Kirk A Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirk A Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirk A |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Mississippi |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4463-8685 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Convergence of crises in Colombia: The intersection of refugee crisis, illegal armed groups and policy missteps
The multiple crises of Colombian‐Venezuelan borderland geopolitics, which include a rise in Venezuelan refugees entering Colombia, mounting armed conflict from illegal armed groups throughout Colombia and the mixed efficacy of policy responses by the government, are converging to drive an evolution in Colombia's security concerns. This convergence of crises rivals the security conditions of the early 2000's. As before, the government faces prolif…
Exploring social determinants of health: Covid-19 vaccine challenges and solutions
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has negatively shifted the foundations of human health and the well-being of humanity on a global scale. Its contagiousness and lethal symptoms pose a threat to everyone, especially seniors over 65 years, immunocompromised individuals, and people with preexisting health conditions. The factors of the social determinants of health had great influence on the vaccination status for Black and Brown communities. Acc…
Mapping Microaggressions on a Southern University Campus: Where Are the Safe Spaces for Vulnerable Students
When leaders at institutions of higher education downplay everyday incivilities directed against racial and other minority groups, it can obscure the magnitude of intergroup antipathy at these schools. At the most prominent university in the only state whose flag contains the Confederate emblem, we wondered whether reports of so-called microaggressions were more common than university leaders sometimes suggest, more frequent in certain campus spa…
Prayer: A Helpful Aid in Recovery from Depression
Understanding meaning and racial prejudice: Examining self-transcendence and psychological inflexibility in a sample of White college students
A Black Theological Response to Race-Based Medicine: Reconciliation in Minority Communities
Karl Schwesig’s Schlegelkeller: Anatomy of a Rejected Warning of Prewar Violence at Life Magazine
The Symbolic Lynching of James Meredith: A Visual Analysis and Collective Counter Narrative to Racial Domination
The hanging of a noose on the University of Mississippi's statue of civil rights pioneer James Meredith in February 2014 was framed by university administrators as the act of a few deviant white students, but our analysis suggests otherwise. A historical review shows the university's long-standing resistance to meaningful change and a continuing lack of transparency following racist incidents. Visual analysis shows that the university remains sat…
Priming Implicit Racism in Television News: Visual and Verbal Limitations on Diversity
We highlight an understudied aspect of racism in television news, implicit racial cues found in the contradictions between visual and verbal messages. We compare three television news broadcasts from the first week after Hurricane Katrina to reexamine race and representation during the disaster. Drawing together insights from interdisciplinary studies of cognition and sociological theories of race and racism, we examine how different combinations…
Change and the Illusion of Change: Evolving Portrayals of Crime News and Blacks in a Major Market
Content analyses of news about Blacks are numerous, but few compare content over time in mainstream and Black-owned media organizations in a single market. This report analyzes local news items from Boston media during 30-day periods in 1986 and 2001. Although crime news concerning Blacks was less frequent in 2001, it dominated mainstream news about Blacks in both years despite journalists' pledges to overhaul racial-news coverage after questiona…
Globalisation at the Crossroads of Tradition and Modernity in Rural India
This paper explores the ongoing structural and cultural changes in a number of mountain villages in Western India more than a decade since the liberalising of the economic markets, which opened the sub-continent even further to the globalising forces of consumerism and materialism. In addition to mass communication that includes television, other developments, such as transportation, agricultural systems and education, have all contributed signif…
Media and social change: The modernizing influences of television in rural India
This article analyzes the role of television in rural life, and the influence it has had on various social, economic and political processes that have been revolutionizing the landscape of village India in recent years. Data from ethnographic fieldwork in two remote villages in the mountains of Western Maharashtra (Danawli and Raj Puri) are presented in the context of development and social change. In particular, the article establishes the frame…
Response to Edward O'Boyle Article
Edward O'Boyle provides an interesting and useful discussion of the concept of arguing that or unmet physical need, has two dimensions: an individual/physical and a dimension. The individual of should be measured by an absolute standard or living The should be measured by a or income distribution standard. O'Boyle speaks favorably of a measurement system used Ireland which combines both dimensions. The minimal living standard is measured by depri…
The Extent of Material Hardship and Poverty in the United States
