Questions Of Race Research Articles

8Poetics

Abstract This chapter surveys scholarship in poetics published in 2019 that engages with concepts of ‘world’. I begin from the contention that poetics scholarship is at a crossroads: while questions of race, nation, and politics were often cast aside in poetry criticism of the late twentieth century in favor of considerations of modernist lineages and philosophical approaches to language, new work in poetics increasingly prioritizes the discussion of racial capitalism, colonialism, and dispossession. The review is divided into four sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Poetry and the World, which considers three works that discuss poetry in relationship to world literature; 3. Worlds of Poetry, which examines three works that consider the so-called poetry world; and 4. Conclusion. The works discussed in this review include two scholarly monographs, a collection of experimental essays by a poet-critic and translator, an introduction to poetry by a poet and literary critic, a short polemic by a poet-critic and ethnic studies scholar, and a journal article exemplifying what I take to be the most significant new direction in poetics scholarship, namely the re-evaluation of apparently abstract, depersonalized formal and generic categories through the analytic of race.

His Master's Voice: avons-nous écouté Damas?

Comme l’ont bien vu de nombreux critiques, la musicalité de la poésie damassienne serait l’expression du rythme « nègre » et de ceux de sa génération, il aurait été le plus jazzy. La poésie de Damas mérite mieux : il suffit de l’écouter mise en musiques par Pigments & The Clarinet Choir, pour comprendre combien elle transcende l’Afrique noire et la Caraïbe car à travers la valeur ajoutée d’une interprétation instrumentale en plus d’une récitation poétique rare, ce sont les drames de l’individu déraciné et démotivé par un corps social et un entourage inamical. Drame de la solitude et drame de l’incompréhension, espérance de réconciliation et rage contre l’impasse de la question raciale dans une France prétendument multiculturelle se relaient. Dans trois extraits de leur projet décapant, Pigments & The Clarinet Choir offrent une partition époustouflante du « Master’s Voice ».

Race, politics and constitution-making in the negotiations leading to Eswatini’s independence (formerly Swaziland) 1960–1968

ABSTRACT The race question in politics and constitution-making in the lead up to Eswatini’s independence is an important but underexplored field in Eswatini’s historiography. This article argues that race was a core arena of contestation around which the various stakeholders involved in politics and constitution-making gravitated. King Sobhuza II considered whites and South Africa as the pivot of Eswatini’s economy and therefore advocated special political rights and privileges for whites which were disproportionate to their minority population. The progressive political parties of the day espoused a political position that was opposed to the stances of the white community and apartheid South Africa. The irreconcilable positions between the progressives and the monarchists stalled Eswatini’s constitutional developments. Whites and South Africa supported Sobhuza, their ally, to win the 1964 elections. Later, the alliance between whites and monarchists became more distant, after Sobhuza’s abandonment of his earlier overtly pro-white policies to ensure the support of the black electorate. Debates preceding Eswatini’s independence were hotly contested in parliament along racial lines and interests. This did not, however, ultimately compromise white economic interests and dominance.

Affect & race/(Blackness)

We question the question of affect and race as one that has already built itself upon blackness and anti-blackness, such that the question a priori for an affect theory seeking to address race, we argue, is that of black ontology. We first examine various works in affect theory that theorize race through new mechanisms of discourse, works that theorize interpersonal and emotive affects, and works that have contributed to a biopolitical understanding of race, affect, and assemblage. Delving deeper into a Deleuzian legacy of affect as capacity we assert that the theoretical works of afro-pessimism and black optimism (as black ontology) allows for generative thought around the materializations, value, and productions of racialized capacity—specifically the affective capacity of blackness. This work points to a vital direction for affect theory that can no longer dismiss or transcend race in a bid for a universal masked/marked posthumanism.

As comunidades quilombolas brasileiras e a feminização da pobreza

Este artigo tem por objetivo refletir sobre as características socioeconômicas das comunidades negras rurais brasileiras, assim como sobre o processo de feminização da pobreza no interior desses territórios. Para tanto, utilizou-se como base de dados uma pesquisa realizada em 2011 pelo DataUFF, abrangendo 169 comunidades remanescentes de quilombo, localizadas em 14 estados brasileiros. Com a finalidade de desenvolver a proposta aqui empreendida, o artigo se estrutura da seguinte forma: A conceituação das comunidades remanescentes de quilombo; Reflexão teórica sobre a feminização da pobreza e a questão racial; Configuração socioeconômica das comunidades e os desdobramentos relacionados ao sexo. Por fim, faz-se uma discussão conclusiva sobre gênero e discriminação.

