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This document provides summaries of four research articles in the field of sport and exercise psychology. The first article focuses on physical activity interventions for cancer survivors and their effectiveness in promoting physical activity. The second article examines weight stigma among exercise professionals and the impact of an online course in reducing antifat attitudes. The third article develops a self-efficacy scale for regulating physical activity in individuals with obesity. The fourth article explores the benefits of cognitive style versatility in team performance. These summaries offer valuable insights for library patrons conducting research in these areas. [Extracted from the article]

News coverage of social movements traditionally adheres to the protest paradigm, which focuses on violent and confrontational tactics instigated by activists. Recent work has called for a reevaluation of this theory through the lens of partisan media bias. We demonstrate how partisan media bias systematically shapes coverage of the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter protests that occurred in the aftermath of the police murder of George Floyd. Using an inductive computational content analysis, we surface words and phrases that best predict whether an article was published in a left-, center-, or right-leaning outlet. We then perform a qualitative close reading of those terms in context to determine how partisan media bias shapes depictions of the same events: namely, in representations of protestors and violence. Right-leaning media depict protestors as violent rioters, looters, and antifa members committing property damage, whereas center- and left-leaning media emphasize the peaceful nature of the protests motivated by the police killing of Floyd and systematic racism. We consider the implications of these findings on broader public opinion within media ecosystems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new wave of anti-racist politics is challenging the racialised dynamics of news media reporting. This paper explores the experiences of Indigenous journalists working in mainstream news media organisations in Australia in this changing context, and their strategies to navigate the racial political economy and news values of the industry. While many have observed the growing number of Indigenous journalists working in mainstream news, Indigenous journalists' experiences and practices in these contexts have rarely been canvassed. I analyse 11 in-depth interviews with practicing journalists in Australia to explore how they have their mediated their positions. I suggest that Indigenous journalists engage in a specifically Indigenous journalistic practice, informed by connections to place, community and culture. This can be understood as a contested practice of Indigenous sovereignty. It also highlights the racialised presumptions of news values, including notions of objectivity, authority and balance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests that swept across the nation, this study aims to identify potential cognitive-motivational factors that account for the increased likelihood among pro-movement citizens to engage in BLM activism. Using a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults, we examine a theoretical model grounded in the Orientation-Stimuli-Orientation-Response framework in which the racial empathy that may emerge from perceptions of a hostile information environment plays a pivotal mediating role in the path from partisan support to peaceful/confrontational forms of BLM action. Theoretical and practical implications of our findings are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Wronged and Dangerous" by Karen Lee Ashcraft is a book that explores the intersections of gender, masculinity, and populism. Ashcraft argues that the global surge of populism is fueled by aggrieved masculinity, which she refers to as "viral masculinity." This connection between gender and populism poses a threat to public health, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The book calls for a shift in perspective, focusing on how populism spreads rather than solely on its content, and emphasizes the need for empathy and understanding in addressing the issue. Ashcraft's framework adds valuable dimensions to the ongoing discourse on work and organizations, introducing concepts such as "lateral empathy," "aggrieved masculinity," and "viral masculinity" that contribute to a deeper understanding of contemporary organizations. [Extracted from the article]

This article explores young people's emotional associations with activism in relation to their social identity, sense of agency and activist participation. Focusing on three activist topics—climate change, anti-racism, feminism and LGBTQ rights—the objective is to analyse emotional nuances both within and across these. Building on sociopolitical development theory, emotions affect the sense of (in)justice and participation in activism and are also central to how young people view their own agency. The focus group research in the United Kingdom showed that different emotional associations drove motivation for political action and that social identity influenced interest in and experiences with activism. While activism represented the self-actualization of values, identity-rights activism came with the added burden of pressure and personal risks for some. The findings highlight the complexity of emotions motivating activism, the significance of identity and values for finding belonging, and the intersectional dimension of one's sense of agency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Black Lives Matter movement highlighted the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in a policing context. Using the Irish police service, An Garda Síochána, as a case study, this article critically evaluates efforts to promote EDI within a policing organization that has been characterized as resistant to change. It focuses primarily on the implementation of relevant recommendations contained in the landmark 2018 Report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. It demonstrates that while building a culture that respects and promotes EDI within any organization is a challenging process, it can be even more difficult in policing organizations due to police sub-culture. It submits that laws, policies and commitments, while necessary, are insufficient of themselves to achieve transformative change. Strong and committed leadership is also required, as well as measures to recruit and retain a diverse workforce at all levels, sufficient resourcing for EDI initiatives, EDI training that accords with international best practice, efforts to improve relationships with marginalized communities, measures