Challenges of Multiracial Antiracist Activism

Racial Consciousness and Chief Wahoo

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2369986
AutoresMichelle R Jacobs (Kent State University), Tiffany Taylor (0000-0002-5274-7806, Kent State University)
Ano2012
Volume38
Fascículo5
Páginas687-706
Data de publicação2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920511407357
OpenAlexW2330763418
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas36

We explore how white activists' racial identity struggles might disrupt effective antiracist action in multiracial organizations. Drawing on data collected through participant observation and interviews, we examine the struggles of a small, multiracial antiracist organization that protests the Cleveland baseball franchise's 'Indians' name and Chief Wahoo mascot. White activists' racial consciousness, or awareness of white racism and white privilege, compels them to participate in the group; their ways of participating, however, ultimately may hamper the organizational effectiveness of the Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance. Specifically, white activists' racial consciousness makes them reluctant to adopt necessary leadership roles. Borrowing from literature on white racism, white racial consciousness, and multiracial organizing, we illustrate the complex nature and potential pitfalls of multiracial alliances formed to protest racism in the United States

Consciousness · Criminology · Critical consciousness · Grassroots · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · White privilege · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research