The Census Bureau has estimated the nation's annual poverty rate since 1963 using data from the Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted in March of each year. Census deems a household “poor” if annual income falls below specified income thresholds. There are two problems with this methodology. First, the Current Population Survey dramatically undercounts household economic resources. Second, the fact that household income falls below a…
Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957
Objective News and Other Myths: The Poisoning of Young Black Minds
Kirk A. Johnson, Objective News and Other Myths: The Poisoning of Young Black Minds, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 60, No. 3, Socialization Forces Affecting the Education of African American Youth in the 1990s (Summer, 1991), pp. 328-341
Perspective paper lead in canned foods
The Extent of Material Hardship and Poverty in the United States
The Census Bureau has estimated the nation's annual poverty rate since 1963 using data from the Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted in March of each year. Census deems a household “poor” if annual income falls below specified income thresholds. There are two problems with this methodology. First, the Current Population Survey dramatically undercounts household economic resources. Second, the fact that household income falls below a…
Priming Implicit Racism in Television News: Visual and Verbal Limitations on Diversity
We highlight an understudied aspect of racism in television news, implicit racial cues found in the contradictions between visual and verbal messages. We compare three television news broadcasts from the first week after Hurricane Katrina to reexamine race and representation during the disaster. Drawing together insights from interdisciplinary studies of cognition and sociological theories of race and racism, we examine how different combinations…
The Symbolic Lynching of James Meredith: A Visual Analysis and Collective Counter Narrative to Racial Domination
The hanging of a noose on the University of Mississippi's statue of civil rights pioneer James Meredith in February 2014 was framed by university administrators as the act of a few deviant white students, but our analysis suggests otherwise. A historical review shows the university's long-standing resistance to meaningful change and a continuing lack of transparency following racist incidents. Visual analysis shows that the university remains sat…
Media and social change: The modernizing influences of television in rural India
This article analyzes the role of television in rural life, and the influence it has had on various social, economic and political processes that have been revolutionizing the landscape of village India in recent years. Data from ethnographic fieldwork in two remote villages in the mountains of Western Maharashtra (Danawli and Raj Puri) are presented in the context of development and social change. In particular, the article establishes the frame…
Mapping Microaggressions on a Southern University Campus: Where Are the Safe Spaces for Vulnerable Students
When leaders at institutions of higher education downplay everyday incivilities directed against racial and other minority groups, it can obscure the magnitude of intergroup antipathy at these schools. At the most prominent university in the only state whose flag contains the Confederate emblem, we wondered whether reports of so-called microaggressions were more common than university leaders sometimes suggest, more frequent in certain campus spa…
Change and the Illusion of Change: Evolving Portrayals of Crime News and Blacks in a Major Market
Content analyses of news about Blacks are numerous, but few compare content over time in mainstream and Black-owned media organizations in a single market. This report analyzes local news items from Boston media during 30-day periods in 1986 and 2001. Although crime news concerning Blacks was less frequent in 2001, it dominated mainstream news about Blacks in both years despite journalists' pledges to overhaul racial-news coverage after questiona…
Objective News and Other Myths: The Poisoning of Young Black Minds
Kirk A. Johnson, Objective News and Other Myths: The Poisoning of Young Black Minds, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 60, No. 3, Socialization Forces Affecting the Education of African American Youth in the 1990s (Summer, 1991), pp. 328-341
Globalisation at the Crossroads of Tradition and Modernity in Rural India
This paper explores the ongoing structural and cultural changes in a number of mountain villages in Western India more than a decade since the liberalising of the economic markets, which opened the sub-continent even further to the globalising forces of consumerism and materialism. In addition to mass communication that includes television, other developments, such as transportation, agricultural systems and education, have all contributed signif…
Perspective paper lead in canned foods
Objective News and Other Myths: The Poisoning of Young Black Minds
Kirk A. Johnson, Objective News and Other Myths: The Poisoning of Young Black Minds, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 60, No. 3, Socialization Forces Affecting the Education of African American Youth in the 1990s (Summer, 1991), pp. 328-341
Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957
Response to Edward O'Boyle Article
