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"A Racial Reckoning in Industrial Relations: Storytelling as Revolution from Within" is a book that challenges the systemic bias in industrial relations (IR) scholarship and calls for a rethinking of how race is addressed in the field. The collection of essays highlights the contributions of scholars of color that have been historically erased from the IR canon and emphasizes the need to center race and racial oppression in the development of critical IR theory. The book draws inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic to examine the racial dynamics in the workplace and advocates for the adoption of theoretical resources from Critical Race Theory (CRT) to reshape IR knowledge. It also emphasizes the importance of narrative strategies and giving voice to marginalized groups in understanding systems of labor relations rooted in sexism and racism. While the collection primarily focuses on US experiences and theorizations, it suggests the need for a broader reckoning in racialized IR landscapes across global, national, and local contexts. Overall, the book provides concrete strategies and ideas for incorporating critical race perspectives into IR research, pedagogical practice, and engagement in labor relations. [Extracted from the article]

The current study explored the experiences of families including single mothers of multiple heritage children. Through narrative inquiry, interviews with a small number of single mothers and adult children from multiple heritage families explored how mothers educated their children about their culture and ethnicity and how children integrated cultural identity through their early development. Findings included narratives of mothers, adult children, and dialogues among the family dyads. Themes included Intersectional Cultural Identity, Ethnic Identity Development, Fostering Cultural Identity, and Seeking Belonging. This study contributes to understanding the cultural and ethnic identity formation of multiple heritage individuals and the implications for cultural awareness in working with families with diverse compositions and with multiple heritage members. Some highlights of the study include: the navigation of choices by single mothers in educating children about cultural history representing both sides of their family; children expressed pride in their identity by embracing all parts of their heritage, despite marginalization and discrimination; family relationships with fathers, sibling dynamics, and parenting styles influenced cultural identity development for children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research and news stories document harmful, racialized encounters between campus police and minoritized populations. However, little is known about how campus police officers perceive racial dynamics in their work. As part of a critical case study of campus police at one historically white private university, theories of racial ideology guided the analysis of interviews with 32 campus police officers. In response to allegations of racial discrimination, officers minimized and denied explicitly racialized policing practices. The officers' responses reflected a logic grounded in color-evasive and diversity ideologies. Their racial beliefs were shaped by factors that included individual identity, the campus police department's commitment to diversity and equality, and the political and racial climate of the campus community. I argue that racialized campus policing cannot be reduced to individual officer bias and must be viewed as symptomatic of institutionalized racism in higher education and law enforcement. The study concludes with recommendations for campus police policy and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The baton exchanges are undoubtedly the most critical parts of the 4 × 100 m relay race. Timing of the outgoing runner is critical. In this paper we analyze the race as a minimization problem under uncertainty. We formulate a stochastic model in which the outgoing runner at the baton exchange cannot perfectly assess the incoming runner's exact location relatively a checkmark position, and therefore potentially misjudges the right moment to start running. Also, the team members' daily shape is subject to uncertainty. To understand the effect of these two random variables—incoming runners' distance to checkmark and the daily shape of the running team—we conduct a simulation study to investigate the trade-off between the team's expected race time and their probability of being disqualified due to overrunning the takeover zone. Conditioning on a low disqualification probability, the difference in expected race time is shown to be substantial between teams with different variation in distance assessment and forecasting running performance, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

The article "Sister Night, Hooded Justice, and Racial Reckoning in Watchmen" by Diana Adesola Mafe explores the television series Watchmen and its examination of racism and the survival of Black people. The article discusses the characters Angela Abar/Sister Night and Will Reeves/Hooded Justice, who are seen as revisionist Black superheroes honoring Black histories. It offers an Afrofuturist and feminist interpretation of the series, which has been well-received and addresses race in America. The text also discusses the themes of legacy, inheritance, and racial justice in the show, as well as the portrayal of systemic racism within law enforcement and the role of Black heroes in reclaiming justice. [Extracted from the article]

