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Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
The history of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) in Oakland and San Jose, California, over nearly three decades provides a vivid illustration of social movement intersectionality in action and illuminates the relationships that link social theory to social movements. Serving the interests and aspirations of low-wage immigrant women workers with limited English-language skills, AIWA confronts diffuse and differential forms of interlocking oppression and deploys intersectionality to help activists change multiple states of subordinated voicelessness and devaluation into an empowered sense of self-representation and self-activity. For AIWA, an intersectional optic on social movement struggles creates insurgent identities that are dynamic and dialogic, more fluid and flexible than single-axis approaches. AIWA does not embrace intersectionality simply because its members have been wounded by racism, sexism, imperialism, class exploitation, and language discrimination but because each realm of these experiences has helped the organization to see how power works and how new identities are needed to combat its intersectional reach and scope. AIWA’s deployment of intersectionality stems from the fact that the very problems its members face are themselves both intersectional and radical.
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From Plessy to Ferguson
The killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014 and the responses to it evidence a long-standing pattern in U.S. law, history and culture of not only condoning injustice but disavowing its very existence. The many miscarriages of justice in this case reveal that the nation has never really moved beyond the forms of racial domination articulated in the Dred Scott and Plessy Supreme Court cases decided during the regimes of slavery and Jim Crow segregation. When considered in the context of how the racialization of space and the spatialization of race create cumulative vulnerabilities for aggrieved individuals and groups, what transpired during and after the killing of Michael Brown is only one more instance of slavery unwilling to die.
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Youthscapes
Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings young people have created for themselves through their engagements with popular cultures, national ideologies, and global markets.The term \"youthscapes\" places local youth practices within the context of ongoing shifts in national and global forces. Using this framework, the book revitalizes discussions about youth cultures and social movements, while simultaneously reflecting on the uses of youth as an academic and political category. Tracing young people's movements across physical and imagined spaces, the authors examine various cases of young people as they participate in social relations; use and invent technology; earn, spend, need, and despise money; comprise target markets while producing their own original media; and create their own understandings of citizenship. The essays examine young Thai women working in the transnational beauty industry, former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, Latino youth using graphic art in political organizing, a Sri Lankan refugee's fan relationship with Jackie Chan, and Somali high school students in the United States and Canada. Drawing on methodologies and frameworks from multiple fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and film studies, the volume is useful to those studying and teaching issues of youth culture, popular culture, globalization, social movements, education, and media.By focusing on the intersection between globalization studies and youth culture, the authors offer a vital contribution to the development of a new, interdisciplinary approach to youth culture studies.
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Midnight at the Barrelhouse
In this first biography of Johnny Otis, George Lipsitz tells the largely unknown story of a towering figure in the history of African American music and culture who was, by his own description, “black by persuasion.” It is a chronicle of a life rich in both incident and inspiration, as well as an exploration of the complicated nature of race relations in twentieth-century America.
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The possessive investment in whiteness : how white people profit from identity politics
George Lipsitz's classic book The Possessive Investment in Whiteness argues that public policy and private prejudice work together to create a possessive investment in whiteness that is responsible for the racialized hierarchies of our society. Whiteness has a cash value: it accounts for advantages that come to individuals through profits made from housing secured in discriminatory markets, through the unequal educational opportunities available to children of different races, through insider networks that channel employment opportunities to the friends and relatives of those who have profited most from past and present discrimination, and especially through intergenerational transfers of inherited wealth that pass on the spoils of discrimination to succeeding generations. White Americans are encouraged to invest in whiteness, to remain true to an identity that provides them with structured advantages.
In this twentieth anniversary edition, Lipsitz provides a new introduction and updated statistics; as well as analyses of the enduring importance of Hurricane Katrina; the nature of anti-immigrant mobilizations; police assaults on Black women, the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, and Freddie Gray; the legacy of Obama and the emergence of Trump; the Charleston Massacre and other hate crimes; and the ways in which white fear, white fragility, and white failure have become drivers of a new ethno-nationalism.
As vital as it was upon its original publication, the twentieth anniversary edition of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness is an unflinching but necessary look at white supremacy.
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The Race of Sound, by Nina Sun Eidsheim: What Good Work Does and Why It Matters
Like previous Kalfou symposiums—on race and science, Black and Indigenous alliances for environmental justice, Aileen Moreton-Robinson’s The White Possessive, Black acts and arts of radicalism, and the scholarship of George J. Sánchez and Lorgia García-Peña—this convening brings together serious artists, activists, and academics who know that there is important work to be done, and that it is up to us to do it. For more than a decade authors in this journal have argued that race is a collective social, legal, and discursive construction, not an immutable and embodied property of individuals. As a biological fiction that has become a social fact—because people believe it exists and act according to that belief—racism and the colonial ways of knowing and being attached to it create, perpetuate, and exacerbate injustice, exploitation, and oppression. Racism and coloniality are crucibles in which other cruelties are learned and legitimated. Yet racism never appears in isolation. As Cedric Robinson has shown, racism and coloniality serve as excuses for and justifications of injustice. They concern power as well as prejudice, property as well as pigment, interests as well as attitudes. Virtually every article in Kalfou has shown that racism and coloniality migrate freely across discourses and social practices. They do not have one site of origin or expression. Nina Sun Eidsheim’s book and the responses in this symposium reveal how racial knowledge emanates from diverse forms of entrainment, that race seems to be real because we have been trained to think of it that way. By asking and answering questions about the concrete mechanisms, practices, and processes that make race seem natural, necessary, and inevitable, the authors convened here offer ways to address and redress the collective, cumulative, and continuing cruelty of racial subordination enacted both overtly and covertly in myriad ways.
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The Race of Sound, by Nina Sun Eidsheim: What Good Work Does and Why It Matters
Lipsitz talks about Nina Sun Eidsheim's The Race of Sound. The Race of Sound illuminates the dual meanings ascribed to the word \"voice.\" From the standpoint of musicology and physiology, voice refers to the sounds produced in the larynx. From the standpoint of politics and rhetoric, voice connotes a particular opinion or attitude. Eidsheim's intervention helps us to discern and comprehend new ways of understanding both meanings of the word, as well as the relations that connect them. Although physical voices receive recognition and praise for putatively authentic and original qualities, Eidsheim demonstrates that vocal performances actually transmit a set of culturally learned sounds, figures, and devices. Similarly, giving voice to ideas, opinions, arguments, and analyses requires resorting to a reservoir of patterned acts of speaking, writing, and persuading that has been developed within the social life of language.
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