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This article examines Morrison’s appropriation of the Persephone myth in The Bluest Eye to highlight patriarchal exploitation of women and nature, drawing parallels between environmental degradation and violence against women. The myth, which typically symbolizes life, death, and rebirth, is appropriated to critique racial and gender-based violence against African American women, especially in the mid-20th century. I contend that Morrison’s The Bluest Eye reimagines the protagonist, Pecola Breedlove, as a contemporary Persephone, ensnared in a cycle of abuse. However, unlike Persephone, who gains wisdom through her ordeal, Pecola spirals into madness, emblematic of a thwarted mother-daughter redemption arc. Morrison contrasts the myth’s fertility and rejuvenation themes with Pecola’s racial discrimination and self-loathing, epitomized by her desire for blue eyes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the gendered linguistic patterns of tweets discussing state-sanctioned and vigilante violence against African American women. The paper considers representations of Black women and Black death as engaged on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. We utilize the theoretical frameworks of Patricia Hill Collins’ (2022. Black Feminist Thought, 30th Anniversary Edition: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. London: Taylor & Francis) conceptualization of Black feminist epistemology and controlling images and Kimberle Crenshaw’s (2018. “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics [1989].” Feminist Legal Theory 1: 57–80) intersectionality to understand the ways that Black women are discussed, remembered and advocated for on social media platforms in relation to their Black men counterparts. The analysis of over seven million tweets utilizes both qualitative content analysis and computational tools. The paper’s findings concluded that there were differences related to passive and active language based on the gender of the victim of state-sanctioned or vigilante-race-based violence, as well as homophily, specifically name events most frequently used within the context of the state-sanctioned killing of Black women versus Black men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the historical significance of slave patrols in the antebellum United States, focusing on their role in policing enslaved Black people in the Southern slave states. The author reviews existing literature on slave patrols, highlighting their functions, impact on society, and interactions with other institutions of power. The article calls for a reassessment of the historiography of slave patrols, suggesting the need for further research to understand their role in maintaining white supremacy and controlling enslaved people. The author also suggests exploring the connections between slave patrols and other forms of racial violence throughout American history, including during Reconstruction and Jim Crow. [Extracted from the article]

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]

The article focuses on Sabine F. Cadeau's book, 'More than a Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands', which investigates the 1937 massacre under Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship and argues for its classification as genocide. Topics include the historical context of racial violence against Haitians, the impact of Executive Order 372 on ethnic profiling, and the ongoing struggles of Haitian-Dominicans for recognition and justice.

