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The Wrongs of the Right

Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama

By: Matthew W. Hughey,Gregory S. Parks

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The Wrongs of the Right

Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama

By: Matthew W. Hughey,Gregory S. Parks

A dissection of the language of the far right, showing the continued, although masked, biases inherent in their message.

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NYU Press

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1479826790

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9781479826797

A Pledge with Purpose

Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality

By: Gregory S. Parks,Matthew W. Hughey

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A Pledge with Purpose

Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality

By: Gregory S. Parks,Matthew W. Hughey

Reveals the historical and political significance of “The Divine Nine”—the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his studies at Cornell University. Despite their academic pedigrees, Callis and his fellow African American students were ostracized by the majority-white student body, and so in 1906, Callis and some of his peers started the first, intercollegiate Black Greek Letter Organization (BGLO), Alpha Phi Alpha. Since their founding, BGLOs have not only served to solidify bonds among many African American college students, they have also imbued them with a sense of purpose and a commitment to racial uplift—the endeavor to help Black Americans reach socio-economic equality. A Pledge with Purpose explores the arc of these unique, important, and relevant social institutions. Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey uncover how BGLOs were shaped by, and labored to transform, the changing social, political, and cultural landscape of Black America from the era of the Harlem Renaissance to the civil rights movement. Alpha Phi Alpha boasts such members as Thurgood Marshall, civil rights lawyer and US Supreme Court Justice, and Dr. Charles Wesley, noted historian and college president. Delta Sigma Theta members include Bethune-Cookman College founder Mary McLeod Bethune and women’s rights activist Dorothy Height. Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, who left an indelible mark on the civil rights movement, was a member of Phi Beta Sigma, while Dr. Mae Jemison, a celebrated engineer and astronaut, belonged to Alpha Kappa Alpha. Through such individuals, Parks and Hughey demonstrate the ways that BGLO members have long been at the forefront of innovation, activism, and scholarship. In its examination of the history of these important organizations, A Pledge with Purpose serves as a critical reflection of both the collective African American racial struggle and the various strategies of Black Americans in their great—and unfinished—march toward freedom and equality.

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NYU Press

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1479827215

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9781479827213

White Bound

Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race

By: Matthew Hughey

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White Bound

Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race

By: Matthew Hughey

Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning. Too frequently, debates are framed as clear points of opposition—us versus them. And when considering white racial identity, a split between progressive movements and a neoconservative backlash is all too frequently assumed. Taken at face value, it would seem that whites are splintering into antagonistic groups, with differing worldviews, values, and ideological stances. White Bound investigates these dividing lines, questioning the very notion of a fracturing whiteness, and in so doing offers a unique view of white racial identity. Matthew Hughey spent over a year attending the meetings, reading the literature, and interviewing members of two white organizations—a white nationalist group and a white antiracist group. Though he found immediate political differences, he observed surprising similarities. Both groups make meaning of whiteness through a reliance on similar racist and reactionary stories and worldviews. On the whole, this book puts abstract beliefs and theoretical projection about the supposed fracturing of whiteness into relief against the realities of two groups never before directly compared with this much breadth and depth. By examining the similarities and differences between seemingly antithetical white groups, we see not just the many ways of being white, but how these actors make meaning of whiteness in ways that collectively reproduce both white identity and, ultimately, white supremacy.

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Stanford University Press

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0804783314

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9780804783316

The White Savior Film

Content, Critics, and Consumption

By: Matthew Hughey

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The White Savior Film

Content, Critics, and Consumption

By: Matthew Hughey

The cinematic trope of the white savior film-think of Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, or Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai--features messianic characters in unfamiliar or hostile settings discovering something about themselves and their culture in the process of saving members of other races from terrible fates. In The White Savior Film, Matthew Hughey provides a cogent, multipronged analysis of this subgenre of films to investigate the underpinnings of the Hollywood-constructed images of idealized (and often idealistic) white Americans. Hughey considers the production, distribution, and consumption of white savior films to show how the dominant messages of sacrifice, suffering, and redemption are perceived by both critics and audiences. Examining the content of fifty films, nearly 3,000 reviews, and interviews with viewer focus groups, he accounts for the popularity of this subgenre and its portrayal of "racial progress." The White Savior Film shows how we as a society create and understand these films and how they reflect the political and cultural contexts of their time.

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Temple University Press

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1439910014

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The Wrongs of the Right

Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama

By: Matthew W. Hughey,Gregory Parks,Gregory S. Parks

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The Wrongs of the Right

Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama

By: Matthew W. Hughey,Gregory Parks,Gregory S. Parks

A dissection of the language of the far right, showing the continued, although masked, biases inherent in their message.

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NYU Press

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0814760546

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A Pledge with Purpose

Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality

By: Gregory S. Parks,Matthew W. Hughey

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Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality

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The Wrongs of the Right

The Wrongs of the Right

A Pledge with Purpose

A Pledge with Purpose

White Bound

White Bound

The White Savior Film

The White Savior Film

The Wrongs of the Right

The Wrongs of the Right

A Pledge with Purpose

A Pledge with Purpose

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