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tagged immigration new_jersey racism nytimes sikh xenophobia by jn ...on 15-JUN-08
. White trash : race and class in America / edited by Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz. 0415916917 series New York ; London : Routledge, 1997.
Call#: Van Pelt Library E184.A1 .W397 1997
Call#: Van Pelt Library E184.A1 .W397 1997 

Introduction / Annalee Newitz, Matt Wray 1
Sunset Trailer Park / Allan Berube, Florence Berube 15
Name Calling: Objectifying "Poor Whites" and "White Trash" in Detroit / John Hartigan, Jr. 41
Partners in Crime: African Americans and Non-slaveholding Whites in Antebellum Georgia / Timothy J. Lockley 57
Bloody Footprints: Reflections on Growing Up Poor White / Roxanne A. Dunbar 73
Crackers and Whackers: The White Trashing of Porn / Constance Penley 89
White Trash Girl: The Interview / Laura Kipnis, Jennifer Reeder 113
White Savagery and Humiliation, or A New Racial Consciousness in the Media / Annalee Newitz 131
Can Whiteness Speak? Institutional Anomies, Ontological Disasters, and Three Hollywood Films / Mike Hill 155
Trash-o-nomics / Doug Henwood 177
White Trash Religion / Matt Wray 193
Telling Stories of "Queer White Trash": Race, Class, and Sexuality in the Work of Dorothy Allison / Jillian Sandell 211
Acting Naturally: Cultural Distinction and Critiques of Pure Country / Barbara Ching 231
The King of White Trash Culture: Elvis Presley and the Aesthetics of Excess / Gael Sweeney 249

 

tagged cultural_theory racism by walther ...on 27-MAY-08
Young, Vershawn Ashanti. . Your average nigga : performing race, literacy, and masculinity / Vershawn Ashanti Young. 9780814332481 (pbk. : alk. paper) series Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2007.
Call#: Van Pelt Library E185.86 .Y67 2007


tagged racism by walther ...on 16-MAR-08
Parland, Thomas. . Extreme nationalist threat in Russia : the growing influence of Western rightist ideas / Thomas Parland. 0415341116 series London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library DK510.763 .P368 2005


tagged for_a natiohnalism racism russia by laallen ...on 29-FEB-08
In Amnesty International published a report, EUR 46/022/2006, which detailed the alarming regularity of racist attacks and killings of foreigners and ethnic minorities, and the disturbing increase in their number. While there has been an increase in prosecutions recognizing racial hatred, the authorities are still not doing enough to convincingly challenge racist and xenophobic ideas and ideologies. This update details some of the most recent developments and reiterates Amnesty International's key recommendations for the Russian authorities in relation to racist attacks.
tagged amnesty_international racism russia by laallen ...on 29-FEB-08
Lists the publications of a major anti-fascist organization in Russia.
tagged fascism for_a russia racism by laallen ...on 29-FEB-08
Mental health, social mirror / William Avison, Jane McLeod, Bernice Pescosolido, editors. [038736319X (hbk.) ] New York ; London : Springer, 2007.
Call#: Van Pelt Library RA790.5 .M468 2007  
 
Part III.
The Social Origins of Mental Health and Mental Illness.-
Class Relations, Economic Inequality and Mental Health: Why Social Class Matters to the Sociology of Mental Health.-
Work and the Political Economy of Stress: Recontextualizing the Study of Mental Health/Illness in Sociology.-
Race and Mental Health: Past Debates, New Opportunities.- Karen D. Lincoln.-
Life Course Perspectives on Social Factors and Mental Illness.-
Transition to Adulthood, Mental Health, and Inequality.-
Contributions of the Sociology of Mental Health for Understanding the Social Antecedents, Social Regulation, and Social Distribution of Emotion.-
Social Psychology and Stress Research.- 


tagged mental_health racism by walther ...on 24-AUG-07
Gender, class, race, and reform in the progressive era / Noralee Frankel, Nancy S. Dye, editors. [0813117631(alk. paper) ] Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c1991.
Call#: Van Pelt Library HQ1419 .G46 1991 
 
Sharon Harley, "When Your Work Is Not Who You Are: The Development of a Working-Class Consciousness among Afro-American Women" 


tagged cultural_theory racism by walther ...on 05-MAY-07
Sima?o,LMathias Sima?o,LMathias. Otherness in questions : labyrinths of the self. [1-59311-232-7] 
 
