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Exculpating Injustice: Coroner Constructions of White Innocence in the Postbellum South

open access: yesSocius, 2021
Research notes the broad complicity of white public officials in historical racial violence and repression. These discussions emphasize the role of criminal justice actors in perpetrating and enabling this repression.
Sarah Gaby   +4 more
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White Innocence / White Supremacy [PDF]

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, 2021
Abstract This article starts from the observation that current debates about race and racism are often couched in soteriological terms such as guilt and forgiveness, or confession and exoneration, and it argues that this overlap calls for theological analysis.
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Innocent until primed: mock jurors' racially biased response to the presumption of innocence. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
BACKGROUND: Research has shown that crime concepts can activate attentional bias to Black faces. This study investigates the possibility that some legal concepts hold similar implicit racial cues.
Danielle M Young   +2 more
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The not-so-innocuous question

open access: yesJournal of Global Faultlines, 2023
The not so innocuous question of “where are you really from?” is a racial microaggression, grounded on faux ignorance and innocence, placing the white aggressor in the place of victim, when challenged.
Sarah L. Chevolleau
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“All lives matter”: How districts co-opt equity language and maintain the status quo

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
The term “equity” is widely used by educational policy makers to describe myriad programs and practices aimed at closing the supposed racial achievement gap.
Tiffanie Lewis-Durham
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Jouer à être l’Autre : kanata comme récit de l’innocence blanche

open access: yesRevue d'Études Autochtones, 2023
La pièce de théâtre Kanata, mise en scène par le dramaturge québécois Robert Lepage et jouée par la troupe française du Théâtre du Soleil, avait provoqué une forte polémique au Québec, où de nombreux artistes et militants Autochtones ont dénoncé l ...
Leila Benhadjoudja
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The Burden of Racial Innocence: British-Invasion Rock Memoirs and the U.S. South

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2022
Mid-sixties British rock musicians have rationalized their firsthand experience and profitable interactions with American racial segregation by adopting a stance of racial innocence, or a belief that youth and virtue make one immune to charges of ...
Matthew Sutton
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Becoming White in a White Supremacist State: The Public and Psychological Wages of Whiteness for Undocumented 1.5-Generation Brazilians

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
This study draws on in-depth and longitudinal interviews with twenty-nine 1.5-generation Brazilian immigrants, all of whom can pass as white and experienced illegality in young adulthood. I argue that they benefit from what W.E.B.
Kara Cebulko
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Deployments of Multiracial Masculinity and Anti-Black Violence: The Racial Framings of Barack Obama, George Zimmerman, and Daunte Wright

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2022
In this article, I examine how political and media discourses of multiraciality are deployed to justify guilt and innocence. I trace the deployment of multiraciality to determine who is deserving of life or death in media coverage, political rhetoric ...
Jasmine Mitchell
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