Embodied Justice in Yoga for People of Color Sangha

Three very different field sites—First Nations communities in Canada, water charities in the Global South, and the US cities of Flint and Detroit, Michigan—point to the increasing precariousness of water access for historically marginalized groups, including Indigenous peoples, African Americans, and people of color around the globe. This multi-sited ethnography underscores a common theme: power and racism lie deep in the core of today’s global water crisis. These cases reveal the concrete mechanisms, strategies, and interconnections that are galvanized by the economic, political, and racial projects of neoliberalism. In this sense neoliberalism is not only downsizing democracy but also creating both the material and ideological forces for a new form of discrimination in the provision of drinking water around the globe. These cases suggest that contemporary notions of environmental and social justice will largely hinge on how we come to think about water in the twenty-first century.

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The Category Is . . . Opulence!

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v7i1.321 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Joseph Plaster

Keyword(s):

Performance Studies ◽

Knowledge Creation ◽

People Of Color ◽

Gender Nonconforming ◽

Johns Hopkins University ◽

The Cross ◽

And Gender ◽

A Performance

In recent years there has been a strong “public turn” within universities that is renewing interest in collaborative approaches to knowledge creation. This article draws on performance studies literature to explore the cross-disciplinary collaborations made possible when the academy broadens our scope of inquiry to include knowledge produced through performance. It takes as a case study the “Peabody Ballroom Experience,” an ongoing collaboration between the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the Peabody Institute BFA Dance program, and Baltimore’s ballroom community—a performance-based arts culture comprising gay, lesbian, queer, transgender, and gender-nonconforming people of color.

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Count Me In!: Ethnic Data Disaggregation Advocacy, Racial Mattering, and Lessons for Racial Justice Coalitions

JCSCORE ◽

10.15763/issn.2642-2387.2017.3.1.91-124 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 91-124

Author(s):

OiYan A. Poon ◽

Jude Paul Matias Dizon ◽

Dian Squire

Keyword(s):

Asian American ◽

People Of Color ◽

Racial Justice ◽

Racial Equity ◽

Equity In Education ◽

Case Study Analysis ◽

Data Disaggregation ◽

Racial Solidarity ◽

The University

This article presents a case study of the 2006-2007 Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) student-led Count Me In! (CMI) campaign. This successful campaign convinced the University of California (UC) to account for 23 AAPI ethnic identities in its data system. Celebrated as a victory for AAPI interests in discourses over racial equity in education, which are often defined by a Black- white racial paradigm, CMI should also be remembered as originating out of efforts to demonstrate AAPI solidarity with Black students and to counter racial wedge politics. In the evolution of the CMI campaign, efforts for cross-racial solidarity soon faded as the desire for institutional validation of AAPI educational struggles was centered. Our case study analysis, guided by sociological frameworks of racism, revealed key limitations in the CMI campaign related to the intricate relations between people of color advocating for racial justice. We conclude with cautions for research and campaigns for ethnically disaggregated AAPI data, and encourage advocates and scholars to address AAPI concerns over educational disparities while simultaneously and intentionally building coalitions for racial equity in higher education.

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Troubling Figures

Catalyst Feminism Theory Technoscience ◽

10.28968/cftt.v6i1.32350 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Logan Natalie O'Laughlin

Keyword(s):

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Science Studies ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

People Of Color ◽

Careful Examination ◽

Environmental Toxicants ◽

Environmental Racism ◽

Feminist Science Studies ◽

Feminist Science ◽

Do So

This essay examines the figure of the pesticide-exposed intersex frog, a canary in the coal mine for public endocrinological health. Through feminist science studies and critical discourse analysis, I explore the fields that bring this figure into being (endocrinology, toxicology, and pest science) and the colonial and racial logics that shape these fields. In so doing, I attend to the multiple nonhuman actors shaping this figure, including the pesky weeds and insects who prompt pesticides’ very existence, “male” frogs who function as test subjects, and systemic environmental racism that disproportionately exposes people of color to environmental toxicants. I encourage careful examination of galvanizing environmental figures like this toxic intersex frog and I offer a method to do so.