This document is a collection of abstracts from various articles related to planning, history, theory, administration, and ethics. The articles cover a range of topics, including American Indian historical trauma, Yup'ik culture in Alaska, community-based participatory research in indigenous communities, intimate partner violence prevention, empowerment theory, batterer intervention program practices, ethnography in community psychology, and implementing evidence-based practices in afterschool programs. Each abstract provides a brief overview of the article's content and key findings. These articles offer valuable insights into diverse perspectives and approaches within the field of community psychology and planning. [Extracted from the article]

This document is a compilation of articles from various academic journals covering a wide range of topics related to planning, community psychology, urban development, crime and delinquency, health, education, social services, community and neighborhood development, international planning, methodology, population, economics, housing and real estate, environment, risk management, transportation and communication, architecture and urban design, and environmental psychology. The articles provide valuable insights and research findings on indigenous perspectives, community collaboration, social policy law, poverty, discrimination, special populations, urban issues, violence, resilience, social change, acculturation, economic development, housing issues, ecological interventions, community empowerment, gender norms, disaster decision-making, sustainability, infrastructure, geographic information systems, air and water transportation, environmental perception, environmental attitudes, socio-spatial factors, lifestyle, and quality of life. These articles are a valuable resource for library patrons conducting research on these specific topics. [Extracted from the article]

This juror-simulation study tested whether expert testimony about police relations with Black/Indigenous persons would mitigate potential verdict discrepancies by making race a salient issue, and whether perceived police legitimacy would predict perceptions of race salience and/or effectiveness of the salience manipulation. Jury-eligible community members (N = 392) read a trial transcript in which the defendant claims self-defense for the killing of a police officer. We manipulated defendant race (Black/Indigenous/White) and the presence of expert testimony in which a sociologist described the experience of racialized persons with police. Participants provided verdicts, rated perceptions that racial issues featured prominently in the trial (i.e., perceived race salience), and completed a police legitimacy measure. Results revealed non-significant effects of defendant race and expert testimony on verdicts. Those higher in perceptions of police legitimacy had a greater likelihood of voting guilty and less favourable attitudes toward the expert, with the opposite pattern for those higher in perceived race salience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is a book review of "Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities" by Thomas DeGloma. The book explores the concept of anonymity and pseudonymity as performative practices and their connection to institutional structures. It discusses how performing anonymously can be both freeing and dangerous, protecting vulnerable individuals and groups while also emboldening harmful individuals and shielding powerful institutions. The book covers various examples of cover identities used for protection or subversive acts, as well as the anonymity of social systems and the impersonality of bureaucratic institutions. It also examines the anonymity of types and categories, particularly in relation to power dynamics and social institutions. The review praises the book for its scholarship, creativity, and engaging writing style, recommending it for graduate-level courses in social theory and formal sociology. [Extracted from the article]

We address the ethical implications of training and becoming family therapists in the United States when considering the colonial control and management of knowledge by the westernized institutionalized university. We do so decolonially. Through the work of decolonial thinkers, doers, and sensers, we center our discussion on the heteropatriarchal Eurocentric institutionalization of knowledge linked to the development and sustainability of structures of family therapy training through racialization and monetization. We discuss a decolonial understanding of race in relation to the liberalized politics of diversity, equity, and inclusion and upward mobility of family therapy education. Most importantly, we reflect upon the possibilities of reexistence within family therapy, fissuring the colonial structures of training tuition‐based family therapists. We locate those possibilities through practices of crack‐making, epistemic insurgence, and mischief. Our discussions and reflections are developed throughout by thinking, sensing, and speaking decolonially, storying our racialized incarnated lives from the saberes, ज्ञान, rhythms, vapors, or tastes of our communities, displaced by the European cannon. We embrace a decolonial pedagogy of learning without teaching, positioning family therapy education as a site for sociopolitical struggle and action toward possibilities of reexistence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We focus on the use of flourishing as a new measure in studies of pathways in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematical) fields. While the concept of flourishing is promising, the concept may need careful interrogation to ensure it takes structural and personal (cultural, religious, socioeconomic, and racial) differences into account. Our longitudinal study explores emerging adult's educational and career pathways with careful attention to structural inequities, enabling us to productively explore the concept of flourishing in a larger systemic context. Drawing from a set of qualitative interviews with our participants, we explore the ways that our sample of emerging adults (N = 30), predominantly people of color, define and discuss flourishing. The concept resonated with our diverse participants, and a substantial number did report flourishing. But despite the regularity with which the participants described experiencing racism and microaggressions, they did not often mention those harmful experiences when discussing flourishing. We caution that flourishing data on its own may provide an overly rosy image of the pathways and development, especially of young people of color. Our data suggest that it may be especially important to examine flourishing in context with other measures that can flesh out a fuller picture of well-being, especially in relation to race, racism, sexism, or any other experiences related to personal identities. In particular, instruments should be carefully designed to ensure--especially for emerging adults--that all aspects of their lives and identities can be fully understood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The idea of global reparations has received increasing attention in recent years, not only with respect to legacies of slavery and colonialism, but also to interrelated issues such as climate change, debt crisis, or ongoing financial transfers from the Global South to the Global North. This article, which introduces and sets the Debate for the 2024 Forum issue on the political economy of 21st century global reparations, offers a critical perspective on contemporary global reparations agendas, including their macroeconomic and development implications for the Global South. It highlights the contentious, unresolved questions about how reparations movements should interact with the highly unequal structures of global capitalism. To what degree should they seek large redistributive gains within these structures, or else aim for more revolutionary standpoints which reject these structures? If the former, would this compromise any hope for reparations to be truly transformative and able to address the challenges presented by global white supremacy? The hope of reparations movements is to make progressive gains that could become the catalyst for more transformative changes on a global scale. At the same time, sympathetic critics question whether reparations are feasible or should be a primary focus of advocacy for achieving racial and climate justice on national as well as global levels. In outlining these points of debate, the article also considers the questions of how to make global reparations work for recipients, and how to finance them. It concludes by elaborating on the challenge of moving towards a more developmentalist emphasis of 'systemic reparations'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ironic juxtapositions of similar scenes and characters in The Marrow of Tradition show that people in comparable life situations will experience different outcomes depending on their race. For example, whether a person is Black or White determines the consequences that ensue if that person resorts to violence, even if it can be justified as self-defense. This novel, by Charles W. Chesnutt, is based on the political insurrection of 1898 in which White supremacists overthrew the municipal government of Wilmington, North Carolina. The workings of the plot suggest an endorsement of the viewpoint of Josh Green, a Black dock worker who believes in the need for retaliatory violence. Green's position is contrasted with, and in novelistic terms gets the better of, the pacifist and more intellectual view of William Miller, the town's prominent Black doctor. Though less explicitly so, Green's and Miller's views may also be interpreted as representative of a contest between the merits of race consciousness and assimilation, respectively. In his essays, Chesnutt speaks clearly in favor of "sameness" and color-blindness as a principle, so he is closer to Miller on this issue. However, in his later literary career and even in certain aspects of this novel, one can see sympathy for characters who define themselves in part by their membership in the Black community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the civil rights movements in Texas during the 1960s and 1970s, with a focus on the efforts of African Americans and ethnic Mexicans to achieve equality. It discusses the tensions between older, more moderate leaders and younger, more radical activists, and highlights the role of Reverend Reynell Parkins, a Black man and Latino immigrant who bridged the gap between different generations and ethnic groups. The article argues that understanding Parkins' activism provides a new perspective on the conflicts and collaborations within minority communities during this era. It also discusses Parkins' accomplishments as a social worker, Episcopal minister, and community organizer, including his work towards racial integration, housing improvement, and addressing racial exclusion within the Episcopal Church. [Extracted from the article]

The article examines the racial attitudes of Mirabeau B. Lamar, the second president of Texas, towards Mexicans during the Republic of Texas. It argues that while there was a hardening of racial divisions between Anglos and Tejanos during this time, Lamar's praise for Mexican revolutionaries was unusual. The article criticizes previous scholars for overlooking a countering universalist sentiment among Anglo Texans and portrays them as pragmatic and flexible in their ideas on race. It discusses the initial admiration of Mexican freedoms by Americans in Texas, but how this shifted as the Mexican government became more centralized and threatened slavery. Lamar's views on imperialism and racial attitudes are also explored, highlighting the complexity of race relations in Texas history. [Extracted from the article]

