Patricia G Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia G Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia G |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5798-5205 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Black Women’s Commemorative Recovery: Strategic Ambiguity as a Rhetorical Resource in The Embrace
When The Embrace, a monument to Martin and Coretta King, was unveiled in Boston in 2023, it drew mixed reactions from various quarters of the public. Some observers praised the statue for its representation of the Kings as a couple and praised the universal themes of love and unity they read into it, while others criticized its disembodied presentation and suggested it was not an appropriate commemoration of the work performed by such venerated f…
Taking a stand from the periphery: Negotiating and resisting the white gaze in public images of Black women’s civic protest
This essay utilizes the iconic photograph of Ieshia Evans at the 2016 Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, LA to complicate dominant understandings of iconicity in relation to racial icons. We argue that Evans's photograph became iconic because it tapped into a visual grammar of respectability marked by an aesthetic of demureness. We urge critical and visual scholars to look to what we call the iconic periphery, a discursive realm of potent…
Memory as everyday critical praxis
Successful campaigns to remove Confederate monuments from U.S. campuses have been instrumental in restructuring these spaces to better reflect our diverse communities and foster the sense of belonging important to the well-being of all students. Nevertheless, these campaigns also obscure the more mundane ways in which hegemonic historical narratives continue to inform the memories students develop inside and outside of the classroom. I thus propo…
The Talented Tenth Meets the Twenty-First Century: Young, Gifted and Diverse in the Post-Affirmative Action Era
In the wake of the Supreme Court's dismantling of affirmative action policies in higher education in its SFFA v. Harvard ruling, this review essay offers a detailed explication of the relevant themes Camille Z. Charles, Rory Kramer, Douglas Massey, and Kimberly C. Torres analyze in “Young, Gifted, and Diverse: Origins of the New Black Elite.” Taking DuBois's conceptualization of the “Talented Tenth” as their starting point, the authors present a …
Reactive Memories of 1776
In this article, we situate the riot at the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021, within the longer history of white-led race riots in the United States, as both state and vigilante actors have twisted the memory of that history toward maintaining an antidemocratic and racist status quo. Motivating such riotous eruptions is what we call reactive memory in reference to the formation of historical mythologies that valorize a “return” t…
Space, Place, and Countervisuality in Montgomery: A Rhetorical Analysis of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) is a site of conscience that simultaneously mobilizes and interrogates the neoliberal cityscape of its location in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, USA. The memorial is comprised of a monument commemorating the more than 4,000 documented lynching victims in the United States and a museum that provides the historical and contemporary contexts for lynching and other forms of racial violence. Located i…
Decolonizing Regions
The case of Southern regionalism shows both the problems with current treatments of regionalism—illustrative of the problem of colonialist perspectives more generally—and the path forward. That path forward involves rethinking whose ancestors count as members of a place, the issue of whose voices are centered, memory and trauma, and counterpublics. The authors advise (1) embracing the field’s interest in local identities and identity movements—th…
Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
Spatiality at the Cyber-Margins: Black-Oriented Blogs and the Production of Territoriality Online
This essay analyzes the challenges African American-oriented blogs must confront in terms of spatiality, specifically that associated with racial trolling. I argue that racial trolling, which encompasses a set of actions wherein users make inflammatory comments in a manner designed specifically to advance racist tropes, represents a mode of spatial aggression that operates in ways reproductive of the power relations that characterize the offline …
They’re just trying to keep a black man down: The (not so) curious case of R. Kelly
One of the more striking aspects of the recent national focus on sexual harassment and assault in the media industries is the seriousness, swiftness, and severity with which the claims brought cond
Implementing Respiratory Integrated Care: The Future for COPD Diagnosis and Management
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
"In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African American points of view, the resulting southern identity was monolithically white. Davis traces how the increasing participation of black public voices in the realms of Civil War memory--batt…
Commemorative places, political spaces: Virginia Indians, the Jamestown Quadricentennial, and the quest for sovereignty
This essay examines the cross-cultural communication strategies deployed by a coalition of indigenous tribes in Virginia to leverage the Quadricentennial commemoration of the founding at Jamestown in support of their sovereignty campaign. The tensions between Jamestown’s mythos as the “birthplace of democracy” and the natives’ historical and contemporary lived experiences, combined with the national and international attention focused on the even…
The Other Southern Belles: Civil War Reenactment, African American Women, and the Performance of Idealized Femininity
This essay examines African American women's participation in Civil War reenactment as performances of idealized femininity. African American Civil War reenactments enable black men and women to construct narratives of historical subjectivity through performances of masculine and feminine agency. In enacting the role of the “demure southern belle” supporting black Union soldiers, black women reenactors occupy an image associated with idealized fe…
International Assistance to the Former Soviet Union: Conditions and Transitions1
Since the demise of the Soviet Union the newly independent states (NIS) have attempted the wholesale reform of their economic, political, and social institutions. With varying levels of success they have sought to create new institutions or reorganize old institutions, often so as to mirror similar institutions in western Europe and North America. Many nations and international organizations have sought to influence these transitions with technic…