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A Long, Long Way

10.1093/oso/9780190906252.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Greg Garrett

Keyword(s):

People Of Color ◽

Racial Reconciliation ◽

Cultural Narratives ◽

Truth Telling ◽

Religious Traditions ◽

The Past ◽

Hollywood Films ◽

The World ◽

History Of ◽

Race And Culture

Hollywood films are perhaps the most powerful storytellers in American history, and their depiction of race and culture has helped to shape the way people around the world respond to race and prejudice. Over the past one hundred years, films have moved from the radically prejudiced views of people of color to the depiction of people of color by writers and filmmakers from within those cultures. In the process, we begin to see how films have depicted negative versions of people outside the white mainstream, and how film might become a vehicle for racial reconciliation. Religious traditions offer powerful correctives to our cultural narratives, and this work incorporates both narrative truth-telling and religious truth-telling as we consider race and film and work toward reconciliation. By exploring the hundred-year period from The Birth of a Nation to Get Out, this work acknowledges the racist history of America and offers the possibility of hope for the future.

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Conclusion

10.1093/oso/9780199731619.003.0011 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Mitch Kachun

Keyword(s):

American History ◽

Colonial America ◽

Public Life ◽

People Of Color ◽

History And Memory ◽

Men And Women ◽

Revolutionary Era ◽

The Public ◽

Historical Significance ◽

The Many

The Conclusion ties together the book’s main arguments about Crispus Attucks’s place in American history and memory. We do not know enough about his experiences, associations, or motives before or during the Boston Massacre to conclude with certainty that Attucks should be considered a hero and patriot. But his presence in that mob on March 5, 1770, embodies the diversity of colonial America and the active participation of workers and people of color in the public life of the Revolutionary era. The strong likelihood that Attucks was a former slave who claimed his own freedom and carved out a life for himself in the colonial Atlantic world adds to his story’s historical significance. The lived realities of Crispus Attucks and the many other men and women like him must be a part of Americans’ understanding of the nation’s founding generations.

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Racial, Gender, and Age Dynamics in Michigan’s Urban and Rural Farmers Markets: Reducing Food Insecurity, and the Impacts of a Pandemic

American Behavioral Scientist ◽

10.1177/00027642211013387 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 000276422110133

Author(s):

Dorceta E. Taylor ◽

Alliyah Lusuegro ◽

Victoria Loong ◽

Alexis Cambridge ◽

Claire Nichols ◽

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Keyword(s):

Food Insecurity ◽

Low Income ◽

Food Assistance ◽

People Of Color ◽

Farmers Markets ◽

Farmers Market ◽

Assistance Programs ◽

Nutrition Assistance ◽

Nutrition Assistance Programs ◽

Number Of Customers

In recent decades, the number of farmer’s markets has increased dramatically across the country. Though farmers markets have been described as White spaces, they can play important roles in reducing food insecurity. This is particularly true in Michigan where farmer’s markets were crucial collaborators in pioneering programs such as Double-Up Food Bucks that help low-income residents and people of color gain access to fresh, healthy, locally grown food. This article examines the questions: (1) What are the demographic characteristics of the farmers market managers, vendors, and customers and how do these influence market activities? (2) To what extent do farmers markets participate in programs aimed at reducing food insecurity? (3) To what extent do farmers markets serve low-income residents and people of color? and (4) How has the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) affected the operations of farmers markets. This article discusses the findings of a 2020 study that examined the extent to which Michigan’s farmer’s markets served low-income customers and people of color and participated in food assistance programs. The study examined 79 farmers markets and found that 87.3% of the farmer’s market managers are White. On average, roughly 79% of the vendors of the markets are White and almost 18% are people of color. Most of the vendors in the markets participate in nutrition assistance programs. Market managers estimate that about 76% of their customers are White and about 23% are people of color. Farmers markets operated by people of color attract higher numbers of customers and vendors of color than those operated White market managers. Almost half of the farmer’s markets started operations later than usual in 2020 because of the pandemic. More than a third of the markets reported that their funding declined during the pandemic. Moreover, the number of vendors declined at two thirds of the markets and the number of customers dipped at more than 40% of the markets. On the other hand, the number of people requesting food assistance during the pandemic increased in more than half of the markets.

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