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A sociological analysis of how immigration transforms Mexican immigrants' understandings of race in home and host countries.
Immigrants --- Mexicans --- Racism --- Social conditions. --- Race identity --- United States --- Mexico --- Race relations. --- Emigration and immigration --- Social aspects. --- Latino. --- Mexican migration. --- Mexico. --- immigration. --- mestizaje. --- race and ethnicity. --- race relations. --- racial hierarchy. --- racialization. --- transnationalism.
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In their own words, the subjects of this book present a rich portrait of the modern black middle-class, examining how cultural consumption is a critical tool for enjoying material comforts as well as challenging racism. New York City has the largest population of black Americans out of any metropolitan area in the United States. It is home to a steadily rising number of socio-economically privileged blacks. In Black Privilege Cassi Pittman Claytor examines how this economically advantaged group experiences privilege, having credentials that grant them access to elite spaces and resources with which they can purchase luxuries, while still confronting persistent anti-black bias and racial stigma. Drawing on the everyday experiences of black middle-class individuals, Pittman Claytor offers vivid accounts of their consumer experiences and cultural flexibility in the places where they live, work, and play. Whether it is the majority white Wall Street firm where they're employed, or the majority black Baptist church where they worship, questions of class and racial identity are equally on their minds. They navigate divergent social worlds that demand, at times, middle-class sensibilities, pedigree, and cultural acumen; and at other times pride in and connection with other blacks. Rich qualitative data and original analysis help account for this special kind of privilege and the entitlements it affords—materially in terms of the things they consume, as well as symbolically, as they strive to be unapologetically black in a society where a racial consumer hierarchy prevails.
Middle class African Americans --- African Americans --- Social conditions --- Race identity --- Middle-class blacks. --- black cultural capital. --- black privilege. --- consumer racial hierarchy. --- consumers. --- cultural flexibility. --- cultural racism. --- racial inequality. --- racial pride. --- racial uplift. --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Middle class --- Black people
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The story of racial hierarchy in the American film industry The #OscarsSoWhite campaign, and the content of the leaked Sony emails which revealed, among many other things, that a powerful Hollywood insider didn’t believe that Denzel Washington could “open” a western genre film, provide glaring evidence that the opportunities for people of color in Hollywood are limited. In The Hollywood Jim Crow, Maryann Erigha tells the story of inequality, looking at the practices and biases that limit the production and circulation of movies directed by racial minorities. She examines over 1,300 contemporary films, specifically focusing on directors, to show the key elements at work in maintaining “the Hollywood Jim Crow.” Unlike the Jim Crow era where ideas about innate racial inferiority and superiority were the grounds for segregation, Hollywood’s version tries to use economic and cultural explanations to justify the underrepresentation and stigmatization of Black filmmakers. Erigha exposes the key elements at work in maintaining Hollywood’s racial hierarchy, namely the relationship between genre and race, the ghettoization of Black directors to black films, and how Blackness is perceived by the Hollywood producers and studios who decide what gets made and who gets to make it. Erigha questions the notion that increased representation of African Americans behind the camera is the sole answer to the racial inequality gap. Instead, she suggests focusing on the obstacles to integration for African American film directors. Hollywood movies have an expansive reach and exert tremendous power in the national and global production, distribution, and exhibition of popular culture. The Hollywood Jim Crow fully dissects the racial inequality embedded in this industry, looking at alternative ways for African Americans to find success in Hollywood and suggesting how they can band together to forge their own career paths.
Motion pictures --- African American motion picture producers and directors. --- African Americans in the motion picture industry. --- Social aspects --- History. --- African Americans. --- Black. --- Hollywood. --- Oscars. --- W. E. B. Du Bois. --- audience. --- cinema. --- collective. --- culture. --- directors. --- distribution. --- economic. --- film. --- foreign market. --- franchise. --- genre. --- ghetto. --- inequality. --- liberal. --- media. --- production budgets. --- race. --- racial bias. --- racial hierarchy. --- racial minorities. --- racialization. --- representation. --- science fiction. --- stigma. --- studios. --- unbankable. --- underrepresented. --- universal.
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There are few places where mobility has shaped identity as widely as the American West, but some locations and populations sit at its major crossroads, maintaining control over place and mobility, labor and race. In Collisions at the Crossroads, Genevieve Carpio argues that mobility, both permission to move freely and prohibitions on movement, helped shape racial formation in the eastern suburbs of Los Angeles and the Inland Empire throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By examining policies and forces as different as historical societies, Indian boarding schools, bicycle ordinances, immigration policy, incarceration, traffic checkpoints, and Route 66 heritage, she shows how local authorities constructed a racial hierarchy by allowing some people to move freely while placing limits on the mobility of others. Highlighting the ways people of color have negotiated their place within these systems, Carpio reveals a compelling and perceptive analysis of spatial mobility through physical movement and residence.
Migration, Internal --- Inland Empire (Calif.) --- Race relations. --- Emigration and immigration --- Government policy. --- 19th century. --- 20th century. --- american west. --- bicycle ordinances. --- eastern suburbs. --- historical societies. --- identity. --- immigration policy. --- incarceration. --- indian boarding schools. --- inland empire. --- labor. --- local authorities. --- los angels. --- major crossroads. --- mobility. --- permission to move freely. --- policies. --- prohibitions on movement. --- race. --- racial formation. --- racial hierarchy. --- residence. --- route 66 heritage. --- spatial mobility. --- traffic checkpoints.
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Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines' research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others. By the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice. Scholars mounted insurgent efforts to discredit some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy in academia, but the disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields, instead embracing a framework of racial colorblindness as their default position. This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies, Seeing Race Again documents the profoundly contradictory role of the academy in constructing, naturalizing, and reproducing racial hierarchy. It shows how colorblindness compromises the capacity of disciplines to effectively respond to the wide set of contemporary political, economic, and social crises marking public life today.
Racism in higher education --- Multicultural education --- Post-racialism --- Race discrimination --- United States --- Race relations. --- Race question --- Color blindness (Race relations) --- Colorblindness (Race relations) --- Post-racial society --- Postracialism --- Race blindness --- Race relations --- Education, Higher --- Sociology of minorities --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- 20th century. --- academic discipline. --- academy. --- carter g woodson. --- colonialism. --- education. --- gender studies. --- insurgent efforts. --- law. --- literary studies. --- musicology. --- origin story. --- racial colorblindness. --- racial hierarchy. --- racial histories. --- racist foundations. --- rising opposition. --- scholars. --- social justice. --- social psychology. --- sociology. --- teaching paradigms. --- w e b du bois. --- white supremacy. --- zora meale hurston. --- United States of America --- Race --- History --- Racism --- Legal theory --- Sociology --- Theory --- Academic sector --- Book --- Intersectionality
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