This paper unfolds in three parts. In Part 1, I describe how I have contended with the fraught relationships among mapping, nationalism, and colonialism in my teaching and research. When writing my first book, Contesting Race and Citizenship, I had to reckon with the positivist impulse to enumerate and map Black Italianness—and, more broadly, with the politics of visibility at a time of increasingly virulent racial nationalisms, xenophobia, and outright anti‐Black violence. In Part 2, I describe the ways my own thinking about mapping has been pushed in new directions by insights from Black geographies. Drawing on Clyde Woods, Katherine McKittrick, and Édouard Glissant—as well as essays from the edited volume The Black Geographic—I argue that Black geographic counter‐cartographies foreground insurgent Black spatial knowledges and practices that have always exceeded racial‐spatial violence, and approach mapping as both a material and poetic process. In Part 3, I conclude by advancing some tentative ideas about what it might mean to map new or alternative geographies of abolitionist struggle that attend to the interconnections between Black Atlantic and Black Mediterranean histories of racial capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The terrorizing placement of nooses and Nazi swastikas on U.S. college and university campuses has sustained a climate of fear, trauma, and intimidation. University administration responses often invoke protest from targeted communities over their approach. Examining news reports and university statements between 2010 and 2023, we critique universities’ use of the rhetorical framework of “symbols” (e.g., “heinous symbols of hate,” “racist symbols”). We argue that the “symbolism” framework reflects and reinforces a problem of minimization, if not dismissal, when responding to the impact of these events. Drawing on works by rhetorical studies scholars like Matsuda, Altman, Butler, and Ore, we argue that nooses and swastikas must be understood and treated in relation to their material, violent, spatial, and agential oppressive power and viewed through the relationship between the academic environment of white Christian spaces and anti-Black and anti-Jewish violence and exclusion. Coining the term, “technologies of violence,” we invite a rhetorical shift from hate speech and symbols to acts of violent doing and doing to within the context of historical and contemporary phenomena of systemic racism and antisemitism in academia and society. We offer an anti-racist approach to responding to and studying terroristic objects and acts on campuses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Smartphone videos can co-constitute security reality. As smartphones spread in the 2010s, videos of deadly police violence against Black United States citizens became common, and over time these videos co-constituted anti-Black police violence as a security issue, which found its expression as Black Lives Matter (BLM). This article questions the role that smartphones and video play for BLM, and argues that security theory needs a better grasp of security articulation. Mapping the mediation of BLM's first decade, the article documents that smartphones are security articulation infrastructures as bystanders routinely rely on smartphone video to articulate security. The epistemic authority of video enables BLM videos to act as infrastructural gateways connecting established mass media to new vernacular media. Video mediation denies recognized figures of authority interpretive monopoly and enables non-elites to participate in constituting security reality, creating a room for non-elite Black Americans' articulation of insecurity. The article shows that still images and videos are different in this respect, and calls for security theory to take articulation formats and infrastructures seriously. When leaving 'communication' to other disciplines or enacting government responses as constitutive of (visual) security, scholarship risks overlooking the epistemic racism limiting security articulation in 'old' mass media, and risks making security theory complicit in epistemically silencing the voices of common, marginalized and racialized people. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Asian Americans are conventionally described as "middle-man minorities," outside of dominant racial paradigms of White and Black, adjunct to White privilege and exempt from the brunt of systemic violence directed against Black people. Historical accounts of the in-betweenness of Asian Americans trace their origins to how Asian coolie labor has served to triangulate White capital and African slavery over the course of European modernity. If this is the material history of in-betweenness, what is the psychic corollary of the middle-man thesis? Through an analysis of the Netflix dark comedy series Beef, as well as case histories of Asian American patients and students, we argue that the psychic effects of occupying a racially intermediate position implicate an unexplored terrain of racial rage and racial guilt that Asian Americans are insistently socialized to hold on behalf of others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this manuscript, a new theoretical model is applied to analyze the effects of the early 2020s' dual pandemics: the coronavirus and anti‐Black racial violence pandemics. Grounded in humanistic–existential principles, the nonpossessive caring model emphasizes relational structures, relational caring, and relational nonpossession. The model is applied to the coronavirus pandemic's challenges, such as balancing disease mitigation and the interpersonal control. Through the lens of relational structures, the anti‐Black racial violence pandemic is analyzed, examining privilege and oppression's role in shaping police–community dynamics. Nonpossessive caring principles are relevant in policing, supporting Black community members' experiences, fostering police cultures of directed attention, cultivating curiosity, and valuing community input. This manuscript contributes to existential and humanistic counseling by addressing autonomy and responsibility tensions, offering guidance on existential responsibility amid mandates, and emphasizing marginalized communities' subjective experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The coronavirus and anti‐Black racial violence dual pandemics of the early 2020s brought multiple existential concerns that aligned with the four existential givens of human experience, namely, life and death anxiety, community and isolation, meaning‐making and absurdity, freedom of choice and responsibility compared to determinism, and existential guilt and shattering. These themes are examined through an analysis and summary of the seven articles included in this special issue. These seven articles substantiate a need for further research and widely implemented interventions that emphasize culturally affirming and sustaining humanistic and existential counseling practices paired with advocacy for systemic change that enhances community solidarity alongside meaning‐making and identity preservation. This approach aims to support people from marginalized communities in navigating compounded challenges during dual crises such as the early 2020s syndemic polycrisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This qualitative study investigated the psychological impact of the dual pandemics of COVID‐19 and anti‐Black violence on client‐facing social workers who identify as Black, the coping strategies they used in response to the pandemic, and the ways in which these individuals' racial and cultural identities impacted their experiences. Such individuals are at unique risk for traumatic stress and burnout. This risk was compounded by the traumatic nature of the dual pandemics and the ways in which they forced confrontation with Yalom's existential givens of human existence: death, isolation, meaninglessness, and freedom and responsibility. Eight client‐facing social workers who identified as Black and lived in the United States were interviewed using a 19‐item semistructured protocol created by the researchers that addressed the research questions. Data were analyzed using Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis methodology. Five themes were constructed: (1) Changes in treatment due to COVID‐19, (2) Emotional toll due to the pandemic, (3) Experiences related to being Black, (4) Beneficial experiences, and (5) Coping with COVID‐19 and ongoing racism. Participants' experiences demonstrated the compounded psychological risk factors they faced as social workers, Black Americans, and survivors of the pandemic, and the ways in which they confronted existential concerns. Participants demonstrated resilience by making new meanings out of their experiences and implied their successful posttraumatic growth. This study demonstrated the need for greater support of Black social workers in social work practice and policy to ease the compounded stressors they face as a result of the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The early 20th century was a period rife with racial and anti-Black violence that impacted every corner of the United States. Recent archaeological studies have been undertaken to understand these sites of violence; however, more work needs to be done. This article, focusing on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and its 2021 centennial, shines a light on how survivors, descendants, and stakeholders shape these events by using memory, the landscape, and archaeology as tools to tell their own stories in the past and present. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