Historically Black high schools and those who led the drive to found them across the South proffer nuanced understandings of private schools and the public good in the history of education and the Black Freedom Struggle from Reconstruction through the Progressive Era. Black education advocates utilized the schoolhouse as a pathway to liberation. They used private means to build schools to establish a public good that stood at the center of communities whose members collectively envisioned a new future through their education. This article examines the deeper origins of secondary schools after Reconstruction through social and political mobilization that led to the founding of historically Black high schools across the South. The historical implications are central to a broader understanding of historically Black high schools and the larger public good they sought to actualize during the nadir of race relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cultural humility is important in supervision; however, studies have primarily sampled White supervisees. Racially and ethnically minoritized trainees experience microaggressions during their training, yet cross-racial supervision is less often studied. We examined a moderated mediation model to test whether the supervisory working alliance mediated the relationship between frequency of racial microaggressions and satisfaction with supervision, and whether the impact of racial microaggressions on the supervisee and supervisor cultural humility moderated the relationship between racial microaggression frequency and the supervisory working alliance. In a sample of supervisees of color (N = 102; majority cisgender women, 86.2%, and heterosexual, 59.8%; 35.3% Black/African American, 28.4% Asian/Pacific Islander, 18.6% Hispanic/Latine) receiving clinical supervision from White supervisors, we found that racial microaggression frequency was negatively associated with satisfaction with supervision, and this relationship was fully accounted for by the supervisory working alliance. Racial microaggressions in supervision were found to be detrimental to the supervisory working alliance, which was then related to lower satisfaction with supervision. Further, racial microaggression impact and cultural humility moderated the relationship between racial microaggression frequency and the supervisory working alliance; this relationship was strongest when racial microaggression impact was high and cultural humility was average or high. The social bond hypothesis suggests we are more likely to allow ourselves to be vulnerable when we assess cultural humility to be high. We posit that the observed moderation effect may be due to supervisees experiencing greater shock when experiencing racial microaggressions from supervisors whom they perceived to be culturally humble. Public Significance Statement: The current findings demonstrate that racial microaggressions in cross-racial clinical supervision are negatively related to supervisees' satisfaction with supervision through their detrimental impact on the supervisory working alliance; and they appear to be most impactful when supervisor cultural humility is high. Still, even when microaggressions occurred, the supervisory working alliance was still stronger when supervisory cultural humility was higher. These results emphasize the importance of cultural humility as well as repairing microaggression-related ruptures in cross-racial clinical supervision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AbstractSecondary learners are often exposed to the triumphs and tragedies of World War II. Unfortunately, however, students receive less awareness of the experiences and contributions of Black Americans to the war effort. Thus, this article provides secondary teachers with a brief history of WWII from the perspective of African Americans and pedagogical strategies as a means of elevating hidden histories and engaging students in social studies concepts. [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]

Objective: The consequences of racism and racial stress on the academic and social well-being of adolescents are profound and well-documented. However, our understanding of how adolescents navigate racial stress and develop the agency to address discriminatory encounters, particularly in settings where educators struggle to intervene with microaggressions, remains limited. Research into the development of racial coping self-efficacy (RCSE) and coping skills has shown promise in enhancing the overall well-being of youth. In this study, we employ racial encounter coping appraisal and socialization theory (RECAST) to investigate the relationships among key school-based factors that influence how students cope with racial challenges. Specifically, we examine the role of RCSE, agency, stress, vigilance, and sense of belonging in the school environment for students. Method: Participants included 645 high school students from a diverse public school district who completed an online survey during a single class period. Analyses examined the mediating and moderating effects of RCSE, racial coping stress (RCS), and racial vigilance on agency. Results: RCSE reduced the negative influence of RCS on student racial agency in resolving racial conflicts with teachers and peers, particularly for Latinx students. Conclusions: Implications for advancing RECAST-based interventions to help adolescents develop the agency to problem solve traumatic racial events in schools are discussed. Public Significance Statement: Stress from racial microaggressions harms teenagers making it difficult to stand up against discrimination (racial agency) and feel like they belong in school. But, when students are highly confident they can manage these encounters, they become better at speaking out against unfair treatment compared to students who are low in confidence, even if bias from classmates and teachers bothers them. The more they believe they can resolve racially stressful experiences, the stronger their courage to act against microaggressions and create a fairer, more welcoming school for everyone. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intermarriage , defined here as the marriage between people of different races or different ethnicities, is on the rise in the United States, with one in six newlyweds intermarrying. While public opinion approval of interracial marriage is at an all-time high, racial and ethnic hate crimes are also on the rise, which can affect spouses differently based on their identity. Drawing on a 2022 Qualtrics sample of 287 spouses who intermarried and have children, authors of this article sought to learn what is related to their holding a positive view of intermarriage. Talking openly with one's spouse about differences, children initiating discussions about race, and being consciously aware of the interracial or interethnic aspect of the marriage were predictors. Implications for social work practice, which are predicated on the ability to have open communication between family members and the social worker's comfort with their own racial identity, are included for this growing population of intermarried couples. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's dramatic comedy Neighbors (2010) to explore how contemporary African American engagements with the legacies of blackface minstrelsy interrogate the genre's stubborn persistence and offer important new approaches to historicizing comedy. A play that stages a live minstrel show for twenty-first-century audiences, Neighbors toggles between outrageous spectacles of blackface caricature and contemporary family drama, constructing a warped reality where the fraught theatricality of blackface overlays and infuses the race relations of everyday domestic life. I show how Jacobs-Jenkins uses this mashup of theatrical genres to cultivate a historical consciousness in and of theatre. By delineating the coercive bodily repertoires that perpetuate racist comedy, the play draws out the past in theatre's present to theorize minstrel comedy's failure to end. I argue that Neighbors insistently implicates its audience in the production of blackface entertainment, developing a critically resistant practice of comic historiography that disrupts complacent progressive histories of the minstrel show's ostensible decline. The play's historiographical interventions, I suggest, offer fresh insight into comedy's form and function. By crafting a play with multiple endings, Jacobs-Jenkins reconfigures the classical definition of comedy as a genre that ends in the conservative restoration of the social order. In so doing, he turns blackface performance into a reflexive tool that deconstructs its own histories of reproduction. Neighbors thus harnesses the political fallout of comedy's failure to end by carving out a new critical stance from which to examine the vexed histories of US comic entertainment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study on the racial socialization practices and dilemmas of caregivers of 0–8 year-old BIPOC children utilized an open-ended online survey, with a mixed-methods approach to data analysis. The study included 173 caregivers (i.e., 59% white; 41% BIPOC; 94.2% female) in the U.S. who held a variety of roles (e.g., 33.5% parents/relatives; 28.3% early childhood educators; 12.1% mental health/health professionals). Caregivers were prompted with a message about joy and resilience in BIPOC children. Analysis of open-ended data revealed practices such as the use of books, adult education, talking, preparation for bias or acknowledgment of racism, stereotyping, privilege, anti-bias/anti-racist education, art, music, dance, home language, and miscellaneous topics. Caregivers highlighted the following: (a) Nurturing a positive racial identity and pride in children's own heritage; (b) Nurturing love and knowledge about racial diversity; (c) Preparation for bias; and, (d) Racial socialization network: Adult-to-adult practices. Regarding racial socialization dilemmas, caregivers highlighted challenges with nurturing a positive racial identity/pride in children's heritage; nurturing love and knowledge about racial diversity; preparation for bias; and, adult education. Dilemmas were reported about nurturing self-love in a racist world, whiteness, others' biases, relationships, representation, multiracial families, own biases, age appropriateness, and colorism. Chi-square analyses confirmed that there were no statistically significant differences between white and BIPOC, and familial and non-familial, caregivers' racial socialization practices and dilemmas. Descriptive results revealed some differences in racial socialization dilemmas by race and role of caregivers. Highlights: 173 racially diverse familial and non-familial caregivers caring for BIPOC children reported racial socialization practices and dilemmas Examples of racial socialization practices include: use of books, adult education, talking, preparation for bias or acknowledgment of racism, stereotyping, privilege, anti-bias/anti-racist education, art, music, dance, and home language Racial socialization dilemmas were reported around nurturing self-love in a racist world, whiteness, others' biases, relationships, representation, multiracial families, own biases, age appropriateness, and colorism [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This single-participant idiographic study examines the implications of a student's identity crisis in the climate classroom through the lens of existential phenomenology. The study analyses the ontological sense-making process of a mixed-race, bisexual female student reckoning with the racial dimensions of climate change during an environmental course in a liberal arts college in the Netherlands. By delving into the ontological implications of the participant's experience of the course, the analysis shows that