The Political Use Of Racial Narratives

Author : Richard A. Pride
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252056140
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Use of Racial Narratives written by Richard A. Pride and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that politics is essentially a contest for meaning and that telling a story is an elemental political act, Richard A. Pride lays bare the history of school desegregation in Mobile, Alabama, to demonstrate the power of narrative in cultural and political change. This book describes the public, personal, and meta-narratives of racial inequality that have competed for dominance in Mobile. Pride begins with a white liberal's quest to desegregate the city's public schools in 1955 and traces which narratives--those of biological inferiority, white oppression, the behavior and values of blacks, and others--came to influence public policy and opinion over four decades. Drawing on contemporaneous sources, he reconstructs the stories of demonstrations, civic forums, court cases, and school board meetings as citizens of Mobile would have experienced them, inviting readers to trace the story of desegregation in Mobile through the voices of politicians, protestors, and journalists and to determine which narratives were indeed most powerful. Exploring who benefits and who pays when different narratives are accepted as true, Pride offers a step-by-step account of how Mobile's culture changed each time a new and more forceful narrative was used to justify inequality. More than a retelling of Mobile's story of desegregation, The Political Use of Racial Narratives promotes the value of rhetorical and narrative analysis in the social sciences and history.

Author : Leslie Hossfeld
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135931658
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative, Political Unconscious and Racial Violence in Wilmington, North Carolina written by Leslie Hossfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-02-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Melanye T Price
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479801348
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Race Whisperer written by Melanye T Price and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly a week after George Zimmerman was found not guilty of killing Trayvon Martin, President Obama walked into the press briefing room and shocked observers by saying that “Trayvon could have been me.” He talked personally and poignantly about his experiences and pointed to intra-racial violence as equally serious and precarious for black boys. He offered no sweeping policy changes or legislative agendas; he saw them as futile. Instead, he suggested that prejudice would be eliminated through collective efforts to help black males and for everyone to reflect on their own prejudices. Obama’s presidency provides a unique opportunity to engage in a discussion about race and politics. In The Race Whisperer, Melanye Price analyzes the manner in which Barack Obama uses race strategically to engage with and win the loyalty of potential supporters. This book uses examples from Obama’s campaigns and presidency to demonstrate his ability to authentically tap into notions of blackness and whiteness to appeal to particular constituencies. By tailoring his unorthodox personal narrative to emphasize those parts of it that most resonate with a specific racial group, he targets his message effectively to that audience, shoring up electoral and governing support. The book also considers the impact of Obama’s use of race on the ongoing quest for black political empowerment. Unfortunately, racial advocacy for African Americans has been made more difficult because of the intense scrutiny of Obama’s relationship with the black community, Obama’s unwillingness to be more publicly vocal in light of that scrutiny, and the black community’s reluctance to use traditional protest and advocacy methods on a black president. Ultimately, though, The Race Whisperer argues for a more complex reading of race in the age of Obama, breaking new ground in the study of race and politics, public opinion, and political campaigns.

Author : D. Lee
Publisher : Darren Kirby
ISBN 13 : 1479147788
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race-Baiting in America written by D. Lee and published by Darren Kirby. This book was released on 2012-10-06 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have We Learned Nothing From MLK's "I Have A Dream" Speech? "There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well." Booker T. Washington The Left continues to use race as a dividing issue in national politics, but is it really as bad as they portray? Join author D. Lee as he shows just how far the Left will go in it's use of racial language to stir up the American public. Outrageous, informative and enlightening, you will learn the truth about how race-baiting has become a "way of life" for the Left, even going so far as to manufacture issues that don't even exist.

Author : Clarissa Rile Hayward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107435994
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Americans Make Race written by Clarissa Rile Hayward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people produce and reproduce identities? In How Americans Make Race, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges what is sometimes called the 'narrative identity thesis': the idea that people produce and reproduce identities as stories. Identities have greater staying power than one would expect them to have if they were purely and simply narrative constructions, she argues, because people institutionalize identity-stories, building them into laws, rules, and other institutions that give social actors incentives to perform their identities well, and because they objectify identity-stories, building them into material forms that actors experience with their bodies. Drawing on in-depth historical analyses of the development of racialized identities and spaces in the twentieth-century United States, and also on life-narratives collected from people who live in racialized urban and suburban spaces, Hayward shows how the institutionalization and objectification of racial identity-stories enables their practical reproduction, lending them resilience in the face of challenge and critique.

