New Politics Of Race Research Articles

Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i, Camilla Fojas, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. and Nitasha Tamar Sharma (eds) (2018)

Review of: Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai‘i, Camilla Fojas, Rudy P. Guevarra Jr. and Nitasha Tamar Sharma (eds) (2018) Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 232 pp., ISBN 978 0 82486 988 5 (hbk), US$72

Barack Obama, the New Politics of Race, and Classed Constructions of Racial Blackness

Based upon an analysis of the print and online media, this article examines the discourse of the “new politics of race” between 2007 and 2014. Part of the politics of postracialism, the new race politics first emerged as a set of guidelines for candidate Barack Obama, concerning how he should and should not handle racial matters if he hoped to win the presidency. In a larger sense, however, the new race politics is a class-specific discourse of racial color blindness, one which positions the black upper middle class as a 21st-century model minority, racialized in contradistinction to the black poor.

Book review: At This Defining Moment: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race

Book review: At This Defining Moment: Barack Obama’s Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race

At This Defining Moment: Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race. By Enid Logan. New York: New York University Press, 2011. 229p. $79.00 cloth, $23.00 paper. - Obama's Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America. By Michael Tesler and David O. Sears. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010. 208p. $54.00 cloth, $18.00

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“At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race by Enid Logan

“At This Defining Moment”: Barack Obama's Presidential Candidacy and the New Politics of Race by Enid Logan

"At this defining moment": Barack Obama's presidential candidacy and the new politics of race

"At this defining moment": Barack Obama's presidential candidacy and the new politics of race

The Obamas and the New Politics of Race

The Obamas and the New Politics of Race

At the resort: Southeast Asian tourist workers and regimes of global citizenship

International five‐star tourist resorts are arguably distinctive cultural sites that can reveal much about the logics of globalisation. The Malaysian resort that is the subject of this article is a multi‐layered cultural site that seeks to evoke an imagined memory of colonial idyll and local authenticity. It is at the same time a site of complex regimes of global citizenship. Both guests and workers, it turns out, are members of a mobile, transnational cosmopolitan class. But they do not enjoy the same privileges of citizenship. Such resorts evidence a growing international system of multi‐tiered regimes of global citizenship in a climate where states have become adept at managing the interfaces between local and global, modern and pre‐modern, marketised and planned, indigenous and immigrant, having developed a new politics of race, nationalism, and belonging that adapts to the contingencies of global flows in ways that far exceed the generic routines of globalisation theory and especially its expectations about national decline.

Brazil's new racial politics

Foreword - Michael Mitchell. The New Politics of Race in Brazil - the Editors. Black Empowerment and White Privilege. Whiteness as Capital: Constructing Inclusion and Defending Privilege - B. Reiter. Politicizing Blackness: Afro-Brazilian Color Identification and Candidate Preference - G.L. Mitchell. Out of Place: The Experience of the Black Middle-Class - A. Figueiredo. The Political Shock of the Year: The Press and the Election of a Black Mayor in Sao Paulo - C.L.P. Oliveira. Affirmative Action Contested. Affirmative Action and Identity - S. Racusen. Opportunities and Challenges for the Afro-Brazilian Movement - M.T. Gonzalez. The New Politics of Black Power. Racialized History and Urban Politics: Black Women's Wisdom in Grassroots Struggles - K.Y. Perry. Black NGOs and Conscious Rap: New Agents of the Antiracism Struggle in Brazil - S.A. dos Santos. Power and Black Organizing in Brazil - F. Conceicao. New Social Activism: University Entry Courses for the Black and Poor - R.E. dos Santos. Conclusion. After the Racial Democracy - the Editors.

Obama's World: A New Politics of Race and Ethnicity in America?

