Public and Academic Questions on Race: The Problem with Racial Controversies

Dowd, Jeffrey

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“…In addition to this, there is a body of literature that suggests increased political news choice has a polarizing and inequity‐inducing effect by allowing individuals the opportunity to select like‐minded news and entertainment (Dowd ; Stroud ). This effect, however, has been limited to only the most engaged partisans and ideologues.…”

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Evolving Learning: The Changing Effect of Internet Access on Political Knowledge and Engagement (1998–2012)

Morris

2017

Sociological Forum

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This study addresses the changing role of Internet usage on the political knowledge and participation gap between individuals of low and high socioeconomic status (SES). Analysis of data collected by the Pew Research Center's Biennial Media Consumption Studies (1998–2012) shows that the percentage of the population that accidentally encounters political information online has risen dramatically. Results show that accidental exposure and SES are positively related to political knowledge, and that accidental exposure reduces the SES knowledge gap. Moreover, accidental exposure appears to be mitigating the SES voting gap at an increasing rate over time.

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Section: Accidental Information Acquisitionmentioning

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Evolving Learning: The Changing Effect of Internet Access on Political Knowledge and Engagement (1998–2012)

Morris

2017

Sociological Forum

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“…Many of the terms developed are confusing, because like our respondents, these terms fail to name racism specifically. Frankenberg (1993) argues that researchers use the term color-blind out of convenience and this is problematic because it obscures complex political and social dynamics (see also Dowd 2014). Yet her concept, color evasion, also does not capture the central issue of racism and focuses again on color.…”

Section: Color-blind Racism Ideology and Racism Evasivenessmentioning

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Walk the Walk but Don't Talk the Talk: The Strategic Use of Color‐Blind Ideology in an Interracial Social Movement Organization

Beeman

2015

Sociological Forum

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In this study, I examine the strategies interracial organizations use in the twenty‐first century, where color‐blind ideology dominates. Much theoretical work on racism examines how it has evolved during different historical periods, but this work does not address how these changing forms of racism affect social movement organizations, particularly those on the left. While the literature on color‐blind ideology has examined how it is expressed by African Americans and European Americans separately, my work investigates how color‐blind ideology operates when European Americans and people of color are working together in the same organizational setting. Studies of social movements have examined how organizational culture affects strategies but have neglected how external racist culture and color‐blind ideology impacts organizational strategies. Findings from 3 years of ethnographic data collected on an interracial social movement organization and its corresponding coalition suggest that activists in interracial organizations use racism evasiveness strategically to maintain solidarity. I conceptualize racism evasiveness as the action resulting from color‐blind ideology within a larger system of racism. While activists perceive advantages to these strategies, there are also long‐term negative consequences. Without explicitly naming and addressing racism, progressive organizations may be limited in their ability to challenge systemic racism.

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“… 15. Dowd (2014: 499) contended, “Most sociologists might also conclude that such an exercise is futile because individuals are often incoherent or contradictory in their attitudes and beliefs about race.” …”

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We’ve Been Framed! A Focus on Identity and Interaction for a Better Vision of Racialized Social Movements

Hughey

2015

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Social movement scholarship has historically focused on both relative deprivation and resource mobilization theories. In recent years, the field has shifted attention to concentrate on “framing.” Despite this move, less attention has been paid to both racialized scripts of microlevel interaction and the processes of identity formation that constitute the nuance of everyday lived experiences of collective action. Drawing from comparative ethnographic studies with a white nationalist organization and a white antiracist organization, I demonstrate how a conventional frame analysis—in which both movements construct a problem and assign blame, propose a prognostic strategy and tactic, and offer a rationale for action—would leave us with a bifurcated picture of two distinct and antagonistic movements and actors that share little in common. By shifting attention to interactional scripts and identity formation, we are better positioned to specify the empirical mechanisms by which collective action occurs; clarify the operation of racism (rather than simply describe its effects); avoid reification of frames; circumvent the reduction of structural dynamics to cognitive dilemmas, and accurately depict the intersubjectively shared scenarios, dramaturgical rules, and collective processes of group boundary making that constitute the everyday experience of movement actors. Importantly, we can then reveal patterned similarities between two groups that framing analysis would depict as incommensurate and antagonistic but that together ultimately rationalize and legitimate the reproduction of white supremacy regardless of resource attainment, political ideology, or frame alignment.

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Public and Academic Questions on Race: The Problem with Racial Controversies

Cited by 4 publications

References 12 publications

Evolving Learning: The Changing Effect of Internet Access on Political Knowledge and Engagement (1998–2012)

Evolving Learning: The Changing Effect of Internet Access on Political Knowledge and Engagement (1998–2012)

Walk the Walk but Don't Talk the Talk: The Strategic Use of Color‐Blind Ideology in an Interracial Social Movement Organization

We’ve Been Framed! A Focus on Identity and Interaction for a Better Vision of Racialized Social Movements

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