{"title":"“Beyond this Narrow Now” Or, Delimitations of W. E. B. Du Bois by Nahum Dimitri Chandler. Reviewed by Vincenzo De Mino.","authors":"Vincenzo De Mino","doi":"10.24908/jcri.v10i2.16975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24908/jcri.v10i2.16975","url":null,"abstract":"Review of “Beyond this Narrow Now” Or, Delimitations of W. E. B. Du Bois ","PeriodicalId":480768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of critical race inquiry","volume":" 21","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138962013","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":"Cultural Genocide, Mass Immigration, and the Kalergi Plan: Conceptualizations of Race in White Identity Politics Online","authors":"Ghadah Alrasheed, Brandon Rigato, Nadia Hai, Aden Dur-e-Aden","doi":"10.24908/jcri.v10i2.15411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24908/jcri.v10i2.15411","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to clarify ambiguities surrounding the understanding of race in white identity politics and how these ambiguities are reflected in online discourse. Grounded in the framework of critical race studies, we constructed a comprehensive race typology that we used to unpack the multifaceted conceptions of race in digital discourse on Twitter. Using a combination of Tableau, NVivo, and manual coding, we examined the prevalence of four conceptualizations of race (Biological, Cultural, Nationalist, and Pan-Nationalist) in data collected from three Twitter hashtags (#whitegenocide, #kalergiplan, and #antiwhite). We conclude that race does not stand out as one coherent system in the analyzed data but as an amalgam of divergent racial interpretations. Notably, the Cultural conceptualization of race is the most predominant, followed closely by the Pan-Nationalist perspective of white identity. Our investigation also explores the palpable anxiety surrounding the perceived erosion of the white race within white identity politics. This apprehension is prominently articulated as \"white grievances\" and through a gendered understanding wherein white women assume a pivotal role in both propagating the white race and in acting as a vulnerable \"access point\" within the white racial framework.","PeriodicalId":480768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of critical race inquiry","volume":" 474","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138960465","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":"Contaminating National Identity Through Intercultural Intimacy: (Im)purity and the Pandemic","authors":"Rida Abu Rass, Adan Jerreat-Poole","doi":"10.24908/jcri.v10i2.16049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24908/jcri.v10i2.16049","url":null,"abstract":"This paper brings together the threads of contagion, intimacy, and national identity in an exploration of border crossings. Framed through the COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of vaccine nationalism, we interrogate the discourse of contagion and impurity and trace the ways it has been used by self-interested elites to advance ethnonational, exclusivist agendas. Using the authors’ relationship as a jumping off point for critical and cultural analysis, we use intimacy, affect, and illness as hinges between bodies, identities, and geographies. We argue that non-traditional, queer, cross-cultural relationships and encounters are sites through which to interrogate the violence of borders and to subvert the exclusion and hierarchy inherent to nationalism as a political project. We offer an experimental model for performing political and cultural research across disciplinary boundaries, advancing knowledge dissemination between and across fields.","PeriodicalId":480768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of critical race inquiry","volume":" 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138961905","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 Flows of Racial Capitalism: Charting the Spread of COVID-19 through Alberta’s Meatpacking Industry","authors":"Jen Rinaldi, Shanti Fernando","doi":"10.24908/jcri.v10i2.16535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24908/jcri.v10i2.16535","url":null,"abstract":"This article will present a case study of Cargill’s High River meatpacking plant operations to show how at crucial historical junctures racial capitalism shaped its working conditions and in so doing determined the spread of COVID-19. First, the Canadian meatpacking industry’s 1980s-era economic restructuring relocated and reorganized its workforce from a core to peripheral one, allowing for the low wage employment of many precarious workers; this restructuring enabled the Cargill company to gain overwhelming control of the meatpacking industry in Canada and to become a “choke point” in the supply chain. Second, Canadian immigration policy from 2006 to 2010 supported a marked increase in migrant workers to meet the labour market needs of business; this reconstituted the labour class to heighten their disposability. With these pieces in place, the Albertan provincial government could classify meatpackers as “essential workers” who worked even in the face of mass COVID infection in April through June 2020. Across this crucial historical period racial capitalism enabled the plant to circumvent public health interventions protecting workers through the onset of the pandemic. Political championing of business interests, enacted through legislative mechanisms, allowed for the exploitation of workers and consistently rendered workers personally responsible for their own health and safety, despite their lack of control over what exposed them to risk.","PeriodicalId":480768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of critical race inquiry","volume":" 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138963100","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":"Reflections on The Remember Me Project: Queen’s University’s Black Past and the AfroWomanist Sankofa Archive to Our Future","authors":"Elizabeth Peprah-Asare","doi":"10.24908/jcri.v10i2.17052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24908/jcri.v10i2.17052","url":null,"abstract":"How does one endeavour to recover history that has been intentionally hidden, erased, and forgotten? In what ways can the ethics of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) be applied within archival processes? In this article, I highlight the work I recently completed under the supervision of the Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Indigeneity (EDII) at Queen’s University as an “Afrofuturist” Graduate Research Fellow in a project titled The Remember Me Project: Black Historic Lives and Our Future(s) at Queen’s University. I focus on one poem from my collection titled, “Alfie or Did I Really Do Alright?” I problematize the now infamous figure of Alfred “Alfie” Pierce, a Black male employee of Queen’s Athletics department to problematize the ways Black stories are forgotten, lost, and devalued within academic institutions. In simultaneously speaking back to the politics of whose stories are worthy of remembrance at Queen’s, the horrors of “Alfie’s” story, and the difficulties involved in Black archival recovery, I introduce my intervention “the AfroWomanist Sankofa Archive” as an interdisciplinary framework constructed as a guideline for African-heritage peoples to utilize while navigating dis-empowering research material involving African archival information. I end with some recommendations for our Afrofuture.","PeriodicalId":480768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of critical race inquiry","volume":" 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138961478","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":"Anti-Indigenous Deficit Racism and Cultural Essentialism in K–12 Education: We Want You to Recognize there’s a Problem","authors":"Carmen Gillies","doi":"10.24908/jcri.v10i2.16251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.24908/jcri.v10i2.16251","url":null,"abstract":"School divisions in the Canadian Prairies have increasingly implemented Indigenous calls to action in education and, more recently, have committed to anti-racist education. Yet school-based anti-Indigenous racism and how it advantages white students remains a pressing underexplored reality. In response to such injustices and contributing to school divisions’ and teachers’ commitments to anti-racism in the Prairies, this paper argues that white dominance in K–12 education is in part maintained through anti-Indigenous deficit thinking or deficit racism. Drawing from a critical race theory (CRT) qualitative study with 13 Indigenous teachers, this conceptual paper suggests that anti-Indigenous deficit racism operates through three interconnected processes that prevent Indigenous students in the K–12 system from accessing knowledge and opportunities constructed as “Western” or non-Indigenous. These include 1) systemic low expectations regarding Indigenous students’ academic abilities; 2) the withholding of academic educational opportunities from Indigenous students; and 3) the blaming of Indigenous parents for inequitable academic outcomes. Utilizing CRT, I argue that race consciousness and critiques of cultural essentialism can assist with countering such processes.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":480768,"journal":{"name":"Journal of critical race inquiry","volume":" 1127","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138960217","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}