“No More Excuses”: Problematic Responses to Barack Obama’s Election

Reed, Wornie L.; Louis, Bertin M.

doi:10.1007/s12111-009-9088-3

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“…This lack of public patience for Black children's (childlike) insubordination is seemingly justified by the outcome of the last two presidential campaigns. Shortly after the election of Barack Obama in 2008, a number of commentators across the political spectrum began to insist that the election of the nation's first Black president meant that Black children-and particularly Black boys-now had "no excuses" for misbehavior or low academic achievement (Reed & Louis, 2009), because his election should signal to these children that there were no longer any barriers to their success and that racism was no longer a burden they had to bear. This argument was and is troubling, first of all, because it suggests that racial barriers are principally psychological rather than material and ideological.…”

Section: The Implausibility Of Black Childhoodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Re)Imagining Black Boyhood: Toward a Critical Framework for Educational Research

Dumas

Nelson

2016

Harvard Educational Review

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Drawing on critical childhood studies, Michael J. Dumas and Joseph Derrick Nelson argue that Black boyhood is socially unimagined and unimaginable, largely due to the devalued position and limited consideration of Black girls and boys within the broader social conception of childhood. In addition, the "crisis" focus of the public discourse on Black males-focused as it is on adult Black men-makes it difficult to authentically see young Black boys as human beings in and of themselves. A critical reimagining of Black boyhood, the authors contend, demands that educators, policy makers, and community advocates pursue pedagogical and policy interventions that create spaces for Black boys to construct and experience robust childhoods. Further, a (re)commitment to critical research on Black boyhood should inspire inquiry that asks young Black boys who they are, what they think, and what they desire in their lives now.

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Section: The Implausibility Of Black Childhoodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

(Re)Imagining Black Boyhood: Toward a Critical Framework for Educational Research

Dumas

Nelson

2016

Harvard Educational Review

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“…Furthermore, all Americans experienced the election of the United States’s first Black president. Reed and Bertin (2009) theorize that the 2008 election has increasingly served the function as evidence for Americans of all racial backgrounds to argue that Blacks have “no more excuses” (p. 97). Valentino and Brader (2011) go further, showing empirically that after Obama’s election, people felt that less discrimination existed in the United States.…”

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Shifting From Structural to Individual Attributions of Black Disadvantage

Smith

2014

Journal of Black Studies

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Despite significant changes in American society, Blacks still lag behind Whites on several important socioeconomic indicators. Attributing this gap to structural reasons (e.g., racial discrimination) or to person-centered reasons (e.g., individual willpower) is highly correlated with the extent to which individuals feel that the government should implement policies to ameliorate racial disparities. Scholars have shown that Blacks have shifted their explanations of Black disadvantage from structural attributions to person-centered over the past three decades. Some suggest that this change is because all Blacks are becoming more conservative while others suggest that cohort replacement is undergirding the shift. I used a newly developed method, the intrinsic estimator, to determine whether period, age, and/or cohort effects are responsible for the shift. I find that, generally, Blacks are less inclined to suggest that discrimination is a credible explanation due to period effects, but the increase in person-centered attributions is primarily due to cohort variation.

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“…The process of incorporation is what political scientist Cedric Johnson () observed as the transformation from revolutionaries who challenged the system to race leaders who manage it. The third wave, which is exemplified by the election of the first Black president, was followed by a strong public opinion that believed racism was nothing but a thing of the past except for the “few bad apples” that do not represent the majority (Pettigrew , Reed & Bertin ).…”

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Race in the Color‐blind Era: Deracialization and Black Elected Officials

Johnson

2014

Sociology Compass

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This paper reviews the emergence of Black elected officials and the deracialization concept within the literature of Blacks politics. The aim is to provide an overview of the critical issues and debates regarding Black elected officials since the Civil Rights Movement. I contend that an understanding of deracialization as an analytical construct, to assess the viability of Black elected officials and election outcomes, is clearer when examined from the perspective of structural change. Rather than just examining specific candidates and campaigns, a sociological approach that situates Black elected officials within the macro changes of society explains the contradiction of greater political representation yet persistent racial inequality. I conclude this paper with a brief discussion of how the study of deracialization as racial phenomena can be advanced through critical discourse analysis that identifies candidates within social networks of power and influence.

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“No More Excuses”: Problematic Responses to Barack Obama’s Election

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

(Re)Imagining Black Boyhood: Toward a Critical Framework for Educational Research

(Re)Imagining Black Boyhood: Toward a Critical Framework for Educational Research

Shifting From Structural to Individual Attributions of Black Disadvantage

Race in the Color‐blind Era: Deracialization and Black Elected Officials

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