reserves places for lower-income, Afro-Brazilians and indigenous students in federal universities. The research has been developed through a combination of methods including analysis of secondary data, case studies in six federal universities, and interviews with university leadership and faculty members. The article presents the main results of the study, including the effect of quota legislation in diversifying the profile of higher education students in the last decade. It shows that a significant proportion of Afro-Brazilian students have been able to access good-quality higher education because of this legislation. The article concludes by presenting some challenges faced by quota students in federal universities, especially related to student support policies and a sense of belonging. It also presents recommendations to improve these policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the importance of intersectionality in research on anti-Black racism and healthcare equity in Canada. It highlights that the experiences of anti-Black racism in healthcare are diverse and often overlooked. The article emphasizes the heterogeneity within Canada's Black communities, including differences in ethnicity, language, religion, and immigration experiences. It also explores how intersecting factors such as gender, sexuality, class, and skin tone shape experiences of racism. The article argues that acknowledging this heterogeneity is crucial for developing more equitable healthcare systems and improving health outcomes for Black patients. [Extracted from the article]

In December 2022, the death of Christopher Clunis was made public. He had actually died in February 2021. Christopher Clunis was convicted of the manslaughter of a stranger, Jonathan Zito. He attacked Mr Zito at a train station. This paper will argue that this terrible event became a totemic symbol of the wider failings of the policy of community care. The image of Clunis being driven away from Court was repeatedly used in newspaper and other media reports as a reference point. The image reflects a number of long-standing traits in the representation of the "mentally ill." These are combined with a racial stereotype of Black men. The paper examines historical representations of the mentally ill as a context for a discussion of the Clunis case. The paper uses the work of Stuart Hall as an analytical tool to examine the questions of race and representation, and the moral panic following failings of community care. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the lack of full compliance with teaching ethno–racial relations education in Brazilian university undergraduate programs, particularly law programs. Teaching this topic was specified by the Conselho Nacional de Educação (CNE, National Education Council) in Resolution CNE/CP no. 01/2004. Although teaching ethno–racial relations education has not been a panacea for judicial sentencing based on racial criteria, we propose the working hypothesis that teaching it is a tool that can help catalyze a reduction in racist sentences by courts, for example, a defendant not fitting the stereotypical criminal pattern by being white or being assumed to belong to some criminal group for being black (preto) or brown (pardo). Through surveys at sixty-nine federal universities and documentary research into law program curricula, it was discovered that Resolution CNE/CP no. 01/2004 is not being fully or appropriately implemented at these institutions, a fact that may be enabling the continuance of race-based penal sentencing, which is illegal and extremely harmful to the black/brown Brazilian population. To prevent or minimize this problem, full compliance with Resolution CNE/CP no. 01/2004 is suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Litigants increasingly use algorithmic evidence in redistricting cases, employing a collection of algorithmically generated plans to point out the outlier status of the state's current plan. But with the Supreme Court's declaration of a race-blind Equal Protection Clause in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, the constitutionality of these methods as used in racial gerrymandering cases remains uncertain. Other scholars have examined the potential impacts of race blindness as an algorithmic constraint. This Note instead interrogates the practical possibility of race-blind redistricting algorithms and finds the promise of blindness illusory. Rather, requirements to limit racial inputs in redistricting algorithms fail to create race-neutral outcomes under any of the exclusionary methods examined within. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document provides an introduction to culturally responsive pedagogy (CRP) and critical race theory (CRT) in education research. CRP focuses on challenging institutional structures and cultural practices to promote student achievement and well-being by incorporating and valuing students' cultural strengths. CRT examines how race and racism are embedded in social structures and institutions, aiming to understand and challenge systemic racism and racial inequalities. The document also includes summaries of articles that explore the concepts of culturally responsive pedagogy and culturally sustaining pedagogy in education. These articles emphasize the importance of incorporating diverse perspectives and experiences into the curriculum and teaching practices to promote equity and social justice. They also discuss the barriers faced by students of color in traditional educational settings and propose strategies to address these challenges. The articles draw on theories such as critical race theory, raciolinguistics, and sociocultural theory to inform their analysis. Overall, the articles highlight the need for culturally relevant teaching methods and inclusive classrooms that value students' diverse backgrounds and identities. [Extracted from the article]