to combat hate crime and racial profiling, effective mechanisms for collecting EDI data and evaluating EDI policies, and a robust governance, oversight and accountability framework. While identifying and welcoming measures undertaken to date by An Garda Síochána to convert EDI policy commitments into reality, the article also highlights areas where improvements are necessary. Finally, aligning with several theorists of police sub-culture, the article concludes that any efforts to promote EDI within An Garda Síochána will need to be accompanied by efforts to combat structural inequality in wider society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article features a conversation with Karie Westermann, a knitwear designer and writer, who challenges the concept of "tradition" in knitting by discussing the uncritical perception and use of traditional notions in the craft. The conversation explores the complexities of national and cultural identity in knitting, emphasizing the geopolitical influences that have shaped different knitting traditions. It raises questions about authenticity, authority, and the evolving nature of tradition in knitting, stressing the importance of critically examining sources and cultural contexts, such as Gladys Thompson's book on Ganseys. The text underscores the significance of accurately sourcing information and academic research in understanding and preserving cultural practices related to knitting. [Extracted from the article]

This article examines the activism of student protesters in a rural Rust Belt community's Black Lives Matter protest, challenging prevailing stereotypes about civic engagement, literacies, and youth involvement in rural settings. Utilizing critical ethnography and nexus analysis to examine disruptions of discourses in place and interview student participants about their activism, findings showcase how students strategically practiced multiliteracies to upturn power dynamics and assume leadership roles within a socio‐spatial landscape. Examining youth protest literacies can inform education partners of the ways students already engage in civic discourse and how understanding their co‐construction of space can inform practices across learning communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Building upon recent calls for the integration of abolition into psychology, we develop and validate a measure of Abolitionist Ideology. In two studies with abolitionist leaning (N = 201, abolitionist‐identifying n = 58) and nationally representative (N = 350) samples, we identify and confirm a three‐factor, 26‐item measure including subscales of Alternatives to State Violence, Revolutionary Abolitionism, and Abolitionist Identity. The Abolitionist Ideology Scale demonstrates convergent validity with measures including support for Black Lives Matter, critical consciousness, openness to experience, radical imagination, and attribution of violence to the state. The scale demonstrates divergent validity from measures including social dominance orientation (SDO) and political conservatism. Finally, the scale predicted activism tenacity above and beyond a related measure of carceral system justification. The Abolitionist Ideology Scale demonstrates initial reliability and validity and will be useful for those aiming to engage abolition in liberatory theory, research, and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Black Lives Matter is a global movement that has gained support from an increasingly diverse racial and ethnic demographic. Universities seek ways to provide an opportunity to increase the quantity and strength of the Black perspective. Using research methods, a fundamental social science course, this paper demonstrates that it is possible to view methods as a course where we can adequately reflect on conversations about race and other social inequities. Research methods does not have to only be about skills but can also convey perspective. Moreover, it highlights the possibilities of shifting any course away from the dominant perspective and centering Blackness in classroom conversation. This paper intends to continue the conversation of social justice teaching and stimulate discussion around lifting Black voices throughout the university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Decolonizing the English literary curriculum" explores the necessity of diversifying and decolonizing the English literary curriculum by moving away from a Eurocentric focus on British authors and colonial perspectives. Drawing on personal experiences in India, the author discusses the challenges of incorporating postcolonial perspectives into the curriculum to promote social justice and counter repressive forces. The text delves into the evolution of English literature curriculum in Indian universities, highlighting the complexities of incorporating diverse languages and cultures, particularly in African and Indigenous contexts. Emphasizing the importance of a culturally sensitive approach, the article calls for a reevaluation of traditional canons and a more inclusive approach to literature education in post-colonial societies. [Extracted from the article]

In the summer of 2020, amidst state‐mandated social distancing and protests for racial justice, youth participating in an ongoing YPAR initiative sought to design and facilitate a book club for the residents of their subsidized housing community to increase community awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement. Through interviews, youth shared their plans to design and facilitate a book club differently than they had experienced in English classroom settings. Through the lenses of critical literacy and civic praxis, the youths' imaginings reveal a desire to talk about books that were relevant to their lives, involve discussions that were participant‐led and democratic, and lead to meaningful, tangible outcomes. Implications encourage teachers to re‐examine their classroom book club practices and consider ways to center student desires. