Race, Gender, and Black Students’ Educational Opportunities Walter R. Allen Between me and the other world there is an unasked question. . . . How does it feel to be a problem? —W. E. B. Du Bois1 DU BOIS’S QUOTE provides a useful point of departure to consider the status of African American men. Distressing […]
День: 20.09.2015
COLLECTIVE EMOTIONAL LABOR
To thwart cynicism about the living room analogy, to catch it as it collapses in the face of other realizations, the company eye shifts to another field of emotion work—the field in which flight attendants interact with each other. This is a strategic point of entry for the company because if the company can influence […]
The Cult of Seduction
Of women’s unnatural, insatiable lust, what country, what vil-lage doth not complain? [Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), 541 Why should women have more invention in love than men? Itcan only be, because they have more desires, more sollicitingpassions, more lust, and more of the devil. William Wycherley, The Country-Wife (1675), Act IV scene […]
“black manhood”
What is the attitude of the militant black community to this psychosexual degradation that is racism? I have stated that the black male has three choices in reacting to the white male’s power over him. 1) He can submit on the terms set up by the white male (at best to become a black celebrity—comedian, […]
Factors Affecting Age Differences in Memory
LEARNING OBJECTIVES • What evidence is there for age differences in encoding? • What age differences have been observed in retrieval? • What are the relative contributions of encoding and retrieval in explaining age differences in performance? How does a neuroscience perspective help us understand these contributions? • How does automatic retrieval affect age differences […]
Gender Regimes and the. Gender Order
Institutions Theories of gender, with hardly an exception, focus either on one — to-one relationships between people or on the society as a whole. Apart from discussions of the family, the intermediate level of social organization is skipped. Yet in some ways this is the most important level to understand. We live most of our […]
ANTIRACIST DISCOURSE, GENDER, AND THE POLITICS OF RESPECTABILITY
The issue of airing our dirty [laundry] becomes more painful to us [Black people]. It’s because blacks’ image in the media is a negative one, and people feel that under no circumstance should we talk about these things [violence against women in the Black community] in a public forum. —Renee Redd128 [Many Blacks] are bothered […]
Long-Term Memory
When most people think about memory, they think about having to remember something over time, whether a few minutes or many days. Everyday life is full of examples—remembering routines, performing on an exam, summarizing a book or movie, and remembering an appointment. These types of situations constitute what memory researchers call long-term memory (Zacks et […]
The Black Male/White Female Narrative
Although. . . sexual stereotypes apply equally to Black men and women, it is the Black male who has suffered the most because of white notions of his hypersexuality. —Robert Staples96 [W]hite men have a deep abiding fear that black men will take their women from them. —Editorial in The Chicago Crusader (a Black newspaper)97 […]
Lip Service
Jennifer cognard-black When I’m at dinner or out for drinks with colleagues, I sometimes joke that my daughter has been orphaned by my profession. It’s a line I picked up from one of my students, a young man named Toby—a student who has the odd distinction of having taken me for seven separate courses (he […]