Sproutedink's List: Racial, LGBT, & Class Discrimination Awareness

" Our enemy isn't white people. It's people who value greed more than human life. Racial division is one of their oldest weapons, and media is their latest. We mustn't forget how young this weapon is. I didn't grow up using the Internet. The television itself isn't even 100 years old. The idea of global celebrity, and global transference of ideas and perceptions of culture, has never existed the way it does today. Just as Howard Beale prophesized in Network in 1976, we're up against "the most awesome God damned propaganda force in the whole Godless world.""

We’re going to have to step it up.

If you’re down to step it up, let’s step it up. Let’s boycott. Boycott was the foundation of the Civil Rights movement. Do you believe that a cable network exists solely to manipulate the perception of black people? Stop watching it. Don’t put up a post one day praising the episode of Boondocks that never aired and then spend the next day tweeting the entire BET awards. That doesn’t make any sense.

by Mia McKenzie I’ve often said that it’s not enough to acknowledge your privilege. And, in fact, that acknowledging it is often little more than a chance to pat yourself on the back for being so “aware.” What I find is that most of the time when people acknowledge their privilege, they feel really special about it, really important, really glad that something so significant just happened, and then they just go ahead and do whatever they wanted to do anyway, privilege firmly in place. The truth is that acknowledging your privilege means a whole lot of nothing much if...

Racism concerns in American health care.
Australian Nursing & Midwifery Journal. Jun2014, Vol. 21 Issue 11, p13-13. 1/3p.

The article reports on a review of U.S. health care providers which was conducted by researcher Mandi Truong of Melbourne University in Australia and found that patients from minority ethnic groups face racist attitudes and beliefs that can affect their medical treatment.

"Writing recently on “white guy killer syndrome” Britney Cooper argues, “We seem wholly uninterested in talking about pathological white masculinity, which continues to assert itself in the most dangerous and deadly of ways.” Yet, what is it about the structure of 21st century white families that promotes these acts of epic violence? Relative to black and Latino youth of all class backgrounds, white youth are more likely to receive counseling, therapy, medication, and parent/teacher intervention rather than suspension, expulsion or jail time when they commit violent crimes at school. This culture of second, third, and even fourth chances extends to the criminal justice system, where white felons are less likely than African Americans to receive mandatory minimum sentences. It is worth noting that the majority of these young white killers came from intact heterosexual families—or families with a present father—that spanned the economic gamut. Even those that didn’t come from nuclear families benefited from the presumption of innocence, as well as the extension of patriarchal protection that the white family, as a vehicle of state power, gives to white youth. Earlier this year, police visited Amanda Miller and her convicted felon husband after they made threatening anti-government remarks but decided that “they weren’t a threat.” Similarly, the white-identified biracial Elliot Rodger was given the benefit of the doubt by school officials and law enforcement when he “acted out.” As has been well publicized, Rodger’s parents were divorced yet concerned about his welfare. Narratives about the evils of “broken” white homes seldom surface in national considerations about epic violence committed by white youth. Conversely, when white youth commit mass murder it is accepted that something has gone very wrong with mental health care, firearms background checks, bully-infested school climates, or unfettered access to violent video games."

"in this article, I argue that racial and ethnic women are likely exposed to trafficking due to (1) structural poverty and marginalisation and (2) sexual violence is a common fact in domestic and social realms of socially excluded women and men. Racism affects women differently than men. The coinage of 'ethnosexuality' by Joane Nagel is indeed useful, as sex and sexuality are not detached from the social and cultural implications of race, racism and nationalism. My own scholarly interest in nationalism (state building and nation formation) has led me to turn towards racism and ethnicity and by looking at the empirical ground of such concepts these are constructed symbolically and objectively with sexuality. In the light of the evidence gathered, the following themes are interrelated: racist and sexist stereotypes of women are used in the sex industry; traditional patriarchal culture plays a role in reproducing female passivity and submission; racialised and ethnicised groups are prone to experience violence in all its forms, sexual exploitation being one of them."

Carrera-Fernández, María Victoria, et al. "Spanish Adolescents' Attitudes Toward Transpeople: Proposal And Validation Of A Short Form Of The Genderism And Transphobia Scale." Journal Of Sex Research 51.6 (2014): 654-666. Academic Search Complete. Web. 22 June 2014.

In the study, boys exhibited significantly more negative attitudes toward transpeople than girls did, both in the affective/cognitive dimension (Transphobia/Genderism) and in the behavioral dimension (Gender Bashing). Moreover, adolescents showed significantly more negative attitudes toward gender-nonconforming men than toward gender-nonconforming women. These results are discussed in terms of their relevance to the maintenance of discriminatory attitudes toward sexual diversity.

Whitten, Amanda, and Christabelle Sethna. "What's Missing? Anti-Racist Sex Education!." Sex Education 14.4 (2014): 414-429. Academic Search Elite. Web. 22 June 2014.

Content analysis findings point to major deficiencies and provide the basis for future anti-racist sex education policy recommendations. As anti-racism critically examines the institution of education, and sexual health curricula are an increasingly politicised example of potentially transformative education, anti-racism must be incorporated into future sex education work

Alhabash, Saleem, et al. "Effects Of Race, Visual Anonymity, And Social Category Salience On Online Dating Outcomes." Computers In Human Behavior 35.(2014): 22-32. Academic Search Elite. Web. 26 June 2014.