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A plethora of research identifies that the English educational experiences of some Black and Global Majority (BAGM) children are negative, which adversely impacts their academic and, in some cases, personal outcomes. Existing research identifies the contributing factors towards the negative educational experiences for some BAGM children, but less is known about the effect of these educational experiences on BAGM children. There is growing interest from schools, following the Black Lives Matter movement, in developing opportunities to improve the educational experiences and mental health of BAGM children. This paper aims to develop awareness of the need for support for BAGM children, and it raises awareness of effective practices linked to race in schools. Racist stereotyping, educator training, and tokenistic practices can either support or prevent the positive educational experiences of BAGM children. Greater guidance is required for schools on race, equality, and diversity. Training opportunities for educators on appropriate and sensitive practices to improve BAGM children's educational and personal experiences should be provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Psychological research has failed to take accountability for the ways it has aligned with State interests, at the expense of solidarity with Black people protesting the criminal legal system and pursuing liberation in the U.S. Through a case study analysis of six psychological research articles, ranging from 1968 to 2022, this paper tracks evidence of psychology's alignment with the State's interests. Evidence emerges in clinical disease(s) assigned to enslaved and incarcerated Black people (drapetomania, protest psychosis) and in empirical assumptions and (il)logics binding research methods and analyses. While theoretical and methodological frameworks, language ("patients," "rioters," "ghetto residents," "minority group members") and levels of analysis (psyche, personality, social, community, identity, movement) evolve over time and across subdisciplines, racialized carceral ideologies persist across psychological research approaches. By tracing carceral footprints across this vast psychological literature, this analysis reveals how traditional empirical research weaponized pathologizing and criminalizing accounts to delegitimize Black protests of State violence from the Civil Rights Movement to the Movement for Black Lives and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Microaggressions in Medicine: Narratives, Trauma, and Silence" by Freeman and Stewart explores the harm-based account of microaggressions in healthcare, emphasizing the impact on the recipient rather than the intent of the perpetrator. The authors suggest concrete strategies to prevent microaggressions in clinical care and discuss the role of narrative medicine and trauma-informed care in addressing structural issues. Additionally, the article raises questions about the role of silence in perpetuating microaggressions and the importance of addressing social justice topics in healthcare settings. [Extracted from the article]

Following the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, a new wave of progressive athlete activism emerged. While a section of sport media members supported these athletes and their causes, a subset of anti-progressive pundits and critics emerged resisting the new wave of politically active Black athletes. I argue that sport media pundits like Clay Travis at Fox Sports represent sport media monetizing white male backlash to "woke" Black athletes. By promoting these voices, these outlets committed to amplifying white male grievance politics and emboldened anti-Black racism in sport media, all while increasing polarization and partisanship, paralleling conservative political news pundits during the Trump era. This essay critically and closely reads and contextualizes the increasingly rightward rhetoric of Travis, explaining how he connects Trumpian rhetoric to sports punditry more broadly and allows major sport media an opportunity to advance overtly conservative, racist, and sexist dialogues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on the noted harms of a post-racial United States, this analysis offers a close reading of the documentary, I Am Not Your Negro (IANYN). The analysis explores how the vernacular, transcendent first persona constructs and speaks to a three-tiered, white second persona: (1) the essentialist or overt racist, (2) the colorblind, and (3) the race cognizant. The analysis is particularly interested in how IANYN works to disrupt the hegemonic prevalence of whiteness and post-racial ideology in light of the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Research shows that participation in political activism on social media is linked to psychological stress. Additionally, race-based stress disproportionately affects minorities and is linked to greater psychological symptoms. Yet, the impact of the social media presence of Black Lives Matter (BLM) on mental health has yet to be meaningfully assessed. Methods: This study assessed whether engagement with BLM-related social media vignettes was related to mental health symptoms in two non-clinical samples (total N = 389), using a mixed-methods design. Participants completed an online survey with social media vignettes, self-report inventories of mental health symptoms, and open-ended questions about experiences with and the impact of BLM. Results: Correlations revealed that greater engagement with BLM-related social media posts was related to more severe mental health symptoms. Further, moderation analyses revealed that race significantly moderated the relationship between engagement and anxiety and trauma-related symptoms, such that these relationships were stronger for participants who identified as racial minorities. Qualitative analyses revealed that most participants who were engaged in mental health treatment had not discussed BLM-related topics with their providers, despite many participants reporting disrupted relationships and negative emotions due to exposure to BLM-related social media content. Discussion: Taken together, results suggest that engagement with BLM-related content online is linked to increased mental health symptoms, but these issues are infrequently addressed in treatment. Future research should extend these findings with clinical samples, assess the comfort of therapists in addressing these topics in therapy, and develop interventions to improve mental health in digital activists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explores the role of social media in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Movement by examining how social media news use impacts BLM protest action. Theoretically, we go beyond the frequently discussed relationship between social media and protest participation and examine how grievances, political efficacy, and racial identity conditionally impact the influence of social media on protest engagement. The findings suggest that social media news use amplifies, rather than reduces, the gaps between engaged and disengaged citizens regarding protest participation, particularly in the online sphere. These indicate that social media is not an equalizing tool for BLM participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on gender have not sufficiently responded to the imperatives of race and intersectionality most recently intensified by COVID-19 and the decolonising of the curriculum and Black Lives Matter movements. The article explores the ways in which GAD