CONTENTS:
Preface.
PART I: CONCEPTUAL ROOTS OF "OTHERNESS". The Enigmatic Other, Ernst Boesch. Why "Otherness" in the Research Domain of Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism? Lívia Mathias Simão. Interview for Part I: Transparency in the Meaning Making Lívia Mathias Simão and Alvaro Duran, in interview with Ernst E. Boesch.
PART II: OTHERNESS AND DIALOGICALITY: FEELING INTO PHENOMENA. The Feeling of a Dialogical Self: Affectivity, Agency, and Otherness, João Salgado. At the Boundary of Me and You: Semiotic Architecture of Thinking and Feeling the Other, Emily Abbey. The Self Experience of Otherness and the Shadows of Identity, Nelson Coelho Jr. Interview for Part II: Allusion and Illusions: Dynamics of Self and Otherness, Nandita Chaudhary.
PART III: STRIVING TOWARD THE KNOWN UNKNOWN: SELF IN MOTION. Otherness in the Therapeutic Context: The Social Construction of Change, Marisa Japur, Carla Guanaes, and Emerson F. Rasera. Time, Self, and the Other: The Striving Tourist in Ladakh, North India, Alex Gillespie. Dynamics of Interiority: Ruptures and Transitions in the Self Development, Tania Zittoun. Interview for Part III: Striving Toward Novelty in a Scientific Dialogue, Alexander Poddiakov.
PART IV: SELF IN COLLECTIVE OTHERNESS. Otherness in Historically Situated Self-Experiences: A Case-Study on how Historical Events Affect the Architecture of the Self, Alberto Rosa, Jorge Castro, and Florentino Blanco. Contemporary Chinese Communication With its Cultural Others, Shi-Xu. The Game of Political Debates: A Play of Social Representationsand Beyond, Derek Richer and Jaan Valsiner. Interview for Part IV: Questions About the Functions of Otherness, Gyuseog Han.
PART V: THE OTHER WITHIN THE SELF: DYNAMICS OF MULTIPLICITY. Honoring Self-Otherness: Alterity and the Intrapersonal, Mick Cooper and Hubert Hermans. Intersubjectivity and Otherness: A Stage for Self Strivings, Danilo Silva Guimarães and Livia Mathias Simão. Human Development as Migration: Striving Towards the Unknown, Jaan Valsiner. Interview for Part V: Intersubjectivity and the Experience of Otherness: A Reflection Upon Relational Accounts of Subjectivity, Carla Cunha. General Conclusions. About the Authors. 
tagged psychoanalysis racism by walther ...on 01-MAY-07
 
Title:White Purposes
Author(s):Lyne, William
Source: pp. 73-80 IN: Bishop, Wendy (ed. and introd.); Ostrom, Hans (ed. and introd.); Genre and Writing: Issues, Arguments, Alternatives. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook; 1997. (xv, 311 pp.)
ISBN:9780867094213
tagged racism by walther ...on 18-SEP-06
"The Signifying Modernist: Ralph Ellison and the Limits of the Double Consciousness" Publications of the Modern Language Association of America [0030-8129] 107.2 (1992). 319-.
tagged psychoanalysis racism by walther ...on 18-SEP-06
Hating in the first person plural : psychoanalytic essays on racism, homophobia, misogyny, and terror / edited by Donald Moss. [1590510143 ] New York : Other Press, c2003.
Call#: Van Pelt Library RC506 .H285 2003
 
E. Victor Wolfenstein   ‘‘Race, Rage, and Oedipus in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man’


tagged psychoanalysis racism by walther ...on 20-JUL-06
Off white : readings on power, privilege, and resistance / Michelle Fine ... [et al., editors]. [0415949645 (alk. paper) ] New York : Routledge, 2004.
Call#: Van Pelt Library E184.A1 O338 2004


tagged racism by walther ...on 10-MAY-06
Social psychology of mental health : basic mechanisms and applications / edited by Diane N. Ruble, Philip Costanzo, Mary Ellen Oliveri.
[0898621364 (alk. paper)] New York : Guilford Press, c1992.
Call#: Van Pelt Library RA790 .S6125 1992

Jones, J. M. (1992). Understanding the mental health consequences of race: Contributions of basic social psychological processes.
tagged bookbag racism by walther ...on 17-APR-06
Wait, but slavery's over, and how could there be anything worse than slavery? Read this book.