Edward O'Boyle provides an interesting and useful discussion of the concept of arguing that or unmet physical need, has two dimensions: an individual/physical and a dimension. The individual of should be measured by an absolute standard or living The should be measured by a or income distribution standard. O'Boyle speaks favorably of a measurement system used Ireland which combines both dimensions. The minimal living standard is measured by depri…
The Extent of Material Hardship and Poverty in the United States
The Census Bureau has estimated the nation's annual poverty rate since 1963 using data from the Bureau's Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted in March of each year. Census deems a household “poor” if annual income falls below specified income thresholds. There are two problems with this methodology. First, the Current Population Survey dramatically undercounts household economic resources. Second, the fact that household income falls below a…
Media and social change: The modernizing influences of television in rural India
This article analyzes the role of television in rural life, and the influence it has had on various social, economic and political processes that have been revolutionizing the landscape of village India in recent years. Data from ethnographic fieldwork in two remote villages in the mountains of Western Maharashtra (Danawli and Raj Puri) are presented in the context of development and social change. In particular, the article establishes the frame…
Globalisation at the Crossroads of Tradition and Modernity in Rural India
This paper explores the ongoing structural and cultural changes in a number of mountain villages in Western India more than a decade since the liberalising of the economic markets, which opened the sub-continent even further to the globalising forces of consumerism and materialism. In addition to mass communication that includes television, other developments, such as transportation, agricultural systems and education, have all contributed signif…
Change and the Illusion of Change: Evolving Portrayals of Crime News and Blacks in a Major Market
Content analyses of news about Blacks are numerous, but few compare content over time in mainstream and Black-owned media organizations in a single market. This report analyzes local news items from Boston media during 30-day periods in 1986 and 2001. Although crime news concerning Blacks was less frequent in 2001, it dominated mainstream news about Blacks in both years despite journalists' pledges to overhaul racial-news coverage after questiona…
Priming Implicit Racism in Television News: Visual and Verbal Limitations on Diversity
We highlight an understudied aspect of racism in television news, implicit racial cues found in the contradictions between visual and verbal messages. We compare three television news broadcasts from the first week after Hurricane Katrina to reexamine race and representation during the disaster. Drawing together insights from interdisciplinary studies of cognition and sociological theories of race and racism, we examine how different combinations…
Karl Schwesig’s Schlegelkeller: Anatomy of a Rejected Warning of Prewar Violence at Life Magazine
The Symbolic Lynching of James Meredith: A Visual Analysis and Collective Counter Narrative to Racial Domination
The hanging of a noose on the University of Mississippi's statue of civil rights pioneer James Meredith in February 2014 was framed by university administrators as the act of a few deviant white students, but our analysis suggests otherwise. A historical review shows the university's long-standing resistance to meaningful change and a continuing lack of transparency following racist incidents. Visual analysis shows that the university remains sat…
A Black Theological Response to Race-Based Medicine: Reconciliation in Minority Communities
Prayer: A Helpful Aid in Recovery from Depression
Understanding meaning and racial prejudice: Examining self-transcendence and psychological inflexibility in a sample of White college students
Mapping Microaggressions on a Southern University Campus: Where Are the Safe Spaces for Vulnerable Students
When leaders at institutions of higher education downplay everyday incivilities directed against racial and other minority groups, it can obscure the magnitude of intergroup antipathy at these schools. At the most prominent university in the only state whose flag contains the Confederate emblem, we wondered whether reports of so-called microaggressions were more common than university leaders sometimes suggest, more frequent in certain campus spa…
Exploring social determinants of health: Covid-19 vaccine challenges and solutions
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has negatively shifted the foundations of human health and the well-being of humanity on a global scale. Its contagiousness and lethal symptoms pose a threat to everyone, especially seniors over 65 years, immunocompromised individuals, and people with preexisting health conditions. The factors of the social determinants of health had great influence on the vaccination status for Black and Brown communities. Acc…
Convergence of crises in Colombia: The intersection of refugee crisis, illegal armed groups and policy missteps
The multiple crises of Colombian‐Venezuelan borderland geopolitics, which include a rise in Venezuelan refugees entering Colombia, mounting armed conflict from illegal armed groups throughout Colombia and the mixed efficacy of policy responses by the government, are converging to drive an evolution in Colombia's security concerns. This convergence of crises rivals the security conditions of the early 2000's. As before, the government faces prolif…
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