Résumé L’élection de Barack Obama pourrait être le signe d’un profond changement dans les politiques raciales et ethniques aux États-Unis. Le système politique du New Deal était structuré autour des enjeux de classe et laissait de côté la question de l’égalité raciale. Mais dans les années 1960, la question raciale remplaça les questions de classe. Or, la coalition démocrate était profondément divisée sur la question raciale, ce qui permit aux républicains de reconquérir le pouvoir en tirant partie des divisions raciales et de l’électorat blanc du Sud. En 2008, la crise économique et les politiques anti-immigrants des républicains conduisirent à une large victoire des démocrates. Obama emporta la majorité du vote des jeunes, des nouveaux électeurs, des minorités, des Juifs et de toutes les régions, à l’exception du Sud. Les évolutions démographiques promettent un bel avenir à la coalition d’Obama. La crise économique a revigoré les politiques de classe. Mais la question ethnique et raciale sous-tend toujours la politique américaine. En raison du rôle central de la présidence dans la culture américaine, un président Africain-Américain pourrait remodeler la notion même de leadership .

Race, Immigration, and the Identity-to-Politics Link

Little controversy remains about how the United States has changed demographically since the mid-1960s. Far more controversial is whether this change is bringing about a new politics of race. This article argues that a key to settling this debate is a clearer specification of the identity-to-politics link—the nexus from a population defined by shared racial and ethnic labels to a collective group politics based on those definitions. The article articulates some potential pitfalls in how this nexus is commonly specified in empirical research. It then proposes that researchers should be mindful of five processes that are typically lumped together in linking shared demographic categories to common political destinies: definition, identification, consciousness, venue selection, and choice. The article concludes with a discussion of the potential utility and limitations of unpacking these five processes in our analysis of the identity-to-politics link.

FROM SHARED DEMOGRAPHIC CATEGORIES TO COMMON POLITICAL DESTINIES

Little controversy remains about the profound shifts in the demographic landscape of the United States since the mid-1960s. Far more controversial is whether this transformation will bring about a new politics of race. This paper argues that a key to settling this debate is a clearer specification of the “identity-to-politics” link: the nexus between a population defined by shared racial and ethnic labels and a collective group politics based on those definitions. The paper articulates some potential pitfalls in how this nexus is commonly specified in empirical research and proposes an approach that distinguishes five key processes that are typically lumped together in linking shared demographic categories to common political destinies: definition, identification, consciousness, venue selection, and choice. The paper describes an example of this approach (the case of ethnoracial classification and the empirical measurement of race) and concludes by discussing its potential utility and limitations.

The New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice

The New Politics of Race: Globalism, Difference, Justice

The New Politics of Race: From Du Bois to the 21st Century

The New Politics of Race: From Du Bois to the 21st Century

Product Review: The New Politics of Race: From Du Bois to the Twenty-First Century

Product Review: The New Politics of Race: From Du Bois to the Twenty-First Century

Multiculturalism in Crisis: The New Politics of Race and National Identity in Australia

Multiculturalism in Crisis: The New Politics of Race and National Identity in Australia

Race relations, sociology of sport and the new politics of race and racism

This paper provides a review of some of the main currents of sociological thought which have informed a body of research in the area of sport and racism. It considers some of the main popular arguments about sport in discussions of race relations, black identity, and black feminism and argues against the notion of any one body of thought being viewed as a form of universalism. The examples that people use may change but the underlying processes and social and political problems reflect not just traditions of social thought but also many voices of anger and frustration in a world that is left wanting on so many fronts. The paper is critical of European intellectual constructions of racism which have often been applied in a devastating manner in the field of sport and leisure.

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:The Private Schooling of Girls Past and Present Geoffrey Walford (Ed.)The New Politics of Race and Gender Catherine Marshall (Ed.)Using Cognitive Methods in the Classroom Adrian Ashman & Robert ConwayThe Excellence of Play Janet R. Moyles (Ed.)School‐based Management and School Effectiveness Clive Dimmock (Ed.)Interpreting Qualitative Data David SilvermanSocial Scientists Meet the Media Cheryl Haslam & Alan Bryman (Eds)