Joyce M Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 123424 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joyce M Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joyce M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 351 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Kangaroo Court: The Black Power Movement and the Courtroom as a Space of Resistance
Scholars in many disciplines have examined how social movements use the law to create social change. While the study of the law and social movements has largely relied on studies of the US civil rights movement to develop theoretical tools for understanding how movements target the state to create legal changes, none of these studies have examined the legal strategy of the Black Power movement. This article draws on data from a larger project on …
The Limits of Community: Deconstructing the White Framing of Racist Speech in Universities
This article identifies the dominant frame through which university administrators in the United States respond to racist incidents and analyzes that from using the lens of critical race theory (CRT). We argue that the stock response of college and university administrators, which calls for counterspeech as the only appropriate response to racist speech, fails to consider the harmful effects of racist speech on students, staff, and faculty of col…
Women’s Activism in the Modern Movement for Black Liberation
This chapter examines women’s activism in the modern movement for Black liberation. It examines women’s roles across three phases of mobilization. Starting with an exploration of women’s participation in the direct action phase of the U.S. civil rights movement (1954–1966), the chapter discusses the key roles that women played in the fight for legal equality for African Americans. Next it examines women’s central role in the Black Power movement …
The Right to Be Racist in College: Racist Speech, White Institutional Space, and the First Amendment
Throughout the post–civil rights era, colleges and universities across the United States have periodically experienced explicitly racist incidents on their campuses. From the hurling of racial slurs at students of color, to the hanging of nooses on campus, to students donning Ku Klux Klan outfits or throwing “ghetto” parties that caricaturize communities of color, these incidents challenge the notion that modern racism has changed to a more subtl…
The Black Power influence on American schools of social work
This paper examines the influence of the Black Power movement on American schools of social work. It discusses the movement that black social workers in the United States carried out within the profession and explains how changes to curriculum standards during the 1970s were an outcome of that movement. A primary goal, then, of the paper is to raise the idea that Black Power as a movement was a pioneer in the radical social work tradition
Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Movements
In 2013 George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. In the wake of this decision, three black activists (Alicia Garza, Patrice Cullors and Opal Tometi) developed th
Fragile majorities and education: Belgium, Catalonia, Northern Ireland and Quebec
The Black Power Movement and American Social Work
The Black Power movement has often been portrayed in history and popular culture as the quintessential "bad boy" of modern black movement-making in America. Yet this impression misses the full extent of Black Power's contributions to U.S. society, especially in regard to black professionals in social work. Relying on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, Joyce M. Bell follows two groups of black social workers in the 1960s and …
Maneuvers of Whiteness: Diversity' as a Mechanism of Retrenchment in the Affirmative Action Discourse
Through a discourse analysis of three textual sources within elite law schools, we suggest that the white racial frame and the diversity construct are key mechanisms in the process of stalling racial reform by imposing tacit boundaries around the discourse surrounding progressive racial policies. We contend that this limits their effectiveness, resulting in the retrenchment of white racial privilege and power and that this happens without any exp…
Diversity in Everyday Discourse: "The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of "Happy Talk
Few words in the current American lexicon are as ubiquitous and ostensibly uplifting as diversity. The actual meanings and functions of the term, however, are difficult to pinpoint. In this article we use in-depth interviews conducted in four major metropolitan areas to explore popular conceptions of diversity. Although most Americans respond positively at first, our interviews reveal that their actual understandings are undeveloped and often con…
Diversity in Everyday Discourse: "The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of "Happy Talk
Few words in the current American lexicon are as ubiquitous and ostensibly uplifting as diversity. The actual meanings and functions of the term, however, are difficult to pinpoint. In this article we use in-depth interviews conducted in four major metropolitan areas to explore popular conceptions of diversity. Although most Americans respond positively at first, our interviews reveal that their actual understandings are undeveloped and often con…
The Right to Be Racist in College: Racist Speech, White Institutional Space, and the First Amendment
Throughout the post–civil rights era, colleges and universities across the United States have periodically experienced explicitly racist incidents on their campuses. From the hurling of racial slurs at students of color, to the hanging of nooses on campus, to students donning Ku Klux Klan outfits or throwing “ghetto” parties that caricaturize communities of color, these incidents challenge the notion that modern racism has changed to a more subtl…
Maneuvers of Whiteness: Diversity' as a Mechanism of Retrenchment in the Affirmative Action Discourse
Through a discourse analysis of three textual sources within elite law schools, we suggest that the white racial frame and the diversity construct are key mechanisms in the process of stalling racial reform by imposing tacit boundaries around the discourse surrounding progressive racial policies. We contend that this limits their effectiveness, resulting in the retrenchment of white racial privilege and power and that this happens without any exp…
The Limits of Community: Deconstructing the White Framing of Racist Speech in Universities