India Song’s politics of sound

ABSTRACT This article approaches questions of race and imperialism in India Song through the film’s strategies of sound. Departing from the notion that Duras’s relegation to the soundtrack of certain aspects of the film’s colonial context might be read as a means to avoid the totalising risks of the image, this article suggests that, in the film, sound is deployed not only as a means of survival for the non-white subject but also as a site of political agency and a space in which to forge tentative forms of community. As the film’s use of language intersects with questions of power and resistance, India Song imagines models of political enunciation which avoid the semiotic privilege of the signifier and thus challenge the violence of hegemonic language in the colonial context. Thus, as the film uses sound to imagine new ways of being public without the risk of visual capture, noise emerges as an opaque site of connection and enunciation beyond the demand for recognition and legibility upon which logos is predicated.

El Gobierno de las poblaciones: Augusto Orrego Luco y la Cuestión Social en Chile

Partiendo de dos textos fundamentales del médico chileno Augusto Orrego Luco: La cuestión social (1897) y su Discur­so de toma de posesión de su cargo de presidente de la Sociedad Médica (1895), se analiza las propuestas que este autor desa­rrollo sobre el papel de la ciencia en el gobierno de las poblaciones. Se presta atención a conceptos, como el de raza vagabunda en relación con la cuestión social, y racial, en el Chile de finales del siglo XIX y se identifican influencias científicas como el deter­minismo biológico y la teoría de la degeneración.

The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the PosthumousAntebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyNarratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life

The Modernist Corpse: Posthumanism and the PosthumousAntebellum Posthuman: Race and Materiality in the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyNarratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life

Television and Black Twitter in South Africa: Our Perfect Wedding

This article examines Twitter use by audiences of the popular South African television show, Our Perfect Wedding. We argue that the show’s Twitter feed provides an extension of South Africa’s ‘Black Twitter’ facilitating a space for recognition and group identity for Black South African television viewers. Such a space is significant since Black audiences have been neglected in the short history of South African television broadcasting. On Our Perfect Wedding, broadcast on a satellite television service DStv to paying subscribers, questions of class and race are salient for an audience group prized as an emerging market of Black middle-class viewers. Through qualitative analysis of a sample of tweets featuring the hashtag, #OPWMzansi ( Our Perfect Wedding South Africa), we demonstrate how Twitter is used for the performance and negotiation of class and race for the audience. The comedy of the show’s Twitter commentary is largely dependent upon judgements around class, taste and language. While the Twitter feed features creative user contributions, the #OPWMzansi network reveals that much of the communication is prompted and networked back to the official programme Twitter site, demonstrating the centrality of the traditional television broadcaster to Twitter interactions with the text.

RETRACTED: Recalibrating scale, rupturing coloniality: On relational ethnography and its postcolonial reckonings

Taking as its point of departure extant concerns about the Eurocentric nature of sociological knowledge production, and its inadequacy in dealing with questions of race, power, and coloniality, this article examines the hitherto unexplored significance of relational ethnography for postcolonial inquiry. It traces the critical coordinates of a relational turn in ethnography, endorsing how a recalibration of scale, and a commitment to crafting sociological analyses around multiple points of vantage, can support a decentring of Western ontologies which have long defined the narratives threads of history and social theory. The reflexive exposition that follows invokes my fieldwork experiences in Ghana, West Africa, to illustrate how a relational praxis (re)animated by postcolonial theory can at once rupture those hegemonic arrangements of knowledge-power that have long undergirded imperial frames of modernity, and reconstitute future narratives that speak to the relational entanglements which bind the tied fates of the postcolonial North and South.

Institutional Logics and the Limits of Social Science Knowledge

As someone whose training is in political science and who writes about the history of my own discipline, I admit to some hesitation in recommending future avenues of research for historians of education. For that reason, the following thoughts are directed toward disciplinary history broadly and social science history specifically. Moreover, the three articles that contributors to this forum were asked to use as inspiration suggest that any future I would recommend has been under way in one form or another for a while. For those reasons, I want to reframe my contribution as a reflection on a particular mode of analysis all three authors employed and how it may be particularly useful for exploring the questions of power, exclusion, and race- and gender-making in the academy that are present in all three articles and that explicitly animate two of them.

