Black Neighbors, Higher Crime? The Role of Racial Stereotypes in Evaluations of Neighborhood Crime

2001 ◽  
Vol 107 (3) ◽  
pp. 717-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lincoln Quillian ◽  
Devah Pager
Keyword(s):  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Neighborhood Crime

scholarly journals Benevolent racism; Pākehā attitudes and Māori men’s experiences

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna-Frances Ruben
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Male Student ◽  
Multilevel Modelling ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Manual Skills ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Shed Light

<p>Benevolent racism, racism that is expressed through seemingly positive beliefs and emotional responses, is shown to play an insidious role in upholding negative racial stereotypes and inequality. Although a considerable amount of research has been done on racism in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ), very little has focused specifically on the prevalence and impacts of benevolent racism. This research comprises two studies to explore the role of benevolent racism in ANZ, focusing specifically on benevolent racism towards Māori men through expressions of their superior athletic and practical/manual skills. Study 1 (N = 312) was an experimental study which used multilevel modelling to predict the effects of benevolent racism on guidance given to a Māori male student. The results showed that as Pākehā endorsement of benevolent racism increased, Pākehā rated practical/manual activities to be increasingly important and school to be decreasingly important for a hypothetical Māori male student. In study 2 (N = 10), interviews explored the experiences of Māori men in ANZ and whether benevolent racism manifested in these experiences. A thematic analysis derived four main themes: Identity and Culture, Challenges, Whānau and Positive Experiences and the results highlighted that participants’ encounters of racism were predominantly of the hostile, rather than benevolent, sort. These findings shed light on the continued role of racism in ANZ and how it is linked to other aspects of Māori men’s experiences. These studies also highlight the need for a bottom-up exploration of the profile and functions of benevolent racism in ANZ.</p>

scholarly journals Afterword: Memory worlds in times of Corona

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 861-874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Erll
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Digital Archive ◽  
Global Dynamics ◽  
National Memory ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Rhythms

This afterword addresses the complex temporal and global dynamics of the coronavirus pandemic. After considering some of the new social rhythms that have emerged in the wake of Covid-19 around the world, it turns to the role of collective memory before, during and after corona. The aim is to provide a basic grid for how the Covid-19 pandemic could be addressed using memory studies expertise and concepts such as premediation, memorability, memory (ab)use, national memory, colonial memory, racial stereotypes, the digital archive, generational memory, or Anthropocene time.

scholarly journals Anti-racist Critique Through Racial Stereotype Humour

Theoria ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (169) ◽  
pp. 85-113
Keyword(s):  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Audience Reception ◽  
Stand Up Comedy ◽  
Racial Stereotype

This article discusses the persistent deployment of racial stereotypes in contemporary stand-up comedy and its potential hegemonic or counter-hegemonic effects. It asks whether racial stereotypes should be avoided or condemned altogether, considering the risks of interpretative ambiguity and offensiveness, or, alternatively, whether there are specific performative strategies and conditions that might make racial stereotype humour a powerful weapon in the anti-racist toolbox. As regards the first, several critiques are considered and it is shown that racial stereotype humour, and its reception, may harbour multiple, subtle forms of racism. In terms of defences, racial stereotype humour’s role of discharging stubborn psycho-affective investments is highlighted, as well as its function as ‘subversive play’. The article further pays special attention to aspects of audience reception (such as issues of missed subtlety and ‘clever’ laughter) and the importance of the comic’s racial positionality in performing racial stereotypes.

Performing Race in Ernst Krenek’s Jonny spielt auf

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan O. Wipplinger
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Weimar Republic ◽  
Racial Stereotypes ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
Racial Representation ◽  
European Culture ◽  
American Popular Music ◽  
Competing Ideas

This chapter examines the role of race and racial representation in Ernst Krenek's 1927 opera Jonny spielt auf (“Jonny Strikes Up”) in order to determine whether it can be considered a work that is deeply concerned with jazz, African Americans, and their image within European culture. Jonny spielt auf is a combination of European modernism, American popular music, and what Krenek took to be jazz. However, Krenek resisted the notion that his was a “jazz opera,” a term often applied to the opera during the Weimar Republic. This chapter explores how Jonny's musical, cultural, and racial identities are constructed in the opera by focusing on race and racial stereotypes embedded within the score and libretto. It shows how contradictory and competing ideas about African Americans and their music converge in Jonny spielt auf. It also highlights multiple strands of Jonny's identity, between blackface and blackness, that it argues are never entirely reconciled in the opera.

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