On the Uses of Acknowledgment for Injustice: Disavowal and Deflection in Baldwin’s Thought

Ikuta, Jennie C.

doi:10.1086/719707

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“…acknowledgment of the violence of whiteness not only echoes vacuously in the world where power relationships get played out, but it also runs the risk of positioning white people, and in our case the first author, as actors for racial justice when they commit to acknowledgement without a concurrent severance of one's attachment to white dominance (Ikuta, 2022). This includes, as Ikuta (2022, p. 455) quotes Baldwin, "the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety."…”

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confidence: 93%

Radicalizing safety: A critical narrative analysis to abolish the police

Drustrup,

Hamad,

Kim

et al. 2024

Anal Soc Iss & Public Policy

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The dominant narrative in much of the world is that public safety is provided by policing, evidenced by supportive rhetoric from institutional forces including politicians, media, and large budget allocations in all levels of government. Alongside a long history of police violence, especially against Black, Brown, poor, and other marginalized people, many social movements reject the idea that policing provides safety and seek other methods for community wellness. The present study utilizes critical narrative analysis (CNA) to describe how marginalized residents of a small city in Iowa construct their understanding of personal and community safety. Their stories and the dialectic exchange during interviews illustrated several counternarratives and moments of conscientization for participants and researchers where safety was deconstructed and understood outside the power of recycled institutional narratives. Participants rejected popular notions of safety such as police, and instead embraced safety through robust relationships, community resources, and forms of self‐knowledge such as mental health. We analyzed their interviews as efforts to be humanly recognized within violent white supremacist structures, and their stories help to radicalize popular messages about safety. We highlight their world‐making abilities as they craft their own networks of community and safety outside of the state and police.

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Section: Researchers' Background Experience and Biasesmentioning

confidence: 93%