R D Coates
Biographic Data
| ID | 7579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R D Coates |
| GIVEN NAMES | R D |
| FAMILY NAME | Coates |
| SIGNATURE | COATES R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Miami University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5045-5394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 54 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unsung Warriors: Black Women
This chapter examines how Black women countered the proscribed and conscribed stereotypical identities created to keep them in their places. As pointed out, Black women’s identities have been prescribed and conscribed almost from the beginning of our nation. These representations of the African woman in America have rarely reflected the contributions to the American project. Even when there is an attempt to acknowledge their true histories grudgi…
Black Agency, Racial Imperialism, and the Creation of a Racial State: The Case of Haiti
Introduction: Critical Race Theory
During the insanity of war, an unknown pregnant woman and her baby were killed as a massive missile attack destroyed the maternity ward where she and other expectant mothers were being treated. They join thousands who have died and millions who have been displaced as a result of what can only be called the egomaniacal desires of an autocrat. As a paranoid dictator, Vladimir Putin joins not only his predecessor, Stalin, but a list of others, such …
In Search of the Truth
This chapter begins by examining the musings of W.E.B. Du Bois. In the process, we argue that the double consciousness he identifies can be used to discover the “truth”. Specifically, it is argued that the history of America and Western imperialism is not one history but multiple histories. Further, these histories are best understood as parallel realities. So, concerning the Blacks, they found themselves creatures of two worlds. To be African an…
The Africans and the Making of the Americas
This chapter demonstrates that Africans have been central to the shaping and the making of the Americas from its founding. The first antislavery societies were established the same year the Declaration of Independence was penned. From then to the present day, our nation has been consumed with the idea and the reality of race. This chapter will explore this shaping and making. More formally, this chapter will examine the system of racial triangula…
What’s in a Name?
Africans in America have gone by several names, from Colored to Negro to People of Color, Black and African American. The changes reflect attempts by Blacks to control not only how they are viewed but how they view themselves. The term one uses reflects a particular historical period and a political stance. Hence, there are some from a previous era who preferred Negro or Colored, while since the civil rights movement, the terms Black and African …
Conclusion: Songs of Freedom
The Africans and the Making of the Americas
The New John Henry, Stereotypes, and Authentic Black Masculinity
This chapter explores how Black men devised methods to counteract the Black male stereotypes created to convince him that he, not the system, was the problem. The vilest of these characterizations would be the ape, Coon, Jungle Bunny, Kaffir, monkey/porch monkey, zibabo, spade, spook, and of course nigger/nigga(h). Attached to these words are such stereotypical characters as Zip Coon, Sambo/Uncle Tom (Remus), Jim Crow, and Buck/Mandingo. And for …
Black Agency, Racial Imperialism, and the Creation of a Racial State: The Case of Haiti
Black agency and resistance are the central themes of Chapter 4. In this chapter we will examine how Black agency, as witnessed in the Haitian Revolution, challenged racial imperialism and the how the U.S. and France responded, which resulted in the creation of a racial state. The most successful insurrection resulted in the Haitian Revolution, which resulted in the overthrow of European imperialism. Slave colonies were only successful to the ext…
In Search of the Truth
Introduction: Critical Race Theory
Conclusion: Songs of Freedom
This chapter examines how self-empowerment and self-identification originated with and by Black people. The truth, I suggest, is a song by James Brown in 1968 when he declared, “Say it loud: I’m Black and I’m proud.” Go ahead, get your Funk on, make that move, and repeat after me, “I’m Black and I’m proud.” In this final chapter, we shall explore the rich music produced by Africans in America. In the process, we shall understand that this music w…
The New John Henry, Stereotypes, and Authentic Black Masculinity
The Bipolar Construction of Identity: Racial Imperialism, African Agency, and Reactions of the Presumed Other
Unsung Warriors: Black Women
The Bipolar Construction of Identity: Racial Imperialism, African Agency, and Reactions of the Presumed Other
This chapter explores how the duality of existence, being both Black/African and American, creates a bipolar construction of both identities. It posits that this bipolar construction is also important in examining history. It must be examined from multiple angles, not just the colonizer but the colonized, not just the European but the African. Therefore “the bipolar construction of identity” emerged because of racial imperialism, African agency, …
Critical Race Theory and the Search for Truth
Epigraph
“Through the lens of Critical Race Theory, Rodney D. Coates has produced a powerful analysis of racism in the modern world. While this book focuses on the immense negative consequences of global racism for the oppressed, it does much more. It shines an illuminating light on the pivotal struggles launched by oppressed Black people to free themselves and liberate humanity. In so doing, Critical Race Theory and the Search for Truth is a must-read fo…
Covert Racism within Institutional settings
The Perfect Storm: US Missteps, Belligerence, and Racial Legacies
