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Wglt Interview, Meghan Burke
Wglt Interview, Meghan Burke
Meghan A. Burke
Professor Megan Burke discusses her new book, "Race, Gender, and Class in the TEA Party" with WGLT's Charlie Schlenker.
La Asfixia, El Estado Racista Y La Movilización Social En Defensa De Las Vidas Negras (Asphyxiation, State Racism And The Black Lives Matter Movement), Andrés Henao Castro
La Asfixia, El Estado Racista Y La Movilización Social En Defensa De Las Vidas Negras (Asphyxiation, State Racism And The Black Lives Matter Movement), Andrés Henao Castro
Andrés Fabián Henao-Castro
¿Cómo existir para los otros cuando el aire por el que circula la voz está contaminado con gas lacrimógeno? El movimiento social y la protesta popular constituyen una respuesta, se trata de multiplicar la singularidad de la voz rechazada por el estado racista en la pluralidad de todas esas gargantas congregadas en las calles. Se grita “¡no puedo respirar!” para transformar la asfixia del estado racista, para limpiar el aire contaminado ya no con el aire acondicionado del capital corporativo sino con el que circula, impropio, por las gargantas en común de la protesta popular.
Race, Gender, And Class In The Tea Party: What The Movement Reflects About Mainstream Ideologies, Meghan Burke
Race, Gender, And Class In The Tea Party: What The Movement Reflects About Mainstream Ideologies, Meghan Burke
Meghan A. Burke
It has been all too tempting to characterize the Tea Party as an irrational, racist, astro-turf movement composed of members who are working to subvert their own economic interests. Race, Gender, and Class in the Tea Party reveals a much messier and much more fascinating analysis of this movement. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with organizers and fieldwork at conservative campaign trainings and conventions, its rich ethnographic data explores how the active folks in this movement, specifically organizers in one Midwestern state, understand their world, and how they act on that basis to change it. As this book will reveal, most …
Constructing A Moderate Multiracial Coalition In "America's Most Diverse City": Kevin Johnson And Coalition Politics In Sacramento, Corey Cook
Corey Cook
Purpose - The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the growing academic literature on "post-racial" African American leadership by exploring the election and reelection of Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. Johnson is emblematic of the current generation of young African American leaders: politically moderate, less likely to employ overt racial appeals, and able to assemble a multiethnic political coalition. Design/methodology/approach - This chapter utilizes a combination of semi-structured interviews and multivariate quantitative analysis of an original dataset to reveal both the diversity of the Johnson coalition and the high support for Johnson's candidacy in Sacramento's African American community. Findings …
Leading From Behind The Gap: Post-Racial Politics And The Pedagogy Of Black Studies, Seneca Vaught
Leading From Behind The Gap: Post-Racial Politics And The Pedagogy Of Black Studies, Seneca Vaught
Seneca Vaught
An Associated Press Poll released on the eve of the 2012 presidential election revealed that more Americans are overtly racist today than four years ago.