New Research on Race, Racism & Racial Justice
by CCSRE Affiliates
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BALLAD OF THE BULLET:
Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
PRINCETON UP | 2020
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FORREST STUART (Sociology)
OVERVIEW: Amid increasing hardship and limited employment options, poor urban youth are developing creative online strategies to make ends meet. Using such social media platforms as YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram, they’re capitalizing on the public’s fascination with the ghetto and gang violence. But with what consequences? Ballad of the Bullet follows the Corner Boys, a group of thirty or so young men on Chicago’s South Side who have hitched their dreams of success to the creation of “drill music” (slang for “shooting music”). Drillers disseminate this competitive genre of hyperviolent, hyperlocal, DIY-style gangsta rap digitally, hoping to amass millions of clicks, views, and followers—and a ticket out of poverty. But in this perverse system of benefits, where online popularity can convert into offline rewards, the risks can be too great.
Raising questions about online celebrity, public voyeurism, and the commodification of the ghetto, Ballad of the Bullet offers a singular look at what happens when the digital economy and urban poverty collide. Click here to purchase the book.
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Stuart spent a great deal of time with the Corner Boys of
Chicago's South Side.
"At the end of the day, these are some incredibly scarred young people dealing with an immense amount of trauma and demonization." - Stuart
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"Mark Twain and African Americans"
CAMBRIDGE UP | 2020
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SHELLEY FISHER FISHKIN (English)
OVERVIEW: Mark Twain mirrored the complex racial changes of the American nineteenth century. His father owned a few slaves, and he grew up in a slaveholding community, with slavery seen as an accepted practice, endorsed by the government and the church. His exposure to the slaves on his Uncle Quarles’s farm in Florida, Missouri, had a lifelong effect on him and on his work. In his young life, he wrote some letters that show the racist attitudes he was exposed to in the pre-Civil War south, but as he matured, his racism gave way to empathy and understanding of the black experience. His 1874 short story “A True Story” began his use of black vernacular voices in his fiction, culminating in antislavery novels like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Puddn’head Wilson. In his private life, he secretly paid a black man’s tuition to Yale Law School, as well as other charitable acts. He was a friend and supporter of Frederick Douglass as well as Booker T. Washington and other black figures. Download the complete chapter here - purchase may be required.
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"Racial Segregation and School Poverty
In the United States, 1999-2016"
SPRINGER LINK | 2020
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SEAN REARDON (GSE), ET AL.
ABSTRACT: Research over the past decade suggests that racial segregation appears to have the largest implications for students’ achievement when linked to racial differences in exposure to school poverty. This paper provides a summary and update to prior literature describing patterns and trends of racial differences in school poverty rates from the 1998–1999 through 2015–2016 school years. We describe black-white and Hispanic-white differences in school poverty rates within U.S. school districts, metropolitan areas, states, and the nation over this nearly 20-year period. We find that while exposure to poverty in schools has risen dramatically, racial differences in exposure to school poverty have been relatively stable during this time. These average trends, however, belie meaningful variability among places. Places serving large proportions of minority students have larger but declining average racial differences in exposure to school poverty. Large school districts also have larger average racial differences in exposure and have been experiencing increases in this measure over time. Download the PDF here.
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"...the aspect of segregation most predictive of black-white and
Hispanic-white achievement gaps
is the racial difference in
exposure to school poverty."
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The Say Their Names – No More Names exhibition opens at Stanford Libraries
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Organized by library staff in response to the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, the exhibition offers opportunities for learning, reflection and discussion. |
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BY GABRIELLE KARAMPELAS
A new online and in-person art exhibit hosted by Stanford Libraries highlights 65 Black Americans who have been killed or impacted by police brutality and systemic racism.
Say Their Names – No More Names is available for everyone to view online, but the physical exhibition in the Cecil H. Green Library is restricted to authorized Stanford ID cardholders due to COVID-19. The physical exhibition includes names affixed to glass panels in the Bing Wing as well as banners throughout the first floor that contain the names and faces of those featured. Meanwhile, the online exhibit displays the images and individual stories of victims, including Emmett Till, Kalief Browder, Salecia Johnson and Bettie Jones; it also calls attention to events like the Tulsa riots, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and the Chicago Police Department Midnight Crew.
To commemorate the exhibit’s opening, a large banner featuring the words “Know Justice Know Peace” was unfurled Friday across the front of Green Library during an online livestream event. “Before we as a society can ‘Know Justice’ we must interrogate the injustices and right the wrongs of society, and only then will we ‘Know Peace,’” said Felicia Smith, the Stanford librarian leading learning and outreach programs and the creator of the exhibit. Read the complete story here.
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STANFORD IDEAL DASHBOARD DATA
Academic Year 2019-2020
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WEBINAR
White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy: A Panel Discussion on Mothers of Massive Resistance
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Thursday, September 10 | 1p
Why do white supremacist politics in America remain so powerful? Elizabeth Gillespie McRae argues that the answer lies with white women. Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow.
Join us for a panel discussion of Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy featuring:
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae (Associate Professor of History, Western Carolina University), author;
Kathleen Belew (Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago and author of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America), discussant; and
LaToya Jefferson-James (Assistant Professor of Literature, Mississippi Valley State University), discussant.
Presented by the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, University of Chicago
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WORKSHOP SERIES
Arts + Justice
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VIRTUAL EVENT
Why Are Kids In Cages?:
Meet Warren H. Binford, Intl. Children's Rights Attorney
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Find out why are we keeping kids in cages and what can be done about it? Hear from Warren H. Binford, international children's rights attorney and tenured law professor at Willamette University, who has visited the detention centers and testified
in front of congress about what she has seen.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts & Change
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Due December 31, 2020
Volume 46 will focus on race and ethnicity, but submissions appropriate to any of the three broad foci reflected in Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) are welcome.
Volume 46 will be open to all submissions and one section will be devoted to movements for racial equity and the operation of race in social movements. For the remaining chapters, we particularly welcome research examining the role of race and/or ethnicity in conflicts and social change.
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