Contested Racial Imaginings of the Serbian Self and the Romani Other in Serbia’s Guča Trumpet Festival

In this article, I will address issues of race using the “Romani question” in Serbia’s Guča trumpet festival as a case study. I will specifically consider a selection of Guča-related themes pertinent to the question of race, while simultaneously discussing the theoretical and ideological underpinnings of this complicated concept vis-à-vis issues of national identity representation in post-Milošević Serbia. Informed by previous critical studies of race and popular music culture in South/Eastern Europe within the larger postcolonial paradigm of Balkanism, this work will seek to illustrate the ambiguous ways in which the racialization of the Serbian Self and the Romani Other is occurring in the Guča Festival alongside the country’s and region’s persistent denial of race. Using the above approaches, I will conduct a critical cultural analysis of selected racial issues in the festival with reference to eclectic sources, including more recent critical debates about race and racism in South/Eastern Europe within the broader context of postsocialist transition, EU integration, and globalization. My final argument will be that, despite strong evidence that a critical cultural analysis of the “Romani question” in Serbia’s Guča Festival calls for a transnational perspective, earlier Balkanist discourse on Serbia’s indeterminate position between West and East seems to remain analytically most helpful in pointing to the uncontested hegemony of Western/European white privilege and supremacy.

The Queer Love Project

Research Article| April 01 2020 The Queer Love Project: AESA, Fatigue, and Building the Body of an Organization Boni Wozolek; Boni Wozolek Boni Wozolek is currently an assistant professor of education at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work considers questions of equity and access at the intersections of race, sexual orientations, and gender with its multiple expressions and identities. Dr. Wozolek serves on the executive council of the American Educational Studies Association (2016–19) and sits on the editorial team for the Journal of Curriculum Theorizing (2018–24). Her recent publications include contributions to the Journal of LGBT Youth, Journal of Gender Studies, the Urban Review, and Educational Studies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Silvia C. Bettez; Silvia C. Bettez Silvia Cristina Bettez is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Foundations at UNC Greensboro. She teaches graduate-level qualitative research and equity in education courses. Her scholarship centralizes social justice with a focus on fostering critical community building, teaching for social justice, and promoting equity through intercultural communication and engagement. She served as the 2018–19 American Educational Studies Association president-elect and program chair. She has publications in several journals, including Equity and Excellence in Education, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Educational Studies, and Multicultural Perspectives. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Roland Sintos Coloma; Roland Sintos Coloma Roland Sintos Coloma is professor and assistant dean of Teacher Education and co-director of the Kaplan Center for Research on Urban Education at Wayne State University. He served as president of the American Educational Studies Association (2018–19) and editor of the Educational Studies journal (2014–17). A scholar of history, cultural studies, and education, his work addresses critical questions of race, gender, and sexuality from transnational and intersectional perspectives. His research has received funding from the US Department of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and AERA-Spencer and Connaught foundations. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Hilton Kelly Hilton Kelly Hilton Kelly is dean of liberal arts and humanities and professor of sociology at Livingstone College in Salisbury, NC. He received his BA in history from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and both his MS in labor studies and PhD in sociology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Kelly was the 2018 president of the American Educational Studies Association. In 2010, he published Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow’s Teachers in the Routledge Studies in African American History and Culture Series. His articles have appeared in Urban Education, Educational Studies, the Urban Review, the Journal of Negro Education, the American Sociologist, and Vitae Scholasticae: The Journal of Educational Biography. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2020) 26 (2): 223–226. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8141746 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Boni Wozolek, Silvia C. Bettez, Roland Sintos Coloma, Hilton Kelly; The Queer Love Project: AESA, Fatigue, and Building the Body of an Organization. GLQ 1 April 2020; 26 (2): 223–226. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-8141746 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsGLQ Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Introduction: Looking for Black Miami

Conceptualizing Miami as the “Hemispheric South” captures the hemispheric collision of peoples, practices, and prejudices that have transformed understandings of whiteness, Blackness, Latinx and power in this city. The essay argues that Black migrants are foundational to Miami’s hemispheric history. Using the life writings of Black academics, it demonstrates that a hemispheric angle on Miami revises understandings of U.S. migration, Civil Rights, and the sounds of Blackness. The city speaks in different grammars of Blackness, thereby rendering more layers of the Black experience legible, usable, and cautionary. Miami’s Black histories speak to our present moment where global migration is rapidly becoming the defining issue of the era. Because Miami’s history presaged a wider set of civil rights reversals for Black Americans, the city’s Black history provides a new lens on familiar questions of race and incorporation thus enabling us to see a different narrative arc of the United States. Reframing Miami in terms of Black hemispheric movement reorients key debates in Black Studies, Caribbean Studies, American Studies around race, migration, whiteness, and civil rights.

