Pub Date : 2022-05-04DOI: 10.1177/03063968221093882
W. Sims-Schouten, Patricia N. Gilbert
In this commentary the authors analyse how the concept of resilience can be and has been applied to Black, Asian and minority ethnic families and communities in ways that are biased, stigmatising and pathologising. They argue that current definitions of resilience need to be redefined and reconceptualised, particularly in settings dominated by White middle-class voices that define what ‘positive emotions’, ‘successful traits’ and ‘coping mechanisms’ entail. Here, through racism and flawed perceptions and interpretations of resilience and ‘othering’, members from ethnic minority communities are defined as in need of resilience support, whilst at the same time their experience of structural racism, e.g., in relation to mental health support, social/health care practices and school exclusions, is being erased. Instead, the authors argue that resilience can also mean ‘resistance’, i.e., resisting bad treatment and racism, as well as reflecting agency, identity and ownership of one’s own life and choices within this. Reframing resilience thus means taking account of multifaceted and interactive effects of personal, material, institutional and political factors that impact on behaviour, wellbeing and resilience, as well as acknowledging that the way in which ‘behaviour’ is received is by default flawed, if this is largely informed by an oppressive White middle-class viewpoint.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968221087126
C. Searle
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968221079247
Stephen R. Millar
From the Shankill Defence Association’s Orange-Loyalist Songbook to the UDA’s appropriation of ‘Simply the Best’, music has long been used to celebrate loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. During the Troubles, loyalist songs served a variety of functions, from community fundraising and entertainment to the transmission of loyalist cultural memory and the articulation of political perspectives ignored by the mainstream media. Yet, in addition to celebrating local practices and political traditions, loyalist songs now feed into a broader ‘culture war’ in Northern Ireland where, in the absence of intercommunal violence, the commemoration of paramilitary groups is used to continue the conflict by other means. This article traces the origins of contemporary loyalism’s culture war against Irish republicans, unravelling the role loyalist songs played during the Troubles and their ongoing legacy.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968221087123
J. Pandian
The Mexico-US borderlands are principally, and popularly, conceptualised through the lens of violence; they evoke imagery of US border patrol agents’ vicious hyper-militarised tactics to deter and orchestrate the disappearance and deaths of Mexican migrants1 and of intense cartel conflict related to drug and human trafficking. Anthropologist Sarah Luna contends with this deeply ingrained imaginary through centring on the ostensible antithesis of violence: love and intimacy. Love in the Drug War is embedded within the cement-walled compound of the regulated prostitution zone, la zona, colloquially referred to as Boystown by Americans, in the border-city of Reynosa, Mexico. But to think of it as an enclosed, bounded entity would be erroneous, for its walls are porous. With varying degrees of difficulty, two of the three ‘protagonists’ – sex-workers from rural Mexico, on the one hand, and American missionaries, on the other – move through la zona’s walls and coexist. We discover that these two protagonists, in addition to another, are partly entangled in a three-way relationship, and the nature of this polyamorous configuration inspires and forms the core of Luna’s research enquiry. The presence of the third protagonist, God, also extends far beyond the walls of la zona, and the relationship between sex workers, missionaries and God is kept for the final part of the book. Luna devotes twelve months in 2008–2009 to ethnographic fieldwork in this unique ecosystem, teeming with the lives of our three leading characters as well as pimps, drug workers and the everyday inhabitants of la zona. As part of her anthropological approach, Luna, whose mixed Mexican-American and White heritage allow her to roam with sex workers and missionaries with relative ease, develops close relationships with both parties and engages in their quotidian 1087123 RAC0010.1177/03063968221087123Race & ClassBook Reviews research-article2022
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968221087121
Miguel N. Abad
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968221083193
F. Webber
In this article, the author provides a roundup of the UK Conservative government’s legislative programme in 2021, arguing that, in the service of an authoritarian agenda, it uses law to undermine the rule of law and executive accountability, and to criminalise marginalised and/or racialised groups, including asylum seekers and those helping them, black youth, protesters and human rights defenders, and Gypsies, Roma and Travellers. Through an analysis of various new bills that attack human and civil rights, including the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, the Nationality and Borders Bill, the Overseas Operations Act, the Elections Bill and the Judicial Review and Courts Bill, she demonstrates the cumulative impact of the legislative programme that has entrenched the demonisation of minorities and human rights defenders, whilst giving unprecedented powers to police, hobbling the courts, nobbling other regulators and blocking effective legal, political and public accountability for ministers. The result, she argues, is an erosion of human rights and the entrenchment of impunity for the government and its agencies.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968221081417
L. Bassel
This article explores the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal (PPT) hearing, ‘The hostile environment on trial’, which took place in London in 2018. When calling a gathering a ‘people’s tribunal’, certain kinds of listening and attention become possible, which are shaped by specific histories and contexts. The author considers the kinds of listening that took place during the London PPT and what changed as a result. She argues that the legal framing that comes with calling a gathering a ‘tribunal’ both compels and excludes, and the politics of listening for migrant justice within such a space is laden with imperial pitfalls and power relations that must continuously be worked through. Instead of a legal remedy, what results is a social relation – an ‘Us’ created through the mutual effort of organising and participating in the tribunal that can open up different understandings of migrant justice and its connection to wider struggles.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968221083801
C. S. Taylor
In this polemical commentary on Canada, the author argues for the recognition of the crucial role played by West Indian, particularly Barbadian, women – Emigrant Ambassadors − of the 1950s and ’60s who fought in Canada against their supposed subordination in the West Indian Domestic Scheme so as to establish Black women at the forefront of a liberatory struggle and create the conditions on which the present Black Lives Matter Millennials can now build. Using the examples of Jean Augustine (first Black member of Parliament) and Mia Mottley (Barbados’ prime minister), who fought the ordained de-skilling and downward mobility of the neocolonial economic arrangements, he asks that we view them not as individual achievers justifying a neoliberal meritocracy but rather as part and parcel of Black liberatory politics, stretching from slave rebellions to the Black Power movements and fights against racism of the mid-twentieth century.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-01DOI: 10.1177/03063968221083191
Liz Fekete
In an extended version of a presentation on 3 February 2022 to the Stuart Hall Foundation’s fifth Annual Conversation on ‘Manufacturing Dissent: Moments of Solidarity’, the director of the Institute of Race Relations asks whether a refreshed anti-fascism, that tackles the global war against the poor, New Right ‘culture wars’, ‘total policing’ and the surveillance state, can act as an inspiration for diffuse struggles to come together into communities of resistance.
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