As we watch COVID devastate our country, many wonder how we got here. I argue that in this paper that the crisis has been agrevated, if not a direct result of presidential missteps, and belligerence. Further, most impacted have been racialized groups. These factors, described here as elements of the perfect storm, are not by accident, but a series of miscalculations and errors, blatant disregard for reality and science, and deliberate attempts to…
Voyage into the Matrix of Race and the Truly Determined
Slavery
Slavery is defined as the forced labor of one group by another. The institution of slavery, in which the slave is considered merely a piece of animate property or chattel, was first developed by the Greeks. Brutality, including whipping, humiliation, and alienation, has been part of slavery from its inception. Stripped of their human dignity and title, slaves were forced to abandon their family, culture, and personhood, as their very being was ow…
If Human Rights Mattered
This article is a response to Judith Blau's ( ) essay, “Human Rights: What the United States Might Learn from the Rest of the World and, Yes, from American Sociology.” Here, I argue that if human rights mattered, then liberty could be assured. And absent human rights, liberty is a sham
Globalizing the Classroom: Innovative Approach to National and International Learning
This essay examines an innovative approach to teaching across international and cultural boundaries and evaluates the experience in a course on Globalization, Social Justice, and Human Rights, co-taught collaboratively by faculty from different campuses and countries since 2011. This course was created to address unmet needs in the traditional higher educational systems. These include, but are not limited to, lack of cross-cultural and interdisci…
Covert Racism in the USA and Globally
Covert racism, born out of imperialist needs to maximize profit at the expense of racialized others, stands shielded by institutions, culture, stereotypical assumptions, and tradition. Whereas overt racism assumed blatant and insidious forms, covert racism hides behind the façade of ‘politeness’, political correctness and expediency. Racially coded words and calls for racial blindness obfuscate the reality of this subtle, subversive, and often hi…
Law and the Cultural Production of Race and Racialized Systems of Oppression: Early American Court Cases
America, to the extent that it is a nation of laws, must be understood within the context of these laws. Unfortunately, these laws have not always conformed to the ideals associated with the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Through much of our history, the law has served to protect a racialized elite from competition from another racialized nonelite. Race and racialized sociopolitical systems of inequality have served to…
If a Tree Falls in the Wilderness: Reparations, Academic Silences, and Social Justice
Journal Article If a Tree Falls in the Wilderness: Reparations, Academic Silences, and Social Justice Get access Rodney D. Coates Rodney D. Coates Miami University Direct correspondence to Rodney Coates, Department of Sociology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 83, Issue 2, December 2004, Pages 841–864, https://doi.org/10…
Black and White Racial Identity: Theory, Research, and Practice
The Perfect Storm: US Missteps, Belligerence, and Racial Legacies
As we watch COVID devastate our country, many wonder how we got here. I argue that in this paper that the crisis has been agrevated, if not a direct result of presidential missteps, and belligerence. Further, most impacted have been racialized groups. These factors, described here as elements of the perfect storm, are not by accident, but a series of miscalculations and errors, blatant disregard for reality and science, and deliberate attempts to…
Globalizing the Classroom: Innovative Approach to National and International Learning
This essay examines an innovative approach to teaching across international and cultural boundaries and evaluates the experience in a course on Globalization, Social Justice, and Human Rights, co-taught collaboratively by faculty from different campuses and countries since 2011. This course was created to address unmet needs in the traditional higher educational systems. These include, but are not limited to, lack of cross-cultural and interdisci…
Talking Affirmative Action: Race, Opportunity, and Everyday Ideology
I Don't Sing, I Don't Dance, and I Don't Play Basketball: Is Sociology Declining in Signifi cance, or Has it Just Returned to Business as Usual
We must begin to discuss how race, racism, and ethnic discrimination are part and parcel to the American cultural experience (Feagin 2000). We must understand that until and unless there are major cultural, structural and political changes in America, that race, racism and ethnic discrimination will continue (Myrdal 1996; McKee 1993). Sociology, if indeed it is to be a critical discipline, must adopt a radical new stance with regards to race, rac…
Minimum Competency Testing: Assessing the Effects of Assessment
Minimum Competency Testing (MCT) is an attempt to establish minimal acceptable levels for educational attainment. MCT is mired in controversy. This research aimed to answer five principal questions: 1) Has MCT increased academic performance among high school students? 2) Does MCT, over time, affect achievement? 3) What role does remediation play in the potential for academic improvement of students in MCT programs? 4) Does MCT differentially and …
Teachers' Unions and Interest Group Politics: A Study in the Behaviour of Organised Teachers in England and Wales
Teachers' Unions and Interest Group Politics: A Study of the Behavior of Organized Teachers in England and Wales
Black and White Racial Identity: Theory, Research, and Practice
Minimum Competency Testing: Assessing the Effects of Assessment