#SayHerName and #BlackLivesMatter carry on the deep tradition of organized Black resistance to white supremacy. Focusing riots and rebellions in New York City, this article considers acts of resistance by Black people centering life and community juxtaposed against acts of anti-Black violence that deny Black humanity. The objectified skeletal remains of 79 Black women who were dissected in Progressive Era New York City provide a way to reconstruct Black life when framed within discussions of intergenerational trauma and the "wake," as proposed by Christina Sharpe (2016). Many of these women lived through and witnessed race riots in the city, including the 1863 Draft Riots and the 1900 Tenderloin Race Riot. I reflect upon how, as a Black woman and bioarchaeologist, I am living through and witnessing events similar to those that transpired over a century ago, and I consider what else these women might tell us about this current moment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract In a traditional New Orleans jazz funeral, the characteristic shift from mourning to joy is propelled by brass band musicians weaving melodies and rhythms together. This article is about how these thickly layered textures of sound elicit shared sentiments of lament and of joy. More than an accumulation of individual layers, the textures and emotions compose an atmosphere, in both the physical and metaphorical sense, of mutual aid. The relative openness of the sound—the fact that it cannot be reduced to its communicative content—means that it can also be heard as a political act of refusal, rebellion, or something else altogether. An underrecognized keyword in sound studies, texture is placed here in a web of relations with other keywords: affect, assembly, atmosphere, care, fugitivity, joy/lament, life/death, mutual aid, rebellion, refusal, religiosity, voice/instrument. Textures of sound do not explicitly call for an end to anti‐Black violence, and I am hesitant to even characterize the jazz funeral as an act of resistance. But I suggest that the assemblies of Black sounds and bodies "speak" to the possibility of liberation and generate an atmosphere of mutual aid. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines three research projects that investigate the response of urban black churches and communities to anti-black racial violence and social marginalization. The projects focus on the impact of gentrification, disinvestment, and dislocation on black and brown communities in Chicago and Atlanta. The article emphasizes the use of ritual practice and townhall deliberations as means of healing and empowerment in the aftermath of violence. It also discusses the economic challenges faced by pastors and seminarians in urban areas and the negative effects of gentrification on church membership and finances. The article underscores the importance of church leaders being prepared for these challenges and the psychospiritual effects of social violence. [Extracted from the article]

The article explores the book "Bitter Fruit" and its examination of racial dynamics between Black and Korean communities during a boycott of Korean grocery stores in Brooklyn. The author reflects on the book's limitations, such as its failure to analyze capitalism and class differentiation within Black communities. Other scholars critique the book for its narrow focus on racial politics and power, neglecting neoliberalism, violence, and the experiences of other racialized groups. Claire Jean Kim discusses her theory of racial triangulation and its twentieth anniversary, addressing criticisms and exploring the concept of anti-Blackness throughout history. Her new book, "Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World," revisits and revises her theory, examining the relationship between Asian American history and structural anti-Blackness. Kim argues that Asian Americans have historically benefited from being positioned as not-Black in an anti-Black society. She concludes by questioning the role Asian Americans will play in the ongoing fight for racial democracy. [Extracted from the article]

