Urban Renewal and “Ghetto” Development in Baltimore:  Two Sides of the Same Coin

Blessett, Brandi

doi:10.1177/0275074020930358

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“…The analytical frame of CRT anchors race at the center of its work (Blessett, 2020). CRT positions that race is embedded in every aspect of life in the United States—ranging from history, legal doctrine, judicial practices, public policies, economic mobility, health outcomes, educational attainment, and so on (Blessett, 2020; Crenshaw et al, 1995; Stefancic & Delgado, 2000). This implyies that racism is endemic, institutional and systematic, CRT advances that racism is not an aberration, but rather a fundamental way of organizing society (Bell, 1987; Solórzano & Bernal, 2001).…”

Section: Literature Review and Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…CRT examines systems, structures, institutions, organizations, and practices that reinforce and sustain the marginalization of Black people. The analytical frame of CRT anchors race at the center of its work (Blessett, 2020). CRT positions that race is embedded in every aspect of life in the United States—ranging from history, legal doctrine, judicial practices, public policies, economic mobility, health outcomes, educational attainment, and so on (Blessett, 2020; Crenshaw et al, 1995; Stefancic & Delgado, 2000).…”

Section: Literature Review and Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The power of protest on policing: Black Lives Matter protest and civilian evaluation of the police

Wright

Gaozhao

Dukes

et al. 2022

Public Administration Review

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In 2020, police brutality against Black Americans catalyzed Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests across all 50 states. Though BLM protests continue to permeate society, few scholars explore how these protests change Americans' perceptions of the police. To investigate this phenomenon more meticulously, we administered an online survey experiment—oversampling Black American participants—to measure how protest culture, specifically BLM protests, influences civilians' perceptions of the police. Our survey found that (1) Black American participants have a lower evaluation of police performance, but a higher evaluation of the BLM Movement than White American participants; (2) the presence of a general protest negatively impacts peoples' perception of safety, police trustworthiness, and police performance; and (3) a BLM protest casts a stronger effect on White American participants than on Black American participants. Using Critical Race Theory and QuantCrit these findings suggest that the visibility of BLM protests changes both Black and White perceptions of the police to varying degrees.

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Section: Literature Review and Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Review and Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The power of protest on policing: Black Lives Matter protest and civilian evaluation of the police

Wright

Gaozhao

Dukes

et al. 2022

Public Administration Review

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“…Along these lines, returning JPNA editorial board member Brandi Blessett (2020) challenges normative public administration practices aimed at urban renewal to re-prioritize equity and inclusion above the current focus on effectiveness, efficiency, and economy. Blessett (2020) explains that using a race conscious lens to develop and implement urban renewal policies is necessary to make it more accessible to our diverse citizenry and more responsive to the complexities of our current environment. In doing so, we may perhaps take advice from new JPNA Book Review associate editor Nicole R. Elias and her coauthor, who urge the use of pop culture in both public administration scholarship and pedagogy to shape perceptions about public administration by providing important framing of messages both about the field and for the field, particularly during this time of repetitious messaging about COVID-19, police brutality, immigrant detention, and family separation (McCandless & Elias, 2020).…”

Section: Social Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Inaugural Editor’s Introduction: What Have We Learned From ‘The Lost Year’?

Carroll¹

2021

J. Public Nonprof Aff.

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The discovery of COVID-19 in the Life Care Center assisted living facility in Kirkland, Washington in the early part of 2020 marked the beginning of the virus' outbreak in the United States. And, more than a year later, the Coronavirus global pandemic continues to affect our lives, our economy, and our institutions in monumental ways. So, as the vaccine rollout has given us some long awaited hope that we will see a return to normalcy at some point this year, it is important for us to reflect on some of the important lessons learned during this lost year of being housebound and living virtually. Institutions MatterThis past year has reminded us, perhaps more than any other year in recent memory, that institutions matter. From a highly contested presidential election, to vaccine development and distribution, to our impending economic recovery, public administrators played a crucial role in preserving and protecting the institutions that comprise the very fabric of our society and will continue to do so going forward, for the implications of strong leadership and good governance are essential for upholding our democratic ideals. In this regard, new JPNA editorial board member Tina Nabatchi and her coauthors have noted the threat to our democratic foundations and sense of "publicness" of public administration as a result of rising distrust, political polarization, and populism (Ventriss et al., 2019). And, the authors correctly suggest that those of us in the field of public administration need to use our voices to strengthen the ties between democracy, public administration, and public values through our teaching, research, and community-engaged scholarship (Ventriss, 2019).The COVID-19 global health pandemic showed us the importance of leadership and our governing institutions, including coordination among them, to effectively respond to a public health crisis or perhaps any future crisis we might face. Unfortunately, vertical and horizontal collaboration among governing jurisdictions in the United States in the early days of the pandemic were largely drawn along political party lines. New JPNA associate editor Davia Downey and her coauthor suggest this was a reflection of the limitations of American-style federalism; however, the creation and implementation of permanent intergovernmental forums would provide for better organizational capacity for collaboration that is needed for an effective, holistic response to crises such as a global pandemic (Downey & Myers, 2020). At the state level, returning JPNA editorial board member Naim Kapucu and his coauthors examined and highlighted the differences in crisis leadership response to COVID-19 of the governors in the four most populated U.S. states (Sadiq et al., 2020). The authors remind us that, when facing a high level of uncertainty, decisive guidance, effective crisis communication, and collaborations with relevant stakeholders to help build coalitions and mobilize resources

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“…As Black neighbors moved into Northern cities, white families increasingly moved to suburbs (Larson, 2020). While the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1900s made strides fighting legalized segregation, white flight compounded by discriminatory housing and redlining policies as well as de facto segregation further disadvantaged many communities of color in both cities and suburbs (Blessett, 2020).…”

Section: Institutional Racism At a Glance: Segregation And Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%