"Highlights: [*] Two experiments tested the effect of race on online dating preferences. [*] Tested SIDE's premises regarding visual anonymity and social category cue salience. [*] Experiment 1, racial stereotypicality had a main effect on attractiveness ratings. [*] Experiment 2, race and stereotype-congruence affected evaluations and DBI. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]"

"The current study examines links among attitudes toward White privilege, religious beliefs, and social justice interest and commitment for White Christian students. Two distinct patterns of results emerged from a path analysis of 500 White Christian students. First, a willingness to confront White privilege was positively associated with the sanctification of social justice (i.e., attributing spiritual significance to working for social justice) and both were positively associated with social justice interest and commitment. Second, awareness of White privilege was negatively associated with religious conservatism, and religious conservatism was negatively associated with social justice interest. These patterns show that White privilege attitudes directly (i.e., willingness to confront White privilege) and indirectly (i.e., awareness of White privilege through religious conservatism) predicted social justice interest and commitment. Moreover, religious beliefs demonstrated opposite patterns of association with social justice interest and commitment such that the sanctification of social justice positively predicted social justice interest and commitment whereas religious conservatism negatively predicted social justice interest. Overall, findings demonstrate direct and indirect links between White privilege attitudes, religious beliefs, and social justice interest and commitment. Limitations and implications for future community psychology research and collaboration also are discussed"

"Most analyses of racism focus on what people think about issues of race and how this relates to racial stratification. This research applies Feagin’swhite racial frameto analyze how White male college students at two universitiesfeelabout racism. Students at the academically non-selective and less diverse university tended to be apathetic while those attending the academically selective and more racially diverse campus tended to be angry. This study highlights the interconnectedness of affective and cognitive responses to race: two areas integral to both the maintenance and dismantling of systemic racism. It also highlights how men frequently frame emotions as facts, which can also support racial stratification. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]"

Sexting, Catcalls, and Butt Slaps: How Gender Stereotypes and Perceived
Jewell, Jennifer A.1
Brown, Christia Spears1 christia.brown@uky.edu
Source: Sex Roles. Dec2013, Vol. 69 Issue 11/12, p594-604. 11p. 4 Charts.

"More specifically, when youth and their families employ language and behaviors that are not preferred in child welfare and juvenile justice contexts, professionals may make negative assumptions about them and sanction them more severely than called for by their offenses. Such negative outcomes are more likely to occur when professionals are working in highly stressful or dangerous situations. When problematic interactions and outcomes seem consonant with longstanding patterns of racial tension within the community, some youth and family members can develop distrust, hostility and resistance towards professionals. Some professionals are resistant to addressing issues of race relations. Understanding patterns of communication, power and race relations in the contexts of child welfare, law enforcement, and the courts generates fresh insights for explaining racial disproportionality affecting African American youth and has implications for professionals working towards positive change for youth and families."

"Slurs always carry the weight of racial hatred. These words are always derogatory, but context still matters. There are situations where a slur may be used with deliberation and purpose to educate or incite, but never without pain. It is not up to individual minorities to judge how the context of a slur renders it offensive or not; it is always offensive. Instead we have room to judge how its usage may be thought-provoking, educational, and artistic (or not) in the face of that offensiveness. It is here that the diversity of the minority experience can and should produce a broad range of opinions."

"Highlights: [•] Two experiments tested the effect of race on online dating preferences. [•] Tested SIDE’s premises regarding visual anonymity and social category cue salience. [•] Experiment 1, racial stereotypicality had a main effect on attractiveness ratings. [•] Experiment 2, race and stereotype-congruence affected evaluations and DBI. [Copyright &y& Elsevier] "

There is only the illusion of solace in beauty. If age and disability teach us anything, it is that investing in beauty will never set us free. Beauty has always been hurled as a weapon. It has always taken the form of an exclusive club; and supposed protection against violence, isolation and pain, but this is a myth. It is not true, even for those accepted in to the club. I don’t think we can reclaim beauty.

White supremacy is the “ethnic” section of the hair aisle. It’s the “African-American” section of the bookstore that’s mostly romance novels for some reason. It’s the prison-industrial complex. It’s Angelina Jolie as Cleopatra.

It’s the fact that most of the wealth and power in the western world sits squarely in the hands of white people. It’s any part of society that treats white as the default and everything else as “other.

White supremacy is a holdover from the days of colonialism and slavery, but it’s been largely upheld by people who either pretend it’s not there, consciously sustain it, or reinforce it to survive. Respectability politics falls in the latter category.

The problem with respectability politics is that it implies that by striving after the respect of white people, black people can work hard and overcome structural barriers to social mobility. But it doesn’t work that way.

It brings to mind the oft repeated adage “We have to work twice as hard to get half as far.”

And yeah, while things are the way they are, people will do twice the work just to survive. But are we going to sit here watching each other to make sure we’re doing enough, or are we going to ask why it’s 2014 and we’re still working this hard?

While most historians agree that Japan forced 80,000 to 200,000 women to work in a network of wartime brothels, some nationalist scholars in Japan say the women were just common prostitutes.

Revising the apology would be certain to stir further outrage in South Korea, where many of the women came from, and which has called for Japan to make a stronger show of remorse while the last of the former brothel workers, now in their 80s and 90s, are still alive.

On Friday, Mr. Abe appeared to be trying to set to rest concerns that he would change or even scrap the Kono Statement. Japanese officials also expressed confidence that his comments would allay concerns in Washington and elsewhere that Mr. Abe was sliding into a more emotionally right-wing agenda.

"We must be humble in front of history," Mr. Abe told lawmakers. "The issues of history should not be politicized or be turned into a diplomatic issue. Research on history should be entrusted to experts and historians."

Magdalene asylums, also known as Magdalen institutions, were institutions from the 18th to the late-20th centuries ostensibly to house "fallen women", a term used to imply female sexual promiscuity or work in prostitution. Asylums operated throughout Euro

How four decades of lobbying and legislation gave corporations dominion over our economy-and eroded the American middle class.