Labor Organization and Electoral Participation in Industrial Democracies
The literature on the determinants of electoral participation has paid little attention to the role of labor organization. Adopting the familiar heuristic of costs and benefits, we argue that aggregate rates of turnout will be affected strongly by the strength of the labor movement. This hypothesis is tested using cross-sectional and pooled time series data for nineteen industrial democracies and the fifty American states. The results indicate th…
Appetite of the wolf: German foreign assistance for central and eastern Europe
In this article we examine German foreign aid for central and eastern Europe in order to determine which foreign policy course Germany is likely to pursue. We outline the dominant debates over German foreign policy, review German aid programmes to eastern Europe, define the patterns evident within these policies and then analyse their key characteristics in relation to these on‐going debates. In our conclusion we then compare the predictions from…
Labor Organization and Electoral Participation in Industrial Democracies
The literature on the determinants of electoral participation has paid little attention to the role of labor organization. Adopting the familiar heuristic of costs and benefits, we argue that aggregate rates of turnout will be affected strongly by the strength of the labor movement. This hypothesis is tested using cross-sectional and pooled time series data for nineteen industrial democracies and the fifty American states. The results indicate th…
Appetite of the wolf: German foreign assistance for central and eastern Europe
In this article we examine German foreign aid for central and eastern Europe in order to determine which foreign policy course Germany is likely to pursue. We outline the dominant debates over German foreign policy, review German aid programmes to eastern Europe, define the patterns evident within these policies and then analyse their key characteristics in relation to these on‐going debates. In our conclusion we then compare the predictions from…
Spatiality at the Cyber-Margins: Black-Oriented Blogs and the Production of Territoriality Online
This essay analyzes the challenges African American-oriented blogs must confront in terms of spatiality, specifically that associated with racial trolling. I argue that racial trolling, which encompasses a set of actions wherein users make inflammatory comments in a manner designed specifically to advance racist tropes, represents a mode of spatial aggression that operates in ways reproductive of the power relations that characterize the offline …
The Other Southern Belles: Civil War Reenactment, African American Women, and the Performance of Idealized Femininity
This essay examines African American women's participation in Civil War reenactment as performances of idealized femininity. African American Civil War reenactments enable black men and women to construct narratives of historical subjectivity through performances of masculine and feminine agency. In enacting the role of the “demure southern belle” supporting black Union soldiers, black women reenactors occupy an image associated with idealized fe…
Reactive Memories of 1776
In this article, we situate the riot at the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021, within the longer history of white-led race riots in the United States, as both state and vigilante actors have twisted the memory of that history toward maintaining an antidemocratic and racist status quo. Motivating such riotous eruptions is what we call reactive memory in reference to the formation of historical mythologies that valorize a “return” t…
Space, Place, and Countervisuality in Montgomery: A Rhetorical Analysis of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) is a site of conscience that simultaneously mobilizes and interrogates the neoliberal cityscape of its location in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, USA. The memorial is comprised of a monument commemorating the more than 4,000 documented lynching victims in the United States and a museum that provides the historical and contemporary contexts for lynching and other forms of racial violence. Located i…
Memory as everyday critical praxis
Successful campaigns to remove Confederate monuments from U.S. campuses have been instrumental in restructuring these spaces to better reflect our diverse communities and foster the sense of belonging important to the well-being of all students. Nevertheless, these campaigns also obscure the more mundane ways in which hegemonic historical narratives continue to inform the memories students develop inside and outside of the classroom. I thus propo…
They’re just trying to keep a black man down: The (not so) curious case of R. Kelly
One of the more striking aspects of the recent national focus on sexual harassment and assault in the media industries is the seriousness, swiftness, and severity with which the claims brought cond
International Assistance to the Former Soviet Union: Conditions and Transitions1
Since the demise of the Soviet Union the newly independent states (NIS) have attempted the wholesale reform of their economic, political, and social institutions. With varying levels of success they have sought to create new institutions or reorganize old institutions, often so as to mirror similar institutions in western Europe and North America. Many nations and international organizations have sought to influence these transitions with technic…
Appetite of the wolf: German foreign assistance for central and eastern Europe
In this article we examine German foreign aid for central and eastern Europe in order to determine which foreign policy course Germany is likely to pursue. We outline the dominant debates over German foreign policy, review German aid programmes to eastern Europe, define the patterns evident within these policies and then analyse their key characteristics in relation to these on‐going debates. In our conclusion we then compare the predictions from…
International Assistance to the Former Soviet Union: Conditions and Transitions1
Since the demise of the Soviet Union the newly independent states (NIS) have attempted the wholesale reform of their economic, political, and social institutions. With varying levels of success they have sought to create new institutions or reorganize old institutions, often so as to mirror similar institutions in western Europe and North America. Many nations and international organizations have sought to influence these transitions with technic…
Labor Organization and Electoral Participation in Industrial Democracies
