Racist Propaganda Research Articles

STUDY OF BEHAVIORAL MODELS OF PERSONALITY IN UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES

STUDY OF BEHAVIORAL MODELS OF PERSONALITY IN UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES

The Misogyny Paradox and the Alt-Right

AbstractThis essay offers a philosophical analysis of the misogyny women experience in the alternative right (alt-right) movement. I argue that this misogyny takes on a paradoxical form: the better alt-right women propagandists promote hate, the greater the hostility they experience from their fellow racists and critics; the more submissive women alt-right members become, the harsher the impact of misogyny on them. I develop this argument in four parts. Part I explores the self-conception of racist white women using the concept of social imaginaries. Part II describes three dominant images in racist propaganda—the goddess/victim, wife and mother, and the female activist—which inform the more popular images of the white power Barbie and the tradwife in the alt-right. Part III explores the misogyny paradox and presents how alt-right women could be seen as both misogynists and victims of misogyny. Part IV reflects on the absurdity of the alt-right's dependence on women's economic labor, a feature that could make the movement vulnerable to political intervention.

The Radical Civil Rights Movement: The Highlander Folk School and the Legacies of the Left in Cold War America

Abstract In the spring of 1965, hundreds of billboards arose across the American South purporting to show Dr Martin Luther King Jr at a ‘Communist training school’. By tracing the history of that infamous image, this article examines how civil rights activists fought against racist propaganda, and argues that the legacies of the American Left remained vital to the civil rights movement despite Cold War repression. At the centre of this story is the Highlander Folk School, an integrated institution in the hills of Tennessee, at which the photo was taken. Highlander’s democratic approach to education created a space in which Leftist ideas and strategies could coalesce, a space that stood in sharp contrast to both the fantasy of a ‘Communist training school’ and the anti-communist segregationists who propagated that fantasy. Both in the content of its workshops and the manner in which they were organized, Highlander preserved the heritage of the American Left in ways that help to explain how many civil rights activists came to reject Communism and the Red Scare, to embrace civil liberties and economic justice, and to respect local traditions of African American resistance and expansive anti-colonial solidarities.

Review: The Restless Dead: Necrowriting & Disappropriation, by Cristina Rivera Garza

Review: <i>The Restless Dead: Necrowriting &amp; Disappropriation</i>, by Cristina Rivera Garza

Sideways nostalgia, adopted republicanism and the performance of Irish rebel songs in the GDR

ABSTRACT In the 1970s and ‘80s, several East German folk revival artists started playing Irish traditional music, long before reconnecting with German folk-song material that had been put into the service of extreme nationalist and racist propaganda during the Nazi era (1933–45). Drawing upon ethnographic research among former GDR folk musicians, this article proposes that many of these post-war artists aligned with the anti-colonial messages of Irish rebel songs, performing a veritable sense of ‘Irish’ Republicanism, a form of national pride that was considered more socially acceptable than indigenous patriotic German leanings. Adapting Boym’s (2001) concept of ‘sideways nostalgia’, and illustrating crucial distinctions between historical registers of German and Irish musical exceptionalism, the article purports to unravel trajectories through which this narrative of political alignment is fashioned and sustained, ultimately illustrating music’s capacity to sound nationalism’s polyphonic trajectories.

European Conventions that make States Cooperate Against Cyber Crimes and the Problem of Electronic Evidences for Investigations and Criminal Processes

Problem or resource. The electronic evidences are always a resource for investigations and criminal processes for the purpose of ascertaining the truth. However, when their acquisition crosses European borders, the electronic evidences, sometimes, become a problem due to difficulties of procedures that can be carried out in a third country. The issues highlighted by this article are how the European regulatory framework has evolved and how the ratification of conventions have broadened the applicability of procedures in this area, but not only, to many countries on other continents. To understand what objectively relevant results produce to the national legislation the adaptation to these conventions, the research focuses on analysis of the Italy case. In addition, this article explains how electronic evidences are now an indispensable judicial tools in the fight against the cyber crime and to counter, for example, the terrorism, the xenophobic and racist propaganda, the sexual exploitations of minors and safeguard the protection of personal data. At the end, the research is enclosed with the comparison of differences between the European investigation order, the European production order and the European conversation order of electronic evidences in the criminal matters with the purpose to reflect on the advantages that the spread of such good practices can produce for the benefit of all humanity.

The Hawaii Promotion Committee and the Appropriation of Surfing

The advent of digital newspapers is providing critical historical information for subjects like surfing that have traditionally had so few primary sources available to researchers. A review of newspapers from the early twentieth century reveals important new evidence that the Hawaii Promotion Committee (HPC) helped support the growth of surfing by coordinating a transpacific marketing campaign to highlight the sport for the sake of boosting tourism. However, because the HPC and the newspapers in which it published its weekly reports represented arms of the colonial powers, much of that new information must be understood in the broader context of how the local Caucasian or haole population used the newspapers to promote their own imperial vision of surfing while often ignoring or suppressing Native Hawaiian voices that represented a critical counternarrative. For their part, Native Hawaiians actively resisted the racist and pro-territorial propaganda by publishing their own newspapers and by directly competing against haole in and around the surf.