environmental education can meaningfully impact the mind-body relationship and self-identification of students with marginalized identities. The findings challenge some of the assumptions of popular frameworks for understanding marginalization in environmental education, like intersectionality, and post-humanist perspectives. The authors conclude that attending to human sense-making in environmental education can benefit students with marginalized identities by grounding environmental education in practices that make space for these identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While racial assortative mating and interracial unions have been a central interest in the study of race relations and family demography since the early twentieth century, there have been marked changes in the social contexts in which these processes have taken place in recent decades. This review article examines three important shifts: (a) the rise of population diversity and its impact on traditional views of racial integration, (b) the changing institution of marriage in American life, and (c) the increasing centrality of technology. We discuss how these societal shifts have challenged traditional understandings of preferences, opportunities, and intermediaries in the mate selection process, as well as new opportunities for interracial intimacy that these changes have introduced. We conclude with a discussion on conceptual issues and promising future research directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since laws prohibiting interracial marriages were abolished, the United States has seen an increase in interracial relationships. Individuals in interracial relationships experience the typical challenges of partnered life; however, these relationships also have the potential to face additional challenges existing in a racialized society. Individuals in interracial relationships are experiencing increased anxiety due to heated public debate concerning racial justice, immigration reform, and even direct attacks on certain minority groups. This analysis investigates the challenges of interracial relationships and provides clinicians with insight into their unique challenges. Further, this article discusses implications for clinicians encountering this population in clinical settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contributes to theory building in public relations by responding to calls for more public relations research on the social, cultural and ethical implications of AI as it explores the racial dynamics of AI. We examine three case examples in which AI, race and public relations intersect including: Microsoft's chatbot Tay, a Facebook topic recommendation feature, and FN Meka, an AI-powered rap avatar. We draw upon the public relations race and DEI literature to introduce a framework we coin Inclusive, Responsible, Communication in Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI). The IRCAI framework is used to illuminate the three case examples. We conclude that it is important for the public relations field to navigate the intersection of AI and race, and we reiterate that our IRCAI framework can facilitate such efforts within and beyond the context of race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Early childhood Jewish education provides an opportune moment to teach about race and Black–Jewish relations as young children grapple with concepts like justice. This article argues that picture books containing interactions between Black and Jewish characters or a Black Jewish character are a powerful pedagogical tool for this purpose. We created the first inventory of picture books that contain these characters, finding 188 of them which we believe can be invaluable in introducing the vital topic of race and racism to young children in early childhood Jewish classrooms through the historically important lenses of Black–Jewish relations and Black Jewish individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Refugee-background students in the context of multilingual policies and practices: An introduction" explores the education of refugee-background students worldwide, focusing on the need to examine policies, practices, and teacher preparation programs to meet their needs. The contributions in this special issue address critical issues, including sociopolitical framing, multilingual policies, and practices for educators working with refugee-background students. The studies in this issue adopt Critical Race Theory and Refugee Critical Race Theory as theoretical frameworks to analyze and interpret data, emphasizing the importance of counter-storytelling and critiquing neoliberal policies in schools. The article highlights the importance of culturally and linguistically sustaining multilingual policies and practices to address the needs of refugee-background students and other minoritized groups. [Extracted from the article]

This article reads the seminal text-based computer videogame Colossal Cave Adventure (1976–77) as a key document to understand videogame and computing history's fraught relationship with race. It situates its simulation of underground exploration in the context of the actual location that inspired it: Kentucky's Mammoth Cave system, a destination that was immensely popular with tourists in the mid-nineteenth century, but also relied heavily on the labor of enslaved Black men. This article examines what it means for one of the foundational videogame texts to be modelled after a space historically marked by Black slave labor; it positions Adventure and the programming culture from which it emerged, and in which it was so enthusiastically received, as crucial sites to understand how the ideology of whiteness as an unraced, universal position came to be so enmeshed with videogame and computer culture. The ramifications of Adventure 's relation to race are explored through a