The literature on the determinants of electoral participation has paid little attention to the role of labor organization. Adopting the familiar heuristic of costs and benefits, we argue that aggregate rates of turnout will be affected strongly by the strength of the labor movement. This hypothesis is tested using cross-sectional and pooled time series data for nineteen industrial democracies and the fifty American states. The results indicate th…
The Other Southern Belles: Civil War Reenactment, African American Women, and the Performance of Idealized Femininity
This essay examines African American women's participation in Civil War reenactment as performances of idealized femininity. African American Civil War reenactments enable black men and women to construct narratives of historical subjectivity through performances of masculine and feminine agency. In enacting the role of the “demure southern belle” supporting black Union soldiers, black women reenactors occupy an image associated with idealized fe…
Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity
"In Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity, Patricia Davis identifies the Civil War as the central narrative around which official depictions of southern culture have been defined. Because that narrative largely excluded African American points of view, the resulting southern identity was monolithically white. Davis traces how the increasing participation of black public voices in the realms of Civil War memory--batt…
Commemorative places, political spaces: Virginia Indians, the Jamestown Quadricentennial, and the quest for sovereignty
This essay examines the cross-cultural communication strategies deployed by a coalition of indigenous tribes in Virginia to leverage the Quadricentennial commemoration of the founding at Jamestown in support of their sovereignty campaign. The tensions between Jamestown’s mythos as the “birthplace of democracy” and the natives’ historical and contemporary lived experiences, combined with the national and international attention focused on the even…
Implementing Respiratory Integrated Care: The Future for COPD Diagnosis and Management
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
They’re just trying to keep a black man down: The (not so) curious case of R. Kelly
One of the more striking aspects of the recent national focus on sexual harassment and assault in the media industries is the seriousness, swiftness, and severity with which the claims brought cond
Museum Rhetoric: Building Civic Identity in National Spaces
Spatiality at the Cyber-Margins: Black-Oriented Blogs and the Production of Territoriality Online
This essay analyzes the challenges African American-oriented blogs must confront in terms of spatiality, specifically that associated with racial trolling. I argue that racial trolling, which encompasses a set of actions wherein users make inflammatory comments in a manner designed specifically to advance racist tropes, represents a mode of spatial aggression that operates in ways reproductive of the power relations that characterize the offline …
Decolonizing Regions
The case of Southern regionalism shows both the problems with current treatments of regionalism—illustrative of the problem of colonialist perspectives more generally—and the path forward. That path forward involves rethinking whose ancestors count as members of a place, the issue of whose voices are centered, memory and trauma, and counterpublics. The authors advise (1) embracing the field’s interest in local identities and identity movements—th…
Space, Place, and Countervisuality in Montgomery: A Rhetorical Analysis of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (NMPJ) is a site of conscience that simultaneously mobilizes and interrogates the neoliberal cityscape of its location in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, USA. The memorial is comprised of a monument commemorating the more than 4,000 documented lynching victims in the United States and a museum that provides the historical and contemporary contexts for lynching and other forms of racial violence. Located i…
Memory as everyday critical praxis
Successful campaigns to remove Confederate monuments from U.S. campuses have been instrumental in restructuring these spaces to better reflect our diverse communities and foster the sense of belonging important to the well-being of all students. Nevertheless, these campaigns also obscure the more mundane ways in which hegemonic historical narratives continue to inform the memories students develop inside and outside of the classroom. I thus propo…
The Talented Tenth Meets the Twenty-First Century: Young, Gifted and Diverse in the Post-Affirmative Action Era
In the wake of the Supreme Court's dismantling of affirmative action policies in higher education in its SFFA v. Harvard ruling, this review essay offers a detailed explication of the relevant themes Camille Z. Charles, Rory Kramer, Douglas Massey, and Kimberly C. Torres analyze in “Young, Gifted, and Diverse: Origins of the New Black Elite.” Taking DuBois's conceptualization of the “Talented Tenth” as their starting point, the authors present a …
Reactive Memories of 1776
In this article, we situate the riot at the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021, within the longer history of white-led race riots in the United States, as both state and vigilante actors have twisted the memory of that history toward maintaining an antidemocratic and racist status quo. Motivating such riotous eruptions is what we call reactive memory in reference to the formation of historical mythologies that valorize a “return” t…
Taking a stand from the periphery: Negotiating and resisting the white gaze in public images of Black women’s civic protest
This essay utilizes the iconic photograph of Ieshia Evans at the 2016 Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, LA to complicate dominant understandings of iconicity in relation to racial icons. We argue that Evans's photograph became iconic because it tapped into a visual grammar of respectability marked by an aesthetic of demureness. We urge critical and visual scholars to look to what we call the iconic periphery, a discursive realm of potent…
Black Women’s Commemorative Recovery: Strategic Ambiguity as a Rhetorical Resource in The Embrace
When The Embrace, a monument to Martin and Coretta King, was unveiled in Boston in 2023, it drew mixed reactions from various quarters of the public. Some observers praised the statue for its representation of the Kings as a couple and praised the universal themes of love and unity they read into it, while others criticized its disembodied presentation and suggested it was not an appropriate commemoration of the work performed by such venerated f…
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