frameworks have resisted rather than embraced paradigmatic critiques. We argue that this resistance to the imperatives of intersectionality has resulted in a GAD impasse which is reproduced and perpetuated through pedagogy and teaching, which shapes teaching and learning spaces in the UK. Despite the potentials for teaching to question dominant paradigms and frameworks, the impasse has hindered the field of GAD from adopting an introspective, intersectional, and transformative approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information about upcoming conferences and calls for papers related to the study of time. It highlights the "Real-Time History" conference, which focuses on the significance of "living archives" in contemporary history. The article also mentions two future conferences: the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Memory Studies Association, which discusses memories in transit, and a conference on narratives of temporality. These conferences aim to foster interdisciplinary discussions and explore the complexities of temporal experiences in various fields of study. [Extracted from the article]

This Q methodological study explored the ways preservice and in-service social studies teachers engaged with a collection of social media posts about the Black Lives Matter movement. The study asked participants to share their reactions to the posts as well as how they would determine which posts they might present to their students in the classroom. The analysis of the Q sorts identified three subject positions available to these social studies teachers--labeled the Context Provider, the Data Debater, and the Critical Confronter. Notably, each of these subject positions was underscored by a prevalent discourse of teachers working as a Guide on the Side. These findings suggest that social studies teachers' pedagogical imaginings of engaging students with social media content and in the analysis of current social and political movements for justice are significantly informed by dominant discourses of teacher "neutrality". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Practicing while Black is similar to driving while Black; what should be routine becomes a minefield and every day is filled with uncertainties. For Black practitioners, navigating unyielding Whiteness in the professional environment is not only costly but also often continuously compromises Black practitioners' well-being. This paper reflects Young's experiences as a Black male licensed clinical social worker and the challenges encountered in navigating a practice environment led by White female clinicians during the convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement, demanding an end to ongoing police brutality and racial injustice against Black people. We provide recommendations for both Black practitioners and organizations committed to providing working environments that affirm and ensure racial justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes 764 syllabi spanning 2012 to 2023 to illustrate how, why, and when the sociological canon evolves. It is shown that in terms of frequency of assignment, W. E. B. Du Bois has clearly entered the sociological canon, overtaking both Weber and Durkheim. The timing of these changes also suggests that Du Bois's addition to the canon, and the increased assignment of scholars of color in general, is largely a reaction to the various iterations of the Black Lives Matter movement. Potential pedagogical implications of this change are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the Black Lives Matter movement develops and seeks policy change, the movement has received comparisons to the civil rights era of the 1960s. This paper compares the two movements' organizational structures and leadership. Using the civil rights era as a test case, I provide theoretical and empirical arguments about the challenges faced by Black Lives Matter and suggest that the movement would benefit from a more formalized hierarchical structure. I conclude that the likelihood of political success depends upon a social movement organization's leadership, whose capacity for articulating goals, identifying opportunities, accessing policymakers, and maintaining authority within the organization impacts political responsiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an era of police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, many Black Americans believe that racism is a mainstay of U.S. culture. Even if not experiencing racial threats or violence directly, racial tension can induce stress via anticipatory race‐related stress (ARRS). Drawing from theories of social stress and the intersectionality framework, this study examined the association between ARRS and depressive symptoms among Black women attending a historically Black university (N = 207). Second, we investigated whether psychosocial resources (mastery, resilience, self‐esteem, and social support) moderated the association between ARRS and depressive symptoms. Study results revealed that anticipatory race‐related stress was positively associated with depressive symptoms. Mastery and resilience moderated the association between anticipatory race‐related stress and depressive symptoms; that is, the association between ARRS and depressive symptoms was weaker for those with elevated levels of mastery and resilience. In sum, building resilience and mastery among Black women may be effective coping strategies for combatting anticipatory race‐related stress. However, dismantling structural racism is necessary to eliminate the anticipation of racism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article emphasizes the need for political theory to be more empirically responsive and testable in order to address concrete political issues. It argues that political theory should be grounded in observable facts and tested against real-world events to ensure its accuracy and contribution to a more just world. The text critiques the tendencies of purism, profundity, paranoia, and exteriority in political theory, and suggests that theory should have a non-arbitrary connection to the political and be able to understand and respond to real-world developments. It also discusses the limitations of political theory and its potential to lead to better political choices. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on June Jordan's 1978 "Poem about My Rights" as a reflection on the impact of colonial racial capitalism that labels marginalized individuals as "wrong." Topics include the concept of "unbearable wrongness of being" as articulated by Sylvia Wynter, the emotional state of feeling disposable in societal structures, and the challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic alongside rising anti-trans legislation and attacks on Black studies.

