Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts最新文献

{"title":"Another City Is Possible: Interethnic Organizing in Contemporary Los Angeles","authors":"D. Widener","doi":"10.2979/RAC.2008.1.2.189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/RAC.2008.1.2.189","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines cross-racial political activism in Los Angeles from 1992 to the present day, an era unique for both the nature and quantity of working-class radicalism. This paper offers a brief sketch of the primary contexts, composition, and contradictions of local interethnic organizing. After beginning with a historical overview of previous moments of multiracial politics in Southern California, I turn to a discussion of contemporary events, tracing three distinct, though overlapping, milieus of trade union activity, social justice organizing, and cultural politics. The third and final section of the paper introduces a brief discussion of some of the critical factors that impede or obstruct cross-racial politics in Southern California today.","PeriodicalId":297214,"journal":{"name":"Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128104858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using and Disputing Privilege: Young U.S. Activists Struggling to Wield \"International Privilege\" in Solidarity","authors":"Mica Pollock","doi":"10.2979/RAC.2008.1.2.227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/RAC.2008.1.2.227","url":null,"abstract":"The role of white privilege in multiracial coalition building has been discussed extensively in both activist and scholarly discourse. In a seminal treatment of the topic, \"The Myths of Coalition,\" Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton argue that in the coalitions they explored, whites have failed to see the flaws in their own attempts to act in solidarity with the oppressed, and that this lack of attentiveness to power differentials doomed the coalition. A more recent body of scholarship suggests that cultivating white people's consciousness of their \"privilege\" is critical to antiracist action.1 Yet even activists hypercritical of their privilege can participate in its reproduction. This paper analyzes a subset of participants in the \"International Solidarity Movement\" (ISM), a network of activists from around the world traveling to the West Bank and Gaza to support Palestinian nonviolent civil disobedience against the Israeli occupation, in order to examine how even activists struggling self consciously wtih privilege in multiracial, international coalitions can reinforce the very privileges of race and nation they critique. From its inception in 2001 through this study in 2004-2006, ISM's self-labeled \"international\" contingent was disproportionately comprised of young, white, middle-class North Americans and Europeans. In the movement's efforts to prioritize coalition buildings across national boundaries, activists explicitly mobilized the visual privilege of Europena and North American whiteness in their activist strategies, asking \"internationals\" to travel to Palestine to support nonviolent Palestinian activism with their disproportionately white, international bodies. This article examines activists' frustration-and their learning process-as their privileges of disproportionate visibility, voice, safety, and access to public sympathy reproduced in many of their attempts at coalition. Wrestling with privilege and its pitfalls came to seem a process without end. Even among the most self-critically privileged, activists found, \"solidarity\" efforts were routinely plagued by Carmichael and Hamilton's prediction: \"coalition between the strong and the weak ultimately lead[s] . . . to perpetuation of the hierarchical status: superordinance and subordinance.\"2","PeriodicalId":297214,"journal":{"name":"Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115051512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The European Union and the Racialization of Immigration, 1985-2006","authors":"S. Garner","doi":"10.2979/RAC.2007.1.1.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2979/RAC.2007.1.1.61","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past two decades, the European Union (EU) has played an increasingly influential role in the construction of a de facto common immigration and asylum policy, providing a forum for policy-formulation beyond the scrutiny of national parliaments. The guiding principles of this policy include linking the immigration portfolio to security rather than justice; reaffirming the importance of political, conceptual, and organizational borders; and attempting to transfer policing and processing functions to non-EU countries. While these decisions appear neutral, I argue that structural racialization of immigration occurs across the various processes and escapes the focus of much academic scrutiny. Exploring this phenomenon through the concept of the \"racial state,\" I examine ways to understand the operations of immigration policy-making at the inter-governmental level, giving particular attention to the ways in which asylum-seekers emerge as a newly racialized group who are both stripped of their rights in the global context and deployed as Others in the construction of national narratives.","PeriodicalId":297214,"journal":{"name":"Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114593271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan","authors":"G. Anzaldúa","doi":"10.3917/MULT.029.0051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3917/MULT.029.0051","url":null,"abstract":"Esos movimientos de rebeldía que tenemos en la sangre nosotros los mexicanos surgen como ríos desbocanados en mis venas. Y como mi raza que cada en cuando deja caer esa esclavitud de obedecer, de callarse y aceptar, en mi está la rebeldía encimita de mi carne. Debajo de mi humillada mirade está una cara insolente lista para explotar. Me costó muy caro mi rebeldía—acalambrada con desvelos y dudas, sintiéndome inútil, estúpida e impotente. Me entra una rabia cuando alguien—sea mi mamá, la Iglesia, la cultura de los anglos—me dice haz esto, haz eso sin considerar mis deseos. Repele. Hable pa’ ’tras. Fuí muy hocicona. Era indiferente a muchos valores de mi cultura. No me deje de los hombres. No fuí buena ni obediente. Pero he crecido. Ya no soló paso toda mi vida botando las costumbres y los valores de mi cultura que me traicionan. También recojo las costumbres que por el tiempo se han provado y las costumbres de respeto a las mujeres. But despite my growing intolerance, for this Chicana la guerra de independencia is a constant.","PeriodicalId":297214,"journal":{"name":"Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131248012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}