Society Retreats – A Report about the Work Environment in Swedish Libraries

ABSTRACT The study shows that problems such as social disorder, aggressive behavior, and violence have increased in Swedish libraries over the past 2 years. Sexual harassment, drug dealing, and racist propaganda are also common. Many librarians state that their health has been negatively affected, and that they have considered a career change. Most respondents believe that the problems are due to a changing society that is failing to take care of vulnerable groups. While psychiatric and addiction care, social services, and youth activities are diminishing, the libraries are one of the few places open to all and therefore have to handle tasks far beyond their responsibilities.

Childbirth as Initiation: Dar a Luz

Childbirth is an important female initiation experience. Most anthropologists of birth rely on Arnold van Gennep’s three-stage understanding of initiation rituals—separation, liminality, and return. Giving birth within the technology-oriented, medical model is a very different experience than within the age-old, relational midwifery model. Although a dual midwifery–medical birth approach is the norm in most of the world, the medical model dominates birth in the U. S. Personal birth stories illustrate the felt differences in these models, from (1) purely medical births and (2) natural, medical births in the U. S. to (3) natural, midwife-attended births in Chile. Midwifery was dramatically repressed in the U. S. by the early 1900s through the use of racist and misogynist propaganda. Current research on dramatically rising rates of maternal mortality in the U. S., even as these rates are dropping in most developed countries, cites racism as a primary cause but fails to also acknowledge the loss of midwifery practices as another contributing factor. The author concludes with small steps that psychotherapists can take to help mend birth trauma.

PUFF, PUFF, PASS

AbstractThis research aims to enhance our understanding of the relationship between racial prejudice and White Americans’ views on cannabis legalization. The recent legalization of recreational cannabis in a handful of states, along with many other states legalizing medical cannabis in recent years, has catapulted the flowering plant back into the spotlight and nightly news cycles. Given the historically racist propaganda used to criminalize the plant, it follows that Whites’ support for legalization may be associated with racial prejudice. Using data from the General Social Survey data from 1972–2018, we find that different forms of racial prejudice have a negative effect on Whites’ support for cannabis legalization generally. Additionally, as the negative effect of overt, old-fashioned racism diminishes over time and across birth cohorts it is supplanted by the more subtle laissez-faire racism. In conclusion, we discuss the implication of the relationship between racial prejudice and views on marijuana for the increasingly complicated racial dynamics surrounding cannabis legalization.

“Racist Propaganda”: discursive Negotiations on YouTube of Perceived Anti-White Racism in South Korea

ABSTRACTThis article analyzes YouTube comments about a Munhwa Broadcasting Company report that White “expatriates” in South Korea called xenophobic and racist. The research is important because there is a paucity of scholarship on White discourse outside the West and because there is limited work on YouTube as a space to articulate and negotiate discourses about racism. This is despite the increasingly complex flows of people and discourse around the globe. In this article, I argue that YouTube acted as a site of ideological negotiation in which Orientalist discourses were advanced under the cover of color-blind racism. Many of the YouTube comments framed Korea as xenophobic and racist, and even for self-identified White commenters sympathetic to the report, they did not challenge the construction of Korea as racist or the normative belief in postracism.

Resisting Racist Propaganda: Distorted Visual Communication and Epistemic Activism

AbstractThis article explores how racist propaganda works in visual communication and how such propaganda can be resisted. The article analyzes how photography has created new possibilities for the insidious dissemination of racist messages and discusses ways of resisting these visually transmitted propagandistic messages. The two sections of the article focus on examples of racist propaganda in visual culture: in section 1, the focus is on the propagandistic use of photography in the early twentieth century by the pro‐lynching movement; and in section 2, the focus is on racist subtexts in communication that is both visual and verbal in mass media in recent decades. In both sections, the paper discusses how to neutralize and counter propaganda in visual culture by means of what the author terms “epistemic activism,” which consists in practices of interrogation and resistance that unmask, disrupt, and uproot biases and insensitivity. The article discusses different instances of epistemic activism that make explicit and effectively criticize racist subtexts in visual communication. The instances of epistemic activism discussed include the pamphlets of the anti‐lynching movement, critiques of visual artists and scholars, and the critical responses of online activists. The article argues that epistemic activism can produce critical viewership by disrupting the passive reception of visual messages and triggering more active and critical modes of viewing images. The author concludes by emphasizing the urgent need for epistemic activism that promotes critical awareness of the subtexts embedded in visual communication and a sense of critical responsibility in the production, consumption, and recirculation of images.

