Dusk of Dawn. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept.

Johnson, Guy B.; Burghardt, W. E.

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“…The authors draw from sociological theory, which states that racial categories are not inherent or endogenous, but rather constructed around stereotypes meant to justify inequality (DuBois, 1940;Omi and Winant, 1994;Roberts, 2011;Roth, 2016;Sims et al, 2019;Zuberi, 2001). There is no single characteristic that belongs to a racial group, it is a "biological notion of physical difference grounded in ideology" (Zack, 1995;Zuberi, 2001: xvii).…”

Section: Race and Ethnicity Prediction Modelsmentioning

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“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia

2023

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While research has explored the extent of gender bias and the barriers to women's inclusion on English-language Wikipedia, very little research has focused on the problem of racial bias within the encyclopedia. Despite advocacy groups' efforts to incrementally improve representation on Wikipedia, much is unknown regarding how biographies are assessed after creation. Applying a combination of web-scraping, deep learning, natural language processing, and qualitative analysis to pages of academics nominated for deletion on Wikipedia, we demonstrate how Wikipedia's notability guidelines are unequally applied across race and gender. We find that online presence predicts whether a Wikipedia page is kept or deleted for white male academics but that this metric is idiosyncratically applied for female and BIPOC academics. Further, women's pages, regardless of race, were more likely to be deemed “too soon” for Wikipedia. A deeper analysis of the deletion archives reveals that when the tag is used on a woman's biography it is done so outside of the community guidelines, referring to one's career stage rather than media/online coverage. We argue that awareness of hidden biases on Wikipedia is critical to the objective and equitable application of the notability criteria across race and gender both on the encyclopedia and beyond.

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Section: Race and Ethnicity Prediction Modelsmentioning

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“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia

2023

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“…The specific social, political, and economic contexts included Jim Crow discrimination from the 1890s, which enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States, and which disenfranchised most Black people and many poor white people (Greenberg 2009). At institutional and university levels, scientific racism, or as Du Bois (1940) called it, “scientific race dogma,” was used to support or justify racism and discrimination where the races were defined according to a hierarchy where Black people were at the bottom (Bhambra 2014). It was a pseudoscientific belief, not based on empirical evidence, but scientific racism had intellectual support from the Eugenics movement (Dennis 1995).…”

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Black Ethnographic Activists: Exploring Robert Park, Scientific Racism, The Chicago School, and FBI Files Through the Black Sociological Experience of Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier

Blackman

2023

Symbolic Interaction

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Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier were successful Black sociologists from the 1920s to 1960s, working in an age of scientific racism and eugenics, who battled racial oppression, racist discrimination, and surveillance under the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Both struggled within and against the assimilationist paradigm, yet their ethnographic and critical insights speak out today with continuing relevance in the fight against practical and institutional racial injustice. This study selectively examines Johnson and Frazier's academic careers as forgotten ethnographer activists who have been largely excluded from the dominant narrative of the Chicago School of Sociology. This article argues Robert Park offered opportunities to these Black scholars although the white university system exclusively directed their work towards race studies. Furthermore, the white discipline of sociology failed to recognize Johnson and Frazier's critical ethnographic studies as part of interactionism.

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“…He believed that, because White society was intrinsically racist, or rather composed of "certain people [who] suppress and mistreat darker races", Black Americans needed to "fight for freedom" and defend their rights through education and political activism. [27][28][29][30] Interestingly, these 2 scholars of racial uplift did not always disagree. For example, years before DuBois unfavorably monikered Washington's Atlanta Cotton States and International Exposition speech the 'Atlanta Compromise', he had actually sent him a letter stating "Let me heartily congratulate you upon your phenomenal success at Atlantait was a word fitly spoken".…”

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The ‘Natural’ Accord of DuBois and Washington: An Environmentally Racialized Consciousness

Roberts

2023

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Dusk of Dawn. An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept.

Cited by 8 publications

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“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia

“Too Soon” to count? How gender and race cloud notability considerations on Wikipedia

Black Ethnographic Activists: Exploring Robert Park, Scientific Racism, The Chicago School, and FBI Files Through the Black Sociological Experience of Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier

The ‘Natural’ Accord of DuBois and Washington: An Environmentally Racialized Consciousness

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