Ralina L Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 1593426 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralina L Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralina L |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
You’re the Whitest Black Person I Know”
Anti-Black and anti-woman animus is packed into brief and subtle communication exchanges including seemingly mundane moments like jokes and compliments. The lasting negative effects of microaggressions call for what we deem poetics of interruption, a Black feminist intervention that dynamically responds to interstices of oppression. Through the creative retelling of a conversation that leads up to and follows the microaggression “You’re the white…
“I address race because race addresses me”
In Black colloquial culture, the practice of documenting and calling out injustices is known as “showing receipts.” The ongoing labor of collecting, communicating, and showing receipts is one way to highlight the hypocrisies embedded in racist structures and hold those in power accountable. As the receipts pile up in the form of viral videos of sexism, racism, and violence against Black bodies, accountability cannot be easily ignored. Showing rec…
Prying the Doors Open
For the past few decades mentoring has moved from being a buzzword in a few select programs into a major institutional goal. From large corporations to small universities, leaders recognize the importance of those with more experience guiding junior employees and students. Colleges and universities have taken the lead nationwide in mentoring efforts, with many having exemplary peer mentoring programs for undergraduates, and some institutions depl…
All intersectionality is not the same
In his campaign for president, Joseph R. Biden emerged as a frontrunner after pledging to select a vice president who has a different identity than his own. As the most loyal demographic for the Democratic Party, choosing a Black woman as a nominee for vice president challenges previous understandings of presidentiality. Pressure to select a Black woman vice president also exposes how intersectionality can differ in political decision-making, as …
Postracial Resistance
Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda Rhimes to their audiences and the industry workers behind the scenes, Ralina L. Joseph considers the way that Black women are required to walk a tightrope. Do they call out racism only to face accusations of being called “racists”? Or res…
Black cultural studies is intersectionality
This article argues that Black cultural studies must be understood as an intersectional intervention of praxis. Grounding our field in the past, speaking from the present, and projecting to the future, we examine the transformational influence that Black feminist theory has had on cultural studies, from Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s defense of 2 Live Crew, to the #SayHerName and Protect Black Women rally and marches
Strategically Ambiguous Shonda Rhimes
In this article I examine showrunner Shonda Rhimes’s 21st-century Black respectability politics, or what I call strategic ambiguity. I trace Rhimes’s performance of strategic ambiguity in the press first in the pre-Obama era and at the beginning of her first show, Grey’s Anatomy, when she stuck to a script of colorblindness, and a second in the #BlackLivesMatter moment and after a string of hits, when she called out racialized sexism and redefine…
Guest Editors' Note
The Romance of Race
Journal Article The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930. Jolie A. Sheffer. Get access The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930. Jolie A. Sheffer. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2013. 248 pages. $72.00 cloth; $24.95 paper; $24.95 electronic. Ralina L. Joseph Ralina L. Joseph University of Washington Search for other…
Transcending Blackness
Barack obama, "what is patriotism?"Representations of multiracial Americans, especially those with a black parent and a white parent, appear everywhere inthetwenty-first-centuryUnitedStates,fromthememoirs of celebrity children to the reality shows of supermodels to thespeechesofpresidentialcandidates.Somerepresentations equate mixed-race with pain: the multiracial individual is miredintheconfusionandproblemsimaginedtobeinherent intheracialmixture…
Transcending Blackness
Barack obama, "what is patriotism?"Representations of multiracial Americans, especially those with a black parent and a white parent, appear everywhere inthetwenty-first-centuryUnitedStates,fromthememoirs of celebrity children to the reality shows of supermodels to thespeechesofpresidentialcandidates.Somerepresentations equate mixed-race with pain: the multiracial individual is miredintheconfusionandproblemsimaginedtobeinherent intheracialmixture…
Strategically Ambiguous Shonda Rhimes
In this article I examine showrunner Shonda Rhimes’s 21st-century Black respectability politics, or what I call strategic ambiguity. I trace Rhimes’s performance of strategic ambiguity in the press first in the pre-Obama era and at the beginning of her first show, Grey’s Anatomy, when she stuck to a script of colorblindness, and a second in the #BlackLivesMatter moment and after a string of hits, when she called out racialized sexism and redefine…
You’re the Whitest Black Person I Know”
