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This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for
understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black
social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social
or racial deterministic view of identity construction. Using a
variant of structuration theory (phenomenological structuralism)
this work, against contemporary postmodern and post-structural
theories, seeks to offer a dialectical understanding of the
constitution of black American and British life within the class
division and social relations of production of the global
capitalist world-system, while accounting for black social agency.
This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for
understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black
social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social
or racial deterministic view of identity construction. Using a
variant of structuration theory (phenomenological structuralism)
this work, against contemporary postmodern and post-structural
theories, seeks to offer a dialectical understanding of the
constitution of black American and British life within the class
division and social relations of production of the global
capitalist world-system, while accounting for black social agency.
In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great
Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an
emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American
and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work
analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy in the contemporary
capitalist world-system under American hegemony. Mocombe and Tomlin
interpret the role of education as an institutional or ideological
apparatus for capitalist domination, and examine the
sociolinguistic means or pedagogies by which global and local
social actors are educated within the capitalist world-system to
serve the needs of capital; i.e., capital accumulation. Two
specific case studies, one in the United States and one in the
United Kingdom, are utilized to demonstrate how contemporary
educational emphasis on language and literacy parallels the
organization of work and contributes to the debate on academic
underachievement of black students vis-a-vis their white and Asian
counterparts.
In postindustrial economies such as the United States and Great
Britain, the black/white achievement gap is perpetuated by an
emphasis on language and language skills, with which black American
and black British-Caribbean youths often struggle. This work
analyzes the nature of educational pedagogy in the contemporary
capitalist world-system under American hegemony. Mocombe and Tomlin
interpret the role of education as an institutional or ideological
apparatus for capitalist domination, and examine the
sociolinguistic means or pedagogies by which global and local
social actors are educated within the capitalist world-system to
serve the needs of capital; i.e., capital accumulation. Two
specific case studies, one in the United States and one in the
United Kingdom, are utilized to demonstrate how contemporary
educational emphasis on language and literacy parallels the
organization of work and contributes to the debate on academic
underachievement of black students vis-a-vis their white and Asian
counterparts.
Sophisticated Racism: Understanding and Managing the Complexity of
Everyday Racism adopts a fresh approach to the study of racism.
Victoria Showunmi and Carol Tomlin identify the prevalence of
sophisticated racism. They explore sophisticated and everyday
racism and how it manifests itself in society, particularly in the
workplace. Each chapter is self-contained yet relates to the whole
book so the reader can focus on a particular area of interest. The
authors narrate examples of everyday racism from the lived
experiences of Black women. They take the reader on a compelling
journey from the sources of racism through narratives of
disquieting racist events to the destination of affirming
approaches to preserving a sense of self and individual identity in
the face of sophisticated racism. An analysis of the interplay
between Black women and White women is integral to the book. The
authors explain how this originates in historical patterns of
behavior which emerged on the plantations during enslavement. The
term 'White women syndrome' has been coined to represent attempts
to defend the limited space for female success by denigrating and
excluding Black women. A unique feature of the book is that it
reaches beyond the historical context to the provision of
strategies for managing sophisticated and everyday racism in
contemporary society.
This work sets forth the argument that in the age of (neoliberal)
globalization, black people around the world are ever-so slowly
becoming "African-Americanized". They are integrated and
embourgeoised in the racial-class dialectic of black America by the
material and ideological influences of the Protestant ethic and the
spirit of capitalism as promulgated throughout the diaspora by two
social class language games of the black American community: the
black underclass (Hip-Hop culture), speaking for and representing
black youth practical consciousness; and black American charismatic
liberal/conservative bourgeois Protestant preachers like TD Jakes,
Creflo Dollar, etc., speaking for and representing the black
bourgeois (educated) professional and working classes. Although on
the surface the practical consciousness and language of the two
social class language games appear to diametrically oppose one
another, the authors argue, given the two groups' material wealth
within the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism of
corporate (neoliberal) America, they do not. Both groups have the
same underlying practical consciousness, subjects/agents of the
Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism. The divergences,
where they exist, are due to their interpellation,
embourgeoisement, and differentiation via different ideological
apparatuses of the society: church and education, i.e., schools,
for the latter; and prisons, the streets, and athletic and
entertainment industries for the former. Contemporarily, in the age
of globalization and neoliberalism, both groups have become the
bearers of ideological and linguistic domination in black
neoliberal America, and are antagonistically, converging the
practical consciousness of the black or African diaspora towards
their respective social class language games. We are suggesting
that the socialization of other black people in the diaspora ought
to be examined against and within the dialectical backdrop of this
class power dynamic and the cultural and religious heritages of the
black American people responsible for this phenomenon or process of
convergence we are referring to as the "African-Americanization" of
the black diaspora.
Against John Ogbu's oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele's
disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more
appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for
contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of
causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic
achievement gap in the United States of America and the United
Kingdom. Positing that in general the origins of the black/white
academic achievement gap in both countries is grounded in what Paul
C. Mocombe refers to as a "mismatch of linguistic structure and
social class function." Within this structural Marxist theoretical
framework the intra-racial gender academic achievement gap between
black boys and girls, the authors argue, is a result of the social
class functions associated with industries (mode of production) and
ideological apparatuses, i.e., prisons, the urban street life,
athletics and entertainment, where the majority of urban black
males in the US and UK achieve their status, social mobility, and
economic gain, and the black church/education where black females
in both countries are overwhelmingly more likely to achieve their
status, social mobility, and drive for economic gain via education
and professionalization.
Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in
America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black
bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black
underclass. Within the class dualism of capitalist social
relations, blacks throughout the Diaspora attempt to exist in the
world. Furthermore, blacks must construct their identities and be
in the world by choosing between the discursive practices of the
Protestant and capitalist ideology of the black Protestant
bourgeoisie, or the beliefs of the black underclass, which appear
to dismiss these practices as 'acting-white' (John Ogbu's term).
Presently, the practical consciousness (constituted as hip-hop
culture) of the black underclass, supported by finance capital,
have dominated the American and global social structure, and one of
its (dys)functions is the black/white achievement gap, which is a
global phenomenon emanating from black America and affecting blacks
around the globe. Although the histories of blacks in America and
in Great Britain are fundamentally different, Mocombe and Tomlin
argue in this work that during the age of globalization, the social
functions of the dominating black consciousness (hip-hop culture)
coming out of America are the locus of causality for the
black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain. Tomlin
highlights this problematic by analyzing effective strategies
employed by high achieving blacks in Great Britain, and Mocombe
does the same through an analysis of an effective reading
curriculum in an American inner-city after-school program.
Studies of preaching and preaching style have up to this point
focused almost exclusively on a western euro-centric understanding
of good preaching. Preach It encourages students, both vocational
and scholarly, to look beyond these approaches and to learn from
traditions with which they are less familiar. The distinctive style
and techniques that African Caribbean Pentecostal preachers have
inherited has been shaped by historical, political and
socio-economic factors impacting on black Caribbean people
(including clergy). Using a variety of socio-linguistic and
theological approaches, Preach It reflects on these techniques, and
outlines how preachers across church traditions might learn from
them and use them in their own contexts.
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