In recent years, questions of policing, prisons and the wider criminal justice system have increasingly taken centre stage in discussions and practices of anti-racism in Britain. More specifically, the Black Lives Matter movement, the Covid-19 pandemic and the introduction of the Conservative government's Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts (PCSC) Act have all contributed to the emergence of a nascent movement for police and prison abolition. At the same time, ongoing resistance to state-sanctioned Islamophobia – the majority of which has been driven by Muslim-led organisations and communities – has focused on the securitisation of Muslims in Britain and beyond. Yet these two key strands of anti-racist work have tended to remain politically and analytically distinct. This article seeks to develop a dialogue between the theory and practice of police/prison abolition and the issue of Islamophobia in Britain, exploring the possibilities for solidarity-building in the current moment. I consider how (1) sociological theories of race, racism and racialisation, and (2) an engagement with British histories of radical anti-racism (specifically British Black Power) offer resources for revealing key connections between the policing and imprisonment of differently racialised populations and associated forms of resistance. I then explore how a more 'joined up' analysis might facilitate coalition-building on the ground in the current moment, before expanding the discussion beyond Britain to consider the Palestinian struggle as a model for developing international, abolitionist solidarity attuned to the relationality of race and racisms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how Black men use a participant photography project as a tool for meaning making during the current political and social context of anti-Black racism, Black activism, and intersectional politics. Using a critical visual methodology in the analysis of the images, this paper will examine how Black men make meaning of current social issues through the types of images they produced, how they make meaning of the types of audiences they are speaking to through the project, and how these meanings are reflected through their repositioning practices in the visual project. Specific attention is paid to how they used the project to visually reposition themselves against raced-gendered hegemonic ontologies of Black masculinities by producing images and narratives that were intended to educate and disrupt dominant discourses on Black men. For this reason, I argue that the visual project is a type of repositioning event, which was a way for Black men to resist racial hegemony through the participant photography project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the life and representation of Joachim Nettelbeck, a Prussian sailor and slave trader, who was celebrated as a national hero in Germany for his defense of Kolberg against Napoleon in 1807. However, his involvement in the slave trade was largely ignored or downplayed in public representations of him. In recent years, there have been efforts to challenge Nettelbeck's commemorative presence and confront Germany's colonial past. The article analyzes the different narratives surrounding Nettelbeck and the strategies used to shield him from criticism. It also calls for further research on German involvement in the slave trade and its connections to nationalism and colonialism. [Extracted from the article]

Media ethics has long been haunted by the question of representing human beings' vulnerability to violence. While journalism and photojournalism have an obligation to report on the realities of violence and suffering in the world, the "spectacle of suffering" is fraught with ethical dilemmas. In this essay, I seek to theorize the ethics of vulnerability to violence in media representation. As a starting point, I argue for the politics of embodiment as a generative process that constitutes differential vulnerabilities. I move then to consider the way embodied vulnerabilities play out in the media, as exemplified by recent events such as the Black Lives Matter and MeToo movements as well as in times of war, from Vietnam to, more recently, Ukraine and Israel/Palestine. This leads to considerations of spectatorship: who looks and who is looked at? How are these relations of gazing related to the vectors of social and geopolitical power? Are images of embodied vulnerability simply media spectacles that reinforce power hierarchies, or are they powerful prosocial messages that might mobilize humanitarian activism? To address these epistemic questions, I propose that the feminist ethics of care encompasses an invitational rhetoric that can guide media praxis. Care ethics is aligned with various religious epistemologies, and because of that, I argue for it as an umbrella framework that has application in a variety of national and cultural contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For people from communities experiencing poverty and oppression, education, particularly higher education, is a means to ensure upward socioeconomic mobility. The access to and attainment of education are issues of social and economic justice, built upon foundational experiences in primary and secondary settings, and impacted by students' cultural and socio-political environments. 