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We also provide substantive research and analysis on local, national, and global resistance to racial and ethnic oppression, including the many types of antiracist activism.
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We’re always interested in more stories about antiracism to include on the blog and look forward to seeing any links that you post here that highlight antiracist activism in the news.
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something else comes to mind, Zivilcourage/(moral courage I think it’s called in English?), the courage to speak up and act. It’s a current topic here in the city I live because of some incidents where people where attacked and nobody interfered.
In anti-racism, people may be able to “unlearn” their racism but this doesn’t give them the backbone to actually act against main-stream.
Every oppressive system has also it’s opponents from those in the powerful group, e.g. during slavery there have been whites helping Blacks to escape slavery, during Nazi-Germany there have been Germans hiding Jews.
That means, that everybody belonging to the ‘group in power’ is still responsible for his/her own actions, there is no such thing like “product of the time” and everybody can still act based on his/her conscience, regardless circumstances.
In democracies like the US and Germany today on average it doesn’t take so much courage to act as it took back in history, nonetheless the majority makes the choice to remain silent. Even in non-threatening situations. Even on internet, the safest place somebody could “train courage”.
What can we learn from these people, who were/are ‘white privileged’ and nonetheless say ‘no’ to the social pressure of main-stream.
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Fellow Scholars, Wherefore Art Thou?
By Dr. T. Fitzgerald
“Either they don’t know, don’t show, or don’t care about what’s goin’ on in the hood.” At 18 years of age when I first heard this line from the 1991 movie, “Boyz in Da Hood,” I was blown away while sitting in a local movie theatre. Even though I was not from the hard inner city streets of Los Angeles, California, nonetheless, I related to the discussion related to the plight of socially and financially marginalized Black males in America. The connectivity to this movie sowed the seed of social justice and my passion for research related to those who share similar experiences of marginalization. Scholarly efforts in the early to late 90s produced a number of academic pieces (ex. The Assassination of the Black Male Image by Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man by Henry Louis Gates Jr, Black Masculinity: The Black Male’s Role in American Society by Robert Staples, Young, Black, and Male in America: An Endangered Species by Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, and etc.). Very few books today exist that focus on the plight of Black males. Has the crisis subsided? Have Black males begun to rise from the ashes? Are they succeeding so well that the area of topic is extraneous? Actually, the state of Black males has continued to spiral out of control. Black males are out numbered by Black females completing high school, college, and graduate school. Black males are over represented in special education, receiving corporal punishment by school officials, expulsions and suspensions in public schools across the country. They are also more likely to be killed violently than their White and Black female counterparts. As a scholar I beseech my fellow academic social justice activists to begin to review this area of topic. Black males have had a history of being ignored in this country. It is up to the academy to force our society to realize that we do know, are showing, and do care about what’s going on with Black males.
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I used to hate when people, mostly black men, would suggest that black men have it worst than black women. I still reserve some caution for endorsing the view because whatever happens to black men, black women are left holding the bag. For example, when we think about the history of lynching, we usually see images of black men hanging from trees in very states of mutilation and decomposition. What we don’t usually consider are the wives and children left behind. I’ve been putting off reading into the issue, but it does seem that the issues black men face as black men contribute to their resistance to marriage; therefore, we have a substantially high number of single mothers (although, it’s not as high as strict census numbers since a good number of single mothers live with their parents). So again, we see that whatever happens to black men as black men impacts black women, both in terms of blackness and the likelihood that black men couple with black women.
All that said, I wouldn’t trade places with my brother. And not just because I’m cuter.
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I’d be interested to read what others experience in the assignment/selection of who teaches which courses. In short, do white professors teach race and ethnic relations at the same rates as non-whites? (Specifically Arican-Amrican professors. Although subtle I’d be hard pressed not to include teaching assisgnments as a by-product of a racism in academia.
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