This article identifies the dominant frame through which university administrators in the United States respond to racist incidents and analyzes that from using the lens of critical race theory (CRT). We argue that the stock response of college and university administrators, which calls for counterspeech as the only appropriate response to racist speech, fails to consider the harmful effects of racist speech on students, staff, and faculty of col…
Fragile majorities and education: Belgium, Catalonia, Northern Ireland and Quebec
Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Movements
In 2013 George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. In the wake of this decision, three black activists (Alicia Garza, Patrice Cullors and Opal Tometi) developed th
Kangaroo Court: The Black Power Movement and the Courtroom as a Space of Resistance
Scholars in many disciplines have examined how social movements use the law to create social change. While the study of the law and social movements has largely relied on studies of the US civil rights movement to develop theoretical tools for understanding how movements target the state to create legal changes, none of these studies have examined the legal strategy of the Black Power movement. This article draws on data from a larger project on …
The Black Power influence on American schools of social work
This paper examines the influence of the Black Power movement on American schools of social work. It discusses the movement that black social workers in the United States carried out within the profession and explains how changes to curriculum standards during the 1970s were an outcome of that movement. A primary goal, then, of the paper is to raise the idea that Black Power as a movement was a pioneer in the radical social work tradition
Diversity in Everyday Discourse: "The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of "Happy Talk
Few words in the current American lexicon are as ubiquitous and ostensibly uplifting as diversity. The actual meanings and functions of the term, however, are difficult to pinpoint. In this article we use in-depth interviews conducted in four major metropolitan areas to explore popular conceptions of diversity. Although most Americans respond positively at first, our interviews reveal that their actual understandings are undeveloped and often con…
Maneuvers of Whiteness: Diversity' as a Mechanism of Retrenchment in the Affirmative Action Discourse
Through a discourse analysis of three textual sources within elite law schools, we suggest that the white racial frame and the diversity construct are key mechanisms in the process of stalling racial reform by imposing tacit boundaries around the discourse surrounding progressive racial policies. We contend that this limits their effectiveness, resulting in the retrenchment of white racial privilege and power and that this happens without any exp…
The Black Power Movement and American Social Work
The Black Power movement has often been portrayed in history and popular culture as the quintessential "bad boy" of modern black movement-making in America. Yet this impression misses the full extent of Black Power's contributions to U.S. society, especially in regard to black professionals in social work. Relying on extensive archival research and oral history interviews, Joyce M. Bell follows two groups of black social workers in the 1960s and …
The Black Power influence on American schools of social work
This paper examines the influence of the Black Power movement on American schools of social work. It discusses the movement that black social workers in the United States carried out within the profession and explains how changes to curriculum standards during the 1970s were an outcome of that movement. A primary goal, then, of the paper is to raise the idea that Black Power as a movement was a pioneer in the radical social work tradition
Introduction to the Special Issue on Black Movements
In 2013 George Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. In the wake of this decision, three black activists (Alicia Garza, Patrice Cullors and Opal Tometi) developed th
Fragile majorities and education: Belgium, Catalonia, Northern Ireland and Quebec
Women’s Activism in the Modern Movement for Black Liberation
This chapter examines women’s activism in the modern movement for Black liberation. It examines women’s roles across three phases of mobilization. Starting with an exploration of women’s participation in the direct action phase of the U.S. civil rights movement (1954–1966), the chapter discusses the key roles that women played in the fight for legal equality for African Americans. Next it examines women’s central role in the Black Power movement …
The Right to Be Racist in College: Racist Speech, White Institutional Space, and the First Amendment
Throughout the post–civil rights era, colleges and universities across the United States have periodically experienced explicitly racist incidents on their campuses. From the hurling of racial slurs at students of color, to the hanging of nooses on campus, to students donning Ku Klux Klan outfits or throwing “ghetto” parties that caricaturize communities of color, these incidents challenge the notion that modern racism has changed to a more subtl…
The Limits of Community: Deconstructing the White Framing of Racist Speech in Universities
This article identifies the dominant frame through which university administrators in the United States respond to racist incidents and analyzes that from using the lens of critical race theory (CRT). We argue that the stock response of college and university administrators, which calls for counterspeech as the only appropriate response to racist speech, fails to consider the harmful effects of racist speech on students, staff, and faculty of col…
Kangaroo Court: The Black Power Movement and the Courtroom as a Space of Resistance
Scholars in many disciplines have examined how social movements use the law to create social change. While the study of the law and social movements has largely relied on studies of the US civil rights movement to develop theoretical tools for understanding how movements target the state to create legal changes, none of these studies have examined the legal strategy of the Black Power movement. This article draws on data from a larger project on …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Race, History, and American Society (7 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Black Power (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Diversity (politics) (3 works)