6. The 2020 murder of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement, ongoing discourse around immigration, and COVID-19-related hate targeting people of Asian American descent prompted national calls to dismantle social and systemic racism, spurring diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives, particularly in education. However, these efforts have faced opposition from teachers who have told students that all lives matter, and racism does not exist in many American classrooms Loza. These comments negate students' experiences, suppress cultural and identity affirmation, and negatively impact student wellness and academic performance. Forged in this polarized environment, two longtime community organizers and educators, an indigenous person living away from her ancestral lands and a multiracial descendant of Japanese Americans interned during WWII, whose identities, experiences, and personal narratives shape the course of their work in and outside of the physical classroom, call on fellow educators to exercise y (2018) component of the archeology of self, a "profound love, a deep, ethical commitment to caring for the communities where one works", by adopting a framework to encourage this profound love in students, acting not just as a teacher, but as a sensei. The word sensei is commonly understood in reference to a teacher of Japanese martial arts. The honorific sensei, however, in kanji means one who comes before, implying intergenerational connection. Sensei is an umbrella expression used for elders who have attained a level of mastery within their respective crafts—doctors, teachers, politicians, and spiritual leaders may all earn the title of sensei. The sensei preserves funds of knowledge across generations, passing down and building upon knowledge from those who came before. The Student Empowerment through Narrative, Storytelling, Engagement, and Identity (SENSEI) framework provides an asset-based, culturally affirming approach to working with students in and beyond the classroom. The framework builds on tools and perspectives, including Asset-based Community Development (ABCD), the Narrative Theory, Yosso's cultural community wealth, cultural continuity, thrivance, community organizing tenets, and storytelling SENSEI provides a pedagogy that encourages students to explore, define, and own their identities and experiences and grow funds of knowledge, empowering them to transform their own communities from within. The SENSEI framework begins by redefining a teacher as not simply one who teaches in a classroom but rather one who teaches valuable life lessons that transcend colonial conceptualizations of the teacher. In colonized contexts, teachers function to maintain hegemony and assert dominance over marginalized populations. In the SENSEI framework, teachers are those who disrupt colonial patterns and function to reclaim the strengths and voices of the communities they serve. In the SENSEI framework, students are not relegated to those enrolled in classrooms. As with a sensei, a student exists to counter hegemony by embracing and enacting their cultural wealth Educators must help counter harmful narratives and encourage students to identify the strengths that lie within themselves and their communities. Collective forms of narrative that value identity can ensure the continuity of a community or a people. The stories of students' histories, traditional practices, and resilience can help disrupt harms, many that have lasted for generations, so they may not just survive, but thrive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes a political sociological look at the knee-taking in football (or soccer) inspired by the Black Lives Matter campaign. Based upon a study of the new elites, it explores the essence of this performative act and situates it within the 'obsession' with racism and anti-racism. Based less on the reality of the problem of racism than upon the emerging values of this new 'class', the celebration and promotion of taking the knee is understood as a new type of political etiquette that combines a sense of shame-awareness with a certain contempt for the 'masses' who attend football matches. The confusion about whether the support for Black Lives Matter was political or not is discussed with reference to the idea of the changed and to some extent incoherent nature of the modern elites whose values, it is suggested, are more a form of anti-matter than a clear projection of ideas and beliefs. As a result, the quasi-religious nature of the sentiment expressed in modern anti-racism and the action of taking the knee are considered in relation to the ideas of 'raising awareness' and of 'educating yourself', both of which have an implicitly elitist quality but also lack precision or clarity about either the problem being addressed or any solution to it. Often more therapeutic than overtly political, elite anti-racism is almost by necessity performative, but also comes with a disciplinary dimension for those who refuse to 'take the knee' to it. Ultimately, it is suggested that the contestation over the knee-taking gesture reflects a growing cultural divide between the disconnected globalist elites and the more grounded and situated masses who often opposed those who demand their acquiescence towards this performative form of anti-racism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present a visual computing framework for analysing moral rhetoric on social media around controversial topics. Using Moral Foundation Theory, we propose a methodology for deconstructing and visualizing the when, where and who behind each of these moral dimensions as expressed in microblog data. We characterize the design of this framework, developed in collaboration with experts from language processing, communications and causal inference. Our approach integrates microblog data with multiple sources of geospatial and temporal data, and leverages unsupervised machine learning (generalized additive models) to support collaborative hypothesis discovery and testing. We implement this approach in a system named MOTIV. We illustrate this approach on two problems, one related to Stay‐at‐home policies during the COVID‐19 pandemic, and the other related to the Black Lives Matter movement. Through detailed case studies and discussions with collaborators, we identify several insights discovered