Thirteen Conversations About Art and Cultural Race Politics

Gagnon notes that the extended conversations between her and Fung, as well as with the 11other contributing artists, writers and cultural workers, represent the complexity of Canadian cultural race politics and its evolution over the years. While engaging with the history and the formative concepts of cultural race politics, this book also speculates on its future, particularly in light of the forces of globalisation. Biographical notes. Bibliography 11 p. Videography/filmography/discography 4 p

Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self: Carlos Castaneda in \u3cem\u3eCamposcape\u3c/em\u3e

Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, this article examines the importance of place and gender within constructions of race politics in Carlos Castaneda’s series on shamanism. Championing a “separate reality” predicated on an indigenous worldview, Castaneda’s lessons invited transnational middle-class youth to journey alongside him to camposcape—an anachronistic and idealized countryside—as a means to escape the bourgeois values of their homelands and find spiritual fulfillment in a timeless and authentic Mexico. Castaneda’s work proposed new viable spaces of difference in Mexico, yet inscribed these spaces with a masculinist discourse that served to neutralize the gender trouble within the counterculture movement in both Mexico and the US

Race, Politics, and Justice: A Clash of Interpretations

Today\u27s climate of racial reckoning in the United States raises profound questions about the roots of racial-ethnic inequality. While protesters lament and denounce what they view as a systematically racist society that devalues Black lives, critics of the movement condemn the chaos on the streets and what they view as dangerous misdiagnoses of societal ills. The contrast in interpretations goes beyond race, however, with profound moral and emotional differences across the political divide. This essay reviews two major texts representing contrasting interpretations of racial disparities on the ``left\u27\u27 and ``right\u27\u27 in the United States. Applying the tools of political psychology, the essay examines Ijeoma Oluo\u27s So you want to talk about race, and Jason Riley\u27s Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks to Succeed. It will be seen that the claims, counterclaims, and evidence found in each text reflect as much the political sensibilities of the left and right as they do sober analyses of the relevant evidence regarding racial inequality. The second half of the paper will engage in a discussion concerning moral and evolutionary psychology, examining the different moral foundation found in liberals and conservatives, such as Oluo and Riley, respectively, and how such foundations have developed to become part of our ideological identities and the way in which they impact our thoughts, core beliefs, and group affiliations. The findings have implications for the prospects of overcoming confirmation bias and finding common ground regarding the contentious questions of racial inequality and social justice

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 53, Number 3

RACE, POLITICS AND EDUCATION: THE SHEATS-HOLLOWAY ELECTION CONTROVERSY, 1903-1904 Arthur O. WhiteVICENTE PAZOS AND THE AMELIA ISLAND AFFAIR, 1817 Charles H. Bowman, Jr.CHEROKEES AND THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR Gary E. MoultonTHE CASE OF TOM TIGER’S HORSE: AN EARLY FORAY INTO INDIAN RIGHTS Harry A. Kersey, Jr.NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: NEWNANSVILLE: A LOST FLORIDA SETTLEMENT Susan Yelton FLORIDA HISTORY RESEARCH IN PROGRESS BOOK REVIEWSBOOK NOTESHISTORY NEW

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 53, Number 3

RACE, POLITICS AND EDUCATION: THE SHEATS-HOLLOWAY ELECTION CONTROVERSY, 1903-1904 Arthur O. WhiteVICENTE PAZOS AND THE AMELIA ISLAND AFFAIR, 1817 Charles H. Bowman, Jr.CHEROKEES AND THE SECOND SEMINOLE WAR Gary E. MoultonTHE CASE OF TOM TIGER’S HORSE: AN EARLY FORAY INTO INDIAN RIGHTS Harry A. Kersey, Jr.NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: NEWNANSVILLE: A LOST FLORIDA SETTLEMENT Susan Yelton FLORIDA HISTORY RESEARCH IN PROGRESS BOOK REVIEWSBOOK NOTESHISTORY NEW

Race, politics and the frontier in American literature, 1783-1837

Divided chronologically into two sections, this thesis examines how ways of conceptualising and writing about the American frontier, and the Native Americans who inhabit that frontier, reflect and participate in the emergent political and regional divisions of the early republic. Although 'the West' and 'the Indian' are pervasive images in early American literature, their meanings are indeterminate. During the Revolution, the frontier functions as a patriotic locus, the settlement of the wilderness providing a metaphor for the project of independence and nation-building. However, in the early republic, as conceptions of national destiny splinter along regional and political lines, the West and its inhabitants, white or native, take on conflicting meanings: independence and limitless potential on the one hand, savagery and degeneration on the other. Part I spans the period from the end of the Revolution to the end of the War of 1812, beginning with a survey of the contemporaneous attitudes towards the West and the Indians, represented by influential public figures of the early republic, such as Jefferson and Washington. I then consider the literary representation of the frontier by John Filson, Ann Eliza Bleecker, the pseudonymous 'Abraham Panther', Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown, demonstrating the ways in which their generically diverse work reflects and responds to the ideological debates about the frontier which characterise the period. Part II focuses on the literature of Jacksonian America. Race and expansionism were still at the root of ideological divisions within the nation, the frontier was still perceived to be the most appropriate subject for national literature, and the historical romance had become the dominant literary form in America. I examine the work of three writers - James Kirke Paulding, William Gilmore Simms and Robert Montgomery Bird - each of whom historicizes the frontier, legitimising the contemporary ideologies articulated in their fiction by association with an earlier 'golden age' of American history

U.S. Race Politics: Learning from the Experiences of African Americans

Presentation made at Latinos in the Heartland (8th : 2010 : St. Louis, Mo.) and published in the annual conference proceedings.This research details three markers in the history of race and ethnic relations through a theoretical lens that addresses them from an African American perspective to illustrate what Latin Americans can learn from the experiences of blacks in American politics. The three markers include Chief Justice Taney's decision in Dred Scott (1857), the Supreme Court's decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978) and Harold Washington's Chicago Mayoral Campaign in 1983. These events offer a critique and praxis of pluralism in traditional political theory and do shape the political landscape for race and ethnicity. Where they offer perspectives for racial and ethnic minorities in the United States to learn from, Latin Americans in particular, given controversies surrounding recent immigration patterns, can gain from knowledge and the analysis of the events. Likewise, the African American community can gain from Latin American perspectives. Through shared, periphery frames of reference, the brief history, and the environment surrounding the markers, in advancing a common ground from a critique of traditional political theory, the research thus provides direction for theory development that respects the value of pluralism despite its failures from theory into practice