The Politics in White Identity: Testing a Racialized Partisan Hypothesis

This chapter, “How ‘Identity Play’ Protects White Privilege: A Meta-Ethnographic Methodological Test,” presents the findings of a 2013 meta-ethnographic analysis on White identity in preservice teachers (PSTs), as well as a methodological test of those findings in light of recent publications on Second-Wave White Teacher Identity Studies (SWWTIS). In the 2013 meta-ethnography, the authors first found a reciprocal argument in which the authors described similar tools or strategies by which White PSTs defended their own privilege. Through further reflexive interpretation, the authors then found a line of argument that situated the multiple theories used in the studies as contested spaces in a larger figured world of whiteness. In testing findings from 2013 against recently published studies on SWWTIS, the authors found that the earlier study anticipated a shift in thinking and theorizing within the field.

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When Whites Feel Threatened

Contexts ◽

10.1177/15365042211012078 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 72-73

Author(s):

Woody Doane

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

White Identity

The author examines The Politics of Losing: Trump, The Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment by Rory McVeigh and Kevin Estepwere in investigating the changing terrain of White “identity politics.”

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White Identity Politics

The Forum ◽

10.1515/for-2020-2009 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 287-290

Author(s):

Jennifer L. Merolla

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

White Identity

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Weaponized Whiteness: The Constructions and Deconstructions of White Identity Politics by Fran Shor

American Studies ◽

10.1353/ams.2020.0037 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 59 (4) ◽

pp. 69-70

Author(s):

Michael Ezra

Keyword(s):

Identity Politics ◽

White Identity

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Placing Django: Narratives of heritage and race in a Parisian exhibition

French Cultural Studies ◽

10.1177/09571558211007438 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 095715582110074

Author(s):

Siv B Lie

Keyword(s):

White Identity ◽

French Society ◽

National Belonging ◽

Urban Modernity ◽

Swing Era ◽

Museum Exhibitions ◽

Colour Blindness ◽

Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt: Swing de Paris, an exhibition that took place at the Cité de la musique in Paris, depicted the life and environment of famed Manouche (French Romani/”Gypsy”) guitarist Django Reinhardt. In this article, I explore how the exhibition performed a spatialized centre-periphery model of citizenship that both reflected and reinforced Manouche marginality in relation to broader French society. I argue that museum exhibitions generate and harness place-oriented narratives to reinforce hegemonic conceptions about ideal citizens. In marking out an ethnoracially segregated imaginary of swing-era Paris, the exhibition reproduced stereotyped ideas about Manouche exoticism and inadaptability to urban modernity. These narratives are not exceptional, but are part of a long-standing project to define national belonging in terms of a normative white identity. As such, they are symptomatic of a much broader problem of state-sanctioned racism in France that is denied through claims to colour-blindness.

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Parallel algorithms for matroid intersection and matroid parity

Discrete Mathematics Algorithms and Applications ◽

10.1142/s1793830915500196 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 07 (02) ◽

pp. 1550019

Author(s):

Jinyu Huang

Keyword(s):

Parallel Algorithms ◽

Polynomial Identity ◽

Black Box ◽

Matroid Intersection ◽

Polynomial Identity Testing ◽

Identity Testing ◽

Common Base ◽

Graphic Matroid ◽

Matroid Parity ◽

Nc Algorithms

A maximum linear matroid parity set is called a basic matroid parity set, if its size is the rank of the matroid. We show that determining the existence of a common base (basic matroid parity set) for linear matroid intersection (linear matroid parity) is in NC2, provided that there are polynomial number of common bases (basic matroid parity sets). For graphic matroids, we show that finding a common base for matroid intersection is in NC2, if the number of common bases is polynomial bounded. To our knowledge, these algorithms are the first deterministic NC algorithms for matroid intersection and matroid parity. We also give a new RNC2 algorithm that finds a common base for graphic matroid intersection. We prove that if there is a black-box NC algorithm for Polynomial Identity Testing (PIT), then there is an NC algorithm to determine the existence of a common base (basic matroid parity set) for linear matroid intersection (linear matroid parity).

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