Your President Is (a) White (Supremacist): Post Obama and Black Feminist Politics

Harris, Duchess

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“…Specifically, paying close attention to the words and experiences of my respondents. Black feminist methods facilitated the development of a conceptual and theoretical framework to help scholars engage in a more holistic, comprehensive, and accurate, assessment of the socio-political lives of secondarily marginalized populations generally, and secondarily marginalized Black communities within the United States more specifically (Cohen 1999; Collins 2000; Simien 2006; Harris 2009; Dawson 2003; Alexander-Floyd 2017; King 1988; Jordan-Zachery 2014; Roth 1999; Moffett-Bateau 2015). Beyond that, through the understanding of residential violence as a multi-pronged dynamic not limited to the physical violation, residential violence helps researchers develop an enhanced comprehension of the ever-present and everyday nature of localized violence in the lives of secondarily marginalized populations within the United States (Rios 2011; Richie 2012; Ritchie 2017; Feimster 2011; McGuire 2011; Alexander-Floyd 2016; Mitchell 2020; Balfour 2015; Haley 2016; Krivo, Peterson, and Kuhl 2009).…”

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“…The study of Black women's politics is a growing subfield within political science (Prestage 1991; Harris-Perry 2011; Simien 2005; Farris and Holman 2014; Brown and Young 2015; Isoke 2013; Alexander-Floyd 2017; Brown 2014; Mitchell 2017; Jordan-Zachery 2014; Perry 2013; Gay and Tate 1998). While much of this research centers around Black women's participation in traditional electoral politics, there is a growing interest in Black women's extra-systemic politics (Jordan-Zachery 2018; Alexander-Floyd 2016; James 2016; Isoke 2013; Berger 2006; Watkins-Hayes 2019; Carter and Willoughby-Herard 2018; Simien 2006; Harris 2009; Cohen 2005). Similarly, a significant portion of the study of Black women's politics within political science focuses on Black women with the resources to engage in the aforementioned traditional politics.…”

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“…The research I develop within this article, adds to the literature on Black women's politics, by focusing on the politics of secondarily marginalized Black women, many of whom have firsthand experiences with residential violence (Cohen 1999; Richie 2012). Collecting in-depth interviews and following women around as they went about their political lives, allowed me to foreground their experiences in this study (The Combahee River Collective 1974; Evans-Winters 2019; hooks 1981; Moffett-Bateau 2015; Collins 2000; Simien 2006; Alexander-Floyd 2017; Harris 2009; Roth 1999). Through integrating the Black feminist theoretical framework of centering the most marginalized within my work, I am able to discern the unique socio-political contributions being made by Black women who have learned how to survive residential violence and then move forward politically (Collins 2000; Simien 2006; Harris 2009; Dawson 2003; Hanchard 2006).…”

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“…In order to better understand the socio-political impact of residential violence, I use Black feminist political theory to parse through the ethnographic data collected for this project (Moffett-Bateau 2015; Alexander-Floyd 2016; Harris 2009; Roth 1999). In doing so, I have developed a concept I designated, the “socio-political community.” This concept illustrates the centrality of belonging, to the development of individual politics and social-political tools (hooks 2008; Masuoka and Junn 2013; Wong 2019; Harris-Lacewell 2004).…”

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“I Can’t Vote if I Don’t Leave My Apartment”: The Problem of Neighborhood Violence and its Impact on the Political Behavior of Black American Women Living Below the Poverty Line

Moffett-Bateau

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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Prior research examining political behavior outside of the United States, has shown that violence can have a mixed impact on political engagement. Building on that work, this research examines whether violence shapes the political lives of poor Black women within the United States. I argue, neighborhood violence in the United States can and often does, shape the political behavior of Black women living below the poverty line in public housing. I use ethnographic data to parse out a conceptual framework which articulates connections between residential violence experienced by Black women living in poverty and their politics. Ultimately, my analysis shows violence can cause isolation and harm, and in doing so dampen political engagement. When residents experienced high levels of violence and did not feel a sense of belonging or connection to their neighborhood, they rarely engage d in visible political behaviors. However, residents who expressed a sense of connection to their neighborhood continued to engage in politics. Those residents who had interpersonal relationships within their residential neighborhood, frequently maintained and sometimes further developed their individual politics, despite and sometimes in response to, personal experiences with residential violence.

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Section: Theoretical Framework: Residential Violence + Black Women's ...mentioning

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“I Can’t Vote if I Don’t Leave My Apartment”: The Problem of Neighborhood Violence and its Impact on the Political Behavior of Black American Women Living Below the Poverty Line

Moffett-Bateau

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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State-Sanctioned Violence

Delgado¹

2020

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The role and function of the state is not to harm its residents but rather to help them develop their potential and meet their basic human needs. The importance of violence is well attested to by Oxford University Press devoting a book series on interpersonal violence. However, state-sanctioned violence in the United States is not, for example. The saying “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable” comes to mind in writing this book because it holds personal meaning that goes beyond being a social worker and a person of color (Latinx). The basic premise and interconnectedness of the themes in this book were reinforced and expanded in the course of writing. Bonilla-Silva (2019, p. 14) states, “We are living, once again, in strange racial times,” which, indeed, is true. The hope is that readers appreciate the numerous threads between themes, some of which have not gotten close attention by the general public and scholars. Harris and Hodge (2017), for example, adeptly interconnect environmental, food, and school-to-pipeline social injustice issues among urban youth of color, illustrating how oppressions converge. Future scholarship will connect even more dots to create the mosaic that constitutes state-sanctioned violence. It was a relief to see the extent of scholarship on the topics addressed in this book. Bringing together this literature, public reports, and the experiences from those currently dealing with state-sponsored violence allowed for a consistent narrative to unfold. Writing a book is always a process of discovery. There is a body of scholarship to buttress the central arguments of this book, but no such literature addressing the structural interconnectedness of the types of state-sanctioned violence for social work. The sociopolitical, interactional consequences of place, time, people, and events set a social-political context that is understood by social workers and makes this mission distinctive because of this grounding. Viewing state-sanctioned violence, including its laws and policies, within this prism allows the development of a vision or charge that can unite people, as well as a deeper commitment to working with oppressed groups in seeking social justice. Social work is not exempt from having a role in state-sanctioned violence. This book only delves into the profession’s history and evolution to appreciate how it has reinforced a state-sanctioned violence agenda, wittingly or unwittingly. Practice is never apolitical; it either supports a state-sanctioned violence narrative or resists it with counternarratives. Social work must be vigilant of how it supports state violence.

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State-Sanctioned Violence

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Your President Is (a) White (Supremacist): Post Obama and Black Feminist Politics

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“I Can’t Vote if I Don’t Leave My Apartment”: The Problem of Neighborhood Violence and its Impact on the Political Behavior of Black American Women Living Below the Poverty Line

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