The Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics

Spence, Lester K.

doi:10.1080/10999949.2012.763682

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“…NCLB, as part of the neoliberal multicultural project, was itself built on a cornerstone of official, neoliberal anti-racism. This wielding of civil rights discourse to name educational inequality and support the continued use of high-stakes standardized testing as a tool in the fight against racial inequality has continued into the administration of President Barack Obama, where, for instance, reflecting the neoliberal turn in Black politics (Spence, 2013), President Obama has said that education is the "civil rights issue of our time" (Cooper, 2011), and his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan has also asserted that "Education is the Civil Rights movement of our generation" (Ballasy, 2011). As federal policy, NCLB was thus constructed around using arguments that high-stakes, standardized testing is a tool for achieving racial equality.…”

Section: Meritocracy 20 and High-stakes Testing As A Modern-day Racimentioning

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Meritocracy 2.0

2015

Educational Policy

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High-stakes, standardized testing is regularly used within in accountability narratives as a tool for achieving racial equality in schools. Using the frameworks of "racial projects" and "neoliberal multiculturalism," and drawing on historical and empirical research, this article argues that not only does high-stakes, standardized testing serve to further racial inequality in education, it does so under the guise of forms of anti-racism that have been reconstituted as part of a larger neoliberal project for education reform. This mix of neoliberalism, highstakes testing, and official anti-racisms that are used to deny structural, racialized inequalities are a manifestation of what the author calls, "Meritocracy 2.0."

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Section: Meritocracy 20 and High-stakes Testing As A Modern-day Racimentioning

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Meritocracy 2.0

2015

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“…Across borders, conceptions of Muslim women as oppressed victims of culture and of Black men as aggressive, dangerous victimizers are constructed in relation to one another and shape the perceived identities and stories told about these groups of people. Moreover, part of the power of this racialization process is in its self-perpetuating logic, as evidenced in ongoing and renewed efforts to monitor and control the movement of communities deemed to require state surveillance and disciplining those communities in order to keep them under control (Spence, 2012;Walcott, 2014). As Rharouity's accident is taken as evidence of the necessity of the Charter and need to control the mobility of Islam, the killing of Magloire is constructed as a story about a Black man who was itinerant, and not where he was "supposed" to be.…”

Section: "A Human Being In Distress": Narratives Of Racialization Andmentioning

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Whose values, who's valued?

Hampton¹,

Hartman

2019

JCRI

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The first week of February 2014 saw the tragic deaths of two young people in Québec: Naïma Rharouity, a Muslim woman and mother of two who died following an accident in a metro station and Alain Magloire, a Black man and father of two killed by the Montreal police. Muslim women and Black men are racialized within Québec society in significantly different ways from one another, in life as in death. This article analyzes the reactions to and representations of these two deaths in the specific context of Québec and how they fit into heavily racialized scripts. A Muslim woman is strangled to death when an escalator catches her clothing; her hijab is blamed, making her a victim of her culture and dead because of the scarf she wore on her head. A Black man holding a hammer outside a metro station is deemed as so dangerous, violent, and threatening by armed police officers that he is shot dead. Both were victimized but also blamed for their untimely deaths. The challenges these stories pose disrupt assumptions and demand alternative narratives about racialized bodies. This article reveals the different processes of racialization of Muslim women and Black men, and argues that exposing the internal logic of this comparison promotes critical understanding of the ways in which racialized scripts shape and influence our lives. This further highlights ways to work towards building stronger solidarities to resist and challenge narratives that demand tragic endings for racialized bodies.

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“…Instead, structural racialized inequalities in life chances are explained by behavioural deficits, a reductive strategy that itself draws upon historical racist stereotypes of the deserving and undeserving poor. In other words, neoliberalism can be said to have radically increased the obfuscation of race from the economy, that is, the racialized division of labour, wealth accumulation, property ownership, environmental degradation, and global debt (see Bonilla-Silva 2003;Giroux 2003;Goldberg 2009;Spence 2013).…”

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Raced Markets: An Introduction

Tilley

Shilliam

2017

New Political Economy

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The central consensus among the scholars, artists, and activists who came together for the first Raced Markets Workshop in December 2015 is that 'race' may have begun as fiction, an invention of Europeans in the service of colonisation, however, the fiction of race became material over time, producing, and in turn being produced by, the manifold raced markets of the global political economy. Since that original workshop, and against a consolidated neoliberal capitalist context, the political rise of fascistic movements has intensified across the globe. Our collective provocation here is that this current conjuncture cannot be explained with reference to the exceptional intrusion of racism, nor with reference to the epiphenomenal status of race in relation to political economy more broadly nor neoliberalism more specifically. Instead we urge for the examination of how race functions in structural and agential ways, integrally reproducing raced markets and social conditions. Our Introduction opens this conversation for New Political Economy readers, positioning neoliberalism and the current conjuncture as the present political economic moment to be understood through a raced market frame of analysis, and surveying the original research articles emerging from the collaborative project. Our hope is that this New Political Economy Special Issue will be read as a timely intervention referencing a long tradition of-often marginalised-thought attending to race as productive and material, rather than confined to the ideological realm. "[T]he economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich." (Fanon 1963: 31) In June of 2017, an immense fire in Grenfell Tower, a predominantly social-housing high-rise block in North Kensington, West London, claimed the lives of seventy-one victims, according to

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The Neoliberal Turn in Black Politics

Cited by 50 publications

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Meritocracy 2.0

Meritocracy 2.0

Whose values, who's valued?

Raced Markets: An Introduction

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