regarding the different drivers of moral sentiment in social media. Our results indicate that this visual approach supports rapid, collaborative hypothesis testing, and can help give insights into the underlying moral values behind controversial political issues. Supplemental Material: https://osf.io/ygkzn/?view_only=6310c0886938415391d977b8aae8b749 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emerging from a confluence of events – including Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM) – racial consciousness has intensified in recent years. In the wake of a long declining labor movement, there has also been a surprising upsurge in labor militancy. Are these two currents systematically related? Situating our analysis in the sociological literature on social movement spillover, we ask if there is evidence of racial justice spillover into and stimulating workplace militancy. Employing all known strikes and worker protests during 2021 and 2022, we find: (a) racial justice demands did, indeed, appear as part of workplace militancy during this period; (b) racial justice demands were voiced in both worker protests and strikes launched most heavily by unions but also by alt-labor/SMOs and by unorganized workers; (c) weekly time-series regression models indicate that BLM demonstrations stimulated the frequency of workplace protests and strikes with racial justice demands which, in turn, stimulated wider worker militancy over other issues; and (d) interdependency analysis of worker actions reveals that unionized worker protests served as a key catalyst driving other forms of worker militancy with racial justice demands. We discuss the implications of our findings for social movement spillover theory and for moving racial justice and labor movements forward. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we develop and test three propositions related to the status of a primary counterpoint of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement—"Blue Lives Matter" (BlueLM). Employing correlational and causal analyses on a wide array of data, including public opinion, news and social media, internet searches, and merchandise sales, our findings are threefold: first, we offer evidence that Whiteness is associated with attitudinal and behavioral indicators of support for BlueLM; second, we present evidence that support for BlueLM is systematically linked to White racial prejudice; and third, we demonstrate that BlueLM activity is caused by BLM protest following a high-profile police killing of a Black man, which comports with the conceptualization of BlueLM as engaging in a process of "competitive victimhood" against BLM. Together, these findings suggest that BlueLM is a new incarnation of an ongoing history of White countermobilization against organized Black claims-making activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay proposes a movements-based method for studying the development of US literature after World War II. It argues that the cultural materialist and institutionalist frameworks that have dominated post-1945 US literary studies in recent years have systematically overlooked the role of social movements as catalysts for cultural change. Through readings of the literary magazine n+1, the archival materials of Octavia Butler, and novels by a range of other major postwar US authors, it offers an account of how the collective mobilizations of the past sixty years—from Civil Rights, the New Left, and the Women's Movement to Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and #MeToo—have decisively shifted the contours of the US literary field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the films "Sully" and "Flight" and their portrayal of prevailing ideologies. Released during Barack Obama's presidency, both films focus on skilled pilots rather than passengers. "Sully" presents a white male hero who opposes regulation, while "Flight" features an African American antihero who finds redemption in jail. Both films affirm mainstream ideologies of individualism and redemption, while also highlighting the challenges and contradictions within the United States. The article argues that both films ultimately reinforce American nationalism and fail to address the social and political realities of their time. [Extracted from the article]

"Anti-Racist Journalism: The Challenge of Creating Equitable Local News" by Andrea Wenzel is a book that explores the need for news organizations to go beyond diversity lip service and actively work towards reflecting and fairly representing diverse issues and groups in their coverage. Wenzel draws from her fieldwork in Philadelphia to examine how different actors in the city's news environment confront systemic racism within their organizations. The book emphasizes the importance of sustained structural initiatives, or "accountability infrastructures," in making journalism more anti-racist. It examines the efforts of legacy news outlets, hyperlocal outlets, and external organizations in creating more equitable news environments. The book offers valuable insights and blueprints for outlets in other cities interested in anti-racist work. [Extracted from the article]

This article discusses three books that examine the experiences of women in religious contexts. The books challenge the notion that women's experiences within a religion can be easily defined, emphasizing the diversity of these experiences. They explore topics such as the Protestant deaconess movement in the United States, the role of Catholic women in response to Vatican II, and the experiences of Black Catholic nuns. The books highlight the complexities of women's roles in faith communities and address issues of race and the intersection of religion and feminism. The article also discusses changing attitudes towards traditional gender roles among Catholic women in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the activism and resistance of Black Catholic sisters throughout history. The authors express hope for the future, noting the potential for change within Catholic institutions. [Extracted from the article]