Jordan Peele's Nope (2022) features a shape‐shifting and Cthulhu‐esque alien that feeds off settlers and other arrivants in the California desert. Focusing in particular on the Haywoods, a family of Hollywood horse wranglers descended from the otherwise anonymous Black rider on the horse of Eadweard Muybridge's famous Animal Locomotion Plate 626, Nope can be read as suggesting the ubiquitous nature of anti‐Black violence. Furthermore, this essay will suggest that the informe nature of the alien, referred to in the film as Jean Jacket, and which eventually reveals itself to be something like a giant jellyfish, also mirrors the way in which Blackness has historically been—and continues to be—treated likewise as informe, or what Zakiyyah Iman Jackson refers to as "plastic." In other words, Nope suggests that Blackness is linked in the white Western imagination to plasticity and animality, as made clear by the restaging in Peele's film of the Muybridge sequence, but now featuring Jean Jacket and OJ Haywood (Daniel Kaluuya). Finally, by exploring Blackness as effectively "alien" to white hegemony, Nope suggests a Black cinema that appropriates that "alienness" and one that becomes a vernacular/informal countercinema that resists white supremacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the instability of liberal democracies and the rise of populism, arguing that traditional theories of democracy are insufficient in addressing the negative effects and unconscious defenses that shape political life. Drawing from Melanie Klein's psychoanalytic theories, the author suggests that a psychoanalytic approach can provide insights into understanding and transforming these affects. The article explores the concept of the paranoid-schizoid position in Kleinian psychoanalysis, which involves splitting experiences into good and bad objects, and argues that the resolution lies in the depressive position, where objects are seen as containing both good and bad aspects. The text also discusses how paranoid dynamics can manifest in adult individuals and groups, including political groups, and how these dynamics can lead to social antagonism and the formation of paranoid narratives. It emphasizes the importance of reparation and self-reflection in breaking these cycles and fostering more mature relationships and democratic cohabitation. The article proposes several practices that can help mitigate social paranoia and promote mourning and reparation, including everyday mourning in public deliberation, reconciliation commissions, public grieving, and creating supportive environments. It acknowledges the complexity of these practices but highlights their importance for democratic cohabitation and progress. The text also explores the role of psychoanalytic perspectives in understanding and addressing political crises and social divisions, emphasizing the need for humility, critique, and self-reflection. It concludes by considering the potential for hope and resilience in non-democratic societies. [Extracted from the article]

As we further seek to "decolonize" museum images of Africa, the museum archives of African Collections—the correspondence, ledgers, diaries, photographs, and other documents of White explorers working in Africa—suture the colonial practices that produced ways of seeing Africa—and Blackness more broadly—back onto the objects that museums maintain and display today. As increasing scholarly attention seeks to rectify the anti‐Black colonial violence of the archive, this research aims to situate the pedestrian colonial ethnographic practices and spectacular African explorer mythmaking found in museum archives within the foundation of museum anthropology and the museum itself. It also looks to the possibilities of contemporary museum practice to reframe and repair colonial museum constructions of Africa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the historical exclusion and discrimination faced by Black and Chinese individuals in the United States, focusing on court cases and legal opinions. It discusses the concept of whiteness being used to exclude and otherize these groups, as well as the ongoing struggles faced by Black Americans. The text highlights the need for cross-racial solidarity and anti-racist action, emphasizing the importance of dismantling and rebuilding the legal system to be truly inclusive. It concludes by acknowledging recent events and the potential for change when people demand government protection. [Extracted from the article]

This article explores the discrepancy between the principles of diversity and participation in Canada and the practices of its prison system. It argues that a truly pluralistic and participatory state cannot engage in carceral practices. The article highlights the overrepresentation of black and Indigenous individuals in Canadian prisons, attributing it to factors such as the War on Drugs and the prioritization of prison expansion over social programs. It also addresses the negative effects of solitary confinement and advocates for the creation of alternatives to prisons. The author emphasizes the need for a more inclusive democracy and suggests demilitarizing schools, improving education, and implementing a justice system based on reparation and reconciliation. The text draws on the ideas of Angela Y. Davis and John Dewey, both questioning the legitimacy of prisons and emphasizing the importance of democracy in fostering individual growth. The author calls for the dismantling of the prison system and the reallocation of resources to support communities and create a more compassionate society. [Extracted from the article]

