Avoiding race or following the racial scripts?

Korgen, Kathleen Odell; Brunsma, David L.

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“…As Korgen and Brunsma (2012, p. 192) state, the ideology of colorblindness actually began as early as in the 1970s and Anderson (1970) too confirms this. She writes that in the post-civil rights era, racism gained a new definition, being reduced to “sheet-wearing goons,” allowing “a cloud of racial innocence to cover many whites” (p. 100).…”

Section: Writing Against Color-blindness and Postracialismmentioning

confidence: 94%

Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism inWhy I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage

Englund

2022

Journal of Black Studies

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Topics relating to race and experiences of racism are made visible through literary texts such as Carol Anderson’s White Rage and Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race. This paper examines the ways in which the two texts address historical trajectories of racism and how they suggest these histories should be dealt with in the present, drawing on Michael Rothberg’s theory of implication in oppressive and unjust pasts. The paper engages with these notions while also exploring Eddo-Lodge’s and Anderson’s critique of color-blindness and post-racialism. The two texts provide an opportunity to examine potential avenues for and ways of dealing with legacies of racial inequality; legacies that inevitably persist in the present moment, taking new shapes and forms.

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Section: Writing Against Color-blindness and Postracialismmentioning

confidence: 94%

Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism inWhy I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage

Englund

2022

Journal of Black Studies

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“…We need to account critically for the more recent history of race and colorblindness in American politics and culture. Not only have overt forms of White supremacy/White supremacist violence become more mainstream and lodged in the politics of the major conservative political party, but many White liberals who believed in the so-called Obama effect have let go of the fantasy of a postracial U.S. culture, especially after reckonings with police brutality (Carolan, 2020; Odell Korgen & Brunsma, 2012). With the election of Trump in 2016, came an authoritarian populist movement within conservative groups and communities, that also brought out overt and violent forms of racism in the United States (Perry et al, 2019, 2022; C.…”

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“Let’s Make the Womb Safe Again”: Ethnographic Explorations of White Evangelical Women’s Language of Reproductive Injustice

Burdick

2023

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Like broader conservative movements, the pro-life movement in the United States has a fraught history regarding its alignment with White supremacy. Yet, the whiteness of the pro-life movement is often hidden behind the discourses of colorblind racism through the U.S. cultural moment. To uncover and deconstruct this supposed “anti-racist” discourse, I study Evangelical women and their roles in the pro-life/anti-choice movement to explore their consequences on the narratives of abortion and reproductive health care from the 1970s to present. I conduct interviews and participant observation with self-described Evangelical pro-life women through ethnographic opportunities and events. In this study, I explore the intersectional issues of reproductive injustices through fieldwork and interviews with anti-choice women. These interviews and ethnographic data focus on a particular group of anti-choice organizers who prepare and oversee the logistics of this movement: pro-life women. How does it come to be that conservative women control the narratives of reproductive health care? How can ethnographic methods be utilized to unveil new information and knowledge surrounding the barriers to reproductive health care by the pro-life movement? I analyze this qualitative data to understand how the rhetoric of the pro-life/anti-choice movement invades the language of reproductive health in the United States and how a reproductive justice framework can begin to deconstruct this problematic flow.

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Avoiding race or following the racial scripts?

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Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism inWhy I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage

Against Color-Blindness: Anglo-American Trajectories of Racism inWhy I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and White Rage

“Let’s Make the Womb Safe Again”: Ethnographic Explorations of White Evangelical Women’s Language of Reproductive Injustice

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