This essay serves as the introduction to TVNM 's special issue on "Pandemic TV," an analysis of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic affected principally anglophone television and television-watching in 2020 to 2021 (including television's response to corresponding events such as the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter uprisings and the fall 2020 U.S. presidential election). The introduction situates various periodizations of the pandemic, framing the dissonant temporalities of the pandemic against television's traditional approaches to informing, representing, and containing ongoing crises. The essay also introduces the ten articles contained within the special issue, which covers representations of the pandemic, the logics of television present within the videoconferencing applications that came to define communication during the pandemic, and the changing labor of television studies scholars and teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the concept of transformational resistance among youth, particularly focusing on Students of Color, Women of Color, and Chicana and Chicano students. The authors critique existing models of resistance and propose a new framework that considers the intersectionality of race, gender, and class oppression. They present a diagram with four quadrants representing different forms of oppositional behavior: reactionary behavior, self-defeating resistance, conformist resistance, and transformational resistance. The authors also highlight the contributions of scholars and educators who have expanded on this framework and explore how resistance can be nurtured in educational contexts. The article concludes by emphasizing the importance of understanding and nurturing resistance among Students of Color to transform classrooms, schools, and communities. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the complexities of studying antisemitism in the context of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East. It argues that using analogies and definitions of antisemitism can lead to inaccuracy and misunderstanding. The author suggests that antisemitism is a multifaceted concept with various origins and rationales, and that it should not be reduced to a single definition. The article also explores the relationship between antisemitism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, emphasizing the importance of seeking a just and equitable resolution for both sides. [Extracted from the article]

From the emergence of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, massive numbers of Jews, committed to resuming the Black-Jewish coalition of the civil rights era, became its avid allies. They failed to recognize that this alliance, which foundered and was sundered by the late 1970s, had increasingly been replaced by Blacks' identification with "their Brown Palestinian siblings," which rendered the conflict with Israel in stark racial terms. After the Six Day War, Black militants promoted a narrative that replaced Jews as a fellow oppressed group with Jews as iniquitous Zionists, who had established an illegitimate settler-colonial state that ethnically cleansed and victimized indigenous people of color—a narrative upon which their successors in the BLM movement drew heavily. With the rise of the BLM movement, the Black-Palestinian alliance was solidified—their wide divide on issues of race, gender, and homosexuality overridden by their shared anti-Zionism. In 2016, when the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), a constituent partner of the BLM umbrella organization, issued a policy platform identifying Israel as "an apartheid state," committing "genocide against the Palestinian people," leading Jewish organizations appeared confounded and dismissed these views as a minority position. Spokespersons of secular and religious Jewish associations condemned what they labeled BLM's "anti-Israel rhetoric," which they insisted was "totally unrelated" to the movement's "social justice work." They appeared to be unaware that far from mere "rhetoric," the denigration and delegitimization of the Jewish state had long been at or near the core of the anti-racist ideology propounded by the Black militants revered by BLM leaders and activists. Thus, in 2020, organizations allegedly "representing over half of Jewish people in America" published a statement that endorsed the BLM movement "unequivocally," while several of the signatories released additional statements condemning those Jews who had rejected the movement once it posted the policy platform. The Jewish community fractured over the issue of Black antisemitism, but unlike in earlier periods, far more Jews, identifying as "progressives," continued to support a movement whose leaders and activists espoused or tolerated antisemitism, albeit lightly cloaked in anti-Zionist garb. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay utilizes the iconic photograph of Ieshia Evans at the 2016 Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, LA to complicate dominant understandings of iconicity in relation to racial icons. We argue that Evans's photograph became iconic because it tapped into a visual grammar of respectability marked by an aesthetic of demureness. We urge critical and visual scholars to look to what we call the iconic periphery, a discursive realm of potentially oppositional or counter-hegemonic images that circulate in abundance at the margins of iconic photographs, to find a radical aesthetic with the potential for social and racial justice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]