Author : Frédérick Douzet
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813932815
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Color of Power written by Frédérick Douzet and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the contemporary politics of race in Oakland California with a detailed study of conflicts over issues like education, elections and political representation, and crime.

Author : Leslie H. Hossfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narrative, Political Unconscious, and Racial Violence in Wilmington, North Carolina written by Leslie H. Hossfeld and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Melanye T. Price
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479819255
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Race Whisperer written by Melanye T. Price and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the manner in which Barack Obama uses race strategically to engage with and win the loyalty of potential supporters. Price uses examples from Obama's campaigns and presidency to demonstrate his ability to authentically tap into notions of blackness and whiteness to appeal to particular constituencies. By tailoring his unorthodox personal narrative to emphasize those parts of it that most resonate with a specific racial group, Obama targets his message effectively to that audience, shoring up electoral and governing support. The author also considers the impact of Obama's use of race on the ongoing quest for black political empowerment. Unfortunately, racial advocacy for African Americans has been made more difficult because of the intense scrutiny of Obama's relationship with the black community, Obama's unwillingness to be more publicly vocal in light of that scrutiny, and the black community's reluctance to use traditional protest and advocacy methods on a black president. --From publisher description.

Author : Daniel HoSang
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520266641
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racial Propositions written by Daniel HoSang and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With narrative fluency and deftness, constructed on a bedrock of prodigious archival research, HoSang's book provides a sorely needed genealogy of the 'color-blind consensus' that has come to define race and recode racism within US politics, law and public policy. This will be a book that lasts."_Nikhil Pal Singh, author of Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy "An important analysis of both the exact contours of white supremacy and the failures of electoral anti-racism."_George Lipsitz, author of The Possessive Investment in Whiteness "Racial Propositions brilliantly documents the history of race in California's post-World War II ballot initiatives to show that nothing is what it seems when it comes to race and politics in America's ethnoracial frontier. Daniel HoSang provides readers with a sharply focused interdisciplinary lens though which to see how the language and politics of political liberalism veil what are ultimately racialized ballot initiatives. If California is a harbinger for the rest of the country, then HoSang's tour de force is required reading for anyone interested how the United States will negotiate diversity in the 21st century."_Tomás R. Jiménez, author of Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration, and Identity

Author : Cooper Thompson
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822384841
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Men Challenging Racism written by Cooper Thompson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Men Challenging Racism is a collection of first-person narratives chronicling the compelling experiences of thirty-five white men whose efforts to combat racism and fight for social justice are central to their lives. Based on interviews conducted by Cooper Thompson, Emmett Schaefer, and Harry Brod, these engaging oral histories tell the stories of the men’s antiracist work. While these men discuss their accomplishments with pride, they also talk about their mistakes and regrets, their shortcomings and strategic blunders. A foreword by James W. Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, provides historical context, describing antiracist efforts undertaken by white men in America during past centuries. Ranging in age from twenty-six to eighty-six, the men whose stories are presented here include some of the elder statesmen of antiracism work as well as members of the newest generation of activists. They come from across the United States—from Denver, Nashville, and San Jose; rural North Carolina, Detroit, and Seattle. Some are straight; some are gay. A few—such as historian Herbert Aptheker, singer/songwriter Si Kahn, Stetson Kennedy (a Klan infiltrator in the 1940s), and Richard Lapchick (active in organizing the sports community against apartheid)—are relatively well known; most are not. Among them are academics, ministers, police officers, firefighters, teachers, journalists, union leaders, and full-time community organizers. They work with Latinos and African-, Asian-, and Native-Americans. Many ground their work in spiritual commitments. Their inspiring personal narratives—whether about researching right-wing groups, organizing Central American immigrants, or serving as pastor of an interracial congregation—connect these men with one another and with their allies in the fight against racism in the United States. All authors’ royalties go directly to fund antiracist work. To read excerpts from the book, please visit http://www.whitemenchallengingracism.com/