Rwanda National Days Celebrations and Racist Propaganda (1962-1982)

This article addresses the link between Rwanda national days celebrations and a racist propaganda between 1962 and 1982. It states a problem to know whether the political messages on the national days celebrations conveyed a democratic message or a racist propaganda. First, it explores a theoretical theory related to race and propaganda. Then, it focus on the racial interpretations of Rwandan society during the colonial period with the objective to search for a relationship between the colonial discourse and the post-colonial political speeches. An analysis of the spoken as well as the written and musical data of the post-colonial period studied leads to certify that national days celebrations sent to the nation a racist propaganda against TutsiKey words : race, propaganda, democracy, Hutu, Tutsi

Bodies of Knowledge: The Human Sciences, Expertise, and Public Policy

Bodies of Knowledge:The Human Sciences, Expertise, and Public Policy Christine Manganaro (bio) Melissa N. Stein. Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. 354 pp. Illustrations, notes, and index. $27.00. Thomas C. Leonard. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2015. xiv + 250 pp. Notes and index. $35.00. Alexandra Minna Stern. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, 2nd ed. Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. xvi + 402 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, notes, and index. $29.95. The three books under review focus on the development of expertise in the United States and the role of perceptions about human difference and fitness for citizenship in public policy debates. In the nineteenth century, physicians and scientists increasingly claimed specialized knowledge and assumed positions of cultural authority in public discourse, as well as social authority in institutions. In Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830–1934, Melissa Stein invokes Stephen J. Gould's book about nineteenth-century scientific racism and biological determinism, The Mismeasure of Man (1981). Laura Briggs has observed that work like Gould's and William Stanton's The Leopard's Spots (1972) "understood the production of racial difference to be something that science did primarily to male bodies."1 A similar observation animates Measuring Manhood. Citing initial work by Gould, Stanton, and George Frederickson, among others, as the standard historiography, Stein frames her project as part of an "emerging scholarship that examines the intersection of race, gender, and sexuality," scholarship intended as a corrective to histories that in her assessment have inadequately examined the meanings of anatomy and "paid little attention to gender" (pp. 18, 20). Stein overstates the gap in the literature, but this project does contribute an analysis of how inextricably intertwined racial science and public discourse about citizenship [End Page 470] were; likewise the substantial, constitutive overlap between racial science and sexology prior to World War I.2 Measuring Manhood's primary contributions lie in its first three chapters: on the antebellum development of biological paradigms of racial difference as knowledge produced by, for, and about men (chapter one); post-bellum deliberation about gender and citizenship vis-à-vis race (chapter two); and the co-evolution of late nineteenth-century racial science and sexology (chapter three). Stein locates concerns about manhood and masculinity in the steadily professionalizing literature about race and citizenship operating before and after the Civil War by treating the multidisciplinary sciences of race as ethnology. In this case, ethnology can be considered a discursive space and a collection of scholars, scientists, and medical personnel devoted to studying human origins and racial differentiation. Looking beyond the texts they produced, Stein also considers the private lives of familiar ethnologists such as Samuel George Morton, Samuel Cartwright, and Josiah Nott, as well as a number of less historically prominent figures such as Charles Brace, Benjamin Gould, and Roberts Bartholow. These chapters are long (sixty pages in one case, eighty in another) and so stuffed that effort is required to stay the course. But they add considerable texture to what we know about the modes in which nineteenth-century ethnologists worked, and they demonstrate that the loose boundaries around this work yielded scientific and medical literature on race that was often nearly indistinguishable from general racist propaganda (p. 128). Chapter three, "Inverts, Perverts, and Primitives: Racial Thought and the American School of Sexology" is the most original section of the book. Arguing that historians have mistakenly characterized U.S. sexologists working in the 1940s and 1950s before Alfred Kinsey as following European trends, Stein notes that early U.S. scientific work on homosexuality and inversion remains relatively under-examined (p. 174). She is right. Addressing this gap by analyzing sexological work by the very same racial scientists who were profiled in earlier chapters, Stein shows that ethnology and sexology were not separate fields in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Indeed, these decades saw the development of a unique concept of sexuality and sexual deviance shaped by the country's racial context (p. 178). The two...

“The Mellow Pot-Smoker”: White Individualism in Marijuana Legalization Campaigns

This Note suggests that has characterized many campaigns for the legalization of recreational marijuana, including in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska. implicitly suggests that white, hard-working, middle-class, marijuana consumers are deserving beneficiaries of legalized marijuana. The white-washed framing of legal marijuana omits and implicitly reinforces marijuana prohibition’s racist legacy. Marijuana criminalization was originally justified through racist propaganda; the war on drugs has been enacted through coded racial appeals; and marijuana enforcement has disproportionately fallen upon black and brown people. White individualism in marijuana legalization campaigns has tended to correlate with policies that favor white entrepreneurs rather than policies that redress past harms of prohibition, such as the expungement of criminal records.

