Juliet Hooker
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195335361
- eISBN:
- 9780199868995
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195335361.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, American Politics
This chapter traces the development of the contemporary debate about minority group rights in political theory, and shows its lack of attention to solidarity. It (a) charts the bifurcation of the ...
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This chapter traces the development of the contemporary debate about minority group rights in political theory, and shows its lack of attention to solidarity. It (a) charts the bifurcation of the multiculturalism literature into two branches: one concerned with the justice of temporary group rights as compensation for historic racial injustice and another focused on permanent group rights for cultural minorities as enduring terms of fair coexistence; (b) analyzes the consequences of this split; and (c) argues that the two branches need to be reintegrated. Drawing on examples from Latin America—where indigenous peoples suffer from racial discrimination and racialized groups make claims relating to language, culture, and territory—it shows that the artificial theoretical division between race and culture in theories of multiculturalism can be misleading, and suggests that as a result of this bifurcation neither strand has sufficiently considered the potential effects of minority group rights on political solidarity.Less
This chapter traces the development of the contemporary debate about minority group rights in political theory, and shows its lack of attention to solidarity. It (a) charts the bifurcation of the multiculturalism literature into two branches: one concerned with the justice of temporary group rights as compensation for historic racial injustice and another focused on permanent group rights for cultural minorities as enduring terms of fair coexistence; (b) analyzes the consequences of this split; and (c) argues that the two branches need to be reintegrated. Drawing on examples from Latin America—where indigenous peoples suffer from racial discrimination and racialized groups make claims relating to language, culture, and territory—it shows that the artificial theoretical division between race and culture in theories of multiculturalism can be misleading, and suggests that as a result of this bifurcation neither strand has sufficiently considered the potential effects of minority group rights on political solidarity.
Jayasree Kalathil
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447307334
- eISBN:
- 9781447307938
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447307334.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Research and Statistics
‘User involvement’ in mental health is generally understood to mean specific activities involving service users, often driven by policy, and often defined by the organisation setting up those ...
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‘User involvement’ in mental health is generally understood to mean specific activities involving service users, often driven by policy, and often defined by the organisation setting up those activities. Existing (limited) research in this area concludes that there is an ‘underrepresentation’ of service users and survivors from racialised groups in user involvement initiatives, despite continuing overrepresentation of people from many minority ethnic communities within mental health services.Less
‘User involvement’ in mental health is generally understood to mean specific activities involving service users, often driven by policy, and often defined by the organisation setting up those activities. Existing (limited) research in this area concludes that there is an ‘underrepresentation’ of service users and survivors from racialised groups in user involvement initiatives, despite continuing overrepresentation of people from many minority ethnic communities within mental health services.
Greg Robinson and Robert S. Chang (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496810458
- eISBN:
- 9781496810496
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496810458.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
The question of how relations between marginalized groups are impacted by their common and sometimes competing search for equal rights has become acutely important. Demographic projections make it ...
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The question of how relations between marginalized groups are impacted by their common and sometimes competing search for equal rights has become acutely important. Demographic projections make it easy now to imagine a future majority population of color in the United States. This book sets forth some of the issues involved in the interplay among members of various racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities. Robert S. Chang initiated the Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation Project and invited the book's author to collaborate. The two brought together scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines to engage a set of interrelated questions confronting groups generally considered minorities. This collection strives to stimulate further thinking and writing by social scientists, legal scholars, and policymakers on inter-minority connections. Particularly, scholars test the limits of intergroup cooperation and coalition building. For marginalized groups, coalition building seems to offer a pathway to addressing economic discrimination and reaching some measure of justice with regard to opportunities. The need for coalitions also acknowledges a democratic process in which racialized groups face significant difficulty gaining real political power, despite such legislation as the Voting Rights Act.Less
The question of how relations between marginalized groups are impacted by their common and sometimes competing search for equal rights has become acutely important. Demographic projections make it easy now to imagine a future majority population of color in the United States. This book sets forth some of the issues involved in the interplay among members of various racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities. Robert S. Chang initiated the Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation Project and invited the book's author to collaborate. The two brought together scholars from different backgrounds and disciplines to engage a set of interrelated questions confronting groups generally considered minorities. This collection strives to stimulate further thinking and writing by social scientists, legal scholars, and policymakers on inter-minority connections. Particularly, scholars test the limits of intergroup cooperation and coalition building. For marginalized groups, coalition building seems to offer a pathway to addressing economic discrimination and reaching some measure of justice with regard to opportunities. The need for coalitions also acknowledges a democratic process in which racialized groups face significant difficulty gaining real political power, despite such legislation as the Voting Rights Act.