Authenticity and Appropriation

With the curious exception of anything from Louisiana, things southern have scaled the pinnacle of fashion in the world of food. Coastal Carolina dishes, bogs and burgoos, barbecue whether slow smoked or simmered in sauce, its cousin pulled pork, collards and beans, artisanal grits, and dense country hams from the Upper South all have enthusiastic adherents. Most of the southern dishes celebrated today have venerable origins or antecedents, their survival or revival a corollary perhaps of Faulkner’s most famous dictum: ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past.’ Southerners share a fraught history, not least on the subject of race, but also in terms of regional identity, class and economic culture. That is why, as Carrie Helms Tippen observes, the contemporary south is ‘a region whose identity is still in the making – or perhaps, more accurately, always in the remaking.’ (Tippen 7) The process of remaking, or more accurately reinvention, in­volves historical redefinition and revision, so the process is bound to entail controversy, even if only as an unintended consequence of good intent and, in these contentious times, nothing is more contentious than attempts to interpret and represent the southern past. The conflict extends far beyond obvious flashpoints like the statuary of the Lost Cause, much of it in reality not legitimate artefacts honouring sacrifice but rather racist markers of subjugation that first appeared on plinths not so long ago.The conflict extends even to the subject of food, and in particular to questions of authenticity and race. The question of what is southern, of what belongs to African Americans, and to a lesser extent to ethnic whites or to particular regions of the south, provokes widespread conflict and anger. This article looks at the 2016 "Collard Green controversy" in the United States drawing an analogy to an episode of British history concerning haggis and the role of food in the creation of Scottish national identity.

Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Josephine Nock-Hee Park; Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature after Multiculturalism by Amy Tang

Review Article| March 01 2020 Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Josephine Nock-Hee Park; Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature after Multiculturalism by Amy Tang Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature, by Park, Josephine Nock-Hee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 320 pages.Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature after Multiculturalism, by Tang, Amy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 240 pages. Elda Tsou Elda Tsou Elda Tsou is associate professor in the Department of English at St. John’s University. Her first book, Unquiet Tropes: Form, Race, and Asian American Literature, reconceived Asian American literature as a set of classical rhetorical tropes figuring specific historical problematics. Her next book argues that the special affinity defining the relationship of the Asian American subject to whiteness articulates an alternate model of racialization that she calls a “politics of proximity.” Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 147–156. https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-8196751 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Elda Tsou; Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American Literature by Josephine Nock-Hee Park; Repetition and Race: Asian American Literature after Multiculturalism by Amy Tang. Twentieth-Century Literature 1 March 2020; 66 (1): 147–156. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0041462X-8196751 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsTwentieth-Century Literature Search Advanced Search The new formalism may no longer be so new, but its call to reinvigorate the study of form continues to be heard, as two recent books on Asian American literature can attest. While it is true that Asian American studies has traditionally favored historical or sociopolitical approaches to literature, the formal turn of the last decade or so has produced a growing body of scholarship to which we can now add Josephine Park’s Cold War Friendships and Amy Tang’s Repetition and Race.1 The new formalism has unevenly pursued questions of race and racial formation as compared, for instance, to its scrutiny of gender, sexuality, or class. Park and Tang make significant contributions to that scholarship by dint of their subject matter alone, but more than this, they sketch out something like a distinct Asian American epistemology—an inquiry into how Asian American literature might... © 2019 Hofstra University2019 You do not currently have access to this content.

Own Your Complicity, Then Fix It

In this essay, prompted by the disciplinary debate over #CommunicationSoWhite in summer 2019, I reflect on my past publications in Rhetoric & Public Affairs to identify how structures of whiteness influenced the shape and acceptance of my publications. Drawing upon my self-critique, the essay provides advice for white scholars who aim to responsibly address questions of race and racism as both authors and reviewers.

The Confounding of Race in High School Biology Textbooks, 2014–2019

Following on earlier examinations of biology high school textbooks’ handling of race, this study examines eleven biology textbooks, intended for US high school use and published between 2014 and 2019. It offers a close reading of these textbooks’ treatment of four topics that have been associated with race: genetic disorders, human origins, skin color, and eugenics, as well as the topic of race itself. While only one textbook has a section on “human races,” another nine refer directly or indirectly to race across these five topics. The textbooks’ treatment of genetic disorders gives a marked, if uneven, prominence to race and ethnicity. Their coverage of human origins and skin color largely undermines concepts of race essentialism and racial classification. At other points, the same textbooks introduce studies, questions, and concepts that reinforce the biological reality of race, much as was done by the textbooks of two and three generations ago. The study draws parallels between these textbooks’ decidedly mixed message on race and a similar stance present in the current biomedical research literature. In the face of this mixed message, three sets of pedagogical strategies—fact-checking, historical, and meta-scientific—are proposed that teachers might use with current biology textbooks to raise awareness of the varied positions that scientists have taken in the past and continue to take on questions of race and biology.