Islam and Nazi Germany's War

Islam and Nazi Germany's War

The speech choir in central European theatres and literary-musical works in the first third of the 20th century

Speech choirs emerged as an offshoot of the choral gatherings of a wider youth musical and singing movement in the first half of the 20th century. The occasionally expressed opinion that choral speaking was cultivated primarily by the Hitler Youth and pressed into service on behalf of Nazi nationalist and racist propaganda is, historically, only partially accurate. The primary forces of choral speaking in Germany were, from 1919, the Social Democratic workers? and cultural movement and the Catholic youth groups, in addition to elementary and secondary schools. The popularity of speech choirs around 1930 was also echoed in the music of the time. Compositions for musical speech choirs were produced by composers like Heinz Thiessen, Arnold Sch?nberg, Ernst Toch, Carl Orff, Vladimir Vogel, Luigi Nono, Helmut Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm. Moving forward from the Sch?nberg School, the post-1945 new music thereby opens up the spectrum of vocal expressions of sound beyond that of the singing voice. It does so not only for solo voices but for the choir as well.

Hate and violence spread through the air

Social Interactions During the 1994 Rwandan genocide, radio station RTLM aired racist propaganda promoting violence against Tutsis. We now can see quantitatively some of the effects of this propaganda. Yanagizawa-Drott modeled radio signal propagation across this “land of a thousand hills” to

Who are Black Americans? A Primer for Educators &lt;em&gt;(Editor’s Commentary)&lt;/em&gt;

Persons of Black African ancestry live as citizens, foreign nationals, and indigenous populations on every continent as a result of immigration, colonialism and slave trading. Today, most Black people in the Americas are the progeny of victims of the transatlantic slave trade. From 1619 to 1863, millions of Africans were involuntarily relocated from various regions of West Africa to newly established European colonies in the Americas. Many different African ethnic groups, including the Congo, Yoruba, Wolof, and Ibo, were casualties of the transatlantic slave trade. The Black American population is the aggregate of these groups, consolidated into one race, bound by a common struggle against racial oppression and distinguished by cultural dualism (Toldson, 1999).Importantly, the historic legacy of Black people in the Western Hemisphere is not limited to slavery. The Olmec heads found along the Mexican Gulf Coast is evidence of African colonies in the Americas centuries before Columbus arrived in the Caribbean (Van Sertima, 2003). Black people were also responsible for establishing the world's first free Black republic, and only the second independent nation in the Western Hemisphere, with the Haitian Revolution (Geggus, 2001). In the United States, almost 500,000 African Americans were free prior to the Civil War and were immensely instrumental in shaping U.S. policy throughout abolition and beyond. Post-Civil War, African Americans influenced U.S. arts, agriculture, foods, textile, language, and invented technological necessities such as the traffic light and elevators, and parts necessary to build the automobile and personal computer. All of these contributions were necessary for the U.S. to become a world power by the 20th century.Racism and oppression are forces that have shaped the experiences and development of Black people worldwide. Although European colonialists initially enslaved Black people because of their agricultural expertise and genetic resistance to diseases, they used racist propaganda to justify their inhumane practices. During periods of slavery and the Scramble for Africa, European institutions used pseudoscience and religion (e.g., the Hamitic myth) to dehumanize Black people (Toldson, 2008). The vestiges of racism and oppression survived centuries after propaganda campaigns ended and influence all human interactions today.Currently, racism is perpetuated most profoundly through the educational system (Loewen, 1996). Black students are taught to revere historians such as Columbus, who nearly committed genocide against the native population of the Dominican Republic; and Woodrow Wilson who openly praised the Ku Klux Klan. Although many of these facts are not well known and purposefully disguised in history texts, children often leave traditional elementary and secondary education with the sense that aside from a few isolated figures (e.g., Martin Luther King and Harriet Tubman) Black people had a relatively small role in the development of modem nations (May, Willis, & Loewen, 2003).Survey data often indicate that African Americans have the highest incidence and mortality of any given mental or physical disorder, are more deeply impacted by social ills, and generally have the lowest economic standing. …

Slipping Racism into the Mainstream: A Theory of Information Laundering

Many studies in recent years have addressed the notable ways that Internet features such as blogs and search engines have democratized the community of information seekers and providers, however, fewer investigations have addressed the darker element that has emerged from that same democratic sphere. That is, the huge resurgence and transformation of racist communities across cyberspace. This article presents a new theory of information laundering to explain the process by which racial hate speech is becoming legitimized through a borrowed network of online associations. This Internet-specific theory builds upon research of “information-based” racist propaganda to explain how today's search engines, social networks, and political blogs unwittingly enable purveyors of bigotry to infiltrate into mainstream spaces of public discourse.