Julia H. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814752555
- eISBN:
- 9780814752579
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814752555.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This introductory chapter states how the book elaborates the grand narratives of interracial relations by emphasizing the fact that Afro-Asian relations actually have a long and densely complicated ...
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This introductory chapter states how the book elaborates the grand narratives of interracial relations by emphasizing the fact that Afro-Asian relations actually have a long and densely complicated history, and that these relationships have been all-inclusive in their politics. The chapter details the historical context of early twentieth-century America's troubled and multifaceted pairing of African and Asian bodies in various legal, cultural, political, and scientific discourses and how it maintained the racial exclusivity of American identity. At the same time, this pairing embodies the nation's general apprehension about the racialized body's relationship to American identity. This study also intends to capture how various racialized groups were influenced by each other in their struggles to negotiate the reality of the nation's exclusionary nature and in their imagining of political structures that might resolve that injustice.Less
This introductory chapter states how the book elaborates the grand narratives of interracial relations by emphasizing the fact that Afro-Asian relations actually have a long and densely complicated history, and that these relationships have been all-inclusive in their politics. The chapter details the historical context of early twentieth-century America's troubled and multifaceted pairing of African and Asian bodies in various legal, cultural, political, and scientific discourses and how it maintained the racial exclusivity of American identity. At the same time, this pairing embodies the nation's general apprehension about the racialized body's relationship to American identity. This study also intends to capture how various racialized groups were influenced by each other in their struggles to negotiate the reality of the nation's exclusionary nature and in their imagining of political structures that might resolve that injustice.
Clarence Walker
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496810458
- eISBN:
- 9781496810496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496810458.003.0009
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter calls for a revision of history and argues that one of the barriers to coalition building among subordinated groups results from a fragmentation of history. It locates part of this in ...
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This chapter calls for a revision of history and argues that one of the barriers to coalition building among subordinated groups results from a fragmentation of history. It locates part of this in something that might be described as black exceptionalism, stating that the history of black people during the 1865–1965 period of political, social, cultural, and economic change remains largely exceptional, treated as different from the history of Chinese, Mexican, and Japanese Americans during the last third of the nineteenth century and the first six decades of the twentieth century. The chapter asserts that to have a more complete and accurate idea of their own history, African Americans must study their connections to other racialized groups.Less
This chapter calls for a revision of history and argues that one of the barriers to coalition building among subordinated groups results from a fragmentation of history. It locates part of this in something that might be described as black exceptionalism, stating that the history of black people during the 1865–1965 period of political, social, cultural, and economic change remains largely exceptional, treated as different from the history of Chinese, Mexican, and Japanese Americans during the last third of the nineteenth century and the first six decades of the twentieth century. The chapter asserts that to have a more complete and accurate idea of their own history, African Americans must study their connections to other racialized groups.
Paul Schor
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- July 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780199917853
- eISBN:
- 9780190670856
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199917853.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century, American History: 20th Century
By telling how the US census classified and divided Americans by race and origin from the founding of the United States to World War II, this book shows how public statistics have been used to create ...