The text discusses the book "A World Without Police" by Geo Maher, which argues for the abolition of the police and explores different forms of abolitionist action. It examines the historical roots of policing in the United States and the need to imagine a world without police. The text also discusses the role of the state in perpetuating harmful systems and the importance of engaging with anti-state ideas and practices. It highlights the limitations of the law and the racial divide in law enforcement, and emphasizes the role of abolitionist movements in challenging the state's definition of protection. The text encourages readers to critically examine the state and consider alternative approaches. It also emphasizes the importance of recognizing and recovering the history of queer and gender-variant revolt, as well as the need to build alternatives to policing and punishment. The text acknowledges the challenges and complexities of the abolitionist movement and the importance of ongoing dialogue and reflection. It explores different perspectives on the concept of abolition and the role of the state in achieving it, and concludes by emphasizing the importance of building broad movements and striking a balance between protecting each other and challenging the state. [Extracted from the article]

This article examines the racial attitudes of Michigan soldiers during the American Civil War and their impact on African Americans. Through the analysis of letters and diaries, it is revealed that many soldiers held prejudiced and racist views towards freedpeople, leading to incidents of violence and harassment. However, there were also soldiers who developed more positive opinions of African Americans over time. These attitudes had lasting consequences for African Americans in Michigan, influencing their experiences and opportunities for equality. Understanding these attitudes is essential for comprehending Michigan's racial history during the Civil War. [Extracted from the article]

Preparation for bias messages (PFB), represent a specific form of racial socialization, used to inform youth about racism and how to cope with racism-related adversity. Although research commonly examines how frequently PFB are delivered to children, few studies have qualitatively explored the heterogeneity in the content of such messages, making it difficult to ascertain how caregivers prepare and coach their children to negotiate incidents of racism-related violence. To address this gap in the literature, the present study qualitatively examined the content of PFB given to Black children from their mothers following high-profile incidents of anti-Black violence. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 12 mothers (Mage = 41.91) of Black children to explore how parental concerns regarding their children's safety inform the content of their PFB. Using thematic analysis, two primary themes emerged. The first theme related to psychosocial factors among caregivers that precipitated PFB (i.e., awareness of anti-Black violence, worry about the child being a victim). The second theme pertained to the different types of PFB that caregivers provided to their children (i.e., awareness of racial biases, strategies to navigate discriminatory encounters). Overall findings support and extend extant racial socialization research and have important implications for how Black youth come to understand the significance of race and racism in the aftermath of racism-related violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this study was to examine the effects of racial discrimination, depression, and Black LGBTQ community support on HIV care outcomes among a sample of Black sexually minoritized men living with HIV. We conducted a cross-sectional survey with 107 Black sexually minoritized men living with HIV in Chicago. A path model was used to test associations between racial discrimination, Black LGBTQ community support, depressive symptoms, and missed antiretroviral medication doses and HIV care appointments. Results of the path model showed that men who had experienced more racism had more depressive symptoms and subsequently, missed more doses of HIV antiretroviral medication and had missed more HIV care appointments. Greater Black LGBTQ community support was associated with fewer missed HIV care appointments in the past year. This research shows that anti-Black racism may be a pervasive and harmful determinant of HIV inequities and a critical driver of racial disparities in ART adherence and HIV care engagement experienced by Black SMM. Black LGBTQ community support may buffer against the effects of racial discrimination on HIV care outcomes by providing safe, inclusive, supportive spaces for Black SMM. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is written in response to the collective "reckoning" with anti-Black violence in 2020. We share our perspective in solidarity with the long traditions, and contemporary, everyday actions of survival and resistance from millions of unnamed members of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized communities across the world. This article calls in the field of sport management, while calling attention to ways anti-Blackness has permeated the academy. Through observations, reflections, and interrogation of literature in the field, we illustrate the invisibility/marginality/erasure of Blackness in this body of knowledge and discuss missed opportunities for sport management. With the hope that the field will transform into a more inclusive, equitable, and just intellectual space, representative of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized voices, perspectives, experiences, and cultures, and accountable to rectifying the injustices inflicted upon Black and other racialized bodies, we offer calls to action for everyone in the field to consider. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the impact of whiteness on Blackness in American schools, focusing on the proliferation of educational violence and its effects on minoritized students. It discusses how whiteness manifests in school policies, curriculum trauma, punitive discipline, and limited resources, leading to the devaluation and invalidation of Blackness. The article also addresses the historical legacy of White violence against Black bodies and minds, as well as the manipulation of knowledge to perpetuate a false narrative. The authors propose solutions such as preserving authentic knowledge, providing mental health support, addressing the criminalization of Black people, and creating curricular freedom from whiteness. The article emphasizes the importance of anti-racist pedagogy in countering educational violence against Black peoples. [Extracted from the article]

