Black Movements Need Black Theorizing: Exposing Implicit Whiteness in Political Process Theory

Bracey, Glenn E.

doi:10.1080/00380237.2015.1067569

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“…It also means that the final word goes to he who has already once published his view that empowered Black voices should not be "prioritized." Standard processes are often the way for structurally empowered individuals and groups to justify the exclusion and/or mistreatment of those at the racial periphery, as critical race scholars have detailed at length, including specifically with regard to Black social movements (Bracey 2015).…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Rejecting white distraction: a critique of the white logic and white methods in academic publishing

Buggs

Sims

Kramer

2020

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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This critical reply engages in a critique of the prominence of "white logic" and "white methods" (Zuberi and Bonilla-Silva 2008) in academic publishing. We assess how the construction and proliferation of white knowledge(s) shapes analysis and interpretation, argumentation, peer review, and ultimately, publication. We call for a rejection of what we name "white distraction" and encourage the academic community to move toward more inclusive and decolonial modes of thinking, reviewing, and publishing.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Rejecting white distraction: a critique of the white logic and white methods in academic publishing

Buggs

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Kramer

2020

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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“…First, by studying civic engagement through Black oluntary organizations in particular, we are able to further understand the mesolevels and microlevels of racialized dynamics (Oliver, 2017;Rosino, 2016). Second, we are able to recenter the importance of race in social movement theorizing and mobilization through racialized organizations (Bracey, 2016;Reyes & Ragon, 2018).…”

Section: Future Directions: Civic Engagement Social Movements Andmentioning

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(Re)theorizing civic engagement: Foundations for Black Americans civic engagement theory

Robinson

2019

Sociology Compass

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Commonly known as “civic engagement,” getting involved within communities in a formalized way has served a foundational role in the development of the United States. Missing from foundational conceptualizations of analyses is theoretical and empirical research that does not center White people and experiences. In this article, I argue that researchers need to incorporate an understanding of Black American's relationship with civic engagement to increase the accuracy of literature on civic engagement. Toward this goal, I first outline the foundational conceptualizations of civic engagement. I next discuss the limitations of civic engagement theories with a focus on data sources and the exclusion of non‐White persons within foundational texts. I then highlight the historical civic activities of Black Americans that has been foregrounded in research on Black voluntary associations. This project pushes for a discussion on the relationship between civic engagement and race with a focus on Black Americans that is relevant to sociological understandings of civil society. I conclude by discussing how filling this gap has a far‐reaching impact in the field of collective behavior and social movements.

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“…Bracey (, p. 15) offers a critique of political process theory by arguing that its conception of power is inadequate: “because PPT does not theorize racial power, its conceptualization of power is inadequate for analyzing racialized movements.” He asserts that the foundation of the political process theory perspective is a White supremacist notion that assimilation is the most desirable goal of social movement action. This, he argues, causes political process theorists to focus too heavily on the state as a target and too little on culture as a factor in mobilization.…”

Section: Critiques Of Social Movements Scholarshipmentioning

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“…This, he argues, causes political process theorists to focus too heavily on the state as a target and too little on culture as a factor in mobilization. The implication of his argument is that racialized social movements, that is, movements in which the beneficiaries are “racially subordinated people,” need to be understood through both social movement and critical race theories, preferably a theory that integrates the two (Bracey, , p. 15). Moreover, if scholars shifted their analytical focus beyond policy‐oriented movements, they would uncover many more racialized movements, as suggested by the multi‐institutional politics approach synthesized by Armstrong and Bernstein ().…”

Section: Critiques Of Social Movements Scholarshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analyzing ethnoracial mobilization

Reyes

Ragon

2018

Sociology Compass

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This article examines scholarship about ethnoracial mobilization written by sociologists within the subfields of social movements and race and racism. We situate our synthesis within critiques put forward by other scholars about the treatment of ethnoracial movements within the social movement subfield. Using these critiques as launching points, we find two broad patterns in the literature: (a) a focus on ethnoracial social movements that decenters race, at times treating it as an independent variable and (b) a focus on mobilizations for racial equity that treats race as a dynamic and constructed process. Within the latter focus, we note research that investigates ethnoracial mobilization at the macro‐, meso‐, and micro‐levels. We call for more research on movements that specifically consider the mobilization and construction of ethnoracial identities. In doing so, we provide a conceptual map of the field and make suggestions for how social movement scholars employing distinct theoretical foci can engage in ethnoracial analysis. Finally, we hypothesize why there might be a dearth of research within the social movement subfield that engages in critical analysis of ethnoracial dynamics of social movements.

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Black Movements Need Black Theorizing: Exposing Implicit Whiteness in Political Process Theory

Cited by 50 publications

References 59 publications

Rejecting white distraction: a critique of the white logic and white methods in academic publishing

Rejecting white distraction: a critique of the white logic and white methods in academic publishing

(Re)theorizing civic engagement: Foundations for Black Americans civic engagement theory

Analyzing ethnoracial mobilization

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