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By telling how the US census classified and divided Americans by race and origin from the founding of the United States to World War II, this book shows how public statistics have been used to create an unequal representation of the nation. From the beginning, the census was a political undertaking, torn between the conflicting demands of the state, political actors, social scientists, businesses, and interest groups. Through the extensive archives of the Bureau of the Census, it traces the interactions that led to the adoption or rejection of changes in the ways different Americans were classified, as well as the changing meaning of seemingly stable categories over time. Census workers and directors by necessity constantly interpreted official categories in the field and in the offices. The difficulties they encountered, the mobilization and resistance of actors, the negotiations with the census, all tell a social history of the relation of the state to the population. Focusing in detail on slaves and their descendants, on racialized groups, and on immigrants, as well as on the troubled imposition of US racial categories upon the population of newly acquired territories, the book demonstrates that census-taking in the United States has been at its core a political undertaking shaped by racial ideologies that reflect its violent history of colonization, enslavement, segregation, and discrimination.Less
By telling how the US census classified and divided Americans by race and origin from the founding of the United States to World War II, this book shows how public statistics have been used to create an unequal representation of the nation. From the beginning, the census was a political undertaking, torn between the conflicting demands of the state, political actors, social scientists, businesses, and interest groups. Through the extensive archives of the Bureau of the Census, it traces the interactions that led to the adoption or rejection of changes in the ways different Americans were classified, as well as the changing meaning of seemingly stable categories over time. Census workers and directors by necessity constantly interpreted official categories in the field and in the offices. The difficulties they encountered, the mobilization and resistance of actors, the negotiations with the census, all tell a social history of the relation of the state to the population. Focusing in detail on slaves and their descendants, on racialized groups, and on immigrants, as well as on the troubled imposition of US racial categories upon the population of newly acquired territories, the book demonstrates that census-taking in the United States has been at its core a political undertaking shaped by racial ideologies that reflect its violent history of colonization, enslavement, segregation, and discrimination.
Judy Rohrer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834050
- eISBN:
- 9780824870034
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834050.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter explores the way haole is produced in relation to other racialized groups in Hawaii. Specifically, it looks at the triangulation of haole, native Hawaiian, and local identities. It ...
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This chapter explores the way haole is produced in relation to other racialized groups in Hawaii. Specifically, it looks at the triangulation of haole, native Hawaiian, and local identities. It demonstrates how colonial racialization of native Hawaiians and nonwhite immigrants (locals) served to provide negative referents for haole. It discusses how many haoles today seek to be “anything but haole” (through denial, appropriation, and application of a colorblind ideology), but how local culture and politics simultaneously work to reinforce Hawaiian and local constructions of haole. Further, it addresses how Hawaiian and local constructions of haole are based not just on an understanding of colonial history, but also on a particular set of attitudes and behaviors distinctly out of synch with native Hawaiian and local values and social norms. These include arrogance, ignorance about Hawaii's history and cultures, greed (e.g. amassing wealth and taking up physical and social space), and the assumption of a stance of victimization in response to racial marking. While these attitudes and actions are often seen in haole newcomers, they are not limited to them.Less
This chapter explores the way haole is produced in relation to other racialized groups in Hawaii. Specifically, it looks at the triangulation of haole, native Hawaiian, and local identities. It demonstrates how colonial racialization of native Hawaiians and nonwhite immigrants (locals) served to provide negative referents for haole. It discusses how many haoles today seek to be “anything but haole” (through denial, appropriation, and application of a colorblind ideology), but how local culture and politics simultaneously work to reinforce Hawaiian and local constructions of haole. Further, it addresses how Hawaiian and local constructions of haole are based not just on an understanding of colonial history, but also on a particular set of attitudes and behaviors distinctly out of synch with native Hawaiian and local values and social norms. These include arrogance, ignorance about Hawaii's history and cultures, greed (e.g. amassing wealth and taking up physical and social space), and the assumption of a stance of victimization in response to racial marking. While these attitudes and actions are often seen in haole newcomers, they are not limited to them.