reading of Cardboard Computer's critically acclaimed videogame Kentucky Route Zero (2012–2020), which pays homage to Adventure by using the Mammoth Cave as a setting for its magical realist exploration of the entanglement of media history, labor, and dispossession in America, but ends up providing a whitewashed account of the labor that shaped the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the documentary film "Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story," which explores the life and work of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel. Heschel was known for his book on the ancient Hebrew prophets and his prophetic activism. The film focuses on Heschel's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, particularly his participation in the Selma to Montgomery march led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It also highlights Heschel's background as the descendant of rabbis and his contributions to Jewish ethics and mysticism. Overall, Heschel is recognized as an important figure in both the Jewish and Christian communities for his religious writings and activism. [Extracted from the article]

This document provides an overview of the legal challenges to state actions that prohibit the teaching of historically accurate information about race in K-12 schools. The lawsuits have been filed in six states, with varying claims under state and federal law. The challenges under state law focus on technical violations and non-discrimination laws, while the federal challenges center around First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment arguments. As of now, the lawsuits are ongoing, with only a few cases having been resolved. Overall, the legal challenges to these bans have been limited in number and success. The text discusses practical and normative issues related to the lack of legal challenges to anti-CRT state action. It raises questions about the role of litigation in countering white backlash efforts and highlights the challenges faced by communities negatively impacted by these actions, such as educators and students from historically marginalized communities. The availability of material and other resources, threats to educators' careers, and the fear of professional repercussions are identified as factors that can hinder legal challenges. The text emphasizes the need for further understanding and support for organizations and individuals seeking to challenge anti-CRT state action. The text discusses the challenges faced by educators due to state bans on certain concepts, such as critical race theory, in schools. These bans can result in disciplinary actions and loss of funding for schools and educators who promote prohibited ideas. The bans create a climate of fear among educators, leading to self-censorship and restrictions on discussions of important issues. The text also explores the power that states and school [Extracted from the article]

Labour, for capitalist critique, is not just slavery analogised; it is slavery materialised and expanded. Across the Marxist terrain, class struggle is presupposed by the struggle not to be a slave: the struggle of 'the worker' combats a slavery simultaneously more complex, because it is more mediated, and implicitly more emancipatory, because it materialises what has been called 'objective possibility'. In this article, I track symptoms of the sublation of slavery by labour in the telling of 'new labour history' and counter with 'objective impossibility' as a more open and efficacious diagnostic for the slave's political position. Though the sentences of United States labour history are alive with promises of solidarity, the field also remains an unstable landmine of antagonism, death, failure, limit. I argue that this labour history, despite its gestures towards the problem 'race', is grammatically caught in a web of desires that Sylvia Wynter names 'the hegemony of the labour conceptual frame (i.e., the frame of the struggle against capitalism)'. The labour conceptual frame is hegemonic because the relation between race and class already presupposes a latent Marxist orientation to subjects, objects, consciousness, and history that renders perfect the slave's objective impossibility and culminates, at the nexus of race and class, in an uncritical conversion of labour's objective possibility into pure, unmediated possibility. This article tracks how the black worker remains stubbornly impossible throughout this theoretical convergence, bending the apparatus of labour history, the purchase of Marxist theory, and the salience of class-first politics through the excess of blackness to labour. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With interracial and interethnic marriages on the rise, social workers will be increasingly working with families at the crucible of race relations. Hate crimes are also on the rise and, as a result, these families may be subject to greater scrutiny and negativity. Twenty-two participants in long-term interracial and interethnic marriages were asked what they found successful in dealing with negativity they experienced. Five strategies were employed: 1. Not responding; 2. Not attending to it as negativity; 3. Avoiding negative situations; 4. Showing we are great; and 5. Preparing the next generation. Implications for social work practice are included. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

The article discusses the life and legacy of Canada's premiere jazz performer Eleanor Collins. Topics include the impact of Collins's historical omission on her own trajectory as a Black Canadian woman forging a career within the White Canadian media industry as cited in an essay by filmmaker Sylvia Hamilton, her success in the Canadian television and music industries, her family background, discrimination she faced, and Canada Post's issuance of a postage stamp in 2022 honoring Collins.