This essay explores the theme of justice in Christian worship and preaching, emphasizing the global realities of violence and systemic oppression. The author argues for a rule of justice (lex iustitiae) that should inform worship and belief, drawing on womanist theology and other liberation perspectives. The essay critiques the traditional phrase "lex orandi, lex credendi" for its insufficient ethical framework and discusses the interplay between prayer, worship, belief, and justice. It highlights the importance of justice-centered worship and preaching, the "liturgical turn" towards a focus on the body, subjugated bodies, non-dominant knowledge, and liberation, and the need to center the experiences and practices of minoritized persons and communities. The text concludes by urging Christians to consider how the pursuit of justice can enrich and reform their prayer and beliefs. [Extracted from the article]

White backlash is the immediate, violent response of some white people to the actual and perceived racial and educational progress of oppressed groups. In this paper, we take a historical detour to map this phenomenon, specifically in the history of K-12 Black education. We demonstrate that the current state of education is not an exceptional moment, but part of a long genealogy of anti-Black educational violence and white backlash. Yet, we suggest that operating from an understanding of the inevitability and imminence of white backlash offers necessary tools in the continued fight for liberatory Black educational futures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines Ta-Nehisi Coates's article "The Case for Reparations" to illuminate how he uses inventive temporal strategies to transform the grounds of the reparations debate. I argue, Coates engages in a process of temporal tampering that involves meddling with dominant temporal structures (conceptions of time that serve white supremacy) to accommodate the excessiveness of anti-Black violence. Through tactics of timeline jumping and a rhetoric of repair, Coates draws on articulations of time as a resource to sabotage anti-reparations temporalities. Instead of approaching the reparations debate through stale discursive entry points, such as financial logistics, I reveal how Coates draws upon conceptions of time to reposition reparations as a mode of worldbuilding and social transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Immigration Act of 1924, considered the most restrictive and racist immigration law in US history, implemented a numerical limit on immigrants and applied a racial hierarchy to all countries. It aimed to limit immigration from certain regions and denied naturalized citizenship to Asians. The act was influenced by nativist sentiments, economic factors, and the theory of labor competition. It had three border policies and was rooted in the era of industrialization and mass immigration. The act reflected racist ideologies and had lasting impacts on immigration policy, including restrictions on Mexican immigration and the imposition of American citizenship on Native peoples. The text emphasizes the role of white supremacy in shaping immigration policies and calls for a reevaluation of immigration policy in light of global inequalities and climate change. [Extracted from the article]

The objective of this article is to analyze to what extent and how discriminatory arguments are interlocked and mutually reinforced today in multiple forms of oppression. Foucault's concepts of biopower and normalization are adopted to analyze the persistence of racism, associated with post-structural feminism to understand the perception of gender roles. A two-step survey was applied with a questionnaire that combined socio-demographic characteristics and statements ranked in a Likert-type scale to represent discriminatory beliefs, attitudes, and practices. Bivariate correlations were estimated using the Pearson Chi-Square and Likelihood Ratio methods. The highest significant coefficients were analyzed. Results showed correlated experiences of explicit racism; feelings of fear, threat, and violence; criminalization of Black people, rejection of interracial intimacy and reproduction; criminalization and structural violence against Black people; and rejection of any kind of protection by the state. Explicit racism is intersected with patriarchal attitudes, such as women should assume their domestic role as wives and that women's behavior causes their rape, along with the rejection of LGBTQ marriage, discrimination against youths, and rejection of providing sex education at schools. The rejection of street dwellers is highly correlated with xenophobia. The poor are likely to live in overcrowded housing and less urbanized neighborhoods. Race, gender, and class discrimination are correlated to far-right political identification, with activism against public policies and laws that guarantee the rights and protection of these groups, and with a preference for a government that controls rather than listens to citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we, both co-authors and Black teacher educators, explored our experiences imagining and practicing Black liberatory pedagogical praxes through the contours of anti-Black violence. Framed through engaged and healing-centered pedagogical conceptualizations, we use Black storytelling to present narratives of our storied experiences doing the work to do the work. In doing the work to do the work, we encourage other Black liberatory educators to both create and sustain individual and collective space(s) to build their sociopolitical analyses of oppression in their worlds, to remember Black movements and moments of the past that have transformed oppression, and to imagine more justice-centered pedagogical praxes that liberate themselves and their students. Doing the work to do the work is both theory and practice; we hope that Black educators and those supporting the liberation of Black peoples can contextualize our storied lives shared here in their own dreams and practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