Anti-Black and anti-woman animus is packed into brief and subtle communication exchanges including seemingly mundane moments like jokes and compliments. The lasting negative effects of microaggressions call for what we deem poetics of interruption, a Black feminist intervention that dynamically responds to interstices of oppression. Through the creative retelling of a conversation that leads up to and follows the microaggression “You’re the white…
Prying the Doors Open
For the past few decades mentoring has moved from being a buzzword in a few select programs into a major institutional goal. From large corporations to small universities, leaders recognize the importance of those with more experience guiding junior employees and students. Colleges and universities have taken the lead nationwide in mentoring efforts, with many having exemplary peer mentoring programs for undergraduates, and some institutions depl…
All intersectionality is not the same
In his campaign for president, Joseph R. Biden emerged as a frontrunner after pledging to select a vice president who has a different identity than his own. As the most loyal demographic for the Democratic Party, choosing a Black woman as a nominee for vice president challenges previous understandings of presidentiality. Pressure to select a Black woman vice president also exposes how intersectionality can differ in political decision-making, as …
Guest Editors' Note
Transcending Blackness
Barack obama, "what is patriotism?"Representations of multiracial Americans, especially those with a black parent and a white parent, appear everywhere inthetwenty-first-centuryUnitedStates,fromthememoirs of celebrity children to the reality shows of supermodels to thespeechesofpresidentialcandidates.Somerepresentations equate mixed-race with pain: the multiracial individual is miredintheconfusionandproblemsimaginedtobeinherent intheracialmixture…
The Romance of Race
Journal Article The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930. Jolie A. Sheffer. Get access The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1880-1930. Jolie A. Sheffer. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 2013. 248 pages. $72.00 cloth; $24.95 paper; $24.95 electronic. Ralina L. Joseph Ralina L. Joseph University of Washington Search for other…
Strategically Ambiguous Shonda Rhimes
In this article I examine showrunner Shonda Rhimes’s 21st-century Black respectability politics, or what I call strategic ambiguity. I trace Rhimes’s performance of strategic ambiguity in the press first in the pre-Obama era and at the beginning of her first show, Grey’s Anatomy, when she stuck to a script of colorblindness, and a second in the #BlackLivesMatter moment and after a string of hits, when she called out racialized sexism and redefine…
Guest Editors' Note
Postracial Resistance
Winner, 2019 Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association How Black women in the spotlight negotiate the post-racial gaze of Hollywood and beyond From Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Shonda Rhimes to their audiences and the industry workers behind the scenes, Ralina L. Joseph considers the way that Black women are required to walk a tightrope. Do they call out racism only to face accusations of being called “racists”? Or res…
Black cultural studies is intersectionality
This article argues that Black cultural studies must be understood as an intersectional intervention of praxis. Grounding our field in the past, speaking from the present, and projecting to the future, we examine the transformational influence that Black feminist theory has had on cultural studies, from Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw’s defense of 2 Live Crew, to the #SayHerName and Protect Black Women rally and marches
“I address race because race addresses me”
In Black colloquial culture, the practice of documenting and calling out injustices is known as “showing receipts.” The ongoing labor of collecting, communicating, and showing receipts is one way to highlight the hypocrisies embedded in racist structures and hold those in power accountable. As the receipts pile up in the form of viral videos of sexism, racism, and violence against Black bodies, accountability cannot be easily ignored. Showing rec…
Prying the Doors Open
For the past few decades mentoring has moved from being a buzzword in a few select programs into a major institutional goal. From large corporations to small universities, leaders recognize the importance of those with more experience guiding junior employees and students. Colleges and universities have taken the lead nationwide in mentoring efforts, with many having exemplary peer mentoring programs for undergraduates, and some institutions depl…
All intersectionality is not the same
In his campaign for president, Joseph R. Biden emerged as a frontrunner after pledging to select a vice president who has a different identity than his own. As the most loyal demographic for the Democratic Party, choosing a Black woman as a nominee for vice president challenges previous understandings of presidentiality. Pressure to select a Black woman vice president also exposes how intersectionality can differ in political decision-making, as …
You’re the Whitest Black Person I Know”
Anti-Black and anti-woman animus is packed into brief and subtle communication exchanges including seemingly mundane moments like jokes and compliments. The lasting negative effects of microaggressions call for what we deem poetics of interruption, a Black feminist intervention that dynamically responds to interstices of oppression. Through the creative retelling of a conversation that leads up to and follows the microaggression “You’re the white…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)