Race, racism, and academic complicity

Mevorach, Katya Gibel

doi:10.1525/ae.2007.34.2.238

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“…While initially tackling expansive, structural questions, modern conversations have come to fixate on demographic concerns-cataloging disparity across census categories (Bell 1995;Gillborn et al 2017;Asare 2018). This has led to a stagnation where the inequitable outcomes of racism are continually unearthed, but solutions remain elusive (Mevorach 2008;Palmie 2008;Weiss 2008). Disrupting this, the Fieldses' application of racecraft has encouraged research to question the concept of "race" itself and how the essentialization of this ideology is a key mechanism by which racism persists (Fields 1990;Fields and Fields 2012).…”

Section: Understanding Racecraft and Exposing "Race"mentioning

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More than a Game: Racecraft and the Adaptation of “Race” in Live Action Role Play

Eddy

2020

Humanities

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Live action role players make the imaginative worlds of tabletop games manifest through collaborative storytelling and embodied play. Escaping the everyday, these communities could radically reimagine culture and challenge oppressive ideologies. Instead, they are deeply invested in essentializing “race”. I conducted a three-year ethnographic study alongside 20 semi-structured interviews to explore racecraft in live action role play. Supporting the groundbreaking work of Karen and Barbara Fields, I find that racecraft is a social process—continually negotiated and maintained through intimate interactions and community exchanges. Through this process, the definition of “race” is continually adapted while belief in this category remains entrenched. When participants confront racist stereotypes, practitioners coerce marginalized members into a false exchange. These members are encouraged to share experiences detailing the damage of problematic representations. Practitioners then reduce these experiences to monolithic understandings of “race”. In this insidious manner, anti-racist confrontations become fodder for racecraft. Complicating this further, patterned racism is characterized as an inborn quality of whiteness, minimizing practitioners’ accountability. Responsibility is then shifted onto marginalized participants and their willingness to engage in “racial” education. This trap is ingrained in the double standard of racism, adapting “race” such that whiteness is unrestricted by the monolithic definitions applied to those outside this category.

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Section: Understanding Racecraft and Exposing "Race"mentioning

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More than a Game: Racecraft and the Adaptation of “Race” in Live Action Role Play

Eddy

2020

Humanities

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“…«Gener» erstattet ikke nødvendigvis «blod» som hovedmetafor for biologiske relasjoner, men forankret slektskap enda tydeligere i en biologisk «natur», og man kan hevde at denne oppfatningen befestes gjennom den vitenskapelige innrammingen av fenomenet: I dagens vestlige diskurs oppfattes gjerne «blod» nettopp som en metafor for slektskap, mens «gener» ikke like lett kan «avsløres» på denne måten (se Carsten, 2004: 112-113 selvfølgelig ha store sosiopolitiske følger. For eksempel kan forskyvningen utfordre urfolks krav på rettigheter forankret i geografisk opprinnelse (Nash, 2012: 676-677), og siden avstamning også mange steder er implisert i rasediskurser (se for eksempel Marks, 2008;Mevorach, 2007;Palmié, 2007;Wade, 2007), kan gentesting få svaert problematiske etiske og politiske effekter. Jeg bestrider ikke denne kritikken, men siden jeg her fokuserer på slektsgransking, er poenget at naturaliseringen også legger premisser for etablering av genealogier.…”

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Race of the Future: Mixing of Colors in the United States Leading to One Race?

Matusitz

Davidson

2015

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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This article examines the impacts of the race of the future theory on the U.S. population. By and large, the theory posits that the mixing of different races-due to the process of miscegenation, especially in marriage, cohabitation, or sexual relations-will blend all races, so much so that, in the future, the end result of this mixing will be a panracial formation (i.e., one race). In this analysis, the authors attempt to determine whether the mixing of colors currently happening in the United States will lead to one race and what the race of the future in the United States will "look" like. One of the major conclusions is that, although the possibility of the existence of the race of the future has yet to be established, the degree of multiraciality in the U.S. population is rapidly growing (based on data and statistics from the U.S. Bureau of the Census).

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Race, racism, and academic complicity

Cited by 4 publications

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More than a Game: Racecraft and the Adaptation of “Race” in Live Action Role Play

More than a Game: Racecraft and the Adaptation of “Race” in Live Action Role Play

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