Participation in collective action is known to be driven by two appraisals of a social situation: Beliefs that the situation is unfair (injustice appraisal) and beliefs that a group can change the ...situation (collective efficacy appraisal). Anger has been repeatedly found to mediate the relationship between injustice appraisals and collective action. Recent work suggests that the emotion of being moved mediates the relationship between efficacy appraisals and collective action. Building on this prior work, the present research applies kama muta theory to further investigate the relationship between efficacy appraisals and collective action. Kama muta is a positive emotion that is evoked by a sudden intensification of communal sharing, and largely overlaps with the English concept being moved. We investigated its relationship with collective action in both advantaged and disadvantaged racial groups in the context of the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLM) in Spring of 2020. In one pilot study (
= 78) and one main study (
= 215), we confirmed that anger toward the system of racial inequalities mediated between injustice and collective action intentions, and that kama muta toward the movement mediated between collective efficacy and collective action intentions. Both mediations were found for both Black and White participants. We also observed additional unpredicted paths from anger to kama muta and from efficacy to anger. Together, this provides evidence for the pivotal role of emotions in collective action intentions, but also points out that appraisals need to be better understood.
Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber ...instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our understanding of work in the digital age,Uberlandpaints a future where any of us might be managed by a faceless boss.The neutral language of technology masks the powerful influence algorithms have across the New Economy.Uberlandchronicles the stories of drivers in more than twenty-five cities in the United States and Canada over four years, shedding light on their working conditions and providing a window into how they feel behind the wheel. The book also explores Uber's outsized influence around the world: the billion-dollar company is now influencing everything from debates about sexual harassment and transportation regulations to racial equality campaigns and labor rights initiatives.Based on award-winning technology ethnographer Alex Rosenblat's firsthand experience of riding over 5,000 miles with Uber drivers, daily visits to online forums, and face-to-face discussions with senior Uber employees,Uberlandgoes beyond the headlines to reveal the complicated politics of popular technologies that are manipulating both workers and consumers.
In Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger, the veteran journalist JustinMurphymakes the compelling argument that the educational disparities in Rochester, New York, are the result of historical and ...present-day racial segregation. Education reform alone will never be the full solution; to resolve racial inequity, cities such as Rochester must first dismantle segregation.Drawing on never-before-seen archival documents as well as scores of new interviews, Murphyshows how discriminatory public policy and personal prejudice combined to create the racially segregated education system that exists in the Rochester area today. Alongside this dismal history, Murphyrecounts the courageous fight for integration and equality, from the advocacy of Frederick Douglass in the 1850s to a countywide student coalition inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement in the 2010s. This grinding antagonism, featuring numerous failed efforts to uphold the promise ofBrown v. Board of Education, underlines that desegregation and integration offer the greatest opportunity to improve educational and economic outcomes for children of color in the United States. To date, that opportunity has been lost in Rochester, and persistent poor academic outcomes have been one terrible result. Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger is a history of Rochester with clear relevance for today. The struggle for equity in Rochester, like in many northern cities, shows how the burden of history lies on the present. A better future for these cities requires grappling with their troubled pasts.Murphy's account is a necessary contribution to twenty-first-century Rochester.
From a socio-historical perspective, the article examines the dynamics and effects of the early 2000s conjuncture on anti-discrimination policies in Brazil. These policies result of an older ...politicization process of ethno-racial discriminations. The favourable conjuncture, in which the transversal strategy of racial equality emerged, unfolded in the mobilization of multipositioned actors between the academic world, social movements and the State sphere. The strategy’s dissemination in public action produced retroactive and reactive effects that disrupt the national narrative.
Formal racial equality is a key aspect of the current Liberal International Order (LIO). It is subject to two main challenges: resurgent racial nationalism and substantive racial inequality. ...Combining work in International Relations with interdisciplinary studies on race, I submit that these challenges are the latest iteration of struggles between two transnational coalitions over the LIO's central racial provisions, which I call racial diversity regimes (RDRs). The traditional coalition has historically favored RDRs based on racial inequality and racial nationalism. The transformative coalition has favored RDRs based on racial equality and nonracial nationalism. I illustrate the argument by tracing the development of the liberal order's RDR as a function of intercoalitional struggles from one based on racial nationalism and inequality in 1919 to the current regime based on nonracial nationalism and limited equality. Today, racial nationalists belong to the traditional coalition and critics of racial inequality are part of the transformative coalition. The stakes of their struggles are high because they will determine whether we will live in a more racist or a more antiracist world. This article articulates a comprehensive framework that places race at the heart of the liberal order, offers the novel concept of “embedded racism” to capture how sovereignty shields domestic racism from foreign interference, and proposes an agenda for mainstream International Relations that takes race seriously.
In Blind Pursuit of Racial Equality? Apfelbaum, Evan P.; Pauker, Kristin; Sommers, Samuel R. ...
