Toward a New Direction in the Media "War" Against Drugs

Gilliam, Angela

doi:10.1525/tran.1992.3.1.19

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“…As Feldman (84) illuminates, mass media colonize sensory perceptions, legitimating some sensory experiences while repressing others. From a racially colonized gaze, segments of the racially oppressed are made responsible for the systemic inequalities with and against which they live (42, 59, 67,100,173,174).…”

Section: United States Multiracial Mattersmentioning

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“…The construction of a pathological underclass diverts the public eye from the structured dependencies and crises of the predominantly white middle class, whose life-styles are based heavily on credit and household debt (279). The preoccupation with drug consumption and dealing in inner cities diverts attention away from the more preponderant suburban consumers and the top-tier entrepreneurs of the international drug industry (100).…”

Section: United States Multiracial Mattersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…She observed that unfamiliar persons and places were per ceived to be dangerous, and that the idiom of danger and crime implicated racial and ethnic boundaries. The criminalization of racioethnic strangers is shaped by both the tensions of local experience and the menacing racial imagery projected through the mass media production of "facticity" (84:406), which to some extent is disseminated internationally (100).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Persistent Power of "Race" in the Cultural and Political Economy of Racism

Harrison

1995

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

342

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KEY WORDS: social construction of race, neo-racism without races, scientific antiracisms, subjugated know ledges in anthropology, racialized ethnicity ABSTRACT Historically, anthropology has occupied a central place in the construction and reconstruction of race as both an intellectual device and a social reality. Cri tiques of the biological concept of race have led many anthropologists to adopt a "no-race" posture and an approach to intergroup difference highlighting ethnicity-based principles of classification and organization. Often, however, the singular focus on ethnicity has left unaddressed the persistence of racism and its invidious impact on local communities, nation-states, and the global system. Within the past decade, anthropologists have revitalized their interest in the complex and often covert structures and dynamics of racial inequality. Recent studies shed light on race's heightened volatility on contemporary sociocultural landscapes, the racialization of ethno-nationalist conflicts, an thropology's multiple traditions of antiracism, and intranational as well as international variations in racial constructions, including the conventionally neglected configurations of whiteness. OVERCOMING DENIALUntil recently, anthropology has not been as visible as some other fields in the new critical discourse on race Ccf 51, 126,142,192). Historically, anthro pology has occupied a central place in the construction and deconstruction 0084-6570/95/1015-0047$05.00 47 Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 1995.24:47-74. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by University of California -Davis on 02/08/15. For personal use only. Quick links to online content Further ANNUAL REVIEWS RACISM IN CONTEMPORARY NATIONAL AND GLOBAL DISJUNC TURES The current era of global political and cultural economy is characterized by the disorder engendered by reconfigurations of regional, national, and transna-Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 1995.24:47-74. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by University of California -Davis on 02/08/15. For personal use only. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 1995.24:47-74. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by University of California -Davis on 02/08/15. For personal use only. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 1995.24:47-74.

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The Persistent Power of "Race" in the Cultural and Political Economy of Racism

Harrison

1995

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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“…Anthropologists are intensely debating whether the ideologies and structures of domination that characterize interethnic and immigrant-host relations in, for instance, contemporary France and Gerrnany constitute a new forrn of racism or an altogether new order of power and knowledge that represents a fundamental shift in the structure of difference-making (Stolcke 1995). And here in the United States, we find ourselves debating whether current political discourses on, in one instance, welfare reform and, in another, criminal justice encode race and reinforce racial domination by pathologizing what are being represented as irreconcilable sociocultural differences (e.g., Buck 1992;Gilliam 1992;Harrison and Nonini 1992;Maxwell 1992). Not independent of these debates, there are also competing views among us on the major targets of present-day racism in the United States.…”

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Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on "Race"

Harrison

1998

American Anthropologist

163

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Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on "Race" In response to Mukhopadhyay and Moses's call for biological and cultural anthropologists to reestablish a dialogue on race, anthropologists from the four major subfields join colleagues from two allied disciplines to address the possible ways in which the anthropological discourse on race can become more holistic and amenable to the urgent needs and interests of the public. This essay offers an overview of the current resurgence of race-focused scholarship in anthropology, as well as a framework for an intertextual reading of the articles featured in this theme forum. Anthropologists' current conversation on race and racism is built on a rich legacy, elements of which are still being uncovered in gender-and racecognizant explorations of the discipline ' s past. I)espite the considerable hiatus since the last major juncture of race-centered debate and research, that legacy has recently inspired a promising upsurge of critical analysis which, if mobilized effectively, may contribute to the subversion of the often subtle cultural and structural logics of contemporary racism, as well as clear the ground for a new culture for multiracial democracy. Toward this end, anthropologists and others interested in using anthropological tools must cultivate more richly nuanced analyses and intervention strategies informed by insights emerging from the cross-fertilization of ideas from the various subfields along with such fields as human genetics and ethnic studies. Anthropology's unique role in interrogating, theorizing, and potentially disrupting the dynamics of racism may be dependent on understanding the conceptual and methodological significance of strategic intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary interfaces. [race, racism, holistic analysis of race, interdisciplinary dialogue, public anthropology]

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Toward a New Direction in the Media "War" Against Drugs

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The Persistent Power of "Race" in the Cultural and Political Economy of Racism

Introduction: Expanding the Discourse on "Race"

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