C Russo
Biographic Data
| ID | 5210 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Russo |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Russo |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6438-1840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“White Privilege . . . Is Not an Organizing Strategy”: Shifting Frameworks in White People’s Antiracist Efforts
We know relatively little about how to mobilize and sustain White involvement in politically impactful, antiracist collective action. Adding to the literature on the vexations of White people’s approaches to antiracism, this study takes the case of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a national organization that seeks to bring a critical mass of U.S.-based White people into antiracist campaigns at a scale not previously attempted. It traces the…
Beyond the book club: White Antiracist Organizing Before and After the 2024 Election
White people's activism in US‐ based social movements for racial justice
There is a long history of small groups of white activists engaging in social movements for racial justice led by Black Indigenous and People of Color in the United States. Yet organized white antiracism has received much less study than white racism. From forging antiracist identities to crafting racial justice organizing strategies, white people's involvement in BIPOC‐led liberation struggles has proven both promising and problematic. This arti…
The art of care: Urban oppositional practices and the case of the Guerrilla Grafters
Building on emerging work that considers urban life and designs through the lens of care, this article examines how a performative care practice might serve as an oppositional ethic and strategy in the late capitalist city. The analysis is based on the Guerrilla Grafters, an eco-arts collective that surreptitiously grafts fruit onto sterile city trees in San Francisco. Original data include interviews with participants and critics and a qualitati…
Cities of Fruit: Arts Intervention and the Radical Imagination
This essay examines the importance of the radical imagination in the face of eco-social alienation and shows how arts activism can promote popular education and collective mobilization. The analysis is based on the Guerrilla Grafters, an activist artist collective whose members surreptitiously graft fruit onto sterile city trees predominately in the San Francisco Bay Area. Original data include interviews with the activists as well as an analysis…
Protestors and Their Targets
Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement, by Gary J. Adler, Jr
A student travels abroad to build homes as part of an “alternative spring break.” A non-governmental organization invites members of a religious order to visit their ancestral homeland. A church group lives and learns with fair trade coffee farmers. These are but three possible faces of immersion travel, a heterogenous species of social activity that has exploded in popularity over the past four decades. While immersion travel is a rich topic of …
“Not Free to Be Completely Human”
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“Knowing Things Impossible to Un-know”
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Solidarity in Practice: Moral Protest and the US Security State
Cross-border solidarity has captured the interest and imagination of scholars, activists and a range of political actors in such contested areas as the US-Mexico border and Guantanamo Bay. Chandra Russo examines how justice-seeking solidarity drives activist communities contesting US torture, militarism and immigration policies. Through compelling and fresh ethnographic accounts, Russo follows these activists as they engage in unusual and high ri…
Witness Against Torture, Guantánamo and solidarity as resistance
The Guantánamo Bay detention camp is a quintessential structure of the US national security state and contemporary Empire. For such imperial formations to proceed as if they are 'normal' requires solidarity from various publics. This paper explores what it means to refuse such solidarity through an ethnographic examination of Witness Against Torture (WAT), a group of US citizens enacting solidarity with the men detained at Guantánamo. WAT's tacti…
Allies Forging Collective Identity: Embodiment and Emotions on the Migrant Trail
This article examines how embodied experience and the accompanying emotions help social movement allies to forge collective identity. The analysis is based on the Migrant Trail, an annual protest event in which allies of the border-justice movement spend a week walking seventy-five miles through the U.S.-Mexico borderlands to protest migrant deaths. Original data include four years of participant observation, interviews conducted during the 2011 …
Beyond black: Celebrity and race in Obama's America
While not a stunning new idea, Beyond Black is well researched and engaging. It brings an array of scholars, pundits and critics of the Black entertainment elite into the conversation. With an ambi
Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State
Mm. Film Project
Mr. Russo from Yalata has written about a project which he is initiating at his school; one two-minute movie film has already been made. Other teachers might like to follow his lead.Basically my idea was to take a movie of certain aspects of the present way of life of the Yalata people with some reference to the past. Examples include:- life stories of noted people,- carving boomerangs and wombats,- cooking of different foods.It was envisaged tha…
Allies Forging Collective Identity: Embodiment and Emotions on the Migrant Trail
This article examines how embodied experience and the accompanying emotions help social movement allies to forge collective identity. The analysis is based on the Migrant Trail, an annual protest event in which allies of the border-justice movement spend a week walking seventy-five miles through the U.S.-Mexico borderlands to protest migrant deaths. Original data include four years of participant observation, interviews conducted during the 2011 …
Beyond the book club: White Antiracist Organizing Before and After the 2024 Election
The art of care: Urban oppositional practices and the case of the Guerrilla Grafters