These numbers are up only slightly for African Americans, which made up 3.2% of LIS faculty according to the 2012 report. "Considering the Ethnoracial and Gender Diversity of Faculty in United States College and University Intellectual Communities." "The Virtuous Circle: Increasing Diversity in LIS Faculties to Create More Inclusive Library Services and Outreach.". [Extracted from the article]

Feminist geographies have long provided geographers with methodologies for dislodging hegemonic structures of knowledge production. Recently, feminist geographers have taken up the challenges posed by the theory of intersectionality to analyze questions of place, power, and difference. In this article, we advance this trajectory by arguing for an "intersectional sensibility" in feminist geography methodologies. To illustrate this approach, we elevate the work of investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931), who used qualitative and quantitative data to analyze the nature and severity of anti-Black violence in the United States. We place her work alongside that of Ellen Churchill Semple (1863–1932), a contemporary of Wells-Barnett, who promoted environmental determinism. We argue that Wells-Barnett's research practices produced geographic knowledge that articulated a standpoint that revealed spatial relationships of power that undergirded oppression; disrupted spatial analyses arising from single-axis thinking; was concerned with ending geographies of violence and injustice; and contributed to unlearning prevailing geographical imaginaries. We offer a methodological intervention grounded in an intersectional sensibility for feminist geography as well as a demonstration of more inclusive disciplinary practices that expand thinking about methods and methodological accountability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Keywords: abolition; police; power; regulation EN abolition police power regulation 655 661 7 10/03/23 20231001 NES 231001 This symposium grew from an observation. Dumm's account suggests, however, that the usual way of expanding our understanding of police power - which we might call expansion by I analogy i , so that an extension of police power is identified by its I resemblance i to police - is not sufficient. In fact, some abolitionists argued that the very institutions most eligible to take over responsibilities currently held by the police must be reckoned as extensions of the police, and hence as warranting abolition. [Extracted from the article]

Much has been written about the ethics of doing and writing ethnography, the imbalance of power between anthropologists and the communities they study, the extraction of information from interlocutors - who are often themselves on the margins of their communities - and the ethical dilemmas that arise in ethnographic fieldwork. Practicing medicine while acknowledging I al-ghayb i and upholding I amana i shaped the ethics of local biomedical physicians and researchers toward scientific inquiry that serves their Muslim community. Yet, it seems that an orientation to enclose knowledge and its emancipatory potentiality has risen alongside attempts to justify anthropology as discipline and ethnography as method, both as part of the fight against the underfunding of social science research (and also perhaps the guilt of the ethnographer). The IRB, and even the American Anthropology Association's (AAA) own resolution on ethics in fieldwork, reflect some of ethnography's constraints and purposes. [Extracted from the article]

This article proposes to look back onto the Black Canadian works produced around the turn of the twenty-first century to establish some of the decolonial practices they promoted, arguing that they remain pivotal in decentering the colonial gaze that to this day is at the root of anti-Black hatred. In the face of continued structural violence and anti-Black racism preeminent across Canada to date, it attempts to unpack the purpose and means deployed in their early texts by two pioneer Black Canadian women writers, Djanet Sears and M. NourbeSe Philip, to decolonize African cultural memory from the diaspora by teaching us to value African legacies outside of Eurocentric standards. Drawing from feminist anthropologist Rita Segato, it contends that these texts perform a "counter-pedagogy of cruelty," that is, an act of resistance to all those sociocultural practices by which people are taught, trained, and hardened to the ongoing commodification of others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article dwells in the archive documenting the existence of David Oluwale, a Nigerian-born British citizen whose life is captured historically by way of his encounters with the state. Working within and against the dynamics of violation, racialization, and dispossession structuring his archival presence, this article looks to the visual and sonic registers of an archive of Black dispossession to excavate histories of anti-Black state violence in Britain during the second half of the twentieth century. Likewise, it considers the extent to which an archive steeped in Black dispossession might offer possibilities for imagining Black emotive lives and constructing histories of Black sentience and affect even as they are produced in the context of racialized violence and duress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]