Oshinsky, David M., 1944-. Worse than slavery : Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice / David M. Oshinsky. [0684822989] New York : Free Press, c1996.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Rosengarten Reserve HV9475.M72 M576 1996
tagged American_history Mississippi convict_leasing chain_gangs prison racism by hennefem ...on 27-FEB-06
Director John Whitesell literalizes tropes of gender and racial identity confusion in his Big Momma's House 2, which meditates upon the nuanced difficulties of existing in society as an obese African-American woman, while in reality being a skinny black man. Martin Lawrence plays Malcolm "Big Momma" Turner, a humble FBI agent whose passion for national security motivates his subtextual fascination with cross-dressing as a 250+ pound, festively patterned muumuu-sporting woman.

To appeal to a wider audience, Whitesell has ingeniously pitched Big Momma's House 2 as mind-numbing comedy, pregnant with redundantly inappropriate and awkward quips and gags. However, Big Momma House 2's purportedly feather-light farce grapples with many a complex and politically-charged question regarding the role racial minority cross-dressing plays in contemporary American culture.

Martin Lawrence's dual identity as an ambitious young sharp-shooting National Security agent, driven by his unremitting patriotism to go incognito as an elderly corpulent female, provokes comparisons between his two radically different personae. In doing so, it raises an interesting question: how does our society corner successful young black men into performing absurd self-caricatures in order to be embraced by mainstream culture?

By challenging us to laugh at our own violent and repressive racial and sexual stereotyping, Big Momma's House 2 instigates important cultural conversations regarding America's deep-rooted societal prejudices: have these bigotries really evolved since the Civil Rights Movement, or have they just been transformed and made less recognizable?

The film suggests that if we can allow ourselves to reflect openly and honestly upon these questions and anxieties, instead of displacing them onto a grossly caricatured 250+ pound African-American woman, perhaps we can also preclude the culmination of a Big Momma's House trilogy.

tagged Martin_Lawrence film sexism racism gender culture by hennefem ...on 24-FEB-06

Kozol, Jonathan. . Savage inequalities : children in America's schools / Jonathan Kozol. [051758221X : ] New York : Crown Pub., 1991.
Call#: Van Pelt Library LC4091 .K69 1991

Inequality and racism still exist. They impact children. Check this out especially if you are considering Teach for America. 

tagged education inequality racism teach_for_america by hennefem ...on 21-JAN-06

Lichtenstein traces a history of the Southern antebellum labor economy, focusing on its convict labor penal system. Lichtenstein cites LeRoy's film specifically, arguing that the film (and Burns’s autobiography) position southern chain gangs against modernity. However, chain gangs represented the South’s attempt to participate in northern economic industrialism. Chain gangs developed roads and infrastructures, enriching the south’s economy and expanding its participation in American culture and accelerated networks of communication. Thus, Lichtenstein "joins a growing number of studies that reject the dichotomy between a modern and antimodern South, and instead seek to link the region’s most appalling features to the process of modernization itself” (xvi). Chain gangs facilitated the South's response to economic and cultural pressures posed by the nation's dominant industries. Thus, the financial corruption and penal brutality which the chain gangs made conspicuous to the nation represent the South’s efforts to progress and to modernize. 

If mounting Depression social anxieties also threatened Hollywood's cultural and economic dominance in 1932, then Warner Brothers' total vilification of the chain gangs, which it depicts as embodying a barbaric and regressive South, suggests a financial motivation for the studio's misreading of the Southern penal system. Of course, markets incentives motivated every aspect of Hollywood production, from Warner Brothers’ propagandization of Chain Gang as a uniquely subversive film – to lure audiences who tended to shy away from overtly political films in 1932 – to the studios’ collusion with FDR to circumvent antitrust proceedings. However, Lichtenstein’s situation of the film within a more complex modernity dialogue puts pressure on conservative Jack Warner’s selection of this story as a vehicle for conveying to the nation his studio’s radical politics. By denying technology and modern industry’s implication in a variety of problems associated with Great Depression society, WB propagandized commercial cinema as a revolutionary alternative to sites of purported cultural backwardness which are in reality much more complex than a Hollywood film reveals.

tagged South history racism by hennefem ...on 25-NOV-05