Racial Formation Theory and Systemic Racism in Hip-Hop Fans’ Perceptions

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 832-851 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ginger Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Hip Hop ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Systemic Racism

Toward a Sociology of Colonial Subjectivity: Political Agency in Haiti and Liberia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricarda Hammer ◽  
Alexandre I. R. White
Keyword(s):  
Historical Sociology ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Political Agency ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Racial Formations ◽  
Modern Politics ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Black Agency

The authors seek to connect global historical sociology with racial formation theory to examine how antislavery movements fostered novel forms of self-government and justifications for state formation. The cases of Haiti and Liberia demonstrate how enslaved and formerly enslaved actors rethought modern politics at the time, producing novel political subjects in the process. Prior to the existence of these nations, self-determination by black subjects in colonial spaces was impossible, and each sought to carve out that possibility in the face of a transatlantic structure of slavery. This work demonstrates how Haitian and Liberian American founders responded to colonial structures, though in Liberia reproducing them albeit for their own ends. The authors demonstrate the importance of colonial subjectivities to the discernment of racial structures and counter-racist action. They highlight how anticolonial actors challenged global antiblack oppression and how they legitimated their self-governance and freedom on the world stage. Theorizing from colonized subjectivities allows sociology to begin to understand the politics around global racial formations and starts to incorporate histories of black agency into the sociological canon.

Racial Oppression and Racial Projects in Consumer Markets: A Racial Formation Theory Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Crockett
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Racial Oppression ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Consumer Markets ◽  
Institutional Actors

Abstract The dominant theoretical approach to exploring ethnic and racial inequality in marketing and consumer research focuses on discrete acts of discrimination that stem from social psychological causes (e.g., prejudice, stereotypes, and negative racial attitudes). It holds limited explanatory power for meso- and macro-structural phenomena that also generate racialized outcomes. An implication is that ethnic and racial inequality can be portrayed as something imposed on market systems rather than a routine feature of their functioning. In response, I introduce and synthesize two variants of Racial Formation Theory (RFT) and propose it as a useful theoretical approach for addressing whether and how organizational and institutional actors in market systems engage in goal-directed action that allocates resources in ways that challenge (or reinforce) ethnic and racial oppression.

Racial Worldmaking

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Mark C. Jerng
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Formation Theory ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Historical Accounts

This introduction describes the theory and method of racial worldmaking. Critiquing the dominant approach of racial formation theory for analyzing race in the humanities and social sciences, it distinguishes an approach based on racial salience - how, when, and where we notice race. It describes the interrelations among genre and race in terms of larger theories of worldbuilding. The archive of popular fiction from 1893 to the present is established and linked to major, overlooked modes of black and Asiatic racialization. This archive challenges prominent historical accounts of race and racism in the twentieth century.

Afro-Samurai: techno-Orientalism and contemporary hip hop

Popular Music ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ken McLeod
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
American Identity ◽  
High Tech ◽  
African American Identity

AbstractThis article examines the practice and recent rise in the use of various aspects of Japanese popular culture in hip hop, particularly as manifest in the work of RZA, Kanye West and Nicki Minaj. Often these references highlight the high-tech, futuristic aesthetic of much Japanese popular culture and thus resonate with concepts and practices surrounding Afro-futurism. Drawing on various theories of hybridity, this article analyses how Japanese popular culture has informed constructions of African American identity. In contrast to the often sensational media coverage of racial tensions between African American and Asian communities, the nexus of Japanese popular culture and African American hip hop evinces a sympathetic connection based on shared notions of Afro-Asian liberation and empowerment achieved, in part, through a common aesthetic of technological mastery and appropriation. The synthesis of Asian popular culture and African American hip hop represents a globally hybridised experience of identity and racial formation in the 21st century.

Battle Battle: Engaging Diversity in the American Liberal Arts College

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Joyce Lu
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Liberal Arts College ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
White Hegemony

Battle Battle: Engaging Diversity in the American Liberal Arts College examines the production of an Asian American hip-hop musical, directed by the author, at a private liberal arts college in the US. This article demonstrates how the production process was determined by the complex history of racial formation and relations in America. Those who were extremely attached to standardized Eurocentric practices of control in education could only read this complexity as disorder and found the process to be out of control or anarchic. The author claims, however, that the process was necessarily anarchic insofar as the production was undertaken as a decolonizing project; an attempt to undermine structures of domination and employ an ethical and democratic way of working that directly conflicted with the violent constraints of White hegemony that are present in elite educational institutions.

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