James Bryce's Analysis of Latin America in an International Perspective

James Bryce is recognized as a traveler, historian, lawyer, politician, diplomat, and International Relations scholar, who led to an improvement in British-American relations, the understanding of modern democracies, and the establishment of the League of Nations. However, until recent times his portrayal of Latin America has been overlooked by historiography. This article aims to explore his analysis of the region as a historian and thinker of the international, especially in his book South America: Observations and Impressions (1912). In this book, among questions of history, nation, and race, the author wrote about the relations of Latin American nations within them and with regard to the United States and Europe, which shall be explored. These questions were also studied by early Latin Americanists in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

Racism Postrace ed. by Roopali Mukherjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser, and Herman Gray

Reviewed by: Racism Postrace ed. by Roopali Mukherjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser, and Herman Gray Stefanie Boulila Racism Postrace. Edited by Roopali Mukherjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser, and Herman Gray. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019. Pp. 352. Paper $28.95. ISBN 978-3503122196. Racism Postrace presents postracialism as the defining racial project in the present era. Although postracialism has different histories in the US and Europe, its effects are both material and discursive in each context. In the US, "postrace" became part of the public vocabulary with the election of Barack Obama as the first African American president. In Europe, the ascent of the postracial has been less overt. Postracialism is a productive imaginary that denies racial hierarchies and places antiracism in the realm of excess. In 2010, Prospect Magazine claimed that Britain is postrace due to the high number of Black and ethnic minority senior civil servants and an allegedly colorblind economy. Apart from this explicit attempt to introduce postrace into the British political vocabulary, postracialism in Europe unfolds its power out of sight and through a different vocabulary. It is a logic that has been identified to materialize through resistances to "multiculturalism" and depoliticized diversity paradigms as well as through anti-PC rhetoric and resistances against calls for reparation for crimes committed under colonial rule. As in the US, postracialism denies the political power of race, doing so from an unmarked position. The term "postrace" seems untranslatable to many European languages, including German. Sometimes mistranslated as Postrassismus (postracism), the lack of language points to an analytical failure to engage with race as a technology of power. It is a failure to retreat from the UNESCO-induced antiracialism that has dominated European antiracist struggles in the aftermath of Nazism as Alana Lentin has argued in Racism and Anti-Racism in Europe (2004). Antiracialism in Europe follows the logics of the UNESCO statements on "the race question" that in the 1950s banished the term race from political debates. However, this reductive view of race as a descriptor for biologists' claims to human difference undervalues what race has enabled as a political dimension of power. As a signifier, race has referred to multiple archives throughout the European history of colonialism. These have included religion, claims to cultural superiority, and claims to natural difference, as David Theo Goldberg has shown in The Racial State (2002). Banning the term race but making racial claims through alternative notions, like culture or ethnicity, has allowed existing power relations to remain in place. [End Page 450] The alleged untranslatability of both antiracialism and postracialism into German points to an unwillingness to engage with processes of racialization and historically grown racial power relations. It is also a refusal to engage with people of color's experiences of racialization, racial state structures, and racializing cultural scripts. The lack of vocabulary poses difficulties for critical German scholars who want to engage with racism and its representation. It also leaves an analytical void for those studying institutional racism, which remains a pressing issue in the aftermath of the unresolved National Socialist Underground murders, the rise of far-right attacks on people of color and refugees and the debate about racist policing practices following the death of Oury Jalloh in police custody in Saxony-Anhalt. Throughout its thirteen chapters and divided into two parts titled Assumptions and Performances, Racism Postrace, though mainly rooted in the American experience of postracialism, presents many analyses that are relevant to European and German-speaking contexts. Critically engaging with Assumptions and race-making, Herman Gray, for example, prompts us to look closer at the media and digital technologies of postracialism. Gray illustrates that in the digital age, racial science has flourished beneath the official scientific repudiation of race. "Modern" racial science claims its innocence as it is deployed in struggles for the protection of land rights of indigenous populations and in targeted medical therapies for Black and ethnic minorities. Gray demonstrates the adaptive lure of racial science as race making is immanent in those seemingly progressive promises. Another promising avenue for the exploration of European contexts is Cynthia A. Young's theorization of postracial whiteness. Analyzing the cultural politics surrounding right-wing conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck, Young...