Ann Russo
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780814777169
- eISBN:
- 9780814777176
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814777169.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter explores how a praxis of accountability can build communities able to hold, address, and transform conflict and manifestations of oppression and violence. It focuses on the importance of ...
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This chapter explores how a praxis of accountability can build communities able to hold, address, and transform conflict and manifestations of oppression and violence. It focuses on the importance of building values of accountability into our relationships and communities within the context of movement building for social and structural change. In it, I explore practices that help cultivate our willingness to take accountability for the ways we participate in and/or are implicated within systems of oppression and privilege. They call us to recognize, challenge, and transform the impact of systemic racism and white supremacy on our identities and relationships as well as our ideas and visions for social change. Rather than avoiding how our ideas, words, and actions contribute to harm or are complicit in systemic oppression, this chapter offers practices for taking of accountability for the impact of our words and actions as a way of building caring just communities. These practices can build a community’s capacity to address the harms of interpersonal and intimate violence.Less
This chapter explores how a praxis of accountability can build communities able to hold, address, and transform conflict and manifestations of oppression and violence. It focuses on the importance of building values of accountability into our relationships and communities within the context of movement building for social and structural change. In it, I explore practices that help cultivate our willingness to take accountability for the ways we participate in and/or are implicated within systems of oppression and privilege. They call us to recognize, challenge, and transform the impact of systemic racism and white supremacy on our identities and relationships as well as our ideas and visions for social change. Rather than avoiding how our ideas, words, and actions contribute to harm or are complicit in systemic oppression, this chapter offers practices for taking of accountability for the impact of our words and actions as a way of building caring just communities. These practices can build a community’s capacity to address the harms of interpersonal and intimate violence.
Joseph R. Fitzgerald
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780813176499
- eISBN:
- 9780813176529
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813176499.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, Social History
The final chapter briefly touches on Richardson’s second divorce but focuses on her difficulties finding and keeping employment. After holding a series of jobs in various corporate and not-for-profit ...
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The final chapter briefly touches on Richardson’s second divorce but focuses on her difficulties finding and keeping employment. After holding a series of jobs in various corporate and not-for-profit agencies, Richardson eventually earned a permanent civil service position with the City of New York, where she worked until the twenty-first century. In one way or another, all her jobs involved some kind of social justice. Over the last five decades, Richardson has paid close attention to social change movements, including Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, and this chapter discusses her thoughts about them, particularly her view that young people have the capability and vision to lead the nation to greater freedom, just as young people did in the 1960s. She advises them to replicate the group-centered and member-driven model student activists employed in the early 1960s and to avoid becoming ideological.Less
The final chapter briefly touches on Richardson’s second divorce but focuses on her difficulties finding and keeping employment. After holding a series of jobs in various corporate and not-for-profit agencies, Richardson eventually earned a permanent civil service position with the City of New York, where she worked until the twenty-first century. In one way or another, all her jobs involved some kind of social justice. Over the last five decades, Richardson has paid close attention to social change movements, including Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, and this chapter discusses her thoughts about them, particularly her view that young people have the capability and vision to lead the nation to greater freedom, just as young people did in the 1960s. She advises them to replicate the group-centered and member-driven model student activists employed in the early 1960s and to avoid becoming ideological.
Tanya Katerí Hernández
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781479830329
- eISBN:
- 9781479840748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479830329.003.0007
- Subject:
- Law, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter will first summarize how the book’s review of multiracial discrimination cases reveals the enduring power of white privilege and the continued societal problem with non-whiteness in any ...
