Challenging the legacies of racial resentment
Subtitle: Black health activism, educational justice, and legislative leadership
By: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard and Julia Jordan-Zachery, editors
Series: National political science review -- volume 18; National political science review -- v. 18.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781412864312
Subjects: Race relations; Political aspects; Government policy; Blacks; African Americans; Civil rights; Medical policy; African American political activists; Medical care; Education; Political activists; History
Description: "Domestic and international health activism and health policy are focal points in this volume of the National Political Science Review series, a publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. Challenging the Legacies of Racial Resentment demonstrates the continuing importance of the 'medical civil rights movement,' through examples of activism of women of color in AIDS service organizations, around their health issues, and in the struggle for racial equity in health care in Brazil. This volume also examines the marked rise in American racial tensions during the Obama administration. Spikes in police and vigilante violence, as well as fear of a reversion to re-segregated schools have brought a new urgency to black political activism. Contributions to this volume explore the effect of race on American attitudes toward immigration policy and reform, black state legislators and American morality politics, the historically disproportionate influence of Southern whites in American politics, and the undermining of school desegregation laws with contemporary 'nullification' strategies. The volume's 'Trends' section, features conversations on the #BlackLivesMatter movement in Los Angeles, the 2016 presidential election, and examines the teaching of the Trayvon Martin story at the University of California, Irvine. The volume also includes a diverse selection of book reviews"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Black state legislators and morality politics / Donn Worgs; title: Civic engagement is a process: lessons from a first-year public administration course / Zulema Blair; title: Crossing the Mason Dixon versus the Rio Grande: evaluating the effect of race on attitudes toward immigration policy / Carley M. Shinault and Richard A. Seltzer; title: All but overturned: America's nullification of Brown v. Board of Education / Albert L. Samuels; title: Charting a path toward racial health equity in Brazil: health activism, the state, and policy development / Kia Lilly Caldwell; title: The limits of emancipation: Black Americans and white southern dominance of American politics from the founding to the twenty-first century / Neal Allen; title: Black women take their health into their own hands: the het heru healing dance and Auset Qigong / Françoise B. Cromer; title: Learning from the doers: women of color AIDS service organizations and their understanding of intersectionality / Julia Jordan-Zachery; title: "Planting the seeds of our future" in action: a conversation with Melina Abdullah / Tommi D. Hayes; title: A conversation on the 2016 presidential election with Robert Smith and Melanye Price / Mali Collins; title: "Teaching Trayvon" at Irvine: on feminist praxis, Afro-pessimism, and "Woke Work" / M. Shadee Malaklou; title: Adryan Wallace review of "What's Left of Blackness: Feminisms, Transracial Solidarities, and the Politics of Belonging in Britain" by Tracy Fisher; title: Mary Phillips review of "Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War" by Dayo Gore; title: Joe Rollins review of "Letters of the Law: Race and Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law" by Sora Y. Han; title: Brandon R. Byrd review of "The Americans Are Coming! Dreams of African American Liberation in Segregationist South Africa" by Robert Trent Vinson; title: Dan Royles review of "The Calendar of Loss: Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS" by Dagmawi Woubshet; title: Brooks Kirchgassner review of "What Fanon Said: a Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought" by Lewis R. Gordon; title: T. Tu Huynh review of "Migrant Women of Johannesburg: Everyday Life in an In-Between City" by Caroline Wanjiku Kihato; title: Brandy Thomas Wells review of "Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945, 1995" by Cheryl Higashida; title: Jasmin A. Young review of "Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism" by Erik S. McDuffie; title: Christopher Cameron review of "At the Cross: Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty" by Melynda J. Price; title: Walter D. Greason review of "Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics" by Lakeyta M. Bonnette; title: A note on passing: Cedric Robinson; title: A note on passing: Savannah Carroll; title: A note on passing: Otis Madison; title: A note on passing: Jerry Watts; title: A note on passing: Michael Mitchell; title: Invitation to the scholarly community.