scholarly journals The Secret History of Race in the United States

2003 ◽  
Vol 112 (6) ◽  
pp. 1473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Sharfstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Race ◽  
Secret History

The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of the Death Penalty in the United States

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 299-315
Author(s):  
Carol S. Steiker ◽  
Jordan M. Steiker
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Justice System ◽  
The United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
History Of Race ◽  
Western Democracies

This review addresses four key issues in the modern (post-1976) era of capital punishment in the United States. First, why has the United States retained the death penalty when all its peer countries (all other developed Western democracies) have abolished it? Second, how should we understand the role of race in shaping the distinctive path of capital punishment in the United States, given our country's history of race-based slavery and slavery's intractable legacy of discrimination? Third, what is the significance of the sudden and profound withering of the practice of capital punishment in the past two decades? And, finally, what would abolition of the death penalty in the United States (should it ever occur) mean for the larger criminal justice system?

Formative Mappings, Political Trappings

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund Fong ◽  
Victoria Hattam
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Ethnic Difference ◽  
Ethnic Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Investments ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
History Of Race

Contemporary scholarship on racial and ethnic politics in the United States has broadly followed three main approaches in assessing the history of race and ethnicity in the United States. We therefore map three different ways of seeing the relationship between race and ethnicity contained within Whiteness Studies, scholarship on cultural pluralism and multiculturalism, and scholarship on intersections and Intersectionality. Each locates the history of racial and ethnic difference within a larger political problematic, each attaches a different significance and valence between racial and ethnic categories, and each bears with it the particular political investments constituting its origins. By highlighting the divergent ways racial and ethnic categories are mobilized we underscore the irreducibly political nature of race and ethnicity and their ongoing generative role in American politics.

Reflections on the Studying and Teaching About Africa in America

1995 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-10
Author(s):  
Edward A. Alpers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
African Studies ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Race ◽  
Second World

Is there an African Studies establishment in the United States? Of course there is. The academic study of Africa has mushroomed since the end of the Second World War as federal dollars were invested in graduate training programs so that the United States would be able to cope with the challenges posed by the coming to independence of former colonial territories in Africa from 1956 onward. Most of this money went to major research universities. Accordingly, the training in African Studies that evolved at these centers was rooted in the historical development of western academic disciplines, the history of race and power in America, and hegemonic control over the discourse on Africa in America.

scholarly journals Can Capital Punishment Survive If Black Lives Matter?

2021 ◽  
pp. 199-217
Author(s):  
Michael Cholbi ◽  
Alex Madva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Implicit Biases ◽  
Murder Victims ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Race

Drawing upon empirical studies of racial discrimination, the Movement for Black Lives platform calls for the abolition of capital punishment. The authors defend the Movement’s claim that the death penalty in the United States is a “racist practice” that “devalues Black lives.” They first sketch the jurisprudential history of race and capital punishment in the United States, wherein courts have occasionally expressed worries about racial injustice but have usually called for reform rather than abolition. They argue that the racial discrimination at issue flows in part from implicit biases concerning race, criminality, and violence, which do not fit comfortably within the picture of racial bias advanced by the courts. The case for abolition rests on Black Americans as a class (not merely those who interact with the criminal justice system as capital defendants or as murder victims) being subject to such bias and thereby not being accorded equal status under the law.

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