The Transnational Contexts of Early Twentieth-Century American Urban Segregation

The revolution can be improvised: An intrinsically motivating approach to equity, diversity, and inclusion

“…Unfortunately, the physical and social world has historically put EDI efforts at an outsized disadvantage for success. Geographic distance, language barriers, and xenophobic loyalty norms have long interfered with our even becoming aware of-much less finding ways to welcome-people substantially different from ourselves (Brewer & Caporael, 2006;Crisp & Meleady, 2012;Hartmann, 1976;Kandil, 2019;Li & Brewer, 2004;Nightingale, 2006).…”

“…Unfortunately, the physical and social world has historically put EDI efforts at an outsized disadvantage for success. Geographic distance, language barriers, and xenophobic loyalty norms have long interfered with our even becoming aware of—much less finding ways to welcome—people substantially different from ourselves (Brewer & Caporael, 2006; Crisp & Meleady, 2012; Hartmann, 1976; Kandil, 2019; Li & Brewer, 2004; Nightingale, 2006). Where encounters have nonetheless been become possible, self‐segregation, misrepresentation, and assimilation pressures have often hindered authentic expression and comprehension of our differing perspectives (Chatman & O'Reilly, 2004; Gruenfeld & Tiedens, 2010; Ramos et al., 2019).…”

Close distance. Social segregation in trading empires and colonies—An introduction

“…Research concerning the United States, and to a lesser extent the United Kingdom, usually stresses that patterns of urban segregation-such as separate China Towns, Black, White, and Hispanic residential zones-are rather recent trends, while early nineteenth-century cities were far less spatially segregated. 8 For modern cities, the type of populationist governmentality that relies on race-based censuses becomes an object of investigation itself, as urban planning of and against segregation can also be understood as a history of state simplifications, to put it in James Scott's words. 9 What is more, the normative categories of race and ethnicity are relatively new categories in administrative contexts of several Western countries: the Race Relationship Acts in the United Kingdom only date from 1953, while a census asking for information on race/ethnicity was only introduced as late as 1991.…”

Uneasy Experiments in Radical Cultural Comparison: Gang Violence, Ethical Cultivation and Sade's Moral Universe

“…The prevalence of illicit police violence against gang members has also been powerfully ethnographically portrayed (Goffman 2009). However, the dominant media fuelled portrayal of African American men remains, as variously, 'gangster rappers, hustlers, rapists, gang bangers, drug dealers, crack heads' (Roberts 1998: 141) who are contrasted (implicitly or explicitly) with law-abiding (white) American citizens (See also Nightingale 2006).…”

“…Gang life provides moral purpose, passionate engagement, creative expression, community and respect. For boys and young men, in particular, it is a space in which to cultivate a powerful and proud masculine identity associated not only with sexual prowess or economic success but with strength, courage, loyalty, protectiveness and self-sacrifice -even a willingness to die for one's gang family (Nightingale 2006). Violence is an intimate part of these moral goods.…”