Minimum Competency Testing (MCT) is an attempt to establish minimal acceptable levels for educational attainment. MCT is mired in controversy. This research aimed to answer five principal questions: 1) Has MCT increased academic performance among high school students? 2) Does MCT, over time, affect achievement? 3) What role does remediation play in the potential for academic improvement of students in MCT programs? 4) Does MCT differentially and …
I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Rumor in African-American Culture
This book divides into two basic parts. In Chapters 1 and 2 I discuss historical examples of rumor discourse and suggest why many blacks have - for good reason - channeled beliefs about race relations into familiar formulae, ones developed as early as the time of the first contact between sub-Saharan Africans and European white. Then in Chapters 3-7 it explores the continuation of these issues in late-twentieth-century African-American rumors and…
The Agony of Education: Black Students at White Colleges and Universities
The Agony of Education is about the life experience of African American students attending a historically white university. Based on seventy-seven interviews conducted with black students and parents concerning their experiences with one state university, as well as published and unpublished studies of the black experience at state universities at large, this study captures the painful choices and agonizing dilemmas at the heart of the decisions …
Yo' Mama's Disfunktional! Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America
African Sociology—Towards a Critical Perspective: The Collected Essays of Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane by Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane
I Don't Sing, I Don't Dance, and I Don't Play Basketball: Is Sociology Declining in Signifi cance, or Has it Just Returned to Business as Usual
We must begin to discuss how race, racism, and ethnic discrimination are part and parcel to the American cultural experience (Feagin 2000). We must understand that until and unless there are major cultural, structural and political changes in America, that race, racism and ethnic discrimination will continue (Myrdal 1996; McKee 1993). Sociology, if indeed it is to be a critical discipline, must adopt a radical new stance with regards to race, rac…
Introduction to Special Issue of Critical Sociology: Critical Race and Ethnic Studies: Theory, Research and Process
I Don't Sing, I Don't Dance, and I Don't Play Basketball! Is Sociology Declining in Significance, or Has it Just Returned to Business as Usual
Introduction to Special Issue of Critical Sociology Critical Race and Ethnic Studies: Theory, Research and Process
Law and the Cultural Production of Race and Racialized Systems of Oppression: Early American Court Cases
America, to the extent that it is a nation of laws, must be understood within the context of these laws. Unfortunately, these laws have not always conformed to the ideals associated with the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Through much of our history, the law has served to protect a racialized elite from competition from another racialized nonelite. Race and racialized sociopolitical systems of inequality have served to…
Product Review: Confronting the American Dilemma of Race: The Second Generation Black American Sociologists
If a Tree Falls in the Wilderness: Reparations, Academic Silences, and Social Justice
Journal Article If a Tree Falls in the Wilderness: Reparations, Academic Silences, and Social Justice Get access Rodney D. Coates Rodney D. Coates Miami University Direct correspondence to Rodney Coates, Department of Sociology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 83, Issue 2, December 2004, Pages 841–864, https://doi.org/10…
The Mind of Oliver C. Cox
Covert Racism in the USA and Globally
Covert racism, born out of imperialist needs to maximize profit at the expense of racialized others, stands shielded by institutions, culture, stereotypical assumptions, and tradition. Whereas overt racism assumed blatant and insidious forms, covert racism hides behind the façade of ‘politeness’, political correctness and expediency. Racially coded words and calls for racial blindness obfuscate the reality of this subtle, subversive, and often hi…
Talking Affirmative Action: Race, Opportunity, and Everyday Ideology
Social Justice and Pedagogy
Social justice, predicated on the expansion of human rights, is by definition a critical and intellectual enterprise. Social critique, made possible by social justice paradigms, provides the basis for social action and social change and leads ultimately to the enhancement of social democracies. Such critical intellectual enterprises require that people constantly reevaluate not only their social institutions but also the terms they use to describ…
Micro-Level Social Justice Projects, Pedagogy, and Democratic Movements
Teaching and Learning Guide for: Race and Ethnic Relations
Syllabus This course will explore the concepts of race and ethnicity and the dynamics of inter‐group relations. It will cover the main historical and global processes that have led to the formation of ethnic groups and racial minorities. In the process, we will examine several groups, historical periods, and geo‐political issues in detail. Class sessions will consist primarily of group discussions, supplemented by lectures, films, and in‐class pr…
Chapter Seven. Martin Luther King’s Dream, Obama And Post Racial Society—Can We Yet Hope For A New Narrative?
In many ways, Martin Luther King attempted to challenge the dominant racial narrative by offering a counter hegemonic one. This chapter explores the contours of the racial narrative, particularly in light of the recent election of Barrack Obama. It discusses: 1) race narratives associated with European Imperialism, 2) race narratives and genetics, 3) race narratives and social science and 4) counter hegemonic racial narratives. Owing to both time…
Obama, Progressive Agendas and the Dialectics of Change
Soul Murdering Abysses
Slave Mentalities
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