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This chapter will first summarize how the book’s review of multiracial discrimination cases reveals the enduring power of white privilege and the continued societal problem with non-whiteness in any form. Specifically, the cases illustrate the perspective that non-whiteness taints rather than the concern that racial mixture itself is worrisome. Yet this insight is lost in the midst of the multiracial-identity scholars’ singular focus on promoting mixed-race identity. Multiracial victims of discrimination will be better served by legal analyses that seek to elucidate the continued operation of white supremacy. Such a focus will also better serve all Equality Law and public policies. But this can only be done by shifting away from a focus on personal individual identity recognition to a focus on group based racial realities. The chapter concludes with a proposal for an explicit “socio-political race” lens for analyzing matters of discrimination rather than the Personal Identity Equality perspective that misapprehends the social significance of race in the assessment of equality problems. The book’s emphasis on a socio-political race perspective meaningfully preserves an individual’s ability to assert a varied personal identity, while providing a more effective tool for addressing racism and pursuing equality.Less
This chapter will first summarize how the book’s review of multiracial discrimination cases reveals the enduring power of white privilege and the continued societal problem with non-whiteness in any form. Specifically, the cases illustrate the perspective that non-whiteness taints rather than the concern that racial mixture itself is worrisome. Yet this insight is lost in the midst of the multiracial-identity scholars’ singular focus on promoting mixed-race identity. Multiracial victims of discrimination will be better served by legal analyses that seek to elucidate the continued operation of white supremacy. Such a focus will also better serve all Equality Law and public policies. But this can only be done by shifting away from a focus on personal individual identity recognition to a focus on group based racial realities. The chapter concludes with a proposal for an explicit “socio-political race” lens for analyzing matters of discrimination rather than the Personal Identity Equality perspective that misapprehends the social significance of race in the assessment of equality problems. The book’s emphasis on a socio-political race perspective meaningfully preserves an individual’s ability to assert a varied personal identity, while providing a more effective tool for addressing racism and pursuing equality.
Tina P. Kruse
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190849795
- eISBN:
- 9780190849825
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190849795.003.0007
- Subject:
- Social Work, Communities and Organizations, Children and Families
This chapter examines the most relevant youth contexts in the United States at this socio-historical point in time. To do so with any accuracy requires drawing on multiple fields of inquiry—youth ...
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This chapter examines the most relevant youth contexts in the United States at this socio-historical point in time. To do so with any accuracy requires drawing on multiple fields of inquiry—youth contexts are not solely the study of developmental scientists. Thus, this chapter reviews prominent theories of cultural theorists, sociologists, educational researchers, and political scientists to establish a depiction of the contemporary American youth context. The aim is a macro-level view of the policies and practices influencing the individual youth micro-level, including the reader’s frame of reference. A brief examination of current cultural narratives about young people can inform analysis about limiting parameters: youth who lead social change are often portrayed as either “cute” or “dangerous,” with both views disparaging their efforts and undermining their credible power.Less
This chapter examines the most relevant youth contexts in the United States at this socio-historical point in time. To do so with any accuracy requires drawing on multiple fields of inquiry—youth contexts are not solely the study of developmental scientists. Thus, this chapter reviews prominent theories of cultural theorists, sociologists, educational researchers, and political scientists to establish a depiction of the contemporary American youth context. The aim is a macro-level view of the policies and practices influencing the individual youth micro-level, including the reader’s frame of reference. A brief examination of current cultural narratives about young people can inform analysis about limiting parameters: youth who lead social change are often portrayed as either “cute” or “dangerous,” with both views disparaging their efforts and undermining their credible power.
Susan Courtney
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- March 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190459963
- eISBN:
- 9780190459994
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190459963.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Split Screen Nation closes with a series of meditations on the continued circulation and contestation of screen maps of the West, the South, and the nation imagined through these. Contemporary and ...
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Split Screen Nation closes with a series of meditations on the continued circulation and contestation of screen maps of the West, the South, and the nation imagined through these. Contemporary and historical examples considered include the following: a 1953 theatrical short, Operation A-Bomb, that attempts to fortify the nation by simultaneously conquering its modern “red” foe from without and healing its racial divide within; news film imagery telecast from Selma, Alabama on Bloody Sunday, 1965; commemorations of Bloody Sunday’s fiftieth anniversary, including Selma (2014); a scientific proposal linking climate change to the (filmic) record of atomic testing; viral cell phone videos of police brutality as screen maps of systemic racism throughout the nation; and the massacre of the Charleston Nine and its aftereffects, including but not limited to the removal the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s statehouse grounds.Less
Split Screen Nation closes with a series of meditations on the continued circulation and contestation of screen maps of the West, the South, and the nation imagined through these. Contemporary and historical examples considered include the following: a 1953 theatrical short, Operation A-Bomb, that attempts to fortify the nation by simultaneously conquering its modern “red” foe from without and healing its racial divide within; news film imagery telecast from Selma, Alabama on Bloody Sunday, 1965; commemorations of Bloody Sunday’s fiftieth anniversary, including Selma (2014); a scientific proposal linking climate change to the (filmic) record of atomic testing; viral cell phone videos of police brutality as screen maps of systemic racism throughout the nation; and the massacre of the Charleston Nine and its aftereffects, including but not limited to the removal the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s statehouse grounds.