This article by Louis M. Maraj explores the concept of rhetorical blackness and its connection to ecological rhetoric. The author argues that current scholarship in rhetoric and writing studies lacks a comprehensive understanding of racial capitalism, blackness, and antiBlackness within the framework of ecological rhetoric. Maraj proposes a new approach that combines theoretical black studies with the performativity of relational Black Caribbean diasporic poetics. The article also examines the concept of "the weather" as a totalizing climate of antiBlackness in the wake of Transatlantic slavery. Through these frameworks, the author aims to challenge and transform the conditions of antiBlackness in language, culture, and society. [Extracted from the article]

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Racial integration, reconciliation, and interracial culture have presented difficulties within churches, often seen as intractable problems. Situated in racialised America, the churches have to counter the social/context, which members are born into and are thus prone to reproducing in their interracial encounters. Fostering a balanced ethical remembering can help conceive the self in terms of the other to negotiate mutually acceptable identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Representations of adoptions tend to concentrate on normatively conceived forms of identity, which prioritize the genetic lineage of adoptees. In contrast, scholarship on autobiographical writing emphasizes that identities are not fixed but are always in process and intersectional because they are formed in within inequal power relations. Kay's experimental, autobiographical narrative Red Dust Road (2010) tackles the themes of adoption, the search for close relatives, and reunion. Many scholars of her autobiographical writings describe the fluidity of the diasporic adoptee identities created by her. My aim is more specific: I examine what I call Kay's continuously mobile, processual identity construction as a transracial adoptee in Red Dust Road. I argue that her identity formation, which is also intersectional, is interconnected with her multidirectional networks of attachments and the experimental form of her adoption narrative. In addition to an intersectional approach and autobiographical studies, I draw on insights from adoption studies. In my reading of Kay's work, I pay special attention to the inequalities derived from the intersecting vectors of adoption and race, which also intersect with other dimensions of difference, such as nation, gender, class, and sexual orientation. I employ the notion of the multidirectional in the sense in which McLeod applies it to the study of adoption writing. As I demonstrate, multidirectionality and the complex form of Red Dust Road provide versatile means of conveying Kay's fragmented acts of memory, which assist her ongoing mobile, processual identity construction. Her multidirectional lines of transformative attachments finally bond her to her adoptive and biogenetic families as well as other affective connections. While Kay's socially significant narrative indicates, amongst other adoption issues, that transracial adoptions can be successful, it is significant that it has no closure. The last chapter gestures toward potential new beginnings, which indicates that the story of adoption has no end. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tunisia was the last surviving democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring, and had recently enacted legislation to combat racial discrimination. But President Kais Saied, since coming to power in a 2019 election, has returned the country to authoritarian rule. He has also rolled back progress on race relations, scapegoating sub-Saharan African migrants for Tunisia's economic troubles. The failure of previous governments to root out corruption and consolidate the democratic transition with a new socioeconomic pact opened the way for a return to dictatorship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bacurau by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles was the most controversial Brazilian film of 2019. It premiered at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize and went on to win a series of national and international awards. It was praised and criticized as a film of resistance against the Bolsonaro government, and its sexist, racist and homophobic discourse, but also as Manichean. This article seeks to analyse some of the central aspects of the film, mainly by focusing on its narrative: the dehumanization of the people from the Brazilian Northeast of African or mixed-race descent and its relation to the resistance of the cangaço, the polarization of the film's reception, the issue of resistance within the context of maroon societies), the questions of race and gender, the problem of the certainty of death, given biopower and necropolitics, as well as revenge fantasies based on the visual pleasures of violence. The main objective of this article is to understand whether the film contributes to the debate on racism in Brazil, or whether it is just an escape valve for political frustrations, offering viewers a fleeting cathartic moment. We conclude that the film avoids confronting the real reason for Brazilian necropolitics, i.e. the legacy of colonialism and slavery: racism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]