Building on emerging work that considers urban life and designs through the lens of care, this article examines how a performative care practice might serve as an oppositional ethic and strategy in the late capitalist city. The analysis is based on the Guerrilla Grafters, an eco-arts collective that surreptitiously grafts fruit onto sterile city trees in San Francisco. Original data include interviews with participants and critics and a qualitati…
White people's activism in US‐ based social movements for racial justice
There is a long history of small groups of white activists engaging in social movements for racial justice led by Black Indigenous and People of Color in the United States. Yet organized white antiracism has received much less study than white racism. From forging antiracist identities to crafting racial justice organizing strategies, white people's involvement in BIPOC‐led liberation struggles has proven both promising and problematic. This arti…
Protestors and Their Targets
Mm. Film Project
Mr. Russo from Yalata has written about a project which he is initiating at his school; one two-minute movie film has already been made. Other teachers might like to follow his lead.Basically my idea was to take a movie of certain aspects of the present way of life of the Yalata people with some reference to the past. Examples include:- life stories of noted people,- carving boomerangs and wombats,- cooking of different foods.It was envisaged tha…
Chandan Reddy, Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State
Allies Forging Collective Identity: Embodiment and Emotions on the Migrant Trail
This article examines how embodied experience and the accompanying emotions help social movement allies to forge collective identity. The analysis is based on the Migrant Trail, an annual protest event in which allies of the border-justice movement spend a week walking seventy-five miles through the U.S.-Mexico borderlands to protest migrant deaths. Original data include four years of participant observation, interviews conducted during the 2011 …
Beyond black: Celebrity and race in Obama's America
While not a stunning new idea, Beyond Black is well researched and engaging. It brings an array of scholars, pundits and critics of the Black entertainment elite into the conversation. With an ambi
Witness Against Torture, Guantánamo and solidarity as resistance
The Guantánamo Bay detention camp is a quintessential structure of the US national security state and contemporary Empire. For such imperial formations to proceed as if they are 'normal' requires solidarity from various publics. This paper explores what it means to refuse such solidarity through an ethnographic examination of Witness Against Torture (WAT), a group of US citizens enacting solidarity with the men detained at Guantánamo. WAT's tacti…
“Not Free to Be Completely Human”
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
“Knowing Things Impossible to Un-know”
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Solidarity in Practice: Moral Protest and the US Security State
Cross-border solidarity has captured the interest and imagination of scholars, activists and a range of political actors in such contested areas as the US-Mexico border and Guantanamo Bay. Chandra Russo examines how justice-seeking solidarity drives activist communities contesting US torture, militarism and immigration policies. Through compelling and fresh ethnographic accounts, Russo follows these activists as they engage in unusual and high ri…
Empathy Beyond US Borders: The Challenges of Transnational Civic Engagement, by Gary J. Adler, Jr
A student travels abroad to build homes as part of an “alternative spring break.” A non-governmental organization invites members of a religious order to visit their ancestral homeland. A church group lives and learns with fair trade coffee farmers. These are but three possible faces of immersion travel, a heterogenous species of social activity that has exploded in popularity over the past four decades. While immersion travel is a rich topic of …
The art of care: Urban oppositional practices and the case of the Guerrilla Grafters
Building on emerging work that considers urban life and designs through the lens of care, this article examines how a performative care practice might serve as an oppositional ethic and strategy in the late capitalist city. The analysis is based on the Guerrilla Grafters, an eco-arts collective that surreptitiously grafts fruit onto sterile city trees in San Francisco. Original data include interviews with participants and critics and a qualitati…
Cities of Fruit: Arts Intervention and the Radical Imagination
This essay examines the importance of the radical imagination in the face of eco-social alienation and shows how arts activism can promote popular education and collective mobilization. The analysis is based on the Guerrilla Grafters, an activist artist collective whose members surreptitiously graft fruit onto sterile city trees predominately in the San Francisco Bay Area. Original data include interviews with the activists as well as an analysis…
Protestors and Their Targets
White people's activism in US‐ based social movements for racial justice
There is a long history of small groups of white activists engaging in social movements for racial justice led by Black Indigenous and People of Color in the United States. Yet organized white antiracism has received much less study than white racism. From forging antiracist identities to crafting racial justice organizing strategies, white people's involvement in BIPOC‐led liberation struggles has proven both promising and problematic. This arti…
“White Privilege . . . Is Not an Organizing Strategy”: Shifting Frameworks in White People’s Antiracist Efforts
We know relatively little about how to mobilize and sustain White involvement in politically impactful, antiracist collective action. Adding to the literature on the vexations of White people’s approaches to antiracism, this study takes the case of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a national organization that seeks to bring a critical mass of U.S.-based White people into antiracist campaigns at a scale not previously attempted. It traces the…
Beyond the book club: White Antiracist Organizing Before and After the 2024 Election
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Criminology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)