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Despite receiving little empirical assessment, the color-blind approach to managing diversity has become a leading institutional strategy for promoting racial equality, across domains and scales of ...practice. We gauged the utility of color blindness as a means to eliminating future racial inequity—its central objective—by assessing its impact on a sample of elementary-school students. Results demonstrated that students exposed to a color-blind mind-set, as opposed to a value-diversity mind-set, were actually less likely both to detect overt instances of racial discrimination and to describe such events in a manner that would prompt intervention by certified teachers. Institutional messages of color blindness may therefore artificially depress formal reporting of racial injustice. Color-blind messages may thus appear to function effectively on the surface even as they allow explicit forms of bias to persist.
A Vol in the Social Policy and Social Theory Series (David Marsland, series editior) investigates the policies & practices of the British Commission for Racial Equality (CRE), an organization issuing ...from the 1976 Race Relations Act. It is suggested that the CRE has functioned as a kind of race lobby that has produced an inaccurate portrait of the UK as a society riddled with racism. This mischaracterization is traced to provisions in the original 1976 Race Relations Act, which assume that (1) minorities have special needs, (2) these needs must be met according to the statistical makeup of these groups, & (3) the state ought to have the power to enforce statistical equality regardless of other rights involved. Armed with these assumptions, the CRE has proven successful in putting forward its view. In the process, it has exercised its considerable legal powers to curtail the freedoms of association, contract, & speech. This situation is discussed in the context of US race relations. The official British approach to race relations ought to be rethought according to four basic questions: What conceptions of human rights ought to underlie race relations? Should a race relations bureaucracy be developed between the state & society? Should it be assumed that minority groups lack sufficient resources to help themselves? Should the US experience be ignored? An Introduction precedes 13 Chpt with Notes. 61 References. D. Ryfe
This editorial addresses one of the greatest challenges of our time—racial inequality. Logistics and supply chain management (SCM) factor prominently in people’s everyday experiences, as consumers of ...products and logistics services as well as through participation in logistics and supply chain workforces. These everyday experiences can be quite disparate depending on one’s race. As academics, we have a responsibility to peel back the layers of how these issues of race and diversity impact and interact with supply chain phenomena. This editorial is intended to bolster conversation around these issues. We identify compelling themes that merit consideration and, perhaps, deeper investigation, including race as an individual difference variable in our research, race in SCM talent and leadership, and race and racism in SCM execution. We also call for more research that addresses racial inclusion and equal access in other aspects of SCM in light of its far‐reaching influence in the realms of business and society. The time has come to address these pervasive issues affecting organizations and individuals. We also introduce the articles appearing in the current issue of the journal.
My article explores the stance of 'principled pragmatism' adopted by the Gerald R. Ford presidential administration in its relations with apartheid era South Africa during the mid 1970s. This policy ...was shaped by the values of equality, fairness and justice that stemmed from the political and private persona of Ford himself. Moderated by a practical realpolitik, however, Ford recognised the necessity of avoiding measures that, while carrying an important moral symbolism, would in fact prove to be counterproductive to the aim of ending apartheid. Ford further identified the geopolitical necessity of engaging with rather than isolating South Africa in order to advance broader US strategic and moral objectives in the southern African region.
When and why does a racial majority group support racial equality? In answering this question, we focused on Malaysia, a multiracial country in which the Malay majority group's special status as one ...of the country's original inhabitants is institutionalized. Across Study 1 (N = 130) and Study 2 (N = 240), we examined the extent to which Malays' endorsement of autochthony (an ideology of native ownership) is associated with perceived threat from racial minorities, support for racial equality policies, and support for a pro-Malay government. We further examined the moderating role of subjective socioeconomic status to explore heterogeneity within the Malay community. Both studies found that stronger beliefs in autochthony were associated with greater perceived threat from racial minorities and greater support for a pro-Malay government. Additionally, Study 1 (but not Study 2) found stronger beliefs in autochthony were associated with less support for racial equality policies. The role of subjective socioeconomic status was unclear. While Study 1 did not show any moderating effects, Study 2 found that stronger endorsement of autochthony was associated with lower support for racial equality policies amongst Malays from lower socioeconomic status. Taken together, these findings underscore the importance of considering the ideology of autochthony in understanding intergroup relations and the maintenance of the status quo.
Public Significance Statement
By focusing on a country where the racial supremacy of the Malay majority group is legally sanctioned, this research contributes to our understanding of how endorsement of autochthony-the idea that original inhabitants of a country should have special rights and privileges-is associated with Malay's attitudes toward racial minorities. This research also investigated the role of subjective socioeconomic status. Preliminary evidence showed that stronger endorsement of autochthony beliefs was associated with lower support for racial equality policies among individuals from lower, but not higher, subjective socioeconomic status. Our findings suggest that to foster racial equality in Malaysia, it is crucial for policymakers and civil society groups to address the prevailing ideology of land ownership and its associated rights and privileges among the racial majority group.
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