This essay examines Lady Mary Wroth's engagement with early seventeenth-century Anglo-Ottoman relations in The Countess of Montgomery's Urania. The Urania follows a group of rulers who create an international Christian coalition in what was historically part of the Ottoman Empire. Besides Bernadette Andrea, no other critic has seriously considered the Urania 's allusions to Ottoman peoples, places, and objects. I propose that Wroth's prose, filled with interpretive cruxes resulting from syntactical and pronominal ambiguities, resonates with England's ambiguously identificatory relationship with the Ottoman Empire to create a geopolitically inflected narrative style. Following critical work on early modern race as a measure of 'proximity', I identify English desires both to identify with and differentiate themselves from the Ottoman Empire within literary and diplomatic discourses. I demonstrate how members of the Sidney-Herbert circle negotiated overlaps in English and Ottoman political, legal, religious, and racial identity markers. I then argue that these overlaps synergize with Wroth's use of what I term syntactical and pronominal 'severalty' of character voices, particularly those of her narrator and characters identified with Ottoman regions. I conclude by demonstrating how Wroth experiments with her narrative style to imagine a Christian empire that surpasses Ottoman authority. In identifying a dialectic between contemporary Anglo-Ottoman relations and Wroth's narrative style, this essay expands critical approaches to the politics of the Urania beyond more global narratological analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What happens after border externalization? States and regional organizations of the Global North increasingly engage in transnational migration management that seeks to prevent potential irregular migration beyond their territory. Despite the impressive financial and political resources the involved actors mobilize to reach this goal, little is known about the effects of this strategy on their target states and populations. This paper conceptualizes border externalization as a spatial intervention that absorbs contingent migrant flows into an interplay of capital and race. It argues that the immobilization and differential integration produced through externalization can serve as a spatial fix for labor shortages in transit "migration" states. This differential integration disempowers the targeted migrant population and aggravates racial antagonisms. Hence, border externalization is not just a (by-)product of racist ideology and policy, but also intensifies racial hierarchies in the space it intervenes into. The paper studies this through the case of the "EU-Turkey Deal" and Turkey's Syrian refugee population, building on document analysis and primary interview data with industry representatives, farmers, NGO workers, and government officials. On a theoretical level, the paper thereby contributes to the recent trend that reinserts the border into global processes of racialized capital accumulation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While International Relations scholarship has increasingly addressed questions of race, the literature on international organizations (IOs) has been slower to do so. In particular, it has neglected how race functions within IO workforces. Building on sociological theories of racialized organizations, we develop the concept of racialized IOs. Like domestic organizations, racialized IOs are characterized by enhanced or inhibited agency of racial groups, racialized distribution of resources, credentialing of whiteness, and decoupling of formal rules and informal practices along racial lines. However, there are also two important differences. First, since IOs rely on member states for resources, their secretariats need to accommodate powerful white-majority countries (macro-level pressures). Second, since IO workforces are diverse, their employees may bring a range of racial stereotypes that exist in their societies into their professional practice (micro-level pressures). Using the case of UN peacekeeping, we demonstrate how the four features of racialized organizations operate in light of these macro- and micro-level pressures. We show that locally hired peacekeeping staff face constraints on exercising agency; that non-white peacekeepers perform more dangerous jobs than their white counterparts; that whiteness serves as a proxy for desirable skills while non-white peacekeepers' knowledge is devalued; and that peacekeepers from white-majority countries receive special treatment or deviate from UN-wide procedures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How might we productively synthesize Marxist and postcolonial thought in order to bring questions of race and class, and imperialism and capitalism, into the same frame of analysis? In this short comment, I show how the Dar es Salam School of anti-colonial history, along with the New Indian Labour History inspired by the Dar School, can creatively bring together theoretical frameworks of different epistemes for a productive synthesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]